Life Plus Seven: The Judge, the Plot, and the Thin Line Between Order and Chaos

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It is a strange thing, the way America now keeps having to look at the unthinkable and call it by its proper name. Ryan Routh was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison plus seven years for his 2024 assassination attempt against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club in Florida. There are people who will insist this is just another case, another file, another defendant. It isn’t. It’s the modern American sickness — politics not as argument, but as extermination fantasy. The sentence follows Routh’s September conviction on five federal counts, including attempting to assassinate a

The Clintons and the Clock: At Last, A Deposition Date With the Oversight Committee

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After months of lawyerly jousting and slow-walking, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sit for filmed, closed-door, transcribed depositions before the House Oversight Committee at the end of this month. Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says Hillary Clinton will appear Feb. 26, with Bill Clinton following Feb. 27, under the same terms. Both sessions will be recorded, Comer’s statement said. This is the part of Washington where the calendar becomes a weapon. For weeks, the former first couple and the GOP-led committee haggled over whether they would testify, where, and on what conditions, as the

A Church Service Interrupted — and a Journalist Charged: Don Lemon Arrested

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The charge sheet lands like a thunderclap — and the aftershocks will be political, legal, and cultural. Journalist Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles early Friday in connection with a January 18 disruption of a church service at Cities Church in St. Paul, authorities said. Lemon spent the night in jail. Officials at U.S. Department of Homeland Security say Lemon is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 241 (conspiracy against rights) and 18 U.S.C. § 248 (the FACE Act provisions that also cover places of religious worship). The heart of the § 241 allegation is old, blunt

They’re Calling It ‘MEGA’ — and Washington is About to Act Like the Stakes Are, Too

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Close-up of "Vote Here" directional sign at polling place.

House Republicans are rolling out a sweeping election overhaul package ahead of the 2026 midterms, pitching new national standards for federal elections that would tighten voter registration rules, expand voter ID requirements, and curb several voting methods long targeted by election-integrity advocates. The House Administration Committee on Thursday unveiled the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act, which GOP leaders say is meant to boost voter confidence and standardize baseline safeguards nationwide. “Americans should be confident their elections are being run with integrity — including commonsense voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification,” Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) said

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