House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized Democrat-led states Thursday after they filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over attempts to determine how many undocumented immigrants receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Speaking alongside USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, Johnson accused Senate Democrats of putting political theater above feeding American families as the [...]

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Anne-Leigh Moe, former Florida appellate judge and President Donald Trump’s nominee, to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida. The confirmation passed narrowly in a 53–46 vote, highlighting the partisan divide in the chamber. Trump celebrated the decision on Truth Social, praising Moe’s dedication to [...]

The two Virginia homes owned by New York Attorney General Letitia James, both now at the center of her federal bank fraud indictment, have drawn repeated police visits — more than two dozen calls in five years — since being occupied by family members with long criminal histories, according to Norfolk Police Department records reviewed by [...]

After Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election—making him the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor-elect—Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., signaled plans to try to block him from taking office. President Donald Trump has accused the 34-year-old Ugandan-born politician of being a communist, after previously warning that he would withhold [...]

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “never” spoke with him about the ongoing government shutdown, adding that “no one really knows” who is leading Democrats in Congress. Fetterman made the remarks during an appearance on Fox & Friends, responding to an Axios report that Schumer had privately urged [...]

Zohran Mamdani’s latest staff appointment includes the addition of his longtime chief adviser, Elle Bisgaard-Church, who has been described as the “chief architect” of his campaign proposal to deploy social workers for certain non-violent 911 calls in New York City. The proposal, which has faced significant criticism, was developed by Bisgaard-Church—an Ivy League-educated California native [...]

Voting rights groups that support the Democratic Party are preparing for what they call a possible crisis if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens a key part of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the country. The case that is causing the worry is Louisiana v. Callais, [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom teenage girls for sexual abuse. This decision leaves her 20-year prison sentence and three felony convictions intact, according to NBC News. Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, argued that a 2007 nonprosecution agreement between Epstein and [...]

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to deport eight immigrants currently held at a U.S. military base in Djibouti to South Sudan. In a brief, unsigned ruling, the justices reaffirmed that their earlier order—pausing a lower court’s restrictions on deportations to “third countries” not named in removal orders—applies fully to these individuals. The [...]

Speaker Johnson Exposes ‘Poison Pill’ Dems Tried to Sneak Into Bill Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Newsmax on Monday that once the government shutdown ends, House Republicans are readying ideas to tackle rising healthcare costs. The House on Sept. 19 passed a clean continuing resolution 217-212 that would fund the federal government through Nov. 21, [...]