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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

A day after FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi. U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel's lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Patel sued after Figliuzzi, appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe last year, said of the FBI director, "Well, reportedly, he's been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building."


A Murfreesboro man who was arrested last year after an armed confrontation with protesters at a Nashville "No Kings" rally faces new federal charges, including two counts of possessing child pornography. A federal grand jury in Nashville recently returned a superseding indictment against Elijah Millar, 20, adding two additional firearms charges, as well as two counts of receiving child porn and possession of art work that depicted children engaged in sex acts. A Murfreesboro man who was arrested last year after an armed confrontation with protesters at a Nashville "No Kings" rally faces new federal charges, including two counts of possessing child pornography. A federal grand jury in Nashville recently returned a superseding indictment against Elijah Millar, 20, adding two additional firearms charges, as well as two counts of receiving child porn and possession of art work that depicted children engaged in sex acts.


The Connecticut man who drowned last week in Cocoa Beach, Fla., got caught in a rip current after saving his son, his wife said Tuesday.


Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Virginia voters approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that could boost Democrats' chances of winning four additional U.S. House seats in November's midterm elections that will decide control of the closely divided Congress. Read more


Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound implications for your overall health than a first glance would suggest. According to a 2023 review that combined data from dozens of studies, distinct differences can be observed between the gut microbiomes of 'speeders' and 'slowpokes'.


Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.


NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday, a muscular display of air power on the alliance's eastern flank away from the spotlight on the Middle East.


Until recently, the civil rights group was a partner to the FBI, providing critical information about extremists, including white supremacists, operating in the U.S.


Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson apologized on Monday for campaigning for President Donald Trump, declaring that he would be "tormented" by the decision "for a long time" to come. Read more


It was almost exactly this time 20 years ago that the bottom began to fall out on George W. Bush's approval ratings.


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is focused on a new enemy as the war with Iran rages on: the flu shot.


Trump 'tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped by military chief' Report: Claims Trump was denied access to nuclear codes at an emergency White House meeting; Read more


President Donald Trump's erratic moves aren't helping. The Iran war is damaging America's influence around the world and exacerbating tensions with countries already whipsawed by President Donald Trump's second term -- an erosion of power that could be tough to reverse as U.S. adversaries such as China take advantage.


The risk of a U.S. recession could rise suddenly depending on how the administration reacts to the Iran war on social media, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief executive David Solomon said. Article content A larger or smaller risk of an economic downturn could be "only one tweet away," Solomon said in an interview at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, adding that current forecasts for a recession remain fairly low.


Palantir's manifesto' has been described as an AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and technofascism'.


The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reports it's the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

Another Example of Lawfare to Protect White Supremacists Who are Followers of Donald Trump


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