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As many as six higher-level FBI agents were fired from their posts who were also linked to the search of Mar-a-Lago, MS NOW reported. In 2022, President Donald Trump's country club was raided by the FBI because he refused to return classified documents he took from the White House. While other lawmakers like former Vice Presidents Mike Pence and Joe Biden had documents in boxes in storage, they quickly returned everything to the National Archives, which is the agency that gathers, protects and stores historic information. The agents came out of Miami, and the higher-level special agents in c

For decades, the far-right, anti-government militia groups have operated in the shadows, but a former FBI agent who worked undercover is warning that everything has changed since President Donald Trump took over. Speaking to the Washington Post, Mike German noted that conservatives who once loathed “Big Government” now cheer on more militarized federal power being used by the White House in "blue" cities. "Since Ruby Ridge and Waco in the 1990s, a faction of right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies," the report tease

After al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) invoked Article 5 — a mutual defense agreement. The use of Article 5, post-9/11, meant that when al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., it was regarded as an attack on all NATO countries. And troops from other NATO members joined U.S. troops during military operations in Afghanistan.Yet U.S. President Donald Trump is a persistent critic of NATO, claiming that it is of little or no value to the United States. And Trump, The Guardian's Jamie Grierson observes in an

The Republican Party continues to face significant headwinds in planning a future without Donald Trump, as a new report from Politico Friday found that young Republicans are not happy with the president's most likely 2028 successor.While nothing is official this far out from the next presidential race, and even though Trump has mused occasionally about an illegal third term, Vice President JD Vance has generall

President Donald Trump rang in the early hours of Friday morning with an overnight posting spree on Truth Social, the Daily Beast reports.Trump, who flew back Thursday night from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, posted over 70 times in a “50-minute period from 12:40 a.m to 1:30 a.m,” including several reposts (or “ReTruths”) from pro-MAGA accounts.“Many of the posts appeared in his feed twice in a row,” the Beast reports.”Just before 8:30 p.m., the president

One of the many fears that critics of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) raids rocking American cities have is a scenario in which some type of armed confrontation between local police officers and well-armed ICE agents occurs. Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal and Philly District Attorney Larry Krasner warned that ICE agent who violate the city's laws will be arrested. And Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, a critic of ICE tactics during Donald Trump's second presidency, fears that the tense environment in Minneapolis and other cities could go from bad to worse; O'Hara said he dreads the "moment where it all explodes."

President Donald Trump has suggested that former Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith to be criminally charged, and Smith has even said he expects an indictment during his recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. But one of Smith's former colleagues said Republicans aren't likely to be successful in prosecuting him.In a Thursday segment on CNN's "The Source," Karen Friedman Agnifilo — who worked alongside Smith in the M

As I type this from the battleground of Madison, Wisconsin, America and our allies are under steady attack by a 79-year-old, deranged felon with mommy issues, a nuclear arsenal at his disposal, and a gutless Republican Party which is leading from the vicinity of his fat behind … It’s all about Trump all the time, because the foul-mouthed lout has beaten most of our legacy media, universities, corporations, military, and his subservient weaklings in his pathetic party into submission.A racist, un-evolved moron, who lies as he breathes, has done all that.Who says America isn’t the land of opportunity? It’s even worse of course, because fully 60 percent of America positively hates his

Perhaps not unexpectedly, the awaited public appearance and grilling of Special Counsel Jack Smith on the alleged federal crimes of Donald Trump was more spectacle than illumination.On some level, it was the most recent replay of the most familiar confrontations by defenders of Trump over political justice against those who believe that Trump was subject to the same law as everyone else.It was the first public chance to hear what Smith had to bring to a judge and jury to demonstrate that Trump broke criminal law, though it became more a defense of how Smith conducted his investigation.The public theater that unfolded before the House Judiciary Committee followed months of partisan negotiation, private questioning of Smith, and seemingly endless attempts to undercut and threaten the special counsel for holdin

The top conservative think tank in the United States has released a new policy paper, “Saving America by Saving the Family,” that a New York Times columnist has panned.Opinion writer Jessica Grose wrote that the Heritage Foundation authors went all the way back to 1776 for their "inspiration." They are calling their report "A Foundation for the Ne