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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that we learned from 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview with the Fox News Channel that “her go-to when attacked for her own actions is usually, Trump is worse.” And said that she needs to say, “I wish we’d tightened the border sooner, as we have done now, and trust me, I learned my lesson and that’s never going to happen again.” During his closing monologue, Maher argued that no October surprise could be the thing that keeps 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump...

FIRST ON FOX: Every administration since President Reagan has mishandled classified materials, officials from the National Archives and Records Administration testified to the House Intelligence Committee last month. The committee voted Wednesday to release an unclassified transcript, first obtained by Fox News Digital, of testimony from NARA officials after they appeared before the panel for a transcribed interview in April. The committee is investigating former President Trump, President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence for their alleged mishandling of classified records.

Fox News anchor Eric Shawn floated the possibility that former President Donald Trump may have tried to "sell" classified documents to Russia or Saudi Arabia. The FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort residence on Monday in search of top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information, as well as other classified documents. The Washington Post reported Thursday that information regarding nuclear weapons was believed to be among the documents sought by federal agents, and a Russian-state television host said officials in Moscow have already studied the records. Trump described the report regarding nuclear weapons documents as a "hoax." In...

The DEA was audited by the DOJ inspector general in a report released Thursday, detailing numerous instances of mishandling weapons and ammunition. DEA Agents lost 26 of their own firearms from 2014 to 2018, and their means of tracking them down is flawed. DEA facilities also routinely mishandled ammunition and non-lethal devices. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents are reportedly losing their own weapons, and their system for tracking them down is obsolete, a Department of Justice (DOJ) audit of 16 locations released Thursday reveals. ... The 26 firearms, both carbines and handguns, were stolen or lost in 24 different instances,...

WASHINGTON – The nation's intelligence chief said Wednesday that the Christmas Day airline bombing suspect should have been treated as a terror suspect when the plane landed. That would have meant questioning him initially by special interrogators rather than standard law enforcement officers. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was interviewed by federal law enforcement investigators when Northwest Flight 253 landed in Detroit after he allegedly tried to detonate a homemade bomb sneaked through airport security in Nigeria and Amsterdam. Abdulmutallab is being held in a prison about 50 miles outside of Detroit. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Homeland...

Some aides to Sen. John McCain say they weren't happy that running mate Sarah Palin went off script Sunday...Palin deviated from her prepared remarks to talk about her wardrobe controversy Sunday. ... A senior McCain adviser told CNN those comments "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." ...A Palin aide said that the governor clearly felt like she had to say something to defend herself, because "that's really not who she is." ... sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain were on the rise. McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly...

WASHINGTON - A congressman who is a key figure in the House page scandal conceded Friday that Republicans have mishandled the matter. "I think there's stuff that everybody would have done differently" in hindsight, said Rep. John Shimkus (news, bio, voting record), R-Ill., after he testified for more than three hours before the House ethics committee. The panel is investigating former Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s sexually tinged Internet communications with teenage pages over several years. Shimkus chairs the board that oversees the House page program, and he intervened last fall to stop Foley from e-mailing a former...