The row over Nadav Lapid at the FID Marseille is not just another film festival squabble. It is a small but loud battle in the culture wars where art, politics, and cowardice meet. The facts are simple: a group of filmmakers threatened to pull their films if Lapid sat on the jury. The festival caved. […] More
The Democratic Party is having one of those weeks where it trips over its own moral declarations. Two separate stories — a newly published New York Times report about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and the surprising runoff in the Los Angeles mayoral race — expose the same ugly pattern: Democrats promote candidates, then scramble […] More
The U.S. Marshals just put hard numbers behind what many in Memphis have been saying: the Memphis Safe Streets Task Force is making a serious dent in violent crime. The Marshals announced the task force has surpassed 10,000 arrests and recovered more than 1,700 illegal firearms since the operation began last September. That is the […] More
President Donald Trump’s blunt account of a recent phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shaken the usual script: in an Axios interview, Mr. Trump says he warned Israel it could be “on its own” if it kept escalating strikes against Iran. The comment is the new flashpoint in a tense back-and-forth of strikes, […] More
Collin County prosecutors walked onto Will Cain’s show this week with two messages: their team did its job, and the jury — after seeing the knife, the videos, and the witnesses — reached the right result. They sounded relieved, firm and a little impatient with the noise that followed the verdict. The real fight now […] More
The U.S. military scored a small but important victory in a dangerous place. An unmanned Navy surface vessel — a sea drone — located and carried two Army AH-64 Apache crew members out of the water after their helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz. Officials say this was the first time a U.S. […] More
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is asking Governor Abigail Spanberger to keep a man accused of raping a child behind bars instead of letting him walk back into our neighborhoods. The accused, identified as an illegal alien from El Salvador, faces serious felony charges in Prince William County after police say he used social media […] More
Graham Platner flew to Washington this week for what looked like damage control. Instead of answers that calmed nerves, Senate Democrats left with reassurances on the record and growing private worry off it. The real story isn’t just the sexting scandal — it’s the party’s choice to circle the wagons around a vulnerable nominee in […] More
The Department of Homeland Security stepped in and restored order at the Delaney Hall Newark ICE facility after protesters shut down parts of the site. Secretary Markwayne Mullin made it plain that federal security and airport operations would not be held hostage. When you threaten Newark Airport’s customs processing, you stop being a peaceful protester […] More
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The Hodgetwins released a fiery video this week claiming new witness testimony “destroys” the Karmelo Anthony defense. Whether you agree with their politics or not, the clip forces a question every American should care about: who decides the facts in the court of public opinion — and do influencers get to be judge, jury and […] More
The Kansas Inspector General’s interim audit landed like a bucket of cold water on the KanCare machine. The report flagged nearly $800,000 in apparent improper Medicaid payments in the “Pregnant Woman” category and named dozens of enrollees who look, at first glance, plainly ineligible. Lawmakers responded by forcing new verification rules into law. This debate […] More
Israel answered a volley of ballistic missiles from Iran with retaliatory airstrikes inside Iranian territory. The Israel Defense Forces says the strikes hit military targets in western and central Iran after air-raid sirens blared in northern Israel and missile defenses intercepted the incoming salvo. The situation is a dangerous step up in a long, tense […] More
The release of body‑worn camera footage from Hampshire Police has ripped the varnish off a polite fiction: our police are instructed, trained, and rewarded in ways that now can cost a life. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has seized that footage and the public anger it sparked to demand swift change — and to call […] More
The Pentagon quietly moved to simplify how it records service members’ religions. A memorandum signed by Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony J. Tata, implementing direction from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, cuts the Defense Department’s list of faith or religious‑affiliation codes from more than 200 down to 31. The memo, dated […] More
There’s a new episode in the Democrat civil war playing out in New York — and this one came with receipts. CNN’s KFILE found thousands of archived posts from Darializa Avila Chevalier’s deleted social account that read like a wishlist from the far left: abolish police, prisons and borders; seize private property and nationalize industries; […] More
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on Fox News Sunday and offered a master class in political dodge. When pressed about serious allegations swirling around two Democratic nominees — Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner and New Jersey congressional candidate Adam Hamawy — Jeffries told the host he “hasn’t followed these allegations closely” and that “he’s […] More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed a worrying development for ranchers and anyone who buys beef: New World screwworm has been found in a Texas calf for the first time in decades. This parasite eats living tissue, and one infected animal can mean big losses for a farm and a headache for government officials. […] More
This week in Ohio, Vice President J.D. Vance led a high‑profile federal‑state rollout to go after big Medicaid and health‑care fraud. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and state officials stood on stage and announced new indictments, seizures, and a new FBI “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list aimed […] More
Thomas Weir Pauken II’s guilty plea to acting as an agent for the People’s Republic of China is not a plot twist in a spy novel. It is the latest real-world reminder that the Chinese Communist Party is running active influence and intelligence operations inside the United States. The Department of Justice says Pauken admitted […] More
The Justice Department has dropped a jaw-dropping superseding indictment that accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center of using donor money to pay members of the Ku Klux Klan for recruitment, cross-burnings and other extremist activity. If you thought nonprofit scandals were boring, this one reads like a twisted plot — and it raises big questions […] More
John Bolton, the onetime National Security Advisor who traded the West Wing for cable TV and bestselling books, has quietly agreed to plead guilty in the Maryland federal case over his retention of classified national‑defense documents. Reports say the plea deal includes a payment of roughly $2.25 million and exposure to up to five years […] More
President Trump declared the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation “complete” this week and celebrated as crews began refilling the basin. He showed video of water flowing into a newly coated pool and crowed about dumpsters of debris hauled out during the work. The spectacle was meant to be a quick win: a visible fix to […] More
President Donald Trump is set to unveil a roughly $700 million package aimed at propping up America’s coal industry. The White House has signaled the moves will lean on Defense Production Act authority and grant funding to keep plants running, build export capacity, and reopen shuttered facilities. The announcement is being framed as a jobs-and-reliability […] More
The Justice Department this week announced the arrest of three American men accused of plotting to support ISIS. The FBI says the trio discussed buying drones and rocket-propelled grenades to strike U.S. service members overseas. These arrests come after a long undercover probe and a DOJ complaint that lays out disturbing online chatter and the […] More
Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a $124.7 billion executive budget in May and boldly declared it proves you can be both “fiscally responsible” and still invest in people. Nice line. But the real story is less about fiscal heroics and more about a deal with Albany, clever accounting tricks, and a few hopeful revenue bets. If […] More
President Donald Trump just turned up the pressure on Capitol Hill. With a Truth Social post pushing the SAVE America Act and a public ultimatum that he won’t bless other White House priorities until it moves, the White House has made the bill the center of the fight. At the same time, Acting Attorney General […] More
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The New World screwworm is back on the doorstep, and Texas is not in the mood to wait for red tape. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has been blunt: the outbreak is “coming,” federal action is moving too slowly, and President Donald Trump should order immediate deployment of SWASS — the adult suppression system that […] More