Politics

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said the ongoing shutdown of her department is affecting preparations for the 2026 World Cup and the celebration of 250 years of the United States. In a post Thursday on social platform X, Noem said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (

A Texas grand jury on Wednesday rejected indictments regarding a fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents that left a U.S. citizen dead last year. The grand jury’s decision follows the death of Joshua Orta, who was with Ruben Ray Martinez when he was shot and killed by a Homeland Security

The Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act (DPA) against Anthropic amid a dispute over the company’s restrictions on its AI tools, in a move that many experts say is an unusual use of the measure. The Department of Defense (DOD) warned Anthropic on Tuesday that it could invoke the

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to fire 22 more of its staffers, a union representing agency employees said Thursday. Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238, which represents EPA staff, said that the agency issued reduction in for

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing backlash after amplifying a post made by far-right figure Stew Peters.  “War with Iran is the only thing republicans and democrats have both given a standing ovation for. Let that sink in,” Peters, who has been deemed a conspiracy theorist, Christian n

A Kansas law invalidating the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed their gender on the documents took effect Thursday. The legislation, Senate Bill 244, requires all Kansans to identify with the same gender as their birth sex on official state documents. That

Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Thursday called for President Trump to testify under oath before the committee as part of its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He did so as the panel conducted a dep

Florida Republicans are repeating calls for regime change in Cuba in the wake of the Cuban coast guard killing four people and detaining others who were in a Florida-registered motorboat that Havana said crossed into Cuban territorial waters.  The deadly confrontation adds another layer of volatilit

A federal judge this week granted a partial win to conservation groups after the Trump administration pulled out of a salmon restoration agreement last year. Obama-appointed Judge Michael J. Simon issued a preliminary injunction ordering the federal government to take certain actions requested by th

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) on Wednesday defended Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who has recently faced pressure over allegations that he had an affair with a staffer who later killed herself. “He’s not been indicted for anything. Does it look good? No, I don’t like the appearance of it. He’s got a pro

Republican strategist Karl Rove on Wednesday accused President Trump of making a “key mistake” during the State of the Union by not addressing the concerns of disenchanted voters who are seeking relief from financial hardship. “For them, the president’s speech almost certainly didn’t sound based in

Rep. Warren Davidson (Ohio) on Thursday became the second House Republican to pledge support for a resolution aimed at limiting President Trump’s ability to take unilateral military action in Iran. Davidson wrote in a post on the social platform X that he has requested a classified briefing on the “

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tore into Republicans on the panel after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) leaked a photo from inside former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deposition on Thursday. Clinton is testifying as part of the panel’s probe into the late sex

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that President Trump had assured him in a phone call of the forthcoming release of a Columbia University student who had been detained on campus earlier in the day. “In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elaina Aghayeva,

As mourners pay their respects Thursday to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson as he lies in state at his Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s Chicago headquarters, a number of states have lowered or will lower their flags to half-staff in honor of the deceased civil rights activist. The governors of at least a dozen sta

The family of a sanctioned United Nations human rights investigator on Wednesday sued the Trump administration for sanctioning her over her criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, arguing that the sanctions violate her First Amendment rights. U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s husb

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) proposal for a national moratorium on data centers, deeming the idea as an intentional “surrender” to China amid their rapid development of artificial intelligence. “A moratorium on data centers would — would be like, w

Virginia Democrats in the U.S. House are urging voters to support a constitutional amendment that would permit redistricting ahead of the midterm elections after a state judge recently imposed a temporarily block on the referendum. The judge’s emergency injunction remains in effect until March 18, p

NASA brought Crew-11 home from the International Space Station early due to a medical event.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday unveiled a legislative package intended to mitigate fraud a day after the Trump administration paused $259.5 million in Medicaid funds for the North Star State.  Walz’s package would create a new statute that increases penalties for public fraud by 20 percent

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats. An analysis that was first shared with The Hill tabulated both official and unofficial estimates of the impacts of the bill’s pro

Mortgage rates fell below 6 percent on Thursday for the first time in more than three years, marking an opening for homebuyers as inflation cools.  Currently, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging 5.98 percent, down .03 points from last week, according to Freddie Mac.  Last year, the rate ave

When a political activist is murdered on a college campus, the American people expect the FBI to move immediately.

And mainstream media wonders why so many Americans hate them?