President Trump has spent recent weeks endorsing primary challengers to Republican senators who crossed him, a political strategy that may feel satisfying but carries a steep cost. If Justice Clarence Thomas or Justice Samuel Alito steps down, Trump could find himself short of the votes he needs to confirm a…
Taya Kyle, the widow of legendary Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, went on Fox News to call out Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner for what she described as a cheap, attention-seeking attack on her late husband’s military record, and a resurfaced Reddit post in which Platner allegedly mocked a wounded American…
Billionaire Tom Steyer wants to be California’s next governor, and he’s making clear where he stands on one of the most contentious issues in American sports: he supports letting biological males compete on girls’ high school teams.Steyer laid out his position on the podcast “I’ve Had It,” hosted by Jennifer…
By Heidi McPherson, Op-ed contributor Wednesday, May 27, 2026iStock/Thai NoiphoThere are moments in life that change you forever. For me, that moment came when the doctor walked into a small hospital room and told my son and me that “they did everything they could,” and my beloved husband, Bill, had passed…
This photo provided by the City of Longview, Wash., shows structural damage to the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co., after a tank containing hazardous liquid imploded, on May 26, 2026 in Longview, Wash. City of Longview via APLONGVIEW, Wash.—A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a corrosive liquid…
Ken Paxton gives victory speech after clinching the Texas Republican Senate nomination – May 26, 2026 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke to supporters on Tuesday after whooping RINO Senator John Cornyn in the Texas Senate Primary race. Paxton smoked Cornyn, leading by nearly 30 points with 82.5% of the…
Apparently, former Attorney General Pam Bondi has been battling thyroid cancer since her departure from Main Justice. Axios is reporting today that President Trump has appointed Bondi to an advisory committee role on artificial intelligence. [Axios via MSM] – President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to an…
A home is seen for sale in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesHome affordability across America could become a tad more attainable as the household income needed for a typical home declined for the seventh straight month in April, according to a May 26 Redfin report. In April, households needed to…
Screencap of YouTube video. During a recent appearance on FOX News, Dan Bongino suggested that there are only two groups of people who are still Democrats. Wealthy Karens and the poor people who rely on government for handouts. This is exactly where the Democrat party has been headed for years.…
Former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Dallas on July 1, 2025. Tasos Katopodis via Getty ImagesFormer Rep. Colin Allred defeated Rep. Julie Johnson to win the Democratic primary for Texas’ 33rd Congressional District in a runoff election on May 26.Allred will face…
State Sen. Mayes Middleton defeated Rep. Chip Roy on Tuesday night in the Republican primary runoff election for Texas attorney general. Middleton sailed through election night with 55% of the vote in the runoff while Roy brought in roughly 45% of the vote as of publication, according to NBC News. Middleton…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Tuesday evening triumph against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the GOP primary marked the toppling of one of the senior-most members of the Republican conference and seemed to signal that MAGA voters are eager for a change in the workings of the upper chamber.Paxton triumphed in…
Statements from President Trump, the Pentagon, and the Taiwanese administration are sowing confusion about the stalled arms sale that lawmakers say is a vital component of deterring China.A source familiar with Trump’s thinking told Just the News that he is expected to make a decision on the arms sale soon. The president…
California gubernatorial candidate and former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s relationship with the Mexican government doesn’t run through one nonprofit. It runs through many.Newly detailed investigative reporting from the Government Accountability Institute tracks Becerra’s long-standing, documented relationships with several of the most politically powerful migrant nonprofits in…
The so-called gender-affirming care industry is in retreat across much of the U.S., as courts uphold bans on medicalized gender transitions for minors and shield counselors from compelled affirmation of gender confusion, while red states remove barriers to older detransitioners suing their providers and facilitate the medical mitigation of their regretted procedures.The lucrative field of…
The Food and Drug Administration is garnering praise for bringing a heightened focus to efficiency, rare diseases and food safety under new acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas, who has already achieved success as the agency’s deputy commissioner for food. “He made some great strides forward already in trying to get out some…
