Ex-FBI Director James Comey has been charged with federal crimes for actions he took in distributing national defense information to an individual not entitled to receive it, marking the third case filed by Department of Justice prosecutors against him. The charges were filed in federal district court in the District of Columbia.

The charges relate to information Comey and unnamed co-conspirators violating federal law in October 2016. The first count covers the unauthorized communication of information relating to national security, with the second count stating that “such information could be used to injure the United States and to the advantage of any foreign nation—knowingly and willfully communicated, delivered, transmitted, and caused that information to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted to a person not entitled to receive it.”

Reuters reported on the charges Wednesday and Comey had already commented on the matter. “Comey said in a video on Instagram that ‘they’re back ​again’ and ​referenced ⁠the Justice Department, but did not ​provide further details,” with the news outlet adding that attorneys representing Comey have already asked for the case to be dismissed.

The legal troubles for Comey continue. In May, Attorney General Todd Blanche said the “86 47” case goes beyond just an Instagram post. He told NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, “The career assistant United States attorneys in North Carolina, the career FBI agents, the career Secret Service agents that investigated this case, didn’t just look at the Instagram post to walk away. That’s why you saw an indictment… notwithstanding the fact that it was last May that the post was made. So I am not permitted to get into the details of what the grand jury heard or found, as you know. But rest assured that it’s not just the Instagram post that leads somebody to get indicted.”

Personally, I want to know why 29 heavily armed FBI agents did not crash through the doors and windows of James Comey’s home. 

I want to know why there weren’t amphibious units in water sources near his house, ready to capture him if he tried to escape.

I want to know why he has been allowed to turn himself in over and over again, because I wasn’t given that opportunity.

I was subjected to a political raid that rivaled a bust of Pablo Escobar, or an active shooter.

I’m happy to see somebody as disgustingly corrupt as James Comey officially charged, but I want to know why there seems to be a double standard when it comes to how our federal law enforcement handles cases based on the political affiliation of their target.

To understand more about James Comey, you have to understand where he came from.

Former FBI Director James Comey had numerous ties to the corrupt Clinton political machine, and he still does. One connection is his brother, Peter. Peter Comey is an executive at DLA Piper, the law firm responsible for filing the Clinton Foundation’s taxes. James Comey holds the mortgage for his brother’s mansion, tying a direct financial connection between Comey and the Clinton Foundation while he was investigating Hillary. (via Big League Politics)

James Comey was appointed by Obama because he was a political insider with many dark connections to the Democrats. Obama trusted Comey not to target the establishment he was a part of.

The former president’s hunch was ultimately proven correct, as James Comey allowed numerous Democrat crimes to go unpunished during his three-year term leading the FBI.

James Comey has been connected to the Clinton criminal network for decades. In 1996, James Comey acted as the deputy special counsel for the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater scandal. The Senate was investigating shady real-estate loans authorized while Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. (via ABC News)

Many people connected to the Whitewater company were arrested and charged with over 40 crimes, yet the Clintons remained unscathed. James Comey acknowledged that Hillary Clinton obstructed the investigation and destroyed evidence, yet he decided not to prosecute due to lack of “intent”.

After observing the soft-handed approach Comey took investigating the Clintons, Obama appointed him in 2013. James Comey repeated his past, 23 years after the original Whitewater investigation. Again, he decided not to press charges — this time for Hillary’s mishandling of classified information, even after condemning her actions. The same phony “intent” excuse was used. (That’s how it works!)

James Comey was rewarded handsomely for enforcing a two-tiered justice system where the political elite live free from consequence.

After leaving the Department of Justice in 2005, Comey moved into the private sector to receive his rewards. He was hired as the General Counsel for Lockheed Martin — the largest recipient of contracts from the Department of Defense. Comey was paid over $6 million before leaving the corporation in 2010.

Immediately after Comey left Lockheed Martin, he became a partner of the Clinton Global Initiative and was awarded 17 contracts from the Hillary Clinton State Department.

James Comey left Lockheed Martin with newfound wealth and joined the board of directors of HSBC Holdings, a British bank. The bank is a long-time partner of the Clinton Foundation and rewarded Comey well until he was appointed by Barack Obama.

James Comey’s career highlights the incestuous pay-for-play relationship between major corporations and the political elite. Comey let the Clintons off for their crimes and was heavily rewarded by corporations who were, in turn, rewarded with government contracts and favorable policy. This is exactly the swamp that President Trump promised to drain, and removing Comey was the first major step.

