33+ min ago (1712+ words) ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It's a New Record. It was Friday, June 6, and the rent was due. As soon as she finished an errand, Imelda Carreto planned on joining her family as they gathered scrap metal to earn a little extra cash. Her fianc, Julio Matias, and 15-year-old nephew, Carlos, had set out early, hitching a trailer to the back of their beat-up gray truck. Carreto didn't carry any proof that she had custody of the boy. She had left it in another car in her rush. She recalls officers saying her nephew would likely be released to her in a few days once she presented the proper documents. Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, "Don't cry. I don't know how, but I'll get you back....

2+ hour, 50+ min ago (259+ words) A Republican lawmaker in the House of Representatives was so distraught by the latest proposed peace deal for Russia's war in Ukraine that he considered resigning from Congress, according to a new report. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told Axios that he was "appalled" by the 28-point peace deal, which some experts have said seems to have been written by the Russians. The proposed peace plan also made several pro-Ukrainian lawmakers on The Hill furious, including several Republicans, according to the report. The plan calls for Ukraine to significantly reduce the size of its military, cede land to Russia, including land that Russia does not currently control, give up its long-range missiles that can reach Moscow, and stop attempting to join NATO. Bacon dubbed the peace plan "Witkoff's Ukrainian surrender plan," Axios reported, a nod to President Donald Trump's envoy Steve…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago (169+ words) MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace said on Monday that Republicans are acting like political prisoners who remain in captivity even though the door to their proverbial jail cell is unlocked. "They're like those prisoners who, when they go in to rescue them, the rescuers are like, 'The door wasn't locked,'" Wallace said. "They could get out of their political prison today." The way for Republicans to get out of their prison is to stand up to Trump, she added, something that leadership within the party doesn't appear to be interested in. " Mike Johnson (R-LA) isn't so good at having a spine," Wallace said. "Mike Johnson goes on a podcast and says, 'Yeah, I think they should release the Epstein files.' Donald Trump burps or belches at him the wrong way, and he shuts down Congress. That doesn't look strong. That…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago (296+ words) President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has threatened to call up Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) into active military service again, just so he can court-martial him " but even if he goes through with this plan, it is likely to backfire spectacularly, some observers warned on Monday. Kelly is one of six Democratic lawmakers from a military background who made a joint video reminding active servicemembers that if they are given illegal orders, like to kill unarmed civilians or take over civilian law enforcement in American cities, they have a duty to refuse those orders. This is clearly outlined in the Uniform Code of Military Justice " but ever since the video came out, Trump and his devotees have falsely claimed these lawmakers are trying to countermand lawful orders, with Trump even calling the video "seditious" and threatening to have them…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago (187+ words) The Internal Revenue Service filed a lawsuit against West Virginia Senator and former Governor Jim Justice, a Republican, on Monday over a $5 million tax bill that Justice has not paid, according to a new report. Local news station WKBN in West Virginia reported that the Justices had been contacted "multiple times" by the Treasury Department regarding more than $5.1 million in taxes that the family has owed since 2009. The lawsuit claims the Justices have "neglected or refused to make full payment" on the debt, according to the report. It adds that Justice and his wife must pay any debts that the court "deems just and proper." Justice replaced former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the Senate in 2025. Before that, he served as West Virginia's governor from 2017 until 2025. The lawsuit was filed about a month after the IRS filed a lien against…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago (267+ words) President Donald Trump was nearly banned from appearing on his favorite television channel after he broke its "golden rule," according to a new report. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that unsealed documents show Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch telling star Fox News host Sean Hannity not to book Trump because he was using his airtime to attack the channel. The exchange followed an appearance by Trump in October 2020, where he attacked two of Fox News' journalists, according to the report. "Sean, sorry, but the president is not coming back on air if he uses it to attack us," Murdoch wrote to Hannity, according to the report. "It is the same rule we have with the other side. This is a golden rule." The document obtained by The Daily Beast redacted Hannity's response, the report adds. Trump was invited back…...

4+ hour, 26+ min ago (236+ words) President Donald Trump and his administration's Department of Justice got a brutal tongue-lashing by the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday for the failure of their "revenge lawfare" scheme, branding them as the "gang that couldn't indict straight." This follows a federal judge's move to dismiss the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey for false statements and New York Attorney General Letitia James for bank fraud, because the inexperienced and ill-equipped prosecutor Trump installed, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed to the U.S. attorney's office. The vacancy law that lets presidents fill prosecutor offices on a 120-day basis, wrote the board, "is designed for a temporary fill-in, not Senate circumvention" " and the judge called out the DOJ on their misuse of the law. The upshot, the board wrote, is that "This is what happens when officials don't follow legal…...

4+ hour, 27+ min ago (183+ words) A GOP strategist turned anti-Trump activist on Monday slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest threat to a Democratic lawmaker over a social media video that circulated last week. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a retired astronaut and former naval officer, appeared in a video with five other Democratic lawmakers last week, telling military troops that they do not have to obey illegal orders. The video was widely condemned by President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, with the president describing it as a "seditious act." "Today, we have another grotesque corruption," Schmidt said. "The corruption of the U.S. military, a kangaroo court court-martial threat, precisely of the type Jackie Robinson had to deal with, precisely the type of court-martial that Benjamin O. Davis had to face, the type of Mickey Mouse court-martial that Dick Winters had to face down, for those of you…...

4+ hour, 37+ min ago (325+ words) Speaker Johnson defends Crenshaw after he was reportedly banned from congressional overseas travel by Gabby Birenbaum, The Texas Tribune November 24, 2025 WASHINGTON " Speaker Mike Johnson is defending U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, in the wake of a report that his behavior on a congressional delegation trip to Mexico in August was inappropriate. The dispute stems from an incident in which Crenshaw, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and the chair of a now-dissolved cartel task force, reportedly toasted a Mexican official who had made a crude joke that made a woman in the room uncomfortable, according to anonymous sources in Punchbowl News. Following the trip, Punchbowl reported that House Intelligence Committee chair Rick Crawford, R-Arkansas, banned Crenshaw from taxpayer-funded travel outside the country for 90 days. Crawford saw that decision "as being authorized by the GOP leadership," Punchbowl reported. The outlet went…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago (965+ words) Head of Texas" largest business organization accused of sexual assault in lawsuit by Kayla Guo and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune November 24, 2025 An unidentified woman accused Glenn Hamer, president and CEO of the Texas Association of Business, of sexually harassing and assaulting her before retaliating against her through his perch atop the powerful business group when she rejected his overtures, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Travis County. The woman, identified in her court filing as "Jane Doe," was described on social media by her attorney, Tony Buzbee, as the founder and executive director of Texas Venture Alliance, an advocacy group for startups and entrepreneurs. She is seeking more than $10 million in damages. In a statement, TAB Board of Directors Chair Bill Jones said the organization was aware of the lawsuit and was putting Hamer on administrative leave "while…...