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The Venezuelan government said Monday night that they had foiled a Trump administration-backed plot to stage a “false flag” attack on a U.S. warship currently stationed just off its shore, The Independent reported Tuesday.

Yvan Gil Pinto, the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, said in a statement late Monday night that members of a “CIA-funded criminal cell” had been arrested after officials learned of what Pinto labeled a “CIA-directed false flag operation” designed to “justify an aggression against our country.”

An attorney specializing in consumer protection is sounding the alarm as the Trump administration prepares to enact a new policy that could tank credit ratings for millions of Americans.

A total of 15 states currently have laws that limit medical debt from impacting individuals' credit scores, laws that were enacted under the Biden administration, which in early 2025 issued a new rule that would have removed all medical debt from credit reports, eliminating an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from credit reports.

E. Jean Carroll pinpointed the precise moment that Donald Trump lost in her massive defamation lawsuit and vividly described his bizarre behavior during the trial.

A jury awarded the 81-year-old journalist $83.3 million after she accused the once and future president of defaming her by calling her a liar for alleging that he had sexually assaulted her decades ago, and she told the Daily Beast Podcast that jurors could not take their eyes off the spectacle he made of himself in the New York courtroom.

Over 100 former FBI officials spoke out against the indictment of James Comey, the bureau's former director, on Monday in a court filing.

The Washington Post reported on Monday that the officials filed an amicus brief to U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, who is presiding over the Comey case, arguing that the charges should be dismissed. They reasoned that President Donald Trump's comments about the case demonstrate that Comey's indictment is more about exacting "personal retribution" instead of carrying out justice.

A federal judge slammed two Trump administration officials on Monday for making statements in court that the judge reasoned were "simply inaccurate," according to a new report.

Politico reported on Monday that U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw said Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have made inaccurate public remarks about a high-profile immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year before being brought back.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia, developed by his company xAI, went live on Monday after months of MAGA railing against the popular internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia. But a new report points out that Musk's version of Wikipedia appears to be "cribbing" information from the original version.

Musk promised to launch a more conservative version of Wikipedia after saying Wikipedia was "woke" because it cited articles from The New York Times and NPR. The new version, which runs on a large language model, still cites from these sources, but has changed the framing of some prominent events in U.S. history, such as the January 6 insurrection and President Donald Trump's election loss in 2020.

Under President Donald Trump, immigration officials have been unleashed to terrorize immigrants as they wish, often sending masked and unidentified agents to whisk them into vehicles. But things could be about to get a whole lot worse, National Immigration Center fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick fears.

That's because, according to Fox News, the Trump administration is moving forward with massive leadership changes at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that throw out all the remaining people who might have been a constraint on his agenda.

Democratic analyst Brian Tyler Cohen unmasked what he sees as a GOP plot underpinning the government shutdown during a new episode of the "Brian Tyler Cohen" podcast on Monday.

The federal government has been shut down for almost a month, which has put government services from food stamps to air traffic control in jeopardy. Republicans have blamed Democrats for not signing their government funding bill. Democrats have said they are using the shutdown to re-negotiate cuts to Medicaid that were part of Trump's budget.

A social media exchange between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and conservative activist Riley Gaines ignited a firestorm among MAGA Republicans on Monday.

Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer and vocal critic of transgender women in women's sports, shared a photo on the social platform X of Ocasio-Cortez with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) at a rally in New York held Sunday.

Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight

by Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica, and Melissa Dai, Medill Investigative Lab

Entire Kansas congressional delegation voluntarily halts their paychecks amid shutdown

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector
October 27, 2025

Former Trump administration press official Sarah Matthews had a blunt message on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" for how Democrats should fight back against President Donald Trump's ongoing threats to meddle in elections.

This comes as Trump moves to send election monitors into California and New Jersey, where crucial elections are taking place next week. Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, also on the panel, suggested Democrats call the bluff and demand election monitors in a bunch of Republican-favoring areas.

California is hitting back at President Donald Trump's plan to flood the blue state with election monitors — by having those monitors watched.

The Trump administration last week said it would send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey for the upcoming Nov. 4 elections. The move was to be carried out by the Justice Department, which said it would deploy observers to several counties in the states following requests from Republican officials who reported irregularities.