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David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist, faces up to ten years in prison for allegedly touching a piece of liner at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — a pool that was already peeling and turning green before anyone was arrested. Bam Rather walks through the court filings, the press-conference contradictions, and the missing photographic evidence at the center of a 14-million-dollar renovati...

In full uniform on the Capitol steps, Air Force Major Jason Watson called for the impeachment and removal of the President and Vice President — and then waited to be arrested. The D.C. misdemeanor charge was almost incidental; the real stakes are a UCMJ investigation that could cost him a twenty-year career. Grep News walks through the statute, the planning, and the one decision that now determine...

Days after the federal government quietly blocked OpenAI's newest model on undisclosed national-security grounds, CEO Sam Altman reportedly offered the U.S. a five percent equity stake worth roughly forty-two billion dollars. Grep News examines the sequence of events, the competing visions for public ownership of AI, and the conflict-of-interest no one in the coverage is naming.

Iran's national soccer team opened the 2026 World Cup on Monday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood — flying in from a Tijuana training base because the country they represent has been at war with the country hosting the tournament since February. Outside the gates, a 21-year-old protester laid the Islamic Republic's flag on the pavement for people to walk on, because a California judge had just ruled it...

For his 80th birthday, Donald Trump staged UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn — seven cage fights under a 92-foot steel structure, the first major professional sporting event ever held at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The National Park Service's own court filing puts the cost at over $60 million in public resources across seven federal agencies, while the last-minute headline sponsor was Wo...

Someone etched "8647" into the grass on the west lawn of the Washington Monument, large enough to see only from the air, and the federal government responded with Park Police investigators, grass samples, and reportedly the National Guard. The symbol sits at the center of a live legal contradiction: a federal judge ruled eleven days ago that "8647" is constitutionally protected political speech ad...

Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein's executive assistant for 18 years, told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that Epstein was a "master manipulator" who kept his crimes hidden from her — even as Democratic members said she confirmed arranging phone calls between Epstein and Donald Trump before his presidency, and even as survivor Marina Lacerda testified that Groff called her so often she dropp...

UFC Freedom 250 is scheduled for June 14, 2026 — Flag Day, Trump's 80th birthday, a Sunday — when an 87-foot privately financed arena will go up on the White House South Lawn for the first professional sporting event ever held there, paywalled on Paramount+ for $8.99 a month. A federal lawsuit filed by two Virginia residents argues the $60 million buildout violates federal monument law, and the ca...

Speaker Mike Johnson tried to kill this vote two weeks ago by sending the House home early for recess. It didn't work: on Wednesday, four Republicans crossed over and the House passed a war powers resolution 215–208 directing Trump to end U.S. military action against Iran, the first time either chamber has formally voted to constrain the now three-month-old war. The resolution is likely headed for...

Seven of nine acts dropped out of Freedom 250's Great American State Fair lineup within 48 hours of it being announced — most saying they'd been assured the event was nonpartisan and discovered it wasn't. Trump responded by mocking the artists on Truth Social for having "the yips" and volunteering himself as the replacement headliner, which Freedom 250 confirmed within hours. The story of America'...

Epstein survivors stood outside a government building and screamed two words at the fired Attorney General walking past them: tell the truth. Pam Bondi just finished a closed-door deposition where the DOJ sent two of its own lawyers to sit beside her, the redactions they released protected the wrong people, and roughly three million pages are still locked inside the building. The one question nobo...

Blue Origin's brand new booster literally exploded on the launchpad during a pre-launch rehearsal, taking the pad itself with it -- and the damage is reportedly so bad that the company probably won't fly again until next year at the earliest. This wasn't just a bad night: it's the second consecutive New Glenn failure, NASA's Moon lander timeline just took a serious hit, and Amazon's 3,200-satellit...

Pope Leo XIV just dropped a 200-page encyclical that declared autonomous weapons morally impermissible, retired 1,700 years of just war doctrine, and buried the first-ever institutional Church apology for legally authorizing the transatlantic slave trade — all in the same document being marketed as the Vatican's AI manifesto. The slavery apology is not a footnote: Leo is arguing that cobalt mines,...

