Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are escalating their investigation into Minnesota’s sweeping fraud schemes, setting a hearing next week and demanding answers from Gov. Tim Walz’s administration over what they say were glaring failures of oversight. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced lawmakers would hold a hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 7, evaluating the fraud scandal, its scale and whether the state’s leadership could have done...

As senior U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino continued to suggest that the agency will be in Chicago “for years,” former Windy City Mayor Lori Lightfoot told the federal official that his “day of reckoning is fast approaching.” “If you think we’re done with Chicago, you’d better check yourself before you wreck yourself,” Bovino, commander of Operation At Large in California, wrote in a post on X. “Don’t...

President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 attempting what had eluded his predecessors: personally engaging both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an effort to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. From high-profile summits to direct phone calls, the administration pushed for a negotiated settlement even as the fighting ground on and the map changed little. By year’s end, the outlines of...