The newest chapter in the ActBlue saga landed like a thunderclap on Capitol Hill. A joint Republican staff report says the Democratic fundraising hub loosened fraud controls, accepted donations with signs of foreign origin, and then stonewalled investigators. That report led to a storm of events — a public hearing where ActBlue’s CEO repeatedly invoked More

The Department of Justice just dropped a bombshell on Los Angeles County’s homeless services scene — and it is as ugly as it sounds. Federal prosecutors announced arrests and new charges tied to an alleged scheme that funneled millions in homelessness funds into private pockets, a nightclub, and other luxuries. The message from Washington was More

The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial has finally spoken, and his account raises at least as many questions about the media circus as it does about the jury room. He tells an independent outlet that he did not lie on his jury questionnaire, says prosecutors knew about an old arrest when they More

The Senate HELP Committee put President Donald Trump’s Surgeon General nominee, Dr. Nicole Saphier, on the hot seat this week. What started as a routine confirmation hearing quickly turned into a test of political balance: Saphier said vaccines work and pushed prevention, but she would not fully repudiate the administration’s recent vaccine-policy shifts led by More

The United States just did what every responsible nation should do: admit reality. For the first time, a senior U.S. official publicly confirmed that American forces operate weapons in orbit. That simple truth cut through a fog of secrecy and woke up a chorus of predictable complaints from Beijing and Moscow. Let’s call it what More

President Donald Trump has publicly demanded that the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to “1%, or less” after the Fed, led by his own appointee Kevin Warsh, moved to raise the federal funds rate by a quarter point. The clash is loud, clear, and worth watching — because it exposes a basic question: who sets More