They’re silencing the investigators and giving top secret intelligence to Trump’s campaign lawyer.
The nation’s top spy told a whistleblower’s attorney he has no legal right to brief Congress about a classified complaint her office blocked for eight months. DHS’ Kristi Noem demanded a full list of every open investigation into her agency, then sent “reminder” emails about a never-used power that lets her kill them. And a lawyer who was sanctioned by a federal judge for making false claims about the 2020 election is now reviewing classified material inside the CIA, NSA, and other agencies, calling the president directly whenever anyone pushes back.
The people whose job is to find the truth are being threatened into silence. The people whose job is to confirm a lie are being handed everything they ask for.
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Trump threatens to block the Gordie Howe International Bridge from opening between Windsor and Detroit, falsely claiming Canada owns both sides of a project the U.S. approved during his first term.
Source: CTV News
February 9, 2026
Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again PAC pledges $1 million to defeat Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy in a Louisiana Republican primary, backing a Trump-endorsed congresswoman.
Source: The New York Times [gift link]
February 9, 2026
Trump administration moves to cut $600 million in CDC-administered public health funding from California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota, calling grants for HIV prevention and disease outbreak management "inconsistent with agency priorities."
Source: The Spokane Spokesman-Review
February 9, 2026
Trump administration's yearlong retreat from consumer enforcement at the CFPB cost Americans an estimated $19 billion in financial relief, including dropped lawsuits against Capital One and Zelle.
Source: The Associated Press
February 9, 2026
Army civilians who worked during the government shutdown were told to record their timesheets as furlough days, in what employees say violates the Anti-Deficiency Act and forced them to falsify federal records.
Source: Government Executive
February 9, 2026
U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean, the eighth vessel seized under Trump's naval blockade that Congress has not authorized.
Source: Deutsche Welle
February 9, 2026
U.S. military killed two people and left one survivor in its latest strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific, bringing the total killed to at least 130 in 38 strikes since September.
Source: RTE
February 9, 2026
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's office told a whistleblower's attorney he has no legal right to brief Congress about a classified complaint.
Source: NBC News
February 9, 2026
Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to dismiss Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction for defying a House subpoena to testify about the Capitol attack, after he already served his four-month sentence.
Source: USA Today
February 9, 2026
Appeals court rules the government can move forward with deporting more than 60,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, overriding a judge who found the decision was racially motivated and "preordained."
Source: Courthouse News Service
February 9, 2026
Federal judge blocks California's mask ban for immigration officers because it excluded state police, but upholds visible badge requirement for all non-uniformed law enforcement.
Source: The San Bernadino Sun
February 9, 2026
Federal officials denied seeking to expedite deportation of the Minneapolis family whose 5-year-old son Liam was photographed surrounded by immigration officers, after their lawyer called the proceedings "extraordinary" and possibly "retaliatory."
Source: The Associated Press
February 9, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demands a full list of ongoing inspector general investigations while her office sends the independent watchdog "reminder" emails about a never-used power to kill probes.
Source: The Hill
February 9, 2026
Trump disinvites Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from the traditionally bipartisan White House governors dinner while restricting the formal meeting to Republicans only.
Source: USA Today
February 9, 2026
Bipartisan lawmakers say at least six men are being protected by improper redactions in the Epstein files, including a senior foreign government official, after viewing unredacted documents for the first time.
Source: CNN
February 9, 2026
Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a dozen times during her House Oversight deposition, while her lawyer offered to exonerate Trump and Clinton in exchange for presidential clemency.
Source: ABC News
February 9, 2026
FCC opens investigation into whether ABC's "The View" violated equal time rules by interviewing Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, after the agency revoked talk show exemptions last month.
Source: The Hill
February 9, 2026
Immigration court terminates the government's attempt to deport Tufts Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk, ruling the administration failed to prove its case against the pro-Palestinian activist it arrested for co-authoring a student newspaper op-ed.
Source: NBC Boston
February 9, 2026