On Wednesday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Illinois Rep. Mike Bost (R) to move forward with a legal challenge to the state’s mail-in ballot counting rules, ruling 7-2 that the Republican congressman has standing to sue. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. CBS […]
The U.S. military has advised some personnel at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to depart as a precaution, as tensions with Iran continue to rise. U.S. officials and diplomats confirmed that certain personnel at the base were told to leave by Wednesday evening. Al Udeid is the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he will move to hold former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress after she refused to appear for a scheduled deposition Wednesday as part of the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The panel is expected to consider a contempt resolution against Hillary Clinton next […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is refusing to walk back his call for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “get the f— out” of the city, even as violent protests linked to federal immigration enforcement continue for a second week. “I stand by exactly what I said,” Frey said during an appearance on Fox & […]
Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin told The New York Times that federal authorities are investigating her following her appearance in a brief video urging U.S. military and intelligence personnel to “refuse illegal orders.” The inquiry comes amid controversy over the video and criticism from President Donald Trump and his allies. Slotkin and five other Democratic […]
Border czar Tom Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross is currently “in hiding” due to safety concerns following the fatal shooting of Renee Good, according to remarks made during a Tuesday episode of Will Cain Country. Homan’s comments came after a federal Special Response Team was seen swarming Ross’ Minneapolis residence on […]
Legal fights over federal funding and gender policy are intensifying at home, tensions with Iran are escalating abroad, and the political world is marking the loss of a once-ubiquitous satirist. Letitia James Takes On Trump Over Transgender Care Funding A new legal showdown is unfolding between New York and the Trump administration, this time over […]
Scott Adams, seen in a familiar midlife frame, a half-smile, a gaze that suggested he was already turning your sentence into a punchline, died on January 13, 2026, at 68, after a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. His former wife, Shelly Miles, announced his death in a live-streamed statement, and in a gesture that was […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued the federal government Tuesday, arguing that a new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) policy unlawfully ties major federal funding streams to compliance with the Trump administration’s new restrictions on gender-related medical care for minors. The lawsuit challenges an HHS policy that, according to the attorneys […]
Any time a conflict is a fair fight, your tactics probably suck. If you thought Donald Trump wouldn’t send the very best with our best fighters in the raid to capture Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro, then you’re as foolish as what’s left of Maduro’s security team. Not only did our pipe-hitters bring their A-game in […]
Never Talk To The Police, Especially If You Are Innocent
James Duane, a professor at Regent University School of Law, once gave a lecture with a deliberately provocative title, “Don’t Talk to the Police.” The title sounds extreme, even antisocial. It seems to counsel guilt, evasion, or hostility to lawful authority. Yet the argument Duane develops is none of these things. It is instead a […]