Trump posted that Maryland's Democratic governor rigged a primary by sending out 500,000 illegal ballots — except the governor doesn't run elections in Maryland, the mix-up was a printing vendor's mistake, and the two parties don't even compete against each other in the same primary, making fraud structurally impossible. The real story isn't the post itself — it's that after a year of election exe...

Trump sued the federal government over a tax return leak, his own Justice Department settled the case, and the result is a 1.776 billion dollar fund — administered by commissioners appointed by his former personal attorney — that pardoned January 6th rioters are already lining up to collect from. The officers who were beaten in that Capitol tunnel just filed suit to kill it, arguing a president li...

Bill Cassidy just lost his Senate seat specifically because he voted to convict Trump over January 6th, spent nearly 22 million dollars trying to survive it, and still came in third. His first move back in the Capitol was to flag a 1.8 billion dollar federal fund, created through a Trump IRS lawsuit settlement, that could end up cutting checks to the people who stormed the building that cost him h...

Trump just told reporters he's still deciding whether to move forward on 25 billion dollars in Taiwan arms sales — after sitting alone with Xi Jinping for three hours inside Zhongnanhai. That posture alone may have already violated a 44-year-old U.S. policy document written specifically to stop Beijing from getting any say in what weapons Washington sells Taipei. One administrative act — whether t...

Iran's new Supreme Leader hasn't been seen in public in two months, his own president had to go on state TV just to confirm he's alive, and right now the U.S. is negotiating the end of an active war with him through two separate middlemen carrying a single one-page document with the dollar amounts still blank. The military operation meant to force open the Strait of Hormuz collapsed in 48 hours af...

The UAW president is quietly engineering what could be the first general strike in 80 years by aligning major union contract expirations to a single date: May 1, 2028. Today's 3,500 May Day events, the school closures, the Amazon march, the bridge blockades, were not the protest, they were the dress rehearsal, what organizers are literally calling a structure test. The thing to watch is not the ra...

Pete Hegseth literally told Congress under oath that Iran's nuclear facilities were already obliterated from last summer's strikes, then had to sit there while lawmakers pointed out that the entire justification for the new war, which started just sixty days ago, was a threat his own administration said it already destroyed. The official cost is twenty-five billion, but analysts say that number ca...

The Senate just voted at 3:36 a.m. to give ICE and Border Patrol up to 70 billion dollars for the next three and a half years using reconciliation—a budget trick that bypasses the filibuster and skips the normal appropriations process where Congress reviews agencies every year. This is the first time anyone's used reconciliation to replace annual funding with multi-year autopilot money, and it set...

Trump just issued shoot-and-kill orders for Iranian boats allegedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz—where 20% of the world's oil passes through—but there's zero photographic proof mines are actually being deployed. The U.S. claims no ship has evaded its blockade while intelligence reports show eleven Iranian tankers slipping through since April 13th, because choking off that much oil would cr...

At least ten American scientists working on nuclear weapons and advanced aerospace research have vanished or died under mysterious circumstances since last July, and the White House only acknowledged it in mid-April saying they'll "look into it." Multiple researchers left their homes on foot without phones or wallets and never came back—Anthony Chavez walked out leaving his car locked with everyth...

The U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican skipped Pope Leo XIV's peace vigil while Trump posted—then deleted—an image of himself as Christ and called the first American pope in history weak and captive to the Radical Left. This is the first time an American president has openly gone to war with an American pope, and it's happening while the U.S. bombs Iran and Catholic voters are starting to split betwee...

Four astronauts are hurtling back to Earth right now after flying farther from home than anyone since 1970, and they've been doing it with a broken toilet for ten days. Tomorrow afternoon they splash down in the Pacific after looping around the Moon on Artemis II—the first crewed lunar mission in over fifty years—but NASA just cancelled two critical safety tests mid-flight and nobody's explaining...