A federal judge has shut down Colorado clerk Tina Peters’ latest bid to avoid state prison — at least for now. On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak refused to release a former Colorado clerk who was convicted of attempting to breach voting systems in hopes of proving Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in […]
U.S. forces have reportedly seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to U.S. officials cited by the U.S. Coast Guard and unnamed administration sources. President Trump confirmed the escalation in remarks at the White House. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Large tanker, very large. Largest one […]
Democrats notched another attention-getting win on Tuesday, flipping a Georgia state House seat in a district that has leaned Republican in recent elections — a result party strategists are already pointing to as an encouraging sign ahead of next year’s midterms. Democrat Eric Gisler defeated Republican Mack Guest IV in the special election for Georgia […]
Reporters Without Borders says that the United States, the country with the world’s strongest constitutional protection for speech and press, is a “problematic” democracy ranked behind a long list of European states that criminalize opinions, subsidize favored outlets, and increasingly blur the line between journalism and government messaging. To understand how that result is even […]
A lawsuit now alleges New York Attorney General Letitia James tried to strong-arm local school boards into shutting down public comment—specifically, speech criticizing policies that allow transgender students in girls’ sports and locker rooms. According to the complaint, the alleged threats were delivered in a “guidance letter” that plaintiffs say warned board members they could […]
COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s military intelligence service has, for the first time, described the United States as a potential security risk, a shift that underscores growing Nordic unease over U.S. behavior in the Arctic and in Greenland. The assessment appears in the Danish Defence Intelligence Service’s 2025 outlook, published earlier this month. The report argues the […]
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 […]
New Lawsuit Seeks Collusion Emails From This Notorious Anti-Trump Prosecutor
A top ethics watchdog is suing the Justice Department so the public can see how a federal prosecutor tasked with seeing criminal charges against President Donald Trump worked with liberal prosecutors targeting Trump in Georgia and New York. The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced announced in a statement “it filed a Freedom […]