Oregon's biggest city still has not recovered from the destructive rioting in the wake of the death of George Floyd in 2020, and the resulting "defund the police" has seriously undermined the Portland Police Bureau as crime skyrockets and dwindling police resources slow response times. A new report released Thursday...

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A new report suggests that a 40-minute period in which a brush fire on Maui was not being monitored was the critical window during which what had been a small fire morphed into a raging blaze that devastated the town of Lahaina, Hawaii. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that...

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Micah 2:1 refers to the wicked and how they stay up at night thinking up evil in their beds. One of these newest evils comes in the open blaspheming of one of the oldest creeds of the Christian faith known as the "Apostles' Creed" or the "Old Roman Creed." The...

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not yet off the hook. The 60-year-old Republican is back on the job, being acquitted by the state Senate last week after a more than three-month suspension as a result of being impeached by the state house on charges of bribery and abuse of...

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A Las Vegas teen is now likely facing a murder rap and will be charged as an adult after a video posted to social media seems to show that he went out of his way to run down and kill a 64-year-old bicycle rider. Last weekend, video of the horrendous...

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There has been no shortage of hot takes about Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and her recent expulsion from a Colorado theater. The lawmaker has faced criticism for reportedly vaping and being disruptive during a performance of “Beetlejuice” while she was out on a date. While some are calling...

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In a political world in which power flows through the words of the media, major changes are taking shape in the media world of Maine. Politically, Main is a divided state, in which Republicans such as U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Democrats such as Gov. Janet Mills each hold office....

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A proposed bill backed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to fund defense spending in the next fiscal year went down to defeat Tuesday, a casualty in a House of Representatives where efforts to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown are colliding with fierce conservative opposition to spending increases....

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A former NFL player who has been reported missing has been seen in an Instagram video expressing bizarre theories about his own mother's murder. Sergio Brown appeared in a video Monday pointing to the FBI and the Maywood, Illinois, Police Department as responsible for the killing, according to Fox News....

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The battle between former President Trump and the cabal of desperate Democrats trying everything in their power to hurt him politically, only to have it have the opposite result, conjures up the image of pasty liberals sitting in the dark beside a cauldron of witches brew exclaiming, "Curses... foiled again!"...

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A post from the social media account of Donald Trump Jr. falsely claimed that former President Donald Trump had died on Wednesday morning after the account was apparently hacked. At 8:25 a.m. ET, the younger Trump's verified account on X, formerly known as Twitter, sent out a post claiming that...

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It's only going to get crazier. As the candidates for president and other offices get into gear, election officials in various states are also getting ready. And more likely than not, it's going to be chaos. On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania announced that all eligible Pennsylvanians will...

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Fox News is shaking up its weekend lineup and has added a second Mark Levin show as part of the changes. In addition to its longtime Sunday 8 p.m. time slot, “Life, Liberty & Levin” now airs on Saturdays at 8 p.m. as well, Meade Cooper, Fox's executive vice president...

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Listen to Democrats and you'd think that the border crisis was over. The number of people who are crossing is way, way down from the start of the crisis, they say -- and it's only dropped since Title 42 pandemic protections were ended earlier this year, according to Reuters! Sure,...

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Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, who has publicly opposed an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, has visions of working for CNN in his future. According to the New York Post, Buck began talking privately in August about moving to the network, the Post cited a source as saying....

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "Fetterman Rule" is meeting some stiff opposition from Senate Republicans -- and at least one Democrat. As you may recall, earlier this week, Schumer, a New York Democrat, announced he was scrapping the Senate's longstanding informal dress code. There wasn't a great clamor, mind you,...

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Let me pose a not-so-hypothetical hypothetical question to you. You, we will pretend, are a member in good standing of the U.S. intelligence community. A few weeks before a presidential election, a laptop alleged to have belonged to a presidential candidate's son with a great deal of compromising information about...

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When Robert Hunter Biden allegedly lied on a federal background check form in 2018 and illegally bought a firearm, who were the real victims? Were they the people who could have been harmed by a man who, by his own admission, was in the throes of a drug habit that...

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For the second consecutive week, New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis delivered a powerful message at a postgame press conference. Following the Saints' 20-17 victory over the Carolina Panthers on Monday night, the 34-year-old linebacker took no questions. Instead, he spent the entire press conference praising God and exhorting his...

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Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III argued in a court filing Saturday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' interpretation of the law in her 2020 election case against a former Trump Department of Justice official is an "affront to federal supremacy." In a lenthy declaration to U.S. District Judge...

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If you're casting your vote for President Joe Biden in 2024, you might as well be voting for President Kamala Harris -- at least according to a new poll that should be causing some sleepless nights at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The CBS News/YouGov poll found that only 34 percent of...

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