Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash  —  One of J. Edgar Hoover's greatest reforms at the FBI was his embrace of fingerprinting.  During the 1930s, visitors to the FBI offices in Washington, D.C., received souvenir fingerprint cards featuring his name.  The men who succeeded him as FBI director …

Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show … Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots …

FBI searches Virginia Senate leader's office as part of corruption probe, AP source says  —  The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader's office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said.  —  The search at Virginia …

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth  —  They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival.  They passed their newborn screening tests.  Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern.

FBI probing leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel, sources say  —  The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on an Atlantic magazine journalist who wrote a deeply unflattering account last month of Director Kash Patel's work habits, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.

Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee's Majority-Black House District  —  The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state's lone Democratic district.  —  Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday proposed …

CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87  —  Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises.

RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists  — 6 min Click here to listen to this article  —  Days before the 2024 presidential election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a statement on X promising to end …

Trump, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, seeks to halt $83M payment in sexual abuse case  —  President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.

Lutnick admits to having prolonged ties to Epstein in closed-door interview … In an interview, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) further suggested that if her party retook the House majority, Democrats could call Lutnick back in for additional questioning in a public hearing — or, at the very least, testify under oath on video.

Mexico nightclub's $300 cover charge for US citizens captures popular mood  —  Owner of Japan nightclub says ‘This is a response to a year of insults directed at us - as a country - by the United States’  —  A Mexico City nightclub has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge …

“Would It Matter If I Told You I'm Pope Leo?”  — The Bank Teller Who Hung Up on Robert Prevost  —  Thank you for reading!  Letters from Leo is a reader-supported publication.  To receive new posts and support my work, become a free or paid subscriber.  —  Subscribe  —  Make A One-Time Gift to Support My Work

Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists”  —  New national counterterrorism strategy vows to “cripple them before” crimes are committed  —  Subscriptions are declining; PLEASE becoming a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work  —  The White House declared war …

Trump counterterrorism strategy targets ‘violent left-wing extremists’ with ‘transgender ideology’ … The Trump team is also looking at how domestic online activities could incite violence, a focus that follows an increase in political violence, such as the multiple attempted assassinations of Trump and the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Kyle Rittenhouse hospitalized  —  Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two protesters during a social rights demonstration in 2020, was hospitalized on Wednesday after a venomous spider bite.  —  He shared a photo of himself in a hospital and where the apparent bite was located on his body.

Trump renews offensive against Pope Leo, claims pontiff is ‘endangering’ Catholics  —  There was no reason for the president to start publicly scolding the pontiff again, but he apparently couldn't help himself.  —  Donald Trump's first offensive against Pope Leo XIV did not do the president any favors.

Texas Man Charged in Shooting at Secret Service Agent Near the Washington Monument on the National Mall  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia  —  Vice Presidential Motorcade Was Passing Nearby, Just South of the White House

Colorize This Obituary  —  Ted Turner is dead.  Although not much in the news for the past two decades, Turner played an outsized role in creating twenty-first century America.  He wasn't the worst billionaire ever, not by a long shot.  But he was also very very billionaire.

Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to secure Trump ballroom  —  The president said repeatedly that the White House ballroom would be privately funded but has raised security concerns, particularly in light of the correspondents' dinner shooting.

Sergey Brin Is Making the Case for Why We Need a Wealth Tax  —  He's convincing the public of the necessity of doing this  —  Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the three or four wealthiest people in the world, with a net worth hovering around $260 billion to $277 billion …

A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires … For a brief moment in American history, the rich didn't control politics.  —  Back in 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed new campaign finance restrictions that would have largely eliminated …

Fetterman slams NYC protesters as ‘pro-Hezbollah/Hamas,’ challenges Democratic Party to condemn them  —  Add us as a preferred source on Google  —  Sen. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania Democrat, lit into anti-Israel demonstrators who clashed with police outside a Manhattan synagogue Tuesday night …