This week the Justice Department fired Roger Rogoff less than an hour after 17 federal judges in western Washington unanimously appointed him U.S. Attorney. The moment looked like a civics lesson gone sideways: a respected local jurist sworn in at 8 a.m., then an email in the lobby telling him he was finished. The quick More

The National Weather Service sounded a blunt alarm this week: “A LARGE and DEADLY FLOOD WAVE is moving down the river… Seek higher ground now!” Residents of the Texas Hill Country woke to that urgent message as the Guadalupe River surged, forcing rescues, road closures and hurried evacuations. This was not a drill — it More

Oil markets jumped after Reuters reported that Iran has told Yemen’s Houthi allies to be ready to shut the Bab el‑Mandeb shipping lane if the United States strikes Iran’s power infrastructure. Traders took the warning seriously. A second threatened chokepoint, on top of trouble at the Strait of Hormuz, sent Brent and WTI higher as More

A national outlet this week dug through Montana lobbying records and found something that will make swing voters do a double take: Sam Forstag — the Democrat running in Montana’s 1st Congressional District who likes to bill himself as a smokejumper and union leader — also spent years registered as a lobbyist for groups like More

The federal government just added the Juárez Cartel and Los Viagras to the list of criminal groups labeled as foreign terrorist organizations. This is a real step toward treating the cartels like the violent, organized enemies they are — not just drug gangs with nicknames. The move gives U.S. authorities stronger tools to choke off More

Secretary of State Marco Rubio just led a blunt, unapologetic shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy — and Washington finally stopped pretending this was only about protest signs and bad slogans. Speaking at a ministerial that brought roughly 60–65 foreign delegations to the capital, Rubio put the world on notice: the U.S. will treat violent far‑left More