Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been hit with a bombshell lawsuit by her ex-fiancé accusing her of fabricating sexual assault allegations as part of an elaborate conspiracy, the New York Post reports.
Businessman Patrick Bryant accused Mace of convincing an "impressionable" woman, who is known only as Jane Doe, that she was "gang raped" at the home of Bryant's friend, Eric Bowman.
In February, Mace gave a speech on the House floor in which she accused Bryant, Bowman, and two other men of assaulting Mace and a dozen other women.
Mace shared no evidence but claimed to have found a trove of videos on Bryant's phone.
“Last year, I had to tell a woman that she’d been raped, and she didn’t even know it,” Mace said at the time.
The woman Mace cited in her speech filed a lawsuit in May, claiming she was raped by an associate of Bryant's at Bowman's home in a 2018 incident. The unidentified Jane Doe, who previously worked for Bryant, claimed that Bryant and Bowman filmed the assault while she was unconscious.
After Doe's suit was filed, Mace held a press conference where she read aloud from the complaint and took no questions, the Post and Courier noted.
In his countersuit, Bryant said he is the only victim and that the shocking claims against him were fabricated by Mace and Bowman's estranged wife as part of a blackmail scheme that involved falsely convincing Doe that she was assaulted.
Doe told another person that Mace never showed her video of the alleged assault, Bryant claims.
“What Mace did not tell Doe is that she concocted an entire false narrative of an assault, to blackmail Bryant, gain leverage in their separation proceedings, and try to ruin Bryant for her personal gain,” according to Bryant's lawsuit.
Mace and Bryant were engaged for a little over a year, splitting in late 2023. Bryant claims that Mace tried to hack his phone over suspicions of cheating and that she asked a former political consultant to blackmail Bryant using images she found on the device, but she never mentioned anything about sexual assault.
The consultant, Wesley Donehue, has testified under oath that Mace wanted him to threaten Bryant into giving Mace full ownership of two pricey homes the former couple bought together in South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
Mace issued a taunting response to her ex's lawsuit, saying, "It’s almost as if Patrick Bryant is asking to write me another check. I just got him sanctioned in court. And rape victim Jane Doe and I are still waiting on him to pay our legal fees after he weaponized the court against us.”
On Oct. 29, a court order determined that Bryant’s company and his lawyer violated South Carolina law by issuing subpoenas and deposing people without court approval in Doe’s case.
A Democratic congressman based in Chicago has been accused of distorting the facts about an arrest of an illegal immigrant at a daycare facility, Breitbart reported.
Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed into the school and "took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN."
A viral video of the incident showed agents dragging a woman outside of a school that teaches kids Spanish.
The short clip might lead viewers to conclude that Quigley's account is true - but according to the DHS, this is another example of Democrats omitting context to paint illegal aliens as victims.
In a post on X, the official Department of Homeland Security account accused Quigley of "deliberately misrepresenting" the facts. The woman, a Colombian national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2023, had "fled inside" the school after officers attempted a targeted traffic stop, the agency said.
She was in a car with a male driver who refused to pull over when officers put on their lights and sirens. Video of the incident shows a silver car parked illegally in front of the school, seemingly backing up ICE's account.
The school was not targeted, DHS emphasized, and the arrest took place inside an entryway, not the school itself. Upon arrest, the woman "lied about her identity" and claimed she did not know the male driver of the vehicle, which was registered in her name. She said she had "picked him up from a bus stop."
"Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over,” spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin wrote. "Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle," the DHS said.
Of course, Democrats tell a different story. They say the woman is just a teacher who is loved by the community.
That could be true, and it still would not give her a right to remain in the country illegally. Neither does her having a work permit, as the DHS pointed out.
"Work authorization does NOT confer any type of legal status to be in the U.S." the agency said. "The illegal alien's work authorization was approved by the Biden administration, which exploited this loophole to help facilitate the invasion of our country."
The DHS also accused the woman of endangering children, saying she encouraged her two teenage kids to cross the southern border unaccompanied, and smugglers may have been involved.
Quigley responded to the DHS's account by simply writing. "They're lying." He did not elaborate.
Democrats insist that Trump's immigration crackdown has gone too far - but if that is the case, why do Democrats need to keep lying about it?
A British reality star and socialite, who was college friends of Prince William and Kate Middleton, has died in a shocking fall near a famous landmark in London.
