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Senator Angus King voted with Republicans five times to reopen the government despite caucusing with Democrats. The Maine independent joined Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto in crossing party lines to support GOP funding bills that Democratic leadership has blocked. Now King says he’s considering flipping his vote back unless Republicans provide “more…

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order Sunday night blocking President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. Then the Trump administration tried deploying California Guard members instead. So Immergut expanded her order to block troops from any state or Washington D.C., and accused Justice Department attorneys of circumventing her ruling.…

FBI Director Kash Patel just opened a file the Bureau didn’t want anyone to see. Inside: proof that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team tracked the private phone records of eight Republican senators and one House member – without those lawmakers ever knowing they were targets. The operation had a name. “Arctic Frost.” What Makes This…

Kash Patel fired an FBI agent for refusing to arrange a televised perp walk of James Comey – the former FBI director whom Trump orchestrated criminal charges against despite career prosecutors considering the case too weak to bring. The agent, stationed in the Washington D.C. field office, balked at turning an arrest into political theater…

Elizabeth Yusi, who oversees major criminal prosecutions in the Norfolk office of Virginia’s Eastern District, has told colleagues she sees no probable cause to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud. She plans to present that conclusion to the president’s hand-picked interim U.S. attorney in coming weeks, knowing it will likely cost…

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her sex trafficking conviction, ending her primary legal avenue for overturning the 20-year sentence she’s serving for recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The Court’s order list revealed it would not take up her case this term, leaving in place the…

President Trump shut down the government for 35 days in 2019 fighting for his border wall, and it was a political disaster. He owned it, cameras caught him owning it, and he eventually caved with nothing to show for it. Fast forward to October 2025, and Trump’s playing an entirely different game. This shutdown isn’t…

On the deck of a mighty aircraft carrier, surrounded by thousands of cheering sailors, the President of the United States celebrated the 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy with a powerful promise. He vowed to secure “across the board pay raises for every sailor and service member in the United States armed forces.” The promise,…

Iran just did something remarkable: it publicly endorsed Hamas’s response to Trump’s Gaza peace plan while simultaneously warning about the plan’s “dangerous dimensions.” That carefully worded statement from Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday reveals the precarious constitutional position Trump has put himself in. He’s negotiating a peace deal that requires buy-in from a terrorist organization,…

Todd Arrington spent nearly 30 years in government service as director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. His job was preserving historic artifacts that belong to the American public and are protected by federal law from being given away or removed from collections. Then a Trump administration official emailed from an…