Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid  —  When ICE agents decided to arrest over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a White House-imposed daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid …

Ex-CDC director: RFK Jr. planning September vaccine changes  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an August meeting that the childhood vaccine schedule will be changing starting in September, former Centers for Disease Control director Susan Monarez told a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial  —  The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal.  Charlie Kirk knew better.  —  Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation's Attorney General?  Progressives have spent years trying to create and define a category called “hate speech.”

Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle during president's U.K. visit  —  Trump, who arrived in the U.K. for a state visit, is scheduled to spend most of Wednesday at Windsor Castle with members of the royal family.  —  Police in the U.K. arrested four people …

Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump …

Confronting a Fuller Picture of Charlie Kirk's Killer  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi learned a tough lesson yesterday: There are still some pieties of the old right that conservatives aren't ready to abandon, and bristling at the concept of “hate speech” is one.

Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources  —  Prosecutors have not found clear evidence James committed a crime, sources say.  —  New York State Attorney General Letitia James makes an announcement at the Office …

Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions  —  Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.

Ronny Jackson to Newsmax: Trans People Need Treatment  —  Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a physician and former White House doctor, told Newsmax on Tuesday that he believes inpatient mental health facilities should play a role in treating transgender people, whom he said have underlying psychiatric issues.

Suspect in custody after driver rams car into FBI building gate in Pittsburgh  —  A suspect has been taken into custody after a driver rammed a car into a security gate at the FBI building in Pittsburgh early Wednesday, then removed an American flag from the back seat and threw it over the gate before leaving, authorities said.

Exclusive Focus Group: Trump Bleeding Latino Voters  —  LATINO VOTERS FLOCKED TO DONALD TRUMP in surprisingly large numbers last November to help him retake the White House.  But a year later, the same cohort has soured on his presidency, with many saying they regret their vote.

September 16, 2025  —  The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.”  It's a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it to mean “cool” or “awesome.”  Another character eventually slaps back: “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.

Former GOP officials fear US strikes on alleged drug smugglers aren't legal … Yoo, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, authored the Bush administration's legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected al Qaeda terrorists in the early years of Bush's war on terror.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause  —  By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.  —  Before he was killed last week, Charlie Kirk left a helpful compendium of words …

EU unveils plan to hit Israel with tariffs, sanctions amid Gaza war outcry  —  BRUSSELS — Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas unveiled plans on Wednesday to downgrade trade ties with Israel and sanction top officials over findings of human rights abuses in Gaza, marking a major shift in the bloc's approach to the Middle Eastern nation.

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults  —  Republicans in Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at D.C.'s criminal justice system.  —  House lawmakers voted Tuesday to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults for serious crimes and to treat young people more harshly …

Lab tests show Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, his wife says  —  Russian authorities said Navalny died last year after feeling unwell following a walk around the high-security Arctic penal colony where he was serving a combined 30 ½-year jail sentence.

America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico's New Drug King Cashes In  —  The Trump administration's war on fentanyl created an opening for ‘El Señor Mencho’ to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by the ton  —  From a heavily guarded mountain hideout in the heart of the Sierra Madre, 59-year-old Nemesio …

Dem voters want shutdown fight, poll shows  —  The Scoop  —  Democrats have new polling to chew over as they rail against Republicans' government funding bill.  It's unlikely to make them more eager to cave.  —  A new survey from the progressive firm Data for Progress and research firm Grow Progress …

Fascism Scholar Sounds Alarm: We're Now In ‘Next Phase’ Of Trump Authoritarian Playbook  —  And it's “just what we expected,” said Jason Stanley.  —  Fascism expert Jason Stanley — who left Yale University for Canada earlier this year over fears of the U.S. political climate …

Business Insider and the Bots … On Thursday afternoon, Business Insider staffers received a long-awaited memo from editor in chief Jamie Heller, outlining the Axel Springer-owned outlet's rules for using artificial intelligence.  The guidelines had been eagerly anticipated since earlier this summer …

Obama calls Kirk murder ‘horrific,’ says a president should ‘pull people together’  —  He said President Donald Trump's rhetoric is part of a broader problem.  —  Former President Barack Obama attends the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington.

YIKES!  ABC ‘Journalist’ Waxes Poetic About How Loving Tyler Robinson Was  —  The whitewashing of Tyler Robinson begins.  —  I suppose it was bound to happen.  Since the attempts to make Robinson out to be a MAGA Republican or an extremist Groyper have had limited success …

Schiff proposes reforms to limit Trump's power  —  The Democrat and Trump foe is unveiling his “Protecting Our Democracy Act.”  —  In this June 13, 2022, file photo, Rep. Adam Schiff attends a hearing by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol …

Statement on the Fundamental Freedom of Speech  —  Statement on Political Violence and the Fundamental Freedom of Speech  —  “Acts of political violence — from the recent murder of Charlie Kirk to the murder of Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman of Minnesota — have no place in our democracy.

Justice Department says it's suing Oregon and Maine as it seeks voter data in multiple states  —  The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has sued Oregon and Maine for failing to turn over their voter registration lists, marking the first lawsuits the department has brought against states …

Trump crashes the Fed's consensus … “The institutional norms of collegiality are intense at the Fed, so I could see this being a meeting that is cool and correct without many fireworks,” said Peter Conti-Brown, an expert in Fed history at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

DOJ impeachments could continue Democratic retaliation against Ilhan Omar censure push  —  A Texas Democrat is planning to file impeachment articles against President Donald Trump's top law enforcement officials as a partisan slap flight plays out on the House floor this week.

Spirit Airlines flight warned to move farther from Air Force One over Long Island: “Pay attention.  Get off the iPad.”  —  Air traffic controllers urgently and repeatedly ordered the pilots of Spirit Airlines flight 1300 to turn away from Air Force One Tuesday over Long Island, New York.

Senate Democrat: Patel ‘was testifying really for an audience of one: President Trump’  —  Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) rebuffed comments FBI Director Kash Patel made Tuesday during a tense oversight hearing, calling Patel's testimony “a performance.”  —  “It was a performance.