The latest New York Times/Siena College survey of potential Democrat voters and independent voters highlights the Democrat Party’s failures and illuminates a path for conservatives to attract disenfranchised soft Democrats. Hispanic and Black Democrats and men are growing particularly weary of the party’s failures on immigration and gender ideology.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury officially launched the Trump Accounts mobile app on Thursday, marking the next major phase in the administration’s flagship program to deliver tax-advantaged investment accounts to American children.
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Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens in Minnesota on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicaid of more than $21 million through a multi-year scheme involving false claims for autism-related services under the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.
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First-term Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has filed paperwork to create a legal defense fund following an ethics complaint and allegations of sexual misconduct leveled by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13).
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A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats’ arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.
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Chinese government officials are working to shore up their country’s grip over the Panama Canal, the South China Morning Post reported, as a battle over influence in the key waterway intensifies with Washington.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha that Panama should not allow any third parties to influence the bilateral ties between China and Panama, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout on Wednesday. The discussion between the leaders comes as a dispute simmers over who will operate ports within the Panama Canal, with the U.S. playing an active role, according to the outlet.
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In the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, just off Highway 9, there is a restaurant that has become a community icon. It has a redwood-paneled dining room with exposed roof timbers that was built in 1912 and a historic bar with a wood-burning fireplace. For over a century, the people in this isolated town have treasured this gathering place.
Near downtown Los Angeles, along a busy commercial boulevard, a family-owned Mexican restaurant has thrived since 1925, offering locals and tourists classic dishes in a dining room filled with memorabilia.
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Bob Woodson died peacefully at his home on the evening of May 19, 2026, at the age of 89. He was a national treasure, beloved by the thousands he served through the Woodson Center for over four decades, yet never quite understood by Presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, who often invited him to the White House. Senators, Congressmen, and every Speaker of the House from Jack Kemp to Paul Ryan caught sight of Bob’s vision of an America fully redeemed from its “birth defect of slavery,” as he called it, but few fully embraced his remarkable plan to heal wounds, foster hope, and ennoble resilience.
Bob was wedded to neither political party. He called himself a “radical pragmatist,” and talked with ease and grace to both the left and right. When he first came to prominence, conservatives should have been his natural constituency; but before the fall of the Berlin Wall, their reverential allusions to the mediating institutions through which Bob understood that the real redemptive work had to take place—our families, local communities, and churches—always seemed to be drowned out by their full-throated defense of free markets. The Communist threat abroad and the ever-growing bureaucracy of the Progressive state at home fixed their attention almost singularly on commerce, as a strategy of resistance, if not of defiance. There were exceptions, of course. The Bradley Foundation, with which Bob worked closely for many years, comes to mind. But by and large, it was the age of the free market veto. Economic efficiency, not the alarming decline of social capital, about which Robert Nisbet had warned decades earlier, in The Quest for Community (1953), was all that seemed to matter. If we were to describe the contrast between what Bob had in mind and what the conservative establishment was defending, we would say that Bob was on the ground, helping to recover and build the world that Tocqueville had described so beautifully in Democracy in America, while the conservative establishment was holding seminars on, and deriving policy prescriptions from, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.
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Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler said that the agency found $200 billion in fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loans, which were intended to allow businesses to pay staff during the pandemic.
“At the SBA, we found $200 billion in fraudulent PPP loans that the Biden administration tried to hide, and forgive, and sweep under the rug,” Loeffler said during President Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Wednesday.
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is reportedly battling thyroid cancer, has been appointed by President Donald Trump to serve on an advisory panel focused on Artificial Intelligence policy.
Trump dismissed Bondi as attorney general in April, and she will now return to the White House to serve on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), according to Axios. She received a thyroid cancer diagnosis shortly after she left the Department of Justice, the outlet reported, citing an anonymous source.
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Former President Joe Biden sued the Justice Department Tuesday to block the release of recordings and transcripts from interviews he gave to a ghostwriter for his 2017 memoir, which were included in a special counsel probe regarding his handling of classified materials after he served as vice president.
