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House Republicans can breathe a small sigh of relief as they've held onto the House seat vacated by former Rep. Matt Gaetz in Florida's special election.
The GOP pulled out a narrow win in the House in November, hanging onto the majority with 222 seats. The good news is that Donald Trump also won the presidential election. The bad news is that he then needed to stock his Cabinet — and that meant tapping several GOP members of Congress, including Gaetz (initially selected by Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney General) and now-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (CD-6), which further narrowed the GOP majority.
Gaetz had won reelection
The daughter of failed Democrat vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is opting out of graduate school to stand against a lack of support for student protests.
In a video she posted on TikTok, Hope Walz on Sunday laid out her reasons for the decision, Fox News reported.
The young woman stated:
I applied for one school. I kind of had my heart set on it. That’s what I wanted to do. I am not going to name the institution. But given recent events, I am not going to give my money, go into debt for, or support institutions that don’t support their students and the right
If there is any doubt where the left’s sympathies lie regarding criminal justice, news released today regarding the fate of an accused murderer should settle it for good.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson previously reported, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in the chest in December outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in what was a targeted attack. His killer, Luigi Mangione, was apprehended on December 9 at McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following a nationwide manhunt.
A vigilant employee recognized Mangione, leading to his arrest. A Manhattan grand jury indicted him a week later on 11 criminal counts,
By now, you know that I’m a big fan of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and his unmatched ability to dismantle weak arguments with his signature Southern wit. On Monday, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, he was at the top of his game, systematically exposing the complete lack of legal authority for district judges to issue universal injunctions — a favorite tactic of the left to block President Trump’s agenda.
Questioning Assistant Attorney General nominee Brett Shumate, Kennedy systematically dismantled any justification for these sweeping judicial orders.
"Mr. Shumate, what's a universal injunction?" Kennedy asked.
If it weren’t for the fact that it is Democrats doing it, it would almost be shocking that there is so much opposition to the efforts of Mr. Trump, through DOGE, to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. What person, in their right mind, could possibly be against having THEIR tax dollars used wisely, not wasted on frivolous, unnecessary projects, or just flat being abused by unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats? Even Bernie Sanders, back in 2008, is on tape saying that government waste should be excised. Why such hostility now?
If Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) hopes his all-night theatrics on Monday will be remembered, thanks to one of his staff members, they will be.
Booker’s staff member, Kevin A. Batts, was arrested Monday evening for carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds moments before Booker began an all-night speech on the Senate floor protesting President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, NOTUS reported.
A NOTUS reporter witnessed the staffer, Kevin A. Batts, being arrested Monday at 6:29 p.m. Eastern as Booker prepared to begin his speech around 7:00. “He was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a [U.S. Capitol Police (USCP)] vehicle outside the Senate-side of the Capitol,” according to that report.
Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC are deliberately omitting news of a suspected arson attack against the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico from their flagship morning and evening newscasts.
Early on Sunday morning, Albuquerque Fire Rescue responded to reports of a fire at the New Mexico GOP headquarters. According to reports, there was fire damage to the front entryway and smoke damage “throughout the building.” The words “ICE=KKK” also had been spray painted on the side of the structure.
It has probably been said about Americans before, during different periods in our history, that the country has never been more politically divided. We are in an era where you might get uninvited to holiday dinners by your left-leaning family members or "unfriended" and completely ghosted by your liberal friends if you happen to be a conservative or, worse yet, a Trump supporter. While we watch unhinged leftists destroy Tesla dealerships and even attack individual Tesla owners simply for the cars they drive, this current time has to be about the worst it has ever been. But in the midst of all that, on Monday night, an unlikely
Vice-President JD Vance is always ready to set leftists straight when they attempt to smear him and the rest of Team Trump. And today, he put on a masterclass performance upon being alerted to a massive hatchet job designed to sabotage the Trump Administration’s’ efforts to deport violent illegal aliens.
The Atlantic, a dishonest far-left publication, ran a sob story Monday night about the Trump Administration supposedly admitting it ‘mistakenly’ sent a ‘peaceful’ Maryland father to El Salvador’s infamous mega-prison CECOT. The publication further claimed that the man was falsely accused of being a member of MS-13, but
We have a saying around here: You can’t hate the media enough. That goes for the legacy/mainstream/corporate/corrupt press, not sites like RedState and other Townhall Media properties of course, because we bring you the truth. CBS News’ “60 Minutes” has been one of the worst offenders in recent times, deceptively—and favorably, of course—editing a Kamala Harris video leading up to the ’24 presidential elections and then in February arguing that there should be “boundaries” on free speech. What they mean is “boundaries” only on free speech that they don’t like.
The following is the prepared text of a speech the author gave in March at an Indiana Call to Action event in South Bend, Indiana. The New York Times recently released data putting Indiana in the top 10 states Americans relocated to in 2023. [Snip] Seven of these are completely Republican-controlled, and two have Republican legislatures. Indiana is the only state on the list without a warm or mountainous climate. Professor Michael New pointed out that eight of these ten states enacted strong pro-life laws after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. It didn’t damage their attractions one bit.
Israel announced Tuesday that it would end all tariffs, or customs duties, on U.S. imports — just one day before President Donald Trump was set to announce reciprocal tariffs in a Rose Garden ceremony dubbed “Liberation Day.”
A joint statement by the Prime Minister’s Office, Finance Ministry and Economy and Industry Ministry said:
At the directive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat, Israel has cancelled all of the customs duties that have been levied until now on products from the US, Israel’s largest trading partner.