As reported by the Daily Mail, Ben Duncan fell 100 feet, seven stories, from a rooftop bar at an upscale hotel near Trafalgar Square in London's West End.
The 45-year-old was friends with William and Kate at University of St Andrews, where the royal couple started dating.
The Metropolitan Police told the Daily Mail that Duncan's death Thursday, October 30 was "unexpected" but "non-suspicious."
According to the Daily Mail, the Trafalgar St. James, where rooms go for up to $1,300 a night, has plastic screens as a safety feature on its rooftop.
"Officers responded to concerns for a man on the roof of a building in Cockspur Street, Westminster at 23:02 hours on Thursday, 30 October," police said.
"The man sadly fell from height. Despite the best efforts from the London Ambulance service, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene."
"His death is unexpected but non-suspicious."
A well-connected member of British society, Duncan was present at the pivotal moment when the future Princess Kate caught William's eye at a university fashion show.
"It was the end of their first year. I was there, and in person there were a lot of attractive girls. She was in a very daring dress, in a sheer stocking-like dress. He was sitting front row and his eyes were like stalks," Duncan recalled in 2010.
"She brushed by him on the way to the catwalk and things were never the same again - the whole history of the monarchy had been altered."
After his college days, Duncan became known for appearing on various reality shows, including Big Brother in 2010.
A friend, speaking anonymously, told the Daily Mail that Duncan was the life of the party, but had recently turned reclusive and suffered from insomnia.
"Ben was always the life and soul of the party," the friend said. "Although he appeared on reality TV shows, Ben's true passions were politics and music."
"In recent years, he had become more reclusive - and had struggled with insomnia," the person added. "It's truly devastating that he's gone so soon."
Duncan's body was found in Spring Gardens, which is a dead-end street nearby Trafalgar Square.
"My dear, dear friend Benjamin (Ben) Duncan has left us," broadcaster Mike Hollingsworth wrote on Facebook.
"He lived life as Peter Pan - the boy who never grew up. He will be sorely missed by his many, many friends, who grew to love his charm, his wit, his infectious laugh and his innate sense of style. The world is a poorer place for his passing. RIP Benji."
A last-minute attempt by President Trump to stop socialist Zohran Mamdani's widely predicted victory in New York's mayoral election was unsuccessful, as voters rejected tarnished ex-governor Andrew Cuomo despite Trump's appeal to choose him as the lesser of two evils.
In an election eve post, Trump had warned that Republican Curtis Sliwa had no chance of winning, leaving voters with "no choice" but to support Cuomo, a Democrat who ran as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the primary.
Trump, a Queens native, had taken a close interest in the election for months, blasting Mamdani as a radical threat to Trump's beloved hometown.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!" Trump wrote Monday.
“It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad. It is my obligation to run the Nation, and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a Complete and Total Economic and Social Disaster should Mamdani win,” he added.
Trump had cast a large shadow over the campaign, with Cuomo and Mamdani both presenting themselves as defenders of the liberal city against Trump and his agenda. The Mamdani campaign pounced on Trump's 11th hour, cross-party endorsement to paint Cuomo as a puppet of Trump, while Cuomo dismissed Trump's show of support, saying, “He’s not endorsing me, he’s opposing Mamdani."
Cuomo had to perform a difficult balancing act. While he was reluctant to be tied to Trump in a city dominated by Democrats, Cuomo desperately needed Republican backing to overcome Mamdani.
Indeed, Cuomo appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning to make a final pitch for GOP support, and the governor even issued a rare apology for his scandalous role in nursing home deaths during the COVID pandemic.
Despite Cuomo's baggage, Trump wanted Republicans to support the former governor over Sliwa, whom Trump warned would be a spoiler candidate for Mamdani.
"A vote for Curtis Sliwa (who looks much better without the beret!) is a vote for Mamdani. Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!" Trump wrote.
Sliwa had resisted pressure to end his campaign to help Cuomo, with Sliwa blaming the disgraced ex-governor and his party for failing to stop Mamdani sooner.
While some Republicans are blaming Sliwa for the outcome, Cuomo would have lost even without Sliwa splitting the anti-Mamdani vote. Mamdani received just over 50%, while Cuomo grabbed around 42% and Sliwa got 7%. If Cuomo got every one of Sliwa's votes, it still wouldn't have been enough - and it is safe to say that many Sliwa voters were never going to back Cuomo anyway.
