Republican leaders are pre-emptively attacking Saturday’s “No Kings” national protests before they happen. Speaker Mike Johnson called them “hate-America rallies” that will draw “pro-Hamas” Democrats and “antifa people.” House Republican Whip Tom Emmer warned of widespread “hate for America.” Senator…

California banned Glock-style handguns last week. The National Rifle Association sued within days. The lawsuit challenges Assembly Bill 1127 as violating the Second Amendment, arguing that semiautomatic handguns with cruciform trigger bars are “in common use” and therefore protected by…

John Bolton, the hawkish former National Security Advisor who attacked Trump for mishandling classified documents, was indicted Thursday on 18 counts of doing exactly that – transmitting and retaining thousands of pages of top secret material at his Maryland home.…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave reporters until 5 p.m. Tuesday to sign a new policy agreement or lose Pentagon access permanently. Nearly every major news organization refused. Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, no major U.S.…

The government has been closed for two weeks. President Trump redirected $8 billion in Pentagon research funds to pay troops. The Office of Management and Budget began mass firings over the weekend. Senate Democrats blocked their eighth attempt to reopen…

President Trump stood in the Rose Garden Tuesday and posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been the conservative activist’s 32nd birthday. Kirk’s widow Erika accepted the award, sharing through tears what their 3-year-old…

A photograph can end military careers now. Several Texas National Guard members deployed to Illinois last week got sent home after pictures showing their heavyset physiques went viral. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth celebrated the removal on social media Monday, declaring…

Representative Michael Rulli wants to punish cities that replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. His proposed legislation would withhold federal funding from any jurisdiction that celebrates the wrong holiday. And Trump’s Cabinet applauded October 9 when the president signed…

The troops will get paid on October 15. President Trump announced Saturday he’s directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use “all available funds” to issue military paychecks despite the government shutdown. The Pentagon identified $8 billion in unobligated research and…

The hostages come home tomorrow. After nearly two years in captivity, 48 Israelis will cross back into their country in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. President Trump will arrive in Israel to claim credit for a ceasefire he calls…

The president just accused his predecessor of orchestrating surveillance at an attack that happened while he himself was president. The claim collapses under the weight of basic chronology – but the constitutional implications extend far beyond a single social media…

The global economy runs on 17 obscure elements most Americans have never heard of. China controls the supply. And the United States just discovered what happens when trade war rhetoric collides with geological reality. President Trump threatened 100% tariffs on…

Here’s What Both Sides Aren’t Telling You Immigrant healthcare has become the rhetorical centerpiece of the government shutdown standoff. Republicans claim Democrats are demanding taxpayer funding for “illegal aliens.” Democrats insist they’re protecting American families’ access to affordable insurance. Both…

Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work promoting democracy in Venezuela. The White House immediately denounced the decision as proof the Nobel Committee “places politics over peace.” Hours later, Machado called Trump to…

The White House physician has declared the 79-year-old President to be in “exceptional health” following his second “annual” physical in just six months. But this latest visit to Walter Reed Medical Center – coming after a string of unexplained health…

The government has shut down. But this time is different. The White House has just confirmed that for thousands of federal workers, this will not be a temporary, unpaid vacation. It will be a permanent pink slip. The administration is…

Letitia James wrote in February 2024 that “everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them. There simply cannot be different rules for different people.” She…

An illegal immigrant from India was driving a commercial truck on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma carrying a New York state CDL with “NO NAME GIVEN” listed as his first name. ICE arrested Anmol Anmol during a routine truck scale inspection…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that Qatar will establish an air force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, and the MAGA movement is in open revolt. Laura Loomer says she’s “never felt more betrayed by the…

A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday on bank fraud charges and making false statements to a financial institution. The indictment came from U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan – the Trump-appointed prosecutor with no…

Listen closely to the sounds of our modern political debate, and you will hear something strange and disorienting. Democrats are passionately defending “states’ rights” and the sanctity of local control. Republicans, meanwhile, are championing a massive and unilateral assertion of…

President Trump signed a Columbus Day proclamation Thursday, and his Cabinet spontaneously broke into applause as he declared “We’re back, Italians.” It was a small moment with big symbolic weight – Trump explicitly rejecting the progressive shift toward Indigenous Peoples’…

President Trump announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas agreed to his peace plan ending two years of Gaza war. The announcement caps a year where Trump positioned himself as Middle East peacemaker through multiple diplomatic initiatives – some successful, some…

President Trump announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas have both agreed to the first phase of his peace plan, ending two years of war that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. “ALL of the Hostages will be released very…

The sight of uniformed, armed soldiers on American streets is one of the most jarring and constitutionally fraught images in a republic. In recent months, President Donald Trump has repeatedly moved to make that sight a reality in cities like…

“I’m not going to discuss anything about that with you.” With those ten words, the Attorney General of the United States refused a direct question from the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The moment was not just a tense…

When a licensed therapist sits down with a minor to talk about gender identity, is that conversation protected free speech? Or is it a form of medical conduct that the government has the power to regulate, and even ban? This…

Senator Angus King voted with Republicans five times to reopen the government despite caucusing with Democrats. The Maine independent joined Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto in crossing party lines to support GOP funding bills that Democratic leadership…

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order Sunday night blocking President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. Then the Trump administration tried deploying California Guard members instead. So Immergut expanded her order to block troops…

