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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A trial for a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Missouri's new photo identification requirement for voters is scheduled to begin Friday. Here is a look at the function of the law and why voting rights groups are suing:
WHAT THE LAW DOES
Missouri's GOP-led Legislature last year capped off... | US Federal Policies |
Rightwing media helped spawn the gang of Republican rabble-rousers who turned Kevin McCarthy’s speaker’s chair into an ejection seat.
But even though their own party members and some of those same media anchors are criticizing the eight lawmakers after last week’s debacle, experts say the professed outrage is just more... | US Congress |
The conservative US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has been condemned for maintaining “unprecedented” and “shameless” links to rightwing benefactors, after ProPublica published new details of his acceptance of undeclared gifts including 38 vacations and expensive sports tickets.
“Unprecedented. Stunning. Disgust... | SCOTUS |
“As president, I will once again stand strongly with the state of Israel, and we will cut off the money to the terrorists on day one,” said Mr Trump, who is leading the race to be the Republican 20204 nominee.
And he told a campaign rally in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, on Monday that he would “reimpose the travel ban on ... | US Federal Elections |
Good morning, and welcome to the midweek edition of the US politics blog. Guns, and the huge profits made by weapons manufacturers, are up for discussion in the House this morning when the oversight committee hears testimony from industry executives.It’s part of the Democratic majority’s push for tighter gun laws, incl... | US Congress |
When you buy a TV streaming box, there are certain things you wouldn’t expect it to do. It shouldn’t secretly be laced with malware or start communicating with servers in China when it’s powered up. It definitely should not be acting as a node in an organized crime scheme making millions of dollars through fraud. Howev... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Ventura County, California, are investigating the death of a Jewish man who was injured during a confrontation at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies and who died Monday, the sheriff’s department said.
Witnesses said Paul Kessler, 69, "was in a physical altercation with counter-p... | US Political Corruption |
“Anybody ever hear of Hannibal Lecter?” former President Donald Trump asked last night. “He was a nice fellow. But that’s what’s coming into our country right now.”
The leader of the Republican Party—and quite likely the 2024 GOP nominee—was on an extended rant about mental institutions, prisons, and, to use his phrase... | US Campaigns & Elections |
Touch-screen voting machines are now permitted across New York after the state Board of Elections voted to allow counties to purchase new systems last week. Now, voters can cast their ballot electronically, an update to traditional voter-marked paper ballots.
The updates have been met with backlash from some Republican... | US Federal Elections |
Education Department confirms student loans will restart even if government closes
About 28 million borrowers will be expected to make a payment in October.
The Biden administration is moving ahead with plans to resume collecting student loan payments in the coming days, regardless of whether the government shuts down ... | US Federal Policies |
Dairy farms are some of the most dangerous job sites in America. Much of the labor is done by immigrants working on small farms that operate with little safety oversight.
When Judy Kalepp became the municipal court judge in Abbotsford, Wisconsin, more than a decade ago, she was shocked to see how many Latinos were tick... | US Local Policies |
UPDATE: Man charged in Louisville airport security breach had weapon in his bag
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A Southern Indiana man was arrested after a breach in security at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF) Sunday morning.
Around 6:30 a.m., SDF said an individual breached the TSA security checkpoint... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Recent breaches of MGM's casino systems "were probably carried out by teens and young adults who have allied themselves with one of the world's most notorious ransomware gangs," writes the Washington Post's technology reporter.
Their alliance with the "Scattered Spider" group is described as "part of a trend that has a... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Friday it was assessing a claim made by the Lockbit cybercrime gang that it had "a tremendous amount" of sensitive data stolen from the aerospace giant that it would dump online if Boeing didn't pay ransom by Nov. 2.
The hacking group posted a count... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
"I will take Joe Biden at 100 vs. Ron DeSantis any day of the week at any age," Newsom said Thursday during the Fox News-hosted debate.
DeSantis disagreed, contending Biden is in cognitive decline and is "a danger to the country."
"He has no business running for president," DeSantis said. "And you know, Gavin Newsom ag... | US Federal Elections |
WESTFIELD, Ind. -- Indiana authorities have recovered two complete human DNA profiles from bones and bone fragments found on property once owned by a long-deceased businessman suspected in a string of killings in the 1980s and 1990s.
Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said Indiana State Police's laboratory was able ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
F.L. “Bubba” Copeland, the mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, and pastor at First Baptist Church of Phenix City, died by suicide Friday evening.
Copeland, a married father of three, “took his own life” around 5 p.m. Friday, said Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones.
Sheriff’s deputies received a request for a welfare check for ... | US Local Elections |
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Zoey Felix's short life was filled with turbulence.
Before the 5-year-old Topeka girl was raped and killed, worried neighbors say they saw her wandering, dirty and hungry. Police were called to her home dozens of times. Teachers raised alarms when she missed preschool. Records show both parents alleged ... | US Local Policies |
Shelter in place orders will be rescinded on Saturday for a number of Maine communities after the deadliest US mass shooting this year.
A manhunt for the suspected gunman, who killed 18 people and injured 13 others, is in its third day.
Police on Friday released the names of all the 18 victims.
They include a grandfath... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Democrat Don Carlson suspended his campaign for Rhode Island’s open congressional seat on Sunday, just days after Target 12 aired a report examining his conduct as a professor at Williams College.
“This was my first time running for elective office,” Carlson said in a statement. “I was prepare... | US Local Elections |
Washington — A federal appeals court in Washington said Friday that former President Donald Trump is not currently entitled to immunity from civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021,.
The opinion from the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
South Carolina authorities have confirmed they are investigating the death of Stephen Smith as a homicide, nearly eight years after the 19-year-old was found dead in the middle of a rural road from what was ruled to be a hit-and-run.
State police reopened Stephen Smith's case in June 2021 after discovering new evidence... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
MSNBC Host Scarborough Blasts Trump for Calling Jan. 6 Prisoners ‘Hostages’ Amid Jews Being Held in Gaza
More than 200 civilians have been kidnapped by Hamas during the terrorist group's attack on Israel
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Friday criticized former President Donald Trump for calling those who have been arrest... | US Political Corruption |
Reporters confronted President Biden about polls showing him well behind former President Trump in five out of six major battleground states on Thursday.
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Biden regarding the role of abortion in the upcoming 2024 election as well as his rivalry with Trump. Multiple ... | US Federal Elections |
A judge on Friday deniedhis Georgia election subversion case to federal court, ruling that the Trump White House chief of staff must fight the charges in state court instead.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones in Atlanta wrote in a 49-page ruling that Meadows "has not met even the 'quite low' threshold" to move his case t... | US Political Corruption |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin M... | US Congress |
A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was sentenced after being accused of stealing more than 1,500 pieces of mail from nearly 900 California customers, according to federal prosecutors.
The 44-year-old woman was sentenced to five years probation and 200 hours of community serviceafter officials say she took mail f... | US Federal Policies |
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., inched closer Wednesday to confirming that he could run for president.
"I will do anything I can to help my country, and you're saying, 'Does that mean you would consider it?' Absolutely," Manchin said in an exclusive interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker.
"Ev... | US Federal Elections |
To accurately measure the metabolism of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign we must invoke the images and manners of the bestiary’s most indolent and sluggish creatures. The three-toed sloth, which favors slow motion. The echidna, which would lose a race against a continental plate. The nurse shark, which is so l... | US Federal Elections |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a bill on Sunday that would have made free condoms available all public high school students, arguing it was too expensive for a state with a budget deficit of more than $30 billion.
California had about 1.9 million high school students enrolled in more than 4... | US Local Policies |
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed fellow 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after he brought up her daughter in Wednesday’s GOP primary debate.
The tense exchange came amid debate over whether to ban the social media app TikTok, which FBI and other national security officials have warned co... | US Federal Elections |
Far-right conservative groups are promoting a sprawling “battle plan” to obstruct and undo the federal government’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis, with hopes of quickly enacting a series of sweeping changes if Donald Trump, or any other Republican, gets elected as president next year.
The 920-page proposal, if i... | US Federal Policies |
A former UK intelligence worker called himself a terrorist after stabbing a US government employee in a "vicious" attack, a court has heard.
