The Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigrants using food stamps by instructing state agencies to increase verification.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services John Walk issued guidance on Thursday to state agencies administering the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to enhance identity and immigration verification practices.
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On May 9, 2017, hours after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Andrew McCabe, as acting director, opened an obstruction of justice investigation into the president, framing Comey’s dismissal as potential interference in the Russia probe. Newly declassified memos reveal McCabe’s rapid escalation, leveraging Comey’s private notes to justify targeting Trump directly.
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U.S. Customs duty collections soared more than 60% in April, marking the highest monthly revenue haul in terms of dollars in American history.
According to newly released Treasury Department data reviewed by Bloomberg, at least $15.4 billion in customs duties and related excise taxes flowed into federal coffers last month, $6 billion more than the month before. This spike in revenue coincides with the first wave of President Donald Trump’s newly implemented tariffs taking effect. Those include a renewed 25% tariff on steel and the “universal” 10% tariff Trump announced on April 2.
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State House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-Glendale) issued a response from House Republicans Thursday to allegations that Governor Katie Hobbs mismanaged $350 million of taxpayers’ money on a program for disabled children, causing it to run out of money.
The State House voted overwhelmingly, with bipartisan support, on Wednesday to address the troubled Developmental Disabilities (DD) program with HB 2945, which transfers funds to the “Parents as Paid Caregivers” (PPC) program before it goes bankrupt.
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The call for former Richmond radio host John Reid to withdraw from the race to become Virginia’s next Lieutenant Governor intensified on Friday afternoon with the addition of Washington, D.C.-based radio host, John Fredericks, the publisher of The Virginia Star.
Strongly denying the allegations, Reid confirmed on Friday to The Richmonder that Youngkin asked him to withdraw from the race that morning, telling the outlet that the governor informed him, “there were salacious pictures on the internet reposted by an account that uses my Instagram handle.”
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The right to opt out one’s children from studying a sinister collection of sexually explicit storybooks in suburban Maryland, and the right to opt in to a Catholic Virtual charter school in Oklahoma, will be considered this month at the Supreme Court. That these two cases are under review by the high court is a strong indication that – after decades of being ignored by our educational system and the courts – parental rights are back.
The first case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, was brought by a group of parents whose children attend public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. In the fall of 2022, the local school board announced it would use “Pride Storybooks,” a collection of around 20 books for the county’s youngest learners – pre-K through eighth-grade. The collection does not just celebrate Pride parades: it also introduces small children to the gruesome process of “gender-transitioning” and, inevitably, the ludicrous dogma of “pronoun preferences.”
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In February 2017, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe privately acknowledged a New York Times story alleging Trump campaign ties to Russian intelligence was false but refused to correct it publicly, intensifying media scrutiny on the Trump administration. Declassified memos show McCabe’s calculated decision to let the inaccurate report fester, even as he assured White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus that only Mike Flynn and Hope Hicks had Russian contacts.
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A new study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health and other major universities has put a damper on the claim that obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) are systematically fleeing pro-life states or ones with more liberal abortion laws.
To the contrary, the cohort study measured data collected from Jan. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2024. It concluded that the number of OB-GYNs in pro-life states actually increased at a faster rate than in pro-abortion states in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. That case overturned 1973’s Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion regulation to the purview of individual states and to Congress.
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One of my favorite parts of my job is meeting rising artists and knowing that great things are in store for them. I was blown away when I first heard 13-year-old Josie Sal and was surprised to learn that she is relatively new to the music scene.
Sal never aspired to be a singer. At just 10 years old, Sal took a dare from her father to sing in front of a crowd in Florida, sparking a passion for music that quickly transformed into a promising career. After her impromptu performance of “Dance Monkey” captivated the audience, Sal began taking vocal and guitar lessons and performing at venues across Pittsburgh and Florida. Being the youngest of four children, she was always entertaining her family.
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