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First-term Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has filed paperwork to create a legal defense fund following an ethics complaint and allegations of sexual misconduct leveled by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13).

A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats’ arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.

A former Senior Executive Service-level official at the Central Intelligence Agency with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance was charged with theft of public money after federal agents discovered approximately 303 one-kilogram gold bars valued at more than $40 million, roughly $2 million in U.S. currency, and about 35 luxury watches during a search of his Virginia home.

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to block new accountability laws, passed this year by the Tennessee General Assembly and recently signed by Governor Bill Lee, arguing his office is being unfairly targeted. The lawsuit lays partial blame on top members of the Trump administration, who it claims instructed state lawmakers to "deal with" Mulroy.

Chinese government officials are working to shore up their country’s grip over the Panama Canal, the South China Morning Post reported, as a battle over influence in the key waterway intensifies with Washington. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha that Panama should not allow any third parties to influence the bilateral ties between China and Panama, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout on Wednesday. The discussion between the leaders comes as a dispute simmers over who will operate ports within the Panama Canal, with the U.S. playing an active role, according to the outlet.

In the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, just off Highway 9, there is a restaurant that has become a community icon. It has a redwood-paneled dining room with exposed roof timbers that was built in 1912 and a historic bar with a wood-burning fireplace. For over a century, the people in this isolated town have treasured this gathering place. Near downtown Los Angeles, along a busy commercial boulevard, a family-owned Mexican restaurant has thrived since 1925, offering locals and tourists classic dishes in a dining room filled with memorabilia.

Bob Woodson died peacefully at his home on the evening of May 19, 2026, at the age of 89. He was a national treasure, beloved by the thousands he served through the Woodson Center for over four decades, yet never quite understood by Presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, who often invited him to the White House. Senators, Congressmen, and every Speaker of the House from Jack Kemp to Paul Ryan caught sight of Bob’s vision of an America fully redeemed from its “birth defect of slavery,” as he called it, but few fully embraced his remarkable plan to heal wounds, foster hope, and ennoble resilience. Bob was wedded to neither political party. He called himself a “radical pragmatist,” and talked with ease and grace to both the left and right. When he first came to prominence, conservatives should have been his natural constituency; but before the fall of the Berlin Wall, their reverential allusions to the mediating institutions through which Bob understood that the real redemptive work had to take place—our families, local communities, and churches—always seemed to be drowned out by their full-throated defense of free markets. The Communist threat abroad and the ever-growing bureaucracy of the Progressive state at home fixed their attention almost singularly on commerce, as a strategy of resistance, if not of defiance. There were exceptions, of course. The Bradley Foundation, with which Bob worked closely for many years, comes to mind. But by and large, it was the age of the free market veto. Economic efficiency, not the alarming decline of social capital, about which Robert Nisbet had warned decades earlier, in The Quest for Community  (1953), was all that seemed to matter. If we were to describe the contrast between what Bob had in mind and what the conservative establishment was defending, we would say that Bob was on the ground, helping to recover and build the world that Tocqueville had described so beautifully in Democracy in America, while the conservative establishment was holding seminars on, and deriving policy prescriptions from, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.

Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler said that the agency found $200 billion in fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loans, which were intended to allow businesses to pay staff during the pandemic.  "At the SBA, we found $200 billion in fraudulent PPP loans that the Biden administration tried to hide, and forgive, and sweep under the rug," Loeffler said during President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Wednesday. 

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is reportedly battling thyroid cancer, has been appointed by President Donald Trump to serve on an advisory panel focused on Artificial Intelligence policy. Trump dismissed Bondi as attorney general in April, and she will now return to the White House to serve on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), according to Axios. She received a thyroid cancer diagnosis shortly after she left the Department of Justice, the outlet reported, citing an anonymous source.

Former President Joe Biden sued the Justice Department Tuesday to block the release of recordings and transcripts from interviews he gave to a ghostwriter for his 2017 memoir, which were included in a special counsel probe regarding his handling of classified materials after he served as vice president. The lawsuit comes ahead of the department's planned June 15 release of the materials ​to the House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage ​Foundation, which requested the information under the Freedom of Information Act, per Reuters.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara on Tuesday resigned from his post after an investigation found that he maintained sexual relationships with public employees. Mayor Jacob Frey confirmed O'Hara's resignation in a press conference, saying "when you serve as chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, trust is not secondary to the job, it is the job. When trust is broken, it becomes extremely difficult to continue leading effectively." 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday indicated he would not rush to conclude an agreement to end the Iran war in order to improve party odds in the November midterms, saying he did not consider the conflict's electoral impacts when negotiating. "Iran is very much intent, they want very much to make a deal. So far, they haven't gotten there that we're not satisfied with it, but that we will be. We will be either that, or we'll have to just finish the job," he said during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. "Maybe we have to go back and finish it. Maybe we don't right now."

U.S. Attorney Braden Boucek on Monday told The Tennessee Star that prosecutors in the Middle District of Tennessee are evaluating plans to appeal the Friday ruling by Obama-appointed District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who dropped the federal human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, determining the Department of Justice (DOJ) "failed to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness." “The undisputed evidence shows that the decision to charge Abrego was made by a career prosecutor based solely on the facts and the substantial evidence that a serious crime had been committed and deserved prosecution," said Boucek.

American consumer confidence dropped slightly in May as inflationary pressure and high gasoline prices weighed on their concerns.  The Consumer Confidence Index dipped last month 0.7 points, to 93.1, down from an upwardly revised 93.8 the previous month, according to The Conference Board, a nonprofit think tank whose economic analysis is widely followed. 

Woke AI is the worst AI, with blue-state politics and ideological bias as its source code. Take, for example, Anthropic, whose executives include senior Biden-era officials and the former head of Sleepy Joe’s AI Safety Institute. No wonder the company opposes President Trump’s executive orders to create a national framework for AI leadership. The company also opposes Trump’s effort to eliminate onerous and prejudicial state laws that have nothing to do with AI safety. That policy alignment is not accidental, particularly when it comes to Anthropic’s attempt to sell “safety” tools to the Pentagon. Bear in mind, too, that Anthropic was seeded by effective altruism (EA) money, courtesy of Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, and wrapped in EA rhetoric about “long-term” humanity. Its political network tilts hard left, its CEO despises Trump, its cofounder mocks Catholics, and its policy shop is a think tank for brain-dead hacks who oppose Trump’s agenda.