(Headline USA) Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is facing new bribery allegations in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday that accuses him of illegally doing favors for Qatar and Egypt officials in exchange for money.
The indictment does not add new charges against Menendez, who was indicted last year for federal bribery. But...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Jan. 6 protestor pushed from a 30-foot-high staircase has sued Capitol Police Officer Bryant Williams and House Speaker Mike Johnson over the incident.
The protestor, Derrick Vargo, seeks monetary damages, a court order declaring that Williams attempted to murder him, and an order for Speaker...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department’s sweetheart plea deal for Capitol Hill provocateur Ray Epps may have opened the door for other Jan. 6 defendants to have charges against them dismissed.
At least that’s what defendant William Pope argued in a Jan. 2 motion to dismiss, which came on...
(Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigations) In a fiery exchange last month, CNN anchorwoman Abby Phillip told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that there was “no evidence” to support his claim that federal agents abetted protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Ramaswamy shot back that the FBI conspicuously has never denied that law...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Despite having an abundance of evidence about Capitol Hill provocateur Ray Epps by early 2021, the FBI initially closed its investigation into him by July of that year, according to records filed Tuesday on the federal court docket.
The Justice Department apparently reopened the Epps case...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A Venezuelan man who illegally entered the U.S. was arrested after wielding a machete and knife in the U.S. Capitol building the day after Christmas. He is being processed for removal.
Jose Leonardo Marquez--Marquez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan national, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Dec....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Two New York men were arrested after allegedly orchestrating fake armed robberies across the country in an illegal attempt to secure immigration perks, federal prosecutors announced on Dec. 29.
Rambhai Patel, 36, and Balwinder Singh, 39, each face a count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud for...
(Headline USA) The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack.
It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its existing plant that dates to the 1930s or the new $18.5 million one it is...
(Headline USA) The Massachusetts attorney general revealed this week that she will not be investigating Boston Mayor Michelle Wu over a racially-segregated Christmas party she hosted because it allegedly did not violate the law.
Wu’s office sent an email invitation to city hall staffers last year inviting them to an “Electeds...
(Headline USA) A man leaving the scene of a car wreck Tuesday shot his way into the Colorado Supreme Court building and inflicted “extensive damage” to the building before being arrested by police, authorities said, adding the incident seems unrelated to the court's recent ruling banning former President Donald Trump from the...
Update: A suicide note found at the scene of a fiery New Year's Eve crash that left two innocent victims dead and four innocent victims injured---one critically---will shift the focus of an investigation that had been seen as a possible terrorist attack, the New York Post reported.
On Tuesday, law...
(Headline USA) Just a year and a half since the July 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shook the world, another Asian leader was attacked in broad daylight, raising questions as to whether there might be some connection---and it so, who is behind them and why?
The...