A Fulton County, Georgia, judge ruled Monday that District Attorney Fani Willis cannot participate in a legal dispute over President Donald Trump and his co-defendants’ efforts to recover millions of dollars in legal fees from her failed racketeering case against them. In an order issued Monday, Judge Scott McAfee said that because Willis had already […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Could China’s rare-earth supplies dictate how long US strikes on Iran go on? The U.S. military’s dependence on Chinese sources gives Beijing leverage in the lead-up to president Trump’s trip with roughly three weeks until his expected visit to China. Washington’s heavy reliance on the Chinese minerals for its advanced weapon systems means […]
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States is “nowhere near” sending ground troops into Iran to secure enriched uranium reportedly stored at the country’s Isfahan nuclear complex. In a phone interview with the New York Post, Trump said no decision has been made about deploying American forces on the ground. “We haven’t made […]
A federal judge has ruled that Kari Lake unlawfully exercised authority over the federal agency that oversees Voice of America, invalidating many of her actions and delivering a significant legal setback to the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul the broadcaster. What the Judge Ruled U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth found that Lake lacked legal […]
Newly released Justice Department documents are adding another layer of scrutiny to the final hours before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody, revealing that a prison guard believed to be the last person to see him alive had received several cash deposits flagged as suspicious in the days leading up to the incident. The documents […]
Journalist Katie Couric is facing criticism online after asking Gavin Newsom whether being “too good-looking” poses a problem for him during an interview on her podcast. The exchange took place during an episode of Couric’s podcast Next Question with Katie Couric, where the California governor appeared for a wide-ranging conversation about politics and policy. Newsom, […]
Former Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), who later made the switch to independent, is joining the Washington Reporter as a contributing columnist, the outlet announced Monday. “Senator Sinema is deeply respected across the aisle and brings a rare perspective shaped by years in Congress,” founders Brian Colas and Garrett Ventry said in a statement. “Her […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has argued that passing the SAVE America Act in the face of a threatened talking filibuster would be procedurally impossible. His reasoning is simple. Senate rules, he says, allow unlimited debate and unlimited amendments. If both claims were true, the conclusion would follow. A determined minority could bury the bill […]
Extreme gaslighting. And the legacy media helped push the false narrative. During a small anti-Islamification protest outside the official home of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Saturday, led by Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter and conservative influencer, over 100 aggressive leftist and Muslim “counter protesters” showed up itching for a fight. Among the pro-Muslim group […]
And accusing him of pretending to be someone he’s not… Megyn Kelly tore into Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday, mocking the South Carolina Republican for sounding like the commander-in-chief after he issued a string of warnings to foreign countries in a 24-hour span. Mediaite reported Kelly accused Graham of acting like “our president” after he […]
Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, urged Israel not to target Iran’s oil infrastructure as tensions escalate following a wave of missile attacks across the Middle East. In a post Monday on the social media platform X, Graham praised Israel’s military capabilities and its longstanding relationship with the United States before cautioning against […]
Republican Senator Issues Public Apology Over Bombing Of Iranian School
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) received widespread praise this week after publicly apologizing and acknowledging that a U.S. strike may have mistakenly hit a girls’ elementary school in Iran, killing more than 160 people — most of them children. Speaking Monday evening with NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur, Kennedy addressed the strike with unusual candor. “It […]