President Joe Biden is continuing to pursue his plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for millions of Americans, and announced more than 16 million Americans have been approved for the program. In August, Biden announced his plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt held by Pell Grant recipients and up […]

Iran and Russia are linking their banking systems together, in the face of growing international sanctions against both countries. Iran’s official Press.tv news agency announced that the Central banks of Iran and Russia had reached an agreement on Sunday to connect their national interbank communication and transfer systems, making it easier to complete transactions between […]

A judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit filed by U.S. Capitol Police officers may proceed against former President Donald Trump and some of his supporters and individuals accused of assaulting police at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Judge Amit Mehta of Washington D.C.’s federal district court ruled that eight Capitol Police officers could proceed […]

The campaign video Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released to announce his 2024 Senate campaign became the subject of an ethics complaint within a single day. On Thursday, Schiff announced he is running to replace Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) in the Senate in 2024. By Friday, a nonprofit organization called the Foundation for Accountability and Civic […]

On Thursday, a federal judge issued a restraining order, preventing two firearms parts companies from selling trigger kits that the U.S. Department of Justice claims turn semi-automatic rifles into fully automatic-firing machine guns. Judge Nina Morrison, of New York’s federal Eastern District Court, granted a temporary restraining order preventing Rare Breed Triggers, LLC and Rare […]

Some members of the European Union are calling for the body to support renewed construction of border barriers as Europe has seen a rise in illegal border crossings in recent months. On Jan. 21, 26 European Union members and envoys for Switzerland and the United Kingdom visited Greece, where Greek Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos […]

Twenty-five individuals are now facing charges in connection to an alleged scheme to distribute 7,600 fraudulent nursing diplomas. On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida charged individuals at three different Florida nursing programs with conspiring to create and distribute nursing diplomas to aspiring nurses who never completed their necessary course […]

Five former Memphis police officers have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 10 death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, a black man. Now-fired Memphis Police Department officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith—who are also black—have been accused of severely beating Nichols during a Jan. […]

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is pursuing congressional term limits and a number of other reforms in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that could change how the body conducts its business. “Term limits have been talked about by the public for a long time,” Norman told NTD News on Wednesday. “I’ve been a proponent back when […]

The top enlisted member of the National Guard said Wednesday that the force is excited to hear back on whether unvaccinated National Guard troops will return now that the military’s vaccine mandate has lifted. National Guard troops have faced a unique set of circumstances with the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate because they can be […]

After potentially classified documents have been found at President Joe Biden’s former office space and his Wilmington, Delaware, home, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is questioning whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) will carry out searches of other properties Biden owns. The White House has said lawyers and aides for Biden found the first set of […]

A group of Illinois residents, gun shops, and gun rights activists have filed a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Illinois’ new law that bans “assault weapons” and “large capacity” firearm magazines. On Jan. 11, Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law a bill that bans semiautomatic rifles that have the capacity to accept a […]

Two Republican lawmakers have now voiced their opposition to a plan, favored by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), to remove Democrat Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from their committee assignments. McCarthy is seeking to block Schiff and Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee and Omar from the House Foreign […]

Newly sworn-in Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) has been in the U.S. Senate for three weeks and he’s moving forward with his first legislative package, which is focused on expanding U.S. energy production and cross-border energy permits. On Tuesday, Mullin introduced three new Senate bills focused on the energy sector. The first bill he introduced seeks […]

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, has indicated his committee will scrutinize President Joe Biden’s family’s finances and will trace the flow of money into the Penn Biden Center, where documents with classified markings were recently discovered. “We’re trying to trace the money,” Comer said in […]

Members of President Joe Biden’s administration have insisted that the FBI search of his Wilmington, Delaware home on Friday was done with the president’s consent, rather than a search warrant. Over the weekend, the White House disclosed that a new search by the FBI had found six more documents, including some with classified markings, during […]

Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent who was arrested on Monday for alleged ties to a Russian oligarch, was one of the agents who played a role in investigating now-discredited allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had arrested […]

