The U.S. restarted a blockade on Iranian ports Tuesday afternoon and launched dozens of additional strikes on Iran, marking the fourth consecutive night of attacks.
President Trump said it will get “really bad” next week, with strikes on Iranian bridges and power plants, if Iran doesn’t cut a deal.
Mr. Trump said he “decided to replace” a planned 20% fee on cargo through the Strait of Hormuz with trade and investment deals from Gulf states, after shipping industry experts balked at the fee. Iran has not ruled out charging its own tolls for use of the Strait of Hormuz, and has threatened ships that sail through the waterway without its permission.
The price of crude oil has shot up over the last two days as U.S.-Iran fighting resumes, including Iranian attacks on cargo ships.
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On August 6, 2011 – three months after members of Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden – Taliban forces took down a United States helicopter, call sign Extortion 17.
The attack killed the Air National Guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and 17 members of Navy SEAL Team Six – warrior brothers from the same team that had killed Osama Bin Laden just 90 days prior. Were the seven Afghan soldiers aboard that helicopter really undercover Taliban who either maneuvered the chopper within easy range of being shot down or sabotaged it from within?
Were the SEALs sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and deliberately flown into a known Taliban hot zone?
Don Brown, a former US Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon and a former special assistant United States attorney, re-creates the wartime action, tells the life stories of the elite warriors our nation lost on that day and tears apart the official military explanation of the incident contained in the infamous Colt Report, which reveals either gross incompetence or a massive cover-up.
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Tehran is set to receive the Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers in a deal that could threaten the relationship between Donald Trump, the US president, and Xi Jinping, his Chinese counterpart. The $70m (£53m) contract covers man-portable air defence systems (Manpads). These are anti-aircraft missiles that a single person can carry and the agreement includes Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 missiles. The purchase is one of Tehran’s largest-known efforts to strengthen its short-range air defences since the outbreak of the war.
The agreement is the latest in a series of secret deals that has propped up Iran’s weapons supplies throughout its war with the US. The contract was signed by Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment, a Hong Kong-based company that sources told Reuters was acting as an intermediary between Iran and the Chinese supplier. China called the reports “completely groundless”, with its foreign ministry insisting it “has consistently played a role in promoting peace and ending the conflict”. The delivery of hundreds of Manpads would significantly expand Iran’s inventory of short-range air-defence weapons.
In April, US intelligence indicated that China was preparing to sell the systems to Iran. Beijing rejected the claims but Mr Trump had threatened that China would face “big problems” if it went through with the sale. At the time, China’s foreign ministry said such allegations were “completely made up”. The reported deal could undermine the already complex relationship between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Beijing has also allegedly sent Tehran chemicals used in the production of rocket fuel for ballistic missiles. Meanwhile, maritime traffic data suggest China has continued to purchase oil from Iran since the war, putting money directly in Tehran’s coffers.
Muyu Xu, a senior crude oil analyst at Kpler, previously told The Telegraph that Iran was “absolutely bringing in more money” since the war. “Our data shows that China’s March imports of Iranian crude stood at about 1.6 million barrels per day, which is a similar level to February, which was 1.57 million barrels a day. These levels are much higher compared to the national average in 2025, which was 1.4 million barrels per day,” said Ms Xu.
Since the United Nations imposed sanctions on Iran in 2006, China has shied away from open arms sales, but has maintained shipments of dual-use technologies, including chemicals to produce ballistic missile fuel and materials to manufacture drones. After initial reports about secret arms deals with Iran in May, the US president claimed his Chinese counterpart promised not to send weapons to Iran. “He said he’s not going to give military equipment, that’s a big statement… He said that strongly,” Mr Trump said following a visit to China.
The conflict in the Middle East has widened this week, suggesting Tehran may need to rearm as fighting continues. Saudi Arabia joined a US attack on Iran overnight after previously carrying out secret strikes against the country.
Ukraine also targeted an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian on Saturday, marking the first direct link between the wars in Iran and Ukraine. Ukraine dismissed Iranian threats of retaliation, with Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s foreign minister, saying: “Iran’s threats are unjustified and groundless.”
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“These types of uprisings are ‘an AFFRONT’ to the citizens of America. Muslim parades are for the purpose of desensitizing citizens to the presence of radical Muslims in their city. They are designed to provoke a CIVIL WAR with the citizens, to start “a Holy War” with them. Muslims want ANY excuse to make war with their neighbor – NOT peace. They come “in the name of peace”, as they are continually open to “a Holy War” — should their religion or their leaders call them to it.
This is the reality of that “religion”. It is a FACT — NOT a criticism. There are “peaceful” Muslims who live peacefully — and who have assimilated to western society, and keep to themselves. These public Muslim displays and street takeovers are NOT keeping their religion to themselves. They want to FORCE Muslim laws and observances on the ENTIRE nation — and they have already SUCCEEDED in conquering New York City among others.
“Authentic” God-Fearing Muslims stand AGAINST this kind uniform pressure and hostility — and they are the Muslims who fear God. But then there are Muslims who DON’T fear God, and who DON’T fear the Consequences for their hostilities towards their neighbor. They KNOW!… American citizens are EASILY ‘triggered’ by their presence. And marches through cities are a way of exercising DOMINANCE and territoriality.
This is ‘the FIRST STAGE’ of the psychological operations that the deep state are UNLEASHING on Americans — as the deep state want to ‘PUSH’ America into a civil war under President Trump QUICKLY, as they desperately try to sabotage the midterms. THEY want America ‘DIVIDED’ at ALL costs! — because a divided country CANNOT stand and resist them.”
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Let’s put renewed pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune. The Senate has been back from vacation since April 13, but he hasn’t spent one minute on the SAVE America Act. Remember, the Senate can pass the bill without 60 votes and without changing the rules. It’s simple but strenuous: Assemble all Republicans on the floor. Start the debate and do not ‘adjourn’ every day, but instead ‘recess’ each night. That seems a minor point, but it is the only way to make it work.
The Talking Filibuster: How It Works
Historical engraving of the United States Senate in the 19th century showing a senator delivering a floor speech — the original talking filibuster tradition The United States Senate — where the “talking filibuster” was born. A senator holds the floor, speaks until exhausted, and gives way only when the debate ends. This is the tradition Majority Leader Thune can invoke today to pass the SAVE America Act by simple majority.
Each Senator is allowed to give only two speeches. Some will talk for a day or so — until they must end their speech for a meal or the bathroom. Most Democrat Senators won’t be able to last more than a few hours. So it could be over in a week or two.
Once they exhaust their vocal cords, a vote is held and the Act can pass with just 50 votes plus the Vice President.
Why Pressure from Constituents Matters
A few RINOs and Never-Trumper Senators won’t vote for it. So we need to make sure every other possible Senator will support it.
Note that a strong Majority Leader can pressure his Senators to do almost anything. “Don’t support it? Pity you’ll lose your membership on the Agriculture Committee…” That’s how the Democrats always have near-100% unity to pass their bills and oppose anything a Republican proposes. It’s not pretty, but it’s the way the Senate works.
“The elections are just months away—we can’t wait. Start the talking filibuster. Use your influence to get 50 Senators onboard.” — THE MESSAGE TO DELIVER TO MAJORITY LEADER THUNE
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Periodically a song comes along that simply touches you at multiple levels. Such was/is the song and music I sent along just now. 1000 Israeli musicians sing and orchestrate a beautiful song titled BRING THEM HOME! This song was to remember those kidnapped when Hamas invaded Israel through Gaza.
The music is simply stunning and most moving as you read the words. How very sad music as such is even inspired. But may you enjoy this anyway, and may you give thanks that you do not need to concern yourself with bringing home a loved one.
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The meeting focused on the geopolitical situation in the Middle East, particularly the challenges posed by Iran and the perceived lack of a coherent strategy by the United States.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar expresses concern about Iran’s ability to shift international focus away from its nuclear and missile programs to issues like Hormuz and oil shipping, arguing that this benefits Iran. He highlighted the difference between democratic countries like the United States, which are accountable to their citizens, and authoritarian regimes like Iran, which prioritize spreading influence over the welfare of their people.
Dr. Kedar warns that the West, including the United States and Israel, must unite to counter threats from Iran and similar regimes. Dan (NEWSRAEL user) and Dr. Kedar discussed the political dilemma facing President Trump, where taking a strong stance against Iran could risk his political standing in upcoming elections, creating a catch-22 situation.
The conversation also touched on the recent meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, and the need for Israel to balance its interests with those of the United States.
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A hadith in which Muhammad prescribed camel urine as medicine continues to drive the practice in some Muslim communities, prompting more than a decade of WHO warnings against it as a transmission route for the deadly MERS-CoV virus that first emerged in 2012.
In 2012, a new coronavirus surfaced in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Within a few years, epidemiologists working on the outbreak had identified the animal reservoir: dromedary camels. They had also identified one specific human behavior that spread it from camel to person. It wasn’t petting camels at a market. It was drinking their urine.
