House Republicans have accused a major consulting group of making misleading claims about DEI that led to billions of dollars in lost revenue.
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The Cook Political Report on Thursday moved its ratings for the Iowa and Texas Senate ratings from Republican-leaning to toss-ups, marking the latest indicator that the Senate, once thought safely Republican for the cycle, may be up for grabs,
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University of North Carolina System leaders on Tuesday issued their formal response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s recent call for institutions to develop and publish reform plans.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright met with executives from refining companies on Monday to explore ways the Trump administration could help them boost throughput volumes to help keep America’s gasoline and diesel market fully supplied. The meeting took place in Midland, Texas during an industry conference Wright was attending.
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Acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer and author Kelly Lang is celebrating the release of her new album, Jealous Green Eyes, a must-hear collection for fans of the iconic singer.
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Congress could pass a law that converts the treasuries into marketable treasuries, and then are sold to the Federal Reserve or phased through Treasury or a new government vehicle in exchange for cash that is delivered to the Treasury — which are then used to buy a non-voting stake in the S&P 500.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would support term limits for members of Congress, noting its popularity, but stated that elections themselves serve as term limits.
The discussion surrounding term limits has reignited recently following the ailments and deaths of a U.S. senator and House members, several of whom have been accused of concealing their true health status from constituents.
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The recently released EdChoice “Schooling in America” survey finds that 56 percent of parents believe K-12 education is on the wrong track. Indeed, too many traditional American public schools are failing to fulfill their role.
Parental unhappiness is certainly understandable, given that the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), aka the “Nation’s Report Card,” showed that in 2024, 12th-grade students scored their lowest in reading and math in decades.
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Some Americans are saying “Get The Flock Out” to the widespread license plate cameras that record their movements and collect their data across the country.
Flock Safety surveillance cameras have become a focal point for American concerns over technology and privacy across the U.S., Axios reported. Communities such as Lago Vista, Texas, have explicitly condemned the cameras and voted to remove them, while other regions like Apache Junction, Arizona, still utilize the Flock systems to support law enforcement work.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters that he planned to meet with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sometime this year.
“Yeah, I will,” Trump told reporters when asked if he planned to meet with Kim this year.
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The United States’ debt reached $40 trillion for the first time in history on Wednesday, highlighting the growing fiscal challenges facing the federal government as Washington continues to run large budget deficits.
Treasury data showed that the national debt is now $40,047,425,768,420.22, with $32.26 trillion being held by the public and $7.78 trillion held by intragovernmental holdings.
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A Texas judge on Wednesday granted Karmelo Anthony’s request to remove the judge who presided over his murder trial from the post-trial proceedings.
Judge Sid Harle found that a reasonable outside observer could question whether Judge John Roach, who was judge in Anthony’s trial in June, appeared impartial.
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When allegations of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a woman suspected of ties to Chinese intelligence first surfaced in 2020, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the FBI’s findings. The public now knows the bureau had evidence at the time that the woman, Fang Fang, had potentially compromised Swalwell with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations, but Pelosi and Democrats still refused to remove the lawmaker from the powerful House Intelligence Committee.
The FBI briefings received by Pelosi and her Republican counterpart were so concerning to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that he called for Swalwell to be booted from the sensitive committee where members have access to classified information.
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Shares of Moderna more than doubled Wednesday after the company and Merck announced positive results from a late-stage trial of an experimental cancer vaccine, though the companies have yet to release detailed data from those results.
The Phase 3 trial met its primary endpoint, according to the drugmakers, with the vaccine combination significantly improving the amount of time patients remained free of melanoma compared with Keytruda alone. But Moderna and Merck have not yet disclosed the specific effect size, survival times or full statistical results for the trial, leaving investors and outside researchers waiting for a clearer picture of how substantial the benefit actually was.
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Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has carved out a lead over former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., in the battle for Michigan’s open Senate seat, according to a recent survey.