The global commercial real estate market could soon default on tens of billions in assets which would chaos to the broader global economy. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, about $175 billion worth of real estate credit is invested in distressed assets. These distressed assets are properties whose owners are nearing a default or have […]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) needs to be “completely redone” and it will be a “big task.” In a new interview, Yellen praised the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August, which allocated about $80 billion for the IRS to modernize and increase its tax enforcement measures. […]

A spokesman for President Joe Biden said “it’s a little bit complicated” when asked how many potentially classified documents have been found at properties the president owns or used. In an interview with MSNBC on Sunday morning, Special Assistant to the President Ian Sams fielded questions about recent discoveries of documents with classified markings at […]

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, members of the FBI allegedly briefed U.S. senators that a foreign government was planning to release misinformation about a member of Joe Biden’s family, according to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). On Thursday, Lee posted on Twitter that the FBI held a classified briefing with senators in September 2020 in […]

The chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) criticized media coverage of the debt ceiling debate and called on the Republicans who control the House of Representatives to stand firm on their demands to pair fiscal reform with any deal to raise the debt. On Thursday, the United States reached its $31.4 […]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel are increasingly catching people attempting to smuggle raw eggs across the U.S. southern border at a time when poultry products are in high demand and prices are rising. CBP officials told the Border Report that seizures of raw eggs increased by 108 percent between Oct. 1 and Dec. […]

Philadelphia Flyers’ coach John Tortorella has continued to defend defenseman Ivan Provorov, saying he did nothing wrong. Provorov refused to participate in a pre-game team skate on Tuesday night that entailed wearing LGBT pride jerseys and rainbow tape on their hockey sticks. Provorov, who is a Russian national, told reporters he was refusing to participate […]

New York City prosecutors are seeing more and more of their cases dismissed without going to trial after the state passed new court evidence requirements, according to a new study. In 2019, New York changed its laws governing how prosecutors are supposed to share evidence with criminal defendants in criminal procedures, accelerating the pace at […]

The Russian government announced on Thursday that it had opened up an espionage case against a U.S. citizen. Russia’s Federal Security Service—known as the FSB—is leading the investigation. “The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal case against a US citizen on the grounds of a crime under Article 276 of the […]

Of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., a group of 31 counties accounted for more than two-fifths of the share of all murders in the entire country in 2020, according to recent research. The pre-print study, authored by John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), found that these 31 counties—one […]

A whistleblower, who previously worked for the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles in Orlando, Florida, has claimed that the elections office did not provide adequate ballot supervision in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm election. Whistleblower Brian Freid filed two affidavits alleging that the election office lacked proper oversight over the printing, management, and […]

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is denying new allegations that he raised money for a disabled veteran’s cancer-afflicted service dog only to keep the charitable donations for himself. Retired U.S. Navy veteran Richard Osthoff recently told Patch.com that he met Santos in May 2016 when his service dog, a pit bull mix named Sapphire, developed a […]

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz doesn’t believe that either former Republican President Donald Trump or his successor, Democratic President Joe Biden, will be prosecuted as a result of the potentially classified documents either one had in their possession while out of office. In an interview with Fox News, Dershowitz predicted that neither Trump nor […]

President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware has played host to many different guests over the years; now Republican lawmakers are trying to determine exactly who visited the Wilmington residence after multiple potentially classified documents were discovered on the property. On Sunday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to the Biden White […]

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), an office led by an appointee of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, sent letters to six Florida businesses, warning that their business licenses could be suspended for failing to verify that their employees are legally residing and working within the United States. The DEO letters specifically flagged the businesses […]

News Analysis Working relations between Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are already strained as the two leaders are set to take on key issues that will require bipartisan efforts, including upcoming negotiations on how to handle the U.S. national debt and the impending debt ceiling. Both leaders have […]

As Americans observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, retired Vanderbilt University professor and author Carol Swain expressed concern over the current state of U.S. race relations and civil rights. In an interview with NTD News, Swain said that King’s approach and message on civil rights was “diametrically opposed” to the views and behaviors […]

