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 An ICE officer oversees an immigration enforcement operation.
Immigration & BorderUS NewsOctober 6, 2026

DHS Watchdog: Biden ICE Got 3.1 Million Overstay Leads and Made Eight Arrests

By Tommy Flynn

Immigration and Customs Enforcement received more than 3.1 million leads on foreigners who overstayed or broke the terms of nonimmigrant visas during the Biden years and made eight arrests off those leads, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found. The...

Merrick Garland and Jack Smith
Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 6, 2026

FBI Logged Wiles’ Calls and Tracked Melania and Barron’s Travel in Smith Probe

By Tommy Flynn

Newly released FBI memos show the bureau tracked Melania Trump and Barron Trump’s travel while planning the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, then later logged calls to and from Susie Wiles’ phone, including contacts with Trump’s lawyers. The White House Government Transparency Task...

Justice Department Files to Strip Citizenship From 40 Convicted Offenders
Immigration & BorderCrime & CourtsOctober 6, 2026

Justice Department Files to Strip Citizenship From 40 Convicted Offenders

By Tommy Flynn,

The Justice Department said Monday it has filed civil denaturalization actions against 40 naturalized citizens accused of serious crimes, the largest single-period set of such complaints under the Trump administration. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the filings, which...

Nidal Hasan
Crime & CourtsNational SecurityOctober 6, 2026

President Trump Approves Army Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan

By Tommy Flynn

President Trump Approves Army Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan President Donald Trump has approved a U.S. Army firing squad for Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army major convicted of the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon said Monday...

The Supreme Court building in Washington D.C.
Crime & CourtsUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

Supreme Court Opens October Term with a Short Docket and a Climate Suit

By Tommy Flynn

The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term on Monday, the first Monday in October. Chief Justice John Roberts told the courtroom that the October 2025 term was closed and the new term was convened. The first argument was Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of...

Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John O. Brennan speaking at the 2019 John J. Rhodes Lecture
Crime & CourtsUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

Jack Smith’s team interviewed John Brennan in 2023. The FBI agents’ notes are blank

By Tommy Flynn

FBI memos released Monday show that special counsel Jack Smith’s team met former CIA Director John Brennan at CIA headquarters on Nov. 3, 2023, to discuss expert testimony in the classified-documents case against President Trump. The agents who attended left their notes blank. A...

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Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

California Voters Will Decide a Voter-ID Amendment on Nov. 3

By Tommy Flynn

Proposition 39 would require a government ID in person and the last four digits of a designated ID number on a mail ballot. Sponsors say 36 states already do some version of this. The state Democratic Party calls it a Trump-backed barrier. Tommy Flynn, October 5, 2026 California...

A black wooden gavel rests on its block atop a judge’s bench in an empty courtroom.
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 5, 2026

Ninth Circuit Pauses Order Reinstating Seattle Prosecutor Trump Fired

By Tommy Flynn

The Ninth Circuit on Sunday put on hold a judge’s order that would have put Roger Rogoff back in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, the Seattle prosecutor President Trump fired in July less than an hour after federal judges named him. The appeals court...

FBI Director Kash Patel Engaged to Country Singer Alexis Wilkins
US NewsOctober 5, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel Engaged to Country Singer Alexis Wilkins

By Tommy Flynn

FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announced Sunday that they are engaged. Wilkins, 27, posted a black-and-white photo on X of the couple with her hand raised to show the ring. The caption read, “Went and got the law involved.” Patel, 46, reposted the...

A B1B Lancer takes off. -- Image: Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) via Wikimedia
National SecurityUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

Pentagon Pulls All B-1 Bombers From RAF Fairford After Suspected Plot

By Tommy Flynn

The Pentagon said Sunday that every U.S. bomber stationed at RAF Fairford has left the Gloucestershire base and returned to home stations in the United States, a week after British police broke up a suspected plot at the field used to strike Iran. A Pentagon spokesperson said...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth awards challenge coins to troops at General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems during his recent Arsenal of Freedom Tour, Camden, Ark.
Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 4, 2026

Hegseth Orders One-Day Military Stand-Down So Troops Can Vote Before Midterms

By Tommy Flynn

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered every command in the U.S. military to halt normal operations for one day this month so service members can register, request absentee ballots, or vote ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. The directive is in a memorandum dated Oct. 1 and...

Jack Smith sporting a "No Kings" shirt at the "Power to the People Fest" in Maryland.
Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 4, 2026

Jack Smith Appears at Maryland Festival in Springsteen “No Kings” Shirt

By Tommy Flynn

Former special counsel Jack Smith was photographed Saturday at a Maryland music festival wearing a Bruce Springsteen tour shirt printed with the slogan “No Kings,” four days after he told a Senate committee his prosecutions of President Trump were driven by evidence, not party....