Kash Patel can't stop living the good life. The FBI director reportedly went on a VIP snorkeling trip while on a visit to Hawaii last summer that the bureau stressed was not a vacation. Patel was officially in the state to tour the FBI's Honolulu branch and meet with local law enforcement, or at least that's what the bureau's news releases said. But the Associated Press obtained government emails showing that Patel took part in the snorkeling excursion, coordinated by the military, near the USS Arizona, which was sunk in the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor. That wasn't mentioned in the bureau's public releases, nor was Patel's return to Hawaii for two days after initially visiting the state. Read more
Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, was one of two men arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to buy sex from Larimer County Sheriff's Office investigators who posed as minors as part of an operation targeting child predators. After news of Rivera's arrest broke late Friday, multiple prominent Republicans denounced Rivera and called for his immediate resignation from the party position. The sheriff's office said in a news release that "several dozen people" responded to investigators who posed as minors offering sexual acts for sale on local websites and online forums.
Dozens of Israelis protested outside of the New York Times building in NYC, angry over the paper's coverage of the rape of Palestinians in IDF prisons and calling for the dismissal of veteran New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof.
IDF Uses Rape as Weapon of War
President Trump late Thursday invoked his predecessor in attempting to explain comments by Chinese President Xi Jinping as the two leaders meet during a high-stakes visit, blaming former President Biden and his administration for the U.S.'s "decline."
It wasn't that long ago, if a high school baseball pitcher reached the mid-80s with his fastball, he would be considered elite. But the number that draws the attention of scouts and college recruiters on radar guns has risen steadily.
Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger
A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn't fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.
The Pentagon's top watchdog says cuts to civilian harm mitigation and response efforts have been so severe under War Secretary Pete Hegseth that the United States cannot adequately protect civilians in conflict zones.
Thursday's scathing analysis by the Department of War's inspector general came on the same day that the top U.S. commander overseeing the war in Iran dismissed reports of civilian casualties and said the U.S. had no means to corroborate reports of strikes on hospitals and schools.
The inspector general specifically notes that the military stopped funding a database that tracks civilian harm that could be used for such verification.
RUSSIA EVACUATES NEAR IRAN, WAR IMMINENT; MASSIVE ATTACKS IN RUSSIA!
Breaking War News - The Enforcer
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing traffic.
The most important foreign trip of President Trump's second term to date concluded on Friday as he flew back to Washington from China. Trump had been met with great pageantry as he arrived for his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but the warmth of the welcome was offset by obvious tensions -- over the war in Iran, the fate of Taiwan and the terms of trade between the two economic superpowers.
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Trump's $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn The president's "settlement" with the IRS appears set to give him a slush fund of $1.7 billion to dole out to allies. How unconstitutional is it? Jamie Raskin counts the ways. Read more
Colorado's governor on Friday announced that he is commuting the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. She's serving time for election interference for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines following the 2020 presidential election. She was sentenced to serve over eight years in state prison in October 2024. Read more
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President Donald Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors early this year and many of these trades coincided with favorable regulatory decisions from his own administration.
DJT Financial Disclosures: Who cares about egregious conflicts of interest?
Top Republicans on Friday condemned the Pentagon for canceling a U.S. troop deployment to Poland, an abrupt move that also appeared to catch Army leaders by surprise.
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