President Donald Trump stepped in this week and stopped the military from live-streaming the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. The execution will go forward by firing squad, but the public will not be given a front-row seat. Families of the victims may watch in person if they choose, but the spectacle is More

An Egyptian farmer went out to do regular work and found something that was anything but ordinary: a carved stone with hieroglyphs. That simple act of honesty set off a rescue excavation in the Nile Delta that has already turned up two colossal statue fragments and a pink‑granite block that officials say point to Pharaoh More

The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are now investigating a string of suspicious letters that were mailed across the country. Some of those envelopes were addressed to congressional offices on Capitol Hill and to state election offices and secretaries of state. Officials are treating the mail as potentially hazardous while they work to More

Senator Chuck Grassley has dropped a bomb on the table. His Senate Judiciary Committee memo says subpoena returns and whistleblower disclosures show the Department of Justice and the Special Counsel’s Office obtained spreadsheets containing personal data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters — including people who bought campaign merchandise like red MAGA More

What grabbed everyone’s attention this week was not a new filing or a bombshell charge — it was a short on‑air moment on CNN. During The Lead, CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig told anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper that federal investigators had secured a judge‑approved warrant in the ongoing Ilhan Omar investigation. More

Capitol Hill is quieter this week after the death of Laura Lytle, the longtime director of the Senate Daily Press Gallery who helped keep reporters working and, in one breathless moment, helped save lives. Colleagues on both sides of the byline are remembering a woman who put the press corps first, protected access to the More