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Everything You Think You Know About Immigrant Healthcare in the Shutdown Fight Is Probably Wrong

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 sides are talking past...

Democrats Suddenly Embrace “States’ Rights” to Fight Trump’s Plan for a Federal Takeover of Chicago

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 federal...

Grand Jury Indicts Letitia James

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 prior criminal law experience...

Pentagon Approves Qatari Air Force Facility in Idaho, Sparking Backlash From Trump’s Core Supporters

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 GOP.” Steve Bannon told Newsweek “there should never be...

ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Driving 18-Wheeler With New York License Listing His Name as “NO NAME GIVEN”

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 on September 23, discovering he entered the country illegally...

Is Conversion Therapy ‘Speech’ or ‘Conduct’? The Supreme Court Confronts a First Amendment Minefield

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 is the profound and deeply divisive constitutional question that the...

In Fiery Hearing, AG Bondi Refuses To Answer Epstein Questions, Clashes with Democrats

“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 exchange in a heated hearing; it was a dangerous and...

Why is Trump trying to deploy the National Guard to US cities?

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 Portland and Chicago, sparking a fierce legal and...

Hamas Accepts Trump Peace Deal After Two-Year War

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 soon,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “and Israel will withdraw...

Examining Trump’s Year of Middle East Diplomacy From Saudi Normalization Talks to Hamas Agreement and What Actually Got Accomplished

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 stalled, and some still unfolding....

Trump Signs Columbus Day Proclamation to Cabinet Applause, Rejecting Indigenous Peoples’ Day Shift

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’ Day and...

Virginia Prosecutor Prepares to Tell Trump No on Letitia James Charges

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 to the president’s...

Kash Patel’s Bureau Leadership Collapses From Personnel Purges to Publicity Stunts

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, stationed in the Washington D.C. field office, balked...

FBI’s “Arctic Frost” Spy Operation: How Jack Smith Secretly Tracked Nine GOP Lawmakers Without a Warrant

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 ever knowing they were targets. The operation had...

Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Playing “Whack-A-Mole” to Circumvent Court Orders on Troop Deployments

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 from any...

Shutdown Stalemate Deepens as Critical Republican Coalition Vote Wavers

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 has...

Supreme Court Hands Trump 21 Wins on Emergency Docket

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 on what’s known as...

Democrats Face Unusual Shutdown Calculus: When Losing Might Actually Win

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 his administration...

Trump Fired the Eisenhower Library Director for Refusing to Break Federal Law

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 being given away or removed from...

Iran Backs Hamas Response to Trump Plan While Warning of ‘Dangerous Aspects’

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...