White House orders Hegseth to stop polygraphs on Pentagon staff

The White House pulled the plug on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to root out leakers, according to a report. Patrick Weaver, a current adviser to Hegseth, alerted high-ranking administration officials that he could soon have to submit a polygraph test, the Washington Post reported. That prompted a call to Hegseth to […]Read More

Trump-inspired ‘Japanese first’ politician shakes up nation’s establishment

Japanese populist Sohei Kamiya stunned many in the country when his Sanseitō party won 14 seats in Japan’s Upper House elections last week. ‘From supermarket manager to bright political star … populism has hit the shores of Japan like a tsunami,’ Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital about 47-year-old Kamiya’s surprise […]Read More

Democrats are hammering Republicans on Epstein, but one senator brushed

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., believes it’s ‘weird’ that the Trump administration has not released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, but at one point, it was the last thing on her mind. Democrats have searched for an opening to sharpen their messaging against Republicans, and have pounced on the administration and their colleagues across the aisle […]Read More

Rubio rips Venezuela’s Maduro as ‘narco-terrorist’ leader threatening US one

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hammering Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Sunday as the South American country holds municipal elections to fill hundreds of mayoral positions and thousands of council seats. The municipal contests are happening one day before the one-year anniversary of Venezuela’s presidential election, which was widely condemned by the United States […]Read More

From talk to tactics: Trump pivots on Russia strategy to

President Donald Trump’s approach with Russian President Vladimir Putin pivoted drastically this month when, for the first time since returning to the White House, he not only confirmed his support for Ukraine in a NATO arms agreement but issued an ultimatum to the Kremlin chief. The warning came in a clear message: Enter into a […]Read More

Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with

Palantir has hit another major milestone in its meteoric stock rise. It’s now one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies. The provider of software and data analytics technology to defense agencies saw its stock rise about 3% on Friday to another record, lifting the company’s market cap to $375 billion, which puts it ahead […]Read More

DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified Trump-Russia docs: Here’s what they say

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a slew of documents this month, revealing that Obama administration officials ‘manufactured’ intelligence to push the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Here’s a look at the newly declassified records: Declassified Presidential Daily Brief Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently […]Read More

FTC firings take spotlight in Trump’s fight to erase independence

The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to fire numerous Democrat-appointed members of independent agencies, but one case still moving through the legal system carries the greatest implications yet for a president’s authority to do that. In Slaughter v. Trump, a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission has vowed to fight what […]Read More

DAVID MARCUS: Zany Zohran endorsement is existential choice for Hakeem

To endorse, or not to endorse, that is the question for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as New York City and the nation wait to see if this top Democrat will throw his backing behind socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. According to Zany Zohran’s backers, this should be a no-brainer. After all, Mamdani won […]Read More