Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is reportedly expected to leave the Trump administration in the near future, unnamed White House sources told multiple outlets Friday.
It was not immediately clear if Makary would be fired or if he would leave the administration voluntarily, but it comes after the commissioner faced criticism over his handling of the agency, including his handling of the abortion drug mifepristone.
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State Representative Rusty Grills (R-Newbern) strongly defended Tennessee’s newly passed congressional map during an exclusive interview Friday morning, describing the day prior’s protests inside the Tennessee Capitol during proceedings as “mob rule” and accusing Democratic lawmakers and activists of deliberately disrupting legislative business.
On Thursday, the Tennessee General Assembly approved legislation creating a new congressional map that, among other changes, divides the City of Memphis among three congressional districts.
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The Obamacare marketplace is reportedly facing significant upheaval following the expiration of enhanced federal subsidies.
Cigna announced in late April that it will leave the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges in 2027, which could further shake up the individual marketplace. CVS’ Aetna ceased offering plans and overall enrollment has declined since Congress refused to renew ACA subsidies, The Hill reported.
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Breitbart On Friday, officials with the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they are seeking to denaturalize 12 naturalized American citizens accused of crimes like murder, terrorism, firearms trafficking, marriage fraud, identity fraud, and possessing child pornography, among other things. “If you’re going to come and become a citizen in this country, but you’re going to do it by fraud, you’re going to do it in a way that’s illegal, you should be worried,” Attorney General (AG) Todd Blanche told CBS News this week. “We are not limiting ourselves to anybody in particular, except to say that unfortunately, and I think you’re going to hear more about this in the coming days and weeks, there are a lot of individuals who are citizens who shouldn’t be,” Blanche said, hinting at the enforcement action announced Friday. READ THE FULL STORY
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PBS A national redistricting battle over U.S. House seats swung toward Republicans on Friday, as a Virginia court invalidated a Democratic gerrymandering effort and Republicans in Alabama approved plans for new primary elections if courts allow GOP-drawn House districts to be used in the November midterm elections. The Alabama legislation, which was signed quickly into law by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, is part of an effort by Republicans in Southern states to capitalize on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that significantly weakened Voting Rights Act protections for minorities. At the Alabama Statehouse, a chaotic scene erupted as one protester was dragged from the packed House gallery by security officers. Republican lawmakers in Louisiana and South Carolina also faced staunch opposition from civil rights activists and Democrats as they presented plans Friday to redraw their congressional districts. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill A federal judge on Friday set a July 15 trial date for former FBI Director James Comey on his new criminal charges of threatening President Trump. U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan, who will oversee the trial, also agreed that Comey doesn’t have to make the trek to her North Carolina courtroom on Monday to formally enter his not guilty plea. It’ll take place closer to trial. The longtime Trump foe faces two criminal charges over allegations that a photo of seashells he shared on social media last May that displayed the message “86 47” amounted to a threat on Trump’s life. The phrase “86” is commonly used as slang for removing or throwing out something or someone, and Trump is the 47th president. READ THE FULL STORY
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The FBI has opened an investigation into possible leaks of classified information by Democrats or their staffs on the Senate Intelligence Committee, spurred in part by a criminal referral from the National Security Agency concerning the release of one of its overseas intercepts, sources told Just the News.
The NSA made the referral last summer concerning reports, including one in The New York Times, earlier that year during Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation process that quoted information from an intercept of two Hezbollah terrorist figures who claimed Gabbard, during a 2017 trip to Syria, had met with the “big guy.”
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New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul has fired back at White House border czar Tom Homan’s vow to send a larger number of illegal immigration enforcement agents to the state if legislators pass bills restricting coordination with Trump administration immigration enforcement efforts, saying, “I don’t take well to threats.
Hochul made the comment Thursday after Homan said he would “flood the zone” with agents, according to the Associated Press.
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On behalf of a litigant from Memphis, the Tennessee State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Thursday sued Tennessee over its new congressional maps, which have been signed by Governor Bill Lee, and will likely see U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), Tennessee’s last Democratic representative in the U.S. House, lose his seat to a Republican.
In a press release announcing the lawsuit, NAACP attorney Kristen Clarke accused the Tennessee General Assembly and Lee of passing “a direct attack” aimed at dismantling “majority-black districts.” Clarke stated, “democracy without black representation is not a democracy.”
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One of the top leaders of Neville Roy Singham’s far-left activist network also holds a position inside a Chinese Communist Party-led think tank whose leader is a member of the CCP’s leading foreign influence arm known as the United Front.
Wang Wen, the dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, is a member of the CCP, and a leader within multiple United Front organizations. The Chongyang Institute itself is influenced by the CCP and is immersed within the United Front ecosystem.
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U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) and State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) were among the plaintiffs alongside the Tennessee Democratic Party that filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to block the state’s new congressional map and election law changes from taking effect during the 2026 election cycle.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, the lawsuit argues that the legislation signed by Governor Bill Lee on Thursday would create “voter confusion,” disrupt ongoing congressional campaigns, and overwhelm local election officials ahead of the August primary elections.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Russia and Ukraine would observe a three-day ceasefire to mark the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had already declared a unilateral ceasefire to mark Russia’s victory in the “Great Patriotic War,” Russia’s name for World War II. The Kremlin further warned Ukraine against attempting to target Moscow during the festivities.
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The political champagne corks barely stopped popping at Democrat headquarters before the Virginia Supreme Court dropped a legal bunker buster right down the middle of their gerrymandering fantasy.
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A Tennessee state Democrat is calling for the City of Memphis to secede from Tennessee after the state passed a new congressional map.
The Tennessee General Assembly approved a new map that turns the state’s 9th Congressional District into a district where Republicans are now favored. Previously, the district had been the state’s only majority-black district and a Democratic stronghold.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General, said the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision reaffirmed a longstanding constitutional principle that congressional redistricting is fundamentally a political question reserved for state legislatures.
Kline’s comments come amid the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that Louisiana’s congressional map, which was drawn to create a second majority-black district, constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled against the Democrats’ effort to redraw the state’s maps.
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The Department of War on Friday began releasing never-before-seen government files on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — the official term for what are commonly known as UFOs — as part of a new interagency initiative ordered by President Donald J. Trump.
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Democrats’ lead in the 2026 generic Congressional ballot dropped from 46 percent to 41 percent, to 44 percent to 41 percent, according to the latest Economist-YouGov poll taken May 1 to May 4 compared to April 24 to April 27.
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For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently served a grand jury subpoena to Fulton County, requesting the contact information of all workers who participated in the 2020 election.
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For months, polling and prediction markets have forecast that Democrats will retake the House, but that Republicans will retain control of the Senate. However, recently, the prediction markets have moved toward the Senate being a toss-up.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is preparing new legislation aimed at restricting the ability of China and other foreign adversaries to purchase American farmland. The new bill is based on growing concerns about national security and control of critical resources.
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