James Comey is a traitor, and he belongs In a cell. Preferably right next to John Brennan.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is suspending a Biden-era program that allowed Chinese nationals to visit the Northern Mariana Islands without a visa, according to a federal notice filed Monday.

The program allowed prescreened Chinese travelers to visit the U.S. territory in the western Pacific for business or tourism, generally for up to 14 days. The suspension is set to take effect at 2 p.m. Eastern time on October 30, three days after the notice’s scheduled publication in the Federal Register.

Once the suspension takes effect, Chinese nationals seeking to visit the islands for business or pleasure will need a nonimmigrant visa unless another lawful exception applies, according to the notice. The change applies to new applicants and travelers who already have an active authorization under the program.

Chinese visitors who have already been admitted under the program and are legally in the Northern Mariana Islands when the suspension begins may remain for the rest of their authorized stay. They will need a visa for future visits, unless another exception applies.

DHS said it would review the program in consultation with the State and Interior departments. The notice does not give a date for completing that review.

Mullin’s decision follows an April 22 letter from Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Rick Scott (R-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who urged him and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to end the program.

The senators argued that the policy encouraged birth tourism, by which foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so their children can obtain U.S. citizenship. The letter reads:

“We strongly urge the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end the CNMI Economic Vitality and Security Travel Authorization Program — a benefit that should not be afforded to a recalcitrant country like Communist China. We further encourage, in alignment with previous Congressional requests, the termination of Hong Kong’s participation in the broader G-CNMI visa waiver program.

In its notice, DHS said the availability of visa-free travel may make it easier for people to travel to the islands to give birth. The department also said birth tourism could strain the territory’s medical resources.”

DHS cited security concerns, including the possibility that Chinese nationals could use the program to gather intelligence near U.S. military facilities. The department said more than 3,000 Chinese nationals entered the Northern Mariana Islands through the program in fiscal year 2025. Those travelers were vetted by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rather than a State Department consular officer, according to the notice.

DHS Markwayne Mullin Shuts Birth Tourism Loophole for ChineseThe department pointed to two cases involving Chinese nationals who were sentenced for smuggling other Chinese nationals from the Northern Mariana Islands to Guam. DHS said most of the people involved in the second case were later found in or near sensitive military installations. The incidents cited in the notice occurred before the travel authorization program was implemented.

Federal prosecutors said Monday that investigators have identified 405 people they believe are not U.S. citizens who voted in Washington state elections, casting more than 1,500 ballots over multiple elections.

Neil Floyd, the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, said federal officials sent the names to state election officials and asked them to set aside any ballots from those voters until their eligibility can be checked.

Floyd said investigators were confident in their findings but believe the number of noncitizens who have voted in Washington could be much higher:

“Through our investigation, we have confirmed with high confidence that non-citizens are voting in the state of Washington in federal and state elections. Thus far, we have identified over 400 non-citizens who have voted in Washington, and many of them have voted multiple times. That means we have identified over 1,500 ballots illegally cast. This is not the full number of non-citizens who have been voting in Washington. This is only the tip of the iceberg. With a small sample that we have collected so far, I’m confident that we are looking at thousands of non-citizens who have been voting in Washington.”

Floyd did not provide a statewide count to support his estimate that thousands of noncitizens had voted. The 1,500 ballots he cited were allegedly cast over several decades, according to a report on the investigation.

The request comes ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.

Floyd said Department of Homeland Security investigators compared publicly available Washington voter lists with federal records to identify registered voters they believe were not citizens. They then checked whether those individuals had cast ballots.

He said investigators had to conduct several checks to make sure the records referred to the same person, making the work time-consuming.

Washington has declined to provide the federal government with its full voter registration database, including personal identifying information. Floyd said:

“Washington has refused to share the complete list of registered voters with identifying information. We are having to do this essentially one person at a time. If we had access to the full database maintained by Washington, this could be done much more efficiently. We could simply compare Washington’s information to ours and it would yield immediate results.”

Floyd said his office would pursue criminal cases against people who vote illegally and those who knowingly help them do so.

Last week, Los Angeles County officials told a court they could not independently verify voters’ citizenship beyond what voters stated on their registration forms.

