Democrats Revolt: Calls Mount for Chuck Schumer to Step Down After Shutdown Deal
A growing number of House and Senate Democrats are demanding that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer step down after several Senate Democrats broke with the party to advance a funding measure that could end the government shutdown. “Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced,” Rep. Ro Khanna …
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A growing number of House and Senate Democrats are demanding that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer step down after several Senate Democrats broke with the party to advance a funding measure that could end the government shutdown. “Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced,” Rep. Ro Khanna …
Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Ties to Radical Figures and Taxpayer Funding
New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist who once called for “seizing the means of production,” has ignited fierce debate after winning the city’s top job despite widespread criticism over ties to radical and antisemitic figures. Investigations by Open the Books found that organizations connected to Mamdani’s …
BBC Leadership Resigns Amid “Panorama” Editing Scandal
The head of Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, and its chief of news resigned Sunday amid growing outrage over how the broadcaster edited a speech by Donald Trump. The BBC confirmed that Director-General Tim Davie and News & Current Affairs CEO Deborah Turness announced their departures. At the center of …
Senate Takes Major Step Toward Ending Historic Shutdown
A bipartisan coalition of senators voted 60–40 late Sunday night to advance legislation that would reopen the federal government after forty days of closure—the longest shutdown in U.S. history. The procedural vote clears a path for the Senate to approve the funding package in full and send it to the …
ICE Opens 24/7 Call Center to Track Missing Migrant Children
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to launch a new 24-hour call center in Nashville, Tennessee, designed to assist law enforcement in locating unaccompanied migrant children who have entered the United States. According to a Request for Information (RFI) released this week by the Department of Homeland Security …
Epstein Allegedly Offered Deal to Falsely Implicate Trump, Ex-Cellmate Claims
Deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein allegedly told his former cellmate that federal prosecutors offered him a deal to implicate President Donald Trump in exchange for leniency, according to a sworn statement obtained by The New York Post. In a July pardon application, former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione—who …
Chinese Researchers Charged with Smuggling Biological Samples from Wuhan to U.S.
Three Chinese researchers from a University of Michigan laboratory have been charged with smuggling biological materials from China into the United States, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan. The defendants — Xu Bai, 28; Fengfan Zhang, 27; and Zhiyong Zhang, 30 — were visiting …
DOJ Moves to Transfer Tina Peters to Federal Custody After Trump’s Call for Release
The Justice Department has asked the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to explore transferring former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from a Colorado state prison to a federal facility, following her 2024 conviction and after President Donald Trump’s public calls for her release. According to internal communications obtained by Just the …
Canada Faces Outcry Over Push to Allow Assisted Suicide for Minors
Advocates in Canada are now pushing to expand the country’s assisted-suicide program to include minors as young as 12, sparking outrage from ethicists and doctors who say the nation’s euthanasia regime has already gone too far. Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, introduced in 2016 for adults whose natural …
Trump Steps In to Help “Dilbert” Creator in Cancer
President Donald Trump is personally stepping in to help Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who says he’s fighting for his life as he battles metastatic prostate cancer. Adams revealed on X that he had reached out to the president after his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, failed to schedule …
Trump’s Tariffs: Big Shock, Small Fallout
When President Donald Trump introduced the steepest U.S. tariffs in nearly a century last April, economists sounded alarms about runaway inflation and an impending recession. Six months later, those predictions haven’t come true. Inflation remains above target but lower than expected, and the economy continues to grow. According to the …
Letitia James Battles Federal Probe Into Alleged Selective Enforcement in Trump and NRA Cases
New York Attorney General Letitia James is fighting a federal criminal investigation into alleged “selective enforcement” in her prosecutions of former President Donald Trump’s business empire and the National Rifle Association, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Judge Lorna Schofield, an Obama appointee, ordered the filings made public, noting that …
Trump Acts to Confront Christian Persecution in Nigeria
In the northern and central states of Nigeria, Islamist groups like Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Fulani militant herders have targeted Christian villages with increasing frequency. Homes are burned, churches destroyed, and thousands forced to flee. Open Doors, an international watchdog group, reports that nearly 70% …
Family Seeks New Trial After Loss in Grace Schara Case, Claiming Judge Bias
The Schara family filed a lawsuit against Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin, over the death of their daughter, Grace Schara, a 19-year-old with Down syndrome who contracted COVID-19 in October 2021. The family alleged that hospital staff placed Grace on a Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) order without family consent and …
FBI’s ‘Arctic Frost’ Investigation: From Election Probe to GOP Surveillance Allegations
Recently released documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reveal that what began as an investigation tied to the 2020 presidential election has grown into a sweeping inquiry implicating surveillance of Republican lawmakers and conservative groups. A memo declassified by Senate investigators shows that top Justice Department and FBI …
GOP Senators Blast Judge for Role in FBI’s ‘Arctic Frost’ Fishing Expedition
Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) are demanding the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, accusing the Obama-appointed jurist of helping the Biden administration’s FBI conduct what they describe as a politically motivated “fishing expedition” targeting Republican lawmakers. During a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill, Cruz …
“Transgender Identity Shows Signs of Social Contagion, Not Biology”
As more evidence surfaces, it’s becoming increasingly clear that transgender identity is less a matter of biology and more a product of social contagion. For years, activists and sympathetic institutions have insisted that transgender individuals are simply “born that way.” But current research suggests that this claim does not hold …
Leaders Speak Out on the Arctic Frost Investigation, Civil Liberties, and Education Reform
In a powerful new episode, key national voices including Congressman Austin Scott, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, and Bobby Charles, national spokesman for AMAC, weigh in on the controversial Arctic Frost investigation—a political probe raising new questions about accountability, civil liberties, and selective enforcement. The Arctic Frost Investigation and …
Federal Grants to Illegal Immigrants Exceed $197 Million Since 2021
New research from watchdog group Open the Books has revealed that illegal immigrants have received at least $197 million in direct federal healthcare-related grants since fiscal year 2021. This figure excludes vast indirect expenditures such as the $27 billion in Medicaid spending tied to illegal immigrants between 2017 and 2023, …