Federal law enforcement exploited the Suspicious Activity Report system to access and surveil Americans’ private financial data without warrants or probable cause, according to a report from the House Judiciary Committee. The FBI “manipulated” the SAR filing process by pressuring banks to file reports on individuals the FBI deems “suspicious,” making financial institutions “de facto
Barron Trump ‘knew exactly who his father needs to contact and to talk to,’ she told Fox News on Friday. Melania Trump said on Friday in her first interview since the election that President-elect Donald Trump is receiving advice from their 18-year-old son, Barron Trump, crediting the younger Trump with helping his father win the
Sen. Joni Ernst also says she’s not interested in becoming President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary. A key Republican senator says she’s not ready to commit to approving President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, but that she’s also not working to derail the nomination. “I don’t have a campaign against Pete,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
A federal appeals court denied TikTok’s request to overturn an April law requiring the social media platform to sever ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban in the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday TikTok must divest from CCP-controlled ByteDance by Jan. 19
Los Angeles Times billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is planning to add an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” to his outlet’s news articles to help give readers “both sides” of a story, CNN reported. “Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias,” he said on CNN’s top
‘Pete Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep,’ Trump said in a Friday statement. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his support for Pete Hegseth, whom he tapped to become secretary of defense, amid reports and allegations against the Fox News host. This week, several Republican senators indicated that Hegseth’s nomination
Acting Director Ronald Rowe said the agency has enacted multiple changes since the assassination attempts. The U.S. Secret Service has been revamped since two attempts were made on President-elect Donald Trump’s life, the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe Jr., told lawmakers on Dec. 5. Rowe said that the Secret Service has been “reorganizing and reimagining”