POCKET OF RESISTANCE: The Justice Department filed motions to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams following the resignation of a seventh prosecutor who refused orders to do the same.   The federal prosecutors have become a pocket of resistance …

RESIGNED TO IT: In a rare case of resistance to the new Trump administration, the  interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York and five officials with the federal public integrity unit resigned after being ordered by the Justice Department …

JUST ONE CALL: President Trump got on the phone yesterday with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in his first effort since returning to the White House to end the Russian war on Ukraine. Despite Trump’s many campaign promises that he could end the …

TRANSPARANTLY OPAQUE: Shortly before appearing with his chief cost-cutter in the Oval Office, Donald Trump signed an executive order for agency executives to draw plans for massive staff cuts and giving Tesla billionaire Elon Musk greater authority over the federal workforce. …

CLASH OF POWERS:  In what is shaping up to be Donald Trump’s first clash with the judiciary over the executive powers of the presidency, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the White House has defied his order to release billions …

THE EMPIRE STRUCK DOWN: The Philadelphia Eagles crushed the Kansas City dream of a record third-straight Super Bowl win, dominating the two-time winners by a score of 40-22. It was even worse than the score looks. It was 34-0 before the Chiefs …

SHUTTING DOWN AND PURGING: The FBI handed over a list of as many as 5,000 agents who worked on the January 6th investigations, bowing to a demand by senior Justice official Emil Bove, who used to be one of President Trump’s defense …

POLITICAL PURGE: The Justice Department fired at least a dozen prosecutors who worked on the January 6th insurrection cases and is considering going after the FBI agents who worked on the same.   President Trump is wiping out the people he perceives to …

LOSS AND BLAME: A 16-year-old ice skater who had landed a triple axel on Tuesday morning in Wichita was killed in Tuesday night’s air crash in Washington. Cory Haynos from Northern Virginia was one of several up and coming skaters who died …

BLACKHAWK DOWN: An American Eagle passenger jet with 64 people on board collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter last night, sending both plunging into the Potomac River near Reagan International Airport in Washington. No survivors have been found and responders have …