Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chairman David Hogg on Thursday called for DNC Chairman Ken Martin to resign amid fallout from Martin’s delayed release of a 2024 autopsy report on the presidential election.The DNC on Thursday released an unedited and incomplete, 192-page report that featured considerable red-letter comments. Martin initially opted to not release the document but later did so after concluding that his decision had caused the chaos he hoped to prevent. “It’s clear that Chair Ken Martin has lost the confidence of his staff, supporters, and most importantly, millions of Americans counting on the DNC to help…
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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on Thursday said that he and other lawmakers would attempt to “kill” the Department of Justice’s “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate victims of alleged political persecution under the Biden DOJ.The DOJ established the $1.8 billion fund as part of a settlement that ended President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. Its establishment has faced considerable pushback, including from Republicans, some of whom want to eliminate it outright. “We’re going to try to kill it,” Fitzpatrick told reporters. “We’re trying to unpack exactly, you know, what the legal machinations…
Nigerian physicians are being trained by the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to put on and remove personal protective equipment (PPE) to treat Ebola patients. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons A plane traveling to Detroit was diverted to Canada after a traveler from the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of the Congo boarded the plane in error. According to the WHO, there have been 600 suspected cases of the Ebola virus and 139 deaths reported across areas of the Congo, South Sudan, and Uganda. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson revealed that after learning an Air France flight had a…
Chelsea Handler has rushed in to defend people who didn’t need defending. Handler ripped into Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe, accusing them of making offensive jokes during “The Roast Of Kevin Hart.”She claimed their jokes were “racist” and “gross,” and rose to the defense of blacks who were at the brunt of the jabs — only to discover they didn’t feel offended at all. At least one of the black comedians that Handler thought she was defending appears to have made it clear that no actual offense was ever taken. Appearing on the May 20 episode of Deon Cole’s podcast…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Scientists say they’ve pinpointed the super-warm undersea structure responsible for this year’s El Niño weather pattern, which they fear will be one of the worst warming events in recorded history. Called a Kelvin wave, scientists have identified a massive pool of warm water in the Pacific carrying temperatures up to 13.5 degrees Fahrenheit above average in similar parts of the ocean. As the Wall Street Journal notes, that’s a major heat wave as far as the ocean is concerned, as deep water temperature…
Stephen Colbert’s character on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report was funny and interesting. The real-life Stephen Colbert, or whatever iteration of Colbert it is on CBS’s The Late Show, is neither. And more than anything, that’s why his show is now canceled. The very corny narrative that the dying news media like to tell is that CBS’s parent company canned Colbert, whose last show airs Thursday night, in deference to President Trump and as a way to secure a business merger that the network’s parent company needed approval from the administration for. CNN actress Jake Tapper literally hosted an entire…
U.S. malaria cases have risen annually since 1972, said the CDC, adding that conditions are suitable for local transmission in many parts of the country, especially where Anopheles mosquitoes are indigenous. James Gathany/CDC via APThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday in a new report that malaria, a sometimes fatal blood parasitic disease, could be reestablished in the United States.Noting that the United States eliminated malaria, which is transmitted through certain types of mosquitoes, in the early 1950s, the CDC stressed that “the country remains susceptible to malaria reintroduction.”We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript…
A Woodlands, Texas man, accused of giving a pregnant woman an abortion drug without her knowledge and causing a miscarriage, now faces even more serious charges. “On Wednesday, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office announced two upgraded felony charges in a case ABC13 first reported in February,” according to Sarah Al-Shaikh of ABC 13. “Jon Rueben Demeter, 25, was first charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His charge has now been upgraded to the performance of an abortion and injury to a child.” If convicted, Demeter faces a punishment of five years to life in prison on each count.…
Many pundits are predicting that the Democrats will enjoy huge successes in the November mid-term elections, retaking the U.S. House and maybe – just maybe – gain control of the U.S. Senate. This is hardly surprising. The party occupying the White House typically loses seats in the mid-terms. The Democrats are hoping that concerns about gasoline prices and inflation will bolster their momentum. But Democrats also are hedging their bets by drumming up apocalyptic warnings that the Trump Administration is trying to interfere with the election.(RELATED: What One Illinois Town Says About The Current State Of America)The Brennan Center was…
After Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, Evo Morales ranked a solid fourth in the hearts of American socialists gazing southward while hoping that the socialist revolutions in Latin America would come here. Standard accessories for a leftist back then included an Obama ‘Hope’ sticker and some pamphlets about how capitalists were persecuting Chavez, Castro and Evo Morales over in Bolivia. Castro and Chavez are dead. Ortega, once a leftist dreamboat, runs a bizarre dictatorship, and Morales’ supporters are trying to stage a coup after he was accused of child trafficking. Riots, which some are calling a coup, are…
The finding settles an issue that has split lower appellate courts in New York for years.MANHATTAN (CN) — The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday found children alone have the authority to appeal a custody determination in family court, resolving a contentious debate that has divided mid-level appellate courts around the state.In a five-page ruling, Court of Appeals Judge Madeline Singas wrote state law “clearly authorizes” an attorney for the child to make these appeals — even when neither parent has lodged one themselves.“The Family Court Act plainly authorizes an [attorney for the child] to appeal on behalf of…
A five-person committee will hand out funds from a nearly $1.8 billion settlement to Americans claiming to be victims of weaponization of government agencies. …
A preliminary injunction issued Thursday stops the state from imposing new blackjack rules on cardrooms, which they have said would destroy jobs and close businesses.SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — California cardrooms facing dire changes to blackjack rules got dealt a good hand Thursday by a San Francisco judge.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin issued a preliminary injunction stopping Golden State officials from enforcing new rules on cardrooms. Those rules, in effect since April 1 but not expected to be enforced until June 1, prohibited traditional blackjack in cardrooms — changes operators and some city leaders said would destroy jobs and…
Rep. Lauren Boebert has again responded to President Donald Trump’s public threat to primary her in an interview on NewsNation, pointing out that it “can’t happen” because the candidate filing deadline in Colorado has passed and her primary is already settled and certified. The primary threat came in response to Boebert’s recent endorsement and campaigning for Rep. Thomas Massie against a Trump-backed challenger. Trump responded on Truth Social by calling Boebert “weak-minded” and openly inviting a primary challenger against her in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. The president wrote in full: Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert…
A man in Minnesota suspected of fraud jumped from a fourth-floor balcony window in an effort to evade authorities, according to news coverage. FBI Co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia said during a Thursday press conference that authorities are now searching for a suspect connected to the investigation who remains at large after jumping from a window on the fourth floor of a building, ABC News 4 reported. Raia also showed video footage showing the suspect limping away from the scene. (RELATED: Vance Turns Maine Fraud Event Into Midterm Battle Cry)U.S. officials announced Thursday that 15 people in Minnesota have been charged over…
After years of bitter fights between unions and employers, the International Court of Justice said international law protects workers’ right to strike, but left future battles over strike limits to governments and national courts.THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — From dockworkers to delivery drivers, workers around the world just got a major boost from judges in The Hague, who said international law protects the right to strike.The International Court of Justice said Thursday a landmark postwar labor treaty protecting workers’ freedom to organize also protects their ability to walk off the job, ending a standoff that has clogged parts of the…
In modern society, we have come to treat Experts™ as if they were engineers instead of researchers who learn what they can, develop hypotheses, and test those hypotheses against reality to see where our theories of how things work are right and where they are wrong. Advertisement Subject matter Experts™ are not engineers, and shouldn’t be treated as such. Engineers understand the limits of what we know and can trust, and in most cases, they work well within the “safe” limits because they know that they can’t take into account all the variables. When they don’t, they wind up building the…
An autopsy of the 2024 election commissioned by the Democratic National Committee leaked Thursday. It is, in a word, “garbage.” The post-mortem, first published by CNN, elides honest self-evaluation for sloppy conclusions and self-congratulation.“At times, it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage. This highlights a fundamental and necessary truth — a brutal and efficiently delivered message will frame the choice for voters and help actually win the election,” the report reads. (RELATED: Democratic Voters…
A House subcommittee held a hearing on left-wing calls to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with liberal activists on Thursday. And unsurprisingly, not a single House Democrat in attendance condemned such a radical proposal. Hosted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, lawmakers heard testimony from several legal specialists about Democrats’ ongoing efforts to undermine SCOTUS. As indicated by its title (“Court Packing: A Threat to the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy”), the hearing was supposed to examine how the left is using such efforts to push for stacking the court with left-wing activists who…
