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The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is photographed Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

The sparse indictment of Comey by Trump’s Justice Department belies a complicated backstory

September 27, 2025

The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is only two pages and alleges he falsely testified to Congress in 2020 about authorizing someone to be an anonymous source in news stories. There’s a backstory and it involves a long-running feud between Trump and Comey. Trump blames Comey for having started an investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign that led to the appointment of a special counsel. Trump has spent years bashing Comey and saying he was worthy of being charged with treason. Comey has hardly backed down. In a 2018 memoir, Comey compared Trump to a mafia don and said he was unethical and “untethered to truth.”

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Professor Jeffrey Scholes, who is co-director for the Center for the Study of Evangelicalism as well as director for the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, poses for a portrait on the school's campus Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A commuter college thought it could avoid Trump’s education crackdown. Here’s what happened

August 23, 2025

Administrators at the University of Colorado’s campus in Colorado Springs believed they could avoid the Trump administration’s focus on higher education. The school is in a conservative area of the state and seemed politically neutral. But school officials soon faced challenges as President Donald Trump’s policies affected regional institutions like theirs. Within weeks, the college lost federal grants and faced investigations. School officials scrambled to adapt, renaming websites and job titles to avoid attention. The school still lost three major federal grants and found itself under investigation by the Trump’s Education Department

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