The Trump administration is working diligently to eliminate bureaucratic bloat and save taxpayers money. According to individuals identifying as bureaucrats in Reddit's top haunts for American federal workers, these efforts — long championed by a democratically elected president who presently enjoys record-high approval ratings — are apparently comparable to the Holocaust, to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, and to a "coup." One user stated in a post, again without a trace of irony, "We're at war." Besides affording the American public a window into the kinds of...

Promising thorough investigations into some of the most closely examined moments in American history, House Oversight Chairman (R-KY) announced Tuesday that he would create a Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets. Rep. (R-FL) – who will lead the task force – said the congressional probes will include “the assassinations of JFK, RFK and Dr. Martin Luther King, unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPs, unidentified submerge objects, also known as USOs, the Epstein client list, the origins of and the 9/11 files.” “She is committed to throwing open the...

Two members of the three-judge panel that heard arguments on the issue last month voted to grant the stay: Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of President Barack Obama, and Judge Neomi Rao, an appointee of President Donald Trump. Judge Robert Wilkins, an Obama appointee, indicated he would have allowed the military court proceedings to move forward. None of the judges explained their position in detail. In July, the alleged plotters reached plea agreements with a Pentagon official who oversees the military tribunal process at Guantanamo. The arrangement would have averted...

When Reese Witherspoon got the call about starring in a new romantic comedy, she only needed to hear two words: Will Ferrell. “I was like, ‘I’m in,’” she said during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It had been more than 20 years since their last professional collaboration; for Witherspoon, the opportunity to reunite felt like a “bucket list” moment. Witherspoon and Ferrell star as warring love interests in Prime Video’s You’re Cordially Invited, a comedy of errors from writer-director Nicholas Stoller about two weddings booked...

Wendy Lippe (in 2022) outside of an overwater bungalow in Jamaica. Brookline resident Wendy Lippe is a clinical psychologist with a private practice and a clinical assistant professorship at Boston University. She is also a theater professional who is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. In 2010, she combined the two pursuits and founded The Psych Drama Company (www.thepsychdramacompany.com). “I wanted to reach people and connect with audiences in as meaningful a way as possible,” she said in a recent phone call.

[Want even more content from FPM? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more—now for just $3.99/month. Click here to sign up.] “I am studying airplanes!” Abd al Salam al Hilah told Osama bin Laden’s top Italian operative in the summer of 2000. “We are focusing on the air alone… It will leave them stunned… Remember, the danger at the airports. If it comes off, it will be reported in all the world’s papers.” Al-Hilah has now boarded another plane that takes him...

The city is trying to quash a lawsuit seeking pivotal data on the toxins that hovered over lower Manhattan following the 9/11 terror attacks, claiming it doesn’t have the important documents and that the search for the long-sought records is nothing more than a “fishing expedition,” the Daily News has learned. In court papers filed late last year, the city’s Corporation Counsel asked a judge to toss a Freedom of Information Law petition filed by 9/11 survivor advocates and families of 9/11 illness victims that demands the city’s Department of...

Federal judge delays 9/11 deals that would have found terror mastermind guilty Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two al-Qaeda operatives were expected to plead guilty to planning 9/11. Instead, a D.C. court put those plans on ice, leaving them for the incoming Trump Administration. A federal judge put a plea deal on ice that would have enabled the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks to avoid the death penalty and bring closure to families who have sought justice for over two decades. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his top al-Qaeda lieutenants...

An appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked a plea deal for three accused 9/11 plotters in a win to the Justice Department and Pentagon, which had requested this week they block the agreements ahead of a Friday hearing. Judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a brief order granted the request from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the plea deals for now, but said the move was only to give time for a ruling on the issue. The DOJ submitted a request to the court on...