A federal magistrate judge told Cole Allen — indicted on four counts including attempted assassination of President Trump after rushing an armed checkpoint above the White House Correspondents’ dinner — “I’m sorry. It sounds like things have not been the way they’re supposed to be.” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro responded within hours. Allen arrived at the Washington Hilton on April 25 with a shotgun, a pistol, knives, and daggers. A Secret Service agent took a pellet to the chest.
In Atlanta, U.S. District Judge Jean-Paul Boulee ruled the Justice Department does not have to return 600 boxes of Fulton County 2020 election materials seized by the FBI in January. A separate federal grand jury subpoena demands the personal data of every person who worked or volunteered in the county’s 2020 general election. Fulton attorneys moved to quash.
The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2027 budget requests $54.6 billion for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group — a 24,070 percent increase over last year. It is the largest single year-over-year increase for any defense program in modern history.
Nine states are redrawing congressional maps after the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling eliminated race-based redistricting requirements. The Court then waived its standard 32-day delay, ordering Louisiana to begin immediately.
Congress paid $338,000 in taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements on behalf of nine of its own members between 2004 and 2017. Records from before 2004 were physically destroyed.
The Justice Department confirmed an active antitrust investigation into the four companies controlling 85 percent of U.S. beef processing capacity. Colorado ranchers have 100,000 fewer fellow operators than a decade ago.
Spirit Airlines stopped flying May 2, eliminating 17,000 jobs. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office has not commented since the shutdown of the airline whose merger she fought to block in 2024.
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