DOD IG: ‘SECRET/NOFORN’ INFO IN SIGNAL CHAT: Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon’s acting inspector general found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s description of planned airstrikes on Yemen in March — shared on an unsecure group chat on Signal — included details derived from a classified email […]
President Donald Trump‘s polling is down six months into his second administration, but that does not mean Democrats have an advantage before next year’s midterm elections. Trump’s approval rating is averaging less than a percentage point better than it was post-Liberation Day at 45.5%, but the president’s disapproval rating is at its worst of his […]
Senate Democrats are reluctantly offering Republicans vital votes to advance government funding measures despite a lack of GOP assurances that partisan methods won’t later be used to slash bipartisan spending deals. However, some Democrats suggest it could backfire to so freely extend bipartisanship at a time GOP lawmakers preview more cuts using only Republican votes, […]
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night that he has “lawyered up.” Clapper’s decision to do so comes after recent revelations and accusations by the Trump administration that intelligence agencies falsified information to claim Russia engaged in election interference in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald […]
Dozens of members of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which the State Department says was established to “monitor Chinese students and mobilize them against views that dissent from the [Chinese Communist Party],” have found their way into high-level positions at American technology firms, pharmaceutical corporations, academia, and national labs — sparking industrial espionage concerns. […]
The White House is losing GOP support for the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to a key watchdog post, with at least one Senate Republican vowing to oppose him due to his sympathy for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told the Washington Examiner he will vote “no” on Ingrassia, tapped to lead the […]
President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped a bombshell in his second term that threatens to blow up the narrative surrounding the investigation, which cast a long shadow over his first. Newly declassified documents cast doubt on whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was fully intended to help Trump win, implicating the president’s political opponents […]
Four Russian warplanes were intercepted by U.S. Air Force fighter jets off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday. Two of the planes flying off the Alaskan coast were Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Bomber, an aircraft one hailed as the Soviet Union’s preeminent nuclear bomber. The other planes were two Su-35 Flanker fighter jets, reported Air & […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) compared the December 2016 date of former President Barack Obama’s meeting with National Security Council officials to Pearl Harbor, saying that day “will live in infamy” because of the Democratic administration’s alleged subversion of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory over Russian election interference. “FDR famously said Dec. 7 is a […]
A federal appeals court on Wednesday unanimously decided to nullify Mike Lindell‘s $5 million payment to a software developer who sought to disprove the MyPillow CEO’s claims of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election. A three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled that an arbitration panel exceeded […]
