The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that disabled veterans were entitled to retroactive compensation. The case, Soto v. United States, began as a class action lawsuit led by Simon Soto, who served in the Marines for six years until he was medically retired. Soto served for part of this time in Mortuary Affairs, where ...

Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) became increasingly unhinged during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, attacking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly and demanding that he “Get the hell out!” Hegseth was on Capitol Hill for a budget hearing, but Carbajal used the opportunity to insult Hegseth repeatedly before telling him that he was ...

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis minced no words when speaking about the rights of citizens if they were surrounded by a mob while in their car. DeSantis spoke to Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report regarding the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, and Floridas policy regarding civil unrest. In terms ...

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tried to attack Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for taking a moment to enjoy the annual Congressional baseball game, claiming that he’d left National Guard troops and U.S. Marines deployed in California without access to basic necessities. Newsom was responding to a photo, posted by the @DODRapidResponse account, that showed ...

Days after being endorsed by fellow democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Zohran Mamdani is leading former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor for the first time, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan’s city comptroller ...

Just after midnight on Thursday, New York City police and firefighters found eleven NYPD vehicles on fire in a Brooklyn parking lot along with undetonated explosive devices. Two masked individuals wearing gloves were seen running away from the scene, The New York Post reported, adding that some witnesses were delighted by the arson. FOX NEWS ...

Disney and Universal are teaming up to sue the AI image generation firm Midjourney for what theyre describing as copyright infringement. Midjourney is a popular AI platform which utilizes user prompts to create original images in seconds. But the entertainment companies claim the model uses their copyrighted content to spit out images that are incredibly ...

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is calling out a trans activist trying to justify taking photos of himself inside womens restrooms. Rowling responded to a post describing the behavior of Lilly Tino, a man who identifies as a woman and frequently posts videos of himself being misgendered at restaurants and complaining to wait staff and ...

Kamala can’t get a call back. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom reportedly didn’t even pick up the phone when former Vice President Kamala Harris called him this week about the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles County. The former vice president “wasnt able to connect with her longtime political friend and rival but left him a ...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) on Thursday grilled New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul during a hearing on sanctuary states over crimes committed by illegal aliens. Stefanik, who is rumored to be eyeing a run for governor, first highlighted executive orders signed by Hochul that maintain New York as a sanctuary state, meaning the state will ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted he had to laugh when Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) claimed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had implemented updated technology in recent years. During a Thursday hearing on Capitol Hill, Bessent fielded questions from a number of House members on the One Big, Beautiful Bill and he said that ...

When riots broke out in Los Angeles in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, the police response was hamstrung by politics, according to one California sheriff. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says the violence and destruction that erupted in Los Angeles over the weekend would never have happened in his county. “We know ...

Three dozen federal contractors are at high risk of violating President Donald Trumps executive orders barring the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies among those who do business with the federal government. A new report from the 1792 Exchange highlights which federal contractors have previously advanced the DEI agenda most ...

A former CIA analyst who leaked Israeli strike plans against Iran was sentenced to just three years and one month in prison on Wednesday. Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, Virginia, was convicted of unlawfully retaining and transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information to people who were not entitled to receive it, the U.S. Department ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, on Thursday found that Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations. It is the first time in almost two decades that the IAEA has taken that stance. The last time the IAEA adopted that position was in September 2005, when clandestine nuclear activities in Iran ...

Republicans clobbered Democrats for the fifth consecutive year in last night’s Congressional Baseball Game. Rep. August Pfluger, the Republican Study Committee Chairman, who clinched his second MVP title, joined Crain & Company before the game to share his thoughts on why the GOP has won every game since 2022. “What I’d say to America is, ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) SecretaryRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight people to serve on the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), a highly influential vaccine panel he gutted earlier in the week. The new members include Dr. Robert Malone, who worked on early research for mRNA vaccine technology and is a vocal critic ...

The United States and China agree to a trade framework, slashing tariffs and unlocking rare earth minerals. Inflation finally cools but L.A. remains hot. We break down the latest on the economy and the political unrest. And, as chaos erupts on the L.A. streets, the real battle is for the narrative whos winning ...

Many people are believed to be dead after an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed just after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday. The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, was headed to the Gatwick Airport in Britain, Reuters reported. According to Indian authorities, the aircraft crashed into a civilian area ...

Kids who came of age in the early aughts know that ohana means family. And family means nobody is left behind. Disneys 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch tells the story of a young Hawaiian girl named Lilo, who lives with her older sister, Nani, after their parents passed away. As Nani struggles to keep ...

Hamas attacked a bus on Wednesday night, killing at least five Gazans working for the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and injuring several others. A bus carrying two dozen members of GHF was en route to one of the aid distribution centers west of Khan Yunis when the attack occurred, according to the group. There ...

David Hogg, of 1270 SAT fame, who was elected Democratic National Committee Vice-Chair earlier this year, saw his job evaporate on Wednesday, as the DNC voted overwhelmingly to hold new elections for the position. In a 294-99 vote that concluded Wednesday, DNC members agreed to move forward with redoing the contest earlier this year that ...

The National Park Service is nearing completion of a renovation of the Jefferson Memorial that turns the site into a condemning portrayal of the presidents legacy, City Journal recently reported. The project aims to completely renovate the basement exhibit level of the memorial to [provide] more perspectives as it shares Thomas Jeffersons multi-faceted ...

The Israel Defense Forces announced Wednesday that it recovered the bodies of two more Israeli hostages from Gaza. The IDF announced that it recovered the body of 59-year-old Yair Yaakov from the Khan Yunis area of the Gaza Strip. The other hostages name has not yet been released. Yaakov is believed to have been abducted ...

A New York jury on Wednesday delivered a mixed verdict in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault retrial, finding the former Hollywood mogul guilty of one count while acquitting him of another. The jury found Weinstein guilty of forcibly performing oral sex on former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006, but acquitted him of criminal ...