New York City’s new mayor gave a July 4 address that left conservatives fuming and many ordinary New Yorkers wondering what he actually stands for. On Newsmax’s American Agenda, Republican strategist Carly Bird slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s remarks and his broader agenda. The back-and-forth shows how quickly rhetoric on the national stage turns into a […] More

Hunter Biden’s new interview on the I’ve Had It podcast landed like a hand grenade in a quiet room. On Jennifer Welch’s show, he said his father’s single biggest mistake as president was appointing former Attorney General Merrick Garland to run the Justice Department. That one line has stirred the usual political pot — and […] More

Hunter Biden just won a courtroom victory many on the right will find hard to swallow. A federal judge has slapped former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne with a $1.7 million punitive-damages award after finding Byrne spread a baseless claim that Hunter had sought an $800 million bribe from Iran. The ruling is a clear rebuke […] More

Minnesota’s Board of Pardons just handed a controversial clemency to a man convicted years ago of raping a child, and the fallout landed fast. The decision wiped the state conviction that helped trigger federal deportation proceedings. That move has put Governor Tim Walz and the three-member board in the center of a furious national debate […] More

In a clear win for federal control over federal property, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit this week cleared the way for the Trump administration to install replacement interpretive panels at the President’s House site on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. The unanimous panel vacated a lower‑court injunction that had forced the National […] More

New York City learned a hard lesson this week: when the heat hits, words from City Hall won’t keep your air conditioner running. Parts of Riverdale in the Bronx lost power after Con Edison cut electricity to protect its equipment during a heat wave. That decision left residents sweating and put a spotlight on Mayor […] More

California voters were promised pension sanity after the 2013 PEPRA reforms. Now the unions are back with a plan to roll much of that progress back — and the state Legislature is listening. The newest move: AB 1383 cleared the Assembly and just got a “do pass” vote in a Senate committee, only to be […] More

The Department of Housing and Urban Development this week moved to cut off federal money to the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority. HUD says the agency mishandled nearly $2 billion meant for hurricane recovery. The suspension is immediate and it raises hard questions about who was watching the money. HUD pulls the plug — and […] More

State Sen. Kelda Roys just released an eye-catching campaign ad titled “Kill Us” in her Democratic primary bid for governor of Wisconsin. The spot frames health-care policy fights as life-or-death and stages a close call with an ambulance while Roys says, “It’s almost like they’re trying to kill us.” The move is loud, blunt, and […] More

The headlines say the Supreme Court just handed President Trump a sweeping boost in control over the executive branch. Days later, a federal appeals court in the Fourth Circuit acted as if that boost were optional. The court ruled against the administration in a case involving 19 intelligence officers who were fired after working on […] More

President Donald Trump used a primetime address this week to dump a stack of declassified documents onto the public table and call out what he says was a deliberate effort inside the intelligence world to hide China’s sweeping grabs of American voter data. The papers and internal emails now public show raw, ugly arguments inside […] More

President Trump said vandals damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. For days the usual suspects laughed. Now a sworn court filing from the National Park Service undercuts that mockery and makes the simple point: there was intentional damage. The filing and law-enforcement activity change this from a political punchline into a real crime scene. National […] More

They came to the National Mall to pray, sing, and celebrate 250 years of American life — and found themselves in the middle of a political ambush. What played out was more than a noisy demonstration; it was a deliberate attempt by activist groups to “counter‑message” the White House‑backed Freedom 250 / Rededicate 250 events […] More

The New York primary results this week were not a fluke. A slate of candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America scored big wins in congressional and state legislative races. If you thought this was just another local shake-up, think again. This primary sweep could change who speaks for Democrats […] More

President Trump confirmed this week that five people have been arrested in connection with vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. The Department of the Interior reports at least 14 police reports and five federal citations so far. It is a small number of arrests, but the damage — and the message it sends — […] More

Representative Don Bacon fired a warning shot this week on national TV. On CNN’s State of the Union he said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s recent personnel moves — including the abrupt exit of General Christopher Donahue — have “undermined” and “hurt” the military. That blunt charge is the real story here. It forces a […] More

The U.S. military just put real teeth behind its warnings. U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit carried out a verification boarding of the commercial tanker M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman. At the same time, U.S. forces launched strikes aimed at crippling Iranian supply routes near Bandar Abbas. This is not […] More

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin just put every state governor on notice: federal election funding will come with strings. After President Trump’s recent declassification move highlighting alleged election vulnerabilities, Secretary Mullin said states that want federal grants to run federal elections will need to clean up voter rolls and harden voting machines first. That’s a […] More

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is publicly re‑thinking whether to bring Meghan and their children back to Britain after the government’s royal security committee declined the level of taxpayer‑funded police protection his team requested for an upcoming visit tied to Invictus events. ITV says it has seen a confidential security assessment that warns of […] More

Senator Bernie Sanders posted a blunt social-media message this week tying a massive European heatwave and U.S. heat‑risk forecasts to human‑caused climate change. He urged a stop to “fossil fuel industry greed,” and the usual online fireworks followed: scientists backing attribution, critics calling hypocrisy, and a handful of dramatic photos of damaged wind turbines. All […] More

Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened a State Department ministerial this week to warn allies about a rising threat many in Washington treated as a blind spot: organized left‑wing political violence. The meeting — billed as the “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism” — pulled in delegations from roughly 60–65 countries and set a […] More