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Kash Patel’s Bureau Leadership Collapses From Personnel Purges to Publicity Stunts

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...

FBI’s “Arctic Frost” Spy Operation: How Jack Smith Secretly Tracked Nine GOP Lawmakers Without a Warrant

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...

Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Playing “Whack-A-Mole” to Circumvent Court Orders on Troop Deployments

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...

Shutdown Stalemate Deepens as Critical Republican Coalition Vote Wavers

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...

Supreme Court Hands Trump 21 Wins on Emergency Docket

President Trump has won roughly 21 emergency rulings from the Supreme Court since taking office in January, allowing his administration to implement controversial policies while legal challenges work through the courts. The White House is celebrating an almost flawless record on what’s known as...

Democrats Face Unusual Shutdown Calculus: When Losing Might Actually Win

Congressional Democrats have a weapon in the government shutdown fight that nobody’s talking about: time. While Republicans control the White House, both chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court, they’re watching Trump’s approval ratings crater into the high 30s as his administration...

Trump Fired the Eisenhower Library Director for Refusing to Break Federal Law

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...

Iran Backs Hamas Response to Trump Plan While Warning of ‘Dangerous Aspects’

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...

Trump Promises Military Pay Raise He Can’t Deliver Amid “Democrat-Induced Shutdown”

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...

How Trump Flipped the Shutdown Script

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....

Supreme Court Slams Door on Maxwell’s Last Appeal

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...

Judge Denies Asylum for Abrego Garcia, Exposes Immigration Law’s Biggest Constitutional Flaw

Kilmar Abrego Garcia just lost his latest bid to stay in America, but his story is far from over. An immigration judge in Baltimore denied his application to reopen his 2019 asylum case on Wednesday, setting up yet another round in what’s become one of the most legally bizarre immigration sagas...

Did The White House Compile A Hit List of Federal Agencies for Mass Firings Before Shutdown Even Started?

The White House didn’t wait for the government shutdown to decide which federal agencies would face mass firings. Officials had already compiled a target list before midnight on October 1, and they’re prepared to announce layoffs as soon as this weekend – possibly tomorrow. The list was...

FBI Director Who Promised “No Retribution” Just Fired 15 Agents Deemed Insufficiently Loyal To The President

Kash Patel told senators during his confirmation hearings that he had “no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards.” He promised there would be “no politicization at the FBI” and “no retributive actions taken.” On Friday, the FBI director who promised not to go...

Trump Stops Pretending He Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025, Announces Meeting With Russell Vough

Donald Trump spent months during the 2024 campaign insisting he had nothing to do with Project 2025. The 900-page Heritage Foundation blueprint for restructuring federal government became politically toxic, so Trump distanced himself repeatedly, claiming he’d never read it and didn’t know the...

Portland Police Sergeant’s Email Criticizes Counter-Protesters Who Were Assaulted at ICE Facility

A Portland police sergeant wrote an email describing three people who were assaulted outside an ICE facility as a “chronic source of police calls” who “constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed.” The victims included a conservative journalist...

Government Shuts Down, Federal Workers Lose Paychecks

The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to pass a continuing resolution before the midnight deadline. Roughly 875,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Another 1.4 million essential employees will work without paychecks until funding...

Trump Lectured Generals About Military Fitness After Dodging Vietnam Draft Five Times

President Trump stood before 800 generals and admirals at Quantico on Tuesday and declared the military would end “political correctness” and return to merit-based standards focused on “fitness, ability, character, and strength.” He praised Pete Hegseth’s speech condemning “fat...

Federal Layoffs Loom as Shutdown Enters Second Day

The government has been shut down for barely 24 hours, and already the Trump administration is preparing to do something that sounds routine but is actually constitutionally extraordinary: lay off federal workers. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told House Republicans Wednesday...

Reagan-Appointed Judge’s Ongoing Trump Criticism Raises Questions About Judicial Independence

U.S. District Judge William Young has been on the federal bench for nearly 40 years. He’s a Reagan appointee with impeccable conservative credentials. And in 2025, he’s become something extraordinary in American jurisprudence: a sitting federal judge who writes legal opinions that read more...