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CNN host point blank asks Hakeem Jeffries if shutdown is purely a negotiating tactic
A CNN host asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Friday whether the government shutdown was truly about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or simply a negotiating tactic. The Senate failed to end the partial government shutdown last week as Democrats...
Trump makes history today! Agenda includes something no sitting president has ever done
WASHINGTON — In a precedent-busting move, President Donald Trump is gearing up to personally attend oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday — a dramatic escalation in his fight to crack down on birthright citizenship. If he walks through those marble...
State Department quietly slashes citizenship exit fee by 80% after years of legal pressure
Washington’s sprawling bureaucracy has quietly backed down after years of legal pressure, dramatically lowering the price Americans must pay if they decide to give up their U.S. citizenship. The U.S. State Department confirmed in a newly published rule that the cost...
‘I hope some Arab…cuts off your f**king head’: Jewish GOP lawmaker receives vile threat
Jewish Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller received a threat on his life Thursday “just for being a Jewish piece of sh*t.” Miller, 37, received the spoken threat and posted an audio recording of it to social media, writing, “Every day as a...
‘I think we’re done here’: White House ballroom project weathers deluge of public criticism ahead of final vote
Blistering public criticism of President Donald Trump’s vision for a new White House ballroom did not spare the design, the commissioners, or Trump himself as the National Capital Planning Commission formally reviewed the ambitious project Thursday and teed up a final...
BS daily political cartoons: Thank you cards from Iran
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1,000 DOJ monitors headed to the polls — and Democrats are already sounding alarms
BS BULLETIN The Justice Department plans to deploy roughly 1,000 election monitors nationwide for November's midterms, a level Harmeet Dhillon says would be historic for a Republican administration. DOJ monitors are already working the 2026 primaries, including...
Justice Department sends election agents to Florida, Wyoming
(The Center Square) — Federal agents will be monitoring polling places in Florida and Wyoming as voters in both states head to the polls on Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Justice announced it would send four Civil Rights Division attorneys to Miami-Dade County...
Court blocks Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ rule
A federal court blocked a rule Tuesday issued by the Biden administration targeting so-called “ghost guns” on constitutional grounds. Chief United States District Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, issued the ruling in favor of Defense Distributed,...
Wisconsin property now valued at more than $1 trillion
(The Center Square) – The taxable value of Wisconsin property went up 8% again in 2026, matching the rise from the year before, according to new data from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. The total equalized value of residential property in the state jumped...
Australian PM Anthony Albanese says big mad states aren’t forking over guns like he wants
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese criticized states who he claimed were standing in the way of his gun “buyback” program. Albanese announced plans on Dec. 19, 2025, for a mass confiscation of firearms from law-abiding gun owners in response to the Dec. 14,...
Teacher unions dedicate money to political activism, lobbying
(The Center Square) – National teacher unions contribute at least 10% of their annual budget to lobbying and political activism, which includes calling for the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump in the 2026 American Federation of Teachers...
