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The Supreme Court heard a religious freedom argument Monday out of Louisiana concerning whether individual government officials may be forced to pay legal damages for violations of a primary First Amendment protection. In Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections, the court is considering whether a prisoner can sue a prison official in his personal capacity…
A growing number of Democrats are calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to step down as leader after some Senate Democrats defected by voting to advance a measure that could ultimately end the government shutdown. “Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., wrote on X. “If…
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a former Kentucky county clerk’s case that could have potentially challenged the 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges, which nationalized same-sex marriage. “This was completely predictable,” Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. “It was not the right case to raise the issue…
Hadar Goldin had just gotten engaged when Hamas terrorists ambushed and killed him during a ceasefire in Gaza. For 11 years, his family worked to bring his body home. Over the weekend, Goldin’s remains were finally released. “Victory means bringing home the hostages and bringing home our soldiers to Israel,” Simcha Goldin, the father of Hadar Goldin, told press…
President Donald Trump has pardoned dozens of allies who were accused of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Pardons apply to former Trump lawyer and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Trump ally Sidney Powell. U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin announced Sunday night that…
A bipartisan group of senators voted 60-40 to approve a key procedural measure that puts legislation reopening the government on track to pass the Senate. Eight Democrat senators—Illinois’ Dick Durbin, Maine’s Angus King, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, and Virginia’s Tim Kaine—joined 52…
Zohran Mamdani is already revealing his true agenda of dividing “New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors,” The Washington Post editorial board declared in a Saturday editorial. The newly-elected New York City mayor’s victory speech on Tuesday made it clear that his “view of politics isn’t about unity” or “[increasing] wealth” but…
As the Senate convened for a rare session on Sunday to possibly vote in favor of a potential “short term funding measure,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune shut down a Nov. 8 proposal from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that would have provided new subsidies for Obamacare. “The Democrat leader’s proposal is a non-starter for…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent roasted George Stephanopoulos over the shutdown, citing the host’s own book when he joined ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday morning. When Stephanopoulos asked Bessent if ending the filibuster is the best way to end the government shutdown, Bessent said “no.” “No. You were involved in a lot of these [government shutdowns]…
A growing number of flights are being cancelled and delayed as more air traffic controllers are refusing to come to work “because Democrats refuse to pay them,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on “Fox News Sunday.” Air traffic could slow to a “trickle” by Thanksgiving if there’s no shutdown resolution. “Yesterday, we had 81 staffing…
President Donald Trump announced plans to pay $2,000 stimulus checks, coming from U.S. tariff revenues, to all Americans, except for “high income people.” “A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Sunday morning. Trump also called tariff critics…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee who serves as chief judge of the D.C. District Court, is facing an ethics complaint for “political bias” against President Donald Trump and his administration. Boasberg approved nondisclosure orders in 2023 that kept nearly a dozen Republican members of Congress from knowing their cellphone records had…
During a tense Oval Office exchange in September, President Donald Trump didn’t mince words for ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. “ABC is a terrible network, a very unfair network, and you should be ashamed of yourself,” Trump told Karl. “Frankly, you’re a terrible reporter. You know it, and so do I.” Karl had…
Virginia Republicans fear GOP candidates’ losses on Tuesday could spell trouble come midterms if the party doesn’t figure out a strategy to appeal to working-class voters without President Donald Trump on the ticket. “There’s three elements in any election: candidate quality, environment, and money, and they all favored the Democrats,” Virginia political operative Chris Saxman…
While Customs and Border Protection saw a year-over-year decline in the seizure of many drugs in fiscal year 2025, the amount of khat seized more than doubled. In fiscal year 2025, which ended on Sept. 30, CBP seized more than 46,000 pounds of khat, up from 17,600 pounds in 2024. The street value of a pound of khat is about $125, according to CBP. Khat is a flowering…
A federal court ruled in favor of a group suing an Ohio school district over its pronouns policy on Thursday as court battles continue to rage over the nation’s culture war. The Thursday decision from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Olentangy Local School District’s pronoun policy that tried to force…
Princeton University is offering a course on “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide” featuring a professor who denied the fact that Hamas militants raped women and killed babies during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. “This seminar explores genocide through the analytic of gender, with a central focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” a…
Republican representatives from California will have to fight for their survival in the 2026 midterms as Democrats redraw the Golden State’s congressional maps to increase their districts after passage of Proposition 50. Proposition 50, which California voters supported by about a 2-to-1 margin in this year’s election, will temporarily suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission…
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin welcomed Democrat Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger to the executive mansion in Richmond on Thursday to discuss the transition of power coming in January. “Our administration is fully, fully standing by to support in any aspect necessary to make sure that the transition goes extremely smoothly and that Gov.-elect Spanberger is ready on Day One to do the job…
After months of teasing a run, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has entered the race to unseat Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2026. “Elise Stefanik will clean up Kathy Hochul’s catastrophe and restore New York’s greatness,” says a narrator in Stefanik’s announcement video, released just days after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral…