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LA Lakers sell for a record $12 billion to ex-Disney CEO Iger and Jared Kushner’s brother Josh
by Chris Isidore,Matt Egan on August 12, 2026 at 3:07 pm
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Josh Kushner are buying one of the greatest trophy assets in US sports: The Los Angeles Lakers.
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Protesters gather at Big Bend National Park
by Jasmine Amjad on August 12, 2026 at 2:56 pm
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Judge orders Kennedy Center to pay $250,000 to performer who canceled show over addition of Trump’s name
by Kaanita Iyer on August 12, 2026 at 2:37 pm
A Washington, DC, judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay a jazz artist’s legal fees after the performing arts institution sued him for canceling his performance over the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the venue.
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A software glitch prevented weather warnings from going out as deadly storms struck Midwest
by Andrew Freedman on August 12, 2026 at 2:03 pm
An unusually long and far-reaching communications outage hobbled the National Weather Service just as deadly severe thunderstorms were tearing across the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Tuesday evening.
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Shoulder-fired missile threat prompted Trump’s plane ruse, source says
by Kevin Liptak on August 12, 2026 at 12:57 pm
A specific threat to Air Force One by a shoulder-fired missile emerged on the final day of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, according to a person familiar with the matter, prompting the scramble among US officials to devise the furtive plan to sneak President Donald Trump out of the country on an alternate jet.
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U.S. charges 11 for alleged sham marriage scheme to help Chinese nationals gain green cards
by Sarah N. Lynch on August 12, 2026 at 4:44 pm
The Justice Department unveiled criminal charges alleging 11 people participated in a scheme that involved more than 1,000 “sham marriages” between Chinese nationals and U.S. citizens.
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Newly discovered “black hole star” could solve mystery of strange red dots spotted in the early universe
on August 12, 2026 at 4:42 pm
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How much time does AI save at work? New Census Bureau data breaks it down.
by Megan Cerullo on August 12, 2026 at 4:27 pm
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How much interest will a $15,000 high-yield savings account earn over the next year?
by Matt Richardson on August 12, 2026 at 4:14 pm
Moving $15,000 into a high-yield savings account makes sense now. Here’s how much interest you can earn if you do.
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Becky G on her friendship with Karol G: “Our goal is to be the best versions of ourselves”
on August 12, 2026 at 4:00 pm
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Tropical Storm Cristobal forms in the Atlantic Ocean well away from the Azores
on August 12, 2026 at 3:58 pm
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Cristobal has formed in the Atlantic Ocean well west of the Azores
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David Crowley’s razor-thin Wisconsin primary win sets up match against Trump pick
on August 12, 2026 at 3:58 pm
David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of the time
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The Latest: Trump says he was taken off Air Force One last month due to threat
on August 12, 2026 at 2:23 pm
President Donald Trump says he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat he insisted didn’t scare him
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Britain’s Andy Green sets another speed record, this time in a hydrogen-powered car
on August 12, 2026 at 6:53 am
The only person to break the sound barrier in a car has earned another world record, this time in a show of force for hydrogen power
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3 states are set to hold executions on the same day, a first in the US since 2010
on August 11, 2026 at 9:28 pm
Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma plan to execute inmates on the same day this week
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Florida deputy killed ex-girlfriend over a TV, then himself, sheriff says
on August 12, 2026 at 2:46 pm
Deputy Troy Savetz waited outside his ex-girlfriend’s home with a gun, angry over a TV set, before abducting her as her children called 911 from inside.
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Texas mom accused of killing 3-year-old daughter captured in Mexico after nearly 30 years on the run
on August 12, 2026 at 2:23 pm
Maria Narez fled to Mexico before her 1997 capital murder trial in the death of 3-year-old Kasandra White. Now, a joint effort has ended her run.
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Naked former California swim champion accused of killing security guard at Hawaii resort
on August 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Legend Storer, a former Concordia University Irvine swimmer, was allegedly naked when he is accused of attacking a Maui, Hawaii, resort security guard found dead later.
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Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson asks judge to take potential death penalty off table
on August 12, 2026 at 1:35 pm
Tyler Robinson’s defense argues prosecutors failed to prove the sole aggravating factor that could make Charlie Kirk’s killing a death penalty case.
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DoorDash mom left with skull fractures, brain bleeds after man allegedly follows her and attacks with bat
on August 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Christen Phillips says she suffered multiple skull fractures and brain bleeds after a man allegedly attacked her with a bat during a DoorDash delivery.