NASA announced plans Tuesday to send three unmanned ships to the moon this year as it prepares to build the first ever lunar base. The flights will be fully robotic and will be known as Moon Base 1, Moon Base 2 and Moon Base 3. During the missions NASA plans to…
Former President Joe Biden sued the Justice Department Tuesday to block the release of recordings and transcripts from interviews he gave to a ghostwriter for his 2017 memoir, which were included in a special counsel probe regarding his handling of classified materials after he served as vice president.The lawsuit comes…
Texas state Sen. Mayes Middleton defeated GOP Rep. Chip Roy Tuesday in a special runoff election for the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general, the Associated Press has projected.Roy and Middleton advanced to a runoff election in March after neither candidate received the majority of votes. Middleton led Roy in…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Xavier Becerra, the former Obama Biden lackey who is running for governor of California as a Democrat, wants the state to continue to provide free healthcare for illegals. Big surprise, right? He confirmed this during a recent appearance on CNN. The remarkable thing about the segment…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Amy Walter is a liberal political analyst you may have seen if you’ve ever tuned into PBS. She was a pretty regular contributor on FOX News for a while as well. During some recent comments, Walter noted that the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is having a…
Dieudonné Sezabo (R), a health worker, gestures as he asks for help in transporting a patient (2nd L) suspected of having Ebola, who was brought by motorcycle taxi to the Rwampara Hospital in Ituri, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 26, 2026. Glody Murhabazi/ AFP via…
Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif) speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican caucus at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 12, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesCalifornia’s Congressional District 22 is becoming one of the most closely watched battleground races ahead of the June 2 jungle primary, where incumbent Congressman David Valadao,…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. An American flag the size of a football field is going to be displayed on the Hoover Dam, along with red and blue lighting, as part of the America 250 celebrations this summer. The Hoover Dam is a symbol of American ingenuity and our ability to…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ousted incumbent Sen. John Cornyn during Tuesday’s primary election, in a blowout that punished not just Cornyn but the Republican establishment he represents. The race had been largely viewed as a referendum on establishment Republicans’ reluctance to deliver on popular initiatives like election integrity. At…
Long-time incumbent Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green lost his primary Tuesday to fellow incumbent Democratic Rep. Christian Menefee in a special runoff election that pitted two incumbents against each other for the same seat.Both men were seeking their party’s nomination to represent Texas’ 18th congressional district. Menefee, a freshman congressman,…
John Cornyn concedes Texas Senate race – May 26, 2026 RINO Incumbent Texas Senator John Cornyn conceded the Texas GOP Senate primary runoff to his Trump-Endorsed opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, on Tuesday, a little more than an hour after the polls closed across Texas. During his concession speech,…
By Newsweek. Representative Thomas Massie has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the 2028 election cycle, signaling a potential political comeback after losing his recent House primary.The announcement comes a week after the Kentucky Republican lost to Ed Gallrein in the Republican primary for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional…
U.S. Vice President JD Vance (C) is joined by White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller (L) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson as he speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington,…
Earlier today the New York Post (Murdoch Inc.) was reporting a cabinet meeting was scheduled to take place tomorrow at Camp David, in Maryland. The unusual location for this meeting stemmed from information the Post obtained via an anonymous “White House official.” For some reason, every media report felt it…
AI-Generated by Grok – Russia’s Lavrov and US Rubio against the background of Kiev on fire The US deserved a personal alert from the Russians. After the Ukrainian attack targeting a college dorm that killed 21 students, mostly young women, the Russians vowed ‘strategic’ attacks against decision-making centers in the…
Ken Paxton scored a major victory Tuesday night, defeating longtime Sen. John Cornyn in a bitter Republican runoff that became one of the most expensive Senate primaries in history. According to Fox News, the result marked another major win for President Donald Trump, who endorsed Paxton just days before the…
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer attends a working lunch with EU ministers responsible for trade, in Brussels on Nov. 24, 2025. Piroschka van de Wouw/ReutersThe United States expects tariffs will be included in trade negotiations with Mexico this week, but renewing the North American agreement with Canada could be challenging,…
