Politics

Former President Donald Trump, at his first post-presidential rally on Saturday, criticized the effectiveness the Biden administration’s border policies. “Kids are on suicide watch,” Trump said among other comments about an “unthinkable” crisis at the southern border. “There is no more dire threat than the crisis on our southern border, other than perhaps our elections,”…

A Texas-based legal group said the IRS violated the First Amendment when it denied tax-exempt status to a religious group by tying Christianity to politics, claiming that biblical “teachings are typically affiliated with” the Republican Party. Texas-based First Liberty Institute, a conservative legal organization that litigates First Amendment cases on religion, said in an appeal…

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday withdrew his threat to veto a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill unless a separate Democratic spending plan also passes Congress, saying that was not his intent. Moments after announcing the bipartisan deal on Thursday, Biden appeared to put it in jeopardy with his comment that the infrastructure bill would…

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Joe Biden met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his former political foe, Abdullah Abdullah, on Friday at the White House where he called on Afghans to decide the future of their country as the last U.S. troops pack up after 20 years of war and government forces struggle to repel Taliban advances. Biden,…

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edward vetoed a bill passed by the bipartisan state lawmakers that would have nixed the permit requirement for carrying a concealed handgun. The governor, a Democrat, said he’s a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an “enthusiastic outdoorsman and hunter,” but he can’t support permitless concealed carry. “I simply cannot…