Cristian Mondragon-Fajardo, 17/Image: Austin Police Department The Gateway Pundit reported that over the weekend, residents in the Austin, Texas area were asked to shelter in place amid reports of multiple shootings. The Austin Police Department says at least three suspects were involved in as many as 12 shootings since Saturday. Two of the shootings were at fire stations in South Austin. At least four people were reported injured. Police announced that 17-year-old Cristian Mondragon has been charged with six felonies, with more charges possible, including: Two counts of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; Two counts of aggravated assault with a…
A key federal committee approved plans Thursday for the construction of a monumental arch in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to a major project that is party of the White House’s America 250 celebrations. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) met and discussed the revised proposal for a “Triumphal Arch” intended for Memorial Circle near the Arlington Memorial Bridge in downtown D.C. The project faces approval from the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on June 4, The Washington Post revealed on Thursday. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is a 7-member body of experts in architecture, urban planning, and fine…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio departs Miami at 11 a.m. ET on May 21 en route to Malmö Airport in Sweden. …
The Senate will not send a Republican-led $72 billion reconciliation bill to fund federal immigration enforcement by President Donald Trump’s deadline. Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Thursday that the chamber will head to their Memorial Day recess without passing the reconciliation package, which Trump wanted on his desk by June 1, Thune’s office confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Republicans are currently battling over a fund that could pay people alleging the legal system was “weaponized” against them; some Republicans have expressed concern that the fund will be used by Trump and his allies.The package would provide over…
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, May 21, 2026Erman Gunes/iStockA growing share of Protestant churchgoers in the U.S. say many people aren’t aware that they’re Christians. Still, a majority of them wouldn’t hesitate to let non-Christians know where they stand on their faith, according to a new Lifeway Research study.In the study, 2025 State of Discipleship Living Unashamed, Lifeway researchers highlight the beliefs, desires and actions of Protestant churchgoers in the U.S. around living unashamed. Living Unashamed is one of eight signposts in Lifeway’s Discipleship Pathway Assessment used to measure spiritual maturity.The latest Living Unashamed study included responses from 2,130…
NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch has been hospitalized with a severe illness and won’t compete this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, his family said Thursday.“We ask for understanding and privacy as our family navigates this situation,” the family said in a statement on social media. The two-time Cup Series champion during May 10 at Watkins Glen, Busch radioed in to his crew asking for medical assistantce and received a “shot” after the race, according to the Associated Press. The 41-year-old Busch reportedly had a sinus infection at the time of the race in Upstate New York but…
It’s closing time for a once-popular American beer. The final batch of Schlitz will roll out of the brewery on Saturday, according to Fox News. This will bring to an end 177 years of brewing. The company was founded in 1849 and became a dominant beer brand throughout the 20th Century. It was advertised under the slogan “the beer that made Milwaukee famous.” Following World War II, it was one of the world’s most popular beers. The brand began to slip in the 1970s in the face of stiff competition from Budweiser, Miller and Pabst. Some of the decline has been…
Participants in a late-state clinical trial of Eli Lilly’s new weight-loss drug, retatrutide, lost up to 30% of their body weight — approximately 85 pounds – the pharmacuetical company announced on Thursday. The results match those of bariatric surgery, which helps those who have the surgery lose 25% to 35% of their total body weight, NBC News reported. Lilly has yet to file for Food and Drug Administration approval, but it expects to file as early as this year. Retatrutide mimics a hormone called GLP-1, similar to Wegovy and Zepbound, but the Lilly drug is a triple agonist, meaning it also…
Senate Republicans on Thursday delayed a planned vote on a reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol until June amid an ongoing row over the Department of Justice’s creation of an “anti-weaponization fund.”The $1.8 billion fund was created as part of a settlement to end President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns by a government contractor. The fund will provide restitution to people who claim to have suffered political persecution under the Biden DOJ. The fund has earned scrutiny from Senate Republicans and its creation appears…
U.S. President Donald Trump waves after delivering remarks at a Rose Garden Club dinner at the White House in Washington on May 11, 2026. Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday reaffirmed that the U.S. government should take control of Iran’s buried uranium as part of a deal ending the conflict with Iran, suggesting it would be destroyed.“We will get it. We don’t need it. We don’t want it,” Trump said at the White House, referring to the material. “We’ll probably destroy it after we get it, but we’re not going to let them have it.”We had a problem loading…
“This is not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is shocking.” The post DOJ: 15 in Minnesota Charged With Allegedly Running Fraud Schemes Targeting $90 Million first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Gun thefts in the U.S. are an increasing problem. Ammo.com’s latest report covers stolen guns and their relationship to other crimes. Although data are sparse due to reporting limitations, they calculated the most probable estimates. Approximately 200,000 to 380,000 firearms are stolen annually in the U.S. Higher estimates account for unreported firearm thefts, while lower estimates include only reported losses. The report covers a variety of data sets, but here are the highlights: Three in five guns are stolen from houses. Sixty percent were taken from residences, including the owner’s cars. An estimated 40% of firearms stolen in 2022 were…
