Bill Maher pushes back on liberal pile-on targeting Trump aide Natalie Harp

Bill Maher broke with the left's latest outrage cycle by defending Natalie Harp, President Trump's close aide, calling her his "emotional support employee" while asking why anyone needs to go after a loyal staffer. Maher used his Friday opening monologue on HBO's Real Time to wade into the growing controversy around Harp, the young aide […]

Chief Justice Roberts lets Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project keep building

Chief Justice John Roberts handed the White House a critical victory by allowing construction of Trump's massive ballroom and military complex to continue, overriding two lower courts that had tried to shut the project down. Roberts signed a one-sentence administrative stay on August 21, 2026, just hours before a federal injunction would have forced crews […]

Rubio outpaces Vance in early 2028 presidential polling against top Democrats

Secretary of State Marco Rubio now runs stronger than Vice President JD Vance against every major Democratic contender tested in a new national poll, a gap the White House insists means nothing. An Emerson College survey conducted for The Hill on August 16, 17 put Rubio and Vance each against five prospective Democratic nominees in […]

Russia puts Conor Kennedy on its most wanted list over Ukraine service

A Moscow court has authorized the arrest of Conor Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and grand-nephew of President John F. Kennedy, after charging him as a mercenary for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow approved the arrest in absentia on August 12, according to Russian state media outlet TASS. […]

Pentagon casualty count in Iran war climbs to 774 after dozens of wounded added overnight

The Pentagon quietly added 59 wounded service members to its Iran war casualty tracker in a single day, pushing the total to 774 killed or wounded, without offering an immediate explanation for the sharp increase. The Defense Casualty Analysis System, the Department of Defense database that tracks wartime losses, listed 697 wounded U.S. troops as […]

Francis Clifford Smith, believed to be America's longest-serving prisoner, dies at 101 after 76 years behind bars

A Connecticut man who spent 76 years in prison for a 1949 murder he always denied committing, and who dodged the electric chair eight separate times, has died at 101, still insisting on his innocence. Francis Clifford Smith died in his sleep on June 25 at 60 West, a secured nursing facility in Connecticut that […]

Jill Biden floats drugging theory for Joe's 2024 debate collapse, dodges stroke question

Former First Lady Jill Biden refused to rule out the possibility that her husband was drugged before his disastrous 2024 presidential debate, and sidestepped a direct question about whether doctors investigated a stroke that night. In a podcast interview with host Jamie Kern Lima, Jill Biden was asked point-blank whether someone could have "laced his […]

Federal prosecutors turn James Comey's own novel against him in '86 47' threat case

Federal prosecutors fighting to keep criminal charges alive against former FBI Director James Comey are now citing passages from his own novel as evidence he knew exactly what his "86 47" social media post meant, and that it was no innocent political slogan. In a court filing made this week in the Eastern District of […]

Trump taps White House counsel Samuel Adkisson for federal bench as staff departures mount

President Trump nominated White House associate counsel Samuel D. Adkisson to a federal judgeship in Tennessee, the latest in a wave of senior staff exits ahead of the midterm elections. Trump announced the appointment on Truth Social on August 17, praising Adkisson's work defending the administration's authority to fire Federal Trade Commission commissioners. Adkisson will […]

Musk pledges $100 million to Republicans after months-long effort to repair Trump rift

Elon Musk boarded Air Force One for President Trump's Beijing summit in May and privately pledged at least $100 million to help Republicans hold Congress, a dramatic reversal after their public falling-out last year. The world's richest man joined Trump on the flight to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, and during the trip told the […]