The lawsuit comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation, which requested the information under the Freedom of Information Act, per Reuters.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara on Tuesday resigned from his post after an investigation found that he maintained sexual relationships with public employees.
Mayor Jacob Frey confirmed O’Hara’s resignation in a press conference, saying “when you serve as chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, trust is not secondary to the job, it is the job. When trust is broken, it becomes extremely difficult to continue leading effectively.”
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday indicated he would not rush to conclude an agreement to end the Iran war in order to improve party odds in the November midterms, saying he did not consider the conflict’s electoral impacts when negotiating.
“Iran is very much intent, they want very much to make a deal. So far, they haven’t gotten there that we’re not satisfied with it, but that we will be. We will be either that, or we’ll have to just finish the job,” he said during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. “Maybe we have to go back and finish it. Maybe we don’t right now.”
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American consumer confidence dropped slightly in May as inflationary pressure and high gasoline prices weighed on their concerns.
The Consumer Confidence Index dipped last month 0.7 points, to 93.1, down from an upwardly revised 93.8 the previous month, according to The Conference Board, a nonprofit think tank whose economic analysis is widely followed.
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Woke AI is the worst AI, with blue-state politics and ideological bias as its source code. Take, for example, Anthropic, whose executives include senior Biden-era officials and the former head of Sleepy Joe’s AI Safety Institute. No wonder the company opposes President Trump’s executive orders to create a national framework for AI leadership. The company also opposes Trump’s effort to eliminate onerous and prejudicial state laws that have nothing to do with AI safety. That policy alignment is not accidental, particularly when it comes to Anthropic’s attempt to sell “safety” tools to the Pentagon.
Bear in mind, too, that Anthropic was seeded by effective altruism (EA) money, courtesy of Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, and wrapped in EA rhetoric about “long-term” humanity. Its political network tilts hard left, its CEO despises Trump, its cofounder mocks Catholics, and its policy shop is a think tank for brain-dead hacks who oppose Trump’s agenda.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday evening was projected to win his primary challenge against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, decisively, marking the ouster of the decades-serving senior lawmaker from the upper chamber.
The Associated Press projected Paxton to win at 9:02 p.m. EST, with 49% of precincts reporting. As of press time, Paxton led with 62.5% to Cornyn’s 37.5%.
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A panel of federal district court judges temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to enact its 2023 congressional map for upcoming elections.
The Alabama legislature moved to implement its 2023 congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened section two of the Voting Rights Act, a provision designed to create more majority-minority congressional districts across the country.
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Atop Biden Justice Department official and key ally of then-Attorney General Merrick Garland raised legal “concerns” about the FBI’s raid on Mar-Lago, warning that then-former President Donald Trump may have actually declassified the records seized by agents, a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows.
Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”
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The GOP-led South Carolina Senate voted down a measure that would have advanced a new congressional map. The vote brings to an end a last-minute redistricting effort in the state.
President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to pass a redrawn map, which would have eliminated the state’s single majority-Black district, NBC News reported.
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Washington state will open its bar exam starting in September to graduates of non-ABA-accredited law schools, provided they are already eligible to sit for the exam in at least one other state. The Washington State Bar Association’s Board of Governors approved the change in early May.
The decision makes Washington the fourth jurisdiction in recent months to reduce its dependence on ABA accreditation as a prerequisite for attorney licensing. Earlier this year, the highest courts in Alabama, Florida and Texas – all under Republican leadership – moved to either eliminate the ABA requirement entirely or expand recognition to include additional institutions.
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An unreleased poll appears to undermine the White House’s stated rationale for pivoting away from policies that inflame pharmaceutical companies.
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a secret poll conducted in October 2025 by President Donald Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio finding that 73% of voters expressed concern about childhood vaccine mandates, while a whopping 90% of voters expressed concern about the pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting influence.
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Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie filed to run for his seat in 2028 on Sunday after losing his primary seat to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump.
