Discord and Shauntai Nickerson enabled the Bend massacre
A 16-year-old killed four people at Silver Rail Elementary after being groomed by extremists on Discord; the platform and the shooter's mother must be held accountable.
By Maya Ellison ·
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Willie Herndon murdered Alyssa Wilson in a random highway attack
Willie Herndon shot a 17-year-old girl on a Missouri highway, an act of random violence that proves a lifelong pattern of lawlessness and disregard for human life.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Letters sent to Jimmy Panetta aim to disrupt American elections
Suspicious letters sent to congressional and election offices before the November 3 midterm elections show how perpetrators use fear to harass public servants and rattle democracy.
By Daniel Okafor ·
White powder mail to Alex Padilla and election offices is terror
Anonymous senders mailed suspicious substances to senators and election officials to disrupt the 2026 midterms, proving that political harassment has evolved into a coordinated campaign of terror.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Aurora temple terror plot shows public vigilance beats secrecy
When a teenager's rifle jammed at an Aurora temple, a coworker's warning exposed the plot, proving ordinary vigilance remains the decisive shield against white supremacist terror.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Operation Save Skid Row is a carceral spectacle for Los Angeles
Federal and local leaders chose punishment over housing, deploying a massive raid on Skid Row that ignores the structural failures of healthcare.
By Maya Ellison ·
FBI supplied the gun in a staged Mall of America attack plot
The FBI claims it stopped a mass shooting by Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, but by providing the weapons, the bureau manufactured a crime to justify its own power.
By Maya Ellison ·
Ex-CIA official expected to plead guilty in $40 million gold bar case
A former senior intelligence official used fake credentials and self-approved funds to buy gold bars and Florida real estate, revealing a staggering lapse in administrative oversight.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang arrested for Arcadia surrogacy abuse
Wealthy buyers exploited unregulated surrogacy markets to commodify dozens of children behind the gates of an Arcadia mansion, exposing a system that puts profit above human lives.
By Maya Ellison ·
The arrest of Wanying Zhang exposes Beijing's proxy warfare
The arrest of Wanying Zhang for surveilling the Taiwanese president's son exposes Beijing's reliance on local proxies and tests Washington's counterintelligence resolve.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Wanying Zhang's arrest shows the rising cost of Beijing's spying
The arrest of Wanying Zhang at LAX for tracking the family of Taiwan's president exposes Beijing's reliance on diaspora cutouts for wartime leverage.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The FBI's stalled probe into Susan Collins is a process failure
The FBI stopped investigating Senator Susan Collins for bribery after Donald Trump returned to office, allowing a suspected pay-for-play scheme to evade the law and damage public trust.
By Adele Rutherford ·
DOJ's pursuit of John Anthony Proia III stains FBI process
The Justice Department charged a Boston man with cyberstalking Katie Miller, but demoting FBI officials to speed the case creates dangerous political pressure on federal law enforcement.
By Adele Rutherford ·
FBI's legacy server failure exposes its agents to foreign spies
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Solved Idaho cold case leaves Chicago Tylenol murders open
Forty-three years after an anonymous suicide in Boise, detectives named Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski, but proof tying him to the Tylenol poisonings remains absent.
By Daniel Okafor ·
The FBI hack exposes the hollow fiction of outsourced IT
ShinyHunters breached a federal jobs portal to steal terabytes of agent data, exposing the structural failure of outsourced government IT systems.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·