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The Department of Homeland Security slammed leftists whose riots caused a village outside of Chicago to declare a "civic emergency" after police were injured and a bomb threat was made -- all in the name of championing illegal aliens. For weeks, the tiny hamlet of Broadview, Illinois, has been ravaged...

A woman let a 9-year-old behind the wheel, and the result was predictably bad. In San Antonio, Texas, WOAI reports 25-year-old Ladeja Pickett was decorating for Christmas when police stated she needed to move her car out of the way. That's when she asked a 9-year-old girl in the neighborhood...

This is quite bizarre. A former congressional staffer for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, has been charged for allegedly staging her own assault. Prosecutors have claimed former congressional staffer Natalie Greene paid someone $500 to cut her dozens of times. CNN provided more details on the bizarre crime: A former congressional staffer has been charged for allegedly staging her own violent assault, for which she paid someone $500 to slice dozens of cuts into her body, according to prosecutors. Natalie Greene, who once worked for GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew, according to his office, is now facing charges of conspiracy and making false statements to law enforcement. The Justice Department alleges that on the night of July 23, Greene’s co-conspirator — a woman who was not named in the criminal complaint — called 911 to report that she and Greene were attacked by three men in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The co-conspirator claimed that the attackers referred to Greene by name and knew that she worked in Van Drew’s office. The Justice Department does not mention Van Drew by name in the complaint, calling him “Federal Official 1,” but the congressman’s office told CNN that Greene was once employed in his office. CNN has reached out to Greene’s attorney for comment. When law enforcement officers responded to the scene along a trail in a nature preserve, they found Greene “in a wooded area,” crying and screaming with her hands and feet bound with zip ties, and dozens of cuts on her body, including her face and chest, according to court documents. Two messages were written in black marker on her body: “TRUMP WHORE” on her stomach and Van Drew “IS RACIST” on her back. Investigators said in the complaint that Greene claimed the men who allegedly attacked her said they had a gun and “threatened to shoot her.” She told authorities she was held down while the men cut her and wrote on her body. The Justice Department said the investigation revealed that Greene had paid “a body modification/scarification artist” to make the cuts to her body before the staged attack. VAN DREW STAFFER FAKED ATTACK, PAID $500 TO CARVE ‘TRUMP WHORE’ ON HERSELF Federal prosecutors charged 26-year-old Natalie Greene with staging an elaborate hoax where she claimed three men assaulted her for working for Rep. Jeff Van Drew. The Rutgers law student actually… pic.twitter.com/pWc3zgcYuX — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 20, 2025 A watershed moment in MAGA’s ascendancy within the prestige economy: We are now producing hate crime hoaxers. Boy howdy, when white people fake crimes, they put the work in. This bitch hired a Hollywood scarification SFX artist for lifelike scars! https://t.co/MOp1xUxpsD — MILO (@Nero) November 20, 2025 The New Jersey Globe had these details to add to the story: Natalie Greene, a Rutgers law student, allegedly concocted the hoax in July, with an accomplice making a late-night 911 call to report that she had been ambushed by three men on a nature trail in Egg Harbor Township. Police officers found Greene bound with black zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and the political slurs scrawled across her torso. She told police that her supposed attackers had a gun and threatened to shoot her, and struck her in the head. Prosecutors say nearly every detail was fabricated. Greene allegedly drove to Pennsylvania and paid a body-modification artist $500 to carve the wounds on her face, neck, and upper body, using a pattern she had provided in advance. Investigators later found matching zip ties in her Maserati SUV. Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for “zip ties near me,” a discovery authorities cited as further proof that the incident was staged. She said one or more of her attackers had held her down, cutting her and writing on her body. Several days later, after receiving medical treatment for her wounds, Greene was again asked to describe her alleged attack to law enforcement officers, including an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Interviews of Greene and the co-conspirator did not match. Investigators used cell tower locations to obtain video footage and evidence that she went to a Dollar Store in Ventnor to purchase zip ties. Greene appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Pascal earlier today and was charged with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement, according to Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba. She was released on a $200,000 unsecured bond. The complaint did not identify the federal official, but the New Jersey Globe has confirmed that it was Van Drew. The co-conspirator has not been identified. She began working part-time for Van Drew in 2022 and later served as his constituent advocate. She started law school last fall.

