Samuel Perkins Lead Reporter The gold medal winning US Olympic hockey team has declined an invite to Donald Trump's State of the Union address, due to scheduling conflicts. This invite came after Trump spoke with the US men's hockey team via a phone call on Sunday, after the player celebrated their historic Olympic victory. He even offered to send a military plane to bring them to Washington D.C. Donald Trump stated: “We’re giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday nigh

Samuel Perkins Lead Reporter Yesterday, The Supreme Court ruled that the use of the IEEPA act for broad tariffs was illegal. This lead Trump to pivot to Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, allowing him to continue to apply tariffs to the world, but with a limit. Trump set a global tariff rate at 10% after Fridays ruling. And today he has increased this rate to 15% which is the max amount the Trade Act allows him to set. The act also states the tariffs are only allowed to im

Samuel Perkins Lead Reporter A six-page letter to Congress on Saturday reveals a list of over 300 "politically exposed persons" and government officials named in the Jeffrey Epstein files. This comes after much backlash on the DOJ for "over-redacting" the files. The DOJ provided the names of individuals who appear at least once in the millions of released documents. Notable names released include President Donald Trump, former Presidents Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton, as wel

Samuel Perkins Lead Reporter Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave a testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. The session was focused on the Justice Department releases of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. Bondi defended the DOJ'S release of 3 million case files, but received criticism from both republican and democratic parties for "over-redacting" the files, especially in regards to potential co-conspirators of Epstein. During questioning Bondi states, that "pending

Samuel Perkins Lead Reporter Today, on January 30th, 2026, The Department of Justice (DOJ) released around 3 million documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein. This fulfills the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated that the DOJ release all files before late December; a deadline which initially was missed A large portion of the files were media such as pictures and videos, seized from Epstein's properties in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. There are around 2,000 to

Samuel Perkins Lead Reporter In 2025, Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela. Today, in a meeting with Donald Trump, Machado presented him the medal, and White House officials confirm that Trump has accepted the medal and intends to keep it. This comes after the recent U.S. operation earlier in the month that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, which Machado described as a histori

Today, Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop what Minnesota's Attorney General describes as a "federal invasion".