Michael Katz

1 day ago | newsmax.com | Michael Katz

The Trump administration on Wednesday selected a Navy admiral and an Air Force general to lead U.S. Central Command and U.S. Africa Command. The Pentagon said in a news release that Navy Vice Adm. Charles "Brad" Cooper has been selected to lead CENTCOM, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, and Air Force Lt. Gen. Dagvin R. M. Anderson to lead AFRICOM, which oversees U.S. troops and operations across most of the African continent.

2 days ago | newsmax.com | Michael Katz

A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday ordered the release of documents related to the deportation of illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, rejecting the Trump administration's argument that the contents could risk national security.

2 days ago | newsmax.com | Michael Katz

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in Congress are pushing for the Muslim Brotherhood to be labeled as a foreign terrorist organization. The push comes amid a rapid rise of antisemitic attacks on U.S. soil, including Sunday, when an Egyptian man is accused of tossing Molotov cocktails and using a makeshift flamethrower to injure more than a dozen people at a peaceful rally sponsored by a Jewish group in Boulder, Colorado.

2 days ago | newsmax.com | Michael Katz

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley said Tuesday his organization is intervening in litigation involving a March executive order by President Donald Trump that seeks, among other things, to enhance voter citizenship verification and ban foreign nationals from interfering in U.S. elections. "Leftist groups are attacking President Trump's election integrity Executive Order," Whatley wrote in a post on X.

2 days ago | newsmax.com | Michael Katz

Elon Musk, about a week removed from his role as a special government employee who led the Department of Government Efficiency, further criticized a reconciliation budget bill working its way through Congress, saying a new one should be drafted. "No one who actually reads the bill should be able to stomach it," Musk wrote Wednesday in a post on X, which he owns. Musk was responding to a post of a video of House Speaker Mike Johnson saying, "Elon and I left on a great note .