Trump press secretary Katie Zacharia says she passed bar exam in China, raising eyebrows  —  Katie Zacharia worked at a Beijing law firm and calls herself a lawyer, but reporters found no record of her admission to practise in the US  —  Katie Zacharia, US President Donald Trump's newly …

Inside Kimberly Guilfoyle's Final Days as Ambassador to Greece  —  To save her job, she claimed the incriminating texts were AI generated; Trump grew annoyed with the damaging revelations  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle was scrambling to save her job.  —  As damaging revelations piled up …

Trump Touts Taiwan-Alaska LNG Deal Taipei Hasn't Finalized  —  President Donald Trump said Taiwan had agreed to buy 30% of the liquefied natural gas from a planned project in Alaska for 20 years, even as Taipei indicated that no binding commitments have been finalized.

Russia pounds Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving 600,000 without power … Russia unleashed an attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight, leaving at least 600,000 people without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday.

CBS' Foreign Explosion … The message instructed staffers to make a point of attending the morning editorial meeting, immediately stirring intrigue among journalists about what Raice might have to say during the virtual gathering.  —  They didn't have to wait long for an answer.

Battle lines shift in House races as Republicans retreat from front-line districts  —  Republicans were retreating Tuesday from a handful of battleground U.S. House races while Democrats were racing to raise money to boost candidates who seemed like long shots earlier this year.

Democrats fear “more October surprises” after Ilhan Omar raid  —  Congressional Democrats' private text chains lit up with fear and anger on Monday after Department of Homeland Security agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) home in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP  —  The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration's war on terror. … Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Illinois) has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE …

Bank of America fined $1.2 billion over money-laundering violations … Bank of America was hit with more than $1.2 billion in federal penalties Tuesday after regulators said the nation's second-largest bank failed for years to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions and fix longstanding anti-money-laundering problems.

Saudi National Arrested for Installing Surreptitious Audio Recording Device at OpenAI  —  For Immediate Release  —  An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.

Pentagon Names One of Its Own Public Affairs Officials to Run Stars and Stripes  —  Christian Devine, an executive director and principal adviser in the Pentagon's public affairs office, was appointed weeks after terminations.  —  Add us on  —  The Pentagon has named one of its own public affairs officials …

Supreme Court refuses to toss out fees for lawyers who sought hand count in Arizona election  —  The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to toss out $122,000 in legal costs that lawyers for former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake were ordered to pay for false and misleading statements …

Judge says Elon Musk engaged in ‘little more than state sanctioned intimidation’ when he accused a DHS official of a crime  —  A federal judge tore into Elon Musk for reposting a photo of a former Federal Emergency Management Agency official and accusing her of “criminal” conduct.

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades  —  Chairman's adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.  —  When President Donald Trump backed away from threats to strike Iranian power plants on March 23 …

Trump announces massive oil, gas and mineral exploration plans in Greenland, touts national security benefits  —  The announcement follows a new security agreement signed last month expanding U.S. military access to the Arctic island  —  President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that …

Ken Paxton attended 2025 Dubai New Year's party with US fugitives: Report  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attended a 2025 New Year's party in Dubai with two fugitives who did not return to the United States, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

Anatomy of a fake scandal  —  In case you missed this political earthquake, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico spent nine days off the campaign trail this month recovering from the flu.  He's a Type 1 diabetic, which can severely complicate a flu virus, and it was otherwise very nice …

Trump cancels deposition in BBC case, lawyers say  —  President Donald Trump was set to be deposed Friday in a defamation lawsuit he filed against the British Broadcasting Corporation, but his lawyers recently canceled the session and said he is unavailable through at least mid-December, according to a court filing.