El-Sayed, who recently defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., to clinch the party nomination, earned 46% support among likely voters in the latest Susquehanna Polling & Research survey. Rogers, for his part, took 39% support.
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National teacher unions contribute at least 10% of their annual budget to lobbying and political activism, which includes calling for the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump in the 2026 American Federation of Teachers handbook. Efforts also include supporting Democratic causes such as messaging against immigration enforcement.
Some teachers raise questions about whether union dues are being used to advance causes the instructors actually support.
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An abused wife opens a credit card statement and discovers her abuser ran up $40,000 in her name. A soldier overseas finds out a predatory lender jacked his car-loan rate while he was deployed. A family buried under medical debt tries to negotiate a settlement with the help of a debt relief company. And a Washington lobby group spends millions making sure they can’t.
Meet the American Financial Services Association. AFSA says it’s fighting for consumers. Don’t buy it. AFSA is a creditor trade group that has gone to war against domestic violence survivors, military families, and working Americans drowning in debt.
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A major permitting bill that passed the House in December 2025 still hasn’t been passed by the Senate, with environmental and clean energy groups putting pressure on lawmakers to oppose the measure.
The Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act, which passed the House in December 2025, aims to fast-track energy and infrastructure permitting by reforming the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It has not advanced beyond referral to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) with clean energy groups and environmental justice organizations objecting to the legislation, arguing it would cause major setbacks for the climate by adding more fossil fuel projects and lifting environmental protections.
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In a tense March 2020 meeting just months before the presidential election, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) deputy director blocked the release of a long-delayed report on foreign targeting of U.S. elections—not because the intelligence was flawed, but because he feared it would brand the agency as part of the “deep state.”
The memo states: “DDIR explained that he was concerned that releasing the [report] at this time – in the current political climate, with an acting ODNI who had been tasked (according to DDIR) to ‘clean house’ in the intelligence community, and with an administration that is suspicious of the IC and aggressive in removing anyone who stands in their way – would damage NSA’s credibility. He believed that questions would be asked as to why the NSA was choosing to release this information, most obviously pertinent to the 2016 election, now, more than a year after the election, and that NSA would be accused of releasing it for political purposes.”
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In May 2021, Janet Woodcock, the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, expressing concern about the large number of adverse events she was hearing about following COVID vaccinations.
The correspondence, released by Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday, expose how federal health officials ignored early safety signals.
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro isn’t happy that a U.S. judge on Monday ordered the release of a Kentucky woman who was accused of vandalism at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Melissa Farris, 41, was taken into custody last week and charged with two felony counts, the Associated Press reported.
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Disney’s ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, claiming the agency’s recent review into the company is part of a “retaliatory campaign.”
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the Trump administration’s “campaign against ABC has been building over the course of the current Administration’s second term.” The litigation comes after the FCC issued an order in April which directed Disney’s eight owned-and-operated television stations to file their broadcast license renewals early, NBC News reported.
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A man previously recognized as an “outstanding refugee” by the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been charged over an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme, according to news coverage.
Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Monday that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had charged two men for allegedly stealing more than $1.5 million from the state’s Medicaid program. Salman Ahmed Elmi was charged in the first case with 8 felony theft offenses linked to Reva Health allegedly billing over $1,000,000 in Medicaid-funded services that were either never provided or were ineligible for reimbursement, per the announcement.
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The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear its challenge to Texas’ law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.
The request comes after a federal appeals court upheld the state law in April, which passed the Republican-led state legislature last year and requires elementary and secondary school classrooms to post a display of the Ten Commandments.
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Bill Clinton holds the distinction of being the only elected president since World War II to lose both houses of Congress while leading a trifecta. Republicans swept the 1994 midterms by winning over the working class, which had formed the backbone of the Democratic Party since the Great Depression.
Democrats would have to make similar inroads among working-class voters who elected President Donald Trump to sweep this year’s November midterms. But that would require repairing the party’s brand, which cultural radicals have trashed with these voters, and Democrats’ own social progressivism simply won’t allow it.
