The families of U.S. service members killed in the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan angrily denounced the Biden administration at an Aug. 7 hearing for what they said was a flawed evacuation plan and lack of accountability for what went wrong. […]

A leading constitutional rights organization filed a lawsuit on Aug. 4 in a federal court to block the activation of the Biden administration’s new student loan income-driven repayment plan. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed the complaint on behalf of the Cato Institute and Mackinac Center for Public Policy in the U.S. District Court […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis trails former President Donald Trump by wide margins in the 2024 Republican presidential primary polls. Yet, Mr. DeSantis spreads a hopeful message, including the possibility that he will close the distance on Mr. Trump, pull even, and then ahead and secure the nomination. And the same narrative has it that Mr. […]

Starting in 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has kept records of the number of individuals on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist encountered at the nation’s southern and northern borders. And over that time, fiscal year 2023—which runs from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023—has already set a record for the most terrorist encounters. Thus […]

Commander, the German shepherd owned by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, is reported to be a terror—and dangerous.  The dog has been involved in 10 attacks on members of the Secret Service over a four-month span, from October 2022 through January 2023, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records the watchdog […]

The White House issued a statement on July 24 saying it was disappointed that Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, voted that day to approve a highly controversial bill—backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition—that reduces the power of its Supreme Court to challenge parliamentary decisions. The bill is part of a broader package […]

Not many CIA directors serve as members of a U.S. president’s Cabinet. CIA Director William Burns will now be one of the few.  President Joe Biden, underscoring the confidence he holds in and how much he relies on Mr. Burns, announced on July 21 that the intelligence chief is now a Cabinet member. There is precedent for […]

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who has not decided whether he will next year run for reelection, make a third-party bid for the presidency, or retire, has raised $1.2 million in the second quarter of 2023. The Epoch Times obtained the fundraising figures along with other numbers showing that the Manchin campaign has $10.7 million cash […]

Larry Nassar—the disgraced sports physician who was convicted of sexually assaulting female gymnasts, including Olympians—has been stabbed multiple times by another inmate in his Florida prison. Mr. Nassar was stabbed in the back and chest during an altercation with his fellow inmate on July 9, according to the Associated Press. He was reported to be […]

The decision of the Biden administration, following several months of internal debate, to include cluster munitions as part of its new $800 million aid package to Ukraine is opposed by members of his own party in Congress, who otherwise are allies of the administration’s support of the nation in its war with Russia. Congressional Democrats […]

The Supreme Court has spoken on the constitutionality of using affirmative action in higher education admissions. On June 29, the court ruled, in two separate cases, that for colleges and universities to use race in making admissions decisions is unlawful, violating the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Students for […]

While Ron DeSantis’ official announcement that he was running for president, which he made on Twitter, and for which Twitter CEO Elon Musk served as host, was glitched filled, DeSantis raked in $8.2 million in the 24 hours following the announcement, breaking the previous mark of $6.3 million that Joe Biden raised on the initial […]

To make room for illegal immigrants transported from New York City, 15 homeless military veterans were moved from their housing at a hotel in New York state’s Hudson River Valley region. The veterans, who were staying at The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, a city in Orange County about 70 miles north of New York, were […]

As the United States hurtles yet again toward a deadline by which either its debt ceiling is raised or it defaults on its financial obligations, Biden administration officials and Congressional lawmakers took to the Sunday talk shows on May 14 to voice their positions and sway public opinion. It’s a financial game of chicken, with […]

House Republicans are pressuring Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over threats the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to U.S. port infrastructure. The lawmakers have demanded Mayorkas provide information on what his department and the Biden administration are doing to prevent the CCP from using the technology it develops and produces, which is […]

The Biden administration announced on May 5 that it is stepping back from a previous decision demanding that a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma remove a lit candle from its chapel—a practice and observance sacred to Catholics—or lose its ability to accept Medicare, Medicaid, or Children’s Health (CHIP) patients. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), […]

Members of Congress, appearing on the Sunday talk shows on April 16, said there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about how a 21-year-old airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard was able to get a hold of and distribute highly classified and sensitive materials that revealed, among other intelligence, U.S […]

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), in his questioning of and conversation with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough during the March 23 House Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing, pressed the secretary on an issue which the congressman called an “absolute danger” to the United States.   Murphy, who is a physician, was referring to the […]

Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and fellow GOP senators introduced a bill on March 9 that includes resuming construction of the border wall to secure the nation’s southern border and stop the rising flow of illegal immigrants crossing that boundary into the United States. “Since President [Joe] Biden took office, more than 4.7 million illegal immigrants—double […]

Twenty years after the launch of the U.S.-led coalition invasion of Iraq, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on March 7 to meet with the nation’s prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. Austin is on a multi-day tour of the Middle East during which he will meet with the leaders of […]

On Feb. 15, a coalition of 24 state Republican Attorney Generals announced filing a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), asking the court to declare unlawful and vacate a rule the agencies developed that will determine which water resources receive federal protection. Specifically, the rule, announced on […]

While hosting a question-and-answer with the media at City Hall on Jan. 18, New York City Mayor Eric Adams urged President Joe Biden to appoint a border czar and send taxpayer dollars to help the city deal with an influx of illegal aliens. Adams made the request even though in March of 2020, President Biden […]