The man accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday now faces upgraded charges after one of the victims died from her injuries. U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, succumbed to her wounds Thursday, prompting prosecutors to add a first-degree murder charge against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national. Lakanwal […]
Indiana lawmakers are poised to consider a congressional map that could flip two Democrat-held U.S. House seats, escalating a partisan battle that has drawn in national GOP figures ahead of the 2026 midterms. The proposed map targets the districts represented by Democrat Reps. Frank Mrvan in the 1st District and André Carson in the 7th […]
One of the men tasked with putting President Donald Trump in prison may now face criminal charges of his own. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee reports Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) “referred Thomas Windom, former Senior Assistant Special Counsel to Jack Smith, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution after Windom declined to answer nearly […]
Podcast host and Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali delivered a racially charged tirade Friday in response to President Donald Trump’s pledge to halt “third world migration,” telling white Americans that “brown people” were “a breeding people” and declaring that Trump’s efforts are destined to fail. Ali’s comments came during a livestream on his Substack program […]
The video of the ambush is brief and sickening. Two young National Guard soldiers, barely into adulthood, walk their post near the White House. An Islamic terrorist rounds the corner, raises a revolver, and opens fire. By the time other guardsmen tackle him, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom is fatally wounded and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe is […]
A troubling new internal report card assessing the first six months of Kash Patel’s leadership at the FBI concludes he is “in over his head,” while his deputy, Dan Bongino, is described as “something of a clown,” according to the alliance that authored the document. The same group previously warned about what it called crippling […]
As the autocratic Russian bear growls and lashes out at Europe, the continent’s democratic member states are reevaluating their military service models to face the growing threat, as well as increasing U.S. pressure to do more to defend themselves. And the consensus is that professional military service alone is out, and conscription and mixed service […]
President Donald Trump announced Friday on Truth Social that he intends to grant a full pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is currently serving a 45-year sentence in a U.S. federal prison on drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández, who led Honduras from 2014 to 2022, was arrested in Tegucigalpa in February […]
President Donald Trump escalated his criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), telling reporters aboard Air Force One that the congresswoman “should be thrown out of our country” if longstanding allegations about her immigration history were true. “Somalia, where you have a Congress[woman] going around telling everybody about our Constitution, yet she supposedly came into our […]
An appellate court ruled Monday that Alina Habba is unlawfully serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor — marking a setback for President Donald Trump as he works to keep his preferred nominees leading U.S. attorney offices in Democrat-run states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision to […]
Revoke Parole, Review Every Visa: Rubio’s Roadmap After The DC National Guard Execution
The execution-style ambush in downtown Washington, in which Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal gunned down National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and left Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe fighting for his life, was not an isolated bolt from the blue. It was the foreseeable consequence of a moral and strategic decision by the Biden administration to fly tens […]