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Apple back-to-school sale: Save up to 34% on Macbooks, AirPods and more
by Bethany Heitman on August 12, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Apple products rarely go on sale, but right now several are up to 34% off for back-to-school season. Shop deals on laptops, iPads, AirPods and more.
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3 people found dead, including child, at daycare in Minneapolis area
by Matt Lavietes on August 12, 2026 at 4:35 pm
Three people were were found dead at a home day care in the Twin Cities metropolitan area on Wednesday.
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3 people found dead, including child, at daycare in Minneapolis area
by Matt Lavietes on August 12, 2026 at 4:35 pm
Three people were were found dead at a home day care in the Twin Cities metropolitan area on Wednesday.
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John Hinckley Jr., who shot Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, says he wishes her well
by Matt Lavietes on August 12, 2026 at 4:32 pm
John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an attempt to impress Jodie Foster, spoke out about the Academy Award-winning actor more than four decades after the assassination attempt.
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John Hinckley Jr., who shot Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, says he wishes her well
by Matt Lavietes on August 12, 2026 at 4:32 pm
John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an attempt to impress Jodie Foster, spoke out about the Academy Award-winning actor more than four decades after the assassination attempt.
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New York Magazine blasted for ‘antisemitic,’ ‘dangerous’ cover story that smeared Jewish people while supposedly celebrating Arab culture
by Doree Lewak on August 12, 2026 at 5:07 pm
A tone-deaf New York Magazine “hit piece” that purportedly celebrated Arab and Muslim culture in the Big Apple – but actually fixated on a so-called Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians while ignoring the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023 – has sparked fierce backlash
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NYPD union sets record straight on sending cops with first lady Rama Duwaji on Syria, Lebanon trip: ‘No-go zone’
by Hannah Fierick, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon on August 12, 2026 at 5:03 pm
NYPD detectives union president Scott Munro said cops have enough to do in the five boroughs without having to protect Rama Duwaji in a war zone.
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Elizabeth Taylor’s home saved from demolition — bedroom will be preserved as she left it in $47M restoration
by Karen Talley on August 12, 2026 at 5:02 pm
Cue the klieg lights.
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‘Reacher’ Season 4 Episode 2 Recap: Her Name On Your Lips
by mliss1578 on August 12, 2026 at 5:00 pm
In which Jack Reacher becomes…a cat guy?
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New ‘Chicago’ star Reece Weaver shares her ‘game-changer’ hack for long-lasting makeup
by mliss1578 on August 12, 2026 at 4:56 pm
From her time as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader to her new Broadway role, Weaver knows how to keep her glam game strong.
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ICE Agent Points Gun at Woman in Car in Virginia, Videos Show
by Madaleine Rubin on August 12, 2026 at 4:54 pm
The agent accused the woman of trying to run him over with her vehicle, a claim she denied. It was the latest tense encounter between a federal agent and a driver.
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Zhu Rongji, Former Premier Who Pushed China to a Market Economy, Dies at 97
by Keith Bradsher on August 12, 2026 at 4:51 pm
As a vice premier and then premier, he helped transform China into the world’s leading manufacturing power and led his country into the World Trade Organization.
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Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path, Now Open to All
by Paul Theroux and Jeremie Souteyrat on August 12, 2026 at 4:49 pm
Paul Theroux traced the British coastline in 1982 for his book “The Kingdom by the Sea.” This year he walked parts of the new King Charles III England Coast Path, a continuous route along the country’s seashore.
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A Space Expert Hoped to Use the Eclipse as Science Class. The D.J.s Had Other Plans.
by Jason Horowitz on August 12, 2026 at 4:19 pm
Mar Carretero-Castrillo, an astrophysicist, returned to her remote village in Spain to be in the path of totality. Hundreds of partygoers came too.
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Inflation Eased Slightly in July, but Prices Remain Elevated as War Drags On
by Lydia DePillis on August 12, 2026 at 4:04 pm
Though energy prices fell last month after their spring surge, other factors pushed up costs as the Fed considers raising interest rates.
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Why Hobbs might pick this GOP maverick for her ticketelections
by azcentral.com on August 12, 2026 at 10:30 am
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Report: Hobbs to tap GOP ally John Giles as running mate
by azcentral.com on August 12, 2026 at 10:30 am
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Fontes rips Trump over ‘federal takeover’ of mail-in votingelections
by azcentral.com on August 12, 2026 at 10:30 am
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Cinco the jaguar roams Arizona border near Trump wall. See the video
by , The Arizona Republic on August 11, 2026 at 11:02 pm
The endangered cat was spotted on trail camera video wandering through Arizona’s San Rafael Valley not far from a border wall construction site.
