Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett knows how to command an audience. This was crystallized Monday night at the Swissotel in Chicago, where she spoke for just three minutes to several hundred judges and legal professionals gathered for the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference. Her remarks, though short, were optimistic and warm. She urged the courts to keep their sense of ...
Sen. Adam Schiff launched a legal defense fund as the California Democrat faces a federal investigation for alleged mortgage fraud and President Donald Trump repeatedly condemns him for years of allegedly promoting the ‘Russiagate’ hoax, according to a report published Tuesday. ‘It’s clear that Donald Trump and his MAGA allies will continue weaponizing the justice process to attack Senator Schiff ...
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday announced her office had stripped security clearances from 37 current and former intelligence officials, accusing them of politicizing and manipulating intelligence. A DNI memo sent out on Monday included the names of officials who worked at the CIA, NSA, State Department and National Security Council, including former Obama DNI James Clapper, ...
Neal McCluskey Every year, PDK International, a professional education association, conducts a survey gauging the American public’s views on various education issues. This year’s installment has some encouraging news for private school choice, tough news for public schools, and sobering stats about ending the US Department of Education. Private Choice There is highly encouraging information in this survey for private ...
After Monday’s White House meetings between President Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, the question remains: is Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to sit down face-to-face with the Ukrainian leader — and on what terms? Trump said he had personally called Putin to begin arranging a meeting. The Kremlin, by contrast, offered a more ambiguous response, acknowledging the idea ...
Israel took out a terrorist during an airstrike earlier this month who was involved in the abduction of an Israeli man on Oct. 7, 2023, authorities said Tuesday. The strike, which occurred in Gaza on Aug. 10, killed Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced. ‘A small part of my ...
The U.S. isn’t interested in open-ended funding for Ukraine amid ongoing peace talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the White House. President Donald Trump, who ruled out sending U.S. troops on the ground to support Ukraine, is very ‘sensitive to the needs of the American taxpayer,’ according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. ‘He ...
House GOP allies of President Donald Trump are nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize amid his ongoing efforts to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is spearheading a letter to the Nobel Committee on Tuesday alongside Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind. Their nomination hails Trump as a peacemaker on several fronts, the most recent being ...
One Senate Republican has crafted a blueprint for how conservatives can take on Democrats in the courts and win. Before he was in Washington, D.C., Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. served as Missouri’s attorney general during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. And during that time, he filed lawsuit after lawsuit challenging the Biden administration, Dr. Anthony Fauci and even going ...
A conservative think tank that played a key role in shaping President Donald Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill’ is circulating a new roadmap of recommendations for Republicans’ second act. The Economic Policy Innovation Center, which styles itself as ‘EPIC For America,’ has been circulating a new memo with key congressional GOP figures in recent days, a source familiar with the ...