Mark E. Johnson, Contributor – Councilor Israel Rivera has some splainin’ to do after threatening to hold the city’s police budget hostage unless police give him ‘a pass’ on allegedly driving drunk.
Police dash cam and body cam footage show Rivera, currently serving as city council vice president in Holyoke,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones issued yet another public statement riddled with a clerical error, marking the second time his office has faced such embarrassment online, less than a week into office.
Jones, a Democrat who won office despite a scandal in which he joked in text...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) California is suing the Trump administration over its decision to take control of two state pipelines and permit Sable Offshore Corp. to restart pumping oil through them.
With the Pacific Ocean behind him, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the suit Friday during a news...
(Mark E. Johnson, Contributor) Newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia wasted no time demonstrating what happens when Democrats flip a red state.
After winning office on a campaign that pitched her to Dominion State voters as a moderate, Sparger signed ten executive orders on her first day in office:
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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly became “upset” with her fellow Democrats after several of them voted to hold former President Bill Clinton and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress.
Pelosi was said to have barked at roughly half of the House Oversight Committee’s Democrats after they voted...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of Democrats was up in arms after falsely claiming that ICE had detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota. That anger quickly fizzled once the allegation collapsed under scrutiny.
The child, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, was not detained by ICE at all. Instead, agents said they intervened after his father, Adrian...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The former Des Moines official exposed as an illegal alien posing as an American citizen while collecting a generous taxpayer-funded salary pleaded guilty to federal charges following his high-profile arrest last year.
Ian Andre Roberts, a Guianan national, entered guilty pleas to making false statements for employment...
(Jonathan Bilyk, The Center Square) The American Bar Association can't escape a lawsuit accusing the group, tasked with setting national ethical and professional standards for lawyers and judges, of discriminating against white law school students in doling out certain scholarships.
In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gotschall said...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump and Ukrainian Leader Volodymyr Zelensky met in Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. Following the meeting, Zelensky said an agreement had been reached with the US that would grant Ukraine security guarantees.
On Thursday, Zelensky told reporters that the document on...
(Alan Mosley, Antiwar.com) The House of Representatives on Thursday approved an $838.7 billion fiscal 2026 defense spending bill, moving one of the largest appropriations measures in U.S. history toward final passage in the Senate. In a 341-88 vote that crossed party lines, lawmakers advanced the sprawling defense and related...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said the agreement he is negotiating regarding Greenland will give the US “total access.”
“It’s really being negotiated now, the details of it, but essentially it’s total access. There’s no end. There’s no time limit,” Trump said in an interview on Thursday. “We will...
(Alan Mosley, Antiwar.com) Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner on Thursday pitched an ambitious plan to transform war-ravaged Gaza into a Mediterranean resort hub, telling global business and political elites at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos that reconstruction could be completed within three years if Hamas...