A federal judge agreed with the state that the Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement priorities don’t override Congress’ funding of a federal grant program.(CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday agreed with the state of Washington that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had bent the rules when it terminated…
People vote at a polling location at West Gray Metropolitan Multi-Service Center in Houston on March 3, 2026. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer oil executive Alex Mealer beat Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain to claim the Republican primary for the state’s 9th Congressional District on May 26. Mealer will face…
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Please Follow us on Truth Social, X , Youtube , Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab Authored by Thomas Harrington via The Brownstone Institute, Imagine the following message in a public space: Caution: Area of Frequent Attempts at Reputational Destruction by Females I have never seen a sign bearing the above message in any…
Ed has all the numbers up here but asked me to watch for the race to be called early, something he expected not long after the polls closed. As usual it looks like Ed is going to be right. The early vote totals coming in show Ken Paxton blowing Cornyn…
President Trump appointed Pam Bondi to a new role on a White House AI panel. Bondi will serve on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, according to Axios. Axios also reported that Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after she was fired from her job as…
Earlier, I posted a positive article about Pope Leo’s encyclical. I agreed with him that AI could pose a threat to human civilization itself. That was before I discovered that an Anthropic cofounder was at Pope Leo’s presentation of the encyclical. Pope Leo XIV launched his AI encyclical with Anthropic.…
(Left) Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) speaks during a Get Out The Vote campaign rally at the Schertz Civic Center Conference Hall in Schertz, Texas, on March 2, 2026. (Right) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, addresses supporters during a campaign stop, in Waco, Texas,…
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a Senate runoff Tuesday, one week after receiving President Donald Trump’s backing. Paxton won the race by a landslide 25-point margin, 62.5% to 37.5%, after receiving a late-minute May 19 endorsement from Trump, the Associated Press reported with…
The Trump administration has issued a “no dust, no dollars” ultimatum demanding Iran surrender its enriched uranium before any sanctions relief. A framework agreement is roughly 95% complete but could take up to a week to finalize, with Trump warning against mistakes. Iran must ship its enriched uranium to the…
The prescription cascade: How America’s mental health system keeps patients on more drugs, not fewer A teen prescribed 14 psychiatric drugs by age 18 describes a prescription cascade that worsened her condition. Federal officials are now launching a plan to curb overprescribing, especially in children. Medicaid data shows children on…
Brain Rescue: The underground manual for healing your fractured mind in a toxic world The author’s journey reveals that conventional medicine, controlled by Big Pharma, is a “soul-crushing machinery” that relies on failed surgeries and toxic pharmaceuticals (like Keppra and Depakote) rather than addressing root causes, proving it is a…
President Trump reversed a Pentagon cancellation by ordering an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, citing the election victory of Poland’s conservative President Karol Nawrocki, a move that broke from standard strategic assessments. The announcement comes as Poland faces escalating Russian aggression, including drone incursions into NATO airspace and the arrest…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded a two-day summit in Beijing on May 20, 2026, signing roughly 40 cooperation documents and adopting a joint declaration on a multipolar world order, according to state media reports [1]. The declaration rejects the idea of a single ideological center…
A former Mossad operative writing under the pseudonym “Adam Feyn” has published a new Hebrew-language book, “Hoda’ah Goralit” (Fateful Message), that provides an insider account of the September 2024 operation in which thousands of booby-trapped pagers belonging to Hezbollah were detonated across Lebanon. [1] In his first English-language interview, given…
Tennessee is the first state to enforce proof of citizenship for public benefits, disenrolling illegal immigrants from subsidized healthcare programs by May 29, to ensure taxpayer resources serve lawful residents. Progressives previously claimed illegal immigrants did not access government healthcare, but now oppose verification measures, revealing they knew non-citizens were…
Almonds Recommended as Bedtime Snack Almonds have been cited as a potential bedtime snack for individuals seeking longer, deeper sleep, according to multiple sources on sleep and nutrition. A report noted that one ounce of almonds — approximately 23 nuts — contains a combination of protein, fiber, healthy monounsaturated fats,…