A federal judge has ruled the Justice Department cannot search a Washington Post reporter's seized devices.
The decision was in a filing Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter, in which her wrote specifically that the agency could not “open, access, review, or otherwise examine any of” reporter Hannah Natanson’s seized data, according to The Hill news outlet.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a former United States Air Force pilot has been arrested and charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization.
Gerald Eddie Brown Jr., who is 65-years-old, was arrested in Indiana Wednesday after he allegedly knowingly conspired with foreign nationals and U.S. persons to provide combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force.
🚨 @VP: "We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money." pic.twitter.com/XD0JMA5p3w
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 25, 2026
The FBI obtained phone records for its now-director Kash Patel during the Biden administration in 2022, while he was a private citizen, two sources confirmed to Just The News on Wednesday.
The subpoena for the phone records were issued as part of an investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University neuroscientist Dr. Richard Axel has resigned from some of his posts over his ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Axel, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 2004 for discovering over 1,000 special receptors in the nose that send olfactory information to the brain, The Hill news outlet reported.
The Pentagon is demanding that tech firm Anthropic grant the military full access to its AI model Claude, according to a news report.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday that he has until the end of this week to provide the military a signed document that would grant full access to Claude, unnamed sources told CBS News.
Players on the United States' Olympic Women's hockey team responded Wednesday to a comment President Donald Trump made earlier this week, where he joked he might be impeached if he did not invite the women's team to the State of the Union and White House.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday night delivered his second term's first State of the Union address from the United States Capitol, presenting ideas to a nation that's heard nothing but protest, pandering and platitudes from his political foes for the first 13 months of his term.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed Wednesday to "respond accordingly" to reports that four people were killed, and six others were injured in an incident with Cuba earlier in the day.
The Cuban Ministry of the Interior said the incident occurred when a boat, which displayed a Florida registration number, entered its waters and began firing at Cuban border patrol troops.
Not unified on using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act?
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 25, 2026
It’s time to *get* unified
We can’t afford the consequences of inaction
GOP senators who aren’t supportive should identify themselves & make their case—rather than silently stalling
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Legislation approved this week by the Colorado Senate would make it easier for individuals to sue federal law enforcement involved with civil immigration actions.
Democratic sponsors of Senate Bill 26-005, which was one of the first bills introduced during the legislative session in January, say it’s meant to bolster constitutional protections, while critics believe it’s another attempt to obstruct federal immigration enforcement.
