President Donald Trump announced shortly after 4 a.m. Eastern that the attacks on Venezuela had led to the capture of the country's fugitive strongman accused of narco-trafficking, Nicolás Maduro. "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro,...

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A cigarette butt helped police bring an alleged child rapist into custody, 20 years after the crime. KCUR-FM reported 58-year-old David James Zimbrick was arrested Monday in Raytown, Missouri, in connection with a child rape that occurred in Lawrence, Kansas, over two decades ago. Police Chief Rich Lockhart said a...

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A California mother grieving the loss of her 8-year-old daughter in a Thanksgiving weekend accident for which an illegal immigrant has been arrested says the tragedy did not need to happen. Bryan Josue Alva-Rodriguez, 25, a Guatemalan citizen, has been charged with murder, vehicular manslaughter, and driving under the influence...

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Parents in Erie County, New York, are complaining as their children freeze on electric school buses while drivers try to conserve battery life. WIVB reported on Dec. 18 that several families in the Lake Shore Central School District are raising concerns as their children come home saying their buses were...

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The world watched in horror as Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, sustained heavy fire damage in 2019. But only one year after the church was reopened to the public, hundreds of thousands of people are fighting to preserve the historic site -- not from fire, but from French President Emmanuel...

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Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge, who was fired by the network in 2024 after refusing to divulge a source on a story she did on China for a separate network, said in a video Thursday that executives blocked her from reporting on details of Hunter Biden's laptops even after...

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Rose Docherty, a 75-year-old grandmother, is facing criminal charges in Glasgow, Scotland, for holding a sign outside an abortion-performing hospital. The holding of the sign, which simply said "coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want," was a violation of "buffer zone" laws since it occurred within...

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While President Donald Trump oversaw strong U.S. economic growth during the third quarter of 2025, some concerns with the economy still remain heading into 2026, an analyst told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Trump has made several major economic policy moves since returning to the White House in January 2025,...

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A Minnesota pastor passed away in December after helping a driver stuck in the snow outside of his church. Jim Bzoskie, 76, was inside Cornerstone Bible Church preparing gift bags for county jail inmates when he went to help someone who had spun out in the snow, according to a...

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A history professor who has taught at Harvard for 40 years is publicly calling out the Ivy League school over race-based hiring and admissions policies, a “shocking indifference” to anti-Semitism, and its eroding commitment to teaching students about Western history. James Hankins wrote in a Compact Magazine essay noscriptd “Why...

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Republican House candidate Ed Gallrein is raking in cash to defeat Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in November’s midterm elections. Gallrein, a fifth-generation Kentucky farmer and former Navy SEAL, reported a $1.2 million haul in the fourth quarter, which runs from October to December. He secured President Donald Trump’s endorsement...

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Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced late Thursday that her agency was suspending thousands of “Minnesota borrowers” amid “suspected fraudulent activity” involving COVID-era lending programs. Loeffler wrote in an X post that the SBA had taken action to suspend 6,900 borrowers in Minnesota after reviewing “thousands” of potentially “fraudulent”...

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller announced his wife was pregnant Wednesday on X. Katie Miller, a podcaster and Stephen Miller’s wife, posted a photo of herself with a visible baby bump alongside her husband at Wednesday’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, a post Stephen...

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A New England state that hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate in over two decades has effectively banned sanctuary jurisdictions. Republican New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed two bills into law in May, House Bill 511 and Senate Bill 62, which largely ban sanctuary city policies and mandate more...

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Golf legend Phil Mickelson said that state revenue in California is little more than fuel for fraud. Mickelson sounded off in a series of posts on X this week. “No amount of tax can help CA until the fraud problem gets fixed. CA fraud makes MN look like amateurs,” Mickelson...

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Multiple Somali daycare centers highlighted in a viral YouTube exposé on alleged fraud in Minnesota have direct ties to a nonprofit at the center of a $300 million scam, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported Thursday. The now-infamous videos from YouTube influencer Nick Shirley, posted on Dec. 26, showed several purported...

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“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams shared on Thursday that his radiologist gave him a dire prognosis during an episode of “Coffee with Scott Adams.” Adams, who first announced his prostate cancer diagnosis during a May episode of his show, has recently dealt with complications like constipation and lower-body paralysis, which led...

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The family of a young girl allegedly slain by an illegal migrant drunk driver who disobeyed deportation orders is speaking out about their tragedy. Brayan Josue Alva Rodriguez, an illegal migrant from Guatemala with a history of DUI arrests since arriving in the U.S., allegedly got intoxicated again in late...

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News of Saturday night's raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro had barely gotten out before Democrats started bellyaching. "This war is illegal, it’s embarrassing," Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego wrote in a post on the social media platform X. But Vice President J.D. Vance had an...

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California’s Department of Motor Vehicles revealed that about 325,000 people will be required to obtain a new REAL ID driver’s license due to a software issue dating back more than 20 years. The REAL ID, a federally accepted driver’s license, was officially implemented nationwide in May 2025 after Congress passed...

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A dictator who's been a thorn in the side of the United States for years is now facing decades in American prison cells. After the overnight lightning strike on Venezuela ordered by President Donald Trump that resulted in the capture of now-former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Attorney General Pam Bondi...

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