Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Megan Romer doubled down this week in her viral Fox News interview, describing the U.S. Senate as an institution with “no real purpose.”

Romer spoke on the Bad Faith podcast, hosted by Briahna Joy Gray. Gray once served as national press secretary for Bernie Sanders. The appearance followed Romer’s Fox News Sunday interview from days earlier that drew backlash from both parties. On the podcast, Romer defended the DSA platform and hit back at critics who called her earlier remarks radical.

A 21-year-old man has been arrested and accused of sexual misconduct with a teen girl after a baby was found abandoned in a wooded area in Indianapolis on July 24.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) said they found the newborn baby near the tree line of a trail near Lace Bark Lane and Long Wharf Drive after receiving reports of an abandoned child. Authorities said the newborn baby was transported to a local hospital for a welfare check and was reported in stable condition.

Friday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) predicted President Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Todd Blanche would not be confirmed.

Host Kasie Hunt asked, “When you look at the landscape, are there more Republicans than meet the eye who are opposed to the Blanche nomination over these issues that Cornyn and Tillis have raised?” Hunt asked. “And is that number potentially five senators or more like 15?”

The Democrat-dominated Massachusetts state Senate passed a late-term abortion bill on Friday and sent it to Gov. Maura Healey’s (D) desk for approval. 

The bill, called “An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care” or H.5595, would ultimately allow unborn babies to be aborted throughout pregnancy in the state and would strike down the state’s current 24-week limit, which has exceptions for the life of the mother and a deadly fetal diagnosis. Under the bill, doctors would have the discretion to decide whether or not to perform a late-term abortion, the Washington Post reported. 

The Trump State Department has revoked over 100,000 visas, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

When asked about the Trump administration’s efforts to keep “reckless foreign drivers off our streets by revoking visas and denying further travel to the United States,” Pigott explained that when it comes to the department’s visa revocation policy, they have already revoked well over 100,000 visas.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (A-AK) are working with Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on a bill to block part of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the Department of Education (ED). 

On Thursday, the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee approved the bill, S. 5046, in a 13-9 vote to prohibit ED from moving special education and several other education offices to other federal agencies, Politico reported. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more illegal aliens from the United States this week, including those convicted of kidnapping, assault with a weapon, and cocaine smuggling, among other things.

“Just yesterday, ICE deported criminal illegal aliens that include pedophiles, kidnappers, burglars, and gang members,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Lauren Bis said.

President Donald Trump’s State Department has started revoking visas for foreign nationals arrested for drunk driving, agency officials announced this week.

“The Trump Administration is keeping reckless foreign drivers off our streets by revoking visas and denying further travel to the United States,” officials wrote in a statement. “The State Department is keeping our streets safe from foreign nationals who drive impaired, disregard laws, and endanger Americans.”

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is holding up the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general because he is angry Trump endorsed Ken Paxton in Texas’s Republican U.S. Senate primary.

Cornyn, who is on the Judiciary Committee and whose support is critical to advancing Blanche’s nomination out of the committee, is withholding any support of Blanche, the acting attorney general, until he receives written assurances from the Justice Department “that the fund be rescinded and that the scope of the IRS audit immunity agreement in the settlement be narrowed,” as ABC News reported.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday held the first planning session for its proposed Red Sea maritime defense coalition which would secure the vital trading passage through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Gulf of Aden against piracy and terrorism, primarily from the Iran-backed Houthi separatists of Yemen.

The marriage between WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle will soon come to an end.

Brittney Griner filed for divorce after eight years of marriage; the couple has one child together.

The filing was made in Fulton County, Georgia, according to Page Six.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is cracking down on foreign nationals voting in New Jersey, Breitbart News has learned. This month, Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) admitted that a so-called “software error” allowed thousands of foreign nationals to register to vote in the state, with hundreds voting in elections since 2023.