Author name: Lance Hudgins

December 30, 2025 11:24 AM ET Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar is responding to attacks on her qualifications after she was confirmed to a major role in the Trump administration. The Daily Beast posted an article on Dec. 26 about Namdar’s appointment and confirmation with the headline, “Trump Hires Beauty Salon

December 10, 2025 6:36 PM ET A long-sought crackdown on U.S. funding of China’s military and strategic industries is on the verge of becoming law after House lawmakers successfully embedded sweeping outbound-investment restrictions into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The House passed the massive $900 billion defense policy bill Wednesday, setting the stage for

December 10, 2025 5:23 PM ET Republicans’ plan to push their preferred candidate, Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, into running for senate has apparently worked. The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) began including Crockett’s name in polling in July, the Daily Caller News Foundation first reported, and it showed her leading in a hypothetical Democratic primary race.

Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer December 10, 2025 4:04 PM ET The Giffords Law Center released its annual State Gun Law Scorecard, which grades states on their “gun safety” policies. Where your state lands on its list is highly indicative of whether or not your state government holds dear the foundational American principle of

December 10, 2025 12:26 PM ET The United Kingdom cares to meddle in its citizens’ private lives in nearly every area, but one.  A new Australian law banning children under 16 from accessing social media comes into effect Wednesday, Politico reports . British lawmakers remain uninspired, despite Australia’s membership in the British Commonwealth.  “There are

December 10, 2025 11:25 AM ET Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Pennsylvania a week after President Donald Trump visited the state to push the administration’s affordability message, two sources familiar with plans told the Daily Caller. Trump visited Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, kicking off his year-long tour to push his economic policy.

December 08, 2025 4:52 PM ET Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named ex-rapper Mysonne Linen — who served seven years in state prison for armed robbery — to his transition team’s criminal legal system committee. Linen, 49, was convicted in 1999 of two Bronx taxi stickups from the late 1990s and later reinvented himself as an activist.

December 08, 2025 4:23 PM ET Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took a chainsaw to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) — now the agency sits nearly empty, with a new name and a big future. The agency was seized in March by DOGE and its staffers removed. USIP made little news

December 08, 2025 3:43 PM ET The Department of Justice is recruiting lawyers to become “deportation judges” with salaries up to $207,500 and a 25% signing bonus. The agency’s recruitment website urges applicants to “help write the next chapter of America” by joining the immigration court system. The campaign offers positions at 70 locations nationwide

December 08, 2025 3:31 PM ET The era of “independent agencies” might soon be over. The Supreme Court seemed inclined on Monday to allow the president to fire members of “independent” multi-member coalitions, which the Trump administration argues are really a “headless fourth branch” of government that operates without political accountability or democratic control. The