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By Nick Arama The U.K's King Charles III and Queen Camilla are visiting President Donald Trump at the White House. Here's part of the formal ceremony on Tuesday. 🚨 NOW: President Trump and First Lady Melania have just welcomed King Charles and Queen Camilla to the White House with a GRAND ceremony Our US military bands are fantastic as always. Truly the best. pic.twitter.com/ZSadAyhs2t — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 28, 2026 THE BRITISH ARE COMING! 🇺🇸🇬🇧 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 28, 2026 They actually arrived on Monday and had a less formal meet-and-greet. The First Lady, Melania Trump, took them to see her beehive, and there was an amazing picture of Trump holding a bee in his hand. President Donald J. Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the U.K. visit the White House beehives on the South Grounds | April 27, 2026 pic.twitter.com/vbpmGNF80T — Office of the First Lady (@FirstLadyOffice) April 28, 2026 Charles is...

By Teri Christoph Federal law enforcement has once again descended en masse on the sanctuary city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, site of last winter's federal crackdown on illegal aliens who made the area their home due to its lax immigration policies. This time around, the feds reportedly have their sights set on one thing: fraud being committed by Somali-operated businesses in the Twin Cities area. And, yes, the now-infamous "Quality Learing Center" is part of the raids being conducted Tuesday morning by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Of note: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not seem to be part of the current operation. Fox News' Bill Melugin broke the story on X, reporting that "FBI and HSI agents are currently raiding 20+ locations in the Minneapolis, MN area in relation to ongoing federal fraud investigations....

Indictment related to Comey Instagram photo of '86 47' shell formation on a beach By David Spunt, Louis Casiano, Bill Mears, Jake Gibson Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for a second time by the Justice Department, multiple sources told Fox News. The charges appear to be related to a May 2025 Instagram photo of an "86 47" shell formation on a beach. He is charged with "knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of, or inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States and knowingly and willfully transmitting a communication in interstate and foreign commerce that contained a threat to kill President Donald Trump," according to the indictment. The move follows a wave of criticism from Republicans and Trump administration officials who viewed the post as a veiled threat. In the slang often used in the service industry, to "86" something means to eject, cancel or get rid of it. Donald Trump is th...

By M.A. Rothman People keep asking the same question about the U.S. naval blockade of Iran: If they cannot ship the oil, why do they not just stop pumping it? The answer is that they cannot. The reason involves physics, geology, and three quarters of a century of accumulated reservoir damage that the regime cannot undo. Let me walk through it. 𝐀𝐧 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐭 A faucet has a valve. You close the valve, water stops, you open it, water flows. Same as before. An oil well does not work that way at all. An oil reservoir is a high-pressure system. Crude sits trapped in porous rock — typically sandstone or limestone — under pressure measured in thousands of pounds per square inch, mixed with natural gas above and saltwater below. When you drill into that rock, you are creating a controlled leak. The oil flows up the well because the underground pressure is pushing it. When you shut the wellhead, the pressure does not stay still. It redistribut...

The exchange came as Trump proposed slashing EPA funding by 52%, from $8.82B to $4.2B for fiscal year 2027 By Leo Briceno, Cameron Cawthorne Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, got into a heated exchange with Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Monday over whether she was familiar with precedents governing the EPA’s mission. "You’re upset that you don’t know what Loper Bright is," Zeldin said, referring to the landmark Supreme Court case from 2024 that reshaped the power of regulatory agencies. "I’m upset — because," DeLauro started to respond. "You know what the major policy doctrine is?" Zeldin interjected. "You’re a member of Congress. You should know." DeLauro, who had been asking about the framing of President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget request, tried to answer again but was cut off. "You want me to tell you what the two biggest Supr...

