House Republicans cleared a key procedural vote on a three-year FISA Section 702 extension after adding a permanent ban on central bank digital currencies to a procedural measure. ... Read full Story
The Iranian government has executed at least 21 people since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against the country, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Wednesday. In a press release, Türk’s office said that since the conflict began on Feb. 28, the Islamic Republic regime has executed at least nine people... ... Read full Story
King Charles III received a bipartisan standing ovation in Congress, prompting Republicans to highlight Democrats' "No Kings" protest hypocrisy. ... Read full Story
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers engaged in a “campaign of organized brutality” after a recent massive federal immigration operation in his state. “For months, armed, lawless gangs roamed our communities in a campaign of organized brutality. Families lived in fear. Children were separated from their parents,... ... Read full Story
A man with a long rap sheet was allegedly caught burglarizing a Virginia church in a county led by a Soros-backed prosecutor under Congress' eye. ... Read full Story
Rep. Robbins says Gov. Tim Walz skipped a Minnesota state fraud hearing despite allegedly being in the building, citing his arrogance as the reason. ... Read full Story
Retired four-star Army Gen. Jack Keane predicted on Wednesday that Iran would continue delaying negotiations with the U.S. to end the 60-day conflict in a bid to exert pressure on President Trump, as the prospects of a peace deal appear fraught. “I think it's pretty evident now that Iran is never going to put... ... Read full Story
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday said the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey was "not an audition" for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) top job, and that he was "absolutely, positively not" directed to pursue the indictment at President Trump's request. Comey was indicted in connection with an Instagram post from last... ... Read full Story
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday said he hopes the Justice Department has stronger evidence against former FBI Director James Comey than “just the picture in the sand." Comey was indicted with a second round of charges on Tuesday for allegedly threatening to harm President Trump after posting a photo of seashells arranged in a... ... Read full Story
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) will conduct a review of the Department of Justice’s compliance with Congress’s mandate to release the Epstein files, the congressional watchdog confirmed Wednesday. The review would be the second into the DOJ’s handling of the files, with the inspector general at the department launching its own review last week. A... ... Read full Story
Texas woman Mayra Collins faces federal charges for allegedly impersonating immigration officers in a visa fraud scheme spanning from 2022 to 2025. ... Read full Story
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau will produce a report "in short order" on whether mysterious scientist deaths and disappearances are linked. ... Read full Story
The man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump last weekend took a mirror selfie just before the shooting, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday. The photo was included in a memorandum supporting pretrial detention filed by the DOJ, which said that suspect Cole Allen took the photo roughly a half hour before... ... Read full Story
One number is at the center of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest indictment of former FBI Director James Comey: 86. Last May, Comey posted on Instagram a photo of seashells arranged to form the numbers "86" and "47" and wrote, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” The grand jury indictment in the Eastern... ... Read full Story
Former FBI director James Comey surrendered to law enforcement and made an initial court appearance in Alexandria, Va., on Wednesday after facing new charges stemming from a controversial photo of seashells he shared on social media, displaying the message “86-47.” The phrase “86” is commonly used as slang for removing or throwing out something or... ... Read full Story
The Office of Management and Budget warned in a letter to lawmakers that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funds to pay employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other departments imminently if the House does not pass a DHS funding bill. “If this funding is exhausted, the administration will... ... Read full Story
Fed Chair Jerome Powell's iconic purple tie has become a quiet symbol of the central bank's effort to remain independent and above partisan politics. ... Read full Story
A bipartisan group of senators is introducing legislation to prevent fraudsters scamming the federal student aid system for their own gain. ... Read full Story
“I remember sitting alone on the train platform, and then on the train, with no interlocutor but the poem. I read it once. I read it again. And in the blank spaces between the verses, I started to translate.” — Hannah Kauders, LitHub.com, 3 Dec. 2025
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It may not necessarily be grandiloquence to use the word interlocutor in casual speech, but if your interlocutors—that is, the people with whom you are speaking—are using it, your conversation is likely a formal one. Interlocutor is one of many English words that comes from the Latin verb loqui, “to speak,” including loquacious (“talkative”), eloquent (“capable of fluent or vivid speech”), and grandiloquence (“extravagant or pompous speech”). In interlocutor, loqui was joined to inter- forming a Latin word meaning “to speak between” or “to issue an interlocutory decree.” An interlocutory decree is a judicial decision that isn’t final, or that deals with a point other than the principal subject matter of the dispute.