That is not a coincidence of modern hygiene habits. It is a direct continuation of a medical instruction attributed to Muhammad himself, recorded in the two most authenticated hadith collections in Sunni Islam, and still cited today, by name, as the reason people keep doing it.
What the World Health Organization Actually Said
In June 2015, as a MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus) outbreak in South Korea killed five people and infected dozens more, the World Health Organization issued a public warning. As reported by U.S. News & World Report at the time, WHO advised people to “avoid drinking raw camel milk or camel urine,” and to steer clear of close contact with camels generally, particularly in markets, farms, and barns where the virus was known to circulate.
The U.S. News piece noted, almost in passing, why this warning was necessary in the first place: “some people in Muslim countries believe drinking camel urine will cure ailments.”
This was not WHO inventing an eccentric new hygiene rule. It was public health investigators tracing a real transmission pathway back to its source, and finding that the source was a religious practice.
The warning did not expire when the 2015 outbreak faded from headlines. It is still there. WHO’s current MERS-CoV fact sheet, last updated in December 2025, a full decade after the South Korea outbreak, repeats the same instruction almost word for word: individuals at greater risk of severe disease should avoid “handling or drinking raw camel milk or camel urine, or eating meat that has not been properly cooked.” MERS-CoV has by now been reported to WHO from 27 countries, with a case fatality ratio of roughly 37 percent among confirmed cases.
The Instruction Behind the Practice
The belief that camel urine, especially mixed with camel milk, has curative properties is not folk superstition floating free of any religious source. It is anchored directly in an authenticated hadith, appearing in nearly identical form in Sahih al-Bukhari (widely regarded as the single most authoritative hadith collection in Sunni Islam) and in Sahih Muslim, the second most authoritative.
Sahih al-Bukhari 233 (Book of Ablutions), narrated by Anas ibn Malik:
“Some people of ‘Ukl or ‘Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 5686, filed under a chapter heading that leaves no ambiguity about the subject, “To treat with the urine of camels”:
“The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy.”
Sahih Muslim 1671a confirms the same event, with Muhammad specifying the animals as the camels of the sadaqa (charity/alms herd):
“Allah’s Messenger said to them: ‘If you so like, you may go to the camels of Sadaqa and drink their milk and urine.’ They did so and were all right.”
All three narrations agree on the essential fact: Muhammad personally ordered a group of sick people to drink camel urine as medicine, and it is presented as having worked. What follows in the hadith, the group’s subsequent murder of the shepherd, theft of the herd, and brutal punishment, is a separate legal episode about apostasy and banditry. It has nothing to do with the medical instruction itself, and conflating the two would blur what is actually being documented here: an authenticated prophetic recommendation to drink animal urine as a remedy.
Scholars Disagree on the Ruling, Not on the Event
It’s worth noting, in fairness, that Islamic jurisprudence is split on what this hadith means for camel urine’s ritual status. The Maliki and Hanbali schools generally hold that the urine of animals whose meat is lawful to eat, including camels, is ritually pure and therefore permissible to consume. The Shafi’i and Hanafi schools take the opposite view, treating camel urine as impure, and read the hadith’s instruction as a case of necessity (darura), a specific emergency remedy given because no other treatment was available at the time, not a general religious prescription for all Muslims at all times. Either way, the drinking of camel urine is recommended. It just depends on the circumstance.
The Belief Is Still Active, and It Is Still Killing People
The clearest evidence that this isn’t a dead historical curiosity comes from WHO’s own published research. A 2023 study in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, titled “Use of camel urine is of no benefit to cancer patients,” followed 20 Saudi cancer patients (15 men, 5 women) between September 2020 and January 2022 who refused conventional chemotherapy in favor of drinking camel urine mixed with camel milk.
Below, a 2020 video of an Iranian doctor advising drinking camel urine for Covid, and leading by example:
The study’s authors state plainly what was driving the decision: “All of the patients believed that camel urine was a religious treatment and the advice came mainly from their community.” In their discussion section, the researchers explicitly trace the belief back to the same hadith cited above, citing Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim by book and hadith number as the origin of the practice.
The results were not good. None of the 20 patients showed any clinical benefit. All had disease progression, documented by imaging and tumor markers. Two developed brucellosis, a bacterial infection contracted from animals. One of those two was treated and returned to chemotherapy; the other died of respiratory failure with clinical features the researchers say were consistent with MERS-CoV pneumonia, though no autopsy was performed to confirm it.
