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WASHINGTON -- It's open season on ICE agents and others in law enforcement who work with them. No wonder they're masking up.

On July 4, armed activists shot a local police officer in the neck during what authorities described as a "planned ambush" near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. In Portland, Oregon, that same day, rioters and police ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump Department of Justice and FBI announced Monday that they had "conducted an exhaustive review" into the death of disgraced financier and child abuser Jeffrey Epstein and found more than 10,000 downloaded videos of illegal child sex abuse. Epstein, who killed himself in a New York prison cell in 2019, clearly was a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Diddy Gets Off," shouted a New York Post online headline Wednesday.

But hip-hop mogul Sean Combs didn't get off entirely. A Manhattan jury found Combs guilty of two of the five federal felonies he was charged with by the U.S. Southern District of New York -- the two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution -- but not...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I start with a salute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

On Friday, the nation's top court released a 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas that rightly upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify that users are 18 or older before providing access.

Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion for...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "This bill is like yogurt, not wine," one senator said, describing the One Big Beautiful Bill to Semafor. It was an apt description for legislation that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by Independence Day.

Because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 sunsets this year, Congress has to pass a new measure to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump does not want to be a wartime president.

He wants to be the president who, as he did at Mar-a-Lago in 2017, enjoyed "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you've ever seen," as he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping that the U.S. had just dropped bombs on Syria.

Trump wants to be the U.S. president...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump sees what needs to happen in the Middle East as Israel and Iran take their decades-long war out of the shadows. Push for a ceasefire? Not really. "An end, a real end, not a ceasefire," Trump told reporters during an early return to Washington from the G7 meeting in Calgary.

Trump added, "a complete give-up...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes.

Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then cable news anchors inform viewers that protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully.

Yes, there is a pattern to progressive protests that turn violent. The demonstrations, like ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Democracy is in peril" is the warning bubbling up all over popular culture.

President Donald Trump is enjoying his second term, one made sweeter after wins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. I don't think the warnings about authoritarian rule are coincidental.

Take the new Max (better known as HBO) movie, "...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The nightmare stories aren't going away. The latest outrage is the firebombing of a group of activists who were participating in a peace march in Boulder, Colorado, Sunday to bring attention to the 58 hostages still remaining in Gaza.

"We have to end Zionists," said the illegal immigrant who has been charged in the attack that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Vice President JD Vance spoke the language of love to cryptocurrency investors Wednesday when he proclaimed at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, "We reject regulators."

As the veep sees it, Bitcoin is not just a good investment; it's also good for the country. Crypto, he argued, "is a hedge against bad policymaking in Washington."

And...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The status quo came tumbling down at Harvard after Hamas massacred 1,200 innocents on Oct. 7, 2023. As much of the world was revolted at the gratuitous slaughter, the swells at Harvard were working on a suitable statement. They deleted the word "violent" to describe the attack.

President Donald Trump will never forget how ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Almost everything the Democrats and big media told the country about the vaunted character of former President Joe Biden is collapsing.

Biden framed his run for the White House in 2020 as "a fight for the soul of the nation." A smitten chattering class was all on board.

In October 2020, New York Times columnist David Brooks ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I've often railed at Democrats' failure to revamp federal immigration law during the two years President Joe Biden enjoyed a Democratic Senate and House. When they had the chance, they squandered it. Now it's the Republicans' turn at bad one-party rule.

President Donald Trump and the GOP Senate and House have a chance to check ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump started the first major international travel of his second term in Riyadh, where he publicly bonded with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Pundits call the crown prince, the nation's de facto leader, MBS. Trump calls him "Mohammed."

Trump used the moment to call on the kingdom to join the Abraham ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney aced the Oval Office Exam during his sit-down with President Donald Trump Monday.

Washington's relations with Ottawa have been testy of late.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump delighted his die-hard base to no end with his talk about making Canada America's "51st state." It was a classic Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Forget rehabbing Alcatraz, President Donald Trump, as you proposed on social media over the weekend. It's not worth the years and treasure that would be needed to turn the popular tourist destination back into a maximum-security prison for the worst federal offenders.

Instead, think Nevada.

Nevada delivered six Electoral ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I've been having flashbacks about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who killed three innocent people and wounded 23 during a 17-year killing spree. In 1998, Kaczynski pleaded guilty and agreed to a sentence of life without parole. He killed himself in 2023.

It turns out Luigi Mangione, who stands accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this bombshell during Wednesday's White House Cabinet meeting: "We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans."

Rubio offered that he is surprised a federal agency monitoring the social media posts and commentary of American citizens is not a bigger story.

...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In all my years of covering immigration politics, I've never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home.

If you don't, he explained, we'll find you, we'll prosecute you and...Read more