On Tuesday, May 30, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced an effort to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if he refuses to disclose an informant file alleging President Biden’s involvement in a $5 million bribery scheme while he was vice president. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) gave Wray until end of…

The House Freedom Caucus, the same group of conservative Republicans who made it so difficult for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to win his speaker vote, said they will not try to oust McCarthy while the debt limit talks are ongoing. But what happens after this negotiation ends is another story.  When the group was asked…

Lawmakers in Congress are on a deadline to review a new bill, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which aims to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a potential default. And Russia’s Defense Ministry is reporting that Ukraine executed a significant drone attack on Moscow, marking another incident in a recent escalation of these drone…

The rollout of commercial AI tools in recent months has shown that the technology can make mistakes. It can hallucinate, show bias and discrimination and it can be misused by humans. These fears have sent governments scrambling to form regulation about a technology that many don’t fully understand yet. The European Union is already prepared…

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced late Saturday night that they have reached a tentative agreement to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default. The two sides finalized preliminary negotiations on the phone over the holiday weekend, characterizing it as an “agreement in principle.” The text of the deal…

Two of former President Donald Trump’s employees moved boxes of papers the day before FBI agents and a federal prosecutor visited Mar-a-Lago seeking classified documents. According to The Washington Post, which first reported the story, prosecutors have come to view that timing as suspicious and a possible indication of obstruction.  The Post also reported that…

Americans can’t say they weren’t warned. According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, if Congress and the White House fail to reach an agreement to lift the limit on federal debt, the Treasury could start to miss payments on its obligations as early as June 1. A U.S. default would shatter the $24 trillion market for…

“Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi was not only the center of an IRS investigation, but the federal agency was working overtime to dig into the journalist’s tax records from years back. Taibbi says the IRS probe against him started on Christmas Eve 2022, which is rare for agents to do given its proximity to the…