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During President Donald Trump's first term, his government tried to go after an FBI leak and the investigation obtained documents that have ultimately been used to go after former FBI Director James Comey. Late Wednesday night, a judge ordered the Justice Department to either destroy the materials or return them. Operation "Arctic Haze" was an investigation into a possible leak in 2019–2020. As legal podcaster P. Andrew Torrez noted, Dan Richman, one of Comey's longtime friends and a

Although Democrats dominate Texas' major urban centers — from Houston to Austin to El Paso — and perform well in some of Texas' congressional districts, they continue to struggle in statewide races in the Lone Star State. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) narrowly lost to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in 2008, but he still couldn't get past the finish line. And Donald Trump's 14 percent victory over Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in 2024 reminded Democrats that Texas is still a red state.Yet conservative columnist George Will believes that Texas' 2026 U.S. Senate race could be in play for Democrats if far-right State Attorney General Ken Paxton is the nominee instead of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a more traditional conser

After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden was an aggressive proponent of military aid to President Volodymyr Zelensky's troops. Biden maintained that there would be no American "boots on the ground" in Ukraine, but now-Vice President JD Vance was highly critical of Biden's Ukraine policy and argued that the U.S. had nothing to gain from helping the war-torn country. And some MAGA Republicans even accused Biden of being a neocon.But the isolationist tone that U.S. President Donald Trump had in the past has been replaced by much more interventio

A "potential staff revolt" is reportedly brewing in Donald Trump's Department of Justice, according to the New York Times, as staffers bristle against pushes from leadership to pursue cases against protesters and critics of the administration's deportation agenda.The Times reported on Thursday that the DOJ has, throughout the last year, adopted Trump's "strong-arm approach to the law," and deployed its resources to pursue an agenda of "punishing his enemies, protecting his friends and attacking the credibility of judges, prosecutors and even the victims of law-enforcement violence." This appro

A top official for President Donald Trump announced that the federal government will remain in Minnesota until it receives cooperation. It's a phrase that could have a very serious bearing on ongoing litigation. Legal reporter Cristian Farias, who has reported at Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and The New Yorker, pointed to comments from Tom Homan, Trump's executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).Reporters asked whether his comments apply only to Minnesota or to other states. The reporter also asked when Homan will decide that it's over. "The withdrawal of law enforcement

Long before he first ran for president — which was in 2000 with a short-lived Reform Party campaign — Donald Trump made a point of putting his name on buildings, from Trump Tower in Manhattan to the Trump Taj Mahal and other hotels and casinos in Atlantic City. During his second president, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has been renamed the John F. Kennedy and Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts. And now, according to Fast Company, architecture firms are floating ideas for a new terminal at D.C.'s Dulles International Airport that would be named after Trump.Fast Company's Hunter Schwarz, in an

A small contingent of an oil-rich province in Canada that desperately wants to join the United States met with President Donald Trump's administration.The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Trump aides met with the Alberta Prosperity Project, which is a group of far-right separatists who want to leave Canada. Since last April, Trump's State Department officials have met with the group at least three times in Washington, the report said. "They are seeking another meeting next month with state and Treasury officials to ask for a $500 billion credit facility to help bankroll the province if an independence refe

Donald Trump finds himself caught in a tight bind, according to a new analysis from the Washington Post, attempting appease the broader electorate with a retreat in Minnesota that his loyal MAGA base has deemed a "betrayal."Following the deaths of two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis, public support for ICE, CBP and Trump's overall deportation agenda has been plummeting faster than ever. Acutely sensitive to his declining popularity, the president has responded with an apparent effort to de-escal

President Donald Trump was up early Thursday morning for a Truth Social posting spree that focused largely on his 2020 election loss — but included a dash of claims about 2016's "Russiagate."The rant included a nearly decade-long conspiracy that Trump was spied on by former President Barack Obama. Trump reposted Fox News commentary from far-right host Jesse Watters who claimed Obama personally ordered a CIA spying operation on Trump."ARREST OBAMA NOW," one post read.According to the "Truths," the Obama administration manufactured ev

Both of my daughters live in the United Kingdom. That makes me one of the luckiest and unluckiest dads in the world.My girls are married to a pair of blokes from sturdy Northeast England, who I can’t help but love with all my heart. And believe me, I looked for every reason not to, because when a dad’s daughter is to be married, her partner better love her more than he loves himself, or else … I don’t see my daughters, who have dual citizenships, or their top-ranked husbands near as much as I’d like, which is the part that makes me unlucky. That these days, they are safe and far away from one of the most dangerous countries in the world makes me lucky.America is no place for smart, tou