This is a bit unusual. A new report by CNN has revealed President Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral. Despite former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden getting an invite to the funeral the sitting President and Vice President were not extended an invite. CNN broke the story of Trump and Vance not getting an invite: Past presidents and politicians of both parties will gather Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics. But neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance were invited to Cheney’s funeral, according to a source familiar with the matter. Cheney will receive full military honors at the memorial service, which is expected to be a bipartisan who’s who of Washington dignitaries. More than 1,000 guests are expected at the invitation-only funeral Thursday morning at Washington’s National Cathedral — including all four living former vice presidents and two former presidents. Former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden will pay their respects, along with former vice presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore and Dan Quayle. There are also expected to be a number of Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan. A large number of past and present Cabinet members from both Republican and Democratic administrations will also attend, as well as congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle.Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi is expected to attend along with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and former leader Mitch McConnell. The White House has confirmed the report: A senior WH official confirms President Trump was not invited to attend VP Dick Cheney’s funeral tomorrow. @weijia pic.twitter.com/0K3Ev1BgtM — Ryan Sprouse (@RSprouseNews) November 20, 2025 The New York Post noted Trump did not offer any condolences for Cheney: The White House offered no public condolences Tuesday on the death of former Vice President Dick Cheney — saying flags were lowered to half-staff at the executive mansion because the law requires it. President Trump has repeatedly attacked Cheney, who died Monday at age 84, as a “warmonger” and sparred with his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) who served as the top Republican on the House select committee that investigated Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Both Dick and Liz Cheney endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s election, with the former VP saying Trump was the greatest threat to the country since its founding. “Last I checked, the president had not commented on the death of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Is the White House involved in the funeral arrangements in any way?” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked during her regular briefing. Leavitt tersely replied: “I don’t believe the White House is involved in that planning, or at least hasn’t gotten to it yet. I know the president is aware of the former vice president’s passing, and as you saw, flags have been lowered to half staff in according to a statutory law.”

This was a bizarre move by Representative Clay Higgins. On Tuesday Republican lawmaker Clay Higgins of Louisiana was the lone lawmaker to vote no on the release of the Epstein Files. Now Higgins has revealed why he decided to vote no. The Hill reported more on Higgin’s bizarre move and shared details on his explanation on why he decided to vote no on the bill: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) was the only House member to vote against a bill Tuesday that will order the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Higgins, a conservative with a background in law enforcement, said he’s been a “principled ‘NO’” on the Epstein Files Transparency Act “from the beginning.” “As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people — witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc,” he wrote Tuesday in a statement on social platform X. “If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt,” the Louisiana Republican added. “Not by my vote.” The lawmaker in his official bio touts himself as “one of the most conservative members of Congress” and often leans into his law enforcement background. He’s also a member of the House Freedom Caucus and serves as chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee, where he’s tasked with investigating corruption. Throughout his involvement in politics, Higgins has remained lockstep with key principles that “champion for smaller government, lower taxes, secure borders, and individual freedoms,” according to his website. He has close ties with organizations that advance those core components, including the Three Percenters, which are known for promoting a decentralized and anti-government movement, in addition to the Oath Keepers, who define themselves as a far-right anti-government militia. The House voted nearly unanimously to release all federal investigative materials on Jeffrey Epstein. Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins was the sole member of the House of Representatives to cast a “no” vote. pic.twitter.com/7u6ZZDrrlt — New York Post (@nypost) November 18, 2025 I have been a principled “NO” on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses,… — Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) November 18, 2025 Here’s Higgin’s full response: I have been a principled “NO” on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House.

