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Trump Media's new Truth API sells real-time access to the president's market-moving posts — posts made on a platform he largely owns. Bam Rather walks through the Dell stock episode that set the pattern, the legal scholars who say it's probably not a crime, and the structural question that remains: who actually bears the cost of the delay.

Federal projections show Lake Powell could fall so low that Glen Canyon Dam stops generating power entirely — turning what looks like a water crisis into something bigger. Bam Rather walks through the Bureau of Reclamation's proposed cuts, the states that tried to write their own ending, and the century-old compact whose arithmetic was wrong from the start.

President Trump delivered a prime-time address claiming newly declassified intelligence proves the 2020 election was stolen through Chinese interference. The documents he personally chose to release tell a different story. Bam Rather walks through the timeline, the fact-checks, and what the speech may actually be setting up ahead of the 2026 midterms.

David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist, faces up to ten years in prison for allegedly touching a piece of liner at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — a pool that was already peeling and turning green before anyone was arrested. Bam Rather walks through the court filings, the press-conference contradictions, and the missing photographic evidence at the center of a 14-million-dollar renovation gone wrong.

In full uniform on the Capitol steps, Air Force Major Jason Watson called for the impeachment and removal of the President and Vice President — and then waited to be arrested. The D.C. misdemeanor charge was almost incidental; the real stakes are a UCMJ investigation that could cost him a twenty-year career. Grep News walks through the statute, the planning, and the one decision that now determines whether Watson becomes a footnote or a martyr.

Days after the federal government quietly blocked OpenAI's newest model on undisclosed national-security grounds, CEO Sam Altman reportedly offered the U.S. a five percent equity stake worth roughly forty-two billion dollars. Grep News examines the sequence of events, the competing visions for public ownership of AI, and the conflict-of-interest no one in the coverage is naming.

Iran's national soccer team opened the 2026 World Cup on Monday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood — flying in from a Tijuana training base because the country they represent has been at war with the country hosting the tournament since February. Outside the gates, a 21-year-old protester laid the Islamic Republic's flag on the pavement for people to walk on, because a California judge had just ruled it was the only Iranian flag FIFA legally allowed inside. The team played its opener roughly 18 hours after Trump announced an initial US-Iran ceasefire deal — which neither captain Mehdi Taremi nor head coach Amir Ghalenoei addressed at their pre-match press conference.

For his 80th birthday, Donald Trump staged UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn — seven cage fights under a 92-foot steel structure, the first major professional sporting event ever held at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The National Park Service's own court filing puts the cost at over $60 million in public resources across seven federal agencies, while the last-minute headline sponsor was World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm the Trump family co-owns. Biden marked his 80th with a private family brunch and got pushed out of a reelection race over his age; Trump answered the same question with a 4,000-seat coliseum, a failed lawsuit, and a G7 summit that rescheduled itself around the party.

Someone etched "8647" into the grass on the west lawn of the Washington Monument, large enough to see only from the air, and the federal government responded with Park Police investigators, grass samples, and reportedly the National Guard. The symbol sits at the center of a live legal contradiction: a federal judge ruled eleven days ago that "8647" is constitutionally protected political speech advocating impeachment, while the Justice Department is simultaneously prosecuting James Comey on felony charges for posting the same numbers arranged in seashells. Whatever the U.S. Attorney's office decides to do next about the Mall etching will land on top of that unresolved collision between the administration's threat framing and the court's First Amendment ruling.

Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein's executive assistant for 18 years, told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that Epstein was a "master manipulator" who kept his crimes hidden from her — even as Democratic members said she confirmed arranging phone calls between Epstein and Donald Trump before his presidency, and even as survivor Marina Lacerda testified that Groff called her so often she dropped out of school before ninth grade. The testimony is the latest in a running series of closed-door interviews the committee has conducted with people who orbited Epstein or handled his files, a list that now includes Howard Lutnick, Pam Bondi, Sarah Kellen, and the Clintons, with Bill Gates scheduled for Wednesday. The investigation keeps producing the same structural result: witnesses who were demonstrably close to the operation and uniformly claim they saw nothing.