Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was supposed to appear before the House Oversight Committee next week, but the Justice Department now says she will no longer attend. A spokeswoman for the committee shared the update Wednesday, saying Bondi will no longer appear because she was subpoenaed in her official capacity as attorney general. President Donald […]

Possible complications with the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. How Israeli bombing attacks on Lebanon appear to be clouding the agreement.   Plus, Pam Bondi is no longer attorney general, and she has no plans to return to Washington to testify before Congress in the Epstein case. Will the threat of contempt compel her to change her mind?  And […]

Since last year, the United States’ attempts to stem the flow of cocaine through the southern border have taken new turns, in what is the sixth decade of its war on drugs.  The White House has used the cocaine threat as a pretext to conduct military strikes on more than 45 alleged narco boats, killing […]

The two-week ceasefire in Iran is already in question. Iran has accused the United States and Israel of violating the terms of the deal. The allegations come after Israel launched what it calls its most powerful attacks yet on Lebanon Wednesday. The Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah said in retaliation, it launched “a large barrage” of rockets at a settlement in Israel. The Israeli military announced Thursday morning it killed Ali Yusuf Kharshi, the […]

The endangered species list now includes two new — and, frankly, adorable — species, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says climate change is at fault.  The IUCN updated its Red List of Threatened Species on Thursday, and moved the emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal to its endangered category.  The Red […]

More than 1,100 Afghan nationals are stuck in what could be called immigration limbo in the middle eastern country of Qatar. Evacuated by the Biden administration as the U.S left Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, the evacuees say they helped the United States during the Afghan war. They were told they could come to the […]

In this Media Miss Minute, a Trump-backed California gubernatorial candidate says most kids shouldn’t have smartphones. Plus, West Virginia’s governor has vetoed foster care and health care bills, calling them unaffordable — after approving a tax cut. Media Miss by the left: California governor candidate thinks no one under 16 should have a smartphone Steve […]

Courtney Williams went public last year with allegations of harassment inside an elite Army unit. Now, federal prosecutors say that by doing so, she also disclosed classified national defense information to a journalist.  A federal grand jury has indicted the 40-year-old former Army employee on a charge of transmitting classified national defense information to a […]

Often accused of spreading misinformation about public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promising “a new era of radical transparency in government” through a podcast he’s launching next week. “We’re going to name the names of the forces that obstruct the paths to public health,” Kennedy, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human […]