The Paper Trail

Trump Denies Disaster Aid for D States; Therapists Blame Kalshi for Gambling Addiction; Who’s Behind the $3.47-Gallon Gas Stations?

Trump’s Massive Crypto Windfall; SCOTUS’s Troubling Milestone; Freedom 250 Donors Allegedly Cheated

New Intel Chief Begins Mass Firings at ODNI; Kash Patel Accused of Loyalist “Slush Fund”; The Unrelenting Sound of the AI Boom

Trump Weighed Suspending Habeas for Immigrants;
DOD Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Trafficking Victims;
World Cup Fans—You’re Being Watched;
And More.

8,000 Federal Employees are Now “Schedule Effed”;
White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Grantees;
Jan. 6 Rioter Appointed to Sensitive Government Job;
And More.

Trump’s Opportunistic Stock Trades; DOJ Goes After E. Jean Carroll; Justice Alito’s Son Quietly Holds Senior Treasury Post; And More.

Trump Escapes $100M Tax Penalty;
The Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms
The Ubiquity of Gambling in Televised Sports;
And More.

CIA Escalates Secret War on Mexican Cartels; Trump Considering 250 Pardons to Mark U.S. Birthday; Golden Dome Estimated to Cost $1.2 Trillion; And More.

Comey Prosecution Roils DOJ; Congress’s Sexual Harassment Slush Fund; Kash Patel’s Personalized Booze; And More.

America’s New Surveillance Dragnet; Comey Indicted for Seashell Photo; Trump’s New Crypto Club; And More.

K Street Cashes in on Venezuelan Oil; SCOTUS Shadow Docket: The Inside Story; Taxpayers on the Hook for Swalwell Pension; And More.