Attorney General Pam Bondi confronted sharp bipartisan criticism Wednesday over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The five-hour House Judiciary Committee hearing devolved into repeated shouting matches as Bondi rejected demands for direct answers and declined to apologize for redaction failures that exposed victims’ names. Democrats centered their questioning on the department’s […]
NATO is reorganizing its Arctic footprint by launching a new command structure, Arctic Sentry. It comes as the Arctic sees an uptick in threats from Russia and China. “What we are assessing is that there is a real threat,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said. “There is every need to make sure that we protect this […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced a combative House hearing over the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. Lawmakers pressed her on redactions and indictments, and the exchanges turned personal. Plus, police say an 18-year-old killed six people after opening fire at a secondary school in British Columbia. Now we’re learning what she did at […]
A Ukrainian Olympic athlete was disqualified from competing on Thursday after Olympic officials ruled his helmet violated political speech rules. Vladyslav Heraskevych, a skeleton athlete, planned to wear a helmet honoring Ukrainians killed in the war with Russia. The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation disqualified him the morning of the event after determining the design […]
The Trump administration is concluding Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota following weeks of widespread protests over aggressive immigration enforcement in the region. Border Czar Tom Homan announced the move Thursday, saying immigration efforts have yielded the results he and the administration hoped for. “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this search operation […]
Canadian authorities said the suspect in Tuesday’s deadly school shooting in British Columbia had a history of police visits to her home for mental health checks. They have also amended the death toll in that case. What we know about the suspect Officials with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) identified the suspect as Jesse […]
Gallup will no longer conduct polling on presidential job approval, ending a practice that dates back to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration. The research firm confirmed it is shifting away from approval ratings and will instead focus on broader issue-based analytics and policy research. Strategic shift in focus Gallup described the move as part of […]
The digital curtain is falling in Russia as the Kremlin officially pulled the plug on WhatsApp. For years, it was the country’s most popular messaging app, with more than 100 million users. But as of this week, it’s been erased from the national internet directory. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says the move is a direct […]
The FBI’s Phoenix office says it’s conducting searches in Arizona’s Catalina Foothills on Wednesday in connection with 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Guthrie, mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing since Feb. 1. “Numerous FBI agents are conducting an extensive search along multiple roadways in the Catalina Foothills area related to the Nancy […]
Piles of trash. Crowded holding cells. Detainees who didn’t know how to obtain legal representation. These are among the findings of attorneys who toured an immigration detention facility near Minneapolis, according to court documents. A federal judge had granted them access to the Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, just south of Minneapolis, to gather […]
