The Senate appeared to be on track to fund vast portions of the government Thursday, but Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham put a hold on the package, citing the need to crack down on sanctuary cities. Graham, an immigration hawk, is demanding a vote on legislation to criminalize city...

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Virginia Democrats are advancing legislation to grant an environmental department permission to use “unmanned aircraft systems” without a warrant “for the implementation and enforcement” of some green regulations. The legislation would amend an existing bill, which currently lists some exemptions for Virginia government bodies to use drones without a warrant,...

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Running through airports was depicted as the way to go in the late 20th century as O.J. Simpson helped Hertz Rent-a-Car become a household name. But in the age of the Transportation Security Agency, it can result in a fast landing to the floor. That’s what Fabian Leon, 40, found...

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A coalition of conservative figures and organizations are advocating for challenging the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges. The Daily Signal reported that the campaign, "Greater Than," carries the message that above the desires of homosexuals for "marriage," children must come first. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court...

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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen gave a tremendous response this week when asked about his life outside of football -- and he's getting a tremendous response in return. Fielding a question about his plans for the offseason during a news conference Thursday, the athlete who will reign as the NFL's...

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Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson tried to talk fast after being caught driving fast, but she got nowhere fast except jail. Richardson was stopped after an Orange County, Florida, sheriff’s deputy said she was driving at 104 mph on a Florida highway, according to WFTV. The interplay between the Paris 2024...

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CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter pointed out on Friday that former CNN host Don Lemon knew the protesters at the church in St. Paul, Minnesota, had something planned before they disrupted a religious service. Federal agents arrested Lemon on Thursday night in Los Angeles, California, in connection with the...

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A tailgater in California found himself being restrained by police and citizens after he repeatedly made aggressive movements toward law enforcements' horses. The footage of the arrest was posted to social media platform X on Tuesday, with an early post being made on social media platform Facebook on Jan. 12....

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MINNEAPOLIS — Protesters staged a noise demonstration at the Graduate Hotel against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the second time in a week, leading to several arrests. A crowd of dozens banged pots and buckets, played a siren, blew whistles, yelled through a megaphone and chanted “f*** ICE” outside the...

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A political action committee which backed Kamala Harris’s campaign appears to have scrubbed its website after it was caught soliciting donations through a text mentioning Alex Pretti, just hours after Border Patrol agents fatally shot him in Minneapolis. Multiple X accounts posted screenshots of a fundraising text message sent from a...

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Two Texas teenage girls were killed after a sledding accident that took place when Frisco, Texas, was hit by a rare snowstorm. Elizabeth Angle and Grace Brito, both 16, died, according to CBS News. Angle was pronounced dead on Sunday. Brito died Tuesday after being on life support since the...

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LONDON (AP) — The crime was in London, the suspect was Russian, and the witness who saw the beating on a video call was in the United States and happened to be the youngest son of President Donald Trump. Barron Trump called police in the British capital and his intervention...

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A massive landslide ravaged a small town in Sicily after a large cyclone hit the area, causing 1,500 people to be evacuated, according to the Associated Press. Niscemi, a small town located in the southwestern part of Sicily, was affected by a landslide that spanned 2.5 miles, the Associated Press...

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The Trump administration is demanding nearly $1 million from an illegal alien who is refusing to follow through with a deportation order. The Department of Justice is imposing a $941,114 fee, plus accrued interest, on Marta Alicia Ramirez Veliz, an illegal alien living in Chesterfield County, Virginia, for failing to...

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A black pastor warned from the pulpit that his congregation will not tolerate activists storming worship services. This, after a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement disrupted a service at another church Jan. 18. Anti-ICE activist William Kelly interrupted a Minnesota church service and berated police, shouting “traitors” and demanding...

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At nearly every opportunity, Democrats rush to wrap themselves in the idea that children are in imminent danger. They do it because nothing disarms voters faster than fear for a child. The modern Democratic Party loves the emotional soundbite, the misleading half-truth, and when necessary, the outright lie. These recent...

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Days following Alex Pretti’s death, his family hired high-profile attorneys with direct ties to the prosecution of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd case. The parents of the 37-year-old intensive care nurse retained Steve Schleicher, a veteran litigator and former federal prosecutor. Schleicher helped Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison convict...

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Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson admitted Wednesday he was “in regular communication” with other mayors leading so-called “sanctuary cities” in efforts to impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. President Donald Trump called for an end to “sanctuary cities” in a post on Truth Social Monday, following a series of shootings,...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday,...

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Border czar Tom Homan retorted to CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz’s accusations on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is instilling “fear” in American communities. During the news conference in Minnesota, Prokupecz asked Homan who in charge is responsible for the current unrest in the wake of the death of Alex Pretti...

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A now-former receptionist at a Planned Parenthood operation in Santa Maria, California, provided a harrowing account of processing the remains of a baby that had reached 16 weeks gestation. The Christian Post recently interviewed Nallely Perez, who had worked at the facility in the late 2000s. Though she started as...

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