Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow should consider launching ‘preemptive strikes’ against the West as the U.S. and its NATO allies ratchet up defensive support for Ukraine. ‘The statements of Western politicians on this topic are complete nonsense,’ Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia’s security council, said in an interview with state media outlet Tass, according to […]
The National Urban League is sounding the alarm, asserting that there is a ‘state of emergency’ in the country. The organization’s ‘State of Black America’ report for 2025 titled ‘State of Emergency: Democracy, Civil Rights, and Progress Under Attack,’ takes aim at the Trump administration. ‘Almost daily, since January 20, 2025, the federal government, at […]
Some House fiscal hawks are cautiously readying to accept the $9 billion spending cuts package passed by the Senate overnight. The House of Representatives must pass the bill, called a rescissions package, by Friday. Rescissions packages are spending cuts requested by the White House of funds that Congress already appropriated for that fiscal year. It’s […]
Though Senate Republicans were successful in their mission to pass President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not every member of the conference was on board. Only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined with every Senate Democrat to vote against the $9 billion package geared toward clawing back foreign aid and public […]
A new think tank analysis finds that public corruption is a significant problem in the U.S., and is most prevalent in state and local governments that have larger bureaucracies and higher regulations. The libertarian Cato Institute said it analyzed Department of Justice data on public corruption convictions in the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts and […]
Though Senate Republicans were successful in their mission to pass President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not every member of the conference was on board. Only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined with every Senate Democrat to vote against the $9 billion package geared toward clawing back foreign aid and public […]
The State Department on Sunday blasted Yemen’s Iran-sponsored Houthi terrorist movement for lethal attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea and on Israel as new calls emerged for President Donald Trump to support Yemen’s legitimate government to topple the Houthi regime. Walid Phares, a leading American expert on the Middle East, told Fox News […]
In recent weeks, some public commentary has accused the Department of Justice of defying court orders and insinuated that Emil Bove’s confirmation will undermine the rule of law. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Department of Justice follows court orders—even when those orders are legally unsound or deeply flawed. And Emil is the […]
This week, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will once again be asked to draw the line between what is permissible and impermissible for a Trump nominee, when they decide whether Emil Bove’s nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals should receive a full Senate vote. Confirming Bove would mean redrawing that line […]
Senate Republicans blasted through Democratic and internal opposition to pass President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning. The final vote tally was 51-48, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining every Democrat in voting against it. The package will now be sent to the House, which has […]