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FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, attend a news conference at the Department of Justice on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Kash Patel, Dan Bongino likely out soon

Brian Karem
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Bettmann / Andrew Harnik / Neal McNeil / Library of Congress)

Kash Patel: Making the FBI scary again

Andrew O'Hehir
Tents between puddles and mud on the grounds of the "Burning Man" festival. Tens of thousands of visitors to the desert festival "Burning Man" are stranded on the site in the US state of Nevada after heavy rainfall over the weekend. September 2023. (David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images)

New details in Burning Man murder case

Nicole Karlis
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

MAGA paranoia’s new frontier

Jesselyn Radack
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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover listens to a speech by President Lyndon Johnson, 1966. (Bettman/Getty Images)

Will Kash Patel be the next Hoover?

James Thornton Harris
Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump can make the CIA and FBI serve him

Russell Payne
Mayor Eric Adams exits the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse after making the first appearance in his corruption case on October 2, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

Why Eric Adams still won't quit

Bob Hennelly
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Unpacking the far right's sheriff myth

Paul Rosenberg
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Cartoon sheriff image burning (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are sheriffs special? Not in a good way

Paul Rosenberg
A billboard launched by the Democratic National Committee in 10 Milwaukee locations shows former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticizing the city that will host the Republican National Convention in July, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 14, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

An apprehensive flight into Milwaukee

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Sean "Diddy" Combs attends Sean "Diddy" Combs Album Release Party For "The Love Album: Off The Grid" on September 15, 2023 in New York City. (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)

Diddy's home raided in sex investigation

Nardos Haile
Slaves at Smith's Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1862. (Library of Congress/Digiital Public Library of America)

Hidden history of the Monroe Doctrine

Benjamin Weber
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Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest, a preserved forest Atlanta that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, March 4, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Fascism, free speech and Cop City

Sophia Tesfaye
A screen at the entrance of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church displays the celebration of life for Tyre Nichols on February 1, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Lucy Garrett/Getty Images)

Death in Memphis: The cost to us all

Brian Karem
Police car and crime scene tape (Getty Images/DenisTangneyJr)

"Copaganda": The epidemic spreads

Robin Andersen
Man on a phone against window blinds (Getty Images/Catherine Falls Commercial)

They called 911 — and it all went wrong

Brett Murphy - ProPublica
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A man hold his hand to his heart as a Proud Boys organizer recites the Pledge of Allegiance during a Proud Boys rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon on September 26, 2020. (MARANIE R. STAAB/AFP via Getty Images)

Neo-Nazis in uniform? GOP looks away

Chauncey DeVega
Scene outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Uvalde's ugly truth: Cops won't help you

Amanda Marcotte
Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cops called to Ted Cruz airport conflict

Sarah K Burris - Raw Story
A man looking as though he is seeing many reflections of himself in many mirrors and is fluctuating between the emotions of happy and sad (Getty Images/Eric O'Connell)

The pseudoscience of lie detection

Maria Hartwig
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(Getty/Spencer Platt)

Trump's troops and the next insurrection

Heather Digby Parton
Pro-Trump protestors clash with police during the tally of electoral votes that that would certify Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. presidential election outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

WaPo bombshell: Feds ignored 1/6 signs

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
USA border, surveillance camera, barbed wire and USA flag, concept picture (Getty Images/Alxey Pnferov)

After 20 years: Repeal the Patriot Act

Azadeh Shahshahani
Major Eben Bratcher of the Yuma County Sheriff's Department (Yuma County Sheriff's Department)

Oath Keeper ran AZ sheriff department

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
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