At a Wednesday budget hearing, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon laid out a bold vision to downsize the Department of Education, eliminate waste, and restore control of schools to states, parents, and local educators. Speaking before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, McMahon said the department’s “final mission” is to “wind down” federal involvement in education.
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) admitted Wednesday on MSNBC that she’s “concerned” she could face criminal charges following her colleague Rep. LaMonica McIver’s recent arrest at a Newark ICE facility. McIver was charged with assault after a heated incident during what Democrats claimed was a congressional oversight visit.
Jake Tapper’s reputation took a final, fatal blow on Tuesday. Once considered a serious journalist, the CNN anchor is now widely seen as a partisan figure whose recent attempts to rebrand himself as a truth-teller have backfired spectacularly.
South African radical leftist Julius Malema doubled down Wednesday on his inflammatory rhetoric against white farmers, openly reiterating calls to "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" just hours after President Donald Trump raised alarm over anti-white violence in South Africa.
LGBTQ activists scaled Yosemite National Park’s iconic El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday to unfurl a massive 55-by-35-foot transgender flag without park authorization. The protest, led by drag performer and MTV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race figure Pattie Gonia, aimed to make a political statement against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies on gender identity.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must keep track of illegal immigrants deported to South Sudan in the event that the removals are considered unlawful.
