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California lawmakers are advancing a bill that supporters describe as a basic safety measure and that critics have nicknamed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.” The fight over Assembly Bill 2624 has essentially become a proxy battle over a larger question: when public money pours into programs serving immigrant communities and enclaves, who gets to watch where it goes?

Gabrielle Cuccia is not just some obscure source, but she served in the first Trump White House in 2017 and 2018, then later covered the building for One America News, and became OAN’s chief Pentagon correspondent in early 2025 when the network inherited NBC’s former Pentagon workspace. She was fired that spring after publishing a Substack column criticiz...

On May 19, 2026, voters in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District went to the polls in what political observers have called the most expensive primary election for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in the country’s history. Total ad spending in the contest between five-term Republican incumbent Thomas Massie and Trump-endorsed challenger Ed Gallrein climbed to approximately...

When Air Force One touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport on the evening of May 13, the moment carried a certain weight that was hard to ignore. No sitting American president had set foot on Chinese soil since Donald Trump himself made the journey in November 2017. This time, however, the geopolitical arithmetic had shifted considerably and not entirely in Wash...

Nearly 49,000 residents in California’s Placer and El Dorado counties, clustered along the western and southern shores of Lake Tahoe, are staring down an energy crisis not of their own making. Their local utility provider, Liberty Utilities, has been informed that it must replace three-quarters of its electricity supply before May 2027, which will ultimately result in the who...