In Martinsburg, West Virginia, the federal shutdown is cutting into daily life. At the VA hospital, Army veteran Jonathan Giba—waiting months for care after medications left him without teeth and unable to walk—now expects longer delays as job and transition programs are halted. Around town, events reroute, a USDA office...
Vice President JD Vance clashed with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on This Week, bristling at questions about an FBI tape allegedly capturing Tom Homan accepting $50,000. As Vance argued to focus on a potential shutdown, Stephanopoulos cut to commercial, saying Vance hadn’t answered. Vance later blasted the segment on X; the...
At the Supreme Court this week, Louisiana and the Trump administration ask the justices to erase the state’s second majority-Black U.S. House district and sharply curb the use of race in redistricting. The conservative-leaning court ordered rare second arguments, pressing whether intentionally creating a majority-minority district violates the Fourteenth or...
Sweeping layoffs by the Trump administration gutted the Education Department’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, sources say, leaving a handful of top officials. The cuts, part of 466 department layoffs amid a broader 4,200-job reduction during the shutdown, threaten oversight of $15 billion in special education funding for...
The United States urged China to free 30 leaders from one of the country’s largest underground church networks after overnight raids in several cities, including the arrest of Zion Church founder Jin Mingri, according to ChinaAid. Zion Church called the detentions “systematic persecution,” while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
Congressman Derrick Van Orden railed against the Nobel Peace Prize after Donald Trump was passed over, as the Norwegian committee awarded Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. On Newsmax, host Henry cast Trump’s lobbying in spiritual terms and speculated he could end the war in Ukraine, saying recognition wouldn’t matter....
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a Qatari Emiri Air Force training facility at Idaho's Mountain Home Air Force Base for F-15 pilots, sparking outrage among some MAGA figures who wrongly claimed Qatar was getting its own U.S. base. J.D. Vance dismissed that claim and Hegseth later clarified the U.S. would...
Tim Haugh, the retired and ousted former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, told 60 Minutes that China has penetrated U.S. networks at scale, even small-town utilities, posing a national threat. He cited an FBI-notified breach in Littleton, Massachusetts, where intruders stole credentials and lay dormant, potentially endangering...
Washington’s frustration boiled over as a grinding shutdown exposed rifts within both parties and little willingness to compromise. House leaders signaled no deal was near; Democrats rejected a Republican stopgap to November 21 as partisan, while Speaker Mike Johnson accused them of staging a fight. Military families braced for missed...
President Donald Trump warned he may send Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles if Russia doesn’t move to settle the war, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that the weapons would be a “new step of aggression.” He raised the possibility after a call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called the conversation “very...
