Trump-inspired ‘Japanese first’ politician shakes up nation’s establishment

Japanese populist Sohei Kamiya stunned many in the country when his Sanseitō party won 14 seats in Japan’s Upper House elections last week. ‘From supermarket manager to bright political star … populism has hit the shores of Japan like a tsunami,’ Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital about 47-year-old Kamiya’s surprise […]

White House orders Hegseth to stop polygraphs on Pentagon staff suspected of leaking: report

The White House pulled the plug on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to root out leakers, according to a report. Patrick Weaver, a current adviser to Hegseth, alerted high-ranking administration officials that he could soon have to submit a polygraph test, the Washington Post reported. That prompted a call to Hegseth to […]

Rubio rips Venezuela’s Maduro as ‘narco-terrorist’ leader threatening US one year after disputed election

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hammering Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Sunday as the South American country holds municipal elections to fill hundreds of mayoral positions and thousands of council seats. The municipal contests are happening one day before the one-year anniversary of Venezuela’s presidential election, which was widely condemned by the United States […]

Democrats are hammering Republicans on Epstein, but one senator brushed off the issue years ago

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., believes it’s ‘weird’ that the Trump administration has not released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, but at one point, it was the last thing on her mind. Democrats have searched for an opening to sharpen their messaging against Republicans, and have pounced on the administration and their colleagues across the aisle […]

FTC firings take spotlight in Trump’s fight to erase independence of agencies

The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to fire numerous Democrat-appointed members of independent agencies, but one case still moving through the legal system carries the greatest implications yet for a president’s authority to do that. In Slaughter v. Trump, a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission has vowed to fight what […]

DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified Trump-Russia docs: Here’s what they say

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a slew of documents this month, revealing that Obama administration officials ‘manufactured’ intelligence to push the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Here’s a look at the newly declassified records: Declassified Presidential Daily Brief Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently […]