When Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009, he had a direct response for critics who warned that his proposed health care overhaul would extend benefits to people who had no legal right to them. "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants," he said from the House chamber. "This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." From the Republican side of the aisle, Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina broke with decorum and shouted two words: "You lie!" History has been considerably kinder to Wilson than the Washington press corps was that evening.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced 15 members of a revived Defense Policy Board, tapping former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to chair the panel and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to serve on it.
The Supreme Court issued a crushing blow to election integrity efforts, ruling 5-4 that a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots received after Election Day for federal elections may be counted.
White House Religious Liberty Commission released its final draft report to President Trump, detailing the ongoing fight to protect religious freedom in the nation.
Just days before America celebrates 250 years of independence, one of the nation's oldest patriotic women's organizations voted to keep its doors open to biological men who possess altered birth certificates.
When the Supreme Court agreed to hear Watson v. Republican National Committee earlier this year, election integrity advocates had reason for cautious optimism. The case presented a clean legal question: does the federal law establishing Election Day require ballots to be received by that date, or merely cast? On Monday, in a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Court answered that question in a way few conservatives anticipated—and the consequences will extend well beyond Mississippi.
The Department of Justice has launched a grand jury investigation into Neville Roy Singham for his funding of socialist networks across the United States.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up President Trump's appeal in his defamation fight with writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving a $5 million judgment against him intact and clearing one more legal hurdle for Carroll.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), now has a new charter detailing the group's actions.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police cannot use mass location data sweeps to identify criminal suspects without violating the Fourth Amendment, handing down a 6-3 decision that curbs a growing law enforcement tool known as a geofence warrant.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Trump acted lawfully when he fired two Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioners last year, handing the administration a sweeping victory that dismantles nearly a century of limits on presidential removal power.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida on Sunday declared that Qatar is "not our friend" as the Gulf state continues to play a central role in U.S.-Iran diplomatic talks, breaking openly with the framing that has positioned Qatar as a reliable neutral partner in the negotiations.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be teaching a course at the University of California, Berkeley, at a new "nonpartisan" institute bearing her name.
The Democratic Socialists of America is moving to expand its political footprint beyond New York City, with candidates now competing in primary races across Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida in the coming weeks.
Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that every vessel wanting to cross the Strait of Hormuz must first clear it with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps..