Fred Lucas

2 weeks ago | dailysignal.com | Fred Lucas

Capitol Police arrested a man outside The Heritage Foundation after he allegedly sprayed two security personnel with pepper spray. The incident occurred Wednesday morning outside the conservative policy organization, located on a busy thoroughfare just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. “Heritage believes in the First Amendment and respects American citizens’ right to disagree and to protest peacefully,” said Eric Korsvall, chief operating officer at The Heritage Foundation.

2 weeks ago | dailysignal.com | Fred Lucas

Four former staffers in the Joe Biden White House will voluntarily take questions from congressional investigators regarding the apparent cognitive decline of the 46th president. The two most prominent White House staffers will be former deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, and Neera Tanden, the former director of the Domestic Policy Council under Biden. Tanden will meet with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for a transcribed interview on June 24, according to a committee aide.

2 weeks ago | dailysignal.com | Fred Lucas

As Los Angeles rioters engaged in violence against law enforcement, while others blocked traffic or burned cars, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., focused her attention on taunting the deployedNational Guard troops in the city. “What are you all going to do? Are you going to shoot some kids?” Waters, 86, who has represented part of Los Angeles in Congress since 1991, shouted at the troops in a video widely circulated on social media.

2 weeks ago | dailysignal.com | Fred Lucas

Just two weeks after the Trump administration released federal immigration data to states, Texas identified 33 potential noncitizens who voted in the November 2024 election and referred them for criminal investigation. The state is only in its “early stages” of analyzing data, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said, so this could be the first round of discovery, as states have only had access to the immigration data since late May.

3 weeks ago | dailysignal.com | Fred Lucas

A federal judge who has ruled twice to halt executive actions by President Donald Trump previously gave about $500,000 in campaign contributions to DemocratsThe judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell of the District of Rhode Island, will also preside over yet another case involving Trump. All three cases involve federal funding.  In one case, McConnell sided with a coalition of Democrat state attorneys general to stop a federal funding freeze.