FBI director Kash Patel defended his agency's decision to roll back restrictions on agent applicants who have previously engaged in bestiality, arguing the FBI "did not want to punish victims of bestiality" by automatically disqualifying them. read more
The U.S. workforce has just made the type of history it likely wishes it didn't. Working Americans are taking home the smallest percentage of economic output, 52.8%, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the metric in 1947. read more
Over the last few years, California has quietly but dramatically increased the resiliency of its electrical grid through a significant expansion in battery energy storage. These batteries hold onto solar energy captured during the day, so it can be sent to the grid as demand peaks ... read more
"All these mechanisms (tapping storage and national reserves) helped to mitigate the price and supply risk," Chevron (CVX) CEO Mike Wirth said Friday at an energy conference in Austin, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Those have largely now played out, and we don't have nearly the buffers in the system that we did when [the Middle East war] began." read more
Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate on Monday, ending a months-long medical absence. read more
President Donald Trump has traded more securities than every member of Congress combined since he returned to office -- even as he seeks to pass a stock-purchasing ban for lawmakers that would exclude him from any restrictions. read more
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), released a response from SoftBank Group (SoftBank) confirming that SoftBank donated $50 million to President Trump's Presidential Library fund and revealing for the first time that it came just two months prior to the Trump administration's announcement of a massive land lease deal for a SoftBank data center. The response indicated that the $50 million donation was made in January 2026; the lease agreement was announced in March 2026. This sequence of events raises significant concerns about potential corruption, and whether SoftBank's donation was an attempt to buy favorable treatment from President Trump and the Trump Administration. read more
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made a bombshell admission this morning, disclosing that there are on-orbit weapons deployed right now to protect America's interests in space. read more
Internal Emails Show Susie Wiles Connecting Election Deniers -- One Now Facing Charges for Violating State Election Laws -- with Top Admin Officials read more
In National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, the White House laid out a national strategy for federal law enforcement, directing it to treat beliefs like "anti-Americanism, anti-Capitalism, and anti-Christianity" and "extremism on migration, race, and gender" as indicators of domestic terrorism. read more
[Putin Ally Umar] Kremlev, according to documents reviewed by ProPublica, paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses, including dancers, a five-tier funfetti cake flown in from Florida, fireworks and the rental of the private islands. read more
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is exploring closer ties with the European Union, including becoming an "associate member" of the bloc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. read more
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country ... read more
President Trump lashed out at calls for new AI guardrails and protections on Monday ... read more
Deportations have not kept pace with arrests due to legal and logistical barriers. People with criminal convictions accounted for less than a quarter of July arrests. Arrests of people without deportation orders have surged. read more
A Chinese company doesn't need to hack Silicon Valley; it can simply rent the server next door. read more