Joshua Bowles, 29, attacked the woman in a leisure centre car park, three miles from GCHQ's base on 9 March.
In August, Bowles, from Welwyn Mews in Cheltenham, pleaded guilty to a... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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The Madison, Wis., office of Wisconsin Family Action was firebombed and vandalized on in May 2022. Nearly a year later, federal authorities say they tracked down a suspect with the help of DNA from a half-eaten burrito.
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The Madison, Wis., office of Wisconsin Family Action was fi... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Republicans have “been after Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid for a long, long time.”
The first major fight of the 118th Congress has arrived on Capitol Hill. It’s about the debt ceiling, with some Republicans threatening to default on the United States national debt in order to score political concessions fro... | US Federal Policies |
Bill Omar Carrasquillo, better known by his YouTube name Omi In a Hellcat, has been arrested after the feds found Carrasquillo had amassed a $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme in which he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable TV. Jalopnik reports: He was sentenced to five years in p... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The grieving mom of Stephen Smith said she finally feels “some peace” after investigators reopened the case into the mysterious death of her son – whom she believes was beaten to death in a “hate crime” because he was gay.
“This is what I’ve been fighting for, and I’m finally getting it,” Sandy Smith told CNN’s Anderso... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The campaign office of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sits deep in the Bronx, across the street from a Chinese takeaway and 99-cent discount store, near enough to a railway bridge to hear the rumble of passing trains. The front window of the plain redbrick building is dominated by a big, smiling photo of the US congresswoman... | US Federal Elections |
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who overcame Democratic silencing efforts to become one of the most effective voices on the Right, is getting ready to settle some scores with an autobiography that could pave the way to higher office — including the vice presidency.
Greene told Secrets th... | US Congress |
Nearly nine months after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) suffered a stroke on the campaign trail, the first-term senator faces lingering health challenges as he adjusts to life in the Senate.
He continues to struggle with auditory processing, making it difficult to understand the words of his colleagues. At its worst, Fette... | US Congress |
In 2012, a wide swath of conservative pundits — Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Michael Barone, Jennifer Rubin, among others — insisted that, polling evidence to the contrary, Mitt Romney was the clear favorite to win the presidential election. These arguments, which had varying levels of plausibility, flamed out in the most h... | US Federal Elections |
In politics, it's an axiom if not a flat-out rule that you should have, if not a soul, at least a brain. What, then, to make of a political party that elevates from its ranks to positions of power people who have neither? Dear readers, I give you Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy, two slithering dwellers of the political... | US Congress |
The House Freedom Caucus took an official position against House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avert a government shutdown, which he will aim to pass with support from Democrats on Tuesday.
“The House Freedom Caucus opposes the proposed ‘clean’ Continuing Resolution as it contains no spending reductions, no bo... | US Congress |
Over the past year, large-scale robberies have swept through stores like Louis Vuitton in San Francisco's Union Square and a nearby Nordstrom, which was robbed by 80 people.
Law enforcement and retailers have warned the public that this isn't traditional shoplifting. Rather, what they're seeing is theft organized by cr... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
FBI ends investigation of car wreck at Niagara Falls bridge, no indication of terrorism
The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- The FBI has ended its investigation... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
A Colorado man who allegedly hit a police officer with a 2x4 wooden plank during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison.
Jacob Travis Clark of Colorado Springs was sentenced to 33 months in prison, followed by 12 months of supervised release, the Justice Department said in a news release.
... | US Federal Elections |
During an interview Wednesday on CNN, host Dana Bash asked Mullin why he touched his wedding ring as he got to his feet during Tuesday’s altercation with Teamsters union boss Sean O’Brien, according to a clip posted by Mediaite.
Mullin, a former MMA fighter, said he wanted to make sure he didn’t hurt his hand when hitt... | Labor Activism |
A federal judge ruled that the jury hearing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit will only need to decide how much money Donald Trump will have to pay her, after the judge found the former president was liable for making defamatory statements.
The finding is a significant blow to Trump, who is facing numerous criminal ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
ATLANTA -- Georgia election officials said Wednesday that they would need six to nine months to install new software and hardware to update the state’s voting system to protect against security flaws, pushing back against calls to update the system before the 2024 election cycle.
