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Wayne DeMario, a Florida Republican who voted for President Donald Trump, on Friday delivered a “desperate plea” to the president to return his wife, Yamile Alcantu, who’s been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for eight months.“Please get her home,” DeMario told Local10 on Friday. “Please, she does not deserve this. She is the sweetest person, and she prayed for you.”DeMario, a small business owner in Miami-Dade county, told Local10 he and his wife were Trump supporters prior to their ordeal.According to DeMario, Alcantu, who Local10 reports �

A stunning report in the Washington Post on Saturday reveals aides for President Donald Trump are running into “logistical challenges” surrounding how the U.S. military can spend “a whopping $500 billion in their forthcoming budget.”According to four people who spoke with the Post, after Trump “agreed to a roughly 50 percent funding boost sought by” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, White House aides and defense officials struggled with "where to put the money, because the amount is so large.” Per the Post, “The White House is more than two weeks behind its statutory deadline to

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s 46-page opinion on President Donald Trump’s tariff case reveals the conservative’s trepidation over his colleague’s apparent double standard toward the current president compared with former President Joe Biden — and reminds Congress it, too, can make decisions.While the Supreme Court largely struck down Trump’s tariffs in Friday’s ruling, conservatives “splintered,” NBC News senior Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley wrote, with Chief Justice John Roberts penning the ruling, and Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joining the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito dissented. Hurley on Saturday detailed Gorsuch’s opinion

The Department of Justice has “suffered a string of embarrassing defeats” in court as federal government cases against people accused of “physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties … have recently been dismissed or ended in not guilty verdicts,” the Guardian reports.After President Donald Trump surged federal agents in Minnesota, a number of cases in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region revealed a gulf between federal agent’s claims and the actual facts on the ground, often backed by video of the events.Frederick Goetz, a lawyer for a man charged with felony assault for allegedly attacking an officer, and w

Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is sounding the alarm.Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Richer said that if SB 1570 becomes law, it "would prove a significant disruption."The law would require federal immigration officials to be on hand at every polling location in the state during the 2026 election. It would also require local officials to arrange for ICE agents to be present, reported AZFamily.com. It does promise that federal officials "shall not interfere with the casting or depositing of ballots except as otherwise a

Donald Trump‘s Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “on life support” as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father’s and husband’s ordeal?This week, I told you about the historic pattern associated with countries moving from democracy to tyranny. First, they start breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution in small ways, and the more they get away with it — and buy off or threaten politicians who may otherwise stop i

British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday after 11 hours in custody, with his shocking arrest earlier in the day making him the first senior British royal to be arrested in nearly 400 years. Police are probing his connections to the deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and whether he shared classified government information with him while serving as a U.K. trade representative from 2001 to 2011. King Charles’ brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his royal title, is the most high-profile figure in the U.K. to be implicated in a widening scandal over ties to Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial on sex trafficking. Authorities did not reference sex

President Donald Trump's Friday got off to a rough start as three critical components of his economic agenda collapsed.A major economic indicator, gross domestic product (GDP), slowed significantly, dropping to just 1.4% annually as inflation rose. And the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the legal basis for the president’s sweeping global tariffs, ruling that his use of that authority was unlawful."U.S. growth slowed more than expected near the end of 2025 as the government shutdown impacted spending and investment, while a key inflation me

A former Bush Justice Department official is warning President Donald Trump against smearing the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices delivered a highly anticipated ruling that struck down the legal foundation of his sweeping global tariffs — a major setback for his economic agenda.“It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think,” the president said on Friday, as

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent delivered an alternative interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Friday that struck down the legal basis for the president’s sweeping global tariffs, which the justices ruled was an unlawful use of executive authority.“President Trump will always put our national security and Americans first," Bessent told the Economic Club of Dallas, as