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.
The Treasury Department hit Iran with more sanctions Wednesday, this time targeting 30 individuals, entities and vessels enabling illicit Iranian petroleum sales and its production of ballistic missiles and advanced conventional weapons (ACW).
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is leading a group of 21 state AGs asking the United States Supreme Court to reverse a decision that upheld Biden-era Department of Energy efficiency standards that would eliminate many natural gas appliances from the market and households.
Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that he will be working with the Justice and Treasury Departments on the "war on fraud," which President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Trump said he is appointing Vance to lead his administration's nationwide response to public welfare fraud, highlighting recent high-profile revelations of large-scale public fraud linked to the Somali expat community in Minneapolis.
Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., on Wednesday introduced the Dalilah Law to bar states from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
The bill's introduction comes the day after President Trump called on Congress during the State of the Union to pass the legislation, according to Banks' office.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a string of endorsements in Indiana state legislative races, backing primary challengers to the Republican legislators who opposed his push to redraw the state's congressional maps in time for the midterms.
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is seeking direct control over the federal courthouses across the nation so it may tend to necessary repairs that it says risk the operations of the judiciary.
The executive branch is currently responsible for maintaining federal courthouses, though Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr., the director of the Administrative Office, informed Vice President JD Vance that they collectively needed more than $8 billion in repairs. Conrad wrote to Vance and members of both parties in Congress seeking legislation that would permit the judiciary to maintain the buildings on its own.
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.
🚨 @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
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.
