Author: Mia Cathell

Peculiar language uncovered in a newly declassified Russiagate intelligence document is raising suspicions about how the term “critical infrastructure” became a catch-all phrase used by censorship powers to suppress disfavored speech. Censorship watchdogs are calling attention to a particular phrase, pertaining to “critical infrastructure,” that appeared in the appendix to former special counsel John Durham’s final report on the…

More than 50,000 discrepancies have been discovered in the state of New York’s voter registration rolls, including deceased registrants, placeholder or fictitious birthdates, and duplicate entries, according to an election security watchdog’s findings shared with the Washington Examiner. Among the alarming revelations, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a law firm focused on voting integrity, found…

A number of key documents related to the “manufactured” Russiagate scandal are still heavily redacted or not yet declassified years later, despite efforts by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, among others, to make information about the start of the Trump collusion investigation public. As President Donald Trump’s administration continues…

An Obama-appointed federal judge has handed Marc Elias, the Democratic Party’s go-to election lawyer, another litigation loss after his law firm sought to stop a Wyoming law from imposing proof-of-citizenship and -residency requirements in the state’s voting registration process. The civil complaint, filed in early May by the Elias Law Group on behalf of the…

As the Trump administration seeks to rescind temporary protective status for people from a slew of foreign countries, some of whose designations date back decades, TPS faces increasing scrutiny from border security advocates who say the program is “temporary” in name only. In theory, TPS affords immigrants the temporary right to remain in the United…

The key lawmakers pushing a trio of cryptocurrency bills that passed during so-called “Crypto Week” on Capitol Hill are the top beneficiaries of crypto campaign cash, heightening concerns about the crypto industry’s increasing influence in U.S. economic policy. So far this year, co-sponsors of two of the cryptocurrency bills debated by the House this week…

Activist allies are raising funds for 10 suspected members of an antifa cell facing terrorism and attempted murder charges for allegedly attacking officers at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alvarado, Texas, on Friday. According to a criminal complaint filed Monday, as part of an Independence Day “ambush” on immigration authorities, the heavily armed…

A small tariff provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” spurred an expensive lobbying battle between special interests in the tobacco industry, including a full-court press from North Carolina’s export-dependent farming sector, where tobacco is a key cash crop. Fairness for America, a recently established nonprofit, reportedly spent at least $1.3 million on a failed…

Microsoft is laying off about 9,000 employees after applying to fill thousands of foreign worker positions in the months leading up to the mass layoffs, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data. DOL quarterly statistics show that Microsoft submitted 4,776 labor condition applications, a prerequisite for filing H-1B visa petitions,…

ICEBlock, an app tracking the whereabouts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, is leading the digital resistance against deportation operations. Few knew about the now-viral app and its architect until a promotional TV debut on CNN this week, which promoted the product and caught the attention of federal immigration officials. Those officials warned that broadcasting the location…