US politics

US politics

This is war, and we're taking out the threat. And if you're part of the threat, then you're a target. What we call not all the arrows, but going after the archers. They've declared war on us, but we haven't. We're simply fighting the threat that's been at our door for 47 years.

Something had to be done, and it's been 47 years. They've been killing people all over the world for a long time. They were the kings and fathers of the roadside bomb. [Qasem] Soleimani- we killed him last term. If we didn't, I think it might be a different story today. They would have been much stronger and smarter than they are.

As of today, I'll be informing leadership that I'm putting a hold on any en bloc nominations until I get a response. And in two weeks, if I don't get a response, I'm going to deny quorum and mark up in as many committees as I can until I get a response.

The report says Mace consistently 'requested and received the maximum allowable reimbursement' from a program meant to help House members pay their D.C. living costs. An OCC review of invoices, utility bills and other documents 'identified discrepancies between the amounts requested and received by Rep. Mace ... and the total of these associated bills.'

War is ugly, smells bad, and if anybody's ever been there, and been able to smell the war that's happened around you and taste it and feel it in your nostrils and hear it, it's something that you'll never forget, and it's ugly. And fortunately, you have, President Hegseth - or I say, 'President Hegseth' - Secretary [of Defense Pete] Hegseth that is - got a great relationship with President Trump.

Graham Platner has never run for elected office before. He's a war veteran, an oyster farmer, and now he's running in a Democratic primary to eventually unseat Senator Susan Collins of Maine. He's ahead in the polls, but he's also been criticized for Reddit comments from his past and recently covered up a tattoo that looks suspiciously like a Nazi symbol.

Hemani is the first time since the Supreme Court's decision in Bruen upended Second Amendment jurisprudence that the court has addressed the constitutionality of laws that prosecute individuals for owning guns solely based upon a category that the gun owner falls into. In United States v. Rahimi, which the court decided in 2024, the defendant had been deemed dangerous by a family court judge, based on allegations made by his former girlfriend.

U.S. DOT's legal authority to approve and establish tolling programs "does not carry with it the inherent unilateral ability of whoever holds the office of Secretary of the Transportation at any particular moment to terminate a project whether established by himself or a predecessor," Judge Lewis Liman wrote in 149-page ruling issued on Tuesday.

Merchant, 47, is on trial in Brooklyn Federal Court for murder-for-hire and terrorism related charges, accused of trying to mastermind a political assassination but getting tricked by a confidential informant into hiring two undercover feds as hitmen.

In 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 17 into law, banning diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public institutions across the state. In the years since, the University of Texas at Austin has been steadily remaking itself in the image demanded by conservative legislators across town.

Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States. The post linked to an article on Just the News, a conspiracy-filled, pro-Trump outlet that offered no explanation for its claim beyond the vague assertion that Iran operated a sophisticated election influence effort in 2020.

I thought that my life had somehow ended, he said of the shock of landing there and the harsh treatment from the moment of arrival. Now free, he is one of more than 100 of those deportees whom a federal court in the US has ruled must be allowed to return to American soil to be given the due process Judge James Boasberg says they were denied when they were deported.