Author name: Lance Hudgins

August 11, 2025 11:28 AM ET Judge Paul Engelmayer denied the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request to unseal the grand jury material in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case Monday. In his 31-page decision, U.S. District Engelmayer, stated that the grand jury materials only mention Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell in connection with alleged sexual contact with a minor

August 09, 2025 6:09 PM ET The Trump administration reportedly fired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Billy Long for refusing to release tax information on illegal migrants, The Washington Post reported. BREAKING IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired hours after he refused to furnish additional confidential taxpayer information on suspected undocumented immigrants to the Department

August 08, 2025 2:22 PM ET House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged to roll out a plan articulating Democrats’ policy agenda — explicitly not about President Donald Trump — by August 8, but appears likely to miss his self-imposed deadline. Jeffries committed to unveiling a “blueprint for a better America” that would specify what Democrats

August 08, 2025 2:03 PM ET Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly residing in a memory care facility — but doubts of his cognitive abilities previously emerged during his investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. At 81-years-old, Mueller has been in public service

August 08, 2025 1:29 PM ET It is a good day for the therapists of Illinois. Less so for the children of the state. Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a “children’s behavioral health” bill into law July 31. The legislation mandates “universal mental health screening in Illinois schools by the 2027-28 school year,” according

August 08, 2025 1:26 PM ET President Donald Trump increased the presence of federal law enforcement in response to crime in D.C. just days after a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer was brutally beaten in the nation’s capital, the White House shared with the Daily Caller. A White House official told the Caller

August 08, 2025 12:47 PM ET A federal investigation has been launched into Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James for potentially violating President Donald Trump’s civil rights through her lawsuit against him, according to multiple reports. The acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued subpoenas related to James’ civil fraud

August 08, 2025 12:37 PM ET Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking a victory lap for spearheading a multi-state lawsuit taking on the world’s largest asset managers, but is quietly sitting upon thousands of shares of mutual funds managed by one of the targets of his complaint, according to recent financial disclosures. Paxton cheered

August 08, 2025 11:56 AM ET The Trump administration is putting the final nail in the coffin of a Biden-era policy, directing federal agencies to scrub employees’ records of their COVID-19 vaccine status, according to a memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is expected to send a memo

August 08, 2025 10:16 AM ET President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday requiring his political appointees to review federal grants in order to prevent the “offensive waste of tax dollars” seen in prior administrations. The heads of each agency awarding grants will assign Trump’s appointees for annual reviews to ensure that federal