FBI directing hundreds of analysts to dig into Georgia election probe subjects, sources say ^35.4%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian - 7/2/2026, 10:00 AM

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The FBI is surging resources into what it calls a “priority” investigation related to the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter, in an extraordinary effort by the nation’s most prominent law enforcement agency to find evidence supporting President Donald Trump’s darkest election fraud... more

FBI fires analysts behind controversial memo on ‘radical Catholic ideology’ ^35.1%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian, Carol Leonnig - 6/5/2026, 9:00 PM

Biased Writer Voice 32.4% - Unattributed Quote 31.8% - Framing Effect 31.2%

FBI Director Kash Patel fired a group of bureau intelligence analysts Friday over a rescinded 2023 memo about “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” that has long been a focus of Republicans despite an investigation that found no anti-Catholic bias, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW. The analysts worked in the FBI’s... more

FBI insiders: Kash Patel is ‘padding the stats’ to boost his record of arrests ^73.8%

MS NOW - By Carol Leonnig, Ken Dilanian - 5/13/2026, 6:58 PM

Appeal to Authority 34.4% - Negativity Bias 33.9% - Unattributed Quote 28.3%

FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped months of unflattering insider accounts of his leadership in a hearing on Tuesday. Instead, he boasted of the bureau almost doubling its number of arrests under his tenure, and of capturing the world’s “Ten Most Wanted” villains at a record clip. He sounded a familiar refrain as he seeks to protect his... more

The former leader of Honduras got 45 years for protecting drug cartels that supplied the U.S. Trump said it was all a Biden setup. ^0%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian - 4/17/2026, 12:00 AM

Negativity Bias 36.2% - Appeal to Emotion 30.7% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 14.1%

This is the second installment of the series “Justice Interrupted.” MS NOW is examining President Donald Trump’s clemency decisions, which many experts have said amount to the most random and reckless use of that presidential power in American history. In June 2024, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel, an appointee of Republican George W.... more

Banned AI-generated Iran propaganda videos using Legos have gone viral ^0%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian, Julia Jester - 4/16/2026, 7:21 PM

Negativity Bias 31.2% - Appeal to Authority 22.9% - Pessimism Bias 21.3%

Americans love the internet, rap music and Legos. And yet somehow, Iran is exploiting those things in what experts say is a massively successful wartime propaganda operation aimed at denigrating the United States and its president. A series of artificial intelligence-fueled animated videos produced by an overseas firm has spread across... more

Trump is considering replacing Pam Bondi, according to source ^0%

MS NOW - By Carol Leonnig, Ken Dilanian, Mychael Schnell - 4/2/2026, 12:40 PM

Negativity Bias 46.1% - Fundamental Attribution Error 17.4% - Halo Effect 14.3%

President Donald Trump is eyeing replacing Pam Bondi as attorney general, according to a person familiar with White House discussions. Trump has been frustrated with Bondi’s inability to successfully prosecute several individuals who Trump argues should face criminal charges, and whom he considers political enemies. The source requested... more

Pipe bomb suspect confesses and has expressed support for Trump, sources say ^0%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian, Carol Leonnig, Sydney Carruth - 12/5/2025, 4:14 PM

The man charged with planting pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic national party headquarters before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots told the FBI he supported Donald Trump and believed Trump won the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with his interview. Brian Cole Jr., 30, who was arrested Thursday at his family home in a... more

Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources ^0%

MS NOW - By Carol Leonnig, Ken Dilanian - 12/5/2025, 10:00 AM

FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents. Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, asked FBI agents on her security... more

Trump DOJ argues key anti-discrimination law doesn’t apply to federal workers ^0%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian - 12/1/2025, 9:27 PM

In a surprising departure from decades of settled law, the Trump Justice Department is making the argument that the anti-discrimination provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act doesn’t apply to federal workers, according to a new lawsuit filed against it today. Filed on behalf of a Lebanese-American immigration judge who claims she was... more

2 West Virginia National Guard members shot near the White House ^0%

MS NOW - By Ken Dilanian, Erum Salam - 11/26/2025, 8:07 PM

Two West Virginia National Guard members deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday blocks from the White House in what authorities described as an ambush, and a suspect was in custody. Multiple law enforcement sources say the suspect is Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national. The two Guard members were critically... more