Trump's endorsement may have motivated some Republicans to hold their noses and support Cuomo, but ultimately, it wasn't enough to salvage a lousy candidate.
A former morning news anchor with Fox affiliate KTVI has been charged with murdering her own mother, in what the former journalist claims was an act of self-defense.
Angelynn Mock, 47, was charged in the gruesome slaying of her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, on Halloween. A woman and her boyfriend became witnesses to a real-life horror movie when Mock approached them covered in blood, asking for help.
"There was a woman who approached our vehicle with like blood, like her hands were filled, her body was filled with blood, asking to call 911,” Alyssa Castro told KAKE.
Castro said Mock took her boyfriend's phone and ran back to the house, where Mock called 911 to report stabbing her mother to "save herself," dispatchers said. The cellphone was returned by police later on.
"I asked her if she was okay, and she was pretty shooken up and she seemed scared, and she just ran off,” Castro said.
The police responded to the scene around 8 a.m. on Friday and found Mock outside with bloody cuts on her hands. Her mother was found in her bed with multiple stab wounds. She was brought to a hospital, where she died.
Mock was also treated for her injuries and booked on charges of first-degree murder.
She was brought to Sedgwick County Jail, where she is being held on a $1 million bond.
"I'm just glad we were able to help you know what I mean. Like, we never know what anyone is going through. This happened randomly, but as long as we were able to get 911 and see what we can do, that's all I really care about,” said Castro.
Avers' husband told KAKE that she was a marriage and family therapist at Wichita Counseling Professionals.
Residents of St. Louis may recall seeing Mock on the morning news on local station Fox 2, where she was an anchor from 2011 to 2015.
But some could be forgiven if they have trouble recognizing Mock in her rather disheveled mugshot. Here's a before-and-after comparison:
Former morning news anchor at FOX 2 in St. Louis, Angie Mock, accused of fatally stabbing her elderly mother on Friday, police say.
A motive is unknown. pic.twitter.com/N9knFk5M3Y
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 3, 2025
Photos from Facebook show Mock and Avers looking happy together. It is unclear what led to this horrific incident, but more details are sure to emerge in the future.
President Donald Trump's military strikes in the Caribbean Sea are causing ripples through Washington D.C., but it doesn't appear that it's fazing the president at all, because he just authorized another one.
According to the New York Post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced over the weekend that the United States military eliminated another batch of drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
While the War Secretary revealed that it hit a US-designated terrorist organization, he didn't specify which organization the administration hit. Many in Washington D.C. have called on the strikes on drug vessels to end, but President Trump doesn't really give a rip.
The latest strike marks the 15th known strike on drug vessels in that area, and the administration hasn't indicated that it plans on stopping anytime soon.
Secretary Hegseth provided some details in his weekend announcement.
“This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics," Hegseth said.
Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.
The vessel was known by our… pic.twitter.com/lVlw0FLBv4
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 24, 2025
At least 64 narco drug runners have been killed since the Trump administration began deleting them from the planet.
The New York Post noted:
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States. He has asserted the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Some members of Congress are demanding that the Trump administration provide more details on their justification in continuing the strikes.
Users across social media reacted to Hegseth's statement regarding the latest strike.
"Our choices are to destroy the drug traffickers or let the drug traffickers destroy tens of thousands of people a year. Easy choice," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "America is respected again! Drugs = Dead."
It'll be interesting to see how many additional strikes will be carried out in the coming weeks and months.
“Plaintiffs seek a ruling from this Court that would effectively disarm the President in the highly competitive arena of international trade,” warned the Department of Justice in a sharp brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This isn’t just legal jargon—it’s a battle cry from the Trump administration as it fights to preserve the “Liberation Day” tariffs. The stakes? Nothing less than America’s leverage on the global stage.
The Supreme Court is gearing up to hear arguments Wednesday on whether President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), overstep his authority, the Washingtong Examiner reported.
At the heart of this showdown are the Trump administration, defending its trade and foreign policy muscle, and opponents who argue the president is trampling on Congress’s constitutional taxing powers. The tariffs target nations like Canada, Mexico, and China, tied by the administration to trade deficits and the fentanyl crisis. But that wasn’t the only revelation.
The administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, enacted via IEEPA, have already reshaped trade with major partners. They’ve been a bargaining chip in framework deals with the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and China. The Justice Department insists these tariffs are vital to addressing declared emergencies.
