Americans' perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread. That figure is up 10 percentage points from last year and well above readings in the 72% to 79% range between 2010 and 2025.
DHS's Office of Inspector General found that fentanyl seizures by Homeland Security Investigations plummeted 39% between fiscal years 2024 and 2025, while the number of fentanyl investigations fell by 24%. The number of hours the agency spent on combating fentanyl dropped by nearly a third. The inspector general, which serves as DHS's official watchdog, said in the Aug. 20 report that the reason for the drop in fentanyl cases inside HSI was clear: "As ICE shifted priorities toward immigration enforcement, HSI's level of effort on fentanyl declined."
Users on X were outraged by the move as the trees were planted along two sides of the center to symbolize the nation's mourning after the death of former President John F. Kennedy. "The weeping willows at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have been reduced to stumps," the user on X wrote. "They symbolized the mourning of a nation for President Kennedy following his assassination in 1963," it added. "The administration is claiming the roots were bad, but we know the real reason."
Making Pete Hegseth the secretary of defense was always a huge gamble. A television host with little background in national-security or defense affairs, who topped out as a major in the National Guard, he was nominated based on the same qualification shared by most of Donald Trump's other appointees: loyalty. And now the price of that gamble is evident. The Pentagon is careening offtrack under a secretary of defense who is firing or forcing the resignations of officers and civilian officials, not because they are unqualified but because he believes they are insufficiently loyal to him, personally.
The Trump administration has been accused of removing trees from a golf course in Washington, D.C., without getting approval from officials, despite being told to do so read more


Heck of a job Orangey.