Massie said he filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in order to raise funds for his political operations as a potential candidate, though he has not made a final decision on which office to seek. He lost his primary race to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein by a 9-point margin after Trump aggressively campaigned against Massie over his opposition to the Iran war, his multiple votes against the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and his successful calls to release the files surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.
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In a procedural victory for the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous, unsigned decision, reversing a lower court ruling that revived a First Amendment lawsuit by the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) challenging an Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) policy requiring prior approval for public speeches and writings related to their official duties.
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The U.S. is currently facing a continuously worsening fertility crisis, according to analysts.
While the nation’s fertility rate has been declining for decades, it dropped to a new record low in 2025. Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that deregulation, improving fertility care and bringing down costs related to raising children could help boost the declining birth rate.
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A disappointing study came out in the U.K., polling Britons on what they think about nuclear energy. In general, U.K. voters believe nuclear power is good for the national energy mix but are undecided on whether there should be more of it. The interesting part of the polling comes when results are broken down by gender.
Only 30% of women support the use of nuclear power, compared to 74% of men. Most shocking, 69% of women said they do not believe nuclear has low carbon dioxide emissions, compared to 32% of men.
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President Donald Trump mourned the loss of America’s military service members who have lost their lives defending this country during his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery Monday.
Prior to his comments, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which contains the remains of unidentified war dead from World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he has demanded that the leaders of six Muslim countries must join the Abraham Accords if they want to be part of the deal that is currently being negotiated with Iran, which Trump said is “proceeding nicely!”
Trump stated that demand in a Memorial Day post on Truth Social. He said that during a Saturday phone call, he told the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and Jordan that he wants them all to normalize relations with Israel by agreeing to the 2020 Abraham Accords, which were brokered by the U.S. during Trump’s first term as president.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping may not need to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to put the island, the U.S. and the global tech economy in crisis, according to national security experts.
Some advisers to President Donald Trump reportedly fear Xi could move against Taiwan within the next five years following Trump’s recent summit with the Chinese leader, Axios reported. One Trump adviser told the outlet the summit signaled a “much higher likelihood” that Taiwan could be “on the table” during that window, warning that the highly vulnerable U.S. semiconductor supply chain would not be ready for such a crisis.
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday unleashed his first and long-awaited papal encyclical, pleading with political and corporate leaders to create robust regulations that keep artificial intelligence from eradicating jobs or developing autonomous warfare that could end humanity.
“It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required,” Leo wrote. “A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.”
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Over a three-month period, Indiana authorities have stopped and prosecuted nearly 300 illegal migrant truck drivers who were issued commercial drivers licenses (CDL) by states like New York and California.
The New York Post reports that Tony Ferraro, an aide to Indiana governor Mike Braun, told the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission that the state had arrested and prosecuted at least 283 undocumented drivers operating trucks.
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The Supreme Court likely sounded the death knell of state and local bans on so-called conversion therapy for minors, at least limited to talking, when eight justices blocked Colorado from punishing counselor Kaley Chiles for not affirming unwanted gender confusion in her young clients while letting her talk them into identifying as the opposite sex.
Missouri’s Kansas City and Jackson County are nonetheless trying to preserve their self-admitted “functionally identical” ordinances as long as possible, and in the city’s case, validate an even further-reaching, all-ages public accommodation ordinance, in response to a challenge by licensed counselors Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenreich.
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In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country.
The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in 1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead.
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“So long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. . . . Liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 78
This is Part II of a two-part series that examines the politicization of the federal judiciary by the Democrat left during the second term of President Trump, and the crisis it presents for our constitutional republic. Part I covered a brief history, the continuing encroachment of Article III (the Judiciary Branch) on Article II (the Executive Branch), and some case studies in judicial overreach. This part covers Democrat lawfare coordination, the Democrats’ deployment of foreign judges and the associated cultural disconnect, the issue of democratic (small d) legitimacy, the Sotomayor problem, and remedies for the problem.
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A judge on Thursday sentenced the former leader of the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future to 41-and-a-half years behind bars for her involvement in a $250 million pandemic fraud case that sparked national attention and outrage.
