California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration shut down a highly trained, all-volunteer team of certified firefighters in early 2024—a move that rendered the California National Guard incapable of sending a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles until 10 days after the deadly fires broke out in the city, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Launched in
There's been no let-up in the war of words between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as Trump arrives in Los Angeles to survey damage from the horrific wildfires
Maryland cases were part of climate activists’ efforts to bankrupt oil companies Offshore oil and gas platform in the Pacific Ocean (Mario Tama/Getty Images) A Maryland judge dismissed two landmark lawsuits that accused some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies of causing climate change—a massive defeat for climate activists and Democrats who have
Pro-life grandmother Joan Bell, sentenced in November 2023 for blocking a D.C. abortion clinic in 2020, was one of the nearly two dozen activists pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Trump has stripped other former Trump administration officials of their security detail since taking office. President Donald Trump has terminated former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci’s security detail. Trump justified the move on Jan. 24. “When you work for government, at some point, your security detail comes off and you
They involve voter identification rules and water, the president signaled. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he wants Los Angeles and California to fulfill two requirements before he offers federal support to wildfire-devastated areas in the state. “I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter ID, so that the people have a
Some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial executive branch nominees are set to appear before Congressional committees next week.