After the approval of the Knesset Finance Committee and
The Trump administration cut funding to a host of Princeton University research projects, the school said Tuesday, marking the latest Ivy League campus to see federal backing reduced or revoked.
The university received notifications from government agencies including the Department of Energy, NASA and the Defense Department that funding had been suspended for several dozen research grants, Princeton President Chris Eisgruber said in a statement Tuesday. "The full rationale for this action is not yet clear, but I want to be clear about the principles that will guide our response," he said.
In recent funding cuts targeting Ivy League schools Harvard and Columbia,
I know you might be reading the headline and thinking, "obviously," but as a resident of California, the local news usually minimally criticizes the Democrat leadership. But lately, they have been calling out the legislature, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and Gov. Gavin Newsom since the wildfires spread in several cities of Los Angeles County.
This particular study, being reported by KTLA, shows how the deranged policies of the Democrat supermajority have impacted gas prices and hurt middle and working-class Californians.
California’s high gas prices are primarily a result of state policies, regulations, and taxes rather than price gouging, according to a study by Michael Mische of USC’s
A billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
We may soon approach the "real money" stage, and perhaps sooner than we thought - but then, almost everything happening with this second Trump administration is happening faster than we thought. Between the DOGE recommendations and the Cabinet members just acting on their own to cut away the dead weight, the U.S. taxpayers have already been saved a lot of money, and on Tuesday, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced that her department would be returning over a billion dollars in unspent COVID funding to the Treasury.
Now, let's make one thing clear: It's a wondrous thing
Trump Media & Technology Group said on Monday it has become the first company to be listed on NYSE Texas, handing an early boost to the exchange as it gears up for fierce competition in the Lone Star state.
The company, which operates Truth Social and is primarily owned by President Trump, said it will also list its warrants on the Texas exchange. Its primary listing, however, will remain on the Nasdaq.
The move could bolster Intercontinental Exchange-owned NYSE, which on Monday became the first exchange to operate in Texas.
The state is home to the largest number of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with a combined market value
Capitol Police arrested one of Senator Cory Booker’s staffers on Monday evening for carrying a pistol without a license on Capitol grounds.
The arrest occurred as the New Jersey lawmaker began a nearly-18 hour long floor speech in opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda.
The staffer, identified by police as 59-year-old Kevin Batts, was arrested after authorities learned outside of the Senate galleries that he was armed. Booker reportedly guided Batts around security screening earlier on Monday.
“Yesterday afternoon a Member of Congress led an IDed staff member around security screening
The White House is narrowing its search for its next nominee for ambassador to the United Nations after withdrawing Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s nomination to keep the New York Republican in the House.
According to a source involved in the process, the two top contenders under consideration are both first-term Trump administration officials: former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and former Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism Ellie Cohanim.
While Friedman likely did not need to undergo vetting due to his former high-profile role, Cohanim has undergone formal vetting, sources say.
President Donald Trump said more than 30 people are interested in the role he described as a“star-making” position
A Cornell University graduate student who had his visa revoked after pledging his allegiance to the "armed resistance in Palestine" has self-deported after a federal court twice rejected his request for a protection order.
Momodou Taal, a Gambian and British dual national, announced Tuesday night that he "took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high." His statement came hours after he dropped his lawsuit against the Trump administration, in which he claimed that the president’s executive order calling for the deportation of foreign Hamasniks had a "chilling" effect on his freedom of speech and had "deprived" other students
President Donald Trump’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is nearing a historic deal with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that will allow agents to more efficiently locate and arrest illegal aliens already ordered deported from the United States.
The IRS-ICE agreement, which anonymous sources told Politico is close to being finalized, will see the tax revenue agency open its databases to ICE agents when they need to confirm the names and addresses of illegal aliens who have been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge.
Politico, which interviewed opponents of the plan, admits that it is likely the partnership between the IRS and ICE
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding that President Donald Trump fly hundreds of suspected gang members, deported to El Salvador last month, back to the United States.
“I call on my colleagues … to demand that the Trump Administration comply with all judicial orders while appealing whichever ones they want to appeal, and to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador on that so-called plane full of ‘gang bangers,'” Raskin said at a hearing on Tuesday.
Raskin was referring to two planeloads of
The Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court Monday to decide if nonviolent felons should be allowed to own guns in light of a Second Amendment ruling from the high court last year. The justices granted a petition from Raheem Morrissette, a convicted felon who contends he retains the right to bear arms because his crimes were not violent, but declined to take on the case themselves. Instead, they vacated the 11th Circuit's judgement upholding Morrissette's conviction for possessing a firearm as a felon and asked that it reconsider under the high court's decision to uphold a federal law prohibiting people under domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns.
Higher education institutions in Ohio are barred from taking a stance on marriage after Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law at the end of March deeming belief in the legal and religious union as “controversial.” Republicans billed the Enact Advance Ohio Higher Education Act as the best way to eliminate universities’ racist admission and hiring practices and expand ideological diversity by explicitly outlawing “political and ideological litmus tests” and requiring schools commit to “seek[ing] out invited speakers who have diverse ideological or political views.” The law also, however, requires institutions to declare they will not “endorse or oppose” “controversial beliefs,” including marriage.
A French court sentenced Marine Le Pen to four years in prison and banned her from standing for public office for five years. It seems likely that the court may forgo incarceration for an ankle monitor, and it is quite unlikely that it will lift the ballot ban. You see, Le Pen consistently leads in the polls for the presidency of France by double digits. So, an ends-justifies-the-means Left concocted a charge of embezzlement — claiming that her National Rally party used aides within the European Union to conduct political activities in France — to deny the people of France...