"Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.

"Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump's first term.

"Much of their reporting has been debunked -- and shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump, but the identities of those leakers have remained hidden because of the government's apparent unwillingness to expose its own and the refusal of reporters to identify the people who misled them and the nation."

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"As Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson push for more community violence intervention funding from the federal government, two anti-violence workers have made news for alleged criminal actions.

"Prosecutors say seven men are charged with murder after a crash-and-grab burglary led to a crash and killed a motorist on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago last week.

"CWB Chicago reported that one of the men charged works as an anti-violence peacekeeper. Keller McMillan, 35, also has three out-of-state fugitive warrants and an in-state warrant.

"CWB said another anti-violence worker was sentenced to 22 years in prison for carjacking three vehicles and shooting one of the victims in the leg. Jamari Edwards, 22, received the sentence last week."

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"All last year, we were treated to a steady stream of stories about the 'huge' and 'baffling' gap between the public's negative views about the economy and its 'actual performance.'

"Our favorite 'economist' Paul Krugman was apoplectic. 'Why are so many Americans still telling pollsters that the economy is in bad shape' when 'it's hard to overstate just how good recent economic numbers have been.'

"Last week, the government issued two reports that explain why. And the reason is simple. The experts were wrong. The public was right.

"On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a string of glaring mistakes in its jobs report, announced the mother of all screw-ups.

"In its preliminary 'benchmark' revision, the BLS admitted that almost 1 million jobs that it claimed to have been created from April 2024 through March 2025 didn't actually exist."

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"A group of independent nuclear proliferation experts assessed that Iran no longer has a pathway to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, confirming a major setback for the Islamic Republic following the joint U.S.-Israeli action to eliminate its nuclear program earlier this year.

"The independent analysis of the evidence gathered by the International Atomic Energy Agency since the attack confirms what U.S. President Donald Trump said in the wake of the strikes.

"The assessment from the Institute for Science and International Security, based on evidence from the International Atomic Energy Agency, found that the military strikes had 'destroyed' the Iranian regime's gas centrifuge enrichment program, hampering its ability to produce weapons-grade uranium, the key component of a nuclear bomb."

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"The writing's on the wall -- if you can read it.

Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education Secretary Linda McMahon calling out a 'devastating trend' Tuesday.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- commonly referred to as the Nation's Report Card -- showed just 35% of high school seniors were proficient in reading, the lowest score since the assessment began in 1992.

The math score for 12th-graders was even worse, with just 22% achieving proficiency, the lowest point since the current test began in 2005."

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"Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running 'possibly illegal' anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country's public schools.

"CAIR, whose leaders celebrated Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree, announced late last month its Philadelphia office is partnering with K-12 schools across Pennsylvania and Delaware 'to make sure every student feels seen, safe, and supported.' While the advocacy group says it wants to make public schools 'more inclusive,' its lesson plans actually 'perpetuate pro-terrorist, anti-Israel rhetoric,' Cotton wrote in his letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

"These lesson plans include a handbook for teaching a course titled, 'Teaching September 11, 2001 in Diverse Classrooms' -- which instructs educators to avoid using 'inaccurate and inflammatory terms such as "Islamic terrorists," "jihadists," or "radical Islamic terrorists"' when discussing the al Qaeda attack -- and a class that focuses on 'American Jews and Political Power.'

"'Such an organization should never have access to our nation's children,' Cotton wrote. 'The U.S. Department of Education must ensure that CAIR is not given an opportunity to push its radical, pro-terrorist, anti-Israel ideology on American schoolchildren.'"

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"In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city's mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place.

"The mayor, Vi Lyles, called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman 'a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets related to mental health care.'

"This is euphemistic prattle. What Lyles calls 'a tragic situation' was a gruesome crime, and lack of 'society safety nets' must be her way of admitting that Charlotte serially failed to confine a deranged repeat offender so he couldn't continue to menace the public."

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"Donald Trump's recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the latest evidence of Trump's 'authoritarianism.' But such specious analysis and manufactured hysteria distract from what all parties ought to properly focus on: the well-being of the people who actually live in such crime-addled jurisdictions.

"What's remarkable is not just the specific policy suggestion itself -- after all, federal force has been called in to assist state-level law enforcement plenty of times -- but rather how Trump is once again baiting his political opponents into defending the indefensible. He has a singular talent for making the Left clutch onto wildly unpopular positions and take the wrong side of clear 80-20 issues. It's political jiu-jitsu at its finest."

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"Following President Pen-And-Phone and President Autopen, President Donald Trump is also making use of the White House quill. But his directives have tended to be more practical than political. For instance, last week he issued an executive order banning employee collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies.

"The American people should be grateful that he's willing to take on the bureaucracy that has nullified voters' preferences and become an unaccountable political force -- the real power in the country.

"To support our point, we look back at the Obama administration's IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups. It began the day after the late National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley visited the White House. A coincidence? Possibly. But it is not out of the realm that she was making a preemptive strike because Senate Republicans were thinking about banning unionization at the IRS. She needed to neuter the GOP.

"NTEU members eventually admitted 'they went after Obama's political opponents with the full power of the federal government.'

"Across all federal departments and agencies, unions have taken on the authority that elected officials have ceded to them."

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"The New York Times' Jeffery C. Mays set out on Saturday to rehabilitate Zohran Mamdani's image. Mamdani is the socialist front-runner for New York City's mayoral race. Mays' job was to make socialism sound respectable -- even harmless.

"According to Mays, it is 'derogatory' to call Mamdani a socialist -- even though that is what Mamdani is. If anything, this piece is a tacit admission that socialism is bad -- why else would Mays be working so hard to distance Mamdani from it? The answer is simple: Mays, a propagandist working for a propaganda outlet, is trying to desensitize Americans to socialism.

"'He is a democratic socialist, which means his beliefs are similar to those of socialists but not exactly the same,' Mays assured readers, before conceding: 'He is a member of both the national Democratic Socialists of America and its local New York City chapter.'"

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