February 21, 2026 at 9:27 AM EST
Republican election expert undermines key Trump claims

Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is sounding the alarm. Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Richer said that if SB 1570 becomes law, it "would prove a significant disruption."

February 21, 2026 at 9:23 AM EST
How the end of America begins

Donald Trump's Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "on life support" as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father's and husband's ordeal? This week, I told you about the historic pattern associated with countries moving from democracy to tyranny. First, they start breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution in small ways, and the more they get away with it -- and buy off or threaten politicians who may otherwise stop it -- the more they do it. We've been watching Trump do this almost from the first day of his second term in office.

February 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM EST
UK journalist attacks America's 'culture of complete impunity'

British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday after 11 hours in custody, with his shocking arrest earlier in the day making him the first senior British royal to be arrested in nearly 400 years. Police are probing his connections to the deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and whether he shared classified government information with him while serving as a U.K. trade representative from 2001 to 2011. King Charles' brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his royal title, is the most high-profile figure in the U.K. to be implicated in a widening scandal over ties to Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial on sex trafficking. Authorities did not reference sexual abuse allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor or Epstein's sex trafficking case; Mountbatten-Windsor settled a lawsuit with Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2022 and has denied all wrongdoing.

February 21, 2026 at 7:54 AM EST
'Gonna be big mad': Trump's no good, very bad day fueled by more than tariff ruling

President Donald Trump's Friday got off to a rough start as three critical components of his economic agenda collapsed. A major economic indicator, gross domestic product (GDP), slowed significantly, dropping to just 1.4% annually as inflation rose. And the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the legal basis for the president's sweeping global tariffs, ruling that his use of that authority was unlawful.

February 21, 2026 at 7:43 AM EST
'Shuddering': Architect of Bush torture memos counsels Trump

A former Bush Justice Department official is warning President Donald Trump against smearing the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices delivered a highly anticipated ruling that struck down the legal foundation of his sweeping global tariffs -- a major setback for his economic agenda. "It's my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think," the president said on Friday, as the Guardian reported. Trump said he was "ashamed" of the six justices who sided with the majority opinion. "Absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country."

February 21, 2026 at 6:04 AM EST
Exploitation -- and murder -- took place in Michigan decades before 'Epstein Island'

Warning: Some of the events and depictions in this article are disturbing in nature. As the revelations and debate continue about the millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their international ties to wealth, privilege, and perversity, the idea of a sophisticated network of elites sexually preying upon children is not just a modern facet of an internet-connected world, but eerily similar to a scandal that was centered in Michigan more than half a century ago.

February 21, 2026 at 5:31 AM EST
I'm done tolerating Trump supporters who won't turn their backs on him

The other day, an old musician friend of mine in Nashville, sent along a zinger he knew would wind me up. He's only too aware I'm an easy target these days, because try as I might to stay loose during this relentless GOP attack on America, I'm wound tighter than one of his piano strings.

February 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM EST
Steve Schmidt warns new Congress will investigate Trump's 'every despicable act'

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt swore the American people will eventually come face to face with the colossal depths of President Donald Trump's corruption and the fraud of his administration's top lieutenants Schmidt was a guest on Jim Acosta's Friday "Jim Acosta Show" podcast when the conversation veered from the Supreme Court's Friday decision to yank Trump's illegal exploitation of an emergency order to impose tariffs at his whim.

February 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM EST
WSJ demands 'ugly' Trump apologize to the Supreme Court

The conservative learning Wall Street Journal blasted President Donald Trump for "smearing" members of the Supreme Court who overruled his unilateral tariff policy Friday. "President Trump owes the Supreme Court an apology -- to the individual Justices he smeared on Friday and the institution itself," WSJ reported. "Mr. Trump doubtless won't offer one, but his rant in response to his tariff defeat at the Court was arguably the worst moment of his Presidency."

February 20, 2026 at 8:51 PM EST
A day in Trump's life: Golf, Truth Social and 100-word policy briefs

New York Times Colunist and podcaster Ezra Klein asked two people familiar with the Trump White House and past administrations to describe how the late-night diving and social media-obsessed President Donald Trump spends his days. "He wakes up late," said Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer. "[Former President Barack] Obama would start work very early in the Oval Office and work until dinnertime, and then he'd go back to the residence. Trump comes down later in the morning. I think on an average day he's in front of live cameras, if he's at the White House " one to three hours in a day. " And I think the rest of the time is much more freeform. I don't think the drive towards efficiency and structure is something that interests him."

February 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM EST
'Dark MAGA': White House dims lights after Trump's trouncing

Let it be said that President Donald Trump's people know how to put on a show New York Times reporter Chris Cameron noted that The White House "turned down the lights for President Trump's news conference on Friday after the Supreme Court decision that struck down his sweeping tariffs," as if in response to the president's smoldering mood.

February 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM EST
Judge tears apart Trump prosecutors for omitting crucial info

CNN reports a federal judge tore into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of a law that could have undermined a federal search warrant. The law that government lawyers omitted applied to protections granted to journalists to protect them from government searches and seizures. The Privacy Protection Act of 1980 is designed to protect journalists and newsrooms from government searches and seizures of a reporter's work product materials unless the reporter is personally the subject of a criminal investigation or prosecution. But CNN reports federal lawyers failed to cite it.