President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation project in American history, using the military and local law enforcement to do it, in a move that could echo the last major effort to remove migrants en masse in the 1950s. Dubbed "Operation Wetback", hundreds of thousands of mostly Mexican undocumented immigrants were forcibly removed or self-deported during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's term. The program's name was derogatory even at the time, referring to...

FBI officials Wednesday are set to announce a significant reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who they suspect attempted to set three ballot boxes on fire in Oregon and Washington a week before the November election. Hundreds of ballots were destroyed in one Clark County precinct but fire suppression equipment in two boxes in Multnomah County largely spared destruction of voters’ ballots. Crime Stoppers of Oregon had previously issued a reward of up to $2,500 late last month...

Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as his attorney general managed to inspire new levels of social media face-palming. Yes, even more than his choice of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense. Of course, that’s bound to happen when your AG candidate is being investigated by fellow members of Congress because he allegedly “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted...

Democratic governors J. B. Pritzker (Illinois) and Jared Polis (Colorado) revealed on Wednesday that they will spearhead a national gubernatorial initiative to protect against threats to democracy. Governors Safeguarding Democracy (GSD) will launch as a nonpartisan coalition aimed at “[leveraging] the collective strength, experience, and institutional knowledge in governors’ offices across the country to craft laws and policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of our great...

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that People's Republic of China (PRC) hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the U.S. The breached entities have been warned, and the agencies are proactively alerting other potential targets of elevated cyber activity. "The U.S. government's continued investigation into the People's Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and...

OpenAI could release an “AI agent” tool as soon as January. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reports that OpenAI is close to launching software, code-named “Operator,” that can take direct actions on a person’s computer. OpenAI is said to be planning to initially launch Operator as a research preview through its developer API. Operator would go up against Anthropic’s recently unveiled agent feature, Computer Use, and Google’s rumored consumer-focused agent, among others. It’s unclear...

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general Wednesday, receiving mixed reactions from senators and representatives over his latest pick in a series of appointments to his Cabinet and staff this week.

A graph from ZeroHedge (Lean Right bias) posted on X circulated to tens of millions of people, purporting that in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 presidential elections, Democrats only received about 66 million votes in each presidential election, but received 81 million votes in 2020. The graph is misleading and implies the 2024 vote count is complete, which it’s not. Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here? pic.twitter.com/FkScNHivuU — zerohedge (@zerohedge)...

Senate Republicans reacted with alarm and dismay to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s decision to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, for attorney general, and several said they were skeptical that he would be able to secure enough votes for confirmation. “He’s got his work really cut out for him,” Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, said, chuckling as she spoke. Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, raised his eyebrows when reporters informed him of Mr....

President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence. Gabbard, who served four terms in Congress as a Democrat and ran in the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, has since left the party and was an avid Trump campaign surrogate during the 2024 election cycle. “For over two decades, Tulsi has fought for our Country and the Freedoms of all Americans,” Trump said. “As a former...