A Texas-based brewery recently decided to cancel a fundraising event featuring Kyle Rittenhouse, a man who rose to national media attention after he shot and killed two people during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, and who was found not guilty of murder after he argued he acted in self-defense. The Southern Star Brewing […]

Retirees on Social Security have been feeling the effects of inflation since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the financial strain was particularly pronounced in 2022 as inflation soared and inflation-based adjustments fell short by nearly half, according to a new analysis by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan organization. On Thursday, TSCL […]

Republican lawmakers are looking into whether President Joe Biden’s son Hunter may be connected in any way to the potentially classified documents recently discovered at the president’s Delaware home and his Washington D.C. office space. On Jan. 9, The White House announced that potentially classified documents were found at Biden’s old D.C. office space at […]

The discovery of potentially classified documents at President Joe Biden’s former office space at the Penn Biden Center raises concerns in light of the center’s ties to China and potentially to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to Paul Kamenar, an attorney for the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC). In November, lawyers tasked with […]

The U.S. Department of Justice admitted in a recent court filing that it has about 30 gigabytes (GB) worth of data not publicly disclosed by the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol breach. The Department of Justice disclosed the existence of the 30 GB of previously unreleased data in an ongoing court […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel on Thursday after lawyers for President Joe Biden found potentially classified documents at his former office space at the Penn Biden Center in November and in his Deleware home in December. The Biden White House disclosed the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden […]

Lawmakers, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle, are continuing to voice their opposition to the idea of a ban on gas stoves. Concerns about a gas stove ban have risen after a recent study linked their use to childhood asthma and after U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. discussed […]

Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) shared their support of a bill that passed in the House on Jan. 9, dubbed the “Born Alive” act, which requires medical practitioners to provide medical care for babies born after an attempted abortion. The bill, titled the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” (pdf), would “prohibit […]

Dr. Peter McCullough is celebrating the repeal of the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and is calling for 24-year-old Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin to reveal his vaccination status after his recent cardiac arrest during a live NFL game. “Out of all the sectors that we have in the economy and our American existence, the […]

A group of 43 national security experts published an open letter on Jan. 11 criticizing news organizations and scientific publications that dismissed the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have been the result of a lab leak. The letter is addressed “To the editors, authors, and contributors to major scientific, medical, and journalistic publications worldwide.” […]

A federal product safety regulator recently revealed there has been consideration of a plan to ban gas stoves, with such comments drawing criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said, in a recent interview with Bloomberg News, that his agency is considering […]

Around 100 Ukrainian troops are set to arrive in the United States as soon as next week to begin training on how to use the Patriot surface-to-air guided-missile defense system. “I can confirm that training for Ukrainian forces on the Patriot air defense system will begin as soon as next week at Fort Sill, Oklahoma,” […]

Following news that documents with classified markings were found in an office space President Joe Biden used between 2017 and 2020, Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) said the Biden administration has enjoyed friendly relations with the media, government bureaucracies, and the U.S. intelligence community, and that instances of potential wrongdoing by Biden and his administration have […]

The Biden White House recently alleged the Republican lawmakers who now control the House of Representatives will pursue spending cuts that will “defund” the U.S. military. In a Monday response, the new Republican House Majority Whip accused the Biden administration of “peddling lies” about Republican plans. Republicans, who recently took over control of the House, […]

Newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), and newly appointed House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), alleged a potential political double standard in how classified documents are handled after a White House attorney revealed that potentially classified documents were discovered in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center. On Monday evening, Special […]

Along with his plans to grant student loan debt forgiveness to millions of borrowers, President Joe Biden is moving ahead with a plan to lower student loan repayments and stop their balances from growing because of an accumulation of unpaid interest. On Tuesday morning, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the Biden administration’s new student […]

Documentary filmmaker and Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo criticized The Washington Post for a Jan. 7 article that he said spread multiple lies about his political views and about Critical Race Theory (CRT), leading to the newspaper issuing a correction on segments of its reporting. In a Jan. 8 Twitter thread, Rufo highlighted several excerpts […]