The Justice Department sued California to stop the state from counting mailed ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters whom federal officials identified as likely noncitizens until their citizenship could be verified. California officials challenged the evidence behind the list.

A criminal investigation that started well before President Trump returned to office has led to the federal indictment of Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas, chair of the powerful Finance and Appropriations Committee, on marijuana trafficking-related charges. The 82-year-old Democrat, who has represented Portsmouth since 1992 and serves as Senate president pro tempore, was charged last week on federal counts tied to an alleged multi-year illegal marijuana operation.

She faces five counts: racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit honest-services fraud, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.  A separate firearms count is brought only against her grandson, Ryan Eichelberger. The case involves what prosecutors call the “Lucas Enterprise.”

Lucas responded by invoking Jim Crow. In a statement, she said the full weight of the federal government had been turned against “an 82-year-old great-grandmother.” She continued: “I grew up under Jim Crow. I’ve seen what happens when people in power try to silence those who stand up to them. I spent my life fighting back, and I’m not stopping now. I’m not new to this. I’m true to this. I will not be intimidated. I will not be bullied. And I will not back down.” Her attorney has indicated she denies the charges in their entirety and intends to plead not guilty.

The investigation, which reportedly began years earlier during the Biden administration, targeted Lucas and her associates. Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected claims of political payback, stating “we don’t do political paybacks” and that the probe “started long before President Trump was reelected.” An earlier phase had reportedly been shut down before being revived. Lucas is not on the ballot this fall; her Senate seat is next up in 2027.

Lucas surrendered on October 22, when the federal grand jury indictment was unsealed. It accuses her, two daughters (Lisa Lucas-Burke and Theresa Lucas-Lamb), a grandson (Ryan Eichelberger), and three associates (Carlton Upton Jr., Prince Albert William Hudson III, and Tameka Johnson) of running the enterprise. According to the Justice Department, Lucas allegedly approved and directed the acquisition and distribution of 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, supervised the laundering of proceeds, and used her public office to shield the operation while influencing legislation and future licensing. FBI Director Kash Patel said the enterprise generated $4.5 million over about five years.

Those allegations focus on The Cannabis Outlet, a Portsmouth hemp and CBD shop Lucas co-owns, and related businesses under the VA Freedom Life umbrella, including The CBD Shoppe, with operations dating to roughly 2019–2021. Virginia allows limited medical marijuana sales and legalized recreational possession in 2021, but recreational retail sales do not begin until July 1, 2027. Federal law still treats most marijuana activity as illegal. Prosecutors allege Lucas’s operation crossed into criminal territory through bulk purchases, money laundering, and the use of her position for private gain.

One of the more striking pieces of evidence cited in the indictment comes from a February 9, 2026, wiretapped call. Speaking with a business associate who, prosecutors say, had handed her a $100,000 payment tied to a future license, Lucas said, “This is our last chance at generational wealth… I’ve got too old to not be greedy.” Other recorded calls show her pressing colleagues for recreational marijuana licenses and discussing efforts to sideline competitors. On a March 9 call, she put it bluntly: “I got to get the license and I got to get the money rolling in.”

The indictment also alleges that in August 2022 Lucas paid $750,000 for a 100% stake in a shell company referred to in coverage as “Mama’s Chicken, LLC,” tied to an expected recreational marijuana license, and failed to properly disclose the interest on required ethics forms. Law enforcement conducted multiple controlled purchases of marijuana from the shops in 2024–2025, with at least one additional purchase in 2026. On May 6, 2026, the FBI executed search warrants at The Cannabis Outlet and The CBD Shoppe, recovering marijuana and firearms. 

The charges have also drawn renewed attention to a March 30, 2023, tweet Lucas posted after one of President Trump’s legal developments: “Donald Trump just learned no one is above the law!” Many have recirculated the post since federal agents raided her businesses in May, and it has spread even wider since the indictment, exposing the gap between that earlier declaration and her current claim of political targeting. Lucas had suggested the May raids were retaliation for her prominent role in the 2026 redistricting effort, which the Virginia Supreme Court struck down 4–3 on May 8.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell called the allegations serious while affirming Lucas’s right to defend herself and offering full support. Attorney General Jay Jones said the claims must be tested in a full and fair process. Gov. Abigail Spanberger said the case “further erodes the trust the American people deserve to have in the Department of Justice,” while still acknowledging the need for a proper legal process.

