The FBI this week concluded its probe into the first assassination attempt against President Trump during a Pennsylvania campaign rally last year, finding that the deceased suspect acted alone and without motive.

Comey and James have other motions pending before the judges presiding over their cases, contending the charges should be dismissed because they are the result of a “selective and vindictive” prosecution. Those motions seek to have the cases tossed "with prejudice," meaning prosecutors could not revive them.

Among the key figures in the documents:
Narcotics arrests fell by roughly 11 percent.
Agents opened 15 percent fewer new investigations into narcotics crimes.
The number of weapons seized fell dramatically, declining from nearly 41,400 to fewer than 11,200 — a 73 percent drop.

“Peddling a false narrative!” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson, when pressed by the Times on the data, accused the outlet of “cherry-picking” statistics, and insisted that “the Trump administration is making America safer than ever before.”

Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering "gender confusion."

His memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees argues the Scouts have strayed from their mission to "cultivate masculine values."

The FBI is seeking to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who, in a controversial video posted last week, urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders.

AFTER AMERICA, China is the world’s largest developer of new medicines and its companies ran about a third of the planet’s clinical trials last year. That is up from just 5% a decade before (see chart 1). It is also rising to the forefront in critical areas of research, such as those relating to cancer. Investors have taken note. Shares in Chinese biotech companies have surged by 110% this year, more than three times as much as their American peers.

The workforce at China’s drug regulator quadrupled between 2015 and 2018 and a backlog of 20,000 new drug applications was cleared in just two years.

Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, congratulated the state in a Tuesday post on social media site X for having "bought the dip" — getting its bitcoin at an $87,000 price point after it dropped from more than $120,000.

A bipartisan team of former Montana officials have unveiled an oddly simple yet startlingly robust legal mechanism for undoing Citizens United that pares back the list of corporate powers granted by state corporation law. They have drafted a constitutional initiative (text here) and are steering it toward Montana’s 2026 ballot.

Corporations have only the powers that states give them—no more. States stopped being choosy about the powers they granted to their corporations in the mid-1800s. But every single state retained the authority to be as choosy as they like. Every single state retains the authority to decide to no longer grant its corporations the power to spend in politics.

The difference between regulating rights and declining to grant powers is not semantic. It is doctrinal. It is foundational. And this may make The Montana Plan the most promising new strategy to eliminate corporate and dark money in politics since the day Citizens United was decided.

Trump said:

“We’re ordering ice breakers too,” he said to the assembled service people.

“We have 11 of them being built right now; we only had one.”

The administration also recently finalized a multibillion-dollar agreement with Finland to build a new fleet of U.S. icebreakers to bolster America’s presence in the Arctic.

The trouble is that Cox is not a sympathetic defendant. There is evidence that when Cox learned of specific instances of repeat copyright infringement occurring on its network, it increasingly did almost everything in its power to not act. Cox nominally had a repeat infringer policy. In theory, this policy led to increasingly severe warning emails and notices from Cox. That policy required 13 strikes for account termination, only counted one notice per subscriber per day, and reset the strike counter every six months. Termination was never automatic after 13 strikes, and there was no evidence Cox ever terminated a subscriber’s account without reactivating it. Internal communications at Cox reflected contempt for copyright law and a desire to maintain accounts to continue receiving subscription fees.

Trump today wrote on Truth Social: “Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect.

“The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States.”

“Because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury,” Trump added.

For the Navy, which operates only a small number of cargo ships and relies on commercial carriers and mariners for most of its needs, the shortfall could be crippling. The Navy last year mothballed 17 supply ships because there weren’t enough commercial crews to run them. In a conflict, America would likely struggle to position, reinforce and resupply its overseas forces.

The quotas were announced earlier this month. This will see global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers made to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure – or 7.5% of their revenues – on local originals, whether they are dramas, children’s shows, docs, or arts and educational programs.

MRI results: Trump also responded to Walz’s calls for the president to release MRI results from his recent physical, saying that he was “fine” if the results were released, calling them “perfect.”

Zillow, the nation’s largest real estate listing website, has removed extreme weather risk data meant to help buyers figure out if the biggest purchase of their life is particularly susceptible to floods, high winds or wildfires.

Now, other major real estate listing websites are facing pressure to do the same.

That pressure is coming from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which operates one of the largest private databases of home listings in the country — essential to Zillow’s business model.

If Grok wasn’t programmed to lavish Elon no matter what, why was it asserting his superiority even in scenarios that didn’t make any sense, such as proclaiming he would be “unbeatable” at poop-eating, or that he would be capable of enduring endless loads of male bodily fluids?

In November 2024, AT&T (T) agreed to buy some wireless spectrum licenses from US Cellular in a $1.02 billion deal that requires approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC under President Donald Trump has required telecom firms to end DEI programs as a condition of approving transactions.

Drump said:

After ticking off what he claimed were trillions of dollars of investments and other economic accomplishments, Mr. Trump called the issue of affordability a “fake narrative” and “con job” created by Democrats to dupe the public.

“They just say the word,” he said. “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. They just say it — affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything.”

Just days on the job, Pazdur expressed deep concerns about the legality and public health risks of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s plans to overhaul and expedite agency operations. On November 21, the Post reported that Pazdur disagreed with Makary’s plans to reduce the number of studies needed to make drug-related decisions, such as label changes. Pazdur was further concerned that Makary’s plan to shorten drug review times was not sufficiently transparent and could be illegal. Pazdur also pushed back on Makary’s plan to exclude agency career scientists from some drug review processes deemed political priorities.