James Comey: Key moments from his Senate testimony - ABC7 New York - Fair use photo credit: abc7ny.com Former FBI Director James Comey is now facing his third round of federal criminal charges under the Trump administration, unsealed on October 26, 2026. Prosecutors in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia filed a criminal information accusing him of unlawfully transmitting national defense information and conspiring to do so. The filing, made under seal on Oct

Two former senior FBI officials who helped lead the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) during the 2020 election have been charged with lying to Congress about what they knew and their involvement in investigations into Hunter Biden’s laptop. The case, brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia under Jeanine Pirro, has revived long-standing questions about how the FBI handled the laptop story in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaig

File: Mogul balloon train USAF 1995.png - the type referenced in response to Walter Haut's affidavit. October 25, 2026 A newly released batch of government records has again drawn attention to longstanding claims of unidentified aerial phenomena and related anomalies. The Department of War’s seventh public release under the PURSUE program, issued October 23, includes historical materials connected to the 1947 Roswell incident, a 2010 contractor investigation of a Utah ranch l

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance launched the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program (WHIP) this week, a $25 million pilot that rewards Americans who tip off investigators to fraud in federal health care programs, daycare assistance, and other taxpayer-funded benefits. The Department of Justice will administer the effort through its National Fraud Enforcement Division. Officials say qualifying tips that lead to criminal charges can earn $10,000 to $30,000, wi

Trump described a long-running menace of fraudsters, hackers, and foreign criminal syndicates running scam centers that target Americans through ransomware, phishing, impersonation schemes, and other tactics. Nearly three-quarters of American adults have encountered internet scams or cyberattacks. Reported losses exceeded $20 billion in a recent year alone—and the true figure is likely much higher. Seniors have been hit particularly hard, with one official noting more than $7

October 20, 2026 Federal investigators appear to be closing in on multiple potential avenues of inquiry involving U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN). On October 12, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed a court-authorized search warrant at her Washington, D.C., residence, seizing her passport, cellphone, personal computers, notebooks, and other materials. Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, were home at the time. The Department of Justice has confirmed the a

Federal prosecutors announced Monday that 28 foreign nationals living in California have been charged with federal election crimes, including fraudulently registering to vote and, in many cases, casting ballots in U.S. elections. Federal authorities arrested 11 of the defendants that same day as part of a coordinated statewide effort called “Operation Protect the Vote.”

Shasta Unfiltered | October 20, 2026 Independent analyst DataRepublican (Jennica Pounds) released a series of posts and video clips titled “The Democracy Files,” based on what she describes as thousands of transcripts, hundreds of recordings, and a large archive of documents. The materials outline an operational plan involving the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former USAID officials, and networks of “democracy” NGOs to force a constitutional confrontation after the

By Shasta Unfiltered October 20, 2026 In Bend, Oregon, a 36-year-old father armed with a legally carried pistol ended a deadly school shooting within minutes—before police even entered the building. On October 15, 16-year-old Griffin J. John II killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School. The rampage stopped when Kaylub Giamanco, the father of two students at the school, followed the shooter inside and shot him dead. Memorials outside of the Silver Ra

Paul Preston, founder of the New California State movement Redding, CA — October 17, 2026 On Saturday afternoon, Paul Preston led a town hall at the Red Lion Hotel before a crowd of about 40 residents. Preston is the founder, president, and self-styled governor pro tempore of New California State. A Northern California radio host and former educator, he has led a multi-year effort to form a new 51st state from most of California’s rural and inland counties. The movement, whic

REDDING — With mail ballots already in the hands of California voters and less than three weeks until the November 3 midterm election, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against the state after officials declined to review a list of more than 20,000 people the federal government believes are likely noncitizens who were automatically mailed ballots. Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent a letter dated October 13 to Secretary of State Shi

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services opened a new National Institutes of Health clinic this week to evaluate and study patients who report health problems after vaccination, the centerpiece of a broader push by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to document, investigate, and treat what the department calls potential vaccine-related injuries. The clinic opened Oct. 5 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. HHS and NIH leaders marked the opening with a ribbon-

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that temporarily allows dyed, off-road diesel on the highway and defers the federal excise tax on that fuel through Dec. 31, a step the White House says is meant to cut costs for farmers, truckers, and other diesel users. The order, titled “Emergency Tax Relief on Diesel Fuel,” directs the Treasury secretary, in consultation with the secretary of war, to determine within five days whether relief is authorize

Trump’s master class in handling Xi — and why the pageantry was the point The Beltway press scored the three-day state visit the way it always scores a Trump–Xi meeting: pomp over progress, spectacle over substance, two months of trade truce and a pair of pandas. That scorecard is not wrong on the ledger. It is wrong about the game that is being played. Donald Trump did not host Xi Jinping this week to close a grand bargain on Taiwan, rare earths, or “super intelligence.” He

Opinion There is hardly any aspect of American life that the government does not now touch. Some of that involvement is the work citizens have long expected: delivering water, regulating or supplying power, building and maintaining roads, providing a safety net for the poor and the elderly, policing and locking up criminals, fighting fires, educating children and young adults, and defending the country. The problem is how far that reach has gone beyond those core duties — tel

A win for America, Greenland, and Denmark — and a closed door to Beijing and Moscow President Trump addressing Congress - Credit whitehouse.gov President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States has secured what he called an “Infinite Life” agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland — a security pact that gives Washington permanent rights to defend the Arctic island, expand its military footprint, and keep Chinese and Russian bases and sensitive investmen