Lucas made her initial court appearance on October 22 and was released on her own recognizance. The indictment portrays a long-serving lawmaker who allegedly used decades of political power for personal and family enrichment. Her response has been a reckless invocation of Jim Crow, exposing the bitter irony of her declaring that no one is above the law, only to cry political targeting the moment the law came for her.

Left-wing rocker Neil Young has filed a $10 million copyright infringement lawsuit against President Donald Trump playing his 1991 hit “Rockin’ in the Free World” at one of his political rallies.

Young has sparred with the president before over the use of his song going all the way back to 2015, threatening him with legal action twice. Though Trump avoided the song during his 2024 campaign, the song once again appeared at the president’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on October 12.

The Canadian-born singer has long expressed his antipathy to the man now in the White House.

This time, Young went beyond threatening legal action and filed an actual $10 million lawsuit for copyright infringement.

In the five-page complaint filed in Virginia, Young’s lawyers claim that Trump’s use of the song contrasts with its lyrics and message.

“Rockin’ in the Free World is a blistering anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric with the harsh realities faced by the poor, homeless and forgotten,” the complaint says. “The lyrics paint vivid street-level portraits – a mother discarding her baby, addicts lost in despair, garbage piling in the shadows of prosperity – while the repeated chorus delivers a savage irony, celebrating freedom that clearly isn’t shared by all. In short, the Song is the opposite of everything that Donald J. Trump stands for.”

“Just prior to Trump taking the stage to speak at the Youngstown Rally, the Committee caused Rockin’ in the Free World to be played. On information and belief, the Committee has caused the Song to be played numerous times at other rallies designed to encourage Republican votes in the upcoming mid-term elections,” it continues.

The complaint went on to claim that Trump would know not play the song at his rallies after the 2020 lawsuit against Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.

“In 2020 Young sued another corporation formed by Trump, Donald J. Trump For President, Inc., for copyright infringement of Rockin’ in the Free World along with another song written by Young,” the document continues. “Donald J Trump For President, Inc. asserted no defense and immediately settled shortly after it was served, promising that it would never again use Rockin’ in the Free World without a license and permission from Young.”

The White House has not responded to the suit.

It’s funny that Neil Young, who is struggling to remain relevant in 2026, has the audacity to attack President Trump when he himself has made some of the most vicious and hateful remarks against LGBTQ Americans in the past.

In a 1985 interview with the British music magazine Melody Maker, Young made comments about the AIDS epidemic that used a slur and reflected the period’s widespread misinformation linking the disease primarily to gay men. The verified quote includes: “You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

Around 44.2 million people have died from AIDS in the world since the epidemic started in the 1980s. It’s an illness that has affected millions of Americans, and continues to kill 570k people per year globally.

Neil Young’s comments on LGBTQ Americans show that he’s not the ‘hardened, caring leftist’ he pretends to be in public in order to drum up attention for himself. He’s actually a cruel individual. 

No matter your feelings about gay people, Young’s comments went over the top, driving into a territory of cruelty towards people with a terminal illness. 

Some kind of bleeding heart.

It’s actually quite funny, because ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ was written as an anti-Bush protest song by Neil Young following the Reagan years. There’s actually some public evidence that Young was a supporter of Ronald Reagan during his tenure, though I would take anything this attention-seeking, pathetic individual has said, because you can almost be certain it was said to grab more attention.

I’ve written a New York Times bestselling book, ‘The Bush Crime Family’ detailing the insidious nature of the Bush family dating back decades. Many people gloss over the fact that George H.W. Bush was the CIA Director before becoming Vice President to Ronald Reagan, and was essentially forced onto Ronald Reagan after challenging him in the 1980 Republican Primary. Reagan defeated Bush, and the rest is history.

You can find that book in any Barnes and Noble or on Amazon, but if you want a signed copy, or any of the other merchandise I currently offer, including a signed ‘Stone’ from Roger Stone, be sure to head over to StoneZone.com. 

But to get back on track here, Neil Young wrote ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ as an anti-Bush protest song. Does Neil Young remember who President Donald Trump defeated in the 2016 Republican Primary to eventually go on and defeat Hillary Clinton?

It was Jeb Bush.

President Donald Trump represented an end to the Bush Reublican era that Neil Young was protesting when he wrote ‘Rockin’ in the free world,’ yet he wants to sue President Trump for $10 Million for using the song?