By Teri Christoph Just one day after the Supreme Court of Virginia (SCOVA) heard  oral arguments  about the legality of the legislative process used by Democrat lawmakers to get last week's redistricting/gerrymandering referendum in front of voters, the court on Tuesday shut down efforts by Attorney General Jay Jones to certify the results of that referendum.  At the heart of Tuesday's order was the  RNC v. Koski  case, which RedState's Jennifer Oliver O'Connell  reported  on last week.  On Wednesday afternoon, Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. ruled that Tuesday's referendum is unconstitutional and issued an injunction preventing the certification of the election maps. Judge Hurley has also denied any motion to stay his ruling pending appeal.  Jones filed an emergency motion for a stay of Hurley's ruling, which SCOVA has now denied. This means that, at least for now, last week's "yes" vote on the referendum – which empowered s...

By Josh Christenson WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice indicted a  former senior adviser  to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday for allegedly concealing records amid probes into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. David Morens, 78, has been  charged with conspiracy against the United States ; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting. The indictment, unsealed Monday in Maryland federal court, also lists two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and FRA [Federal Records Act].” Morens, who served as a senior advisor to  Fauci  from 2006 to 2022, conducted official government business from a private email account and asked the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) FOIA liaison for tips on how to evade records requests, according to communication...

A sneaky rider at the bottom of the proposition allows legislators to raise taxes on all Californians with no permission required.  By Monica Showalter A month or two ago, I was at Costco in Mission Valley in San Diego, and saw a disturbing sight: Voters were lining up in front of a proposition table to sign a petition for a so-called "billionaire's tax" to hit anyone with a net worth of $1 billion a one-time five percent tax on their net worth in California, so they claim. Normally, people slink away from these tables to avoid signing. This was different. It's hard to think of a more disastrous bill and shocking to see that it could be so popular it could probably pass without the usual election cheating. But it's gotten nearly twice the required signatures, so it clearly has significant support and will find itself on the November ballot. According to CBS News: Proponents of a proposal to  tax California billionaires  say they have obtained enough signatures f...

By Teri Christoph The Supreme Court of Virginia, otherwise known as SCOVA,  heard  oral arguments Monday morning over legal and constitutional challenges to the gerrymandered congressional map that was approved via referendum last Tuesday, and a few of the Justices had pointed questions for the pro-gerrymander side. As RedState previously reported, Virginia voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that removes redistricting power from a non-partisan commission and places it with state lawmakers (a/k/a, Democrats). The final numbers were closer than expected, with the yes side garnering around 51 percent of the vote and the no side coming in at 48.5 percent. Those numbers could still change as the counts from mail-in ballots are finalized. The result of last week's election was that voters essentially signed off on the brazenly gerrymandered map designed by Democrats that would move the commonwealth from a 6D-5R congressional makeup to a 10D-1R one. There's on...

By Jonathan Turley We are seeing increasing support for violent action across social media, including those lamenting that the recent presidential assassination was not successful. Conservative sites have been featuring teachers and others who were upset that the recent effort failed, including one who has  now lost her job.  The current violence and violent rhetoric have been building for years as our leaders fuel the rage in the nation. One poll by the University of Virginia Center for Politics found that 52 percent of Biden supporters say Republicans are now a threat to American life, while 47 percent of Trump supporters say the same about Democrats. Among Biden supporters, 41 percent believed violence is justified “to stop [Republicans] from achieving their goals.” An almost identical percentage, 38 percent, of Trump supporters now embrace violence to stop Democrats. A prior survey from the Baker Center at Georgetown University also captured the growing divide among Am...

By Rusty Weiss Former J6 prosecutor Patrick Scruggs was shipped off to county jail Monday after pleading guilty to stabbing a driver multiple times in a 2023 road-rage meltdown. My, how the tables have turned in the world of law and order. The 41-year-old former federal prosecutor, who helped indict Florida residents—including “Lectern Guy” Adam Johnson—for their roles in the January 6 Capitol protest, received  90 days  behind bars, five years of probation, and $100,000 in restitution to the victim. Three months in jail. For stabbing a man. Several times. It was all caught on video. Numerous witnesses saw what he did.  90 days. The judge who accepted the negotiated plea deal told Scruggs he had been handed a "golden opportunity." The  incident was  a bizarre one. Scruggs got roped into a chaotic road-rage incident after a man named Blake Sharp’s Lexus stopped abruptly in traffic and then collided with his Honda Civic. Sharp reportedly had a medical emergen...