March 3, 2026, 10:56 a.m. ET Recently, the head of antitrust for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, Gail Slater, resigned from her post. Per reports, this stemmed in large part from tension with Attorney General Pam Bondi, who grew frustrated with Slater’s insistence on blocking a merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprises, or HPE, and…
Jan. 13, 2026, 8:41 a.m. ET A former U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison for selling secret military information on American ships to China, officials said. Jinchao Wei, 25, also known as Patrick Wei, was sentenced on Jan. 12 to 200 months on espionage charges, the Department of…
Rep. Thomas Massie hit back at President Donald Trump this week, accusing the president of “trying to be a bully” after he appeared to criticize the Kentucky Republican’s recent marriage. Trump on Friday, Nov. 14 shared a post on Truth Social asking if Massie got “married already,” saying “His wife will soon find out that…
I voted for President Donald Trump, and I support a lot of his policies and politics: Lowering taxes, brokering peace deals and ordering strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. I’ve never supported Trump because he had stellar character, integrity or a squeaky-clean past. I don’t think he does, nor do I even know Republicans who believe he’s a model of…
President Donald Trump’s one-time friendship with disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has plagued his second term in the White House. While members of Trump’s current administration have for years called on federal officials to release their files on Epstein, they changed their tune in recent months, saying that no “client list” exists. On Nov. 12, new…
President Donald Trump‘s Republican allies in Congress, eager to help him rewrite the history of criminal investigations into his conduct after he lost the 2020 election, might have inadvertently offered us all a path to transparency about some of his alleged lawlessness. Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed in 2022 to investigate Trump’s attempts to…
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court late Friday said the Trump administration doesn’t have to promptly pay full SNAP food benefits for now, in a last-minute − but temporary − order that leaves in limbo the 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps. The court briefly paused a lower court’s ruling requiring the administration to…
WASHINGTON − A Supreme Court that has been largely deferential to President Donald Trump’s expansive claims of executive authority may be ready to pump the brakes. During nearly three hours of debate on Nov. 5, the justices questioned whether Trump has the power to impose sweeping tariffs on most imports. Several legal experts said the…
Three more University of Michigan scholars from China were charged with smuggling biological material into the U.S. and lying to federal agents in the latest expansion of a federal probe that has raised questions about national security and bioterrorism. The scholars are among seven Chinese nationals with ties to UM charged with federal crimes in…
It’s clear a man’s hatred toward the Mormon community fueled a deadly September attack at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, the FBI has confirmed. While the Free Press and other media outlets previously reported details about the suspect’s feelings about the church community, the FBI did not provide…