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The woman accused in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson — known as "Mo" Wilson — has been found guilty of her murder. Jurors reached the verdict forThursday in court at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas, that lasted just over two weeks.
Armstrong, ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Prince Harry has again waded into US politics as he blasted the 'rolling back of constitutional rights' during his keynote speech at the UN General Assembly for Nelson Mandela Day, in New York City.The Duke of Sussex launched a thinly-veiled attack on the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling last month that handed abortio... | SCOTUS |
President Biden and Congress have roughly four months to avoid a self-inflicted economic catastrophe. After reaching the debt limit last week, the federal government can no longer issue any new bonds to pay for spending already approved by lawmakers and presidents. A bipartisan agreement is the most likely and safest o... | US Federal Policies |
DNA testing has led members of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Homicide Unit to finally identify the body of a woman who was found dead in California in 1986. Now officials say they have a "brand new mystery" to find out who killed her.
The woman's remains were found near campsites on the Los Coyotes Indian R... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The finances of about 40 million Americans with college loans are hanging in the balance as borrowers await the Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of President Biden's plan to forgive up to
Borrowers could face a double whammy this summer if a majority of Justices rule against the debt relief plan, as the court's d... | SCOTUS |
Two strikes, he’s out. Jim Jordan will not attempt a third floor vote to confirm his nomination for the speakership — at least not for a while.
Following two failed votes on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Ohio congressman has determined not to bring his nomination to the floor on Thursday. He will instead back the interim ... | US Congress |
A Last-Minute Deal Averting US Government Shutdown Is Unlikely
A late deal to avert a US government shutdown beginning this weekend isn’t likely — with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy making big demands of President Joe Biden and bringing little leverage to the clash.
(Bloomberg) -- A late deal to avert a US government sh... | US Federal Policies |
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a news briefing on Tuesday as Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces a far-... | US Congress |
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but in their effort to elect a House speaker, Republicans have taken a more tortured route.
Compared to a straight line, Republicans will follow the path of the "truncated icosidodecahedron rhombus," a monstrous, convex, polygonous shape.
At least the truncat... | US Congress |
An 83-year-old former reverend has been arrested for allegedly killing an 8-year-old girl in 1975 while she was on her way to his Bible camp, authorities said.
On Aug. 15, 1975, Gretchen Harrington was walking alone to her last day of camp in Marple Township, Pennsylvania, when the suspect, David Zandstra, allegedly dr... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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It would be unfair to say that new Meet the Press host Kristen Welker is uniquely unqualified to deal with Donald Trump. Her conversation with the former president ... | US Political Corruption |
The following is a transcript of an interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, that aired on "Face the Nation" on Oct. 1, 2023
MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning and welcome to Face The Nation. Congress has done it once again. They've kicked the proverbial can down the road passing a 45 day fund... | US Congress |
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) recruited former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to rip Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Monday.
Fetterman paid Santos to film a message for “Bobby from Jersey” on Cameo. Santos has turned to selling personalized videos on the platform following his expulsion last week from Congress after an ethics... | US Political Corruption |
Trump’s criminal trials prompt GOP political doomsday alarms
GOP strategists and pollsters expect former President Trump’s criminal trials to divide their party, creating a challenge for the Senate and House Republican candidates who will have to walk a fine line on the issue.
Trump’s legal troubles and his escalating ... | US Political Corruption |
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There’s a ton to get to this week, now that America’s ... | US Political Corruption |
A Los Angeles man who had already been arrested in another shooting investigation has been identified as the suspect in three recent killings of unhoused men, police said Saturday.
The Los Angeles police chief, Michel Moore, said 33-year-old Jerrid Joseph Powell was identified as the suspect in the three killings after... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
As Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) adjusts to life in the Senate, he faces the challenge of navigating the world of D.C. politics with lingering hearing problems.
Fetterman suffered a stroke while on the campaign trail in May 2022, causing auditory processing issues and raising concerns about whether the then-lieutenant gov... | US Congress |
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Thursday became the first senator to say he supports a vote to expel embattled Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., from the Senate over the federal bribery charges that have rocked Capitol Hill.