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is offering jobs back to eight former employees that it fired for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The former MBTA employees were fired after Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker issued Executive Order No. 595, in August of 2021. The order required all state-level executive branch employees to be […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has closed down a more than two-year probe of stock trades made by former Sen. Richard Burr (R-S.C.) while in office in 2020, taking no action against the outgoing senator. Burr announced the closure of the probe in a statement he shared with CNN on Friday. “This week, […]

The attorney for former Virginia Tech soccer player Kiersten Hening said she will receive a $100,000 settlement after she alleged she was punished for refusing to kneel during the reading of a statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2021, Hening filed a lawsuit against Virginia Tech Women’s Soccer head coach Charles […]

A former West Virginia state delegate who plead guilty to felony charges after entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, may once again return to the building, this time as a member of the House of Representatives. Derrick Evans, a former Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, plead guilty in March […]

Republican lawmakers have been negotiating to end a stalemate and bring enough votes in for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to become the next House speaker. The Republican-majority House of Representatives met for a fourth day of votes on the speakership on Friday. Ahead of voting on Friday, McCarthy agreed to some concessions from holdout Republican […]

The exercise equipment company Peloton has agreed to pay a $19,065,000 civil penalty in a settlement for failing to report defective equipment and knowingly selling recalled treadmills. Beginning in December 2018 and continuing through 2019, Peloton began receiving reports of injuries related to its Tread+ treadmill product. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said […]

As the House of Representatives convened on Thursday and held multiple rounds of voting for the next speaker of the House, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) voted for former President Donald Trump to assume the leadership role over the congressional body. Lawmakers in the Republican-majority House have held eleven votes between Tuesday and Thursday to select […]

Authorities in Mexico captured Ovidio Guzmán López, 32, an alleged cartel leader and the son of convicted cartel drug kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, in a military operation. Mexican Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval announced the arrest in a press conference on Thursday. Sandoval said members of the Mexican Army and National Guard […]

President Joe Biden announced a series of efforts his administration will take to improve border security and streamline the process for immigrants to enter the country legally. He also announced that he will visit El Paso, Texas, on Sunday for his first trip to the southern border as president. Speaking from the White House on […]

Chloe Cole, a biological female, was only 12 years old when she told her parents that she wanted to transition to a boy. Six years later, after receiving cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy, she says she regrets her decision to begin her gender transition at such a young age. “I’m biologically female, but at […]

A pair of twins in Denton, Texas, were born in two different years after their mother went into labor earlier than she expected on New Year’s Eve. The mother of the twin girls, Kali Jo Scott, had to be taken to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton on New Year’s Eve, FOX 4 reported. The mother […]

An analysis of COVID-19 transmission by researchers at the University of California–San Francisco (UCSF) found that both natural immunity from prior infection and COVID-19 vaccines helped to reduce the likelihood of transmission. UCSF researchers studied COVID-19 infection data from all 35 adult prison facilities in California’s state prison system and looked at transmission between people […]

A former FBI agent is requesting that an Arkansas federal judge give him a year of probation after he pleaded guilty to destroying evidence while investigating a corruption case against Republican Arkansas State Sen. Jon Woods. In August, the Department of Justice announced former FBI Special Agent Robert Cessario pleaded guilty in the Western District […]

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus, weighed in on the continued delays in selecting the next speaker of the House, saying the wait will have “real-world consequences” for members of Congress. The House has held six votes on Tuesday and Wednesday to select the next speaker, but in each case, the […]

A series of strong weather systems are set to hit Northern California starting on Wednesday, and they’re expected to bring about heavy rains and flooding throughout the area for the rest of the week. “Widespread flooding and damaging winds expected from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday as a strong weather system and atmospheric river moves through […]

Up to 100 million Americans will soon be enrolled in Medicaid, according to an enrollment monitoring project by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), a think tank focused on welfare and health care policy. On Dec. 28, FGA announced it believes that the number of Americans enrolled with Medicaid will cross the 100 million mark […]

Bryan Kohberger, the man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students in November, appeared in a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday where he agreed to be extradited to Idaho without an extradition hearing. Kohberger, a 28-year-old doctoral student and teaching assistant at Washington State University, had been arrested by state police at his parents’ home […]