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A career Justice Department civil-rights attorney says Trump officials built key campus antisemitism cases backward: federal money was frozen before investigations were complete, Brown was
There is a difference between deciding that one candidate is less harmful in one election and promising a political party your vote no matter what
Comedian Suzanne Lambert says she accidentally overheard Gentry Beach, Harry Sargeant III and Peter Marocco discussing Trump, money and the 2026 midterms. Many of the
A surprising number of facts behind the viral 99-0404 theory are real: a Special Air Mission flight in Arizona, a senior Pentagon intelligence visit to
The short answer: there is no public evidence proving that the underground facility beneath the White House ballroom is primarily a secret data center or
Headlines say the Port of Long Beach is going nuclear. The reality is more complicated: a non-fueled reactor prototype is already being developed at the
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp suspended all seven members of the Dublin City Board of Education after years of deficits, millions in unpaid health-benefit obligations, emergency
Laura Loomer’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is protected speech. But Florida law separately criminalizes certain threats used to compel someone to act against their will. After Loomer
Congress is excluded from FOIA because the statute’s definition of a federal agency expressly leaves it out. This explainer shows how that legal choice affects
Members of Congress are subject to insider-trading law, but stock trading itself is not automatically illegal. This explainer covers the STOCK Act, duties of trust,
