Federal prosecutors are expected to continue presenting forensic evidence Tuesday in the case of Ryan Routh who is accused of plotting to kill President Donald Trump in 2024. ... Read full Story
In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump called for Republicans to vote to pass a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. ... Read full Story
Conservative activist Ryan Fournier says dozens of individuals who celebrated Charlie Kirk's death have been fired after he exposed their posts online. ... Read full Story
FBI Director Kash Patel will appear Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing, amid mounting criticism over his role in the agency's investigation of the assassination of Charlie Kirk nearly a week ago. The director is certain to get questions about bureau firings, the FBI’s role in reviewing the files related to convicted... ... Read full Story
House Republican Nancy Mace proposes removing Rep. Ilhan Omar from committees over comments the progressive "Squad" member made about Charlie Kirk. ... Read full Story
President Trump filed a lawsuit against The New York Times late Monday in Florida, accusing the paper and four of its reporters of defamation and libel. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, listed several stories and a book written by two journalists before the 2024... ... Read full Story
Senate Democrats plan to question FBI Director Kash Patel over recent agency firings and his social media posts during the Charlie Kirk assassination investigation. ... Read full Story
Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener claimed that "Charlie Kirk was a vile bigot," asserting that Kirk normalized "dehumanization." ... Read full Story
President Trump will arrive in England Tuesday evening local time for a state visit. Much pomp and circumstance is expected Wednesday, when Trump will meet King Charles III and other members of the royal family at Windsor Castle, about 25 miles west of London. A more political element of the trip will be seen Thursday,... ... Read full Story
U.S. Secretary of State is set to visit Qatar after Israeli airstrikes, seeking to leverage Doha's mediation capabilities in the Israel-Hamas conflict despite regional tensions. ... Read full Story
Trump dismisses right-wing extremism concerns following Charlie Kirk's assassination, sparking debate over political blame and violence in America. ... Read full Story
President Trump on Monday defended not ordering U.S. flags lowered to half-staff after the assassination of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker this summer, saying the governor did not ask. The president's remark came during an unrelated Oval Office event on Monday. There, he was asked about his decision to lower flags after last week’s assassination of... ... Read full Story
Speaker Mike Johnson led a prayer vigil inside the United States Capitol for Charlie Kirk, which saw strong attendance from Republicans but far fewer Democrats. ... Read full Story
Republican Joe Lombardo, who flipped Nevada's governorship in 2022, kicks off his re-election bid as the most vulnerable GOP governor seeking another term. ... Read full Story
A federal appeals court Monday refused the Trump administration’s request to permit Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook’s firing before this week’s Fed meeting, setting the stage for a potential Supreme Court battle. Without the justices’ intervention, Cook is set to participate in the Fed’s upcoming vote on interest rate cuts after a judge last... ... Read full Story
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.