President Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term issuing an unprecedented volume of executive orders aimed at rapidly advancing his policy agenda, including sweeping reductions to federal agencies, a hardline immigration crackdown, and the use of emergency authority to impose broad tariffs on U.S. trading partners. The pace of Trump’s executive actions … Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a 5-4 ruling to uphold a California animal welfare law passed by state voters, which requires all pork sold in the state to meet certain humane standards. California voters passed the measure in 2018, which strengthened space requirements for egg-laying hens, breeding pigs, and calves raised for veal that were … Read more

A great deal of attention has rightly been focused on the massive fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota’s social services system. The scale alone has been impossible to ignore. But that’s no longer the only red flag. A report from Scott Presler, founder of Early Vote Action, has shifted some of the spotlight to another deeply troubling … Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan shared some tragic news when he spoke at the Republican National Lawyers Association’s annual policy conference. At the event on Friday, he shared the story of ICE recently rescuing a pregnant 14-year-old girl who had been trafficked. “We just found one two days ago. A 14-year-old little … Read more

The Department of Justice announced Friday a two-count indictment against a Florida man accused of making online threats to kill interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba. The suspect, identified as 58-year-old Salvatore Russotto of Orlando, allegedly posted a series of threats on the social media platform X. According to law enforcement, Russotto repeatedly … Read more

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), one of the few remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump after the January 6 protests, announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, marking the end of a three-decade political career in Washington state and Congress. “I am announcing today that I will not seek … Read more

The husband of the Biden-appointed judge who ruled earlier this week that federal immigration agents must obtain individual arrest warrants on all suspected illegal aliens before detaining them has a financial interest in seeing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts halted, according to a new report. Independent journalist Laura Loomer, in a lengthy X post, … Read more

President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize Memphis, Tenn., is showing early signs of success, with crime rates falling as thousands of federal agents carry out arrests. Following his earlier efforts to restore order in Washington, D.C., Trump announced in early September that the National Guard would be deployed to Memphis. He also established a joint … Read more

An intelligence officer who spent over a decade working for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee repeatedly alerted the FBI, starting in 2017, that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had authorized the leaking of classified information to damage then-President Donald Trump during the now-discredited Russiagate investigation, according to explosive FBI memos recently provided to Congress by Director … Read more

As the Minnesota fraud scandal continues to metastasize, investigators and independent journalists are now widening the lens to other states—Washington included. Once the curtain gets pulled back in one place, it tends to expose how widespread the rot really is. Earlier reporting highlighted what happened when independent journalist Cam Higby did some old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting … Read more