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Trump doesn’t dismiss declaring national emergency to restrict voting
by Zac Anderson on August 11, 2026 at 9:43 pm
“Stranger things have happened,” Trump said when an interviewer suggested he declare a national emergency to take executive action on voting.
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About 110,000 fewer foreign students expected after visa crackdown, report says
by Todd Wallack on August 12, 2026 at 2:40 pm
A report released this week forecasts a decline of about 111,000 international students at U.S. colleges and universities.
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Zhu Rongji, China premier crucial to economic transformation, dies at 97
by Simon Denyer on August 12, 2026 at 10:44 am
He negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushed through reforms that breathed new life into China’s state-directed economy.
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Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction
by Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey on August 12, 2026 at 10:00 am
The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
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Polymarket let users bet on wildfires. Lawmakers warn that could spur arson.
by Cole Reynolds on August 12, 2026 at 10:00 am
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) said “you never want to encourage the obscene act of starting a fire.”
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Jackie the bald eagle, who became a live-stream star, dies after illness
by N. Kirkpatrick on August 11, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Fans watched her love story with her partner, Shadow, unfold near California’s Big Bear Lake. She had been receiving care for an illness causing severe anemia.
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Trump administration to end Medicaid funding for children’s transgender care
by Cat Zakrzewski,Dan Diamond on August 12, 2026 at 12:57 am
The administration of President Donald Trump has escalated its crackdown on transgender medical care ahead of the midterm elections.
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Live updates: Wisconsin Democrats weigh nominating a democratic socialist for governor
by Patrick Marley on August 11, 2026 at 10:00 am
See the latest results in Wisconsin governor’s race. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong has led polls in a crowded field. Rep. Tom Tiffany is running with the endorsement of President Donald Trump.
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Analysis | Voters want fighters. But where is the limit?
by Dan Merica on August 10, 2026 at 9:35 am
For years — really ever since the political rise of President Donald Trump — voters have told pollsters and reporters that they want to elect so-called fighters. This trend has also led to more […]
James Comey Jr. Indictment
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August 2, 2026
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury proceedings that led to the indictment. The lawyers noted that the government’s only witness testified that the pool was already damaged before Hearn went near it, and that the witness could not quantify the cost of any damage Hearn might have done over and above the cost of repairing the existing damage. The lawyers told the court there were “irregularities in the government’s presentation of the evidence to the grand jury” that “call into question whether the grand jury was misled.” The Department of Justice has been caught repeatedly misleading grand juries or committing misconduct in getting indictments. Hearn’s lawyers were suggesting that the Department of Justice engaged in the same misconduct in the indictment of David Hearn for damaging the bottom of the reflecting pool. In their filing, they noted that a judge and former federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia had recently stated that “[g]enerations of presidential administrations and public officials” have reinforced the idea, called the “presumption of regularity,” that public officials do their jobs properly, operate in good faith, and follow correct procedures. But, the judge noted, “In just six months, the President of the United States may have forfeited the right to such a presumption.” On July 28, J. David McSwane, Pratheek Rebala, and Carla Astudillo of ProPublica reported that judges across the country are calling out lawyers for the Department of Justice, questioning whether they can be trusted to tell the truth and whether they are operating according to centuries-old norms. Judges have called behavior by Department of Justice lawyers “unlawful,” “unethical,” “unseemly,” and otherwise dishonest. The degradation of the Department of Justice, which is charged with defending the rule of law for the American people, into an instrument of Trump’s political wrath has been illustrated in the fight over the confirmation of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to attorney general. Before going to the Department of Justice, Blanche was Trump’s personal attorney. He led Trump’s criminal defense team in the case of falsifying records to cover up hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, as well as his defense against the two cases brought by special counsel Jack Smith: the one indicting him for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the one indicting him for retaining classified documents after leaving office. Since he took over for former attorney general Pam Bondi, Blanche has openly flouted the law in order to do Trump’s bidding. He secured indictments against people Trump perceives to be enemies, including former FBI director James Comey for posting on Instagram a picture of seashells arranged to form the number “8647.” On July 29, Devlin Barrett and Alan Feuer of the New York Times reported that the