The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on an Atlantic magazine journalist who wrote a deeply unflattering account last month of Director Kash Patel's work habits, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW. The sources said the so-called insider threat investigation is highly unusual because it did not stem from a disclosure of classified information and because it is focused on leaks to a reporter. The agents involved are part of an insider threats unit based in Huntsville, Alabama, the sources added. Typically, leak investigations look into government officials who may have disclosed state secrets or classified documents. Journalists who receive and publish such information have typically only been involved as potential witnesses.
President Donald Trump has asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to pause enforcement of the $83.3 million defamation judgment awarded to E. Jean Carroll, seeking to delay payment while he prepares a potential Supreme Court appeal In a filing on Tuesday, Trump requested that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals stay its mandate in the case, which would temporarily block Carroll from taking steps to collect the judgment. The request comes days after the appeals court rejected Trump's bid to rehear the case before the full court, effectively ending his path to further review at that level. Trump's lawyers say a stay is necessary to preserve what they describe as serious constitutional questions surrounding presidential immunity and the Westfall Act, which governs when the federal government can be substituted as a defendant for officials acting within the scope of their duties.
A red state sparked backlash after announcing that it will offer an alternative version of advanced history classes meant to combat the "woke." Historian Kevin Kruse warned on Bluesky that Sunshine State students could have "to suffer through the Florida Man version" of Advanced Placement U.S. History, and called out a curriculum that frames Florida as always having been Christian, anti-slavery and on the right side of history. Commentators like Kruse pointed out that the curriculum will describe slavery as a "necessary evil," frame Plessy v Ferguson as a result of "the failure of Reconstruction" after the Civil War, and credit federal law that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for "decreased slave power representation."
President Donald Trump, who insists he feels like he did 50 years ago, has been caught in a public bout of daytime drowsiness. The 79-year-old president appeared to slip into a heavy-eyed daze during an Oval Office proclamation signing on Tuesday to restore the Presidential Fitness Test in schools. The president's latest public sleeping fit comes less than two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom accused him of being "asleep at the wheel" for appearing to nod off during a healthcare affordability event at the Oval Office. Newsom, 58, has taken to calling Trump "Dozy Don," a play on the nickname Trump gave his predecessor Joe Biden""Sleepy Joe""to mock the then-president's apparent decline.
President Donald Trump's voters stunned a political analyst on Monday after they accused the president of staging another "false flag" attack. read more
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