David McAfee

The White House is warning House Democrats that some of their planned investigations could cross into criminal behavior. Critics say the claim is extraordinary, and that it is likely to backfire.

Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman reported early Wednesday morning that White House counsel Will Scharf sent a letter Monday to Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee. The letter warned that “some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior.”

“It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress,” Sherman wrote....

Conservative radio host Mark Levin, a prominent ally of President Donald Trump, became the internet’s punchline Tuesday after he complained publicly that he’d spent a whole day locked out of his AOL email account.

“Folks, I have spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email,” Levin wrote on X Tuesday afternoon. “For the last eight hours, I have been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven’t heard a thing.”

“You would think that, since I’m one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. You’d be wrong,” he went on. “So, once this gets resolved, hopefully before the next presidential election, I’m dropping them. (I kept them this long out of convenience, but now I have no reason to keep them.)”...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered a blunt postmortem on Republicans’ midterm wipeout Sunday, and critics were quick to dig up his own pre-election predictions.

“We got beaten badly,” Gingrich said on Fox News. “We got beaten because the American people believed we had failed.”

Gingrich also pointed to Mississippi, where Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) is trailing Democrat Scott Colom in a race that hasn’t been called....

Former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer tried to take a victory lap over how Republicans handled their midterm losses, but critics quickly reminded him of Jan. 6.

“Tuesday was not a good night for Republicans,” Spicer wrote on X Saturday. “It’s been 4 days and no protests, riots and vandalism."

The post, an apparent dig at Democrats, drew more than 350,000 views and a wave of replies pointing out that Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after the 2020 election, not days after the vote but in early January....

Chewy’s attempt to distance itself from the progressive podcast “I’ve Had It” isn’t satisfying some prominent voices on the right. They say the pet supply giant is dodging the fact that it paid to advertise on the show.

“We do not sponsor or support the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast,” Chewy wrote on social media on Saturday, in a post that drew more than 5 million views. “We unequivocally condemn violence in all forms. The comments made by the hosts do not reflect Chewy’s values or what we stand for as a company.”

The backlash began after hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed on Thursday’s episode at a social media post reading “we’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” Kirk, the Turning Point USA founder, was assassinated in September 2025....