A House Judiciary Committee GOP report says police and sheriffs in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego declined 8,901 federal immigration holds, and it blames Gavin Newsom and Democratic city leaders. Patriot Daily Wire has not seen the report, and the figures are unverified.
Rep. Jared Huffman is asking appropriators to bar seawall money from paying for President Trump's East Potomac golf overhaul and to block any sale of the park to Trump or his businesses. With the course set to close Nov. 15 and a court fight reported underway, the issue now moves to the year-end spending bill.
A New York judge heard arguments Thursday on a request to remove Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell fraternity rape investigation over her social media posts about the accuser. He did not rule, and James remains on the case for now.
The Daily Caller reports that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, once married to Rep. Ilhan Omar, calls himself a "gay man" in an August academic paper. Its relevance to the federal inquiry into that marriage has not been established.
A bystander was shot in the shoulder outside the Republican Party of Virginia's Richmond offices days before Election Day. Police and the party say it appears unrelated to the party's operations.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju he will swear in the Democrats who win their midterm races, according to CNN's description of the exchange, and called speculation otherwise a "nonsense narrative." The full answer has not been available for review.
Hennepin County prosecutors have charged James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft over hidden-camera videos from Minnesota's August primary. Breitbart reports neither man cast a ballot, and Higby calls the case lawfare.
Gov. Kathy Hochul told NBC New York she was not interested in raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani sought to close a $12 billion deficit. A later New York Post story is dated Oct. 28, but its contents could not be verified.
President Trump alleges Alaska Democrats recruited a second Dan Sullivan to split the senator's vote, and he wants Mary Peltola removed from the ballot. Her campaign denies any involvement, and the allegations of perjury and fraud are his own, with no charge or ruling cited in the coverage we reviewed.
Jeremy Lewin, the State Department's Director of Policy Planning, announced he is leaving for the private sector. Axios, whose text was reviewed only through a search extract, says he helped lead Venezuela normalization and the Havana talks; no successor has been named.
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander to 30 years apiece for a sex-trafficking conspiracy that Courthouse News reports ran from 2009 to 2017. The terms are twice the maximum the defense sought and short of the life terms prosecutors wanted.
Three Democrat-led cities and an immigrant-aid group asked the Supreme Court to revive a 2024 rule that let immigration judges set some deportation cases aside. The Court declined in an unsigned order, and the accounts reviewed note no dissents.
Newly unsealed court papers show federal prosecutors have charged former FBI Director James Comey over an alleged 2016 leak of national defense information to The New York Times, with reports describing two counts. His lawyers say the statute of limitations bars the case and have moved to dismiss.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iran's economy is collapsing and predicts a deep contraction as an eight-week sanctions push called Operation Economic Outcast gets tougher. Every claim is his own, and no independent data confirming them has been found.
A Virginia judge granted a $2,500 bond for the man police say took a sledgehammer to the Iwo Jima memorial in Quantico. It emerged at Monday's hearing that ICE had lodged a detainer against him, and no ICE pickup has been reported.
The Justice Department is sending about 1,000 monitors to polling places in all 50 states for the midterms, its largest effort ever. Democratic groups have trained tens of thousands of volunteers to watch the watchers.
Eight days before the midterms, President Trump promised $1 million to anyone whose voter fraud tip leads to an arrest and conviction. The White House has not said who would pay, how to apply, or whether any agency is running it.
