U.S. District Judge James Dever III denied a court order Friday that would have blocked elections from proceeding in two North Carolina Senate districts due to claims of racial gerrymandering. Plaintiffs Rodney Pierce and Moses Matthews argued that Districts 1 and 2 in the new map for the 2024 North Carolina elections were gerrymandered to reduce Black voters’ power‚ which violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The suit states that “voting in the region is also highly polarized along...

Last week‚ Joe Biden decided to hang with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and some construction workers in Superior‚ Wisconsin. It was an effort to shore up support with labor’s rank-and-file‚ which has been shaky. In the picture‚ Joe Biden is seen wearing a hard hat backward. In a way‚ the photo captured the ongoing incompetency of this presidency: they do everything wrong. It's bad enough that the president botched a simple photo opportunity. It’s even worse than Snopes‚ a lefty fact-checking...

An 18th-century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7‚500 during the Great Depression‚ the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced Friday. The 40-inch-by-50-inch John Opie painting — titled "The Schoolmistress" — is the sister painting of a similar work housed in the Tate Britain art gallery in London. Authorities believe the piece was stolen with the help of a former New Jersey lawmaker‚...

Georgia's state Senate is forming a committee tasked with investigating anti-Trump DA Fani Willis. The investigative body‚ which will have six Republicans and three Democrats‚ has full subpoena power and the ability to require testimony given under oath. By a 30-19 vote‚ the GOP-led upper house of Georgia's General Assembly greenlighted the special committee's creation Friday‚ passing a resolution (S.R. 465) proposed by Republican state Sen. Greg Dolezal‚ who serves as the Senate's chief...

At least 12 employees of the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency had connections to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups‚ according to intelligence reports reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Six United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers were part of the wave of Palestinian militants who killed 1‚200 people in the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust‚ according to the intelligence...

Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson‚ two wildly different congressional GOP leaders‚ are about to find out whether they can extract immigration concessions from President Joe Biden — or whether Donald Trump and his allies will pull them apart. As a bipartisan group of senators labor to deliver a deal that would tie stricter border policies to Ukraine aid‚ with text expected as early as this week‚ McConnell and Johnson are facing a unity test that will define their party...

Iran is claiming that accusations of its involvement in an attack that left three U.S. service members dead in Jordan over the weekend are "baseless."  Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani also claimed that "resistance groups" in the region do not take orders from Iran‚ according to Reuters.  The remarks come after three American service members were killed and other were wounded in a drone attack near the Syrian border over the weekend. "While...

Former President Donald Trump has established himself as the clear favorite to secure the 2024 Republican presidential nomination following victories in the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses‚ sparking widespread speculation about who he might select as a running mate if he does fight for the White House again in November. On Tuesday‚ Trump won in New Hampshire with 54.3 percent of the vote against 43.7 percent for Nikki Haley‚ the former U.N. ambassador and...

The Donald Trump vice presidential reality selection show is heating up‚ with pundits laying out lists of possible people Trump might choose. They range from South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott‚ to Ohio Sen. JD Vance‚ to even former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. This may seem premature since Trump has only locked up 32 of the 1‚215 GOP delegates needed to secure the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. But with great confidence I can share how Trump will...