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A missing 14-year-old girl was rescued from a drug-filled motel room in Memphis on Monday night in what police are investigating as a child trafficking incident. The man found with the child was arrested and taken away by a swath of federal, state, and local police on site.That man is... Read more

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum condemned the ideology of the white nationalist group Patriot Front but stopped short of saying President Donald Trump should publicly denounce the organization, instead emphasizing that the First Amendment protects even offensive speech.“I think certainly what they stand for is nothing I could possibly agree with,”... Read more

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the algae in the Reflecting Pool was “in the pipes” and is now all gone despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that vandals had introduced the organisms to the pool.Appearing on CNN the day after the U.S. celebrated its 250th birthday, the conversation quickly switched to... Read more

Trump took the stage at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., around 11:15 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday night after a severe thunderstorm warning and inclement weather earlier in the day cast doubt upon how and when Trump’s keynote address would be delivered.The president claimed 150,000 people still attended the... Read more

President Donald Trump promised Saturday night to deliver a speech on the United States’s 250th Independence Day despite an earlier thunderstorm warning that prompted Freedom 250 organizers to evacuate the National Mall.“Storms bring luck to whatever the occasion,” Trump said on Truth Social. “We will wait it out, I don’t... Read more

Amid a record-setting heat wave that began earlier in the week on the East Coast, the warning was issued at 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time with a severity of “significant threat to life or property.” The warning is currently in effect until 10:00 p.m. Temperatures throughout Friday and Saturday rose above... Read more

President Donald Trump touted the crowds in Washington, D.C., who came to celebrate the United States’ 250th Independence Day on Saturday afternoon while wishing the nation a happy Fourth of July ahead of an address tonight.Trump also downplayed the heat wave that started blanketing the East Coast earlier in the... Read more

The National Birthday Cake Tribute was unveiled at the Library of Congress’s Madison Hall, according to a press release sent to the Washington Examiner. The six-foot-tall sculpture was made by acclaimed cake artist Grace Pak, owner of Duchess of Cameron. Pak is also known for competing on season three of Is... Read more

Ahead of Independence Day, the two figureheads of America’s political parties offered competing visions for the nation’s future, each before symbols of the country’s past.On Friday, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered an address from George Washington’s desk in Federal Hall in New York City. Hours later, President Donald... Read more

The president and Thune have shared a tense relationship in recent weeks over the Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act. Pressure mounted when Trump axed a signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill in late June in an attempt to pressure Senate Republicans into passing the SAVE Act.Despite... Read more

President Donald Trump maintains financial ties to the gaming website Roblox, as numerous lawsuits accuse it of failing to protect child users from predators.Trump made 12 stock purchases in the company, eight sales, and earned dividends and capital gains of less than $1,000 each in 2025, according to his newly... Read more

President Donald Trump, speaking in front of Mount Rushmore, used his address on the eve of America’s 250th birthday to warn that there is a “resurgence of the Communist menace in our land.”His speech came just hours after Zohran Mamdani, the socialist mayor of New York, used a speech while... Read more