Former FBI Director James Comey returned to familiar territory on Sunday: defending his own decisions, attacking his critics, and portraying himself as the last adult in the room while facing yet another federal indictment. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Comey addressed mounting legal trouble tied to an Instagram post that prosecutors say crossed a …

Virginia police officers Meghan Grabow and Martin Powers are now at the center of a growing controversy after objecting to a transgender-identifying male recruit using the women’s locker room at the Norfolk Police Department. Their complaints, and the department’s response, have triggered outrage among critics who argue the situation exposes the collision between gender ideology …

New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan is facing plagiarism accusations after multiple journalists and editors pointed to similarities between his reporting and previously published articles, prompting the magazine to launch an internal review of his work. The controversy started Thursday when Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell accused Barkan of closely copying portions of a May …

Tennessee’s latest congressional redistricting battle is following a now-familiar pattern playing out across the South: Republicans redraw maps, Democrats rush to court, and judges are increasingly reluctant to intervene before elections unless plaintiffs can clear a very high legal bar. That is exactly what happened Thursday when Chief U.S. District Judge William L. Campbell Jr. …

The battle over funding the Department of Homeland Security just hit another familiar Washington roadblock, and once again the center of the controversy is Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough. Republicans had been moving aggressively to push their immigration enforcement package through the Senate reconciliation process, hoping to avoid the 60-vote threshold normally needed to overcome Democratic …

During last Wednesday’s Los Angeles mayoral debate, Spencer Pratt delivered the kind of response that instantly changes the energy in a room. What started as an attempt by Councilwoman Nithya Raman to frame Pratt and incumbent Mayor Karen Bass as political allies quickly turned into one of the debate’s most talked-about moments. Raman suggested that …

The political evolution of Sen. John Fetterman has become one of the strangest and most unexpected storylines in Washington. When the Pennsylvania Democrat first emerged on the national stage, critics on the right viewed him as another hard-left progressive destined to blend seamlessly into the activist wing of his party. Even many Democrats seemed to …

A decorated CIA officer testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci deliberately shaped and influenced the intelligence community’s investigation into COVID-19’s origins, steering analysts away from the lab leak theory and toward a preferred conclusion of natural origin. According to testimony delivered under oath, the process was compromised from the beginning …

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries delivered a dramatic performance at his press conference yesterday, warning that the “ghosts of the Confederacy” are somehow roaming the country through recent Supreme Court rulings. The imagery sounded less like constitutional analysis and more like a rejected Ghostbusters script. According to Jeffries, the Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callins — one …

Tennessee’s political civil war escalated sharply this week after House Speaker Cameron Sexton removed multiple Democratic lawmakers from all standing committees and subcommittees following chaotic protests during a special legislative session over congressional redistricting. The move came after days of disruption inside the Tennessee Capitol, where Democrats and activists attempted to derail Republican efforts to …