The Paper Trail: February 24, 2026
Lawsuit Alleges DHS Illegally Tracking Observers; Second U.S. Attorney Picked by Judges Abruptly Fired; DOJ Scrubs Trump Accuser from Epstein Files; And More.
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Lawsuit Alleges DHS Illegally Tracking Observers; Second U.S. Attorney Picked by Judges Abruptly Fired; DOJ Scrubs Trump Accuser from Epstein Files; And More.
RFK Jr.’s Broken Promises; ICE’s Expansion Plans; Bondi Confirms Secret Domestic Terrorist List; And More.
Notable Names in the Epstein Files; U.S. 250th Birthday Org Sells Access to Trump; Thousands of Federal Datasets are Gone; And More.
ICE’s Arsenal of Tracking Tools; Firms Tied to Bribery Running Venezuela Oil Sales; DOE Secretly Guts Nuclear Safety Rules; And More.
ICE Claims Broad Power to Enter Homes; DOGE Members Face Hatch Act Referrals; How Trump Made $1.4 Billion as President; And More.
Trump’s Mandate to Protect Killer ICE Agents; X Hasn’t Fixed Grok Sexualized Image Problem; Find Out Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made; And More.
U.S. Invades Venezuela;
Dozens of Pardoned J6-ers Have Reoffended;
DOGE Disrupted So Much, Saved So Little;
And More.
Follow-Up Strike in Caribbean a War Crime?; Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House; Trump-Connected Nuclear Start-Ups Cash In; And More.
Military Oaths and Unlawful Orders; FBI Chief Under Scrutiny for Spending; Private Equity Paywalling Youth Sports; And More.
Shutdown Ends, U.S. Aviation Problems Persist; Bondi Heeds Trump Call to Probe Dems’ Ties to Epstein; Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Reaps DHS Contract Bonanza; And More.
ICE, Border Patrol Violate Policing Norms; More Trump Ballroom Funders ID'd; U.S. Forest Service Eschews Firefighter Precautions; And More.
The War on “Narcoterrorists” Escalates; Trump’s Ballroom Blitz; CDC Shake-Up: Reform or Revenge?; And More.
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