“It looks weak”: Dems fume at their party's response to Maduro capture … - Party leaders have raged at Trump for bypassing Congress and leaving them in the dark about the operation to capture Maduro, which involved striking several military targets in Venezuela's capital city.

For Trump, the Epstein Cover-Up Beats the Truth  —  As one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi wrote a letter to the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, demanding that the “full and complete Epstein files” be delivered to her office by the next day — Feb. 28.

Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Talk of Athens … It was a splashy arrival.  Kimberly Guilfoyle, the new United States ambassador to Greece, landed in Athens on the private jet of a multimillionaire Greek American businessman.  She caused a sensation at a Thanksgiving week dinner in a partly sheer black evening dress.

HHS escalates Minnesota fraud fight, prompting fear among daycare providers  —  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is escalating the Trump administration's attacks on Minnesota by freezing all federal funding to the state's childcare providers.

Secret Service plans unprecedented staff surge with anxious eye on 2028  —  The plan for a 20 percent expansion to combat burnout of agents faces major obstacles, including competition from hiring for ICE.  —  The Secret Service has launched one of the most ambitious hiring efforts in its history …