Justice is back in our nation’s capital! The House of Representatives just passed a couple of bills aimed at overhauling the criminal justice and policing system in Washington, D.C. The first bill, introduced by Rep. Elise Stefanik, bans no-cash bail and prevents rogue judges from letting routine offenders out onto the streets. BREAKING: The US House has just voted to BAN no-cash bail in Washington, DC, and prevents activist judges from routinely letting vioIent criminals back on the street FINALLY! No-cash bail needs to be banned NATIONWIDE! pic.twitter.com/hH5257oEef — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 20, 2025 The second bill repeals certain restrictions on the police, like a ban on choke-holds and a requirement for expanded body cameras. The House just passed @Rep_Clyde‘s bill that repeals D.C.’s soft-on-crime police overhaul and restores real law-and-order standards. H.R. 5107 will scrap DC’s reckless policing act and return real authority to officers who keep the city safe. Let’s Make D.C. Safe Again! pic.twitter.com/T0OxR8AFCO — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) November 20, 2025 The New York Post has more specifics on what these two bills include: The House passed a pair of bills Wednesday repealing cashless bail in DC and much of a law passed by the city’s council in 2022 that limited cops’ use of force — including banning chokeholds — and their ability to collectively negotiate disciplinary actions against them. The first measure, introduced by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), would mandate pretrial and post-conviction detention for dangerous or violent crimes and require mandatory cash bail for offenders who pose a threat to public safety in the nation’s capital — and it passed in a 237-179 vote. The other piece of legislation doing away with the DC Council’s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 sailed through the House in a 233-190 vote. Stefanik described her bill as a “precursor” to an effort aimed at scrapping New York’s “failed bail reform.” “New Yorkers know that Kathy Hochul’s failed bail reform has unleashed a crime wave across our state by emboldening violent criminals and putting law-abiding New Yorkers in harm’s way,” Stefanik told The Post. “Kathy Hochul’s failed bail reform has literally caused murders, assaults, rapes, and heinous crimes to be committed against law-abiding New Yorkers.” “Today I proudly voted to end cashless bail in DC, which Congress has jurisdiction over, and this is a precursor to next month when Congress will pass my bill to end New York’s failed bail reform,” she added. “Kathy Hochul is incapable of making New York safe, so I will come over the top of her and pass this in Congress.” Of course, this comes after President Trump ordered a federal takeover of D.C. earlier this year that proved largely successful at making our capital a safe, beautiful place to be once again. He cleaned up the streets, and now Congress is acting to make sure it stays that way. However, both of the bills will still need to pass in the Senate. This will require at least 60 votes, which will prove more difficult. Roll Call noted: Both bills now head to the Senate, where seven Democrats would have to vote with all Republicans to overcome a filibuster and send the legislation to President Donald Trump. “Cashless bail allows dangerous, violent criminals on our streets. For far too long, dangerous criminals have been allowed to roam the streets of Washington, D.C., posing a threat to the general public,” said Oversight Chair James R. Comer, R-Ky., on the floor. Under Comer’s leadership, the panel has repeatedly taken aim at D.C. in recent years, casting it as a poorly run city rife with crime. In September, the committee favorably reported more than a dozen GOP-sponsored bills that would reshape local law. That same month, Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb were summoned to the Hill for a contentious hearing on the state of the city in the wake of Trump’s surge of National Guard members and federal agents. Congress has broad constitutional jurisdiction over D.C. and under the 1973 Home Rule Act has the authority to overrule local laws passed by the D.C. Council. In September, the House passed four pieces of legislation targeting local policies, mostly on party lines. One would lower the standards for D.C. police to engage in car chases. A second bill would eliminate the local commission tasked with nominating D.C. judges, instead giving the power to the president. The others would drop the maximum age for youth offenders from 24 to 18 and allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults in certain cases. None of those bills has gotten a vote in the Senate. What do you think? Do you support these bills to crack down on the D.C. criminal justice system?

