(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Department of Public Safety officers gave an overview of state law enforcement efforts to apprehend criminals illegally entering the U.S. through Texas and their efforts to combat the Mexican cartels enabling them.
DPS Director Steven McCraw said at a recent briefing in Weslaco, Texas, that...
(Hannah Cox, Foundation for Economic Education) After 20 years and over $2 trillion dollars, the Afghanistan War is finally over.
Does that mean our massive defense budget will finally be trimmed? Nope.
Congress is actually on the verge of passing an increase to the Pentagon’s budget, preparing to allocate $740 billion for...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) Ayn Rand famously quipped, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s latest viral flub seems perfectly calibrated to confirm the late author’s wise words.
At a Monday press conference, Psaki was confronted by journalists...
(Headline USA) Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin clashed Tuesday evening over vaccinations, tax policy, education and their respective records in the second and final debate in Virginia's closely watched gubernatorial election.
McAuliffe raised eyebrows among those who seek to hold public schools and their leaders accountable when he said...
(Headline USA) Florida filed suit against President Joe Biden's administration Tuesday claiming his immigration policy is illegal, and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an order barring state agencies from assisting with the relocation of illegal immigrants arriving in the state.
DeSantis's order authorized the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed former television broadcaster Kari Lake in the Republican race for Arizona governor.
Trump retains a strong following among many Republicans and his endorsement catapults the former news anchor into clear frontrunner status in the crowded GOP primary field.
Lake is a political newcomer...
(Headline USA) Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday blasted a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election as a “$700,000 boondoggle” and said election clerks should be “lawyered up."
After an election audit in Arizona that uncovered reams of evidence of illegal voting, Republicans have focused their attention on Wisconsin and other...
(Associated Press) A judge dismissed a new batch of charges Tuesday in the government's investigation of genital mutilation against girls in a Muslim sect, saying prosecutors in Detroit retaliated after major courtroom losses.
It's another blow for the government, which broke new ground in 2017 when it charged a Detroit-area doctor...
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, rejected his party’s plan to raise the federal debt limit via reconciliation.
“That is a non-starter. Using reconciliation is a non-starter,” he said when asked about the plan this week.
Durbin said he and several other Democrats share concerns about...
A former US congressman alleged that surveillance footage from one Georgia county showed only 24 people dropping off absentee ballots at an unmanned dropbox, even though it recorded 19,000 ballots received.
"ver Columbus Weekend, a three-day weekend, 19,000 votes were counted," former Rep. Jack Kingston told Newsmax on Tuesday, as...
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., pressed Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on why he has not resigned in the wake of the military’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left hundreds of Americans stranded in the terrorist-controlled region and cost the lives of 13 U.S. service members.
Milley revealed during...
The Marine whose criticism of military leaders and their disastrous handling of the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan went viral is now in the brig awaiting a hearing to determine whether he will be punished.
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is “currently in pretrial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps...