The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security voted along party lines early Wednesday to advance two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is urging two committees to resolve their differences and swiftly combine their conflicting bills to overhaul the government’s controversial surveillance law, according to The Washington Times.
The syphilis outbreak in the U.S. shows no signs of slowing down, as the rate of infectious cases increased by 9% in 2022, according to a recent federal government report on sexually transmitted diseases among adults.
A coalition of state attorneys general sent a letter Monday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas backing Texas in its border battle with the Biden administration.
California is bracing for a powerful “fire hose” storm with fresh rounds of extreme rainfall, after being hit with a historic 9 inches of precipitation a week ago. The storm is expected to hit from Wednesday to Thursday this week.
A new survey shows that 28% of Americans would check the box “None” if asked to indicate their religious affiliation, compared to 16% in 2007. The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center between Aug. 6-31 last year, with 11,201 respondents who are members of Pew’s American Trends Panel.
There were 371,036 foreign nationals reported to have illegally entered the U.S. nationwide in December, the largest number for the month in U.S. history.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter Friday that the House will soon vote to make Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the second Cabinet secretary in history to be impeached.
Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump fumed on Friday after he was ordered to pay more than $83 million for allegedly defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll who accused him of raping her in a New York department store decades ago.
Twenty-five Republican governors said Thursday they back Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to defend the state’s border with Mexico.
According to recent documents acquired by the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, terms such as “MAGA” and “Trump,” as well as the purchase of Bibles, were among the financial transactions that the federal government flagged.
Ohio’s Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday to override a veto by the state’s Republican governor and pass a law which prohibits minors from receiving sex-change treatments and bars transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s K-12 and college sports teams. The Ohio House of Representatives voted to override DeWine’s veto two weeks ago.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has invoked the invasion clause of the U.S. Constitution and said he would defend his state. The move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled that federal Border Patrol agents can destroy Texas concertina wire border barriers.
While The Satanic Temple organization has made headlines by establishing After School Satan Clubs in a number of public schools in America, the US-based Child Evangelism Fellowship has announced that its Good News Clubs are flourishing to such extent the ministry hopes to reach 30.4 million more children worldwide this year alone, CBN News reports.
Jeff DeWit is resigning as the Arizona Republican Party chairman. An audio recording of a conversation from earlier in 2023 was released on Tuesday, in which DeWit was speaking with Senate candidate Kari Lake about people “back east” not wanting her to run. He said that people were willing to give her money or a job instead while waiting out for a possible 2026 comeback run for governor, according to the recording published by the Daily Mail.
Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who won two Republican primaries for the party’s presidential nomination, is also winning in courts: He has successfully challenged every decision about blocking him from the ballot at this year’s presidential elections, except at the Colorado Supreme Court.
A Christian baker in California who has been threatened, harassed, and sued for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is being taken back to court as state officials appeal a lower court ruling in her favor, the Christian Post reports.
Former President Donald Trump will win New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, several media outlets projected Tuesday night, getting him closer to securing the party’s nomination and a rematch with President Joe Biden in November.
A group of Democratic governors are calling on the Biden administration and Congress to address the immigration crisis by increasing federal funding for states and passing a border security package.
A pastor in Bryan, Ohio, has pleaded not guilty to charges of violating zoning restrictions by keeping his church’s doors open to the homeless 24 hours a day, 13 Action News reports. Pastor Chris Avell, who leads “Dad’s Place” church, appeared before the Bryan Municipal Court on Jan. 4, when the matter was set for trial.