“It’s really not an upgrade,” state Dep... | US Federal Elections |
The FBI whistleblower has called House Republicans "soulless demons" after they voted for funds for a new FBI headquarters, and have not taken steps to reform the troubled bureau.
In a tweet posted on X, Thursday, November 9, whistleblower Steve Friend called out the House GOP after they voted to give the FBI a new $30... | US Federal Policies |
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Advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson, adorn the front of the News Corporation building in a 2019 file photo. The cable channel faces a defamation suit going to trial next week based on lies it aired about Dominion Voting System's role in the ... | US Political Corruption |
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Inspector General Teri Donaldson issued a stark warning Thursday that the Biden administration is not properly equipped to manage a behemoth $400 billion green energy loan program.
Donaldson — whose remarks were delivered during testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Co... | US Federal Policies |
But aside from undermining the U.S. response to Hamas's terrorist attacks and Israel's declaration of war, the standoff could undercut President Joe Biden as he tries to keep the government open past Nov. 17 and, after that, continue to help Ukraine.
The House Republican speakership standoff could bring Congress to a s... | US Congress |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Backers of an effort to repeal Alaska's ranked choice voting system violated campaign finance rules and obscured the source of their funding, including forming a church that could have allowed donors to gain tax advantages for their contributions while skirting disclosure mandates, a complaint alle... | US Local Elections |
Stung by his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump allegedly stopped eating and grew depressed after his White House departure, prompting his staffers to encourage Rep. Kevin McCarthy to visit him at his Florida estate, according to an upcoming book by his ex-House colleague Liz Cheney.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) purportedly made ... | US Federal Elections |
Joe Biden visits Kentucky in aftermath of deadly floodsJoe Biden is visiting eastern Kentucky today to visit areas inundated and families devastated by the terrible flooding a week ago that killed dozens of people.The US president is leaving his seaside residence at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for Dover air force base an... | US Federal Policies |
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Thursday he would not seek re-election to the Senate.
"To the West Virginians who have put their trust in me and fought side by side to make our state better – it has been an honor of my life to serve you," he wrote in a post on X, including a video explaining his decision.
"After m... | US Federal Elections |
The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has severed the case, ordering that 17 defendants -- including Donald Trump -- will not be tried alongside speedy trial defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell on Oct. 23.
The ruling comes as Judge Scott McAfee is preparing to hear arguments this morning... | US Political Corruption |
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 s... | US Federal Policies |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
Tonya Wichman has overseen elections in a rural Ohio county for eight years and hasn’t experienced any significant problems with voting or counting the ballots. But that doesn't mean no big worries at all.
What does concern her is the frequent harassment, intimidation and even ph... | US Political Corruption |
Almost 70K ‘questionable’ Social Security numbers used for $5.4B in pandemic-related loans: watchdog
A pandemic watchdog group identified nearly 70,000 “questionable” Social Security numbers that were used to obtain $5.4 billion in pandemic-related federal loans.
The group, The Pandemic Response Accountability Committe... | US Federal Policies |
Former Vice President Mike Pence will argue that populism is incompatible with conservatism despite the former's growing presence in the Republican Party in a major address of his 2024 campaign on Wednesday.
In a speech titled Populism vs. Conservatism: Republicans' Time for Choosing at the New Hampshire Institute of P... | US Federal Elections |
The response, however, did not actually answer whether he had one.
Fox News Sunday moderator Shannon Bream pressed Johnson on whether he had a bank account, citing a Vanity Fair write-up of The Daily Beast’s report and noting that “there’s been so much made about it.”
“Can you clear that up for us?” Bream asked.
Johnso... | US Political Corruption |
“I can tell you there’s one fellow that just hates Florida: his name is Joe Biden,” governor Ron DeSantis declared in a February speech to a major gathering of conservatives.Widely seen as a potential heir to the Republican throne in 2024 if Donald Trump decides not to run or is rejected by voters, DeSantis has spent m... | US Federal Elections |
In a declining society, the images of an aging leadership can come to embody a general sense of withering and decay. A civic nightmare becomes the caricaturist’s dream. In Moscow, the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties was the era known as zastoi, the time of stagnation. Leonid Brezhnev, the Communist Party’s l... | US Federal Elections |
A majority of Americans believe that President Biden has acted either illegally or unethically in how he has handled the controversial business dealings of his son, Hunter.
Only 30% of American adults believe Biden has "note done anything wrong" when it comes to the business dealings of his son, according to the result... | US Political Corruption |
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have a Colorado lawsuit aimed at kicking him off the 2024 ballot in the state moved to federal court.
In a court filing on Thursday, lawyers for Trump argued the suit brought earlier this week by a group of six voters should be moved from state court to federal court because ... | US Federal Elections |
BISMARCK, N.D. -- A federal judge in North Dakota has denied a request from supporters of congressional age limits to temporarily allow out-of-state petition circulators as they seek to advance their proposed ballot measure.
U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland on Thursday said their request for a preliminary injun... | US Federal Elections |
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner encouraged observers on Friday to "watch the dominos fall" after a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case accepted a plea deal.
Last month, a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, voted to indict Trump and 18 others in connection with... | US Political Corruption |
The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, has touted some extremely controversial opinions as a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus—but few as unsavory as his apparent hatred for a woman’s right to choose, sizing a woman’s worth up as her ability to create more workers for American businesses.
In a clip that surfac... | US Congress |
Donald Trump was in Iowa on Saturday for two campaign stops, the first in Ankeny, followed by a stop in Cedar Rapids. And his obsession with the 2020 election continues to be a subject he seems to think is crucial as he campaigns to win the Republican presidential nomination, despite his position being unsubstantiated ... | US Federal Elections |
BOISE, Idaho — A mom accused of killing her two youngest children and a romantic rival described some people as possessed or “zombies,” four of whom were later killed or shot at, the woman’s former friend told jurors.
Melanie Gibb testified Thursday in the Idaho trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, telling jurors that the two... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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Democratic presidential ... | US Federal Elections |
A “cybersecurity issue” at MGM Resorts has forced the famous hotel and casino company to shut down many of its systems, according to a statement the company posted just before noon ET on X (formerly Twitter). MGM replaced its homepage with a message apologizing for the site’s outage and providing a list of concierge ph... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
In the Age of Trump, there has been an increase in right-wing violence and terrorism. This includes obvious examples such as the Jan. 6 coup attempt, mass shootings and other acts of violence. The growing dangers of right-wing political violence also include increasingly open and direct calls for a second civil war, a ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
With a partial government shutdown looming in less than a week, US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson unveiled a two-step plan on Saturday to fund the government through the new year. The stopgap funding bill, often referred to as a “continuing resolution,” would extend funding for several federal agencies until late Ja... | US Federal Policies |
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty
Exclusive A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technic... | US Federal Policies |
Lori Vallow Daybell is on trial in Boise, Idaho, forof her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan; her 7-year-old adopted son, Joshua "JJ" Vallow; and her husband's first wife, Tammy Daybell. She had pleaded not guilty.
The trial, which is expected to last up to 10 weeks, started on Monday, April 10, after a week of jury sel... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Months after a grand jury indicted a Missouri man accused of holding a Black woman captive in his basement on nine charges, a potential witness that police had been trying to find for months in the case has been found dead.
Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced in a press release Monday that remai... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
A 3-year-old boy has been shot and killed while in the car with his mother and brother in Cleveland, authorities said.
An adult man -- who was not in the car -- was also shot in the Thursday afternoon incident, Cleveland police said. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Several persons of int... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Nevada attorney general is investigating false electors who aided Trump in 2020
The state’s attorney general is investigating the efforts of Republicans who falsely claimed to be Trump electors.
The attorney general of Nevada is quietly investigating Republican activists and operatives who falsely pledged the state’s s... | US Political Corruption |
A woman has shared her story about being cyberstalked by her estranged husband in hopes of saving others from the same fate.
