As Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time on Jan. 20, 2025, former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell put his phone on "do not disturb" and left it on his nightstand to take a break from the news. That evening, after Gonell spent time with family and took his dog on a long walk, his phone started to blow up with calls. read more
The children of slain Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman are urging President Donald Trump to remove a post on Truth Social that promotes a conspiracy theory ... read more
The president was more focused on re-litigating past elections than sharing plans for Venezuela's future. read more
The Department of Justice was required to formally explain and justify redactions made to the released Epstein files by Jan. 3. The Trump Administration did not comply with this law but they did, without Congressional approval, attack Venezuela and take the country's strongman president into custody. read more
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on X that he is going back to civilian life, leaving his post at FBI after a year. read more
Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn't disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show. read more
As one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi wrote a letter to the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, demanding that the "full and complete Epstein files" ... read more
The official explanations for the United States' war on Venezuela are somewhere between "not credible" and "surely not the full story." That leaves us to try to divine what the rest of the story might be. Here are some theories; please note that we're trying to be as thorough as we can, so some of this is pretty speculative: read more
Katie Miller, a former U.S. administration official-turned-podcaster, posted an image late Saturday showing a map of Greenland in the colors of the Stars and Stripes with a one-word caption: "SOON." read more
Donald Trump went golfing Sunday morning as his administration missed a congressional deadline of January 3rd to file a required report explaining redactions made to the Jeffrey Epstein files. read more
Letting the unreliable Grok be its own "spokesperson" lets xAI off the hook. read more
Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela ... read more
The president called his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea a "massive victory," but the lack of details on what was agreed to raise the potential for more friction in 2026. read more
Julian Borger: Trump is no longer bending the rules - he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas read more
The official said the dead included civilians and military personnel. At least one of the civilians was killed in a U.S. airstrike outside of Caracas, according to her family. read more
People are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google's artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found. read more
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