FBI employees wrongly searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a U.S. senator and a state senator, according to a court opinion released Friday. The disclosure could further complicate Biden administration efforts to renew a major spy program that already faces bipartisan opposition in Congress.
At the heart of the Justice Department's twin cases against former President Donald Trump are two obscure statutes so rarely used that one had only been invoked by federal prosecutors roughly a dozen times in the last 20 years.
Oregon is still reaping the consequences of its pro-criminal policies, as career criminals continue to show that they do not belong free on the streets.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is now demanding that all countries abandon free speech and free expression and create and enforce blasphemy laws. This is not a surprise, though, because there is nothing the U.N. Human Rights Council hates more than human rights.
President Joe Biden has made the wrong choice in nominating Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the next chief of naval operations. Franchetti has a distinguished naval career centered on Europe and planning and foreign liaison. But the next head of the Navy, the choice recommended to Biden by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, should have been Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Sam Paparo.
Earmarks are the means by which lawmakers target government spending to a pet project rather than appropriating money for a purpose and empowering executive branch agencies to allocate the money according to guidelines.
The Biden administration on Friday proposed tightening an efficiency standard for new residential water heaters — a move that it said would both save consumers money and combat climate change. The draft rule would require that, in order to become more efficient, most common-size electric water heaters use heat pump technology and gas-powered heaters use...
The White House on Friday took jabs at Republican Govs. Greg Abbott (Texas) and Kristi Noem (S.D.) for celebrating low unemployment in their states, saying these GOP officials are jumping “on the Bidenomics train.” Jesse Lee, senior communications advisor at the National Economic Council, sent a memo entitled “Republican Governors Laud Bidenomics’ Record-Low Unemployment Rates”...
The FBI improperly used surveillance powers to conduct searches for information on a U.S. senator, a state lawmaker and a state judge, according to court records released Friday as part of a public records request. The FBI’s improper use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was documented in an opinion from the...