(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) As the debate over a potential Jan. 19 TikTok ban in the United States intensifies, millions of users are preemptively flocking to another Chinese-owned app, sparking fresh concerns over data privacy and national security.
Meanwhile, lawmakers have urged a pause on the proposed ban to...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chaired the Democratic January 6th Commission, has said that he’ll accept a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden if offered one.
“I believe Donald Trump when he says he’s going to inflict retribution on this. I believe when he says my name and...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) After Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Monday that there was nothing preventing the partial release of ex-special counsel Jack Smith's report outlining his lawfare attack on President-elect Donald Trump, the Biden Justice Department made haste to do so, declaring that Trump would have been convicted if...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Calling it “egregious assaults on voting rights” and “sinister and shameful,” Democrats alongside North Carolina’s unsettled election battle lashed out at Republicans and Judge Jefferson Griffin on Monday afternoon.
Allison Riggs, the Democrat appointed to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Roy Cooper, was not...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) U.S. judge Indira Talwani has entered a default judgment against the white nationalist group Patriot Front, its leader Thomas Rousseau, and 99 anonymous group members—ordering them to pay more than $2.7 million to a black man they allegedly accosted in July 2022 in an incident...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Oran Alexander Routh, the son of failed Trump assassin Ryan Routh, has struck an agreement with the Justice Department to plea guilty to one count of possessing child pornography in exchange for having the other charges against him dropped.
Oran Routh was initially arrested on Sept. 24...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the DOJ, according to newly released legal filings reported by Politico.
Smith quit Friday, two years after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed him to go after President-elect Donald Trump—a move that ultimately failed when an overwhelming majority of Americans returned Trump...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) CNN commentator Elie Honing said the “will of the voters” prevailed despite President-elect Donald Trump’s political conviction of 34 felony counts in New York.
Trump ripped Democrats on Friday as corrupt Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge — just to label him a “convicted...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Notorious climate alarmist Michael Mann, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was ordered to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees to National Review, the publication revealed on Friday.
Mann filed a defamation lawsuit against the publication in 2012 after National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Bloomberg journalist Jason Leopold announced Friday that he’s obtained nearly 900 pages of emails written by Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, Kash Patel. The emails come from Patel’s time serving in the first Trump administration’s Office of Director of National Intelligence.
Leopold said he filed...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats and the New York judge who sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, meaning he won't go to jail, before taking office on Jan. 20.
Trump, who attended the New York hearing virtually, vowed to appeal the sentence in a...
(Headline USA) In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for...