California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters in Stockton, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed on May 27 to confiscate through a 100 percent tax all payouts to state residents from President Donald Trump’s anti-weaponization settlement fund. “Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want
An aerial view shows the Kayenta Solar Plant in Kayenta, Ariz., on June 23, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year pulls the plug on federal funding for solar and wind development. It cuts energy efficiency programs by nearly 70 percent, eliminates state and local weatherization subsidies, and
Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Zach Wahls promoted an anti-police bail fund that helped free dozens of Black Lives Matter rioters arrested in the wake of George Floyd’s death for attacking officers, vandalizing businesses, and smashing the windows of a courthouse in downtown Des Moines. One of the freed agitators attempted to set the courthouse on
The federal investigation into staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency—the U.N. Gaza relief organization that’s been closely linked to Hamas—will soon encompass at least 1,500 UNRWA-linked individuals suspected of terror ties. This unprecedented dragnet—reported here for the first time by the Washington Free Beacon—exposes an aid group brimming with Hamas operatives, and
The wife of embattled New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, who along with Kristof worked as a Times correspondent in China and was recently appointed vice chair of the executive committee of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, is a member of a Chinese government-linked group known for “doing Beijing’s bidding in the US.” The group, the
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into whether author E. Jean Carroll committed perjury in connection with her civil lawsuits against President Trump, sources familiar with the matter said. The investigation is being led out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, one of the sources added. Carroll sued
A software engineer at Google is facing federal charges after allegedly betting on confidential company information on Polymarket, netting more than $1.2 million in profits, the second insider trading prosecution against a user of the popular prediction market service in recent months. In court papers released by the Justice Department, Michele Spagnuolo was accused of