Mary McCue Bell

EPA waives gas restrictions to ease rising energy costs

The Trump administration will now allow high-ethanol gasoline to be sold year-round as the White House seeks to relieve concerns and ease energy costs for consumers over rising gas prices amid the Iran war.

March 25, 2026

Raskin interrogates patent director over filing Board of Peace trademark

The director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told lawmakers Wednesday that he filed to trademark President Trump's Board of Peace because bad actors were taking advantage of its domain name.

March 25, 2026

TSA wait times dwindle after ICE deploys to airports

Hourslong lines at airport security checkpoints are easing up as ICE officers help TSA.

March 25, 2026

John Fetterman rips Democrats for lackluster response over illegal immigrant killing college student

Sen. John Fetterman criticized his fellow Democrats on Tuesday over their tepid response to the fatal shooting of a college freshman in Chicago, allegedly by an illegal immigrant.

March 24, 2026

Trump casts mail-in ballot despite calling it ‘cheating’

President Trump cast a mail-in ballot ahead of Florida's Tuesday special election, despite criticizing it as a source of fraud and pushing Congress to rein in the voting method.

March 24, 2026

Energy exec Alan Armstrong tapped to fill Mullin’s Senate seat

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed oil executive Alan Armstrong to fill Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's Senate seat.

March 24, 2026

Imprisoned MS-13 gang member sues Trump administration to get sex-change treatment

An incarcerated MS-13 gang member wants to join a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union to prevent the Trump administration from prohibiting access to sex-change treatments while behind bars.

March 24, 2026

Senate debate on SAVE America Act continues into second week as Democrats block GOP amendment

Republicans have begun putting Democrats on the record on President Trump's top legislative priorities as the Senate heads into its second week debating the SAVE America Act.

March 22, 2026

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who probed supposed Russian election interference, dies

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the investigation into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election, died Friday at 81 years old.

March 21, 2026

Democrats block bill to ban biological men in female sports

An amendment to the SAVE America Act banning biological males in women's sports failed on the Senate floor.

March 21, 2026

Trump threatens to send ICE to airports if DHS isn’t funded

President Trump has a solution to Congress' failure to pay TSA officers: sending ICE agents in their place.

March 21, 2026

DOJ denies outside influence from Trump ally in antitrust reviews

Trump ally and lawyer Mike Davis allegedly pushed antitrust officials at the Justice Department to approve his deals, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.

March 21, 2026

National Guard to stay in D.C. until 2029

The Pentagon is planning to keep the National Guard in the District of Columbia through the end of President Trump's second term, meaning the federal mission would extend through Jan. 20, 2029, according to multiple reports.

March 20, 2026

U.S. military strikes another suspected drug-smuggling vessel

The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, leaving three survivors, U.S. Southern Command announced.

March 20, 2026

Judge orders family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos deported

An immigration judge has denied an asylum claim and ordered deportation for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Minnesota boy caught up in the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

March 20, 2026

‘This is not acceptable’: Sheriff denounces antisemitic attack on Michigan synagogue

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard condemned the antisemitism he said was behind the recent attack on a synagogue in his Michigan community.

March 20, 2026

CBS News to shutter CBS News Radio and lay off staff

CBS News is axing dozens of staffers and ending its 99-year-old CBS News Radio as Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss continues to revamp the broadcast network.

March 20, 2026

Arkansas governor asked to leave restaurant because it made people ‘uncomfortable’

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was asked to leave a restaurant in Little Rock because her presence made the employees feel "threatened."

March 19, 2026

The truth is out there — and it’s getting a .gov address

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, under the Department of Homeland Security, registered the two extraterrestrial sites Tuesday, according to get.gov, the domain registry managed by the CISA.

March 19, 2026

FBI probe targets ex-top intelligence official Joe Kent for leaking classified information

The FBI has opened an investigation into Joe Kent, who resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center this week, over allegations that he improperly shared classified information, according to multiple reports.

March 19, 2026