Attorney General Merrick Garland sparred with Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Tuesday as Gaetz pressed him about whether the Justice Department had colluded with local and state officials who have targeted former President Donald Trump with legal action. Garland sidestepped a number of questions and ultimately claimed the...

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The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial wasn't present on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. But when Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz took on Attorney General Merrick Garland in a blistering round of questioning before the House Judiciary Committee, Judge Juan Merchan might as well have been...

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I gotta say Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., caught my attention. I concurred with his opposition to the COVID vaccine and appreciated the pandemic research through his Children’s Defense Fund, whose newsletter I continue to read. Not that I would ever vote for him, but more about Kennedy became apparent when...

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The flailing Biden campaign really is between a rock and a hard place. Between the pro-Palestinian movements depriving Sleepy Joe of the much-needed young adult voter base, the guilty verdict for Donald Trump's "hush money" trial severely backfiring on the Democrats, and inflation robbing Biden of the rest of his...

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The NFL is rife with supplication to the LGBT lobby, but nine teams apparently have opted out of celebrating "Pride Month" despite the league's bending of the knee to the radical gay agenda. According to a look at franchises' official websites and social media accounts and a review of their...

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In flaming words of anger, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia erupted Monday at Democrats who attack former President Donald Trump and mock the passion of her convictions. Video of a volcanic interview posted to X showed her fighting back against comments from Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland...

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President Donald Trump and his campaign responded to President Joe Biden's new executive order regarding the southern border -- saying it will make the crisis worse. Biden's executive order issued Tuesday allows him to shut down the southern border between the ports of entry when illegal crossings average 2,500 per...

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Rubio's Coastal Grill, a Carlsbad, California-based fast-casual restaurant chain known for its fish tacos, announced the closure of 48 of its California locations on Monday, citing the state's new $20 per hour minimum wage law as the reason for the closures. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, Rubio's released a...

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Ben White, a veteran financial reporter for CNBC who previously worked for Politico and The New York Times, died over the weekend after battling an illness. The news was shared on the social media platform X by White’s longtime girlfriend Sara. On White’s account, a message to the reporter’s followers...

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Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana savaged President Joe Biden on Tuesday after he announced a blatantly political executive order that he said would finally secure the country’s border with Mexico. Such an order could have come years ago and arguably wouldn’t have been needed at all had Biden not...

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In keeping with the rough baptism Caitlin Clark has received into the WNBA, Fox News host Sean Hannity threw an elbow at ESPN host Pat McAfee over comments McAfee made about Clark on a recent show. In pushing back against claims that Clark was somehow popular because she was white,...

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President Joe Biden’s Tuesday executive order barring illegal immigrants in the United States from obtaining asylum has been met with opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union. The left-leaning national civil rights organization slammed the Biden administration’s executive action in a Tuesday post on X as one that “will severely...

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Monday’s House hearing into the COVID-19 pandemic turned raucous as spectators and members of Congress vented their emotions. At one point, a woman in the audience kept interrupting Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California as he directed questions at Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the COVID-19 response in the Trump...

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Apparently, the ladies of "The View" know as much about basketball as they do about politics. Which is, sad to say, almost nothing. With WNBA star Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever dominating the sports headlines, inevitably, the ladies at "The View" would offer their perspective on the budding superstar....

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The atmosphere for restaurant chains across the country has been tough with the twin pressures of Bidenomics and COVID serving as a one-two punch to destroy so many companies. And this week, yet another chain is considering a filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. BurgerFi International has announced that it will...

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T.S. Eliot wrote in "The Waste Land" that April was the cruelest month. For the WNBA's Angel Reese, however, the month of June is turning out that way, instead. It's only four days into the sixth month of the year, but Reese -- the Chicago Sky's "Hey, I was picked...

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Thank goodness, after fumbling border security for almost his entire administration, President Joe Biden is finally ready to take control and protect Americans. Well, kind of. And only because he's desperately trying to improve his image before the November election. The Biden administration has had an infamously bad border, allowing...

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President Joe Biden's mental acuity has slipped so precipitously that pretty much everyone in the Beltway is sitting up and paying attention -- including the White House. That's at least one of the takeaways from a Tuesday report in The Wall Street Journal that used sources in Congress to catalogue the...

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In opening arguments Tuesday, Hunter Biden's legal team made it clear that they would be trying to pin the blame for their client's bad behavior on Biden -- Hallie Biden, that is. Axios reported early Wednesday that "Hunter's lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell repeatedly deflected blame toward Hallie." Hallie Biden,...

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With the backing of former President Donald Trump, former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy walked away with the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Montana currently held by Democrat Jon Tester. Sheehy received 73.6 percent of the vote with 86 percent of the results in, and won every county...

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Russia may be in the first stages of deploying satellites with a nuclear payload that could be detonated to neutralize large numbers of both military and civilian satellites orbiting the earth. Additionally, the Kremlin is deploying satellites near U.S. military ones that potentially have the capability to take them out....

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