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A new report from Defending Education has identified at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools across 30 states that exposed their students to Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the Young Envoys Scholarship program.
According to the report, titled “Little Red Classrooms: China’s Infiltration of American K-12 Schools,” the program is monitored by the China Education Association for International Exchange, or CEAIE, and serves as an alternative to the Confucius Institutes, which Congress began restricting in 2021.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday that the Justice Department (DOJ) was reviving a process by which those who lost gun rights due to criminal convictions could have them restored.
While federal law provides for a process to restore Second Amendment rights lost after a felony conviction or other circumstances, Congress had largely blocked the process since 1992 by refusing to allow the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to spend any federal funds on it. Blanche described the new process as “commonsense” while also respecting Second Amendment rights.
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The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.
The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang – also known by her English name Christine Fang – were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.
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Facing President Donald Trump’s crippling tariff threat that’s set to come into effect on Wednesday, Canada is continuing to negotiate a trade deal that will allow it to avoid the tariffs and get additional relief on existing tariffs in key sectors.
However, despite meetings between Canadian and American negotiators over the last three weeks, the two countries can’t move beyond an impasse in these last days, the CBC reported.
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Florida voters are set to head to the polls to choose the Republican and Democratic nominees for Senate and governor on Tuesday, with the governor’s race setting up a test of President Donald Trump’s endorsement power.
The president has endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., in the state, but he faces several candidates that have waged aggressive campaigns against him. DeSantis himself has not issued an endorsement in the contest.
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Two federal agencies gave taxpayer dollars to charities with ties to terrorism, new reports show.
The State Department worked with World Vision to distribute $2 billion in global health foreign assistance even though an Israeli court convicted the nonprofit’s Gaza affiliate operations manager of sending up to $50 million to Hamas in 2022. Separately, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) provided nearly $80 million to 14 organizations linked to terrorism and extremism.
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America’s private fortunes are the economic engines that built the most prosperous economy in world history, and they are giving themselves away.
Since her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott has handed out $26 billion—much of it to racial equity, DEI, and “social justice” causes. Warren Buffett has pledged 99% of his roughly $170 billion. Bill Gates has given away more than $100 billion and vows to spend his foundation to zero by 2045. George Soros has poured $32 billion into his Open Society Foundations. Different fortunes, different causes—but the same destination, and the same motivating logic: The tax code has made nongovernmental organizations the most rational place for private fortunes to end up.
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President Donald Trump on Friday stated that he would declare the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory after the end of the Iran war.
Trump made the remarks during a speech at the Nassau County Police Academy in New York.
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The business model and medical coding practices of the so-called gender-affirming care industry for minors, long obscured by the jargon and secrecy of the profession, are facing the harsh glare of federal scrutiny, as the evidence base for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for gender-confused youth gets picked apart globally.
The best-case scenario for hundreds of “wolves in white coats” – potential scofflaws identified in a new Department of Health and Human Services report on gender medicine billing fraud – may be simply losing federal money. HHS on Wednesday cut off federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding for “sex-rejecting procedures on children.”
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After pulling the plug on tungsten mining for over a decade, a massive discovery in Nevada could put America back in the game.
Developer 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) estimates its Railroad Valley Minerals project holds 1.78 million metric tons of tungsten, potentially the largest known deposit of the metal in the country, and more than five times the size of the next-largest U.S. resource, according to MINING.com. The rare metal is extraordinarily dense and heat-resistant, making it essential for armor-piercing munitions, cutting tools, semiconductors and aerospace and defense hardware.
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The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage stands at 6.69%, which is down from a rate as high as 6.83% in late July, according to Mortgage News Daily.
The decline in mortgage rates corresponds to drops in oil prices and Treasury yields, which closely track mortgage rates, ABC News reported.
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Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and admitted in federal court on Friday that he shot and killed a health care executive in Manhattan in 2024.