Neil Young should be praising Donald Trump. Instead, he spends his life attacking him in order to gain attention for himself. 

If you remember, in early 2022, Young publicly demanded that Spotify remove his catalog or drop Joe Rogan’s podcast, accusing the platform of “spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death” via Rogan’s interviews.

Those interviews included guests like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who acted heroically to spread the truth about COVID-19 and the COVID vaccines during the pandemic, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, and other licensed medical professionals that voiced skepticism about the restrictions put on Americans during the pandemic, and treatments of COVID-19 in hospitals and other medical settings.

After making a huge fuss about it, granting interviews, attacking Joe Rogan and his guests for daring to speak the truth about COVID, Young quietly returned his music to the platform in 2024. You can actually access Neil Young’s music on Spotify right now, despite his insistence that the platform is ‘evil’ and spreading ‘disinformation.’

Spotify should have refused his request. Young’s flip-flop tells you everything you need to know about his personality. Nothing is sincere, and the almighty dollar comes first.

Former bandmate David Crosby publicly described Young as “probably the most self-centred, self-obsessed, selfish person I know. He only thinks about Neil, period.”

This is the same Neil Young that was correctly put in his place by Lynyrd Skynyrd in their all-time classic song ‘Sweet Home Alabama.’

“I Hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow.”

It was right when Ronnie Van Zant wrote it in 1974, and it’s even truer today. Although, I would say that the American people, not just southerners, don’t need Neil Young around anyhow. 

This guy is a truly drug-addicted, bloated carcass. A failure, an embarrassment, and a total disgrace.

President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed to Texas on Tuesday to welcome the first tanker of Venezuelan crude to reach the United States under the oil agreement the Trump administration struck with Caracas in August.

The stop doubled as a campaign event, with the commander in chief rallying support for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton in a tight race against Democrat James Talarico ahead of the November 3 midterms.

Venezuela’s interim authorities granted North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) 100-year concessions on 17 fields holding roughly 65 billion barrels of proven reserves. In return, the U.S. government received a 35% stake in NABEP’s parent company and the right to buy 20% of its output at production cost.

The oil is meant to help refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the prior administration drew it down. In September, the White House said oil from the deal would probably begin reaching U.S. reserves in November. Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed the agreement. Venezuela holds an estimated 303 billion barrels of crude, about 17% of global proven reserves; for years sanctions and mismanagement had kept most of it away from U.S. refiners, with Chevron the only significant exporter under special authorization.

A White House official told the New York Post that the cargo, which the administration says came at no cost to taxpayers, “will be the first of the billions of barrels to come from this deal.”

Trump confirmed the stop to reporters before leaving Washington. “They’ve sent me as a gift a boatload of a million barrels of oil, and I’m giving that to the United States of America,” he said. Asked if he would see the tanker, he replied, “I believe we are, yeah,” and added, “We took over Venezuela very successfully.” At the Corpus Christi port rally, he pointed to one of the two tankers, the Angerona. He also floated the idea that Venezuela could one day become a prosperous 51st state, telling the crowd “Let’s make it the 51st state” and suggesting it would elect a governor rather than a president.

The president posted on Truth Social, “Gasoline and Diesel Prices will soon come plummeting down — JUST WATCH!”

The crude is headed for Texas refineries, which were built to process heavy Venezuelan grades. An OPIS analyst had previously noted that additional volumes of this type of crude “could help keep gasoline and diesel prices at better levels.” A White House official said the cargo would be sold to refineries run by Exxon Mobil and Citgo Petroleum.

The shipment followed the January 3 operation in which U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro, who was brought to New York to face federal narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and weapons charges. Since then, the administration has kept pressure on the interim government led by acting President Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s longtime vice president and a loyal defender of his socialist government, using its leverage to keep her cooperating while Washington sets the terms on oil. 

For the first time in years, heavy Venezuelan crude is flowing again to the Gulf Coast under an American-controlled stake, and the administration is treating the arrival as both an energy and a political milestone. 

The first tanker is only the start. Additional shipments under the NABEP deal are expected as the company targets a sharp increase in production beyond its current roughly 223,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. What began as an agreement signed by Rubio and Hegseth is now delivering barrels to Texas ports. For the administration, it is a clear energy win for the American people. It means renewed access to the heavy crude U.S. refiners were designed to run, and a tangible step toward greater supply and lower prices.