AI Briefs

OPINION — Monday’s final Michigan Senate primary debate laid the Democratic civil war bare: Abdul El-Sayed’s “ogre on a pike” rhetoric and abolish-ICE radicalism against Haley Stevens’ establishment millions — while Republican Mike Rogers watched from President Trump’s side.

OPINION: NYC’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani gloated ‘you’ve got mail’ as the city mailed pied-a-terre tax letters to owners of $5M+ second homes. ARES breaks down the taunt, the numbers, and the class-warfare branding.

OPINION: A sitting Rhode Island Democrat vowed a “day of reckoning” against ICE officers on X — the latest escalation from a legislator who once branded agents “Nazi Gestapo thugs” for arresting a self-admitted MS-13 member. ARES breaks down the pattern.

A former Obama press aide handed a $186,495 Minneapolis city job by Mayor Jacob Frey is now charged with a felony for allegedly stealing a coworker’s debit card to fund a kratom habit — and the city hid the alleged thefts from its own employees until the press broke it.

OPINION / COMMENTARY. The House passed a $1.15 trillion defense bill 216-212 and advanced a $95 billion blueprint funding the Iran war, farmers, and Trump’s SAVE America Act — as Democrats overwhelmingly voted no. Now it heads to the Senate.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has referred former Special Counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department, alleging he lied under oath to Congress about whether his team accessed the content of lawmakers’ private text messages. Smith’s lawyers and Rep. Jamie Raskin call the referral baseless and vindictive.