U.S. strips all enriched uranium from Venezuela's research reactor, ships it to South Carolina

The United States and its partners have removed every gram of enriched uranium from a legacy research reactor in Venezuela and shipped the material to South Carolina, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration announced Friday. The operation, completed in months rather than the years such efforts typically require, marks a significant nonproliferation win […]

Trump announces U.S. helped free five prisoners held in Belarus and Russia

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that five prisoners from Poland and Moldova had been released from detention in Belarus and Russia, crediting American diplomatic pressure and his Special Presidential Envoy John Coale for pushing the deal across the finish line. The releases cap months of quiet engagement between Washington, Warsaw, and Minsk, and mark another […]

Biden moves to block DOJ from releasing 2017 ghostwriter audio, court filing reveals

Former President Joe Biden's legal team is preparing to intervene in a federal lawsuit to prevent the Justice Department from releasing redacted audio recordings and transcripts of his 2017 conversations with a book ghostwriter, recordings that became central to Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents. A court filing made Friday […]

Kash Patel says FBI's hidden 'burn bag' room held classified Russia probe documents

FBI Director Kash Patel told Sean Hannity this week that he discovered classified documents sealed inside "burn bags" in a locked, off-the-books room at FBI headquarters, records he says are tied directly to the bureau's investigation into Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and its alleged links to Russia. The 46-year-old FBI director, appearing on Hannity's podcast, […]

Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen steps down after affair allegations rock redistricting case

Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigned effective immediately on May 8, 2026, walking away from the bench she held for nine years after allegations surfaced that she had a relationship with the lead attorney in one of the state's most politically charged cases, the fight over Utah's congressional maps. Hagen submitted her resignation in […]

UFO researcher says Washington is still hiding the truth — and the public couldn't handle it

The Department of War released more than 160 previously classified files related to UFOs and extraterrestrial life on Friday, but a veteran researcher who has spent six decades chasing unexplained aerial phenomena says the government is still running a shell game, and that Americans may not be ready for what remains locked away. Dennis Anderson, […]

U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, doubling forecasts as private sector drives growth

The American economy added 115,000 jobs in April, roughly twice what economists had predicted, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3 percent. The private sector accounted for all the gains, and then some, as federal payrolls continued to shrink under President Donald Trump's push to slim down the government workforce. Wall Street Journal economists […]

Virginia Democrats refuse to back down after state Supreme Court strikes down redistricting scheme

Virginia Democrats poured roughly $62.5 million into a constitutional amendment designed to let them redraw the state's congressional map before the 2026 midterms. On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court threw the whole thing out, and Democrats say they are not finished. The court ruled 4-3 that Democratic lawmakers failed to follow the constitutional procedures required […]

Former Fauci adviser David Morens pleads not guilty to destroying COVID records

Dr. David Morens, the 78-year-old former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, stood before a federal magistrate judge in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday and entered a not-guilty plea to five criminal counts, including conspiracy against the United States, tied to allegations he concealed and destroyed government records about the origins of COVID-19. Morens told the […]

Brian Glenn leaves White House press role after Trump's public jab at Marjorie Taylor Greene

Brian Glenn, the White House reporter for Real America's Voice and fiancé of former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, has quit his job and is leaving Washington, D.C., telling the Daily Mail he wants to "slow everything down" and build a life in Georgia. The departure comes after President Donald Trump publicly praised Glenn during an […]
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