Politics

Ivanka Trump went with the tried and true defense when people start trying to save themselves. She blamed her father and brothers for the fraud. The Independent reported: In court documents, Ms Trump’s attorneys argue that the fraud complaint filed last year against her and her co-defendants by New York Attorney General Letitia James “does not …

By Alan Wooten (The Center Square) The Marine Corps is being asked by four members of Congress, led by a practicing doctor from North Carolina, to reach out to and return thousands of Marines expelled because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Wednesday’s letter to Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marines, cited …

The White House issued a rare public rebuke of Tucker Carlson and his false effort to rewrite the history of the 1/6 attack. White House spokesperson Andy Bates said, “We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false …

WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic opened its first public hearing on Wednesday with Republicans and their witnesses making an aggressive case that the virus may have been the result of a laboratory leak — a notion that has become the subject of intense …

I am a veteran of the last forever war. My husband and I deployed to Afghanistan, lost friends in Afghanistan, and feel the moral injury of how we left that country and those we were charged to help and protect. As we watched Afghans falling to their deaths from our …

WASHINGTON — New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, a step toward determining responsibility for an act of sabotage that has confounded investigators on both sides of the Atlantic for months. U.S. officials said that …

By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) Over 205,000 foreign nationals were apprehended or reported as gotaways after illegally entering the southwest border in February, according to preliminary data obtained by The Center Square from a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent. The agent provided the information on condition of anonymity for …

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sided with the Capitol Police and criticized Fox News for Tucker Carlson’s lie-filled 1/6 propaganda. Video: McConnell said when asked if he thought it was a mistake for Speaker McCarthy to give Tucker Carlson 1/6 Capitol security footage, “My concern is how it was …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is blaming Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson and demanding that Fox News pull the plug on Carlson’s 1/6 disinformation campaign. Video of Schumer: Transcript of Schumer’s remarks: Last night, millions of Americans tuned into one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on …

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, made clear on Tuesday that the central bank is prepared to react to recent signs of economic strength by raising interest rates higher than previously expected and, if incoming data remain hot, potentially returning to a quicker pace of rate increases. Mr. Powell, …