Report: US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuela

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 […]

Democrat Flips Georgia State House Seat In GOP-Leaning District Trump Won

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 […]

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 […]

Press Freedom, European Style: Censorship Rebranded As Liberty

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 […]

New York AG Sued Over Alleged Threats To School Boards Debating Trans Athlete Policies

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 […]

Denmark’s Spy Service Calls US Potential Security Risk For The First Time

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 […]

Trump Urges Alito, Thomas To Remain On Supreme Court

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 […]

Federal Judge Reverses Course And Clears DOJ To Release Secret Epstein Grand Jury Materials

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 Launches New Law Firm With Trump Prosecution Veterans

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 […]

Morning Brief: Fraud, Robots & Recovery

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 […]