Secret Service agents who interviewed Comey in May 2025 were told to send a summary of that interview as quickly as possible to Trump on Air Force One. Trump’s close involvement in the case, the authors wrote, “is one of the most glaring examples to date of the degree to which Mr. Trump now directs federal law enforcement actions.” On July 28, Comey’s lawyers filed motions to throw out on the grounds of vindictive and selective prosecution the federal charges Blanche brought against him. They noted that Trump had repeatedly made it clear he wanted Comey indicted, even going so far as to put his former special assistant Lindsey Halligan into office as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where she indicted Comey just four days later. (That appointment was later found to be invalid.) The filings from Comey’s lawyers appear to show that FBI officers engaged in warrantless surveillance of Comey. Like the lawyers in the Hearn case, Comey’s lawyers suggested that “irregularities in the grand jury process influenced the grand jury to return an indictment.” Like Hearn’s lawyers, they asked the court to “disclose the transcripts and audio recordings of all proceedings before the grand jury in this case” or to review them himself to make sure they followed the law. In a previous case against Comey, they note, Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick found that the government’s actions raised “genuine issues of misconduct” that were “inextricably linked to the government’s grand jury presentation.” Blanche’s indictment of Comey to please Trump colors another of his actions: he backed the deal Trump made with the Department of Justice to establish a $1.776 billion slush fund to pay off those convicted of committing crimes surrounding Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Blanche put his name to the second half of that deal that seems to be being eclipsed by the slush fund but is clearly Trump’s main interest: an agreement between Trump and the Department of Justice promising to drop any pending claims against Trump, his oldest sons, or the Trump Organization for past illegalities in tax returns, and promising not to conduct audits of Trump’s tax returns. That slush fund/nonprosecution deal has been a sticking point for Blanche’s Senate confirmation to attorney general, as two Republican senators—John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina—want him to put in writing that the deal is as dead as he claimed it is in his confirmation hearing before they agree to support his nomination. But he has refused to do so. On Thursday, Trump suggested he was willing to withdraw Blanche’s nomination until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office, leaving him as acting attorney general. Then, at 7:03 Friday morning, Trump threw a monkey wrench into this fight by posting that in fact, he emphatically supports the slush fund. He appears to reject the idea that it is dead, and seems to be counting on Todd Blanche to implement it, exactly as critics have said. Trump seems to have been thwarted from getting his way quietly by putting Blanche in as attorney general without any promise to kill the slush fund and its accompanying promise not to prosecute Trump or his associates for crimes associated with their tax filings. And so, on Friday, Trump filed notice that he and the rest of the parties to the “agreement” will appeal the July 13 ruling by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. She said that the suit that led to the $1.776 billion slush fund and the accompanying nonprosecution promise was filed to “manipulate the judicial process.” Williams said the Justice Department could not claim the deal it made with the Trumps was a judicial agreement. At 7:32 Saturday morning, Trump posted: “If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche, one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard to get the Anti-Weaponization Bill, which takes care of those who have been so badly treated by the Crooked Joe Biden (and Obuma!) Administration (I get nothing, although I was treated horribly!), PASSED. Todd Blanche was a voice of reason! It will immediately be back on the table, and I will get it done. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT” — Notes: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/reflecting-pool-case-witness-conceded-damage-olympic-canoeist-davey-he-rcna589510 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28517032-hearn-filing/ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grand-jury-skullduggery-reflecting-pool-edition https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-todd-blanche-nomination-attorney-general-cornyn-tillis/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.227449/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.38.0.pdf https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey-claims-doj-conducted-illegal-surveillance-new-motion-to-dismissal-trump-threat-charges/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/appeals-ruling-found-10-billion-irs-suit-aimed-manipulate-legal-rcna590307 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us/james-comey-seashells-trump-secret-service.html Trumpstruth.org: statuses/40402 statuses/40409 Share
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Comey asks judge to dismiss seashells indictment, citing First Amendment
Comey’s lawyers argue the seashells post is protected political speech, citing the Supreme Court’s 1969 Watts decision that allows criticism of government
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Comey lawyers spotlight ‘extreme bias’ of key witness in seashell case
“I hope Jim goes to jail for his crimes,” a key government witness wrote in an email to the former FBI director’s wife.
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The Outlandish Case Against James Comey
The prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.”