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at lowering the cost of groceries by reversing Biden-era restrictions on refrigerators and air conditioners. Trump was joined by grocery store chain executives and Administration officials to make the announcement. Trump told reporters the action would “substantially lower costs for consumers, protect hundreds of thousands of jobs, and save Americans well over $2 billion a year.” “The so-called technology transition rule, which was crazy, forced companies to adopt specific high-cost refrigerants, massively driving up the price of transporting in strong and storing refrigerants and various goods,” he said. “Many grocery stores…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Donald Trump’s smartphone has only been in reviewers’ hands for a few days, and it’s already coming apart at the seams. According to Stephen Findeisen, a popular YouTuber who investigates online scams under the handle “Coffeezilla,” anyone who ordered the Donald Trump’s signature smartphone, the T1, is liable to have their personal information leaked to the world. Essentially, Findeisen alleges that the Trump Mobile website contains a simple exploit allowing an entry-level hacker to both place fake pre-orders for the T1, as well…
A gang of teenagers who prosecutors said filmed themselves raping schoolgirls avoided jail time in the United Kingdom. Two 14-year-old boys targeted a 15-year-old girl on Snapchat before raping her at an underpass, according to the Daily Mail. Two months later, the same assailants joined by another 13-year-old gang-raped another schoolgirl at knifepoint. Prosecutors said the boys “brazenly filmed” themselves and laughed during the attacks, the BBC reported. The teenagers, who are reportedly part of the “traveller community” in the UK, were all convicted of rape in March.The two older boys were also found guilty of “taking indecent images of…
Fans who are older remember the days when almost all NFL contests were broadcasted on outlets such as CBS, FOX and NBC. Nowadays, however, the league’s games are featured on several streaming services, and a lot of people are irked about it, including President Donald Trump, lawmakers and regulators. Despite the pressure, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made it very clear Tuesday at the league’s Spring Meeting: the NFL is carrying on with no hesitation. (RELATED: NFL Continues Expansion Outside America With 10 International Games Approved For 2027)“We’re incredibly proud of our policies, and they’ve been incredibly effective from a fan…
Communist China is producing a real horror show. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., recently convened a special session of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China and solicited stunning testimony from experts and eyewitnesses on the horrific practice of live organ harvesting—hearts, livers, lungs, kidneys, corneas—in Communist China. The unlucky cohort of living “donors”—men and women murdered for their body parts—is comprised of various dissidents as well as politically persecuted ethnic and religious minorities. Get the latest pro-life news and information on X (Twitter). Follow @LifeNewsHQ This latest congressional inquiry follows in the wake of The Heritage Foundation’s public conference on the…
The former head of the Minnesota-based Feeding Our Future nonprofit, and center of the pandemic-era fraud scandal, which resulted in the theft of nearly $250 million in federal funds, was sentenced Thursday to serve 41.5 years in prison, reports show. Former Feeding Our Future Executive Director Aimee Bock received her sentence after being convicted of stealing funds allocated for the pandemic-era child meals program in the nation’s largest pandemic fraud case, according to Axios Twin Cities. (RELATED: Major Cruise Lines Could Owe Hundreds Of Millions For Illegal Use Of Cuban Port)Bock was labeled the “mastermind” of the operation, according to…
A Cook County judge said the petitioners failed to show the state’s attorney abandoned her duties by refusing to prosecute ICE agents involved in shootings last year.CHICAGO (CN) — A Chicago judge on Thursday thwarted the initiative to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate possible criminal conduct by federal immigration officers throughout the course of Operation Midway Blitz.Judge Erica Reddick, the presiding judge of the criminal division of the Cook County Circuit Court, said in her ruling that petitioners were unable to show the state’s attorney abandoned her duties.Attorneys for Chicago-based firm Loevy & Loevy filed the petition over what…
(Money Metals News Service) U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) today introduced the bipartisan “System Integrity through Licensed Vault Expansion and Resilience Act” (SILVER Act), designed to derisk, modernize, and strengthen America’s precious metals market infrastructure by encouraging greater geographic diversification of approved precious metals depositories.The Senate bill follows the recent successful introduction of companion legislation in the U.S. House (H.R. 8007) amid growing concerns among lawmakers, regulators, and industry leaders over the national security risks created by geographic concentration of exchange-approved precious metals depositories in the vicinity of New York. Under exchange practices dating back…
