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Frank Costello’s hands filled the television screen. The rest of him was off-camera—a compromise between his lawyers and the Kefauver Committee. But those hands, fidgeting and gesturing as he invoked the Fifth Amendment dozens of times, became one of the most unsettling images in early television history. The year was 1951. Millions of Americans watched…

The conflict between the Trump administration and its critics has moved from the campaign trail to the court-martial docket – or at least, the administrative equivalent. In a move that legal scholars are calling “novel” and political opponents are calling “retribution,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has formally initiated proceedings to demote U.S. Senator Mark Kelly…

The image is surreal, yet historic: Nicolas Maduro, the man who ruled Venezuela with an iron fist for over a decade, sitting in a Manhattan courtroom in tan jail garb, complaining to a federal judge that he has been kidnapped. On Monday, the dethroned dictator and his wife, Cilia Flores, were arraigned in the Southern…

The State Department has added seven new countries—five of them in Africa—to a list requiring travelers to post a refundable bond of up to $15,000 before entering the U.S. The policy, spearheaded by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, aims to crack down on visa overstays by attaching a steep financial penalty to breaking the rules.…

Delta Force operators struck Venezuela’s largest military complex before dawn Saturday. By nightfall, President Nicolás Maduro was in a Brooklyn detention center, his wife was in federal custody, and President Trump announced the United States would “run” Venezuela temporarily. No congressional authorization. No declaration of war. No advance notification to legislative leadership. The operation raises…

President Donald Trump has launched a vigorous defense of his physical and mental fitness, taking to social media on Friday to declare himself in “PERFECT” health. The proclamation comes just a day after a candid interview with The Wall Street Journal in which the 79-year-old President pushed back against persistent scrutiny regarding his age, his…

A confrontation between federal immigration enforcement and protesters in Portland, Oregon, has spilled into the federal courts, with a new lawsuit accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of “poisoning” a nearby low-income housing community. REACH Community Development, a nonprofit affordable housing provider, and several residents of the Gray’s Landing apartment complex filed suit against…

The Department of Justice has formally targeted the state of Minnesota, demanding a trove of records related to its unique “vouching” system. The move signals that the DOJ is shifting its attention from the counting of ballots to the verification of the voters themselves, specifically challenging laws that prioritize access over strict identification. Assistant Attorney…

In a decisive and controversial start to his tenure, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has revoked nine executive orders issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams, undoing a swath of policies ranging from cryptocurrency promotion to the city’s stance on Israel. The move, executed just hours after Mamdani was sworn in as the city’s first…

Trump’s Legal Year in Review The first year of Donald Trump’s second term was not a transition; it was a blitz. From the moment the oath was administered, the 47th President unleashed a torrent of executive orders designed to test the absolute limits of Article II authority. The result has been a constitutional stress test…