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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, June 26, 2025.
US NewsPolitics & ElectionsSeptember 16, 2026

Johnson Cancels Thursday Votes; House Leaves Until After Nov. 3 Midterms

By RWTNews Staff

Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Wednesday that Thursday’s scheduled House votes are canceled and that members will leave Washington after Wednesday night’s business, beginning a recess that lasts until the week of Nov. 9—after the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The chamber had...

Location where Charlie Kirk was shot, screenshot taken from video from helicopter later that day.
US NewsCrime & CourtsSeptember 16, 2026

Kirk Family Files Notice of Claim Alleging UVU Security Failures Left Charlie Kirk Exposed to Rooftop Shooter

By Tommy Flynn

Lawyers for Charlie Kirk’s family filed a notice of claim with the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Sept. 9, a day before the first anniversary of his killing, alleging that security decisions at Utah Valley University left him “helpless” to a rooftop assassin. The filing is...

President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House
US NewsPolitics & ElectionsSeptember 16, 2026

Trump Says Biden FBI Left Butler File “Altered or Gone”; New Records Show Crooks Used “Bob Dole” Alias

By Tommy Flynn

President Donald Trump wrote Tuesday that the FBI under former President Joe Biden and former Director Christopher Wray failed on the July 13, 2024, attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, and that “by the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was...

Marco Rubio stands with arms crossed and JD Vance also with arms crossed in the background. Black and white photo.
Immigration & BorderUS NewsSeptember 16, 2026

Rubio Bars South African Officials Tied to Land Seizures and Race Laws

By Tommy Flynn

The State Department on Tuesday imposed new visa restrictions on foreign nationals “responsible for or complicit in enacting or implementing laws or policies enabling uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, or incitement of imminent violence against minority...

Aerial view of the Pentagon
US NewsNational SecuritySeptember 16, 2026

Pentagon Confirms U.S. Has Weapons Already in Orbit

By Tommy Flynn

U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air, Space and Cyber Conference near Washington on Monday that the United States “now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.” He did not say what the systems are, how...

The Capital Building
Politics & ElectionsNational SecuritySeptember 16, 2026

House Passes Iran War-Powers Resolution 220–204; Seven Republicans Break With Trump

By Tommy Flynn

The House on Tuesday night passed a war-powers resolution that would require President Donald Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran except those needed to defend the United States or its allies from imminent attack. The roll call was 220–204. All 213 voting...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsSeptember 15, 2026

Texas AG, Federal Prosecutors Announce Arrests of Seven Noncitizens Charged Over 2024 Voting

By Tommy Flynn

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that seven foreign nationals have been arrested on federal charges tied to illegal voting or false claims of U.S. citizenship connected to the 2024 general election. The cases were developed jointly by Paxton’s office, the U.S....

Eighteen Democrats joined 213 Republicans and one independent in voting yes on the motion to table the impeachment attempt.
US NewsPolitics & ElectionsSeptember 15, 2026

House Tables Green Impeachment Bid as 18 Democrats Vote With GOP and Leadership Sits Present

By Tommy Flynn

The House on Tuesday tabled a privileged resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, voting 232–147 with 47 members voting present and seven not voting. The motion to table, recorded as Roll Call 298, ended Rep. Al Green’s latest attempt to force a floor vote on articles...

Ilhan Omar
Immigration & BorderPolitics & ElectionsSeptember 15, 2026

Comer Calls for Public Release of Omar Immigration File so House Can Vote on Expulsion

By Tommy Flynn

House Oversight Chairman James Comer said Monday night that the Trump administration should release whatever evidence it holds on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration history so the House can decide whether she remains in Congress. Comer spoke on Just the News, No Noise after Homeland...

Speaker Mike Johnson delivers remarks to the United States House of Representatives
Politics & ElectionsUS NewsSeptember 15, 2026

Johnson, Steil Push Proof-of-Citizenship and Voter ID Through Reconciliation

By Tommy Flynn

Speaker Mike Johnson and House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil are moving to pass two core pieces of the SAVE America Act — documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections and a nationwide photo ID requirement to vote — through the budget...

 An ICE officer oversees an immigration enforcement operation.
Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderSeptember 15, 2026

ICE Weekend Sweep Nets Murderers, Child Sex Offenders, and Traffickers

By Tommy Flynn

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested criminal illegal aliens across the country over the weekend, and the Department of Homeland Security on Monday published names, countries of origin, and criminal convictions that include murder, sexual assault of a child,...

Wesley Hunt. -- Image: Screenshot from the @RepWPH X page.
US NewsPolitics & ElectionsSeptember 15, 2026

Trump Nominates Army Veteran Rep. Wesley Hunt as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

By Tommy Flynn

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, sending the nomination to the Senate as part of a package that also formally named acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to the permanent Navy post and Heidi Overton to lead the...