Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s cashless bail law enabled a man with more than 70 arrests to roam the streets before allegedly burning a woman alive in Chicago. Local judges gave pretrial release to 50-year-old Lawrence Reed after an August assault charge under Pritzker’s Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act,...

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Immigration agents arrested an illegal alien sex offender employed as a professor at a major American university on Nov. 12. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Sri Lankan national Sumith Gunasekera in Detroit, Michigan, the agency confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Gunasekera, previously arrested in Canada and the...

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You have to admit it: It's certainly one way to spice up Disneyland's "Gay Day" that doesn't involve an obscene leather harness. According to People Magazine, a conservative group planning a "MAGA invasion" of the SoCal theme park didn't mean for it to coincide with a "pride" event at the...

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Special counsel Jack Smith’s team pressed forward with secretly seeking phone records for Republican members of Congress, even after being warned it exposed them to “litigation risk,” internal emails show. Emails released Tuesday by Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin reveal prosecutors weighing which members of...

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CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings challenged former Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa to name any “illegal orders” President Donald Trump issued during a “CNN NewsNight” panel on Tuesday. Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and five other Democrats who served in the military or intelligence agencies appeared in...

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Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell struggled to answer Los Angeles-based musician Tish Hyman during a town hall event after she confronted him over his support for men competing in women’s spaces. After announcing his run for California governor, Swalwell held a town hall event in Orange County. He spoke about...

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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a university professor who has described police officers as “violence workers” to serve on his community safety committee. Mamdani announced Monday that Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will advise his incoming administration on community safety matters. Vitale has a...

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Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson imitated Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” Tuesday while mocking her for a claim she made about a redaction in a document tied to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. House Democrats released a tranche of emails...

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Two young men from Texas had an elaborate plot to conquer an island near Haiti with a sailboat and a makeshift mercenary army, namely by slaughtering all of the men and using the women and children as sex slaves. Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, had their...

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After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director. Paramount Pictures on Tuesday was in closing talks to distribute the film, according to a person close to the...

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Republican California congressional candidate Darren Stallcup, eyeing former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s seat, is proposing a “Straight Parade” in San Francisco next year. San Francisco is known for its support of the LGBT movement, including its dedicated district and its annual "Pride Parade" held every June for the last 50...

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Republican strategist Scott Jennings shut down a CNN anchor’s line of questioning in a discussion over whether the FBI should investigate the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to disregard President Donald Trump’s authority. The Pentagon opened an inquiry into Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Monday after he...

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Indiana Republicans abruptly reversed course Tuesday, racing back into a mid-cycle redistricting battle after President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Republican holdouts. After weeks of insisting the Senate didn’t have the votes to reopen congressional map-drawing, both chambers will now return to the Statehouse in early December. The move is...

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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom ran for governor in 2018 on meeting the Golden State’s dire need for more affordable housing -- but after nearly seven full years of his leadership, the state is still in a housing crisis. Newsom pledged to create 3.5 million new housing units by 2025,...

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As the holiday season arrives, one prevailing headache set to keep hammering Americans is exorbitant electricity costs. Though the Trump administration has worked to unlock more reliable energy resources, several stressors on the American power grid mean that ratepayers will continue to see electricity costs rise, according to multiple reports...

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The Museum of the Bible will soon host fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient artifacts in Washington, D.C. In partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the museum will display "biblical texts and scrolls from the community at Qumran," including three rotations of pieces from the Dead Sea...

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Chinese authorities arrested 18 leaders of Zion Church in the Guangxi Province as the communist nation continues a pressure campaign against Christians. The leaders of the unregistered Protestant house church were accused of "illegally using information networks," according to a Thursday release from Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Ezra Jin Mingri, the...

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More than half of American women under the age of 50 who do not yet have children said in a recent survey that they do not intend to become mothers. The results of this year's American Family Survey, conducted between Aug. 6 and Aug. 18, joins several other recent polls...

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Conservative podcaster Katie Miller called out “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip on Friday, saying she allowed a guest to call her husband, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, a “white nationalist.” The Millers were forced to move from their home in Arlington, Virginia, after a campaign...

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President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered "closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump posted on his Truth Social...

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West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom expressed a desire to “make [a] difference” while deployed to Washington, D.C., her ex-boyfriend told CNN on Friday. Beckstrom and West Virginia Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe were allegedly shot Wednesday by Rahmanullah Lakanwal roughly a mile from the White House....

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