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Comey reacts to new charges: ‘Funny’ if it weren’t ‘appalling abuse’ of DOJ

26 October 2026 at 22:46
Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday slammed his new charges from the Trump administration. “Well, they’re back, again. It would almost be funny if it weren’t such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing’s changed with me,” Comey said Monday in a video posted to…

Trump announces $1M rewards for voter fraud tips ahead of midterms

26 October 2026 at 22:10
President Trump has announced a $1 million reward for voter fraud tips, about a week out from this year’s midterms. “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!” Trump said in a Monday afternoon…

DOJ charges Comey for third time

26 October 2026 at 21:48
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged again by the Justice Department (DOJ) for allegedly disclosing sensitive national defense information in 2016, according to newly unsealed court documents. Comey was charged with two counts of transmitting information and conspiring to transmit information related to national defense matters on Oct. 5, but a federal judge…

Man charged with sending white substance to 4 lawmakers

26 October 2026 at 21:10
An Illinois man is facing federal charges related to mailing letters containing a white substance to four members of Congress this month in an act inspired by reports of suspicious packages being sent to dozens of lawmakers and election officials across the country. Matthew Unglesbee, 37, is charged with one count of false information and…

6 citizens sue Trump over White House bans on news outlets

26 October 2026 at 17:55
Six individual citizens — a civics teacher, a legal journalist, a student journalist, a human rights advocate, a historian and a media watchdog — are suing the president and Trump administration officials over the White House’s bans and restrictions on the press, according to the lawsuit filed Monday. The complaint, which named President Trump alongside…

Trump administration sued over refugee policy changes

26 October 2026 at 17:02
Advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration over three policies they say have left refugees in “legal limbo” by blocking them from obtaining green cards and speeding up the process for terminating their lawful status. The class action lawsuit, filed Monday in Massachusetts, accuses the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration…

Judge rules James Comey’s daughter unlawfully fired as federal prosecutor 

26 October 2026 at 16:17
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) unlawfully fired and must provide back pay to Maurene Comey, former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter who was terminated as a prosecutor last year. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman rejected the Trump administration’s arguments that it had constitutional authority to fire her.  “Defendants’ argument is contrary…

Tina Peters plans Supreme Court bid while convictions are upheld in Colorado

26 October 2026 at 14:35
Tina Peters' attorney, Peter Ticktin, told FOX31 that he is preparing to take her case to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of overturning her criminal convictions stemming from a 2021 breach of Mesa County's election equipment.

Appeals court resists DOJ’s bid to immediately segregate 20,000 California ballots 

25 October 2026 at 22:02
A federal appeals court appeared unlikely to immediately agree to the Trump administration’s bid to segregate 20,000 California ballots it says are likely from noncitizen voters, expressing skepticism at a rare Sunday hearing that a trial judge needs to move quicker. “I don’t see how we have jurisdiction,” said U.S. Circuit Judge Mark Bennett.  The Department of Justice…

ACLU, Common Cause file motion against DOJ over Alaska election certification block

25 October 2026 at 01:47
Nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause, represented by attorneys from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has filed a motion to intervene in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit over Alaska’s Senate election. The DOJ filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the presence of a candidate with the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) could give…

Trump on Alaska election lawsuit: ‘I’m the one who said do it’

23 October 2026 at 20:23
President Trump said Friday he directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in November.  DOJ filed the suit Thursday, claiming the existence of a candidate with a similar name to Sullivan’s would make a win by Democrat…

Ketanji Brown Jackson issues public dissent in New Hampshire voting case

23 October 2026 at 19:43
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from using student IDs in the upcoming midterms. Jackson, the high court’s most junior liberal justice, wrote in a short dissent that she would have left in place a lower court decision that…

Appeals court rules Trump unlawfully deployed National Guard to California 

23 October 2026 at 18:39
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled 2-1 that President Trump’s National Guard deployment to the Los Angeles area last year was unlawful.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Trump’s assertion that violent demonstrations in the city protesting his immigration crackdown justified him wresting control of the troops from Gov. Gavin…

Ty Cobb predicts Trump will likely skip deposition, dismiss BBC lawsuit

23 October 2026 at 15:06
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said President Trump would likely skip a mandated deposition or walk out in the middle, which he predicted would lead to the eventual dismissal of the president’s lawsuit against the BBC.  Cobb joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday night after a judge said Trump must sit for a deposition…

DOJ asks appeals court to intervene in California mail-in ballot lawsuit

23 October 2026 at 04:12
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked an appeals court to intervene in its lawsuit against California to temporarily block the state from counting more than 20,000 mail-in ballots cast by people the Trump administration claims are non-U.S. citizens. The request, made to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, comes before a lower-court…

Supreme Court rules NH can block voters from using student IDs 

22 October 2026 at 23:50
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled New Hampshire’s top election official can fully stop voters from using their student IDs when showing up to the polls in the midterms — a request backed by the Republican National Committee (RNC). A lower judge ruled officials had improperly gone further than a new state law placing restrictions on…

How Dunkirk Was Besieged by the Allies for Eight Months and Capitulated to A Czechoslovak Brigade One Day after Germany’s Surrender

7 October 2026 at 08:54
In 2017 the director Christopher Nolan brought Dunkirk back to cinema screens with Dunkirk, a film about the hurried and agonising retreat of the Allied armies from the European mainland in 1940. The German advance through France had been unstoppable, and the Second World War was only months old. That evacuation is the best-known episode […]

The Blind King Who Rode Into the Battle of Crécy Tied to His Knights – and the Legend That Gave the Prince of Wales His Feathers

2 October 2026 at 08:48
On 26 August 1346, English and French armies met at one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years’ War: Crécy. Edward III’s English army crushed the French army of Philip VI. The defeat was so complete that it allowed Edward to lay siege to Calais and tilt the whole war in his favour. […]

Last Great Cavalry Charge Wasn’t Led by Europeans — It Was Won by Indian Lancers in WWI

26 September 2026 at 15:30
India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units raised not by Britain directly, but by India’s semi-autonomous princely states, which supplied their own troops to the British war effort. Grouped into the 15th Cavalry Brigade and led into the final charge […]

They Sailed to Constantinople to Guard the Emperor— Byzantium Massacred Them Instead

7 September 2026 at 09:12
In the first quarter of the 11th century, a force of Kievan Rus’ warriors sailed for Constantinople hoping to join the Varangian Guard — the Byzantine emperor’s elite personal bodyguard, foreign troops trusted precisely because they had no stake in local politics, not unlike Rome’s Praetorian Guard centuries earlier. The city turned them away at […]

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