Politics

The Treasury Department announced sanctions against three far-left international networks as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on politically motivated violence.The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control took action against Autistici Inventati, an Italy-based nonprofit; Palestine Action, a U.K.-based organization which it designated a terrorist group; and Masar Badil, a Spain-based group that allegedly operates as a front for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, already sanctioned by the […]

Conservatives piled on Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell after she argued Republicans are trying to make Michigan’s Senate race about socialist streamer Hasan Piker, with critics saying her frustration only highlighted a political vulnerability for Democrats."Debbie Dingell CRASHES OUT over terrorist-sympathizer Hasan Piker who has called to kill Republicans,’" wrote the Republican National Committee’s research account.Critics took aim at Dingell for campaigning with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed after she […]

When Vice President JD Vance stopped in at his hometown donut shop last Friday, the last thing Crystaliz Portalatin expected was for him to invite her to his upcoming rally.But before she knew it, Portalatin and two of her fellow Central Pastry Shop employees were piling into a car in Vance’s motorcade to watch him speak at the nearby steel mill in Middletown, Ohio."We knew he was going to come […]

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move that came amid a trade war with Canada. "The Lake of America was something I've been thinking about for a long time, actually. As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico — we changed it — and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America," Trump said in the Oval Office.The […]

The Department of Homeland Security fired three more FEMA workers on Thursday after an inspector general report found that FEMA crews skipped servicing homes with pro-Trump signs following Hurricane Milton.DHS says the three firings were in addition to other firings carried out after the IG report released last week. An investigation by FEMA's Office of Professional Responsibility found that the three employees had "failed to meet FEMA's standards of conduct.""Our […]

Prominent Democrats are lining up to condemn far-left streamer Hasan Piker after he warned that American Jews could face violence if they continue to be seen as strongly supporting Israel.The backlash follows a stream last week in which Piker displayed an image of Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss, who is Jewish and the Democratic nominee in Michigan's 11th Congressional District. Moss has said a fake audio clip is being circulated […]

Far from the U.S. warships enforcing a blockade at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, nearly 40 million barrels of Iranian crude are sitting aboard tankers in waters near Malaysia, east of Singapore.The cargo amounts to roughly 20 very large crude carriers’ worth of oil, a floating stockpile that could still give Tehran a way to turn crude already outside the blockade zone into cash even as the blockade sharply […]

CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow to meet with Russian intelligence officials, the Kremlin reportedly said Wednesday, after video emerged of a U.S. military transport plane coming in for a landing Tuesday at Vnukovo airport.President Donald Trump, when asked this morning about Ratcliffe’s visit on "The Glenn Beck Program," said, "He’s there on, you know, very sort of semi-routine.""We would like to see the war with Ukraine end," Trump […]

Authorities arrested a Democratic Party official for alleged COVID fraud for the second time this month on Wednesday.U.S. Attorney Leah Foley says police arrested Massachusetts state Rep. Francisco Paulino early Wednesday morning, charging him with 11 counts related to pandemic unemployment insurance fraud, pandemic loan fraud and money laundering."According to the Paulino indictment, Mr. Paulino devised a scheme to obtain more than $700,000 in federal pandemic relief funds. It is […]