Eleven patients eventually changed their minds and returned to conventional treatment. Seven were too weak by then to receive further care, and died of the disease they had been trying to treat with camel urine.
The study’s conclusion does not hedge: “The promotion of camel urine as a traditional medicine should be stopped because there is no scientific evidence to support it.”
The Timeline
Put the three data points next to each other, and the pattern is hard to miss:
2012: MERS-CoV identified in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Camels confirmed as the reservoir host.
2015: WHO issues a public warning during the South Korea outbreak, explicitly naming raw camel urine and milk as a risk to avoid, with contemporary reporting noting the religious belief behind the practice.
2020-2022: Saudi cancer patients, citing religious belief, choose camel urine over chemotherapy. Two develop brucellosis. Seven die after switching back to treatment too late.
2023: WHO publishes the clinical findings, tracing the belief directly to the hadith and calling for the practice to stop.
2025: WHO’s standing MERS-CoV fact sheet still carries the same warning against raw camel urine and milk, more than a decade after the original outbreak.
This is not a single overcautious health notice from a decade ago. It is a warning that has had to remain in force, unchanged, for more than ten years, because the underlying belief driving the exposure has never gone away. That belief has a specific, identifiable, textual source, and it is not ambiguous.
Camel urine as medicine is not a slur invented by critics of Islam. It is an authenticated instruction from Muhammad, preserved in Bukhari and Muslim. People still follow it today. Global health authorities are still investigating it. And according to the WHO’s own published research, it is still costing lives.
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This is simply amazing. The FBI has told a federal court that, at a rate of 500 pages a month, processing records from the “hidden room” at FBI Headquarters would take approximately 158 years.
The room — now dubbed the “burn bag room” — holds over 2 million pages of records, according to the FBI’s own filing. Then-Deputy Director Bongino said in May 2025 that some of the records were found stashed “in bags.”
In the filing, weasked the court to allow it to question the FBI, through a limited deposition, about its handling of the records — including who discovered the room and when, who had access to it, its security classification, how records ended up stored in file cabinets, safes, boxes, and burn bags, what the FBI has done to bring them under standard records management, and whether the records were ever searched in response to other FOIA requests.
The FBI reports that it has yet to access a safe believed to contain records. The agency alsoalleges that “it will take approximately 158 years to process at a rate of 500 pages a month.”
The FBI opposes the request for discovery. A status conference is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich on August 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Our 2025 complaint sought all records in the room, which it described as “[a]ll documents referenced by Deputy Director Dan Bongino” concerning a room at FBI Headquarters, as well as internal FBI communications among officials in the offices of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Bongino about the discovery of the documents, and any directives issued on how the records should be handled. The FBI currently says it has no records responsive to the Patel/Bongino communications and directives categories. The plaintiff is challenging the government’s search for these records as well.
In a Fox News interview on May 29, 2025, then-FBI Deputy Director Bongino disclosed the room’s existence, stating:
“There was a room [in FBI Headquarters], and we found stuff. A lot of stuff … hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us. And then found stuff in there. A lot is from the Comey era. We are working … right now to declassify. And just so you know, because I get the public—I totally understand people saying ‘well do it now.’ The process is: not all of the information is ours to declassify. Some is other intelligence agencies’…. We literally can’t do it. Once that gets done … and you read some of the stuff we found—that, by the way, was not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing and putting in FBI records. We found it in bags, hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI. You’re going to be stunned.”
We previouslyuncovered that the room is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) containing several safes—now identified as twenty file cabinets—holding between roughly 950,000 and 1,900,000 pages of records, split into two categories: “legacy files,” older records mostly tied to two closed historical investigations and more recent files tied to active investigations and prior Special Counsel records, reportedly including material connected to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
American citizens should be outraged that the FBI just told a federal court judge that its stonewalling means it will take 158 years to release the 2 million weaponization and lawfare records in its secret ‘burn bag’ room. The American people need to know today how the FBI was used as a political weapon against Donald Trump and other innocents.
This is the latest in a series of Judicial Watch investigations targeting shady FBI weaponization and abuse of power.
In August 2019, we uncovered “302”report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, who was removed from his position as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General in December 2017.
In March 2019, wereceived heavily redacted records from the Justice Department that reveal that Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steelewas terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.
In December 2018, weuncovered U.S. State Department documents showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN). We obtained the documents through a FOIA lawsuit for records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Cardin.
In August 2018, we announced that in response to a ourFOIA lawsuit, the Justice Department admitted in acourt filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.
Also in August, we forced therelease ofheavily redacted records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents also show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unknown reasons in February 2016.
