A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sector on the northern border has seen more apprehensions in the last fiscal year than the previous 13 years combined. The Swanton Sector Border sector has seen 15,000 apprehensions in the 10 months of fiscal year 2024, the largest volume ever recorded by the sector, over 14,000 more...
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz accused Vice President Kamala Harris of working with Mexico’s president to encourage the flood of illegal immigrants to the U.S. in a bid to shift the U.S. father left on the political scale. “Kamala Harris wants more illegal immigrants in America,” Cruz said in his podcast “Verdict” on Monday. “Just...
President Biden delivered an anecdote to union workers at a Harris-Walz campaign event in Pennsylvania, saying that his great-grandfather was accused of being a member of a violent Irish secret society, in what social media commenters called an “insanely weird story.” “I remember when my great-grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the...
President Biden joked he was once “disappointed” to find out his great-grandfather was not part of a violent group that killed bigoted mine foremen. The president spoke about his ancestor, Edward Francis Blewitt, during a rally in support of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Monday. “I remember when my great-grandfather...
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sit for a hearing Sept. 10 before the congressional subcommittee tasked with probing the coronavirus pandemic, the panel announced Tuesday. Cuomo, one of the most visible governors during the height of the pandemic, was lambasted for implementing stringent social and economic restrictions throughout the Empire State. He also...
House lawmakers subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday over his alleged refusal to testify about the Biden administration’s deadly 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. The House Foreign Affairs Committee said Blinken must appear before the committee on Sept. 19 or face contempt charges, the committee said in a letter written by Republican Chairman Michael...
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) is facing another lawsuit, as the Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing the battleground state for allegedly opening the door for non-citizens to vote. The lawsuit brought by the RNC and the North Carolina Republican Party in Wake County last week accuses the NCSBE and members, Alan...
California’s Democratic-controlled legislature axed a Republican proposal that would have exempted tipped-income from state income taxes, striking down a policy proposal similar to ones endorsed by Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. “It is deeply disappointing that the legislature chose not to consider a proposal that could have provided much-needed relief to...
While the Heritage Foundation’s latest Mandate for Leadership and its overarching Project 2025 have been turned into a right-wing-‘boogeyman’ style Democratic talking point and fodder for Trump critics, its founders and current leaders maintain that its work product past and present speak for itself. President Donald Trump has also criticized the latest iteration and denied...
A Republican candidate in a party dominated by former President Donald Trump is spotlighting how he “never caved” to Trump and is showcasing how he sent National Guard troops to help protect congressional lawmakers during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And as he aims to flip a long-held Democrat seat in...
