The big reveal this week was not some new scientific discovery. It was a stack of notebooks and a showdown on Capitol Hill. Senator Rand Paul released more than 1,000 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic‑era diary entries, and then hauled him into a Senate hearing where Dr. Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment. The […] More

President Donald Trump got another chance in court this week in his $15 billion defamation fight with The New York Times. A federal judge in Florida refused to toss the case outright and instead told Mr. Trump’s lawyers to fix the complaint and file a cleaner version by the court’s deadline. That small win keeps […] More

President Donald Trump’s raw warning after an attempted Iranian missile assault made one thing plain: the White House means to respond with force if diplomacy fails. CENTCOM says Iranian Revolutionary Guard units tried a surprise missile attack on U.S. forces and that American and Saudi jets struck Iran‑aligned sites in Iraq. The moment is a […] More

Senator Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, made it plain on the Hugh Hewitt Show this week: finish the military plan and keep the blockade in place until Iran is neutralized. His comments put a sharp spotlight on the pause in U.S. air strikes after 13 nights of strikes and the White […] More

The Rubin Report clipped a short CNN segment and handed conservatives a neat little gift: CNN senior data analyst Harry Enten saying that roughly 58% of voters now call the Democratic Party “too liberal.” That line lit up right‑leaning feeds like a match to a stack of political tinder. If you want a quick read […] More

President Donald Trump turned the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner into exactly what he wanted: a roast that got people talking. He singled out Kaitlan Collins, compared her to Dylan Mulvaney and referenced the old Bud Light controversy. The buzz that followed — from AI images on Truth Social to hot takes on cable TV […] More

President Donald Trump stood at the Washington National Cathedral this week and delivered a stirring eulogy for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The service in the cathedral followed a tribute at the U.S. Capitol and will be followed by a second service and burial in South Carolina. Trump called Graham a “beloved friend” and […] More

The Senate Leadership Fund just turned a pledged war chest into live fire in the Maine Senate race. Hours after Maine Democrats picked Troy Jackson as their replacement nominee, the top Senate GOP super PAC announced roughly $42 million aimed at Maine and began a six‑figure ad push. If Democrats hoped a late convention pick […] More

Saudi Arabia says it stopped multiple drones fired at its eastern oil facilities, and it blames Iran-backed Shiite militias operating from Iraqi soil. This is not a run-of-the-mill border spat. It is another chapter in a widening campaign by Tehran and its proxies to punish Gulf states and disrupt global energy flow — and Saudi […] More

Dr. Anthony Fauci chose silence over explanation at a high‑profile Senate hearing this week. Facing questions about his pandemic‑era conduct and the private diary pages Republicans released, Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment while sitting before Senator Rand Paul’s committee. The dramatic moment leaves more questions than answers — and makes accountability a lot harder […] More

The Government Accountability Office dropped a hard-hitting report this week showing the federal government routes about $1.1 trillion through state-run programs that are wide open to fraud. The GAO found glaring holes in how money moves from Washington to states to contractors and back again — and warned that the system is barely keeping up […] More

Someone inside the old Biden White House appears to have cooked up a plan to make mass deportations harder for the current administration. Senator Eric Schmitt has posted what he says is an internal presidential memorandum recommending a massive expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The memo, if real, would aim to put millions of […] More

Former FBI Director James Comey just asked a federal judge to end the so‑called “seashells” case before it goes any further. His lawyers filed motions this week in the Eastern District of North Carolina asking Judge Louise Wood Flanagan to dismiss the indictment that accuses him of threatening President Trump with an Instagram photo that […] More

A 21-year-old man from Kent, Washington, pleaded guilty this week in federal court to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. The case is a clear example of online radicalization turning into real-world danger — and a reminder that law enforcement sometimes catches these plots before they become tragedies. What the plea says he did […] More

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published a Wall Street Journal op‑ed this week arguing that the coming era of AI “superintelligence” should be put into the hands of many people, not hoarded by a few powerful institutions. The pitch sounds inspiring: give everyone a personal superintelligence to create, learn, and start businesses. That is the […] More

A new newspaper investigation says Iran may be using migrant boats across the English Channel to place suspected operatives inside the United Kingdom. That claim should make every citizen sit up. Whether the story is fully proven or not, it exposes how weak border security and soft diplomacy can be a real danger to our […] More

The New York Times reported this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has widened airport enforcement to detain travelers whose U.S. visas have expired. The story names filmed incidents at major hubs and traces the arrests to a passenger‑list matching program that shares airline data from the Transportation Security Administration with ICE. If you like […] More

Senator Rand Paul just dropped more than a thousand pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary entries, and Dr. Fauci is set to testify under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this Wednesday. That’s the news — and the rest is the political and legal fireworks everyone should be watching. If […] More

In a narrow, party-line victory, the Senate has finally put a confirmed leader back atop the nation’s intelligence apparatus. The confirmation of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence ends a clumsy interim period and hands the intelligence community a steady, Senate‑approved hand at a time when clear leadership matters. Senate confirms Jay Clayton as […] More

President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice have taken their fight over the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment to the U.S. Supreme Court. The new petition asks the high court to overturn that blockbuster verdict by applying presidential immunity and by having the United States substituted as the defendant under the Westfall […] More