Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors said that former President Trump’s handling of classified documents is not ‘remotely’ similar to how President Biden also handled sensitive national security information as laid out in dueling Special Counsel Rob Hur’s report released this month. The 12-page filing Monday countering Trump’s motion to dismiss the indictment ‘based on selective and vindictive prosecution’ serves as ...
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., ripped into President Biden’s signature economic policy, known as Bidenomics, on Fox News’ ‘Hannity’ Monday night and likened Biden’s poll numbers to an STD. Sean Hannity asked Kennedy about the current state of the economy as inflation continues to pick the pockets of Americans. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals significant price hikes ...
Republican presidential candidate Ryan Binkley dropped out of the race on Tuesday and immediately endorsed former President Trump. ‘Today, I am suspending my campaign for the Presidency of the United States of America and offering my endorsement and unwavering support for President Trump,’ Binkley wrote on X. Binkley, a Texas pastor and businessman-turned-presidential candidate, thanked his family, friends, campaign team, ...
President Biden is running out of time to fulfill his 2020 presidential campaign promise to abolish the death penalty, leaving an opening for his opposition to capitalize on the issue. During Biden’s 2020 campaign, he vowed to end the federal death penalty and, after taking office three years ago, his incoming administration considered several possible options to do so. However, ...
There are blockbuster weeks on Capitol Hill, and then there are weeks like this one. Hunter Biden is testifying. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is explaining. A partial government shutdown is looming. ‘Congress hasn’t even finished our deadlines from the previous fiscal year. I mean, Oct. 1 was the deadline,’ fumed Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, on FOX Business. ‘Before I was ...
Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., introduced a resolution that would reverse the Biden administration’s recent action allowing beef imports from Paraguay. Late last year, the Department of Agriculture (USDA), after diplomatic engagements, finalized a rule to lift a long-standing ban on beef imports from Paraguay, which had been in effect for years due to the South American ...
McCaul threatens to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress for ‘withholding’ key Afghanistan documents
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is threatening to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress, accusing him of failing to hand over key documents related to the U.S.’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. At the heart of the issue are interview notes that were used to put together the State Department’s After-Action Review (AAR) of ...
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is urging global consulting firm McKinsey & Company to hand over ‘comprehensive documentation’ showcasing its past or present contracts with the Chinese government or its affiliates. ‘Your company alleges that its purpose is to ‘help create positive, enduring change in the world.’ You should know that helping totalitarian foreign powers undermine America does not meet that bar,’ ...
President Biden said Israel has agreed to a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, but Hamas is not prepared to call a truce. The president’s remarks were recorded Monday and aired early Tuesday on NBC’s ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers.’ He suggested that a cease-fire during Ramadan would give the U.S. time to secure ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday responded to President Biden’s mention of a possible cease-fire in Gaza, saying a majority of Americans support Israel continuing its campaign until victory. In a video address, Netanyahu said he has led a political campaign since the beginning of the war, ‘whose purpose is to curb pressures intended to end the war before ...
The IRS’s new, free filing software for relatively simple tax returns is now available in 12 states. The Direct File service, which is being piloted for the first time for 2023 tax-year returns, is now being offered to qualified filers in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. To qualify for ...
If you’re a TSA PreCheck member traveling on United Airlines via Chicago’s O’Hare or Los Angeles international airports, life just got a bit easier. United recently updated its website to show that ‘Touchless ID’ technology, which lets users go through security just by scanning their face and without having to show a physical ID or a boarding pass, is now ...