(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A former Manhattan District Attorney staffer exercised his Fifth Amendment rights while being questioned by House Judiciary Committee members in a May of 2023 hearing about the potentially illegal investigation of former President Donald Trump, Newsweek reported Thursday.
Ex-prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who at the time was...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Marilyn Mosby, former district attorney of Baltimore, Maryland, has requested a preemptive presidential pardon after receiving charges for perjury and mortgage fraud.
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A jury found Mosby guilty last November of illegally withdrawing funds from her city retirement and lying on a mortgage application in order to purchase...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former government employee who worked in the intelligence community was arrested this week for falsely accusing at least seven of his colleagues of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.
According to the Justice Department, the defendant, Mike Zapata, used a proxy web...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It was an old-fashioned romance scam, involving a man posing as a female online to induce unfortunate men to send him their life savings.
This scam, however, was fairly complex, involving a fake bank website and non-existent gold bars. The alleged perpetrator of this scam, Richard...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson showcased his sprinting skills on Thursday when reporters approached him for questions about a murdered police officer.
Following a community event in Chicago, Johnson hastily made his way to his security vehicle as reporters attempted to surround him with inquiries about the killing of...
(Headline USA) New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on Columbia University to pay up and help cover the cost of the New York Police Department’s efforts to shut down illegal student encampments this week.
Radical student protesters were finally removed from Columbia’s campus on Tuesday night after they took over...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The tech publication Wired reported Thursday that the Three Percenter, or III%er, militia is again proliferating on Facebook ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The Three Percenters are a national network of militias, the name being a reference to the fact that only about 3% of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The House passed legislation Wednesday that criminalizes Christian beliefs, and conflates criticism of the Israeli government with anti-Semitism—the latest response from lawmakers to a nationwide student protest movement over the Israel-Hamas war.
The proposal, which passed 320-91 with some bipartisan support, would codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The much-anticipated appeal hearing was held Thursday for Barry Croft and Adam Fox, the alleged “ringleaders” of the 2020 militia conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Croft and Fox were convicted of plotting to kidnap Whitmer after their second trial in late 2022. At their first trial...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the post-9/11 terror wars, the U.S. military used classified surveillance equipment to track people through their cell phones and license plates.
Now, such equipment is being purchases by small towns throughout the U.S. According to the political outlet NOTUS, at least two Texas towns along...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An embattled DOJ official is under scrutiny for failing to disclose her previous run-ins with the law during her confirmation hearings.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke omitted her arrest in a domestic violence incident involving her then-husband to the Senate.
Clarke, nominated by President Joe Biden in 2021...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Undercover journalist James O’Keefe released footage Wednesday of a CIA contractor corroborating report Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi published in February, in which they alleged that Obama-era CIA boss John Brennan altered a 2017 document to make it appear as if Russian President Vladimir Putin favored former President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
The video released...