In July 2018, we releaseddocuments about FISA warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser.
Virginia Removes 6,531 Declared Noncitizen Registrations from Voter Rolls
Records from the Virginia Department of Elections show the commonwealth cancelled 6,531 “declared noncitizen” voter registrations between June 2024 and June 2026 after we launched an inquiry.
The Virginia Department of Elections produced records in response to the below June 2026 Judicial Watch request:
Pursuant to Section 8(i) of the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), Judicial Watch, Inc. respectfully requests from your office all pertinent records in the past two years concerning “the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency” of the Virginia official list of eligible voters. Specifically, Judicial Watch requests the following:
1. All records concerning the names and addresses of registrants removed from the official list of eligible voters pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427(B)(iii) and Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427.
2. All records concerning all voter registrations that may not to be United States citizens by reason of reports from the Department of Motor Vehicles or from the Department of Elections based on information received from the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program).
3. All ERIC reports, data, match lists, or other records received from or related to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) system concerning potential voter deaths, change-of-address notifications, or other eligibility issues (including any associated processing, verification, or removal actions taken by the Department of Elections in response to such ERIC reports).
No voting histories were produced for the cancelled declared noncitizen registrations.
According to an April 2026, Virginia Attorney General letter:
DMV [Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles] creates a list of “all persons who have indicated a noncitizen status” when applying for or renewing a license, or identification document. In practice, DMV compiles a list of any individual who checks “no” in response to the question “Are you a citizen?” in an online portal. There are reports that this method has resulted in flagging eligible citizens due to inadvertent user error. DMV furnishes this list of self-attested noncitizens to ELECT daily. ELECT then electronically matches the DMV list against the voter registration list, and transmits, for each match, information from the DMV list to the appropriate registrar. After independently confirming that the individual flagged by DMV matches a voter registration record, registrars must send a notice of intent to cancel, allowing the person 14 days to submit a sworn statement confirming citizenship. If the person does not respond and confirm their citizenship, the registrar must cancel their registration. For clarity, in this opinion, this second program is called “Self-Attestation Removals.”
Also in April 2026, Virginia entered into a settlement with leftist groups in which Virginia agreed to pause the program to remove declared noncitizens from voting rolls for the 90-day period before federal elections. (The Attorney General letter cited above confirms this new policy.)
A federal law –18 U.S.C. § 1015(f) — makes it a crime to knowingly make a false claim of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote or vote in any federal, state, or local election. 18 U.S.C. § 611 — is the direct prohibition on aliens voting in any election for federal office.
It is disturbing beyond belief that as many as 6,531 noncitizens were registered to vote in Virginia. We are demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, especially as Virginia is set to stop removing declared noncitizens from the rolls in the run-up to the November election. These Virginia numbers show that the New Jersey noncitizen voter scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and is a national crisis.
We are a national leader in election integrity and voting rights litigation, with a record of successful lawsuits enforcing constitutional redistricting standards and cleaning voter rolls nationwide.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced its intention to file a motion to intervene in our federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a California political candidate and a state political party against the State of California due to its failure to maintain accurate voter rolls as required by the NVRA.
A federal court in Illinois ruled that our lawsuit to force the cleaning of voter rolls may proceed in that state.
In January 2026, in a historic case we filed, the Supreme Court decided 7-2 in favor of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.
Judicial Watch Sues FBI for 30 Million Transferred January 6 Phone Records
The infamous House January 6 Select Committee didn’t target just President Donald Trump. Republican senators were also dragged into scandal.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning the committee’s transfer of approximately 30 million lines of telephone toll data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of Justice(No. 1:26-cv-02557)).
We sued after the FBI failed to comply with an October 2025 FOIA request for:
Communications of former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Denver Riggleman (R-VA) with FBI officials regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data.
All FBI records and internal communications regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data collected by the House January 6 Committee.
In February 2022, the FBI opened “Arctic Frost,” an investigation into alleged efforts by Trump campaign associates to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 election. The probe aggressively targeted dozens of GOP officials and organizations before closing in January 2025.
A December 2023 FBI FD-302 interview summary reveals that Kinzinger proactively offered the January 6 Committee’s massive database to the FBI. The summary states:
Kinzinger stated the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol (the “Select Committee”) collected and linked a substantial amount of telephone data, and noted the FBI may already possess such data. While former Congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee, he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information, including for White House “root” or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena. Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself, but that Riggleman had identified certain telephonic connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals….
Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data. Kinzinger believed it was in an electronic format, but did not know if it was the original [redacted] returns.