Fetterman’s remarks came moments after Menendez defended himself during a closed-door lunc... | US Political Corruption |
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump moved a lawsuit seeking to bar him from running again for the White House from state to federal court in the first step of what promises to be a tangled legal battle that seems ultimately destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The liberal group Citizens for Responsibility and E... | SCOTUS |
(The Center Square) – Signs of bipartisanship emerged Wednesday from a House Budget Committee hearing focused on a fiscal commission that would address the nation's deficit.
The House Budget Committee discussed the pros and cons of a bipartisan, bicameral fiscal commission. While Democrats and Republicans have differen... | US Federal Policies |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House late Wednesday rejected an effort to censure Democratic Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, scrapping a Republican attempt to condemn the only Palestinian-American in Congress over her recent rhetoric around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
A measure to move forward with a censure resolution of Tlaib, a... | US Congress |
House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said that there will be a government shutdown when funding runs out on Sunday, but blamed this on Democrats during an appearance on conservative network Newsmax.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress must agree a new funding bill by the end of Saturday to avoid a government shutd... | US Congress |
A former Utah county clerk is accused of shredding and mishandling 2020 and 2022 ballots
Utah prosecutors have charged a former county clerk for allegedly shredding and otherwise mishandling ballots from the 2020 and 2022 elections
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Utah prosecutors have charged a former county clerk with three felonie... | US Local Elections |
JACKSON, Miss. — Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard.
The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jac... | US Police Misconduct |
Banned Twitter accounts including Donald Trump’s will not be reinstated until after the US midterm elections at least, the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, has said.The Tesla chief executive’s statement came as a study revealed that Twitter had taken down six disinformation networks on the platform linked to China and ... | US Federal Elections |
Student loan debt: Borrowers brace for Supreme Court decision
President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan will finally see an end to its months-long limbo in the courts this week.
With repayments set to start again in October after a years-long pandemic-related pause, the Supreme Court’s forthcoming ruling on the l... | SCOTUS |
The widely accepted, overwhelming takeaway from last week’s elections was that the American people want abortion rights, hence blistering losses for Republicans, who want to take those rights away. In Ohio, the right to an abortion was enshrined in the state’s constitution. In Kentucky, voters reelected pro-choice gove... | US Federal Elections |
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Jim Jordan’s pressure campaign the ‘dumbest thing you can do,’ one House Republican says
Nobody likes a bully, Rep. Dan Crenshaw said.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) has some advice for Rep. Jim Jordan as he and his allies attempt to pressure his way to the speakership:
Chill.
“That is the dumbest way to support Jordan,” ... | US Congress |
For three years in the thirteenth century, there was no pope. The cardinals who gathered in the small Italian town of Viterbo after Clement IV’s death in 1268 could not agree on a successor. A group of French cardinals hoped to elect one of their own to lead the church, while the others feared France’s influence in the... | US Congress |
Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere
A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain that operates in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A ransomware attack has prompted a hea... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
A Missouri mayor was impeached and removed from office after he allegedly threatened an alderman with a gun, according to reports.
FOX 4 Kansas City reported that Greenwood Mayor Levi Weaver was unanimously voted out of office Tuesday by the Greenwood Board of Aldermen.
The three-member board met at City Hall, where de... | US Local Elections |
Almost two decades after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba, the man long suspected of killing the Alabama teen has confessed to her killing, according to a court filing.
“It’s over. Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is the killer,”Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, said Wednesday.... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
The US House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that would claw back paused student loan payments and block the president's student debt forgiveness program.
The bill called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) was passed by a 218-203 vote, with at least two Democratic representatives appearing to support the me... | US Federal Policies |
The federal budget is back on life support after the passage of an 11th-hour continuing resolution holding government spending at par. This measure is the “clean” spending bill that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had formerly vowed he would never pass. And now that McCarthy has stepped forward as “the adult in the room” ... | US Federal Policies |
A Washington Post reporter admitted Wednesday to passing along a misquote of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., from the lawmaker's office that drastically cleaned up his actual remarks.
