A federal judge in Virginia ordered former CIA officer David Rush held without bail Friday after prosecutors accused him of building a long career inside the intelligence world on alleged deception, fabricated credentials, and false claims. U.S. District Judge William Fitzpatrick ruled that Rush, 49, posed a serious flight

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday targeting illegal immigrants accused of defrauding taxpayer-funded welfare programs, approving the measure despite opposition from most Democrats. Lawmakers voted 231-186 to pass the Deporting Fraudsters Act, with 186 Democrats voting against the bill. The legislation, introduced by Rep. David

U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli is accusing California officials of blocking a federal audit of the state’s voter rolls, escalating a growing fight over election integrity in the nation’s largest blue state. Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, said his

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is warning that voters in her state may ultimately decide that Graham Platner, her likely Democratic opponent in the 2026 midterm elections, is too radical to represent them in the U.S. Senate. Platner, an oyster farmer and Marine veteran, is trying to position himself

The battle over election integrity is heating up again in Washington after a late-night Senate vote showed that President Donald J. Trump’s SAVE America Act now has majority support in the upper chamber, even as Senate procedure continues to stand in the way of final passage. The legislation,

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood, the Oregon Republican whose long political career ended in disgrace after accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct, died Saturday at the age of 93. His family provided media outlets with an obituary announcing his death. A cause of death was not disclosed. Packwood’s

A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked one of President Donald J. Trump’s boldest attempts to overhaul the H-1B visa system, delivering a major legal setback to the administration’s push to protect American workers from abuse in the high-skilled labor market. U.S. District Judge Leo

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is joining a growing chorus of Republicans criticizing California’s vote-counting process, warning that the state’s prolonged delays are damaging public trust in elections. During an interview with John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby on WABC 770 AM, the former Republican speaker from California

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democrats backed an aggressive redistricting plan designed to help Democrats gain as many as five U.S. House seats. But one newly called race has already delivered an embarrassing setback for the party. Two Republican candidates in California’s 40th Congressional District have advanced

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a major ruling in favor of Mississippi death row inmate Terry Pitchford, finding that he was denied a fair opportunity to challenge the prosecution’s removal of Black jurors during his trial. In a narrow 5-4 decision in Pitchford v. Cain, the Court