In October 2025, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported that “the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for ‘tolling data’ as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted. The Arctic Frost investigation formed the basis of [Special Counsel] Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump.”
The FBI must stop concealing the truth. Thirty million lines of Americans’ phone records weaponized by a partisan committee and federal investigators against President Trump and his supporters represents one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern history. The American people deserve every record — no more stonewalling.
We have conducted a massive, independent investigation into the events of January 6.
On July 6, 2026, the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released to us over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage in 1,627 videos from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event. The videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC FOIA lawsuit. The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website here.
In August 2025, we announced that the U.S. Air Force would finally provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Babbitt was the only official January 6 homicide victim. The Biden administration had previously denied Babbitt and her family these honors in retaliation for being at the U.S. Capitol that day. This decision came on the heels of a massive, nearly $5 million Trump administration settlement to her family for wrongful death and other claims against the U.S. Government.
In July 2025, we sued the Justice Department for records on accelerated January 6 prosecutions after Trump was elected president in November 2024. The Biden administration, anticipating President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue pardons for January 6, 2021, defendants, is believed to have accelerated prosecutions in the final months of Biden’s term.
In March 2024, we received Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records from the Justice Department in a FOIA lawsuit that showed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
In October 2023, we received the declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.
Judicial Watch Sues for Robert Mueller Records
The American people deserve a full accounting of Robert Mueller’s record—from the FBI’s dramatic expansion of surveillance powers after September 11 to the abusive special counsel investigation targeting President Trump. The Justice Department should immediately release every record concerning Mueller so Americans can judge his work for themselves.
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) failed to respond to a March 24, 2026, FOIA request seeking:
All records in any form related to the former FBI Director, Robert Swan Mueller, III, born on August 7, 1944, in New York City, NY, who died on March 20, 2026.
Mueller served as FBI director from September 2001 to September 2013. During his tenure, the FBI significantly expanded its domestic surveillance authorities. Among other powers, the bureau made extensive use of expanded authorities under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, including National Security Letters, which allowed the FBI to compel the production of financial, telecommunications and internet records without prior judicial approval while often prohibiting recipients from disclosing the requests.
Three years after Mueller left the FBI, the bureau launched “Crossfire Hurricane,” also known as “Russiagate,” into allegations of links between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 to continue the investigation. Mueller served in that role until March 2019.
Mueller’s investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
In May 2023, Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI failed to uphold its mission of “strict fidelity to the law” when pursuing Crossfire Hurricane and found that the bureau lacked sufficiently corroborated information to justify opening a full investigation.
In March 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum, calling for the immediate declassification of materials “related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.”
We have pursued dozens of FOIA lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump and his associates.
In October 2020, we uncovered emails between former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who joined the Mueller team in 2017, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page showing that Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange server had to recreate multiple meetings that were “missing” from Page’s initial calendar entries. These missing meetings included the subjects “Going Dark Strategy Meeting,” “Twitter” and “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In September 2020, we received Justice Department records showing that senior members of Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-02693)).
Also in September 2020, we uncovered Justice Department records that included a May 2017 email documenting that Mueller informed the attorney general’s office he was withdrawing from consideration for FBI director. The email raised questions about Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in July 2019, when he said a May 2017 interview with Trump was “not about me applying for the job” as FBI director (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In July 2020, we uncovered emails showing that Strzok, Page and other top FBI officials in the days before and after Trump’s 2017 inauguration discussed a White House counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s “investigative strategy” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In February 2020, we made public Strzok-Page emails showing direct involvement in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane. The records also showed additional “confirmed classified emails” were found on Clinton’s unsecured non-state.gov email server “beyond the number presented” in then-FBI Director James Comey’s statements; Strzok and Page questioned the access the Justice Department was granting Clinton’s lawyers; and Page revealed that the Justice Department was making edits to FBI FD-302 reports related to the Clinton Midyear Exam investigation. The emails also detail a discussion about “squashing” an issue related to the Seth Rich controversy (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In February 2020, we uncovered Rosenstein’s communications with former Obama officials, such as Eric Holder, as well as information sharing with the media in the days immediately surrounding the inception of the Mueller investigation (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In October 2019, we released Rosenstein’s communications that included a one-line email to Mueller stating, “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions,” and “off the record” emails with major media outlets around the date of Mueller’s appointment. In May 2017, Rosenstein had written a memo to President Trump recommending that FBI Director James Comey be fired. That day, Trump fired Comey. Three days later, on May 12, Rosenstein sent the email assuring Mueller that Trump and his staff were not included in their “discussions” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In May 2019, we released Justice Department records containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he led the hiring effort for the special counsel team. Weissmann was formerly the Obama-era chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01356)).
