Despite security risks, plans to open Paris Olympics on River Seine remain unchanged and on track

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday called for two illegal immigrants charged with killing a 12-year-old Houston girl to be sentenced to death if they are convicted for the slaying.  Cruz also blamed President Biden’s border policies for leading to the death of Jocelyn Nungaray, who was found Monday strangled to death in a creek.  […]

The judge presiding over former President Trump’s hush money trial doubled down on his decision that footage of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape would not be shown to jurors.  “I remain convinced at this moment … that the tape should not come in,” Judge Juan Merchan told the court on Monday.  The 2005 “Access Hollywood” […]

The turnout for this year’s frigid Iowa caucuses was the lowest in years, with nearly 80,000 fewer people showing up to vote compared to the state’s last contested Republican caucus in 2016.  The Iowa GOP announced this morning that 110,298 total votes were counted across the state’s 99 counties. That is down from 186,932 in […]