“Plaintiffs would unwind trade arrangements worth trillions of dollars,” the Department of Justice argued in its brief, emphasizing how President Trump has turned IEEPA tariffs into negotiated wins with global heavyweights. That’s a bold claim, but it underscores the administration’s stance: stripping these powers would cripple U.S. negotiating strength.
Yet, the road hasn’t been smooth. The Trump team lost at both the federal district and appeals court levels in related cases, setting the stage for this Supreme Court clash. Do you agree with the idea that tariffs are a foreign policy necessity? Many readers might not.
Digging deeper, this case is the first major test of Trump’s policy agenda before the Supreme Court since his return to office in January. For those catching up, the administration filed a reply brief defending the tariffs as lawful under the 1977 IEEPA, claiming they’re essential to combat trade deficits and crises like fentanyl. Historically, courts have often deferred to the executive on foreign policy matters, which could tilt the scales.
Still, the phrase “disarm the President” from the Justice Department’s brief echoes through this debate. It’s a stark warning of what’s at stake if the tariffs are overturned.
Opponents aren’t backing down, though. They argue IEEPA was never meant to grant tariffing power, a point they’ve hammered home in their legal challenges. Their position is clear: no president before Trump has used this law or its predecessor to slap on tariffs, despite its invocation 69 times since 1977.
On the other side, challengers insist that taxation, including tariffs, is a power the Constitution reserves for Congress. “IEEPA does not give the President any taxing or tariffing power,” their brief bluntly states. They warn that Trump’s actions rewrite U.S. trade laws without legislative approval.
Here’s how we got here: the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two combined cases, Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, following lower court defeats for the administration. The fallout from these earlier rulings has only intensified the stakes.
The clash isn’t just legal—it’s a fundamental question of power balance. Who gets to control America’s trade arsenal? And it’s far from over.
For everyday Americans, the message is clear: this isn’t just about tariffs—it’s about whether the president can wield unilateral economic weapons in a cutthroat world. If the Supreme Court sides with opponents, the ripple effects could unravel trade deals worth trillions. If Trump wins, it’s a green light for even bolder moves.
That phrase “disarm the President” rings louder now than ever. It’s a reminder of the tension gripping this case, as both sides brace for a decision that could redefine U.S. trade policy. What will the justices prioritize—executive leverage or congressional authority?
The courtroom drama is just beginning. Wednesday’s arguments are set to ignite fierce debate among policymakers, businesses, and citizens alike. The next ruling could change everything.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide if President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, imposed under emergency powers, exceed his authority, with major implications for U.S. trade and foreign policy.
An appeals court has blocked an Obama judge's insane plan to micromanage President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino had been ordered to appear every weekday before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee, to share updates on Trump's Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago.
But the 7th Circuit Appeals court has struck down Ellis' order, calling it a violation of the separation of powers, as the Chicago Tribune reports.
Judge Ellis had said the daily check-ins were needed to ensure compliance with a temporary restraining order she issued in October that restricted federal agents' use of force against crowds of journalists and sometimes violent protesters.
The judge wanted Bovino to appear at 5:45 p.m. every weekday until a preliminary injunction hearing on Nov. 5.
The Trump administration sought to overturn Ellis' order, calling it the latest instance of activist judges trying to micromanage Trump and hamstring his agenda.
The order "significantly interferes with the quintessentially executive function of ensuring the Nation’s immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis.”
“Absent a stay, the government will be irreparably harmed because Chief Bovino will be required to prepare and sit for questioning in open court today and every weekday thereafter, with no stated endpoint in sight,” the administration's motion stated. “Every occasion that Chief Bovino is required to prepare and appear for those daily court sessions is time that he would otherwise spend carrying out the important law-enforcement functions he has been assigned.”
The administration's request for a reversal was temporarily granted by the 7th Circuit Appeals court on Wednesday, shortly before Bovino's first check-in.
Then, the appeals court made its order permanent in a striking decision on Friday that reprimanded Ellis for playing the role of "inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator."
The appeals court's three-judge panel said Ellis' order "sets the court up as a supervisor of Chief Bovino's activities, intruding into personnel management decisions of the Executive Branch."
"These two problems are related and lead us to conclude that the order infringes on the separation of powers," the court ruled.
Bovino has been a highly visible presence in Chicago, where immigration agents under his command have been accused of using excessive force.
