Robert Mueller, Who Rebuilt the FBI and Then Investigated a President, Dies at 81
The man who transformed the FBI after 9/11 and then led the most politically charged investigation of the century is dead. The sitting president says he's glad.
The man who transformed the FBI after 9/11 and then led the most politically charged investigation of the century is dead. The sitting president says he's glad.
Ninety-two men who inherited the right to make British law just lost it — not through revolution, but through orderly parliamentary procedure. The seats date to 1066.
Joe Kent ran America's counterterrorism apparatus. He says the intelligence never supported the case for war with Iran — and an FBI investigation may be the White House's answer.
Two Polish men married in Berlin in 2018. Seven years later, Poland's top court says Warsaw has to acknowledge it — not because Polish law changed, but because EU law demanded it.
Alexia Moore faces felony murder charges after taking misoprostol at 22 weeks pregnant. The legal theory prosecutors used sidesteps Georgia's own abortion law — and tests how far post-Dobbs criminalization can reach.
Tania Warner had a work visa, a Texas driver's license, and five years of legal U.S. residency. ICE detained her and her seven-year-old daughter at a routine checkpoint — then offered them self-deportation.
While the U.S. wages an active air war against Iran, a federal judge ruled the Pentagon's press credentialing policy unconstitutional — after outlets from the AP to Fox News refused to comply with it.
Three weeks into the Iran war, the president says he's considering an exit — while thousands more Marines ship out, the Strait of Hormuz stays shut, and oil sits at $112 a barrel. What 'winding down' means remains unclear.
The Iran war is three weeks old and already has a $200 billion invoice. The national debt crossed $39 trillion the same week. Someone is going to have to explain the math.
The Justice Department wants Harvard to repay $2.6 billion in federal grants over antisemitism allegations. The last university that faced this pressure paid $221 million and handed over institutional control. Harvard says it won't.
The president who told allies their help was "neither necessary nor desired" three weeks ago now calls them cowards for not showing up. NATO's Article 5 was built for collective defense — not retroactive enlistment in someone else's war.
Viktor Orbán blocked a €90 billion Ukraine loan the EU unanimously approved three months ago. At this week's Brussels summit, six leaders lined up to condemn him — and the Commission was told to find ways around him.
Asked why the US didn't warn allies before striking Iran, Trump turned to Japan's prime minister and invoked Pearl Harbor. Takaichi did not laugh.
The director of the National Counterterrorism Center — a Green Beret with eleven combat tours and a Gold Star husband — says the administration's case for war doesn't hold up. The White House calls him weak.
The man whose routers three federal agencies consider a national security threat just applied for an express-lane green card from the same administration running those probes. The price: $1 million.
Two California lawmakers — one from each party — want to codify the work program Trump is trying to kill. Nearly 300,000 foreign graduates depend on it.
Asked point-blank if the FBI buys Americans' location data without a warrant, Director Kash Patel didn't hedge. He bragged about it.
The Director of National Intelligence scrubbed her own written testimony and deflected when senators asked point-blank whether intelligence supported the war's stated rationale.
Powell's term expires in May. Warsh's confirmation is stuck. So the Fed chair just introduced America to a Latin phrase most people have never heard: 'chair pro tem.'
Federal reviewers spent five years unable to verify Microsoft's cloud security, called the product 'a pile of shit,' and authorized it the day after Christmas. The FedRAMP process is supposed to protect government data. A ProPublica investigation suggests it protected Microsoft's market share instead.