In July 2018, we received FBI records concerning the assignment of Strzok to Mueller’s operation, showing that Strzok insisted on retaining his FBI security clearance, declassification and other authorities before moving to the Mueller team (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:17-cv-02682)). Strzok was removed from the Mueller investigative team in July 2017, with the move becoming public in August. He was reassigned to a human resources position.
SPLC’s Radical Curriculum Used to Train Educators Across U.S.
Do you know what they’re teaching your children? Do you know what they’re teaching your children’s future teachers? Our Corruption Chronicles blog has a disturbing report.
The leftwing ideology deeply embedded in the American public education system is being fortified with the incorporation of a radical “Learning for Justice” curriculum—often funded with taxpayer dollars—in colleges across the country that are training future teachers, assuring that the indoctrination continues for generations to come. A new report published by an education nonprofit reveals that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a controversial leftist group that slanders conservative organizations in an interactive “Hate Map”, created the program lessons, resources and Social Justice Standards (SJS) in the educator training classes at Colleges of Education (COE) across the country. In some cases, federal grants pay for the biased teacher training that blends social justice standards into virtually all lessons.
The outrageous Learning for Justice curriculum is used to train future educators in 38 states plus the District of Columbia and at least 100 COEs nationwide utilize it, according to the probe conducted by the nonprofit Defending Education. The Virginia-based group confirms that the COEs that have adopted the SPLC’s material are responsible for preparing K-12 classroom teachers as well as the continuing education of present teachers and administrators, which means they play a major role in what content, materials, best practices and perspectives shape the educators. “This report also examines academic journal articles, doctoral dissertations, and master’s theses to provide additional insight into how SPLC materials and Social Justice Standards are incorporated into Colleges of Education, teacher preparation programs, and K-12 classrooms,” reads the report published by the charity that aims for the reestablishment of a quality, non-political education for all students. “Importantly, few COEs outwardly acknowledge their use of SPLC materials; instead, many COEs hide their usage and promotion behind faculty login pages.”
Among the cases outlined in the report is a $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for a venture between Northern Arizona University and the Flagstaff Unified School District that incorporates Learning for Justice’s SJS into its computer science curriculum. In another example, the Department of Education gave a California graduate program $3.3 million to “develop and cultivate educators-in-training” with “social justice teaching ideas and practices,” including “Social Justice Standards from Teaching Tolerance.” The University of Maryland College of Education’s master’s for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers features a key theme of “Equity, Access, and Anti-bias Education” that integrates social justice standards and critical practices from the SPLC’s Learning for Justice into its programs. The entire Maryland State Department of Education also incorporates Social Justice Standards into its regulations governing new teacher induction programming run by school districts. The University of Michigan’s education program is centered on a “more just and equitable elementary science teaching” that draws from Learning for Justice and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania forces future educators to complete a special “teaching tolerance module” to fulfill a requirement of developing an understanding of diversity.
The list of examples goes on and on, with colleges in California, Oregon, Washington State, Massachusetts and Virginia using the discriminatory SPLC material. Even top public universities in Republican states have adopted it and mandate it in educator training courses. The University of Florida’s College of Education has a required course called “Equity Pedagogy Foundations” that aims to define educational equity by exploring the foundational concepts of race, class, ability and sexuality as they impact children in schools. Florida Atlantic University trains future teachers with courses such as “Introduction to Diversity for Educators, Equity Issues in Multicultural Education and Education in Multicultural Society.” The University of North Texas makes future educators take an advanced teaching course that features required readings from Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. The University of Kansas incorporates the SPLC’s “importance of multicultural education” in all teacher programs and Western Kentucky University mandates a diversity in the classroom course that requires students to read a book called “There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom.”
This latest report on the SPLC’s enormous influence in training the nation’s educators comes on the heels of an equally disturbing investigation that revealed the leftwing group has received millions of taxpayer dollars to spread its hateful message and materials across the United States, including in public schools. The money came from states, cities, counties, universities, school districts, and other public entities to help fulfill the SPLC’s stated mission of “dismantling white supremacy” and “creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s words are coming back to haunt him after resurfaced comments from a 2022 interview with CNN showed a complete 180 on his attitude toward testifying before Congress. “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee,” Fauci told CNN in 2022.
