The FBI has made the first arrest from its new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list. Said Abdullahi Ereg, a one-time Minneapolis grocery owner wanted in the Feeding Our Future pandemic fraud probe, surrendered to federal agents at the Minneapolis–St. Paul airport. This is the news: a fugitive came home, was taken into custody, and the Biden-era […] More

The judge who ran the Karmelo Anthony murder trial just spoke out. Judge John Roach Jr. of the 296th District Court in Collin County gave a post‑trial interview defending the jury, his courtroom rules and even his choice to keep cameras out of the room. His blunt comments are the news hook. They matter because […] More

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles say they’ve opened “multiple” election‑fraud investigations and want a full audit of California’s voter rolls. State officials say handing over unredacted records would violate voter privacy and break the law. The fight landed squarely in public view this week, and it’s exactly the sort of federal‑state standoff that leaves working […] More

Senator Rick Scott didn’t mince words on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power. After the Department of Justice unsealed a superseding indictment charging former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, Scott told viewers he expects Castro and his family will slip out of Cuba “before we pick him up.” That line […] More

Gov. Tim Walz pushed a sweeping Minnesota gun control bill, but it died on the House floor when a tied vote left it dead in the water. Democrats staged a dramatic sit‑in and shouted for votes, but theater couldn’t change numbers. The bill — Senate File 4067 — failed despite the protest, showing once again […] More

The short version: a K-8 principal in St. Johns County was put on administrative leave after a Fetty Wap lyric showed up under her name in the school yearbook. Parents complained, the district opened an investigation, and now Trout Creek Academy principal Katie O’Connell is sidelined — even though she and staff say she didn’t […] More

Don Lemon says America’s falling birthrate is all about an “affordability crisis.” Ben Shapiro says that’s wrong. Both have a point, but the truth is less dramatic and more useful: costs matter, but so do choices. The media loves a single simple story. Real life is messier. Don Lemon’s “Affordability Crisis” vs. the Real World […] More

Mayor Zohran Mamdani skipped the city’s Israel Day Parade — the first New York City mayor in 61 years to do so. That choice was not a neutral bureaucratic scheduling quirk. It was a political signal, and in a city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, signals like that matter. A snub with […] More

Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to New Delhi this week and did what sensible people expect from a tough negotiator: he defended a new U.S. immigration rule and told audiences the change is about fixing a broken system — not punishing one country. No, he didn’t literally torch green cards, despite what clickbait clips […] More

Katie Zacharia did not tiptoe around Stephen Colbert this week on Finnerty. She said what a lot of people on the right have been thinking: the late-night host “deserves exactly what he got” after his show was pulled from some airwaves. Love him or hate him, Colbert made his bed with politics. Now some are […] More

President Donald Trump’s team just sent a clear message to Berlin: don’t expect the United States to quietly finance the world’s drug research while other wealthy nations keep cutting prices for themselves. A recent meeting in Washington brought U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and HHS chief counselor Chris Klomp face-to-face with German Ambassador Jens Hanefeld […] More

Jeff Bezos stepped in front of a CNBC camera this morning and did something rare: he called out the political theater of “tax the rich” and offered a plain-spoken alternative. In an interview on Squawk Box, the Amazon executive chairman said doubling his taxes “is NOT gonna help that teacher in Queens” and proposed zero […] More

The Justice Department just unmasked another rotten corner of the Medicare system. A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging Kenia Marrero and a related criminal information charging Joan Navarro Bruguet in a years‑long scheme to steal and sell Medicare beneficiary identifiers — the codes criminals use to bill […] More

A celebrity-studded concert in New York called “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment” tried to steal headlines from the White House UFC Freedom 250 spectacle this week. The plan was clear: counter-program the President’s South Lawn event with a starry livestream and message-driven music. Instead, a short clip of Bette Midler […] More

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper is back in the headlines because Republicans say a COVID‑era prison settlement his administration agreed to accounted for roughly 3,500 early releases — and they’ve tied one of those names to a brutal murder on a Charlotte light‑rail train. The GOP’s release of the list and the new legislative […] More

Governor Gavin Newsom trumpeted a “balanced” May Revision to California’s budget last week. Don’t be fooled by the press release spin. The plan only looks neat on paper because it borrows, raids reserves, and counts on wildly high tax receipts that can vanish overnight. How Governor Newsom “Balanced” the Budget The May Revision leans on […] More

Intro: A public spat has broken out between conservative commentator Candace Owens and the FBI after Owens filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking FBI Director Kash Patel’s travel records for the three days before Charlie Kirk was killed. The bureau posted a screenshot of its June 12 FOIA acknowledgement and the two sides […] More

The guilty verdict in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial is now part of the record, and the fallout has been loud, messy and predictable. A Collin County jury convicted Anthony and a judge sentenced him to 35 years behind bars. Almost immediately, commentary exploded online — including a bizarre chorus on some outlets urging Black […] More

Senator Chris Murphy landed a zinger on cable TV: the short U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding is “a surrender to Iran,” he said, and “Iran won.” That line is the political gift that keeps on giving — because whether you like Murphy or not, his blunt verdict captures what many worried Americans and lawmakers see when […] More

Fresh fighting in the Gulf has thrown a serious wrench into delicate U.S.–Iran peace talks that were finally showing some progress. What should have been careful, mediated diplomacy now smells like a round of military messaging — and that kind of message is a poor substitute for a real deal. Diplomacy needs time and trust; […] More