The pardon of the former Binance CEO came nearly a week after President Trump commuted the 87-month prison sentence of former New York Rep. George Santos.

U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr., said the suspects allegedly used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from secretly rigged underground poker games.

Days after advocates said they witnessed children who were zip tied at a law enforcement raid on Sunday in southwest Idaho, federal law enforcement agencies denied that claim. At 3:34 p.m. Wednesday, Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Sandra Yi Barker told the Idaho Capital Sun in a written statement that “Reports suggesting children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets during the October 19 FBI-led operation in Wilder are completely false.” But less than an hour after denying any kids were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets at the raid, the FBI clarified that no “young” children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets. At 4:18 p.m., Barker released an updated statement adding “young” before the word “children.” “Reports suggesting young children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets during the October 19 FBI-led operation in Wilder are completely false,” the updated statement read. KIVI-TV first reported on the FBI’s modified statement, saying the FBI’s update came after the news outlet sent the FBI a photo reportedly of a 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

A Calgary dog named Phoebe fetched more than laughs after she became Alberta’s newest—and most unlikely—certified bartender. Phoebe, a nine-year-old pug owned by Calgary resident Darcy Chalifoux, successfully obtained a valid provincial ProServe certification—the mandatory training required to legally serve alcohol in Alberta. In the past, she has also passed the online portion of a defensive driving course through the Alberta Motor Association (AMA).

Selling the lies of the Iraq War took months. With Trump and Venezuela, there’s no pretense of anything other than regime change.

Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test. More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

The country was previously one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

SNAP serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans.

New York City taxi riders are now served conservative news segments during their trips.

The president has called for indictments of some of his political enemies.

The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate said he didn’t know the meaning of the skull tattoo, which he got in 2007 while on leave in Croatia during his time in the Marines. He plans to get it…

Across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride.

Embattled GOP group failed to fully pay bills for three-course steak dinner, luncheon and open bars at Syracuse hotel.

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO. Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers, according to the chat. “MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, according to the chat. “Jesus Christ,” one participant responded.

Earlier this week, a bombshell analysis by Consumer Reports found that popular meal replacement drinks — a long-time favorite of tech bros — contain more lead in a single serving than a healthy adult should eat in a day.

Every day in downtown Manhattan immigrants arriving for routine hearings are targeted by ICE agents and taken from their families.

An electronic eye implant has restored vision in people with blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration.

The Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.