January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM EST
Gingrich calls on Trump admin to stop 'behaving like a mob'

As President Donald Trump's immigration polling numbers deteriorate and criticism of federal agents grows -- and following the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minnesota -- Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is calling for a national conversation about undocumented immigrants who pay taxes, have lived in the United States for years, and are good neighbors. Gingrich called on President Donald Trump to "open up a national dialogue," as he told Fox Business, saying that "this is about dignity," a quote he took from U.S. Rep. Mar?a Elvira Salazar (R-FL).

January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM EST
Two Trump Cabinet members bail on Melania film screening

First Lady Melania Trump's eponymous film is debuting this weekend -- but two of her husband's top officials are already giving excuses for not attending a viewing event. The conservative Washington Times reported Thursday that "Melania" will be screening for a select audience at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The First Couple will be in attendance for tonight's viewing, along with the president's Cabinet -- save for two members.

January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM EST
Trump's base could threaten this organization's control over the GOP: analysis

MS NOW Columnist Philip Bump says the powerful Trump cult may accomplish something where countless others failed: reign in gun culture and the NRA. It all began, he says, with a lie.

January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM EST
Epstein reporter reveals 'one of the most suspicious aspects' of his death

Before he died in prison, convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly attacked in his cell, extorted by his cellmate and slipped a handwritten note into a book. That's according to Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, who initially broke the story that led to the first arrests of Epstein and his chief accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. In a Thursday post to her Substack entitled "Why I don't believe Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself (Part 2)," Brown delved into Bureau of Prisons records about an apparent suicide attempt that took place not long after he arrived at New York City's Metropolitan Corrections Center in the summer of 2019.

January 29, 2026 at 3:42 PM EST
'Conservative Hollywood' dream 'in ruins' as eight-figure show staggers out the door

In early 2020, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing found himself inspired by the eagerness with which the MAGA community devoured Daily Wire documentaries, and he decided to build a conservative Hollywood in Nashville, according to Bulwark Editor Will Sommer. "Boreing's pet project was a Game of Thrones -style take on the King Arthur legend, called The Pendragon Cycle: The Rise of Merlin . And, for a while, the right's long-running dream of having more influence in entertainment seemed like it just might happen," said Sommer.

January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM EST
Georgia legal expert reveals end goal of FBI's Fulton County raid

Georgia lawyer Michael J. Moore fears that the FBI raid on the Atlanta elections office has an end goal of the federal government taking over elections. Speaking to Moore on Thursday, CNN host Pamela Brown cited President Donald Trump's posting spree in the early hours of Thursday morning during which he repeated the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats.

January 29, 2026 at 11:26 AM EST
Trump 'hellbent' on punishing Americans he still claims 'stole' the election: columnist

Amid the backdrop of an FBI raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election center and the president's social media promotion of a call for the arrest of President Barack Obama, The Bulwark's Andrew Egger says President Donald Trump is "hellbent" on punishing those he claims stole the 2020 election from him. "Trump's assault on our elections""once unambiguously his most outrageous crime""can now only rarely recapture our attention amid so many other scandals and disasters. It has somehow become, for us, a background matter," Egger notes. "When Trump, speaking for America on the world stage at Davos, proclaims that 2020 'was a rigged election' and promises that 'people will soon be prosecuted for what they did,' we're almost too numb to be scandalized."

January 29, 2026 at 11:20 AM EST
Lead 2020 election conspiracy theorist poses with Trump DOJ official after FBI search

When Donald Trump won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, two of the four criminal prosecutions he was facing at the time stemmed from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results: a federal indictment prosecuted by then-special counsel Jack Smith, and a Georgia indictment prosecuted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Both of those election interference cases were doomed when Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in 2024's general election, and the president continues to claim, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

January 29, 2026 at 11:19 AM EST
Young Trump voters regretful as president focuses on everything but the economy

President Donald Trump continues to hemorrhage support from his young MAGA supporters he relied on for his coalition in 2024. The Daily Beast cited a new poll from The Wall Street Journal of 18 to 29-year-olds show that in the past year Trump has fallen nearly 12 points with young voters.

January 29, 2026 at 10:34 AM EST
Judge tells DOJ to hand over or destroy materials used to score Comey indictment

During President Donald Trump's first term, his government tried to go after an FBI leak and the investigation obtained documents that have ultimately been used to go after former FBI Director James Comey. Late Wednesday night, a judge ordered the Justice Department to either destroy the materials or return them. Operation "Arctic Haze" was an investigation into a possible leak in 2019-2020. As legal podcaster P. Andrew Torrez noted, Dan Richman, one of Comey's longtime friends and a former lawyer, filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in December claiming that documents taken from him five years ago included information from his office about Comey. He alleged those documents were then used to file charges against Comey in 2025 in the Eastern District of Virginia.

January 29, 2026 at 5:59 AM EST
Busted: 'Secret' watch lists Trump official claimed don't exist revealed

Despite denials from a senior Trump administration official, secret watchlists of Americans are being used by federal agencies to track and categorize US citizens""especially protesters, activists, and critics of law enforcement""as "domestic terrorists," investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein reported Wednesday. Klippenstein said that two senior national security officials speaking on condition of anonymity told him that there are over a dozen "secret and obscure" watchlists that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI are using to track anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and pro-Palestine protesters, antifa-affiliated individuals, and "others who are promiscuously labeled 'domestic terrorists.'"

January 29, 2026 at 5:43 AM EST
Red states stand to gain more political power over immigration shift

A drop in immigration amid President Donald Trump's enforcement crackdown led to historically slow population growth in the United States last year. Activity at the southern border is at a historic low. The population change reflects the last months of the Biden administration, when immigration controls began to tighten, and the first months of the Trump administration's massive anti-immigration and deportation agenda.