Economics reporter Jeff Stein took criticism for tweeting that Fetterman had asked Silicon Valley Bank ex-CEO Greg Becker, "Shouldn't you ha... | US Congress |
More than half of Republicans view former President Donald Trump as a person of faith, placing him ahead of vocally religious politicians like former Vice President Mike Pence.
A new national poll conducted by HarrisX for the Deseret News showed. Registered voters were asked whether they believed a list of political fi... | US Federal Elections |
White House officials on Tuesday warned that a looming government shutdown would undermine national security by delaying service members’ pay and furloughing hundreds of thousands of civilian Defense Department workers.
Operations of most federal agencies are set to halt on Oct. 1 unless members of Congress can agree t... | US Federal Policies |
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Trump Issues Sinister Threat to 'Root Out' Leftists If Elected in 2024
The former president's description of leftists as "vermin" was right "out of the Nazi playbook," wrote one observer.
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The former president... | US Federal Elections |
Police say some 70 bullets fired in North Philadelphia shooting that left 2 dead, 5 wounded
Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that left two men dead and five wounded, but no arrests have been made
PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia police on Wednesday identified two men killed in a city shooting a day earlier ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
- The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan in late February.
- Federal student loan payments won't resume until the end of August, unless the litigation over the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan is resolved sooner.
- Here's what borrowers ne... | SCOTUS |
The FBI had a busy on Wednesday. As the January 6 committee has publicly aired more and more evidence of Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election result by creating slates of “alternate electors” and trying to get Vice-President Mike Pence to use them to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, agents h... | US Political Corruption |
Detective Franz Helmcke had a problem. He'd caught a new case and had very little to go on. Thirty-three-year-old Kassanndra Cantrell had disappeared from her mother's house near Tacoma, Washington, and none of those closest to Kassanndra — her twin brother Rob, her mother Marie Smith and her closest friend Alexandra M... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
On a day when it was reported that Rudy Giuliani, in throes of unpaid legal bill woes, lost another attorney, the former New York City mayor and lawyer for former President Donald Trump touted a “major announcement” with “far-reaching implications for justice and the rule of law” outside of the Merrimack County Superio... | US Political Corruption |
When George Santos first ran for Congress in 2020, he lost by more than 12 points. But even though he was running in a safely blue district, the “red mirage” of Election Day votes lent the false impression of a tight race, and before absentee ballot counting began the following week, Santos seized on a golden fundraisi... | US Political Corruption |
Democrats celebrated Tuesday’s election of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, cementing a 4-3 liberal court majority. But another election result fanned speculation that Republicans could topple that new majority by impeaching Protasiewicz.
Rep. Dan Knodl, R-Germanto... | US Local Elections |
An alternative mental health court to compel treatment for people with severe mental illness has received more than 100 petitions since launching in seven California counties in October, state officials said Friday.
The state believes between 7,000 and 12,000 people statewide will eventually be eligible for "CARE Court... | US Local Policies |
What is LockBit, the cybercrime gang hacking some of the world's largest organizations?
While ransomware incidents have been occurring for more than 30 years, only in the last decade has the term "ransomware" appeared regularly in popular media. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that blocks access to computer ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
I want to return to this revelatory interview with coconspirator John Eastman, the last portion of which was published Thursday by Tom Klingenstein, the Chairman of the Trumpite Claremont Institute and then highlighted by our Josh Kovensky. There’s a lot of atmospherics in this interview, a lot of bookshelf-lined tweed... | US Political Corruption |
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All four international border crossings between the United States and Canada in Western New York were closed Wednesday due to a "vehicle explosion" at the Rainbow Bridge. Here, drivers wait in line at the Rainbow Bridge on Aug. 9, 2021.
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ATLANTA -- Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday: Go to work or school and the state will cover you.