But Bovino says that immigration agents, including himself, are under attack by unruly mobs.
"Did Judge Ellis get hit in the head with a rock like I did this morning? I had to apply gas this morning against people," Bovino told Telemundo last week. "Was she hit in the head with a rock? Maybe she needs to see what that's like before issuing an order like that."
A pair of prosecutors have been suspended by the Justice Department after they submitted a sentencing memo containing politically charged language that appeared to blame President Trump for a threat against former president Barack Obama.
The two prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, submitted the statements in a case against an erratic man, Taylor Taranto, who received a federal pardon from Trump for his involvement in the events at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Despite the pardon, Taranto is facing prison after he was separately convicted for making threats outside the Washington D.C. home of Obama in June 2023.
The sentencing memo filed by Valdivia and White sought 27 months in prison for Taranto and lumped him in with "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters" who participated in the events of January 6th.
Most of the people who entered the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, were charged with non-violent misdemeanor offenses, although many were accused of crimes like assault.
Taranto, who was charged with misdemeanor crimes, allegedly entered the Capitol and scuffled with police before being forced outside, where he clashed with other protesters using a cane.
The sentencing memo noted that Taranto returned to his home in Washington State afterwards, "where he promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6, 2021.”
The prosecutors also tied Taranto's threatening actions outside Obama's home in June 2023 to Trump having "published on social media platforms the purported address of former President Obama" earlier that day.
Taranto was arrested after a short foot chase in Obama's Kalorama neighborhood, where Taranto tried to evade Secret Service and livestreamed himself making statements about searching for "tunnels" and "entrance points."
The police found hundreds of rounds of ammunition and two guns in his van.
Shortly after the sentencing memo against Taranto was filed, Valdivia and White were locked out of their government devices.
The memo was signed by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, a close Trump ally.
Trump pardoned nearly all January 6th defendants on the first day of his second presidential term, casting them as victims of overzealous and politically motivated prosecution under the Biden administration, which also sought to jail Trump as he campaigned for the White House in 2024.
Biden-era "weaponization" is continuing to fall under scrutiny as Senate Republicans uncover a sweeping FBI "fishing expedition" led by Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, who sought subpoenas against scores of Republicans, some of whom had their phone records collected.
Leftist bomb thrower Ilhan Omar (D-Mn.) isn't known for showing grace to her enemies - so it comes as quite a surprise that she reportedly defended President Trump during a trip to Europe.
On a recent podcast, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fl.) recounted watching Omar clash with a Belgian diplomat who insulted the House delegation, the Hill reported.
The diplomat commented that Trump does not "respect" Congress and sees lawmakers as a "joke," Luna recalled.
“This, like, blew me away. … She [Omar] looks at the guy, she goes, ‘You might not like what our president is doing and you might not agree with our foreign policy, but when we’re here, you will respect our president," Luna said on Thursday’s “PBD Podcast.”
“She was talking about Trump,” she added.
Luna's story is sure to be surprising to many, given Omar's reputation. The Minnesota lawmaker frequently faces calls for her removal from the United States over her incendiary rhetoric and ingratitude toward her adopted country.
Omar faced more backlash in September for disparaging Charlie Kirk after his assassination, calling him a "hateful" figure.
Her callous comments spurred President Trump to suggest deporting Omar back to her native Somalia, although Trump joked that her homeland doesn't want her.
Luna acknowledged that the show of unity in Europe, while "pleasantly surprising," was only a fleeting moment.
“There’s always this push and pull in politics, and politics is messy, but I didn’t expect that being on a delegation with a foreign government,” she said on the podcast.
“But [Omar] said that. And I think at that point in time, when you have that type of unified front, especially in dealing with the EU, it was pleasantly surprising,” Luna added.
“I don’t agree with her, and politics is not about trust," she said.
“It’s about, and you don’t ever want to make friends in politics, especially this game, because ultimately you realize that it’s a very transactional field,” she added. “But in that instance, I appreciated that she provided a united front to … the jerk.”
Yes, it's shocking that Omar defended Trump, if it is true.... but it's nothing to be impressed by.
There is very, very little that Republicans have in common with a radical figure like Ilhan Omar, who has expressed pure hatred over and over for ICE, for Trump, and for America as we know it.
Republicans should remember that and not allow feel-good sentimentality to cloud their vision.