The Office of Special Counsel has for nearly 50 years been the US government's one-stop shop for whistleblowers and alleged ethics violations, a federal watchdog created after Watergate with the lofty mandate "to end government and political corruption." Now it appears to be facing its biggest test yet, as insiders and independent watchdogs raise alarms that the historically nonpartisan agency has been "captured" by loyalists from the very administration it's supposed to police. read more
A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that one of the nation's most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company after the 2020 presidential election. read more
A California doctor accused of giving Friends star Matthew Perry access to ketamine in the weeks before the actor's overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors. read more
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk's team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts -- and how longtime employees responded. read more
"You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens," [NYC Comptroller Brad] Lander said. "I'm not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway. ... You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant." read more
Lawmakers say ICE's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is at risk of violating U.S. law if it continues to spend at its current pace ... Lawmakers who oversee DHS's appropriations say it could run out of money as soon as July, causing it to violate the Antideficiency Act. read more
A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) must immediately restore approximately 400 grants touching on politically sensitive topics that it abruptly canceled earlier this year. read more
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a "menacing" show of force to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday -- but got a "festive" parade instead. "He's pissed off at the soldiers," [biographer Michael] Wolff said. "He's accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face." read more
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday told staff it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants, the Washington Post reported late on Monday. read more
Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite-immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year. read more
During our recent interview, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said something arresting that we just can't shake: Everyone assumes AI optimists and doomers are simply exaggerating. But no one asks: "Well, what if they're right?" read more
Penske Truck Rental announced Sunday it has banned members of the White Nationalist group "Patriot Front" from renting its vehicles again after a viral video showed masked men fleeing from a protest in Missouri in one of its trademark trucks. read more
US President Donald Trump says that "we" have control of the skies over Iran as questions grow over whether the United States will join Israel's strikes against the Islamic Republic. "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran," Trump writes on Truth Social, hailing the use of US-made weaponry, although without explicitly mentioning Israel. "Nobody does it better than the good ol' USA."e read more
Utah Sen. Mike Lee is facing outrage and calls for his resignation over social media posts that baselessly claim the man charged with targeting Minnesota lawmakers in shootings during the weekend has ties to the political left. read more
