Patel Pushes Back: When Federal Agents Have to Tell a Governor Whose Raid It Is

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It takes a special sort of nerve to take a bow for the investigation uncovering the mess you presided over. Tim Walz tried it this week. The Minnesota governor took to social media to suggest that federal raids on more than 20 Minneapolis locations — part of a sweeping probe into fraud allegedly tied to largely Somali-owned businesses — had been triggered because his state agencies “caught irregular behavior and reported it.” A nice line, delivered with the practiced ease of a man who has decided that confidence is a substitute for accuracy. FBI Director Kash Patel was not in

A Reckoning Reaches Bethesda: Fauci Aide Indicted Over Hidden Pandemic Emails

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A longtime adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci has been indicted on federal charges in a case tied to the origins of COVID-19 — and to what prosecutors describe as a deliberate effort to keep key records out of public view. The Justice Department has charged David Morens, a former senior adviser at the National Institutes of Health, with multiple felonies, including conspiracy against the United States and destruction of federal records. The indictment, unsealed Monday in federal court in Maryland, alleges Morens worked with two unnamed co-conspirators to evade transparency laws during ongoing investigations into the pandemic’s origins. Prosecutors say

Mid-Decade Redistricting Comes to Florida — and the House Math Shifts

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Florida is moving. Gov. Ron DeSantis released a tentative new congressional map Monday that could hand Republicans up to four additional House seats — a counterweight, his allies say, to the gerrymander Virginia voters approved last week. The proposed map would eliminate four Democratic-leaning districts in central and southern Florida, leaving Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, and West Palm Beach as the state’s remaining deep-blue strongholds. “Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since,” DeSantis said in a statement to Fox News Digital, which first reported on the new map. “Our population has

Ceasefire Extension Signals Washington’s Deeper Bet on Lebanese Sovereignty

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Something is happening in the Levant, and it is worth paying attention to. This week, President Trump announced a three-week extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, following a day of high-level talks in the Oval Office aimed at turning a fragile pause into something that might, at last, hold. The extension came after Trump hosted senior representatives from both countries at the White House. He called the meeting “a great” success and described the extension as “the beginning of something very important.” That is large language for a small increment of time. But the language is the point.

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