Featured photo: Vice President JD Vance, official portrait, March 2026. Photo: Emily J. Higgins, The White House, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Trump administration says it has found more fraud in federal programs in under two years than most Americans could picture. The White House’s Fraud Ledger, a public tally kept by the Task […]
Featured photo: A Confucius Institute sign at a university campus (Saint Joseph University of Beirut). Photo: Marsupium, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Pentagon has added Confucius Institutes, the Chinese government-backed centers that once dotted American campuses, to its list of institutions that threaten U.S. national security. Secretary Pete Hegseth says the department found […]
Featured photo: El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Virtual-Pano, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent the communist government in Havana a message on Friday that no American official has delivered so plainly in decades. He told Cubans who want change that the moment has come, and that the Central […]
Featured photo: U.S. Border Patrol agents on watch at the border fence line in Arizona. Photo: CBP Photography, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. President Trump promised to close the southern border. Federal data now show he did. The U.S. Border Patrol recorded 98,708 apprehensions at the southwest border in fiscal year 2026, the lowest total […]
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 […]
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