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115 Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained have been brought home in the last 20 months—with zero ransoms paid—said Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council.

In an interview with The Epoch Times' Jan Jekielek, Gorka said the administration has not paid ransom or made concessions to secure Americans' freedom.

Gorka said the Trump administration is well on its way to getting every single American detainee back home.

Former Assistant Attorney General and Oversight Project vice president Jeffrey Clark spoke Tiffany Meier after the Justice Department filed a new case accusing former FBI Director James Comey of transmitting classified information to a New York Times reporter in 2016.

He weighs in on whether the Oct. 5 filing preserved the statute of limitations, Comey's push for dismissal, a ruling that the DOJ unlawfully fired his daughter, and the department's options after a court rejected its bid to set aside roughly 20,000 California mail ballots.

Tiffany Meier's panel reacts to President Donald Trump's Corpus Christi and Lubbock rallies for Republican Ken Paxton against Democrat James Talarico, including his suggestion that Venezuela could someday become the 51st state and new energy announcements. They weigh the deadlocked, record-spending Senate race—already over $500 million in ads—and whether libertarian swing voters could tip a longtime red stronghold.

Tiffany Meier's panel plays "Fake News or Not Fake News — Election Edition," weighing whether Kamala Harris truly doesn't know if she'll run in 2028, if Maoist streamer Hasan Piker has become Democrats' biggest liability, and whether sports stars will keep bowing to Beijing after Kylian Mbappé apologized for a Mao meme and lost Chinese sponsorships.

Tiffany Meier's panel reacts to Vice President J.D. Vance's Howell rally for Michigan Republicans, where he tied Democrat Abdul El-Sayed to the "hatred" seen in France, new polling showing El-Sayed up six points, the neck-and-neck South Carolina Senate race between Darline Graham and Annie Andrews, and Flavio Bolsonaro leaving Brazil after losing to Lula as the State Department prepares U.S. visas for him and his family.

Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey met with Iranian leaders on Monday in a bid to prevent a return to fighting between Iran, Israel, and the United States.

Protesters and police clashed in Turin, Italy, and other European cities over the weekend.

Despite protests and unrest over the weekend, football fans from the United States made the trip to see the NFL's first-ever regular season game in France on Sunday.

Police in Tallahassee, Florida, took a 15-year-old boy into custody on Sunday in connection with Saturday's Florida A&M homecoming night shooting near the university's football stadium.

Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending a Justice Department lawsuit filed on Friday. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is running for reelection, but there's also another candidate on the ballot with the same name—Dan Sullivan. Here's what the Attorney General had to say on the issue.