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The man who told authorities that he traveled from California to Maryland with the intent to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will be heading to trial, court documents show. Nicholas John Roske, then 26, traveled to the Kavanaugh home in Maryland in June 2022 with the express intent of killing Kavanaugh and two other…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Some lawmakers are nervous that scores of pro-Palestinian protesters will swarm the Capitol out of retaliation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address on Wednesday. Netanyahu will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress to speak on the importance of maintaining a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. But a number of lawmakers who spoke to…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Listeners to “The Breakfast Club” radio show and podcast called in Tuesday to criticize Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris over policies they said are “destroying” black Americans. President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race Sunday and endorsed Harris to take his place atop the Democratic ticket after consistently dismal polling and doubts about his mental fitness….
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The border crisis could reach new heights or largely remain unchanged if Vice President Kamala Harris ends up winning the presidential election on Nov. 5, border hawks warn. President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race Sunday and immediately endorsed Harris, making her the leading contender to snag the party’s delegates and the nomination…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice told a federal judge on Monday that it does have transcripts of President Joe Biden’s discussions with his biographer from the classified documents probe into the president after saying last month that it did not. The DOJ filed a court document in which it says that it found transcripts of…
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., expected to get answers Tuesday from top Biden administration officials about security failures before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Those officials didn’t show up. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned earlier in the day. But Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray…
House Republicans are raising concerns about the potential for more political violence against Supreme Court justices following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pointed to the “recent incendiary rhetoric directed towards other federal officials, including in particular the men and women…
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle announced Tuesday she is resigning from her post over the agency’s failures to properly protect former President Donald Trump from an attempted assassination on July 13. In an email sent to staff obtained by The Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, Cheatle admitted that the Secret Service fell…
House Republicans criticized Democrats on Monday for using a hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to call for gun control. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing to testify about security failures that led to a 20-year-old gunman opening fire at a Trump rally…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic National Committee member Elaine Kamarck said on Monday there’s “no time” ahead of the party’s August convention for another candidate to become the nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden announced Sunday that he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race following calls from allies…
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown praised his ex-lover Kamala Harris during conversations with reporters on Sunday, touting her youth and “outstanding” track record as evidence of her capability to serve as president of the United States. Brown, known for his political influence on the California political scene, spoke to reporters outside the historic John’s…
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Numerous lawmakers—from both sides of the aisle—have called for Cheatle to resign after a gunman fired multiple shots at Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, about…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Panama’s government is touting progress on efforts to reduce illegal migration through the Darien Gap, a dense jungle region that long has served as a gateway point for South American migrants making their way to the United States. The National Border Service, Panama’s version of the U.S. Border Patrol, reported that 11,363…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An “increased risk” exists that at least $293 million in U.S. aid disbursed by the State Department in Afghanistan between March and November 2022 could fall into the Taliban’s hands, a new report finds. Two subagencies of the State Department—the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Bureau of International Narcotics…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The chief pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital resigned in April 2022 after just seven months in her role, shortly after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott forced the hospital to pause attempted sex-change procedures on children, such as puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries. Now she’s working for President Joe Biden’s administration in a…
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secret Service officials repeatedly denied requests for additional resources made by former President Donald Trump’s detail prior to the July 13 assassination attempt, the Washington Post reported. Trump was slightly wounded in the right ear on July 13 when a gunman fired multiple shots during the attempted assassination at the Butler County, Pennsylvania,…
Former President Donald Trump reacted Sunday to news that President Joe Biden will not seek reelection in 2024, promising to “remedy the damage” that he said Biden has done to the United States. “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve—And never was!” Trump said in…
Republican lawmakers are calling for President Joe Biden to step down after he announced Sunday that he will not seek reelection after all, with the Democratic National Convention just four weeks away. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden said in a statement on Sunday. “And while…
In a political earthquake, President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is ending his bid for a second term and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. The stunning and virtually unprecedented move comes in the wake of the president’s COVID-19 diagnosis on Wednesday, which prompted more calls from within his own Democratic Party…
The Daily Caller News Foundation—Former President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio held their first joint rally together in Michigan on Saturday, a state that the pair is seeking to turn red after President Joe Biden won it in 2020. The event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the first rally since Trump survived…