President Trump is pairing his Iran blockade with a sales pitch: Countries squeezed by the Strait of Hormuz — especially China — should buy more oil from the U.S. instead. Why it matters: The U.S. rise to become the world's largest oil and gas producer — and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas
The Trump administration transferred Social Security records covering 500 million Americans to Elon Musk's DOGE operation. No statute authorized it, no public notice was filed, and the transfer cannot be undone.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot more than six times by ICE agents during a traffic stop. The gang member label, his attorney says, came after the bullets — not before them.
A New York Times investigation by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump was the most hawkish voice in his own administration on Iran — overruling his CIA director, his vice president, and the Joint Chiefs to launch a war on a gut feeling.
The Maine Wire presents itself as grassroots local journalism. Leonard Leo's donor network bankrolls it — and it has spent years targeting Maine's Somali community. The Intercept's reporting exposes a template for converting megadonor money into local ethnic hostility.
Since October, the U.S. has admitted 4,499 refugees. 4,496 are white South Africans. Three are from everywhere else on earth. That ratio is not administrative drift — it is the architecture of the policy.
The First Lady's rare public statement contradicts her husband's own Justice Department, puts survivors in legal jeopardy, and arrives at the most suspicious possible moment. A closer look at why none of this makes sense.
Vice President Vance’s new role as fraud czar will “primarily” focus on Democrat-led states, President Trump announced Friday morning. “We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’ and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,’ but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in Californ
Surpassing 1 million deportations this year hinges on worksite enforcement — which would enrage farm and construction groups (and possibly voters).
Retired admiral Michael Smith called Trump's Iran threats 'likely war crimes.' The harder question — whether active-duty commanders will follow or refuse an unlawful order — is one the military's civilian leadership has spent months making more dangerous to answer.
A broken federal database was supposed to tell families where detained immigrants are held. Thirty-six lawmakers say it has become a mechanism for making people disappear — and they want to know if that's by design.
The UN Security Council voted 11-2 on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. China and Russia vetoed. While Trump threatens to destroy a civilization, China offers itself as the stable alternative.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
Internal agency data reviewed by Reuters shows the TSA shared 31,000 traveler records with ICE, producing 800+ arrests — with no public disclosure, no congressional mandate, and no notification to the people whose data was shared.
The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law. A Supreme Court case could eliminate citizenship for millions of Americans born to undocumented parents.
Young male voters were the surprise engine of Trump's 2024 victory. Eighteen months later, the Iran war and $4 gas are doing what Democrats couldn't: making them reconsider.