This is far from over… Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton defied a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning, putting them at risk of being held in contempt. Clinton was compelled to sit for a sworn closed-door deposition in the House’s bipartisan probe into Jeffrey Epstein, but Fox […]
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro criticized the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, questioning the probe’s rationale and potential political motivations. Shapiro, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, said he’s open to the idea that the probe is “legit,” but absent that, it’s poor policy and a risky move that could […]
The Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia, requiring thousands of Somali migrants currently living in the United States — including several hundred in Minnesota — to leave the country by March 17. The decision affects 2,471 Somali nationals currently protected under TPS, according to sources at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, […]
Legal battles over immigration enforcement are intensifying in Minnesota, lawmakers in Washington are floating unconventional tools to combat drug cartels, and a bruising Republican primary in Florida is veering into controversy. Minnesota Takes ICE to Court Minnesota is escalating its standoff with the federal government over immigration enforcement. On Monday, the state — joined by […]
The Republican primary for Florida governor took a contentious turn over the weekend after insurgent candidate James Fishback drew widespread criticism for a social media post targeting rival Rep. Byron Donalds, sparking backlash and renewed scrutiny of Fishback’s conduct. The controversy began after a social media user posted side-by-side photos of Donalds with his wife […]
The State of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have filed a federal lawsuit to halt a major immigration enforcement surge led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent. The lawsuit — filed […]
I did not set out to test the limits of Indonesia’s speech laws. I made a joke. After Indonesia’s government suspended access to 𝕏 and Grok, I responded with a line that would be unremarkable in any healthy republic. I wrote that the only reason President Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo decided to ban 𝕏 and Grok […]
The deputy was working an off-duty assignment… By Law Officer Austin, Texas – On Sunday, a veteran law enforcement officer lost his life while serving his community in an off-duty capacity in North Austin, Texas. Just after 2:00 a.m., police responded to a report of gunfire in the parking lot of Club Rodeo on North Lamar […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) — America faces a choice in space: lead or follow China. Beijing is methodically executing a plan to dominate the moon and cislunar space. It’s time to fundamentally rethink how the U.S. approaches space. The old divisions between civil and military space programs made sense during the post-Cold War era. Today, they are strategic […]
Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing new scrutiny after an old résumé surfaced listing him as a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen — a claim his campaign now says was wrong. The résumé, uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, dates back more than a decade to El-Sayed’s early academic career, when he joined Columbia University’s Mailman […]
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona has filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, seeking to block military disciplinary action taken against him for his public warnings about unlawful orders to U.S. service members. Kelly, a retired Navy captain and current U.S. senator, sued the Pentagon in federal court on Monday, […]
New Bill Lets Americans Hunt Foreign Drug Cartels
A new bill filed in the United States Senate would let American privateers hunt and capture foreign drug cartel vessels. U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) reports in a statement he introduced the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act which “authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque […]