No livestreamed execution. Mr. Trump and the Pentagon have had a change of heart about planning to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. 

The president said the execution by firing squad of the former Army psychiatrist-turned-jihadist will still be held Dec. 3, but his death will not be available for online viewing by the public.

“I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device,” Mr. Trump said on social media.

There was a bipartisan backlash over the proposed livestreaming. 

Federal agents raided the home of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar in the District as part of a criminal fraud investigation focused on the Democratic congresswoman’s immigration paperwork.

The raid carried out by Department of Homeland Security agents is connected to a probe of the immigration forms that Ms. Omar’s late father filled out when she was a child. Agents seized her phone, and more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas have been issued in the probe.

Ms. Omar, 44, responded by saying she “will not be silenced” and described the search as the Trump administration’s attempt to frighten her.

“Make no mistake: This is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” the lawmaker said.

Ms. Omar was born in war-torn Somalia and came to the U.S. in 1995 as a 12-year-old. Her family was granted refugee status, and she became a naturalized American citizen in 2000.

Ms. Omar’s reelection campaign sought to turn lemons into lemonade, issuing a fundraising plea in light of the raid.

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle stepped down after the White House requested her resignation over allegations of improper conduct during her tenure at the embassy.

A one-time fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., Ms. Guilfoyle rejected accusations that she had abused her position in the Trump administration and vowed to defend her name.

“While my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end,” she wrote on X.

Ms. Guilfoyle previously was a Fox News host. The Wall Street Journal reported that Ms. Guilfoyle had used her influence in the administration to solicit $100,000 from a prominent Trump donor to pay off her American Express card — allegedly in exchange for access to senior administration officials — ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing last summer.

Katie Zacharia made her debut as White House press secretary, and the reviews were mixed. 

Some online commentators and television pundits panned her first appearance as far too short and awkwardly scripted. The White House rallied to her defense in a statement that declared it “a commanding inaugural press briefing.”

Ms. Zacharia, a former Homeland Security spokesperson, was chosen by Mr. Trump to fill the post vacated by Karoline Leavitt, who left in August to spend more time with her family.  

Ms. Zacharia is a graduate of Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, but an ethics watchdog is asking the California state bar to verify it, saying there’s no record of her passing a bar exam.

Big Brother followed red hats. Former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Mr. Trump collected information on 639,000 Republican supporters and everyday voters, a top Senate lawmaker said.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the information obtained “incredibly invasive” and said there was no possible valid reason Mr. Smith needed it for his criminal investigations of the president. Among the findings, a spreadsheet obtained by Mr. Smith looked specifically at people who bought the iconic red Trump campaign Make America Great Again hats after the 2020 election.

“The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus,” Mr. Grassley said.

The information Mr. Smith collected dated back to 2005 and covered donors and other supporters, as well as everyday GOP voters, Mr. Grassley said.

Data collected included names, dates of birth, credit card information and occupations.

Mr. Smith, in testimony to Mr. Grassley and the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, defended his probe but declined to answer specific questions about the extent of his subpoenas.

Warnings from intelligence-minded lawmakers against letting a key spy authority lapse four months ago were overblown. 

“The consequences, to be frank, could be fatal,” Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said at the time.

Congress did not renew the law, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a 2008 wiretapping law that allows the U.S. government to collect communications data of foreign targets without a warrant. But the impact apparently has not been critical.

“The biggest development people have seen is that even though the statute lapsed, the world did not end,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat. 

The spying continues because communications companies are still providing data that the government requests.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused two activist organizations in the District of suborning jury nullification, saying they conduct training sessions to help city residents get onto trial juries and vote to acquit the people being prosecuted.

The groups, Free DC and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, train residents on how to fool prosecutors into letting them serve on a jury and then use that role to “protect our people,” said Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican and the committee chairman leading the investigation.

He said the groups may have helped train one of the jurors in the trial that acquitted Sean Dunn, the former Justice Department employee caught on video slinging a submarine sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.

Mr. Comer said urging jurors to enter a trial intending to vote for an acquittal, while concealing that motivation, subverts the right to an impartial jury.

Mr. Comer fired off demand letters Tuesday seeking the groups’ training session materials.

Supreme Court to review DOGE. The Supreme Court said it will hear a case involving Mr. Trump’s attempt to block a liberal watchdog group from obtaining documents about the internal workings of DOGE, the White House’s now-defunct cost-cutting initiative.

The Justice Department had asked the justices to take the case, saying that when lower courts approved the scrutiny into the Department of Government Efficiency, they trampled on the president’s powers.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning watchdog group, had sought the documents in an open-records request under the Freedom of Information Act.

But Mr. Trump argued that DOGE, created within the White House and run for a time by special presidential adviser Elon Musk, was largely immune to FOIA.

A federal appeals court issued an injunction blocking California’s law requiring national law enforcement officers to wear identification tags so their activities can be tracked.

The law was intended as a strike against ICE and Border Patrol agents carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown.

But a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the state was trampling on federal prerogatives. And that is a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, elevating national priorities over states’ whims.

The Washington Times Editorial Board praises Trump Accounts, writing the president “may have just done more for America’s children than any of his predecessors.”

Joseph Curl points out the similarities between Mr. Trump and Jimmy Carter, whom the former often refers to as the “worst president in history.”

Socialist policies that restrict supply, subsidize demand and expand government control have caused America’s affordability crisis, writes Kevin Villani.