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 …

Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti  —  According to ProPublica, the CBP goons Stephen Miller paid to invade Minnesota, where they murdered Alex Pretti, are two Latinos from South Texas. … Jacqueline Sweet identified pictures of both men (Ochoa, Gutierrez).

Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority  —  Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump's foes.  —  Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of the bulk of his expansive responsibilities …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

‘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” …

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.

Oversight Chairman Rejects Clintons' Offer for Epstein Testimony  —  Bill Clinton agreed to an interview he had long resisted, but Representative James Comer, the Oversight Committee chairman, signaled he would go forward with holding the former president in contempt.

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 …

School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat  —  The Minneapolis school district attended by 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the Ecuadorian preschooler who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Jan. 20, shut down Monday after receiving a bomb threat.

How Mike Johnson is scrambling to keep the shutdown short  —  Speaker Mike Johnson is planning to meet with Rules Committee Republicans shortly before the panel convenes this afternoon to take up a massive shutdown-ending funding package, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the private plans.

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 …

NYT report: Chuck Grassley helped end FBI careers  —  “Coordination between Grassley and the F.B.I.'s office of congressional affairs was unusually close throughout the year,” Emily Bazelon and Rachel Poser reported for the New York Times Magazine on January 22.

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.

Billie Eilish faces calls to return mansion to Native American tribe after ‘stolen land’ remark at Grammys  —  Lefty pop star Billie Eilish is facing calls to hand over her ritzy Los Angeles digs to a Native American tribe or illegal immigrant after she declared “No one is illegal on stolen land” …