WASHINGTON—Republican legislators announced on Feb. 28 at the House Triangle a new caucus to raise awareness about the spike of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers coming across the U.S.-Canada border. Northern border apprehensions have surged by 1,498 percent since President Joe Biden took office, the lawmakers said. Except for marijuana, drug smuggling along the border […]

Communist China is pledging to deepen its cooperation with Russia, further cementing the ties between the authoritarian powers. China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Feb. 21, where the two expressed a desire to evolve the nations’ strategic partnership. Wang told Putin that the myriad crises of the current era […]

WASHINGTON—South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem spoke on Feb. 15 at the America First Policy Institute about her plan to secure the country’s food supply from the Chinese Communist Party’s growing influence. Aside from resisting the CCP’s influence through the pandemic and blocking Chinese companies such as TikTok, Noem said the crucial part that needs to be done […]

It took 15 votes beginning Jan. 3, but Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) finally gained enough votes to be elected the 55th Speaker of the House of Representatives in a nail-bitingly close election that ran past midnight in the lower chamber of the U.S. Capitol. McCarthy’s 216 votes total bested Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, […]

WASHINGTON—Chaos walked into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday and made itself home as members of the new Republican majority rejected House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker, but then failed to settle on an alternative candidate. In the first vote of a tumultuous first day of the 118th Congress, […]

The January 6 committee referred four Republican lawmakers to the House Ethics Committee on Dec. 19 for defying subpoenas earlier this year. The referrals names House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) During the same session, the committee recommended criminal charges against former President Donald Trump related […]

An estimated 300,000 young people are being sex-trafficked in Texas as a result of the Biden administration’s open-border policies, U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) said on Dec. 8 during a chilly outdoor news conference to unveil a new plan to stop the flood of illegal immigration. “This morning as we gather, there are approximately 300,000 […]

WASHINGTON—Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, was found guilty by a jury on Nov. 29 of seditious conspiracy connected to the events on Jan 6, 2021. One co-defendant, Kelly Meggs, was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy on Tuesday, while three others—Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell—were acquitted of that charge. In […]