A military judge ruled that confessions that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed gave to FBI agents cannot be used against him at trial, dealing a major setback to the government’s death-penalty case over the Sept. 11 attacks.The New York Times reported that Friday’s ruling comes just bef…
Two days after photos surfaced of sealant “chunks” coming up in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump attempted to save face by enlisting a Department of Interior official to praise the renovation work.The president’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been…
A document dump to a right-wing website exposed a secret and controversial hire made by the Trump administration, according to a new report.Hidden metadata in an internal Trump administration letter, released by Homeland Security, revealed that Pennsylvania election denial activist Karen DiSalvo was…
A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama took a “satisfying slap” at the Supreme Court over its refusal to block the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting, ex-U.S. attorney Joyce Vance flagged on Friday.On Monday, the Supreme Court paused an injunction by a fede…
Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a profane rebuke from the attorney suing him over the Epstein files after he appealed a judge’s order to release documents.In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang, who sued Blanche in April, tore into him for defi…
A “mentally unstable” President Donald Trump is growing “increasingly out of control” as he stares down a major reckoning in November, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed on Thursday, a reckoning that could ultimately see the president finally lose his grip on power.“He is a president who is, in my v…
Opposition is mounting to a Trump administration plan to hand a strip of land inside Yosemite National Park to a private developer, with conservation groups and Democratic lawmakers calling the effort a betrayal of the park’s 150-year legacy.For more than a year, National Park Service staff have bee…
Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) drew laughter at a debate after he claimed to be unaware of President Donald Trump’s order renaming Lake Ontario.The moment came Thursday at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs, during a debate hosted by KOAA News5 between the candidates in Colorado’s 5th Congressional D…
President Donald Trump advanced efforts Friday to roll back regulations for meat processors amid the growing outrage from American cattle ranchers in response to the president’s mysterious plan to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef.Trump announced last week that he’d secured an arrangement to…
The Trump administration has sparked a full-blown “financial crisis” within the U.S. Navy after pillaging coffers earmarked for service member payrolls, The Guardian reported after speaking with U.S. Navy officials and reviewing new documents.Dollars earmarked for U.S. Navy payrolls were being moved…