Georgia Senate votes to keep QR code ballots through 2028, adds manual recount mandate

The Georgia Senate approved legislation on a party-line vote Saturday to extend the state's use of QR code-based ballot tabulation through 2028, pushing past a looming July 1 deadline that would have banned the technology with no replacement system funded or ready to deploy. The bill now heads to the Georgia House, where committee hearings […]

Malia Obama drops her famous last name from film credits — but the family connections remain

When Malia Ann Obama debuted her short film The Heart at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, her name appeared in the credits as "Malia Ann." Not "Malia Obama." The 27-year-old daughter of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama had quietly shed the most recognizable surname in American […]

Gabbard uses final hours as intelligence chief to release declassified Fauci documents on COVID origins

Tulsi Gabbard spent her last night atop the U.S. intelligence community doing what she said she came to do, pulling back the curtain. The outgoing Director of National Intelligence released nearly 500 pages of newly declassified documents Thursday night, all aimed at one target: Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in shaping how America's spy agencies assessed […]

Michael Wolff's latest attack on the Trump family relies on claims even his own publisher retracted

Michael Wolff is back with another round of unsourced psychoanalysis of the Trump White House, this time painting the president as a lonely monarch wandering an empty palace. The problem is that Wolff's own track record on the subject has already been tested in court and in his publisher's editorial standards, and both came up […]

Federal appeals court clears Interior Department to replace Philadelphia slavery exhibit

A unanimous federal appeals panel ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can remove and replace a slavery exhibit at the President's House in Philadelphia, overturning a lower court order that had blocked the changes for months. The decision hands the Interior Department a clear legal victory and strips the City of Philadelphia of any veto […]

Leaked records tie Ted Cruz, top Democrat to secretive Thiel-backed retreat

A trove of leaked internal records from a secretive, invitation-only group co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel has surfaced the names of Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Jim Himes, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and other senior U.S. officials, placing them in a directory alongside Silicon Valley power brokers, surveillance-firm executives, and a foreign intelligence chief. Wired published […]

Italy's Meloni rejects Trump's claim she "begged" for a G7 photo as diplomatic fallout spreads

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, once considered the closest European leader to President Trump, fired back publicly after Trump told an Italian broadcaster that she had "begged" him for a photo at the G7 summit. Italy's foreign minister then canceled a planned trip to the United States, and the country's defense minister issued his own […]

Barrett challenges Thomas in sharp concurrence over plea deal appeal waivers

The Supreme Court ruled 8, 1 in Hunter v. United States that appeal waivers in criminal plea deals are generally enforceable, but not when enforcing them would produce a "miscarriage of justice." Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority in full, then wrote a separate concurrence aimed squarely at the lone dissenter: Justice Clarence Thomas. […]

Illegal immigrant charged in machete killing was released into U.S. under Biden border policies, DHS says

A 21-year-old illegal immigrant charged with hacking his roommate to death with a machete in Southaven, Mississippi, had been caught at the southern border as a minor in 2022, and released into the country's interior by the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed. Maberic Javier Reyes now sits in DeSoto County custody […]

Alleged ringleader of foiled UFC White House attack entered U.S. illegally, received DACA protection under Obama

The man the FBI calls the ringleader of a foiled plot to attack a UFC event on White House grounds is a 31-year-old Mexican national who overstayed a tourist visa more than two decades ago, and was later granted deportation relief under the Obama administration's DACA program. The Department of Homeland Security identified him as […]