A federal judge gave the FBI a clear directive: produce the documents. The FBI's response was to hand over a list of reasons why it wouldn't. That's where the Seth Rich files stand today — and with Kash Patel now running the bureau, the long-running standoff may be about to break. The case is Huddleston v. FBI, filed in the Eastern District of Texas by attorney Ty Clevenger under the Freedom of Information Act. For years, Clevenger has been fighting to force the bureau to release records related to the 2016 murder of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee ...Continue reading

In July 2021, the federal government paid a South Florida healthcare company $4.95 million on a COVID vaccination staffing contract. The company had requested $50,000. FEMA sent $5 million. It was a clerical error — the kind of thing that gets caught, flagged, and returned. Instead of returning the money though, according to a 15-count federal indictment, the owner of that company kept the money, laundered it through multiple bank accounts, used it to fund a congressional campaign through illegal straw donors, and spent more than $100,000 of it on luxury items, including a 3-carat yellow diamond ring. That company ...Continue reading

For years, conservatives have watched election nights stretch into election weeks — apparent winners on Tuesday night becoming apparent losers by Friday as mail-in ballots trickled in from across the country, changing results with each update. Justice Samuel Alito put a name to the frustration Monday during oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee: "We don't have Election Day anymore. We have election month, or we have election months." The case before the court is straightforward on its face. Mississippi has a law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day but arrive up ...Continue reading

The Iran war dominated every headline from Friday through Monday. The 48-hour ultimatum. The Strait of Hormuz. The power plant threats. All of it is real and all of it matters — but while the media's cameras were pointed at the Persian Gulf, a remarkable amount of other news happened that your regular news feed almost certainly buried. Here is your 72-hour catch-up. Elon Musk offered to pay 50,000 TSA workers out of his own pocket. On Saturday morning, Musk posted on X that he would like to personally cover the salaries of every TSA officer working without pay during ...Continue reading

Last month, Reuters confirmed what many in Trump's orbit had long suspected: the Biden-era FBI, operating under special counsel Jack Smith's investigations, secretly obtained the phone records of both Kash Patel and Susie Wiles — two of the most important figures in Donald Trump's administration — while they were private citizens working on his 2024 campaign. Susie Wiles was running that campaign. She is now the White House Chief of Staff. Kash Patel was a Trump adviser. He is now the Director of the FBI. Wiles told associates she was "in shock" when she learned her phone records had been ...Continue reading

Imagine waking up one morning to someone pounding on your door demanding to be let in. It's not a neighbor asking to borrow a tool, nor is it a kid from down the street asking if little Johnny can come outside to play, but it's police officers who want to come in and take a look at how you are storing your guns. Unfortunately, that's not a dystopian reality anymore. It's about to become reality if Democrats in Minnesota get their way. Let's be precise about what Minnesota Senate File 4290 actually says, because the details are important and the ...Continue reading