Krystina Alarcon Carroll

The Oversight Project has recommended that the Department of Justice formally charge former FBI Director Christopher Wray, according to an exclusive report from The Blaze.

The referral, which was sent to the Justice Department on Thursday, is looking to hold Wray accountable for his role “in the apparent cover-up but for his alleged false or misleading statements to Congress regarding the infamous FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics,” the Blaze said.

The recommendation comes 18 months after the House Judiciary Committee accused the FBI of "abusing its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists" and "violating the religious liberties of millions of Catholic Americans." ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an over-the-top diatribe aimed at CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand.

The rant came after a reporter asked a question about how effective the strike was on Iranian nuclear facilities.

“I can assure you of what the CIA director said that when we look at the entirety of the intelligence that we have to this date, it concludes that these strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities were absolutely successful. It was a total obliteration, as the president said,” Leavitt said....

Republican Governor of Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders is calling on her GOP colleagues to remove one part of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.”

According to her column in the Washington Post, “There is one very small portion of the bill that was added by Congress that would have unintended consequences and threatens to undo all the great work states have done to protect our citizens from the misuse of artificial intelligence.”

She said the bill in its current form would ban “state-level AI protections” for 10 years....

Former CDC vaccine Expert Dr. Fiona Havers railed against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision for a private citizen to come and give a presentation to his vaccine panel.

Havers, who spent 13 years at the CDC, was a senior advisor on vaccine policy. Blitzer noted the doctor, “resigned last week in the wake of health secretary Robert F Kennedy's purging of the agency's vaccine advisory committee.”

“I know Doctor Havers, you've actually said that a lot of Americans potentially are going to die from vaccine-preventable diseases as a result of these latest changes,” Blitzer said. “Who is most at risk [with Kennedy’s changes]?” ...

Senate Democrats are taking a “victory lap” after their GOP colleagues are facing major new issues with their so-called “one, big, beautiful, bill,” according to a Politico report.

Citing an internal memo, the Senate's parliamentarian advised that some of the GOP budget cuts wouldn’t be able to pass along party lines.

The Senate parliamentarian is Elizabeth MacDonough. Her job is to interpret the rules for the Senate. MacDonough has held this role since 2012....