But advocates decry the plan, which will insure far fewer people than a full expansion of the state-federal Medicaid program, as needlessly restrictive and expensiv... | US Federal Policies |
Sen. Robert Menendez, charged last week with secretly aiding the Egyptian government in exchange for bribes, singlehandedly blocked passage of bipartisan legislation in 2020 that would have strengthened the law regulating foreign influence and lobbying in Washington, Senate records show.
The proposed Foreign Agents Dis... | US Political Corruption |
Former soldier accused of threatening to kill military personnel
Christian Beyer is an Army veteran who was court martialed in 2021 for assault.
Federal prosecutors in Southern California have announced charges against 41-year-old Christian Beyer of Petaluma, California, who is accused of posting a YouTube video in whi... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Sidney Powell has agreed to a plea deal with Futon County, Georgia, prosecutors over charges brought against her in a sprawling RICO case in which former President Donald Trump and 17 others have also been charged for allegedly meddling in the state’s 2020 election results.
The plea deal comes just one day before Powel... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday were debating their next move on how to avert a partial government shutdown next month, with one prominent lawmaker saying they needed to agree quickly on a "path forward."
Newly installed Speaker Mike Johnson was floating the p... | US Congress |
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- The House prepares to vote Wednesday on disciplinary measures of three controversial members…
- Donald Trump Jr. takes the stand in the Manhattan civil fraud trial a... | US Congress |
Former President Trump said Wednesday he would "absolutely" take the stand to defend himself in his impending trials, saying he looks "forward" to doing so.
The former president and 2024 Republican front-runner appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Wednesday morning.
Trump is the first former president of the United Sta... | US Political Corruption |
Jim Jordan falls short in vote for House speaker
The House on Tuesday failed to elect Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan as its next speaker, extending the uncertainty that followed the historic ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy earlier this month.
Jordan, a Republican, fell short of the majority he needed to secure the top post, with 2... | US Congress |
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and other Republican lawmakers held their first impeachment hearing on Thursday, which Democrats said failed to produce any direct evidence implicating President Joe Biden.
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor called to testify by Republican... | US Congress |
Steve Scalise, the Louisiana Republican whom some in his party reportedly want to elect as speaker of the US House of Representatives after the stunning and historic removal of Kevin McCarthy, was once reported to have called himself “David Duke without the baggage”.
Duke, 73, is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of... | US Congress |
Donald Trump's hour-plus appearance on a cable news town hall forum on Wednesday night was barely over when his political rivals - both announced and prospective - began firing out tweets, statements and press releases attacking the Republican front-runner for next year's White House election.
The forum, hosted by CNN'... | US Federal Elections |
Republican Kevin McCarthy has been elected as the new US Speaker after winning the 15th vote following chaotic scenes in Congress. Mr McCarthy's party had taken control of the House – the US lower chamber – following the midterm elections in the autumn, with a slim 222-212 majority.
Usually, election of the Speaker fol... | US Congress |
It's that time of year again: the temperature is starting to drop just a bit, the leaves are starting to change colors, and political ads are starting to litter the commercial breaks.
It's election season in the DMV.
While the 2024 general election looms the largest — between the race for U.S. president and those in th... | US Local Elections |
House Republicans are once again meeting behind closed doors on Friday morning after Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s stunning exit from the speakership race on Thursday night.
GOP lawmakers are meeting at 10 a.m. and will have to check cellphones at the door, according to an invitation obtained by Fox News Digital.
The... | US Congress |
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into claims that the police department for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, abused and tortured suspects, the FBI announced Friday.
Numerous lawsuits allege that the Street Crimes Unit of the Baton Rouge Police Departmentdrug suspects at a recently shuttered narcoti... | US Police Misconduct |
Ryan, appearing on CNN on Monday, said he is "worried" about Biden's electoral chances against former President Donald Trump after a New York Times-Siena College poll showed Biden trailing Trump in five of six swing states a year out from the election. The former congressman called on Biden to forgo running and said th... | US Federal Elections |
According to the memo from the FBI and department of homeland security, the federal agencies have identified an increase in threats “occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms” including social media.They specifically link the increase to the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, a strong sign of yet more legal ... | US Political Corruption |
Donald Trump, the former U.S. President, is currently navigating a complex array of legal challenges. These include his ongoing civil fraud case trial in New York and the forthcoming trial concerning classified documents, all amidst his plans to run in the 2024 Presidential Elections. Despite these hurdles, Trump maint... | US Federal Elections |
When I first heard Prince Harry was making a speech to honour Nelson Mandela Day, my first, and indeed only, thought was this: why?Of all the eight billion people on Planet Earth, is there anyone less qualified to invoke the memory of one of the greatest men in history?Mandela was fiercely intelligent, remarkably resil... | US Federal Policies |
Suspect in custody in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial killings, sources say
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (WPIX) — A suspect in the decade-old Gilgo Beach serial killer case on Long Island, New York, was taken into custody Friday morning in Massapequa Park, a senior law enforcement source told WPIX.
The remains of at least 10... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
In October 2016, a malware tool named Mirai took down some of the biggest sites and services on the web, including Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, and Slack. The blackout affected most of the East Coast of the United States, and the size and scope of the outage alarmed the cybersecurity researchers and law enforceme... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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- GOP lawmakers filed briefs at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to block Biden's historic student loan forgiveness plan.
- More than half of House Republicans, or 128 congressmembers, and 40 GOP senators, among them Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, oppose the debt relief policy.
- The Biden administration insist... | SCOTUS |
In early October, Beverly Sharp addressed a table of poll workers, elections officials and activists gathered in rural Adams Township, Michigan, with a prayer.
“Father, we thank you for this opportunity to meet together to discuss things, and to agree if we agree, and if we disagree, [to be] friendly,” said the longtim... | US Political Corruption |
There was chatter among Congressional reporters about wandering over to The Monocle for a drink last Wednesday night. The Monocle is an old-school Capitol Hill watering hole located next to U.S. Capitol Police Headquarters and across the parking lot from the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Senators sometimes hang out t... | US Political Corruption |
Donald Trump is at risk of being jailed if he continues to share "incendiary" attacks on social media, according to former White House lawyer Ty Cobb.
The former president has frequently been criticized for his online rhetoric and public statements, and was imposed with gag orders by judges overseeing his civil fraud t... | US Political Corruption |
As gerrymandered legislatures have resulted in supermajorities across several states, all but eliminating the power of the minority party, ballot measures have become an increasingly common method for voters to exert their influence. But a new report indicates that some state governments are actively seeking to undermi... | US Local Policies |
Senate Republicans are demanding answers from the Justice Department amid revelations that the agency "engaged in a campaign of covert surveillance" of congressional staffers, calling the move "a true attack on our democracy."
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa; Ted Cruz of Texas; and Mike Lee of Utah penned a let... | US Political Corruption |
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case on Friday denied the former president’s request to delay the trial.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, seemed poised last week to hand Trump a massive win when she indicated she might delay proceedings. But Friday’s ruling means th... | US Federal Policies |
Americans with family overseas who hope to visit the United States may soon face an increased risk of being surveilled by their own government.
Support in Congress is growing for intensified vetting procedures at the US border, which would see immigrants and foreign visitors subjected to the same levels of scrutiny as ... | US Federal Policies |
Have you been watching America’s messiest reality show? The latest episodes have featured backstabbing, power struggles, post-divorce histrionics, salacious gossip, cattiness, and bitchy, self-righteous to-camera monologues. No, I’m not talking about the new season of The Real Housewives of New York. I’m talking about ... | US Congress |
Senators flummoxed, ‘horrified’ by House leadership vacuum
Senators return to Washington this week feeling completely flummoxed by the turmoil in the House and with no clear idea of whether House Republicans will elect a Speaker anytime soon.