The leader, who became known as the “mastermind” of the scheme, Amiee Bock, claimed the nonprofit helped feed children during the pandemic. She was convicted in March 2025 of wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy and must repay $243 million.
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American cities need bold renewal. What we need is a “MadeCity” vision — a vision for intentionally crafting or “making” cities that emphasize the enduring higher order potential within people.
Beginning to plan and build such cities as part of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary is a fitting way to extend John Winthrop’s vision for America as a “City on a Hill.” A MadeCity is a living monument to faith, freedom, and entrepreneurship — the very ideals that turned a collection of colonies into the greatest nation on earth.
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 47
Many rank-and-file Republicans and political commentators have expressed shock at the unprecedented lawfare being employed by the Democrat Party and its political allies against President Trump during his second term. Over 700 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration, and the number of executive orders impeded/blocked by Democrat/left-wing activist judges currently exceeds 200 (full and partial).
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Many of the artists I now feature came to my radar because of a singing competition show. You may remember Jordan Rainer as the “girl in the sunglasses” from Team Reba on NBC’s The Voice. America fell in love with her instantly as the quick-witted, shoot-from-the-hip contestant who left producers sweating and never knowing what she would say on live TV. Now, three years later, this gritty, tele-slinging, fire-spitting outlaw country artist returns with her most fearless and defining work to date – an unapologetic record that pushes boundaries both sonically and culturally.
As always, I want to know how the artist got their start. She told me, “From the time I could toddle, my family had a family piano in the living room. I couldn’t even make eye contact with it, but I could reach above my head and play the keys, and I would just think on it. I’ve been drawn to instruments my whole life. From the time I was a kid, if there was a guitar in the corner somewhere, if there was a drumstick, I was hitting something. I just couldn’t make music.”
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Americans’ confidence in the economy has dropped to a nearly four-year low, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.
Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index sank to -45 in May, down from -38 in April. This marks the lowest reading since October 2022, when the index score was identical to the current reading, Gallup reported.
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President Donald Trump swore in his pick to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, on Friday, saying he wants him to be independent in the role.
“I want Kevin to be totally independent,” Trump said. “I want him to be independent and just do a great job. Don’t look at me, don’t look at anybody, just do your own thing and do a great job.”
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Iran is in discussions with America’s Gulf ally Oman over a possible partnership to make vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz pay a fee, but it’s not clear that it would be legal or that it would receive much support from countries using the waterway.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday that “no country” should accept any tolling system.
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Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday and Memorial Day Monday – a distance slightly higher than last year when gas prices were considerably lower, according to AAA.
“Travel demand remains strong, and despite higher fuel prices, many people are prioritizing leisure travel during holiday breaks,” Stacey Barber, vice president of travel for AAA, said in a statement.
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Tulsi Gabbard resigned Friday from her post as director of National Intelligence.
Gabbard notified President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office, explaining that she is leaving to support her husband, Abraham, who has “an extremely rare form of bone cancer,” Fox News reported.
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U.S. tech workers are at the center of a battle brewing in Washington, D.C., over reforming the troubled H-1B visa program, which is designed to fill highly skilled positions when qualified American workers can’t be found.
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The Trump administration announced a record-high increase in immigration judges on Thursday to speed up its deportation efforts.
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The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary — for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy.
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So, it turns out that the little boy was right all along about the emperor’s new clothes.
In an effort to restore grading standards, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is conducting an email ballot on the administration’s proposal to limit solid A grades at 20% of students per course (plus up to four additional A’s, if merited).
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The Supreme Court determined that a U.S.-based company — Havana Docks — can recover damages from four major cruise lines that used its docks previously confiscated by the Cuban government.
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An incomplete election autopsy report from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) released this week has painted a grim picture of the party’s strength and advocates for a substantial overhaul of its efforts to preserve its electoral viability.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks to more aggressively scrutinize illegal immigrants, closing a fiscal fence around American taxpayer interests and resources, and likely further incentivizing self-deportations.
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“I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas that we have basically look that we say look this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. A no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. …”
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