Jennifer, whose name has been changed for privacy, told DailyMail.com that her nightmare began when she started receiving strange notifications stating her social media accounts were accessed fr... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Biden turns ‘Godfather’ on prescription drugs
They say that wherever government gets involved, there are unintended consequences — results that most people who had initially cheered on government action hadn’t considered. But the cynic in me believes there are few truly unintended consequences — that most proposals are... | US Federal Policies |
Former President Donald Trump dashed out of the courtroom with Secret Service agents in tow in the midst of his former lawyer and "fixer," Michael Cohen's, testimony Wednesday in his New York civil fraud trial, NBC News reports. The dramatic exit came after the former lawyer took the stand himself in a surprising twist... | US Political Corruption |
Former President Donald Trump targeted former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley following the second Republican primary debate on Wednesday, intensifying a rivalry that has mostly remained on the sidelines of both campaigns.
Trump’s campaign released a lengthy email, headed “The Real Nikki Haley,” that described th... | US Federal Elections |
Federal Judge Rejects Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Request for New York Man to Pay for Security Fence at Home
The Department of Justice backed Greene's effort to get the electric fence bill at her home in Georgia paid for
A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., to order a man who... | US Federal Policies |
- Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose consulted with three anti-abortion groups while drafting ballot language for an abortion-rights measure.
- The ballot summary faced criticism from Issue 1 supporters, who deemed it "misleading and defective."
- The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that only the part suggesting limiting ci... | US Local Elections |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — “How would you be different as speaker, compared to Mr. Boehner?” a repo... | US Congress |
The first wife of “Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow Daybell’s husband may have been restrained when she died under mysterious circumstances three years ago, a medical examiner testified this week.
Bruises consistent with being restrained were discovered on the arms and chest of Tammy Daybell, who was married to Lori’s husband... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Thousands of information technology workers contracting with US companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said.
The Justice Department said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted... | US Political Corruption |
News networks should be taken off air and investigated for treason. The nation’s top military official should be executed. A state judge presiding over a trial against him, and the attorney general suing him, should be arrested. People seeking asylum in the US are “poisoning the blood of our country” and should be turn... | US Political Corruption |
Donald Trump appeared to undermine his claim that he did not deliberately seek to overturn the results of the 2020 election while speaking during a campaign rally in 2021.
The former president and frontrunner in the GOP primaries is facing a federal indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith in August 2023 over a... | US Federal Elections |
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It was another interesting day in Washington as House Republicans tried again, and failed again, to nominate a new speaker of the House, and the late-night hosts have been keeping close tabs on the situation.
The Hou... | US Congress |
Former President Trump said he would use federal "assets" to prevent shoplifting and theft during a California GOP speech on Friday.
Trump addressed the California GOP during a Friday luncheon where he discussed ideas to restore law and order in Golden State cities like Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Trump sai... | US Federal Elections |
- AOL co-founder and venture capitalist Steve Case worries that the government will allow Big Tech to pull the ladder up behind them when it comes to artificial intelligence innovation.
Policymakers in Washington are now engaged in a wide range of discussions regarding how to prevent AI technology from spinning out of ... | US Federal Policies |
Maine's Democratic secretary of state was questioned after claiming No Labels, a centrist group vying for a third-party spot on the 2024 ballot, was tricking voters into registering with the party.
"I am concerned about whether the secretary of state is creating concerns among voters who have voluntarily signed cards s... | US Federal Elections |
- To become speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy was forced to make several concessions.
- He agreed to change House rules to allow any member to bring a motion to vacate the speakership.
- Less than a year later, the decision is already coming back to haunt him.
About nine months after getting elected as speaker of th... | US Congress |
You know what they say: Scammers really do stay scamming.
On September 29, the FBI released a report warning the public, and particularly senior citizens, of "Phantom Hacker" scams that can leave victims with their entire life savings gone.
Scams focusing on senior citizens are nothing new, but the FBI called these "Ph... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The U.S. government and international partners just tackled a big cyber headache: QakBot. This malware has been a menace for businesses and agencies for ages. The organized force not only shut it down but also managed to reclaim millions in lost funds.
The FBI and Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hav... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Washington — The sprawling,of former President Donald Trump and 18 others lists 41 counts related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. All 19 defendants are charged with violating Georgia's , and the remaining counts relate to an alleged variety of schemes to keep Trump in office after he lost... | US Political Corruption |
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