Republican senators have called on their House colleagues to unify behind a S... | US Congress |
House Republicans have floated launching an impeachment inquiry against President Biden amid newly surfaced allegations that suggest his involvement in the business dealings his son, Hunter. But can congressional lawmakers initiate the use of that constitutional tool for alleged treason, bribery or high crimes and misd... | US Political Corruption |
Can you trademark a joke about the former president’s dick? This critical constitutional question may soon be decided by the Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, the honorable justices of the highest court in the land will hear arguments in the case of Steve Elster, an attorney and activist, who attempted to trademark the phra... | SCOTUS |
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Republicans are discussing a plan to empower Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry, R-NC, to all... | US Congress |
New Report from Senator Warren: Millions of Americans at Risk of Financial Distress if Supreme Court Blocks Student Debt Cancellation
Report Finds Student Loan Burden Disproportionately Impacts Black, Latino, and Low-Income Borrowers.
“If the Supreme Court upholds the spurious challenges to President Biden’s cancellati... | SCOTUS |
A man suspected of sending a woman a Facebook message that said, "So I raped you," remains on the run two years after charges were filed over the former Gettysburg College student's 2013 campus sexual assault. Shannon Keeler, 28, and her attorneys question howhas avoided capture in an age when people are tracked by the... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
- On Friday, 128 of the 222 House Republicans signed onto an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to block student-debt relief.
- It came alongside a separate brief filed by 43 GOP senators opposing the relief.
- They both argued that Biden doesn't have the authority to cancel student debt using the HEROES Act of 2003... | SCOTUS |
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) checked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she brought up the removal of a Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue while going to bat for an amendment barring the use of funds to remove national monuments.
Greene – who cited George Orwell’s “1984” while rambling about “Communist Demo... | US Federal Policies |
Rep. Rosa DeLauro gave Marjorie Taylor Greene what she called "a basic level lesson in civics" in the House on Tuesday after the Republican suggested the 80-year-old Democrat had forgotten the chamber had just voted to pass another funding bill, which she linked to her age.
On Tuesday the House passed legislation backe... | US Congress |
The House will take up Republicans' standalone Israel aid bill Thursday afternoon, with Democrats firmly opposed to passing aid for Israel in a measure separate from aid to Ukraine and other national security interests.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he'll bring the bill to the floor on Tuesday. The supplemental aid p... | US Congress |
Republicans shared their thoughts on the violent protests outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Wednesday night that saw U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officers pepper sprayed by protesters.
The Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., saw fireworks on Wednesday night when pro-Palestinian protesters clas... | US Political Corruption |
Woman believed to be girlfriend of suspect in Colorado property shooting is also arrested
A woman believed to be the girlfriend of a man supected of killing three people and wounding a fourth in a property dispute in rural Colorado is also being held in connection with the shooting
DENVER -- A woman believed to be the ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Justice department expected to submit redactions to Mar-a-Lago search affidavit todayThe justice department will probably submit today their proposed redactions to the affidavit that justified the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, US media report.The redactions are likely to be filed under seal, meaning... | US Political Corruption |
A new proposal by the Biden administration would dramatically cut monthly payments in half, with monthly payments as low as zero for many borrowers, while completely wiping out the remaining balance for some borrowers after 10 years of payments.Unlike the administration’s previous plan granting selective student-debt f... | US Federal Policies |
Federal prosecutors have charged seven people in an alleged nationwide network that trafficked stolen human body parts and remains taken from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary—a "heinous crime" that involved the desecration of stillborn babies, faces, brains, hearts, skin, genitalia, bones, and other body... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
House GOP floats telework restrictions, drastic spending cuts as Congress weighs options to avert shutdown
House and Senate have diverging plans to temporarily keep agencies afloat as Republicans propose budget rescissions and civilian job reductions.
House Republicans on Thursday hit another snag toward passing fiscal... | US Federal Policies |
The unprecedented ousting of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy created many unknowns, chief among them whether the next speaker, who has the power to decide which bills the House considers, will support bringing a vote on Ukraine aid to the floor.
Congressman Jim Jordan, who's announced a bid for speaker, has made hi... | US Congress |
- Medical debt is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S.
- 100 million Americans have amassed almost as much medical debt as the size of Greece’s economy
- The financial burden has pushed many patients to skip needed health care, cut grocery budgets, take another mortgage
Cindy Powers was driven into b... | US Federal Policies |
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