Politics

Someday very soon, a single district court judge in Texas could order the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, cutting off access — nationwide — to the most widely-used abortifacient in the United States. (The earliest a decision is expected is next Friday, February 24.) If …

Sen. John Fetterman checked into Walter Reed on Wednesday night for clinical depression, his office announced on Thursday. The first-term senator from Pennsylvania’s trip to Walter Reed comes a week after he was discharged from George Washington Hospital after he began feeling ill on a Senate Democratic retreat. It also …

Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Jim Banks have introduced legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives seeking to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military. The Ensuring Military Readiness Act would ensure that “persons who identify as transgender with ahistory of diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from …

Nikki Haley is running for president, which she may find difficult considering how she’s praised the far-more-popular candidate she’s going to have to defeat to secure the Republican nomination. The former South Carolina governor is going to need to find a way to differentiate herself from Donald Trump if she …

China’s spy balloon took off from a base on Hainan Island along the country’s southern coast, American intelligence reportedly believes. New satellite imagery obtained by researchers shows that the island is home to a balloon launch facility. Researchers at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies identified the facility in satellite …

Federal prosecutors are looking to cut through Former President Donald Trump’s staunch wall of lawyers by using the crime-fraud exception to compel the testimony of his lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, before a grand jury, the New York Times reports. The crime fraud exception voids legal secrecy when a client has …

The U.S. Army Special Forces, better known as the Green Berets, has a serious problem with substance abuse and fatal drug overdoses. The same is true of the Army’s two most important infantry divisions: the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. That’s the takeaway of data released by …

The Justice Department will not charge Matt Gaetz after a prolonged investigation into whether he sex trafficked a 17-year-old girl, CNN reported on Wednesday. Gaetz’s office confirmed the news in a statement to Rolling Stone: “The Department of Justice has confirmed to Congressman Gaetz’s attorneys that their investigation has concluded …

“What do you think of firing squads?” That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign, three people familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone. It’s not an idle inquiry: The former president, if re-elected, is still committed to expanding the …

The military on Sunday shot down an unidentified high-altitude object flying above Lake Huron. The New York Times reported that the Air Force took down the UFO with a Sidewinder air-to-air missile in a strike ordered by President Biden. Fox News reported on Monday, however, that it took two Sidewinders …