Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted for a second time, CNN first reported on Tuesday. CNN reported that the charges are connected to Comey’s photo posted online of a sea shell arrangement that said “8647,” which was viewed as a threat to Trump, the 47th president. Comey played a role in the Russia investigation into President Donald Trump, examining alleged ties between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Comey was appointed as FBI director by President Barack Obama, and has been a critic of Trump after the president fired him in 2017. The Justice Department has not formally announced the indictment. Comey was previously indicted Sept. 25 for making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding. This story is developing and will be updated.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin brought a fiery exchange against a progressive climate control hawk who forgot to do her homework, suggesting his defense was “BS.” Zeldin appeared before the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday to testify and defend the EPA’s 2027 budget. He soon got into a heated argument with Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who called his budget request a “climate change deniers’ manifesto.” Yelling from DeLauro and gaveling by Chairman Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, quickly began. Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was… pic.twitter.com/6HTgVjQCiE— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) April 27, 2026 “How can the EPA justify abandoning that duty to protect Americans, to appease polluters under the false flag of economic growth,” DeLauro claimed. Zeldin quickly corrected her, saying climate change acknowledgment and activism are not the role of the EPA. “Where does it say anything about fighting global climate change,” Zeldin responded, referring to Section 202 of the Clean Air Act. He cited Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a landmark Supreme Court case with which DeLauro was unfamiliar, which found that the EPA does not have the authority to “get creative” on the basis of climate change. “You are a member of Congress, you should know,” Zeldin, also a former congressman, said. DeLauro continued to seem confused and unfamiliar with Zeldin’s defense. California’s 9th Congressional District apparently isn’t sending their brightest to Congress. Last week, @RepJoshHarder tried scoring cheap political points attacking our great HHS @SecKennedy, asking RFK Jr. to defend against Harder’s bogus claim that EPA was doubling the amount… https://t.co/5PSaKqKsSk pic.twitter.com/QK0ZlzTGPT— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) April 28, 2026 The congresswoman also seemed unfamiliar with the major questions doctrine, and the two biggest Supreme Court cases that deny her argument. Michigan v. EPA determined that the agency must take all costs and the economy into consideration, and West Virginia v. EPA determined Congress must authorize major policy changes. “You should know this,” he said. “I actually read the law and did my homework,” Zeldin continued as DeLauro continued yelling. “This is the appropriations committee,” she yelled as the chairman gaveled for silence. “I don’t have to listen to this BS,” DeLauro continued yelling. Zeldin’s fight for his budget comes as he works to reform the EPA while also strengthening the economy, a directive from the Trump administration. “Protecting the environment and growing the economy … we chose both,” Zeldin said as he noted major wins from the Trump administration. “Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright,” Zeldin wrote in a post on X sharing the video of the heated exchange. The Trump EPA has ENDED the Green New Scam.We proudly rescinded what has been referred to as the “Holy Grail” for the “world is about to end” climate change zealots, the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding, without apology or regret.$1.3 trillion in savings. $2,400 more… pic.twitter.com/HLIOY2bh6t— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) April 27, 2026 Related PostsSen. Mike Lee: Congress Must Have a Say Before Obama Commits to ‘Unilateral’ International Climate Change PlanSen. Mike Lee warned the Obama administration on Wednesday that it should reconsider its plan to not submit for congressional approval an international climate change agreement that could be signed later next month. To avoid the inevitable objection of congressional Republicans, the Obama administration has indicated it plans to work-around the constitutional requirement that a…Paris Conference Leaders Want You to Think the Planet Is Facing a Climate Change Crisis. That’s Not True.PARIS—Leaders from around the world, including President Barack Obama, have been saying that the COP21, also known as the Paris climate conference, is the last best hope to save the planet from catastrophic warming. Evidence and observed data, however, suggest otherwise. History shows us that this isn’t the only time international leaders have cried that…Climate Change Is a Fact. But These New Emissions Regulations Won’t Help the Environment.Draft regulations released Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency could cut carbon dioxide from existing power plants by 30 percent. Such a drastic cut will amount to a massive energy tax devoid of any benefit. President Obama warned us it was coming, when he said in in 2008 that electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket” under…

