The controversial head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccines and biologics unit, Dr. Vinay Prasad, will leave the agency at the end of April. read more
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is calling it quits -- again. read more
The White House is blocking top U.S. intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail reports. The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Iran. The five-page bulletin blocked by the White House provides specific details on how Iranian proxies may carry out attacks across the country.
The mother of Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old man who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, the family's attorney told Newsweek. Federal immigration agents fatally shot Martinez on March 15, 2025, in South Padre Island, Texas, during a late-night traffic encounter involving local law enforcement and agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). On Wednesday, the family, through their attorneys, sought to clear up questions around Martinez and his death. One myth they sought to debunk was that Martinez was an anti-Trump protester or political activist. "Ruben's mother, Rachel Reyes, voted for Donald Trump in 2024," the attorneys said. "Ruben was not protesting anything " he was celebrating his 23rd birthday with a childhood friend. Unlike other victims labeled as 'domestic terrorists' by the White House, Ruben was simply a young man trying to get home.
A newly revealed series of group chats obtained by The Floridian shows Republican officials in Miami fantasizing about genocide and spamming racial slurs. read more
The secretary of Miami-Dade County's Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall " and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as "Nazi heaven." In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as "whores," used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler's politics.
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Is Prasad going to be replaced by the guy who sold heroin to Polio Bob?