POLITICS

(José Niño, Headline USA) Ed Gallrein, a former Navy captain with President Donald Trump's endorsement, is running against Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Republican primary on Tuesday, but he has refused to appear at any debates and has disclosed almost nothing about himself apart from his claimed affiliation with SEAL...

(Headline USA) Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a former assistant principal in Virginia accused of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old student brought a loaded gun to school that was later used to shoot his first grade teacher. Ebony Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court slapped down an appeal from Virginia Democrats Friday to uphold their redrawn map of congressional districts, preserving what appears to be a Republican advantage heading into midterm elections. The high court did not include a reason along with its order. With multiple...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Israeli military dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, and by April 2026 those soldiers returned to reserve service with no completed internal investigation. According to the BBC, the military cited "complexities in the evidentiary structure" as its reason...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Two weeks since Democrats finally ended the longest federal shutdown in history --- surpassing by more than a month the record they set last year --- the Senate unanimously passed a resolution via voice vote that would stop its own members from receiving paychecks during...

(Headline USA) Sen. Bill Cassidy was decisively defeated in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana, unable to convince voters that he deserved another term five years after voting to convict President Donald Trump during an impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He finished behind U.S. Rep. Julia...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., last month having declared that the pro-election-integrity SAVE Act was now off the legislative agenda entirely, a few “America First” lawmakers were stepping up to fill the gap. On Friday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.,...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A report from federal agencies showing discrepancies between population and voter registration in a dozen states may help to explain why Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has forced the election-integrity reform bill known as the SAVE Act off the legislative agenda. Nearly a quarter of...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The man at the heart of the 2016 Russia hoax that sought to usurp the duly elected president of the United States has now set his sights on overthrowing the commonwealth of Virginia. Steele Dossier architect Marc Elias issued an X post Tuesday that urged Virginia...

(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of former county clerk Tina Peters, convicted of election tampering related to the 2020 election. The move follows months of pressure from President Donald Trump on the high-profile case, with Peters now eligible for parole on...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., (R-N.J.) has vanished from public life, missing from both Capitol Hill and the campaign trail for over two months while his office refuses to provide answers about his whereabouts, the New York Times reported. The Republican lawmaker last cast a vote in...

(José Niño, Headline USA) PayPal agreed to forgo roughly $30 million in transaction fees to settle a Justice Department probe into allegations that the financial services company adopted unlawful preferences for minority owned businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported. Justice Department officials had been investigating whether PayPal violated a federal...