On Nov. 5, 2009, U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar.” He then opened fire at Fort Hood, murdering 13 people and wounding dozens. Hasan’s jihadist ties were clear. He had business cards identifying him as “SoA” (Soldier of Allah), emails with al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, and an explicitly Islamist ideology. He had even  a presentation defending suicide bombings under Islamic law. But the Obama administration concluded the massacre was simply generic “workplace violence.” On April 25, 2026, Caltech-educated “Teacher of the Month” Cole Tomas Allen tried to breach security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, opening fire outside the ballroom where President Trump and top officials were gathered. Allen left behind an explicit anti-Trump manifesto in which he called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin,” railed against Trump administration policies, and listed targets connected to the administration. He had previously posted numerous anti-Trump sentiments online. The motive eluded President Barack Obama, who took to social media to offer the usual meaningless boilerplate about condemning all violence while saying that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives.” Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. This denial of obvious ideological motivation is a familiar playbook—once used for radical Islamic terrorism, now repurposed for radical left violence. False equivalence and moral evasion replace any sober analysis. Recall Obama’s 2015 National Prayer Breakfast remarks, where he warned against getting on our “high horse” about ISIS and equated their barbarism to the Crusades, the Inquisition, American slavery, and Jim Crow—straining to dilute the unique threat of Islamic terrorism by dragging in distant and even revisionist history. But left-wing terrorism, like Islamic terrorism before it, isn’t a “both sides” problem. The pattern has escalated over the past decade amid the left’s dehumanization of Trump and MAGA as threats to democracy. It wasn’t a Republican who nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., at the 2017 congressional baseball practice. It wasn’t a Republican who slaughtered six—including three nine-year-old children—at Nashville’s Covenant Christian School in 2023. It wasn’t a Republican who attacked a Minneapolis Catholic church in 2025, murdering two children with anti-Christian and “kill Trump” rage. And it wasn’t a MAGA supporter who assassinated Charlie Kirk in 2025, as late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel falsely and irresponsibly claimed. What these attackers all shared is that they were radicalized leftists whose manifestos and digital footprints echoed core Democratic talking points. Allen’s attack marks the third attempt on President Trump’s life in less than two years, following the 2024 golf course incident in West Palm Beach and the 2024 Pennsylvania rally shooting, when a bullet grazed Trump’s ear and firefighter Corey Comperatore heroically died. No president has faced this many credible assassination attempts in such a short time. Unlike jihadist attacks, which often appear random with mass murder as the primary objective, these radicalized Democrats target conservatives, MAGA, and Republicans with specificity. Prominent Democrats offered the same deflection after Charlie Kirk’s assassination as they have since the most recent attempt at President Trump’s life. They have made generic condemnations, vague platitudes, and a complete refusal to confront the obvious ideological radicalization that produced his killer. Thus far, the only thing more predictable than violence carried out by indoctrinated leftists against MAGA targets is the left’s ability to move on instantly while taking zero accountability—no introspection, no self-examination, no acknowledgment of the toxic rhetoric and dehumanization that fuel the violence. When will such accountability arrive? After Kirk’s assassination, I expected a national reckoning with the spiritual and cultural rot producing these terrorists. I even wrote a book about it, “For Christ and Country: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk.” But I was naïve to have such high expectations. Not only did no reckoning come, it was actively suppressed. I experienced some part of this when Amazon refused to offer a Kindle version and has repeatedly blocked physical sales, telling customers it could not ship the book to their addresses. As I argue in my book, the modern Left rejected God and the Judeo-Christian foundations of this nation, replacing them with government power, identity politics, and moral relativism. This created a gaping spiritual vacuum filled with rage, envy, and hatred. These can turn teachers, engineers, and even “Teacher of the Year” award winners into assassins. Recently the Southern Poverty Law Center has been exposed for manufacturing and funding hatred. My book explains how the Anti-Defamation League has worked to cover up left-wing violence and falsely insists that America’s real problem is right-wing extremism. The denial, false equivalence, and refusal to name the ideology driving this violence only fuels more violenceand makes the next attack inevitable. This isn’t random. It is the direct and predictable result of a worldview that treats conservatives, Christians, and American patriots as existential enemies who must be eliminated. The only thing all these killers have in common is that they were radicalized by the Left. It is well past time for an honest conversation. America desperately needs to reckon with the pathological ideas that are fueling violence. Lives depend on it. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.

