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An assassination attempt on a president. The murder of a state lawmaker in her home. A political activist shot and killed in broad daylight while giving a speech. A new national poll has just put a number on the feeling of dread that has been growing in the pit of the nation’s stomach: a vast,...

What is the most powerful weapon the federal government holds? It is not a missile or a tank. It is the awesome and terrifying power to launch a criminal investigation against a citizen. This week, a top Department of Justice official appears to have turned that weapon on a new and shocking target:...

With the September 30th deadline barreling down on Washington, the federal government is once again on the brink of a shutdown. But this is not a typical budget squabble over dollars and cents. It is a high-stakes constitutional showdown that has taken the nation’s public health system hostage....

Government Shutdowns Explained: A Historical Guide to Their Causes and Consequences

When the clock strikes midnight on September 30, the United States government may, once again, shut down. The word “shutdown” has become a familiar part of our political vocabulary, a recurring threat in our bitterly divided politics. But what does it actually mean? How did we get to a place...

Three New Names in Epstein Files Released

A congressional staffer hits “send,” and a handful of heavily redacted pages from the infamous Jeffrey Epstein files are released to the world. This small, seemingly procedural act has ignited a new and vicious round of partisan warfare on Capitol Hill. This is not a story about the names in...

ICE Agent Details Fears of Protester Interference, Lack of Police Backup in Sanctuary Cities

A federal immigration agent has revealed what he fears most on the job. It is not the dangerous criminals he is tasked with arresting. It’s the angry crowds, the jeering protesters, and the feeling of being utterly alone, abandoned by local police in a hostile city. His chilling account, coming...

What happens when the most basic and essential duty of our government – to simply keep itself open – becomes just another weapon in a partisan war? With a September 30 funding deadline looming, the nation is once again careening toward a government shutdown, with both parties engaged in a...

A young Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska fled a war zone to find safety in America, only to be stabbed to death on a public train in Charlotte, North Carolina. The revelation that her accused killer, a career criminal, had been released from jail 14 times has ignited a furious and deeply...

Does the First Amendment protect a senior FBI agent’s right to express contempt for a political candidate he is actively investigating? In a powerful and constitutionally significant ruling, a federal judge has just delivered a definitive answer: no. The dismissal of former FBI agent Peter...

The scene was shocking and almost unbelievable. In the middle of a legislative hearing in Wisconsin, a state senator, consumed with rage, lunged across the dais to grab the chairman’s gavel. This was more than a moment of lost tempers. This was a stark and worrying symptom of the decay of our...

How a Lone, Inexperienced Prosecutor Got a Grand Jury to Indict James Comey

Inside the secret, solemn proceedings of a federal grand jury room this week, a drama of almost unheard-of proportions unfolded. The new, presidentially hand-picked U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia stood alone, without a single member of her 300-person staff of career lawyers...

An unprecedented and deeply mysterious directive has been sent from the Pentagon to every corner of the globe. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth , has summoned nearly every American general and admiral – from commanders in the Pacific to those in the Middle East – to a sudden, in-person...

Flanked by his top health officials, President Trump began a press conference Tuesday not with policy, but with a personal story of a two-decade-old conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the alarming rise of autism in America. That personal concern has now been translated into a radical and...

In an event that will reverberate through American history, a former Director of the FBI, James Comey , has been indicted by a federal grand jury. The charges of making false statements to Congress and obstruction of justice are the explosive culmination of a political and legal war that has raged...

The reading of a jury verdict is meant to be a moment of solemn finality, the point at which the chaos of a crime is met with the sober, deliberate conclusion of the law. But in the trial of Ryan Routh for the attempted assassination of a president, that final moment was itself consumed by chaos,...

How do you force a powerful, multi-billion dollar global industry to bend to your will? The President has just announced his answer: the threat of a massive, 100% tax on their imported products. This new tariff on the pharmaceutical industry is not just another move in the administration’s trade...

A horrific, random act of violence on a Charlotte commuter train – the murder of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska – has sent shockwaves through North Carolina and ignited a furious legislative response. Lawmakers in the state have now passed “Iryna’s Law,” a sweeping...

On the world’s biggest diplomatic stage, the President of the United States was momentarily foiled by a stopped escalator and a broken teleprompter. He immediately seized upon the mishaps to portray the United Nations as a symbol of global dysfunction. But the strange and revealing truth behind...

In a stadium filled with tens of thousands of mourners on Sunday, the President of the United States stepped to the podium to eulogize his fallen friend and ally, Charlie Kirk . But what followed was not a traditional eulogy. It was a complex and jarring speech that blended profound grief with...

After a week of intense speculation and a fierce national debate, a late-night television host is returning to the air. The suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following his controversial remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk was a media firestorm. “We hit some new lows over the...