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) — New York’s highest state court on Thursday reversed a lower appellate court, ruling that the state’s Office of Children and Family Services was not permitted to administratively create the “Host Family Home” program to function as a parallel alternative to New York’s existing foster care system without the required guardrails of state social services regulations.The New York Court of Appeals ruled the “host homes” provisions of legislation — which allow parents to temporarily place their children in custody of an agency without losing their parental rights — while similar to New York’s statutory voluntary foster care regime,…
No, that’s not a typo in the headline. I’m referring to the infamous Seattle’s Democratic Socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, seems to be learning the hard way that running a city isn’t the same as mouthing-off about the rich in a dorm room or the faculty lounge. Advertisement Last month she garnered a lot of attention for her smug dismissal of millionaires who might be thinking about leaving the city because of a new millionaire’s tax.In the wake of Washington state’s approval of a new income tax on millionaires, Seattle mayor Katie Wilson, a democratic socialist, brushes aside concerns about wealthy residents…
The Justice Department on Thursday announced new indictments against 15 Minnesota fraudsters in a ‘shocking’ $90 million bust during a press conference on its efforts to crack down on fraud. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald made the announcement after Aimee Bock, the convicted mastermind behind the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, was sentenced to 41.5 years in federal prison. “Today, we are announcing criminal charges against 15 defendants in Minnesota for fraud schemes that targeted over $90 million in taxpayer dollars,” Colin McDonald said. “This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is…
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USAO Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, announced the initial fraud indictments for the first set of fraudsters operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McDonald emphasized this is only the beginning of the arrests in Minnesota as the fraud is beyond a scale that can be appropriately explained. Together with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, U.S Attorney McDonald announces the first 15 individuals indicted with initial investigated theft of $90 million. The DOJ anticipates hundreds more arrests. Secretary Kennedy notes the scale of fraud is approximately 10x more than…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX filed to go public in what could become the largest initial public offering in history and make the billionaire the world’s first trillionaire. Musk — already the richest man in the world — on Wednesday filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to take SpaceX public through an initial public offering (IPO). SpaceX estimated in its filing that the IPO could value the company at $1.75 trillion, far surpassing the $25.6 billion record set by Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco.“We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market (TAM) in human history. We…
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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There is a lot of talk about whether the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates, but in fact, the market is hiking rates with or without central bank cooperation.Treasury yields have crept relentlessly higher over the last several months, signaling significant stress in the bond market. The 10-year Treasury yield was over 4.6 percent Thursday morning (May 21), and the 30-year was north of 5 percent. Meanwhile, rates on the lower end of the curve are also spiking, with the 2-year Treasury note above 4 percent. Earlier in the week, bond yields hit multi-decade…
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, May 21, 2026Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, delivers the opening address at the 38th Annual Exodus Freedom Conference in Irvine, Calif., June 19, 2013. | (Photo: Exodus International)Alan Chambers, the former president of Exodus International, a once-prominent Christian ministry that sought to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction, has been arrested in Florida after authorities say he attempted to arrange sexual activity with someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy.In a statement Tuesday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orange County, Florida, said announced the arrest of Alan Chambers, 54, for attempting…
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A new Hong Kong-based gold-clearing system will launch in July as part of the Chinese Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) push to become a global gold trading hub.Western markets – London, New York, and Switzerland – have dominated the gold trade for nearly two centuries. However, with gold progressively flowing from West to East, China and other Asian hubs are developing the infrastructure to challenge Western dominance. According to a Bloomberg report quoting anonymous officials close to the matter, the government-owned clearing system will “mirror” the financial infrastructure used by the LBMA in London. Participants will be…
China is holding up high-level talks with the Pentagon as President Donald Trump weighs whether to approve a proposed $14 billion arms package for Taiwan, the Financial Times reported. Beijing has delayed approval for a proposed summer visit by the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for policy until Trump decides how to proceed with the Taiwan weapons package, the FT reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the talks. The proposed package includes Patriot interceptor missiles and NASAMS advanced surface-to-air missiles, according to the outlet.The dispute puts the Trump administration in the middle of a growing test between keeping military communication channels open with…