(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote Friday night to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary after three GOP senators voted against President Donald Trump’s nominee.
The final vote came down to a stalemate when Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The New York City Police Department (NYPD) garnered viral attention on Thursday after posting a puzzling tweet about a so-called historic achievement involving shootings.
In a celebratory post, the NYPD proudly announced that the Big Apple had gone five consecutive days without a shooting victim—the longest streak...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a trip to disaster zones Friday, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation's central organization for responding to disasters.
Instead of having federal financial assistance...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump vowed to support pro-life advocates in his second term as tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life.
“We will again stand proudly for families and for life,” Trump declared in a prerecorded video address as he...
(Headline USA) The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on how deeply it should intervene in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans over who should control the state House of Representatives.
Democratic representatives have stayed away from the state capitol since the 2025 legislative session opened Jan. 14 in...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation."
To maintain global leadership in AI technology, "we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has dropped its charges against the medical doctor who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital for conducting secret sex changes on children.
U.S. Attorney John Pearson filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against Dr. Eithan Haim on Friday, putting an end to the Biden administration’s politically...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) While hundreds of Jan. 6 protestors were pardoned by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump, a tiki torch marcher from the infamous 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was just sentenced to a shocking five years imprisonment.
The defendant, Augustus Sol Invictus (who was born Austin Mitchell...
(Headline USA) Republican Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that he is running to be the next governor of Ohio—wedging the news between the departure from the race of a top rival and the expected entry as soon as next week of a new one.
Yost, 68, seeks to succeed...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon pro-life activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.
Trump called it “a great honor to sign this.”
"They should not have been prosecuted," he said as he signed pardons for "peaceful pro-life protesters.”
The people pardoned were involved in the October 2020...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In an interview excerpt circulating online Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he might not have invaded Ukraine in February 2022 if Donald Trump were still U.S. President at the time.
“If the victory wasn't stolen from him in 2020, maybe the Ukrainian crisis that...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the right-wing group leader's 18-year prison sentence.
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping orchestrate the brouhaha at the U.S. Capitol four years...