Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that federal agents have been asking questions around his circle and his office has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking Department of Justice records. He calls it political targeting. The White House and DOJ have not publicly said the president ordered any of this. The story matters […] More

Law enforcement says it stopped something that could have been a nightmare on the South Lawn. The FBI announced a multi‑state operation disrupted an alleged plot aimed at the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House — a plan prosecutors describe as multi‑phase, involving explosive‑equipped drones and a follow‑up ground assault. Officials say multiple […] More

The Swiss referendum to put a constitutional cap on the country’s population has come up short, but don’t tell that to the winners. Voters rejected the SVP’s 10‑million cap by a clear margin, yet the Swiss People’s Party is already treating the roughly 45 percent “yes” vote as a mandate to keep pushing for tighter […] More

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that he and his wife, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are the subjects of a Department of Justice inquiry. Newsom pointed the finger at President Donald Trump, saying the White House has directed the DOJ to “get” him because he’s weighing a presidential bid. Federal officials have declined […] More

Washington is in the middle of one of those stories that sounds like it was cooked up in some backroom pressure‑cooker: a draft memorandum of understanding reportedly speaking of roughly $300 billion for “reconstruction” or investment in Iran, and competing claims about a separate $24 billion in frozen assets. The numbers are big enough to […] More

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told CNN’s State of the Union that President Donald Trump wants to “tie the entire Middle East into the Abraham Accords.” That is a bold pitch — and it deserves both applause and a little practical scrutiny. The idea is simple: more normalization, more trade, less war. It sounds […] More

President Donald Trump turned an otherwise dense G7 summit schedule in Évian into a moment that both delighted allies and rattled the usual media narrative when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz handed him a personalized Germany national-team jersey. The photo of Trump holding up the shirt with “TRUMP” and the number 47 was instant viral fuel […] More

The Colorado Supreme Court just decided that a statute that says nothing about secrecy actually guarantees secrecy. Call it judicial origami: fold the words until they say what the court thinks they should. The result was a 5–2 ruling that parents who surrender newborns under Colorado’s Safe Haven law are entitled to anonymity — even […] More

Rep. Mike Collins has claimed the Republican nomination in the Georgia Senate runoff and will take on Senator Jon Ossoff this November. Voters in the Peach State handed the nod to a Trump-aligned conservative over the governor-backed challenger, setting up a high-stakes race that national strategists are already circling like vultures over a big game […] More

The U.S. Supreme Court has quietly left in place an unusual, high‑stakes standoff inside the federal judiciary. By denying review of Judge Pauline Newman’s petition, the Court has allowed a suspension that keeps a Reagan‑appointed Article III judge off new cases to remain intact. The move ends one legal road for Newman and leaves bigger […] More

President Donald Trump and Pakistani mediators say a U.S.–Iran peace framework is in hand — and markets reacted like a referee’s whistle at the end of overtime: oil prices fell and U.S. stocks jumped. If true, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and taking the war-risk premium off the table would be huge for energy markets […] More

Good news you can actually cheer for: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that Big Dog Ranch Rescue has secured the agreement to remove the roughly 475 remaining beagles from Ridglan Farms. What began as a national scandal over a Wisconsin breeder is now moving toward a real, permanent […] More

Councilwoman Julie Won suddenly finds herself in the kind of trouble that dogged many New York pols before her: an eviction-style court filing claims she lived rent-free in a luxury Long Island City condo and now owes roughly $25,000. The allegation — made public by the condo owner and his political consultant circle — comes […] More

Vice President J.D. Vance walked into a famously hostile daytime set this week to promote his new faith memoir and left having done what too many in politics refuse to do: answer tough questions without melting down. The appearance on The View was a rare test for a senior Trump administration official in a liberal […] More

The Handshake message from a Cornell student — “Not interested in working for a jew. Thanks.” — blew up online and sparked the kind of moral panic we promised ourselves we’d never fall into again. The pause button should have been hit: we can condemn antisemitism without turning a short, private exchange into a national […] More

The Zionist Organization of America has sounded a loud alarm over the emerging U.S.-Iran memorandum. ZOA National President Morton Klein called the framework “deeply problematic,” saying Washington risks giving up leverage before Tehran has made real, verifiable concessions. That warning should make anyone who cares about American security sit up and take notice. Why ZOA’s […] More

The Texas Department of Public Safety says one of its brush teams in Starr County rounded up a group of people who had slipped across the Rio Grande and were headed into the interior. A DPS spokesman posted photos and a short account on social media that named a “Special Interest Alien” from Russia among […] More

The White House lawn was supposed to host a spectacle — a UFC card called “Freedom 250” meant to celebrate and entertain. Instead, it turned into a headline about a fighter shouting a long‑debunked rumor about Michelle Obama during a post‑fight interview. The moment exposed two things: how low political theater can sink when mixed […] More

Madison Square Garden turned from concert hall to crime scene this week when a 51‑year‑old man fell from the arena’s upper deck during a Goose performance and later died. Authorities are investigating, the band expressed sorrow, and tens of thousands of New Yorkers are left asking how something like this could happen inside one of […] More

President Trump’s throwaway line at the G7 — that “Iran will have missiles” and that “missiles aren’t the problem” — set off a rare inside-the-room political furor. The White House followed with a quick clarifying chorus from Vice President JD Vance, who said the United States has “substantially degraded” Iran’s missile launch capacity. That public […] More

President Donald Trump recently fired a warning at Utah over a push toward expanded mail-in voting. He did it in plain language on Truth Social and followed it with a blunt call to action for Republicans: end the filibuster or pass the SAVE America Act. That short post lays out the fight in one sentence […] More