Confronting a Fuller Picture of Charlie Kirk's Killer  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi learned a tough lesson yesterday: There are still some pieties of the old right that conservatives aren't ready to abandon, and bristling at the concept of “hate speech” is one.

Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid  —  When ICE agents decided to arrest over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a White House-imposed daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid …

Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump …

Search underway for man accused of “act of terror” at FBI Pittsburgh field office after car rams into entrance gate  —  A search is underway for a man accused of committing an “act of terror” by allegedly using his car to ram the entrance gate to the FBI's Pittsburgh Field office.

Ex-CDC director: RFK Jr. planning September vaccine changes  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an August meeting that the childhood vaccine schedule will be changing starting in September, former Centers for Disease Control director Susan Monarez told a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle during president's U.K. visit  —  Trump, who arrived in the U.K. for a state visit, is scheduled to spend most of Wednesday at Windsor Castle with members of the royal family.  —  Police in the U.K. arrested four people …

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults  —  Republicans in Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at D.C.'s criminal justice system.  —  House lawmakers voted Tuesday to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults for serious crimes and to treat young people more harshly …

Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources  —  Prosecutors have not found clear evidence James committed a crime, sources say.  —  New York State Attorney General Letitia James makes an announcement at the Office …

Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions  —  Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.

Ronny Jackson to Newsmax: Trans People Need Treatment  —  Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a physician and former White House doctor, told Newsmax on Tuesday that he believes inpatient mental health facilities should play a role in treating transgender people, whom he said have underlying psychiatric issues.

Lab tests show Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, his wife says  —  Russian authorities said Navalny died last year after feeling unwell following a walk around the high-security Arctic penal colony where he was serving a combined 30 ½-year jail sentence.

Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial  —  The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal.  Charlie Kirk knew better.  —  Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation's Attorney General?  Progressives have spent years trying to create and define a category called “hate speech.”

YIKES!  ABC ‘Journalist’ Waxes Poetic About How Loving Tyler Robinson Was  —  The whitewashing of Tyler Robinson begins.  —  I suppose it was bound to happen.  Since the attempts to make Robinson out to be a MAGA Republican or an extremist Groyper have had limited success …

Former GOP officials fear US strikes on alleged drug smugglers aren't legal … Yoo, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, authored the Bush administration's legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected al Qaeda terrorists in the early years of Bush's war on terror.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause  —  By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.  —  Before he was killed last week, Charlie Kirk left a helpful compendium of words …

September 16, 2025  —  The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.”  It's a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it to mean “cool” or “awesome.”  Another character eventually slaps back: “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.

Business Insider and the Bots … On Thursday afternoon, Business Insider staffers received a long-awaited memo from editor in chief Jamie Heller, outlining the Axel Springer-owned outlet's rules for using artificial intelligence.  The guidelines had been eagerly anticipated since earlier this summer …

Barnard President: Now Is the Time for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers  —  Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on a college campus.  This is a grim moment for higher education, for our country and for freedom of speech.  Violence is never a legitimate means of disagreeing with a speaker on a college campus.

Republican Brad Raffensperger to run for Georgia governor after defying Trump over 2020 election  —  Georgia's Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who rejected Donald Trump's call to help overturn the state's 2020 election results, said Wednesday that he's running for governor in 2026.

DOJ impeachments could continue Democratic retaliation against Ilhan Omar censure push  —  A Texas Democrat is planning to file impeachment articles against President Donald Trump's top law enforcement officials as a partisan slap flight plays out on the House floor this week.

Obama calls Kirk murder ‘horrific,’ says a president should ‘pull people together’  —  He said President Donald Trump's rhetoric is part of a broader problem.  —  Former President Barack Obama attends the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington.

Statement on the Fundamental Freedom of Speech  —  Statement on Political Violence and the Fundamental Freedom of Speech  —  “Acts of political violence — from the recent murder of Charlie Kirk to the murder of Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman of Minnesota — have no place in our democracy.

Justice Department says it's suing Oregon and Maine as it seeks voter data in multiple states  —  The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has sued Oregon and Maine for failing to turn over their voter registration lists, marking the first lawsuits the department has brought against states …

Exclusive Focus Group: Trump Bleeding Latino Voters  —  He won the presidency with their support—now they're angrily turning against him.  —  LATINO VOTERS FLOCKED TO DONALD TRUMP in surprisingly large numbers last November to help him retake the White House.

Spirit Airlines flight warned to move farther from Air Force One over Long Island: “Pay attention.  Get off the iPad.”  —  Air traffic controllers urgently and repeatedly ordered the pilots of Spirit Airlines flight 1300 to turn away from Air Force One Tuesday over Long Island, New York.

University of California students, professors and staff sue the Trump administration  —  The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday …

RFK Jr.'s Crusade Against Vaccines Hits Its Action Phase  —  His anti-vax-stacked advisory committee is expected to revise rules for life-saving hepatitis B vax.  —  ∙ Paid  —  HEPATITIS B IS A HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE, blood-borne disease that's been called a “silent killer” …

Senate Democrat: Patel ‘was testifying really for an audience of one: President Trump’  —  Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) rebuffed comments FBI Director Kash Patel made Tuesday during a tense oversight hearing, calling Patel's testimony “a performance.”  —  “It was a performance.

Fired by Trump, a Former Labor Official Warns Against Politicizing Economic Data  —  Erika McEntarfer, in her first appearance since she was ousted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cautioned that “economic data must be free from partisan influence.”  —  When the federal government revealed …