President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he wants Supreme Court Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to remain on the bench, dismissing the suggestion that he might prefer one of them to retire so he could appoint a younger conservative justice. During an interview on Politico’s The Conversation, White House bureau chief Dasha Burns […]
On Wednesday, a federal judge has cleared the Justice Department to release secret grand jury materials from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case. Judge Berman reversed his previous decision, citing the new law compelling the release of all material in the case. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Trump after receiving near-unanimous support in Congress, […]
Jack Smith — the former special counsel who led the federal prosecutions of President Donald Trump — is starting a private law firm in January 2026. And he’s bringing reinforcements: former federal prosecutors Tim Heaphy, Thomas Windom, and David Harbach. Heaphy previously worked at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and served as the lead investigator for […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrests of two New Jersey men accused of making violent threats against senior federal officials, including Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin. According to DHS, Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores were taken into custody over social
Today’s headlines sit at the intersection of accountability, ambition, and national security, with Washington and the states confronting high-stakes questions about public trust, technological power, and safety. Congress Turns Its Sights on Minnesota Top congressional investigators are demanding answers from Minnesota Governor — and former Democratic vice-presidential nominee — Tim Walz after whistleblowers alleged that […]
MIAMI — Eileen Higgins, a Democrat and former Miami-Dade County commissioner, won Tuesday night’s runoff election for Miami mayor, defeating Republican-backed Emilio Gonzalez by more than 18 points, with almost all of the ballots counted. Her win places a Democrat in the mayor’s office for the first time in nearly three decades — a headline-grabbing […]