Before passing the funding package that ultimately brought an end to the government shutdown, the GOP slipped in a very sneaky provision that benefits themselves at the expense of the taxpayer. Basically, it allows the senators who were illegally spied on by the Biden DOJ and Jack Smith during Operation Arctic Frost to sue the federal government for $500K (in taxpayer money) per violation. Full scoop on that here: GOP Slips Provision Allowing Senators to SUE the Federal Government For MILLIONS Into Shutdown-Ending Bill The provision was extremely controversial, and many House Republicans wanted the amendment removed before passing the funding package. Unfortunately, that didn't end up happening. But now, the House has just voted unanimously to repeal it. Check it out: ? BREAKING: The House just voted UNANIMOUSLY to repeal the law that lets GOP senators sue the government and get $500K EACH because they were spied on by the Biden administration and Jack Smith 426-0. The Senate would still need to pass this. pic.twitter.com/DG4XKM4glb — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 20, 2025 GIVE AND TAKE: House Democrats and Republicans voted 426–0 to remove a provision in the government shutdown bill that allowed senators whose phone records were targeted by former Special Counsel Jack Smith to sue the federal government for up to $500,000. pic.twitter.com/ozYb9hUAJS — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 20, 2025 In principle, this is great. Why should senators get the privilege of suing the government for millions of dollars in taxpayer money over being spied on? That's not going to hold anyone accountable or solve anything. It's only going to line the pockets of the likes of Lindsey Graham! By the way, a few of the senators have come out and said that, despite the law allowing for it, they won't sue. But not Lindsey Graham. Nope. He's only doubled down. CBS News reported: Most of the eight senators said they do not plan to seek damages under the new law. And Thune said it isn't about the money, but the principle. "I don't think there's anybody that was targeted for whom the money matters," he said. Graham, however, indicated he plans to take action. "If you think I'm going to settle this thing for a million dollars — no," he said last week. "I want to make it so painful no one ever does this again." You hear that? He plans on milking the taxpayer for every cent he can get! This idea of compensation is ridiculous. Instead, Jack Smith and the rest of those responsible for carrying out the illegal surveillance should be prosecuted. But, unfortunately, this measure would also have to pass in the Senate in order to be repealed. Fat chance of that happening. ABC News has more: The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a measure to repeal controversial language in the government funding bill that allows senators to sue the government if their phones are investigated without their knowledge. Senate Majority Leader John Thune earlier Wednesday continued to be noncommittal about what the Senate will do after the House acts. The provision was inserted at Thune's request, ABC News learned, into the massive government funding bill that passed Congress and was signed into law last week at Thune's request. The majority leader, who has control over what legislation is voted on in the Senate, did not commit to taking any sort of action in the Senate if the House's effort to remove the language is successful and offered a defense of the provision. "You have an independent, coequal branch of the government whose members were, through illegal means, having their phone records acquired, spied on if you will, through a weaponized Biden Justice Department. That to me demands some accountability," Thune said. "And so, I think everybody is focusing on the private right of action, and whatever the number, you know the number that they agreed on. I think the important thing in all of this is, where's the accountability, and what is the consequence of bad behavior." The legislation that was approved as part of the funding bill gives senators the ability to sue the government retroactively for $500,000 per device accessed as part of an investigation. Eight Republican senators had their phone records subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith as part of his investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and would be eligible to sue under the law.

President Trump has announced newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani will be coming to the White House on Friday. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social and called Mamdani a “Communist.” Take a look: Zohran Mamdani has made it clear he doesn’t like President Trump. The Guardian reported Madani called out Trump during his election victory speech: ‘Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, issued a direct call to Donald Trump in his victory speech on Tuesday night, saying he would enter City Hall with a firm plan to counter the politics of division and cronyism that helped elevate him to the White House. Mamdani, speaking to supporters in Brooklyn after a decisive victory over Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, said New York had shown it would be the “light” in a “moment of political darkness”. “Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall,” Mamdani, who will be the city’s first Muslim mayor, said. “No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.” The mayor-elect then issued a direct message to the president, saying if any city could show the nation how to defeat Trump, it was the “city that gave rise to him”. “So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up,” Mamdani said, to raucous applause. Watch here: Mamdani: So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up. pic.twitter.com/HE2Pr7EFgh — Acyn (@Acyn) November 5, 2025 Politico reported what topics President Trump and Mamdani are expected to discuss: Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said the mayor and president would discuss public safety, economic security and “the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.” On Monday, Mamdani told reporters he reached out to the White House to set up a meeting with Trump to discuss affordability, a central tenant of his campaign. In an interview on MS NOW Friday evening, Mamdani said he plans to remind the president of his campaign pledge to lower costs. “I want to just speak plainly to the president about what it means to actually stand up for New Yorkers, and the way in which New Yorkers are struggling to afford this city,” Mamdani added.

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has just designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. The move authorizes heightened enforcement against both organizations and [...] The post Texas Governor Designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR As Foreign Terrorist Organizations appeared first on The People's Voice.