Residents across Virginia are reporting sticker shock on their electricity bills following the inauguration of Gov. Abigail Spanberger, with some consumers saying their monthly costs have soared dramatically. “I just got my energy bill for the month,” one Virginia resident said in a video shared online. “My bill has tripled.” “I usually pay around 200 … Read more

The Senate on Friday passed an amended spending package that replaces a full year of Department of Homeland Security funding with a two-week stopgap to give lawmakers more time to resolve disputes over immigration enforcement. The broader legislation still provides full-year funding for the departments of Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban … Read more

Federal authorities announced Friday that nearly 50 members and associates of the Latin Kings street gang have been arrested as part of a sweeping, multistate operation aimed at disrupting gang-related crime, drug trafficking, and violence across the United States. The effort, dubbed “Operation Broken Crown,” involved more than a dozen FBI field offices working with … Read more

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday threatened to block a government funding package supported by President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats — raising the possibility of a partial federal shutdown as lawmakers work against a looming deadline. Graham said he was frustrated by language in a House-backed version of the funding bill that would repeal … Read more

For once, common sense has broken through the progressive fog in California — and it came not from Sacramento, but from Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell. When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed his latest anti-ICE gimmick into law — a lunatic “No Secret Police Act” banning federal agents from wearing face coverings while doing … Read more

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz just took a rhetorical nosedive straight into political absurdity — and President Trump didn’t hesitate to expose it. After Walz mused publicly that federal law-enforcement actions in his state could be akin to a Fort Sumter moment — the flashpoint of America’s Civil War — Trump went straight at him, mockingly … Read more

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed that 25 alleged accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein quietly reached “secret settlements” with his accusers — while four other Epstein employees named in past court filings were never charged — according to new court documents filed by Maxwell as part of her ongoing bid to overturn her conviction. In … Read more

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced Friday that the state, along with several individual plaintiffs, has filed suit against the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau seeking to end the counting of illegal aliens in the census and force a recount of the 2020 Census and 2021 congressional apportionment. In a press release, … Read more

At least six of the 10 people found dead outdoors during New York City’s arctic deep freeze this week were homeless, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday, as critics urged the city to take more aggressive action to pull people off the streets. Some advocates and elected officials said the city should be doing more to … Read more

Drivers passing that stretch of road had no idea what was happening just a few meters away. Near the shoulder, a large monitor lizard had grabbed a cat and pinned it to the ground. The animal fought, twisting and clawing, but it was overpowered. The lizard had it firmly in its jaws and was dragging … Read more