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The Comey Prosecution Is Dead
THE PROSECUTION OF JAMES COMEY is dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. It is as dead as a doornail. The manner of its death has yet to be determined, to be sure. But there is no doubt that it is dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing terrifying can come of the story I am going to relate. To be sure, its death is, in some ways, disappointing. Who does not yearn for a full-blown public trial where the government’s proof is exposed for the bag of vacuous nonsense that it is? The spectacle would sell popcorn by the bucketful—and with good reason. Consider just a couple of the showstoppers that we are going to miss (summarized from Comey’s motion to dismiss and motion to suppress): Comey was, infamously, indicted for posting a picture of some seashells that formed the phrase “86 47.” The government’s charge claims that the use of the number “86” was a true threat against President Trump—an incitement to violence and a reference to assassination or murder. Leaving aside First Amendment issues, the government’s prosecution of Comey faces an extremely difficult factual problem: proving that to “86” someone or something actually means to kill or destroy it, and that this destructive meaning is what Comey intended to convey. The question is fraught because the origin of the phrase, in the 1930s, refers to the much more benign idea of asking someone to leave, or reporting that an item is out of stock. To bolster the argument, the prosecutors went to the trouble of contacting well-known mafioso Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano. But he said that the mob would never use “86” to mean to kill someone because it was “too obvious.” True facts.Sharp analysis.Honest opinions.Make sure you miss none of The Bulwark_—join_ Bulwark+ today. FREE TRIAL: Get Bulwark+for 14 days The Bull went on to suggest that DOJ contact John Gleeson, one of the most famous, longtime mafia prosecutors in recent history. DOJ didn’t do so, but Comey’s team did— and Gleeson told them that “the claim that ‘86’ is mafia jargon for ‘kill’ is preposterous.” Or consider the problem known today as “Person-1.” Person-1 (who knew Comey’s wife, Patrice) has said that he is convinced that Comey knew the meaning of the “86” and intended it in its more violent meaning. But Person-1’s initial reaction was that “86” had the food-service meaning of being out of stock. Only after listening to an episode of Rudy Giuliani’s podcast did he come to believe that Comey (who worked on mafia prosecutions) must have known that “86” was code for murder. Imagine how amusing, entertaining, and painful a live cross-examination of Person-1 would be: Defense counsel: Did you talk with Mr. Comey? Person-1: No I did not. Defense counsel: Then how do you know he meant the malicious meaning of “86”? Person-1: He must have known it from his mafia prosecution days. Defense counsel: Well, then would it change your mind if you knew that the foremost mafia prosecutor in America said that the mafia would never use “86” to mean “kill”? Person-1: [Blank stare; stuttering; cold sweats.] It is a shame that we will be deprived of this sort of magical public moment. But whether on this basis or because the indictment is deemed a vindictive prosecution, we are never going to see this show. The Comey prosecution is dead—its death sentence just hasn’t been written yet. Share ALL OF WHICH MAKES THIS EPISODE both pathetic and still, in some ways, frightening. The case against Comey is shockingly weak, and it comes as the Senate considers the nomination of Todd Blanche, the Trump-appointed lawyer who approved the prosecution and pushed it forward at his master’s behest, to be attorney general. The terror comes not from the prosecution itself but from the almost casual way in which such vacuous prosecutions have become commonplace—so much so that Blanche may yet be confirmed, and if he is not confirmed, it will not be because of his politically biased use of the law but only because of Trump’s rapacious graft. The Comey prosecution joins a long line of baseless politicized prosecutions and investigations: Comey the first time, Letitia James, Adam Schiff, sandwich guy, the Olympic canoer at the Reflecting Pool, “immigration crimes” in Minnesota, the list goes on and on and on. For an attorney general to bring even one of these cases would have been an impeachable transgression in any other administration (arguably including even Trump 1.0). Today, such abuses have become normalized—so much so that they have gotten nary a mention in the ongoing Blanche confirmation fight. Virtually all of these benighted assaults on neutrality and the rule of law occurred on Todd Blanche’s watch as deputy attorney general and now acting attorney general. He has lied, almost casually, about their provenance. We now know, for example, that emails from the day of Comey’s Secret Service interview show that the agents were sending real-time updates to Trump on Air Force One. And now we find out that the Secret Service initially declined the matter, and that Blanche’s aides directed the renewed investigation. Nevertheless, Blanche has had the chutzpah to deny that Comey was prosecuted for political reasons. Earlier this year he told CBS News that the case was being brought by “local prosecutors” in North Carolina (it was a Trump-appointed prosecutor and his hand-picked assistant originally from New Jersey, but I suppose everyone is local to somewhere). When asked in another CBS interview whether Trump directed the indictment, Blanche said: “Of course not, absolutely, positively not.” All of this used to matter. The rule of law and the neutral application of prosecutorial authority used to be bedrock principles of American jurisprudence. Yet, today, Blanche is running the Department of Justice. He may yet be denied Senate confirmation—but it will not, sadly, be because Republican senators have finally had enough of political prosecutions. In considering Blanche’s nomination, senators see the ghosts of political prosecutions past and present. But they do not reject the ghosts of prosecution future. By not rejecting Blanche on this basis alone, the senators are, in effect, allowing their silence to speak volumes of acquiescence in aberrant behavior. The prosecution of Comey is dead. Of that there can be no doubt. But the fact that a majority of Republican senators do not care that it is dead on arrival and are willing to countenance the confirmation of its architect means something far more terrifying, for them and for the country: The rule of law is now also almost dead. Share
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DOJ sought input on Comey case from notorious gangster Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano, defense says
Following James Comey’s indictment in April, prosecutors sought the aid of gangster Sammy “The Bull” Gravano to build their case, Comey’s lawyers claim in a court filing.
