A jury acquitted former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI. The alleged lying happened as Sussman was pushing information meant to cast suspicions on former President Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. Tuesday morning’s verdict came after the jury began deliberations last Friday. “Despite being falsely accused,…

President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia concluded with a bang as Russia and China sent him off with joint warplane exercises. According to a senior Biden administration official, Tuesday’s exercises were the first conducted by China and Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine back in February. However earlier that month, the leaders of each country met…

Just hours before President Joe Biden was set to arrive in South Korea for his six-day trip to Asia, two Secret Service employees were sent home. The employees include an agent and an armed physical security specialist. They were in South Korea to prepare for President Biden’s trip. Citing “a person familiar with the matter…

Over a year into his presidency, President Joe Biden issued his first three pardons. The most notable pardon went to Abraham Bolden, Sr., who made history as the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on a presidential detail. According to a White House clemency recipient list published Tuesday, Bolden was charged with federal bribery…

Universities are reporting record-low acceptance rates across the board this spring, and Ivy League schools are no exception. At the top of the heap, Harvard just announced it accepted 3.19% of its applicants for the class of 2026, a record low for the Crimson Ivy amid record-high applicants. But in the real world, lots of…

The Secret Service has existed as a federal agency for more than 150 years, but its role to protect national leaders and visiting heads of state was not its original purpose. The agency was founded in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to combat the growing use of counterfeit currency at the end of…

The Secret Service is spending more than $30,000 each month renting out a Malibu mansion in California to protect President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, according to an ABC News report. Hunter Biden is under federal investigation for his foreign business dealings and has been staying in Malibu throughout his father’s presidency. This report was published…

According to written testimony obtained by the Associated Press, one of Pope Francis’ top advisers at the Vatican outsourced internal Vatican police spy work to members of the Italian secret service. This work included sweeping the adviser’s office for bugs and providing intelligence reports. The testimony, obtained Thursday, is related to a a major fraud…

If you think America is a bedrock of freedom of the press, think again. Our government is trying to extradite and jail Julian Assange for being a journalist, for exercising his right to freedom of speech. Ten years ago, Assange and Wikileaks began publishing its Guantanamo Bay files, exposing abuses there. If Assange is extradited,…

The Justice Department’s negotiation of six figure settlements is shining a light on a little known government account called the Judgment Fund, which pays out billions every year. While some settlements are controversial, others compensate for egregious errors by the federal government. Senate Republicans introduced multiple bills that, if passed, would block money from being…