Fauci, under his lawyers’ guidance, did not answer a single question from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., or others on the committee about his COVID-19 pandemic response or gain-of-function research, instead invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times. “I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done… I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all,” he added in the CNN interview roughly four years ago.
Fauci argued during Wednesday’s hearing that Paul, who recently released more than 1,000 pages of his personal diary entries, has an “obvious obsession” with pushing for his prosecution. He said the diary release was designed to “get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote.”
“Although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government, and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,” Fauci told the Senate committee before invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times.
Meanwhile, Rand Paul, who has spearheaded the investigation of Fauci, is looking to challenge whether the COVID leader was legally justified in pleading the Fifth Amendment, given that he is a recipient of a presidential pardon. “The legal question is, if you’re pardoned, can you really claim the Fifth?” he said on “The Will Cain Show” on Wednesday. “The Fifth Amendment is to claim immunity from self-incrimination. But if you’ve already been given immunity, you can’t self-incriminate unless you lie.”
Paul is seeking a vote to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former public health official pleaded the Fifth 111 times at Wednesday’s contentious congressional hearing.
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Election integrity, fairness, fraud are all still very active discussions across America since the discovery in November 2020 that very serious violations of election integrity were discovered.
My guest on this episode is Arizona State Senator Mark Finchem who also is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Election Fairness Institute.
Our conversation is to continue and expose serious issues with our elections, as well as why the Elites do not want Donald Trump around anymore, actually, they never did want him around but thought they had it taken care of in November 2020.
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Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress as he faces allegations of sexual assault and other misconduct from several women.
“I am aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members,” he said in a statement. “Expelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong. But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress.”
Swalwell’s political career imploded as multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, including rape and unsolicited explicit messages and nude photos. The congressman ended his campaign for California governor on Sunday as he hemorrhaged support.
A former staffer told CNN that she was heavily intoxicated after a night of drinking with Swalwell in New York City in April 2024, when she woke up to him having sex with her in his hotel bed. I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.” She was one of four women who described t misconduct by Swalwell, who was running for California governor. Others alleged that Swalwell sent them unsolicited nude photos or explicit messages.
In his resignation announcement, Swalwell again apologized for past “mistakes in judgment,” but vowed to fight the “serious, false allegation.” The statement seemingly referred to the claims made by a former staffer, whose story was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday.
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The U.S. restarted a blockade on Iranian ports Tuesday afternoon and launched dozens of additional strikes on Iran, marking the fourth consecutive night of attacks.
President Trump said it will get “really bad” next week, with strikes on Iranian bridges and power plants, if Iran doesn’t cut a deal.
Mr. Trump said he “decided to replace” a planned 20% fee on cargo through the Strait of Hormuz with trade and investment deals from Gulf states, after shipping industry experts balked at the fee. Iran has not ruled out charging its own tolls for use of the Strait of Hormuz, and has threatened ships that sail through the waterway without its permission.
The price of crude oil has shot up over the last two days as U.S.-Iran fighting resumes, including Iranian attacks on cargo ships.
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House Republicans have launched a formal investigation into California’s prisoner-issued digital tablet program, requesting extensive records from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) administration over concerns tied to federal grant funding and alleged misuse of devices inside state correctional facilities.
The inquiry is focused on whether taxpayer-backed funds connected to rehabilitation efforts were used to support a program now facing serious allegations involving inmate activity behind bars.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), along with Task Force Chairman Brandon Gill (R-TX) and Subcommittee Chairman Tim Burchett (R-TN), sent a letter Tuesday seeking documents, internal communications, and funding records tied to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) tablet initiative and the California Board of State and Community Corrections’ handling of federal grants.
Lawmakers are specifically examining whether U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs helped finance or expand the system.
“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is conducting oversight of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) prisoner digital tablet program and the administration of federal grant funds by the California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC),” the lawmakers wrote.
Lawmakers are specifically examining whether U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs helped finance or expand the system.
“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is conducting oversight of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) prisoner digital tablet program and the administration of federal grant funds by the California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC),” the lawmakers wrote.
The committee’s letter points to recent reporting alleging that inmates have used state-issued tablets to access, distribute, and in some cases produce pornographic material, with additional claims that some activity has involved attempts to target women and minors.
Lawmakers argue those allegations raise concerns about whether federal dollars intended for rehabilitation and crime reduction are being adequately safeguarded.
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Some say the left oppose Donald Trump for several core reasons, including his challenges to traditional political norms, his legal issues, and his polarizing communication style.
Many also disagree with his policy goals and his approach to foreign and domestic affairs.
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