A Republican congressional candidate in Florida is facing federal criminal charges and widespread condemnation after posting a video in which he called President Donald Trump “the Antichrist” and said the president “must be killed.” The incident sparked immediate responses from the U.S. Marine Corps, and the acting Navy secretary, culminating in a rapid investigation and […]
A Texas ammunition factory built with nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding failed to help produce a single usable artillery shell during its first two years, according to a Department of Defense inspector general report. The General Dynamics-operated facility in Mesquite officially opened in May 2024 as a central part of the Army’s […]
President Donald Trump unloaded on ABC and NBC after the broadcast giants refused to interrupt their regular programming for his primetime election-integrity address Thursday, accusing the networks of helping conceal what he described as a massive threat to American elections. “They and others in the media are part of a plot,” Trump declared during the White […]
A federal judge has reprimanded Justice Department attorneys after discovering that a legal brief filed in an immigration detention case cited a court decision that does not exist and appeared to have been generated by artificial intelligence. U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou, a Trump appointee serving in the Western District of Michigan, addressed the […]
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is being hailed as a hero after rushing to the aid of an unconscious 14-year-old who reportedly jumped from a speeding vehicle in Texas. ICE law enforcement officer Javier Moralez was driving along Interstate 37 on July 2 when he noticed two vehicles stopped on the roadside and a […]
Imagine you are standing beside a wide, fast river, watching debris rush past. Branches, leaves, a child’s lost ball. You could spend a lifetime cataloguing the objects on the surface and never understand the river, because the river is not explained by what floats on it. It is explained by its source, the high ground […]
Russia’s long-running effort to secure a second major natural gas pipeline to China has hit a significant roadblock after Beijing reportedly rejected Moscow’s pricing demands, underscoring China’s growing leverage over its increasingly dependent partner. Negotiations over the proposed Power of Siberia 2 pipeline have stalled after Chinese officials insisted Russia sell natural gas at prices […]
President Donald Trump threatened Friday to impose new tariffs on Canada, accusing Ottawa of allowing wildfire smoke to drift into the United States through what he described as “grossly negligent” forest management and “willful negligence.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump argued that smoke from Canada’s record wildfire season has repeatedly blanketed parts of […]
President Donald Trump is throwing his full support behind Sen. Darline Graham, urging the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham to run for a full six-year Senate term as South Carolina Republicans prepare for a closely watched special election. In a Truth Social post Friday, Trump said he had personally encouraged Graham to enter […]
Numerous police, fire, and EMS crews responded Thursday to what was described as a “mass casualty event” in Shreveport, Louisiana. This is an emerging (i.e., evolving) story. This means we know very little with complete certainty. Remember: Initial reports are always wrong. Even if they’re just incomplete. Shreveport PD and FD were dispatched to multiple […]
The Treasury Department’s top tax policy official is being forced out of the Trump administration after clashing with White House officials over legal limits on presidential involvement in Internal Revenue Service audits, according to The Wall Street Journal. Kenneth Kies, the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary and the acting chief counsel of the IRS, is expected […]
Ditching ‘Exquisite’ Systems: Inside The Pentagon’s Mass-Munitions Blitz
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB): President Donald Trump’s push, along with War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s efforts are putting the U.S. defense industry on war footing. Trump expected to urge top defense executives to accelerate weapons production and expand manufacturing capacity as wars in Ukraine and Middle East strain U.S. stockpiles and expose bottlenecks in nation’s industrial base. Pentagon […]