Politics

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist - A Virginia grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday, according to reports... A jury of her peers in the Eastern District of Virginia made the decision to indict James, and while the details of James’ indictment were not immediately available, Reuters reported James was indicted for bank fraud, citing a source familiar with the matter... Notably, James was hit with a criminal referral just recently for alleged mortgage fraud.

By Pedro Gonzalez, Chronicles - An old colleague I had not heard from in a long while added me to a group chat on Wednesday. The members were all people who had been in my cohort for the Claremont Institute’s Lincoln Fellowship in 2021, a mixture of media figures, analysts, and activists. Although the group sort of fragmented later, I did make a few good friends with whom I kept in touch even after I began removing myself from that social circle. Still, I thought it was odd. Why now, and why add me after years of silence?... “Charlie got shot.”

By Elizabeth Troutman, The Daily Signal - The White House is exposing Democrats’ efforts to give illegal immigrants access to health care under the Biden administration... “This memo discusses specific actions taken by the Biden administration to provide Obamacare and Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants,” the document says... President Donald Trump’s administration issued the memo on the seventh day of the government shutdown, which Republicans say has been caused by Senate Democrats’ unwillingness to pass a clean budgetary continuing resolution that doesn’t restore funding of health care for illegal immigrants.