A House Judiciary subcommittee is scrutinizing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to determine if the Biden‑Harris administration has used the federal law to target pro‑life advocates. “As we just saw with the Department of Justice’s recent indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, important work is being done to hold left‑wing activist networks accountable—especially those increasingly operating as de facto partners of the federal government to undermine the rule of law,” Rep. Chip Roy, R‑Texas, told The Daily Signal. “Nowhere have we seen this more than with the Biden‑Harris administration’s weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, where enforcement was driven by extremist abortion networks to go after pro‑life Americans.” During Tuesday’s meeting of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government—titled “From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Criminal Law”—pro‑life activists who were prosecuted under the law, along with policy experts, testified that the legislation has been distorted by federal officials to restrict First Amendment rights and prosecute peaceful protesters. “This hearing aims to expose these leftist groups and the constitutional implications of over‑federalizing criminal law,” Roy, the subcommittee chairman, said. Democrats on the panel disputed those claims. Ranking Member Mary Gay Scanlon, D‑Pa., said Congress enacted the FACE Act in 1994 to protect abortion providers from violent attacks. “Eliminating the FACE Act is a right‑wing priority drawn directly from the Project 2025 manifesto,” Scanlon said. “The facts stay the same: We continue to see criminal obstruction, threats, intimidation, and violence against abortion providers and the women seeking those services. The FACE Act is needed now as much as it’s ever been.” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D‑Md., compared anti‑abortion activists arrested under the FACE Act to the “politically motivated” Jan. 6 protesters. Witnesses challenged that characterization, including pro‑life activist Eva Edl, who testified that she was imprisoned under the Biden‑Harris administration for protesting outside abortion clinics. Edl said she was “counseling mothers” rather than threatening clinic staff. “In my case, I was only charged with a first‑offense misdemeanor in Tennessee, but in Michigan I was convicted of two separate violations of FACE, faced up to 13 years in prison, and up to $300,000 in fines,” Edl said. “I am before you today to plead with our government to repeal the FACE Act, because it is targeting people who want to do right.” “I plead with our government to stop the killing and go back to the foundational principles our forefathers built this country on—that all human life has equal value before God,” she added. Roger Severino, vice president of economic and domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation and former director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, told the committee that the FACE Act is the “poster child of over‑criminalization.” “Under our constitutional system, the federal government has only enumerated powers—it only has the authority explicitly given to it by the people in the Constitution,” Severino said. Addressing Raskin’s claim that courts have upheld FACE Act prosecutions under the Commerce Clause, Severino said Congress has used the clause as a “catch‑all” to justify federal involvement in nearly every aspect of American life. “We have delegated far too much authority to federal bureaucrats,” Severino said. “That discretion has given them unchecked power, which has been abused with the FACE Act and other cases.”

The Justice Department responded Tuesday after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint in federal district court demanding an apology from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for making allegedly false statements. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for allegedly paying members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations while claiming to be dismantling these groups. The indictment also claims the SPLC set up shell companies to hide these transactions. The SPLC, for its part, claims it had paid informants for information that “saved lives.” The SPLC claimed that Blanche lied about the informant program by denying knowledge of the center turning over information to law enforcement. “A grand jury heard only a portion of the evidence against SPLC and chose to indict on 11 counts,” a Justice Department spokesperson told The Daily Signal on Tuesday. “These issues will all be litigated in court and the government remains confident in its case.” The Justice Department was responding to a filing the SPLC made Tuesday with the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Alabama. The center requested an order “directing the government to (1) retract the false and unfairly prejudicial statement that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made on Fox News regarding the allegations against the SPLC; and (2) refrain from making any further false or otherwise prejudicial statements that compromise the SPLC’s fair trial rights.” The SPLC flagged two statements Blanche made on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” last week. Blanche said, “There’s no allegation or information in the indictment that suggests [the SPLC] shared [the information from the informants] with law enforcement” and, “There’s no information that we have that suggests that the money they were paying to these informants and these members of these organizations, they then turned around and shared what they learned with law enforcement.” “To the contrary, or else we would have known, from their own words, that they had given money to these guys,” he added. “And we didn’t know.” The SPLC maintains, however, that its attorneys “provided information to the government demonstrating unequivocally that the SPLC had shared information from its informants with law enforcement.” The SPLC’s attorneys sent a letter to the U.S. attorney, asking that Blanche “publicly retract the statement.” The SPLC also claimed that the statement “gives rise to the concern that the grand jury heard evidence which incorrectly represented that the SPLC never shared information from informants with the government.” SPLC Demand False Statement RetractedDownload The legal document goes on to reveal more about the case, including a Feb. 25 meeting between federal prosecutors and the SPLC discussing the informant program. On April 6, the SPLC’s lawyers shared information about the program, highlighting that it resulted in an indictment against a member of the extremist group Vanguard America. The individual in question received a prison sentence. The SPLC letter responding to Blanche’s statements cites another case, in which the center provided information to law enforcement leading to the 2020 arrest of a member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen Division, who had intended to carry out a terrorist attack in Las Vegas, targeting a synagogue. “The Department of Justice is well aware that the SPLC provided helpful information, through the use of its confidential informants, to law enforcement,” the SPLC motion states. The motion cites the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys, suggesting Blanche broke them and demanding the court require the government to apologize. The motion also suggests that Blanche’s statements aimed to influence the outcome of a potential trial. The SPLC motion also cites statements from President Donald Trump, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and others. “Whether by design or independently, these communications are being published and amplified on platforms that are widely consumed by the jury pool that will be called upon to adjudicate the actual allegations against the SPLC that are contained in the indictment.” Neither the White House nor the SPLC immediately responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.