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Robert Morris, the Gateway Church founding pastor convinced last year of raping a 12-year-old girl, is out of jail after six months. Morris pleaded guilty to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, and the short sentence was part of ...

A federal judge today ordered the Trump administration to stop work on the White House ballroom project unless and until Congress approves it. Judge Richard Leon, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, concluded that "no statute comes close to giving ...

Before the United States launched military strikes against Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock about making a "multimillion-dollar investment" in BlackRock's Defense Industrials Active ETF -- a fund ...

For years, MAGA supporters have demanded the release of Jeffrey Epstein's records, convinced that Democratic figures like Bill Clinton would be implicated in the worldwide sex trafficking network detailed in the files. They were right about that part ...

Vice President JD Vance told podcast host Benny Johnson that he has a theory about UFOs: "I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons anyway." He said he's "obsessed" with the topic but hasn't had time to look into the classified files Trump ...

Saturday's No Kings events, taking place in 3,300 locations across the U.S., were the highest number of protests in a single day in U.S. history. And 8 million people turned out, claim the organizers, for the third round of anti-authoritarian marches ...

A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden's security detail shot himself in the leg, according to authorities. Though he was stuck in Philadephia International Airport at the time, it was reportedly an accident. Dr. Biden was not nearby when the ...

Since being installed as director of the FBI, right-wing podcaster Kashyap "Ka$h" Patel has emerged as the second Trump administration's figure of fun, flying to see his girlfriend on the taxpayer's dime, partying in the locker room at the Olympics,

The U.S. Senate last night voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but not ICE or Border Patrol, the two agencies whose increasingly violent immigration enforcement led to a standoff in congress. The deal applies to the Transport Security ...

Harry Wait made a name for himself as a conservative activist pushing false claims of election fraud at the 2020 polls. Wait was himself convicted of election fraud this week by jurors in Wisconsin--and identity theft too. Jurors deliberated three ...