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Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums are expected to rise about 26% in 2026, the biggest increase in eight years and much higher than overall U.S. inflation.
New industry data show ACA plans will see the largest cost spike of any major sector in the economy as Congress weighs the next round of federal healthcare funding.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Tuesday said he would give former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the same treatment Democrats gave Steve Bannon if they do not comply with congressional subpoenas to testify on their alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
House Democrats referred Bannon for prosecution after he failed to comply with a House January 6 subcommittee subpoena. He was later convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress and sentenced to four months in prison in 2022.
Democrats have a staggering 14-point lead against Republicans on the 2026 congressional generic ballot, despite the Democratic Party receiving a low confidence rating among voters, according to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released Wednesday.
A majority of registered voters — 55% — said they would plan to support the Democratic congressional candidate in their district if the 2026 midterm elections were held today, according to the newly released poll. Meanwhile, 41% of respondents said they would support the GOP candidate for Congress, while just 3% would back a candidate from neither of the major parties.
The Trump administration is divided between factions about the best way to reform the controversial H-1B visa program, a senior administration official told The Daily Signal.
One faction wants to restrict the program so much that foreigners won’t be able to use it, while others think it’s useful to bring in exceptional talent, the official said.
Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, this week officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as terrorist organizations, authorizing the state attorney general to pursue legal action against them.
"Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations," Abbott said.
While Ohioans did not head to the polls in the 2025 elections, there has been a massive electoral development thanks to a court victory from Secretary of State Frank LaRose over a state law banning foreign contributions for ballot-measure campaigns.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay on an injunction, with LaRose’s office claiming the lawsuit was “brought by liberal activists and their dark-money funded national legal team,” on Oct. 8, 2024. Over a year later, on Nov. 13, that lawsuit was finally dropped. The litigation stems from a legal challenge to a law signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in June 2024 that prevented foreign donations to ballot initiative campaigns.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Tuesday issued subpoenas to J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank for the financial records of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of an investigation into the government's probe of Epstein.
The House Oversight Committee is currently investigating whether the federal government botched its probe into Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking and other charges related to the late-financier, who died in prison in 2019.
President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations will soon increase in New York City.
Homan told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” in a Tuesday interview that he previously had an agreement with New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) to let ICE operate from Rikers Island, but the City Council sued to block the proposal, and the state Supreme Court ruled in the council's favor, The Hill news outlet reported.
State Representative John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville), who leads the House Democratic Caucus in the Tennessee General Assembly, said on Tuesday that it was "fiscally reckless" for the state government to allow Elon Musk's Boring Company to retain ownership over the excavated rock and earth from the tunnel set to be bored for the Music City Loop.
Clemmons made the statement to WKRN in response to the news that the Boring Company successfully transported its specially designed Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) to Nashville, where the company has signed a lease with the State of Tennessee to use a former parking lot as the entry point for its boring.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that Michail Chkhikvishvili, a leader of the extremist Maniac Murder Cult, pleaded guilty to sending instructions to make poison and bombs, as well as soliciting hate crimes, after he was extradited to the United States in May.
A citizen of Georgia, the Eastern European nation bordering Russia, Turkey, and Armenia, the DOJ said in a press release that Chkhikvishvili distributed a manifesto as early as 2021. He later traveled to the United States, where the DOJ stated that Chkhikvishvili began recruiting individuals to commit acts of mass violence using the encrypted messaging application Telegram.
State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville), the Democratic nominee for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, has come under fire for an opinion piece she authored in 2019 smearing Tennessee as a “racist state,” claiming racism in the Volunteer State is “wild and untamed.”
Comedian Nate Bargatze, a Nashville native, is actively pursuing plans to open a theme park in Music City.
Tennessee announced on Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with Greystar Management Services, LLC, regarding allegations of anticompetitive practices that artificially increased rents for state residents.
The Volunteer State joined the multi-state lawsuit against the company last year.
Breitbart Federal Reserve officials have been indicating that they may hold back on cutting interest rates at their next meeting because they are still convinced that tariffs threaten to raise inflation. On Wednesday, this view got hit with a wake-up call from the private sector. Survey results released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta show that businesses have largely accepted that tariffs do not pose a risk of higher inflation. READ THE FULL STORY
A Democrat senator has fired a staffer accused of impersonating an immigration attorney to help facilitate a criminal illegal migrant’s release from custody.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday accused Edward York — then employed as a constituent outreach coordinator for Illinois Democrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth — of falsely claiming to be the lawyer of a 40-year-old illegal immigrant to federal officials in order to gain access to the individual and push for his release from custody. Duckworth on Monday confirmed that her office had no prior knowledge of the incident and has since terminated York’s employment, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
So far, more than 100 federal court judges have ruled against the Trump administration in hundreds of lawsuits filed by states, unions, nonprofit organizations and individuals.
While some of these rulings are fairly grounded in the Constitution, federal law, and precedent, many are expressions of primal rage from judges offended by the administration, and moving at breakneck speed to stop it. According to a Politico analysis, 87 of 114 federal judges who ruled against the administration were appointed by Democrat presidents, and 27 by Republicans. Most of the lawsuits were filed in just a few districts, with repeat activist judges leading the opposition.
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