Reporting Highlights Inflated Claims: HSI deployed its tech platform to find noncitizens on voter rolls, despite warnings from agency insiders that it would lead to an “ungodly” number of false positives. Privacy Concerns: DOJ leaders ignored internal concerns that transferring voter lists to HSI for criminal investigation might not be legal. Scant Results: Despite intense…
Glenn Thrush August 9, 2026 — 10:39am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Washington: The three lame-duck Republican senators who narrowly saved Todd Blanche’s confirmation as US attorney-general ended up backing him because they believed he was the only person who…
Senate confirms Todd Blanche in narrow vote despite concerns over independence of office. Published On 8 Aug 20268 Aug 2026 President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche has been confirmed as United States attorney general, despite bipartisan concerns over the politicisation of the Justice Department. The Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, confirmed…
In 2022 and 2023, shortly before the portable drone changed armed conflict forever, the war in Ukraine was defined largely by a single, simple statistic: which side could shoot more artillery shells. The answer, for most of those first two years, was Russia. They had a massive stockpile of 152-millimeter shells, produced by a flourishing…
On the northeast edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, nearly 1,100 people gathered in late June for the International Bridge Walk across the long span that links two cities with the same name: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Both the sun and the sentiments were bright. “We don’t like to say there’s…
Blowing up innocent fishermen hasn’t curbed the drug trade. Ad Policy Donald Trump boards Air Force One on July 27, 2026. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) On January 19, Carlos Mero, the captain of an Ecuadoran fishing boat named La Fiorella, called his wife on an emergency line and expressed his alarm at seeing “American…
Various experts have criticized US President Donald Trump‘s decision to impose new tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 trading partners, including Egypt. Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, they said that this decision violates international norms and laws. A member of the National Council for Human Rights and Secretary of the…
US President Donald Trump speaks at Wheeler High School, in Marietta, Georgia, on July 22, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images U.S. trading partners from Canberra to Brasília have rejected the forced-labor rationale behind President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs, while most signaled they would keep negotiating rather than retaliate. The Office of…
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: cryptocurrency. We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.” The industry’s lobbyists depend on that; they win when the public is kept in the dark. But this is the biggest money-and-power story in American politics…
Not even Fox News buys Trump’s new lies, but they will be used to undermine the midterms. Ad Policy Monitors display Donald Trump during a prime-time address to the nation in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty…