FBI Director Kash Patel just opened a file the Bureau didn’t want anyone to see. Inside: proof that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team tracked the private phone records of eight Republican senators and one House member – without those lawmakers…

Kash Patel fired an FBI agent for refusing to arrange a televised perp walk of James Comey – the former FBI director whom Trump orchestrated criminal charges against despite career prosecutors considering the case too weak to bring. The agent,…

Elizabeth Yusi, who oversees major criminal prosecutions in the Norfolk office of Virginia’s Eastern District, has told colleagues she sees no probable cause to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud. She plans to present that conclusion…

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her sex trafficking conviction, ending her primary legal avenue for overturning the 20-year sentence she’s serving for recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The Court’s order…

President Trump shut down the government for 35 days in 2019 fighting for his border wall, and it was a political disaster. He owned it, cameras caught him owning it, and he eventually caved with nothing to show for it.…

On the deck of a mighty aircraft carrier, surrounded by thousands of cheering sailors, the President of the United States celebrated the 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy with a powerful promise. He vowed to secure “across the board pay…

Iran just did something remarkable: it publicly endorsed Hamas’s response to Trump’s Gaza peace plan while simultaneously warning about the plan’s “dangerous dimensions.” That carefully worded statement from Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday reveals the precarious constitutional position Trump has…

Todd Arrington spent nearly 30 years in government service as director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. His job was preserving historic artifacts that belong to the American public and are protected by federal law from…

Congressional Democrats have a weapon in the government shutdown fight that nobody’s talking about: time. While Republicans control the White House, both chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court, they’re watching Trump’s approval ratings crater into the high 30s as…

President Trump has won roughly 21 emergency rulings from the Supreme Court since taking office in January, allowing his administration to implement controversial policies while legal challenges work through the courts. The White House is celebrating an almost flawless record…

A Portland police sergeant wrote an email describing three people who were assaulted outside an ICE facility as a “chronic source of police calls” who “constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed.” The victims…

Donald Trump spent months during the 2024 campaign insisting he had nothing to do with Project 2025. The 900-page Heritage Foundation blueprint for restructuring federal government became politically toxic, so Trump distanced himself repeatedly, claiming he’d never read it and…

Kash Patel told senators during his confirmation hearings that he had “no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards.” He promised there would be “no politicization at the FBI” and “no retributive actions taken.” On Friday, the…

The White House didn’t wait for the government shutdown to decide which federal agencies would face mass firings. Officials had already compiled a target list before midnight on October 1, and they’re prepared to announce layoffs as soon as this…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia just lost his latest bid to stay in America, but his story is far from over. An immigration judge in Baltimore denied his application to reopen his 2019 asylum case on Wednesday, setting up yet another round…

U.S. District Judge William Young has been on the federal bench for nearly 40 years. He’s a Reagan appointee with impeccable conservative credentials. And in 2025, he’s become something extraordinary in American jurisprudence: a sitting federal judge who writes legal…

The government has been shut down for barely 24 hours, and already the Trump administration is preparing to do something that sounds routine but is actually constitutionally extraordinary: lay off federal workers. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought…

President Trump stood before 800 generals and admirals at Quantico on Tuesday and declared the military would end “political correctness” and return to merit-based standards focused on “fitness, ability, character, and strength.” He praised Pete Hegseth’s speech condemning “fat troops”…

The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to pass a continuing resolution before the midnight deadline. Roughly 875,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Another 1.4 million essential employees will work…

A Baptist church in Middleton, Idaho was renting a gymnasium from a public charter school to hold Sunday services. Then the school applied for $15 million in state bonds to finance building upgrades, and state attorneys flagged the church’s lease…

The Supreme Court just agreed to answer a question that’s never been asked in the 112-year history of the Federal Reserve: can a president fire a Fed governor? The answer will determine whether the central bank that controls interest rates,…

When Do Non-Citizens Get First Amendment Rights? A Reagan Judge Just Rewrote the Rules A Reagan-appointed federal judge just delivered what might be the most constitutionally significant – and personally scathing – rebuke of the Trump administration yet. In a…

With hours remaining before a midnight government shutdown, Republicans have found their messaging strategy: accuse Democrats of prioritizing “free healthcare for illegal aliens” over paying U.S. troops. Democrats call it an outright lie designed to obscure their real demand –…

Every American military officer swears an oath that begins with ten critical words: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Not the president. Not the party in power. Not the Secretary…

A Democratic mayor in New Jersey just announced he’s supporting the Republican gubernatorial candidate backed by President Trump. James P. Dodd, mayor of Dover, says he’s tired of sanctuary policies, rising taxes, and Democrats who complain without offering solutions. He’s…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood before nearly 800 generals and admirals summoned from around the world and declared the organization they’ve spent decades serving no longer exists. “The era of the Department of Defense is over,” he announced Tuesday…

Vice President JD Vance walked out of the White House on Monday afternoon and delivered the news nobody wanted to hear. “I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change…

President Trump just promised something no American president has ever offered before: amnesty for members of a foreign terrorist organization. The 20-point Gaza peace plan unveiled Monday at the White House includes a provision granting Hamas members who disarm “amnesty”…

Tyler Robinson’s new defense attorney walked into a Utah courtroom Monday and immediately asked for more time. Not to prepare a defense strategy or interview witnesses – just to comprehend the sheer volume of evidence prosecutors have compiled against her…