“I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan. I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death of bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal,” Mangione told the judge, the New York Times reported.
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Major corporations are raking in billions from tariff refunds that are improving their balance sheets following a major Supreme Court decision, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Billions of dollars in federal tariff refunds flowed back into the balance sheets of companies such as Apple Inc., Nike, FedEx and General Motors Co., according to The Wall Street Journal. Some justices cautioned in February that the ruling could trigger a complex process for returning billions in collected duties while noting that President Donald Trump could still pursue tariffs using alternative statutory trade authorities, which he eventually did.
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The FBI led multiple operations prior to the 2020 election that helped politically and financially damage President Donald Trump and, at the same time, protect then-presidential candidate Joe Biden from law enforcement.
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The liberal media melted down last week as the Department of Homeland Security’s top attorney, James Percival, criticized “the worst of the worst” activist judges who are blocking President Trump from securing our borders and our homeland.
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Student visa fraud will be reduced under a new Trump policy limiting how long foreigners can attend college, an expert told The College Fix.
Set to go into effect on September 15, the “duration of status” rule will now set a fixed, four-year limit on student visas or shorter, depending on the normal length of the program. Prior to this change, students could stay here as long as they were enrolled in school.
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President Donald Trump urged the Senate on Wednesday to swiftly approve the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide and end the twice-yearly clock changes
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A senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House Complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
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The cost of sending a student to college surged during the latest academic year, adding to concerns about whether expensive degrees are delivering enough value to American families.
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The federal government is refusing to turn over records related to an investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into allegations of immigration fraud by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., citing a legal exemption for ongoing investigations.
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The Department of War announced on Tuesday the launch of the Golden Dome for America Ecosystem Hub (Hub), a new digital portal at designed to connect commercial innovators, traditional defense contractors, venture capital, startups, academia, and research labs directly with the Golden Dome Program Office.
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The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against a group of 11 people who were allegedly tied to a decade-long marriage fraud network allegedly involving more than 1,000 sham unions.
The two-count indictment charged the individuals with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 fake marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for foreign nationals, primarily Chinese citizens. Some individuals paid up to $100,000 per sham marriage.
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While the burgeoning democratic socialist movement is getting a lot of attention in advance of the 2026 midterm elections, a parallel dimension of wokeism quietly continues to advance. For now, the Trump administration has attenuated its most extreme threats, but its institutional support is unwavering, and its slow progress is unrelenting. The woke greens are pursuing their own long march.
The agenda of the woke greens is synergistic with democratic socialism. Its currency is fear and resentment. The Earth is dying; colonialist capitalism is to blame. Extraordinary measures are called for. Restrict growth, redistribute wealth. Sound familiar? Environmentalist extremism and socialism are two peas in a pod. But both are built on lies. Nothing has delivered more wealth and freedom to more people than authentic capitalism. Not crony, casino, or monopoly capitalism, but capitalism that rewards hard work, protects private property, and preserves the incentives that harness human nature and nurture human creativity. In contrast to capitalism, socialism is a nightmare that turns out the lights in nation after nation. The historical evidence is overwhelming. Strive to improve the mechanics of capitalism, and reject socialist demagoguery.
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The State Department on Wednesday announced the creation of a task force dedicated to cracking down on “birth tourism,” namely the practice of traveling to the United States to give birth to secure the benefits of citizenship for the child.
Traveling to the U.S. for the primary purpose of giving birth is illegal, though the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on birthright citizenship has left the government with little recourse should an alien succeed in giving birth on U.S. soil.
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A federal district court in Massachusetts issued a temporary restraining order on the U.S. Postal Service, preventing it from implementing President Donald Trump’s 2026 executive order regarding mail-in ballots.
The executive order, issued in March of this year, directs the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of eligible voters nationwide, on a state-by-state basis, and seeks to block the U.S. Postal Service from delivering absentee ballots to voters not on state-approved rolls.
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