PATEL PURGES FBI WEAPONIZERS, TRUMP TORCHES AI DOOM HOAX | JUST THE NEWS - NO NOISE

FBI Director Kash Patel told the Senate Judiciary Committee today the bureau has removed officials tied to political targeting—including the Richmond "Catholic memo"—and is refocusing on violent crime. He said the FBI has now captured all 10 of its Most Wanted fugitives and cited a historic drop in the murder rate. Critics call the personnel moves a purge. Gilliam breaks down what "ending weaponization" actually looks like from inside the bureau. President Trump has branded extinction-level AI warnings a hoax and a stall tactic that would hand the race to China. Industry figures and former lab researchers put the odds of catastrophe in double digits and want a slowdown. Is the panic real—or a regulatory power play? Michigan AG Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, told a closed Jewish Caucus event that Jewish Democrats have a "moral imperative" to put "the needs of the world" above "our own self-interest" and even "our own survival," invoking Queen Esther and urging them to sacrifice "comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people." The remarks landed amid a bitter Michigan Senate fight over Israel and antisemitism. Rep. Mike Kennedy weighs in.