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Vice President JD Vance spoke out against "terrible" people who "mistreat dogs" — despite Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's admission that she shot dead a puppy.

During an interview with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine this week, Vance spoke about his German Shepherd.

FBI Director Kash Patel vowed to investigate online conspiracy theories about right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination, but was bothered that the head of the National Counterterrorism Center had gone through bureau files chasing down leads of his own, according to a new report.

Patel and other senior FBI officials felt that Joe Kent, the director of the counterterrorism center, had overstepped his authority and possibly interfered with their investigation by examining FBI files to discover if foreign or domestic groups were linked to the 31-year-old Kirk’s fatal shooting last month during a campus event in Utah, reported the New York Times.

The Department of Justice reportedly suspended at least two federal prosecutors after they acknowledged that rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

ABC correspondents Katherine Faulders and Alex Mallin reported that the prosecutors were informed on Wednesday that they had been put on leave after a legal brief said "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters" were involved in the Capitol attack.

A report that followed an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency after accusations the agency was funneling money to undocumented immigrants and ignoring U.S. citizens in areas where Donald Trump is popular found no evidence to support those claims.

So DHS head Kristi Noem and her inner circle had it spiked and ordered up a new one that contained false allegations against President Joe Biden’s administration and FEMA workers, according to a report Wednesday.

A city council election in Vice President JD Vance's Ohio hometown could serve as a temperature check for next year's midterm congressional elections, according to a report Wednesday.

The Middletown city council is officially nonpartisan, but its current makeup tilts 3-1 in favor of Republicans while its fifth member, Mayor Elizabeth Slamka, is considered a centrist.

A federal agent reportedly pointed a gun at a peaceful protester in Chicago, telling him, "You're dead, liberal."

In an order two weeks ago, U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said that federal agents must issue two warnings if they determine that crowds pose a risk. On Friday, she ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to personally appear in court this week after he appeared to violate that order, which barred agents from deploying teargas and other weapons against journalists, protesters, and anyone not posing a threat.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton elbowed his way to the front of a crowded field to grab the title of “Most Wretched Republican Bootlicker” with a "painfully stupid" move, according to a columnist.

The Republican attorney general filed what Salon's Amanda Marcotte described as a "nuisance lawsuit" against drug makers Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, falsely alleging the pharmaceutical companies had concealed an unproven link between Tylenol and autism that was hyped last month by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

President Donald Trump's claim that the Department of Justice engaged in a conspiracy against him, which is at the heart of his proposal that he be reimbursed $230 million for his legal fees and pain, falls apart under an examination of former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s meddling, according to a columnist.

According to MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian, a new book by MSNBC investigative correspondent Carol Leonnig and Washington Post reporter Aaron C. Davis documents Garland forcing investigators to take it slow while investigating the then-former president over his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection and stolen government documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago after he lost re-election.

Stephen Colbert speculated late Tuesday about the MRI tests that President Donald Trump revealed he had recently undergone.

The president went Oct. 10 to a checkup at Walter Reed Medical Center — which raised eyebrows at the time as it was the second visit in a year — and he confirmed this week that he'd taken an MRI scan, but boasted that the results were "perfect."

A ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie has some legal experts “scratching their heads” as it appears to be putting newly-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan in the position for a face-to-face smack-down next Monday.

That is the opinion of former litigator and current MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who claimed there is more than enough evidence for the judge to dismiss the case against New York Attorney General Letitia James for bank fraud out of hand, but she is holding off until Monday where she will take up both the James case and the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

There's a potentially fatal flaw in the mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to some legal experts.

The Democratic attorney general who successfully sued Donald Trump for business fraud before he returned to the White House was charged with two counts of financial fraud in connection with her 2020 purchase of a three-bedroom house in Virginia.