The hermit set out of camp at midnight, carrying his backpack and his bag of break-in tools, and threaded through the forest, rock to root to rock, every step memorized. Not a boot print left behind. It was cold and nearly moonless, a fine night for a raid, so he hiked about an hour to the Pine Tree summer camp, a few dozen cabins spread along the shoreline of North Pond in central Maine. With an expert twist of a screwdriver, he popped open a door of the dining hall and slipped inside, scanning the pantry shelves with his penlight. Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced Wednesday the creation of a new select subcommittee to investigate events before and after Jan. 6, 2021.
"House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done," Johnson said in a statement. Read more
On inauguration day, President Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of the approximately 1,550 defendants convicted for their involvement with the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. He also ordered DOJ to dismiss all other pending indictments. Most of them, about 900, were for non-violent misdemeanors such as trespass and disorderly conduct. He granted the clemency all at once, and did not begin with pardoning the non-violent misdemeanor defendants first and then examining the remaining defendants on a case-by-case basis as he and others previously had suggested. Meanwhile, on the very same day, just 15 minutes before he left office, President Biden issued the last set of his own pardons. He granted them to members of his family, most notably his brothers, sister, and in-laws, as well as to members of his administration such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley, and even to political supporters like the congressional January 6 committee members
An executive order by President Donald Trump requiring agencies to stop paying money for two mammoth Biden-era laws could bring a wide range of infrastructure, transportation and energy projects to a halt " including those already delivering jobs to Republican-led states.
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I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do. When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical. Read more
Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave "effective immediately," according to a post from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Read more
President Trump delivered a series of executive orders after being sworn into office, one of which declared that the US government will recognise "only two genders, male and female" on government-issued identification. More specifically, the order defines someone female as "a person belonging, at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell," whilst someone male is a "person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell". McBride, who is the first out trans congresswoman, quipped to The Independent that Trump "just declared everyone a woman from conception based on the language of the executive order". But anyone with a background in biology will know that all human embryos follow a "female" developmental path until the activation of the SRY gene several weeks after conception, which sparks sexual differentiation.
On Monday, the day with two presidents, our pair of commanders in chief both offered examples of how the pardon power can be abused. One showed how the power can darken a president's reputation. The other much more seriously showed how pardon power can threaten the stability of our democracy.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to designate drug cartels and foreign criminal groups as terrorist organizations. The order singled out Mexican drug cartels and Latin American criminal gangs such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that, "threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere."
President Donald Trump says his administration will move to revoke the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a "Russian information operation." Read more
Following several airstrikes, a large number of troops entered Jenin and its refugee camp, backed by drones, helicopters, and armored bulldozers. At least ten Palestinians were killed and nearly 40 wounded by Israeli forces, including three doctors and two nurses. In a another part of the West Bank, dozens of masked Israeli extremists attacked Palestinians in two villages east of Qalqilya, Jinsafut, and al-Funduq, setting fire to Palestinian homes and cars while smashing property, injuring 21. Read more
A Danish Member of the European Parliament had some pointed words for President Donald Trump.
A bored German translator was caught in a hot mic moment after being heard calling Donald Trump's presidential speech "s---." The translator, working for German TV channel Phoenix, appeared to get frustrated during the 2,885-word marathon speech from the MAGA boss...
Former CIA analyst Asif William Rahman (34) of Vienna, VA, pleaded guilty to retaining and transmitting classified information and posting it on a social media platform in October 2024. Read more
Trump ordered all federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites, and health advisories. The orders were delivered to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health. On top of this, the Avian flu is spreading and the US just withdrew from the WHO. Read more
