Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search  —  The phone conversation was arranged by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who met with the agents a day after the search for reasons that remain unclear, The New York Times has learned.

Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency  —  Congress hasn't seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community's watchdog office  —  WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director …

DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files  —  The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday's dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive  —  Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court's inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.  —  In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump …

Trump vows to sue comic Trevor Noah after Epstein island jibe at Grammys  —  Donald Trump said he will launch legal action against comedian Trevor Noah after the comedian joked about the U.S. president visiting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island.

Nancy Mace Is Not Okay  —  “Something's broken.  The motherboard's fried.  We're short-circuiting somewhere.”  —  Right up until she lit the fire, some of Representative Nancy Mace's own staff and advisers didn't know what she was going to say on the House floor in February 2025 …

Trump Tirade Over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits … Donald Trump appears in deep denial about how widely hated his ICE raids have become.  He let out a strange, rambling tirade to reporters about how the “silent majority” is still behind what ICE is doing …

Inside Musk's bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator  —  Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.  —  Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring …

‘Fell the enemies’: Illini Republicans support ICE amid Minnesota killings  —  In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to the head of someone bearing a physical resemblance to Alex Pretti, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” …

CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links |  Exclusive  —  In newly released emails, the wellness guru made crude jokes in chummy correspondence with the late convicted sex offender  —  CBS News is expected to cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia …

We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers.  You Can't Wish Away the Fourth Amendment.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum that authorizes its agents to enter private residences forcibly without a judicial warrant.  James Percival, the general counsel …

Greene: MAGA ‘was all a lie’  —  Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump's Make American Great Again slogan was a “lie,” saying his first year back in office was focused on obliging wealthy supporters.  —  “I think people are realizing it was all a lie.  It was a big lie for the people.

Stars slam ICE in speeches and on pins at Grammys … - Meanwhile, Justin and Hailey Bieber and Joni Mitchell joined Eilish and Kehlani and others in wearing pins protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. … - “We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens.

Elite Law Firm Boss Who Bent the Knee to Trump Sucked Up to ‘Amazing’ Epstein  —  FANBOY  —  The embattled chairman of Paul Weiss has now had his embarrassing emails to Jeffrey Epstein exposed.  —  The chairman of a major law firm that sparked backlash by caving to President Donald Trump …

Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE  —  Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’  —  A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump's immigration crackdown targeted only …

How Jon Stewart created Tucker Carlson  —  The 2004 “Crossfire” spat became the blueprint for today's MAGA chaos  —  For those of us who were adults during the second Iraq War, one of the legendary victories for basic sense and decency in politics was the day Jon Stewart nuked Tucker Carlson on “Crossfire” in 2004.

What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump  —  A little more than a year into President Trump's second term, his executive power grabs have been arrestingly similar to ones pioneered by an iconic predecessor liberals revere: Franklin D. Roosevelt.  —  Yet this comparison …

ICE halts “all movement” at Texas detention facility due to measles infections  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted “all movement” at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had …

Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency  —  Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent.  Now they're cheering it.  —  A PANIC PERVADES the internet: terrified talk of troops in American cities, federal shock troops brutalizing citizens and neighbors …

This Isn't What De-escalation Looks Like  —  Think you've lost your capacity to be shocked by stories of Donald Trump's open corruption?  Try this one on for size: The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that a UAE sheikh bought a 49 percent stake in the Trump family's crypto venture …

A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations  —  A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution.  —  The key to holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable …

Judge says Trump administration must let lawmakers make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities … The judge's action comes several weeks after three Democratic lawmakers were blocked from visiting the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis to survey conditions amid …

How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy  —  The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.  —  Pocket  —  Donald Trump is not given to regret, but he does get rueful when he thinks about how modest his corruption was in the first term.

Tina Smith endorses Peggy Flanagan over Angie Craig in Minnesota Senate race … “We're going to push back against the status quo and send a progressive fighter to continue representing us in Washington, D.C.,” Flanagan said.  —  Smith's endorsement comes a day before the state's Democratic …

George Mitchell's name removed from US-Ireland scholarship after Epstein files release  —  Scholarship was set up in name of former US senator who brokered Belfast Agreement  —  The release of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has prompted the removal …