Author: Jerry Dunleavy

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Chinese government has agreed to “explore” helping the United States combat fentanyl precursor chemicals used by Mexican cartels to create the deadly drug and which largely originate from China. Blinken made the remarks Monday following a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. The secretary of state…

Newly-unearthed State Department cables show the United State government’s early concerns about the deep ties and research collaboration between a Wuhan lab and the Chinese military amid the search for COVID-19’s origins. The heavily-redacted cables, which warned about the connections between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the…

Former President Donald Trump has agreed to an order offered up by special counsel Jack Smith, whereby the Justice Department will begin to hand over unclassified discovery while Trump will not retain or publicly disclose the information. Trump was indicted last Thursday, and the charges against him were unsealed the following day. The former president…

Hunter Biden appeared in Arkansas for a court-ordered deposition about his finances on Friday as part of a child support battle with the mother of one of his daughters. Judge Holly Meyer, who is handling the case, ruled in May that Biden and Lunden Roberts would need to sit for depositions in June, when Biden…

“Patterns and practices” of excessive force and unlawful policing within the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible,” Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday at the conclusion of the two-year-old federal investigation. Garland had announced in April 2021 the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation to determine whether the police department…

Hunter Biden business partner and fellow Burisma board member Devon Archer will not meet the initial subpoena deadline of Friday to appear before Congress, but Republicans believe he’ll soon sit down for questioning. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the House Oversight Committee chairman, had issued a subpoena on Monday for Archer to appear for a transcribed…

A former top FBI official said the bureau’s efforts to catch the unidentified suspect who planted pipe bombs the night before the Capitol riot may have been hampered by geolocation data from one cellphone provider being “corrupted.” FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed in February that he had “total confidence” in the team investigating the pipe…

The grilling intelligence community leaders underwent this week on Capitol Hill from bipartisan senators highlighted the Biden administration’s uphill climb to reauthorize Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act powers in the wake of abuses. Key leaders from the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as part of…

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday insisted he “followed” all proper regulations in the Department of Justice’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as he stood behind the “integrity” of special counsel Jack Smith. Garland handpicked Smith to be special counsel in November, insisting at the time that Smith’s decision would be made “independent” of…

The FBI’s No. 2 leader Tuesday defended the redactions of a confidential human source form that allegedly hid claims that a Ukrainian oligarch had 17 recordings with Joe and Hunter Biden. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and, although he studiously refused to divulge any specific information about…