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Comey alleges illegal tracking and Trump involvement in seashells case
Ex-FBI chief James Comey says the president sought notes from an investigation into an image of seashells he posted, for which he’s now facing charges.
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America Isn’t Supposed to Have Political Prosecutions
The vindictive and meritless plot against the former FBI director is being orchestrated almost entirely in public view.
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Comey Rips ’86 47′ Case, Says Warrants ‘Misstated Facts’
James Comey is taking another angle in his effort to dismiss an indictment stemming from a picture of seashells he posted on Instagram, telling a North Carolina federal judge that the government is pursuing the “vindictive” case because of President Donald Trump’s “deep-seated animosity” toward the former FBI director.
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Comey Rips ’86 47′ Case, Says Warrants ‘Misstated Facts’
James Comey is taking another angle in his effort to dismiss an indictment stemming from a picture of seashells he posted on Instagram, telling a North Carolina federal judge that the government is pursuing the “vindictive” case because of President Donald Trump’s “deep-seated animosity” toward the former FBI director.
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The Secret Service illegally surveilled James Comey after ’86 47′ post
The Secret Service asserted a nonexistent “emergency” to track Comey’s cellphone, and the FBI’s evidence falls far short of proving his seashell picture was a crime.
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9 Wildest Accusations Against the DOJ in Comey’s Motions to ’86’ His ’86 47′ …
Former FBI Director James Comey filed multiple motions seeking to “86” the indictment for his “86 47” seashell post, listing numerous examples of outrageous and egregious behavior by the DOJ.
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Investigators in James Comey seashells case omitted key facts, defense lawyers allege
Federal officials have misled judges, submitted false statements and withheld key facts during the course of the investigation into former FBI director James Comey. That’s according to new defense filings
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Investigators in James Comey seashells case omitted key facts, defense lawyers allege
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials involved in the prosecution of James Comey misled judges, submitted documents containing false statements and withheld key facts during the course of the investigation, according
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James Comey’s lawyers say US government distorted details in seashell case
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Feds relied on accounts from famed mobster, TV actress to build Comey case
The new details emerged in a series of court filings from Comey’s defense team.
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Comey’s lawyers want “seashell” indictment tossed out due to vindictive prosecution
James Comey’s attorneys say the Secret Service conducted what they call “illegal electronic surveillance” of the former FBI director.
Indictment Is Revenge Media Says
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Trump’s revenge tour falls flat in the courts
by Julianna Bragg on February 11, 2026 at 7:43 pm
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Trump Is on Revenge Path Now That James Comey Case Has Fallen Apart
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Trump Is on Revenge Path Now That James Comey Case Has Fallen Apart
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5 criminal cases that sum up the Trump administration’s corrupt and vindictive 2025
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‘Egg on their face.’ Trump’s revenge prosecution failures embarrass DOJ
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Will Trump’s revenge campaign backfire?
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Court hears Maurene Comey was fired as retaliation against ex-FBI chief father
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Pam Bondi Plots Desperate New Bid to Save Trump Revenge Cases
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Trump’s Legal Setbacks Mount as Revenge Cases Falter in Court
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