Featured photo: Abdul El-Sayed at a campaign meet-and-greet. Photo: Conlan Houston, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, signed a 2012 statement that urged Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.” The New York Times has […]
Featured photo: FBI headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, in Washington. Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Two former senior FBI officials who ran the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force surrendered Friday. Each is charged with lying to Congress about the task force’s role in the Hunter Biden investigations. Nikki Cole Floris, […]
Featured photo: The California State Capitol in Sacramento. Photo: Andre m, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The federal government handed California a list of more than 20,000 names. According to the Justice Department, each belongs to a likely noncitizen who was mailed a ballot for the Nov. 3 federal election. Washington asked the state […]
Featured photo: U.S. Steel’s Gary Works on Lake Michigan in Gary, Indiana, July 2025. Photo: Grešla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. “We thought government control of the means of production was what we were fighting against!” That line did not come from a progressive. It came from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, the free-market […]
Featured photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs the guest book as President Donald Trump looks on at the White House, Feb. 4, 2025. White House photo by Dan Scavino, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it official: the goal is no longer to contain Iran’s regime. It is […]
Featured photo: A “Vote Here” sign outside a polling place in Minneapolis, Nov. 3, 2020. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A federal judge in California has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop election-related door-knocks and field interviews in nine states until the polls close on Nov. 3. The ruling […]
Featured photo: Brad Lander speaking at a rally, March 1, 2026. Photo by Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Thirteen days before voters decide whether to send him to Congress, Brad Lander flew to the West Bank, joined an olive harvest that Israeli authorities say was never cleared, and came away with the […]
Featured photo: ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers in Los Angeles, June 12, 2025. U.S. Department of Homeland Security photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. ICE was not involved in this case. When Jasmine Gill disappeared from her Sacramento home, her husband had an explanation ready: Immigration and Customs Enforcement had taken her. It was […]
Featured photo: Official portrait of Rep. Ilhan Omar, 116th Congress. U.S. House Office of Photography photo by Kristie Boyd, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has now filed five versions of her household finances covering 2023 through 2025, and they tell very different stories about her husband’s two companies. In one year, […]
Featured photo: Official portrait of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. U.S. Department of Defense photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. With the midterms 13 days away, House Democrats have made removing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a headline campaign promise, and their leader won’t say whether President Trump is next. “In the minority, we ran Pam Bondi […]
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