(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid to delay a prison sentence for longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon as he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 Commission.
Bannon filed an emergency appeal after a judge ordered him to report to prison on July 1...
(Headline USA) The former Uvalde schools police chief was indicted over his role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, the local sheriff said Thursday.
Pete Arredondo was indicted by a grand jury on 10 counts of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the “obstruction of an official proceeding” charge that the Justice Department wielded against hundreds of Jan. 6 protestors, ruling that the DOJ’s interpretation of the law would criminalize peaceful protest and other democratic activism.
The law in question was passed...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo received a scathing rebuke from the Texas Ethics Commission for illegally using government resources to advance her political agenda, reported the Texas Tribune on Thursday.
The commission slapped Hidalgo, an embattled Democrat, with a $500 fine after she violated ethics regulations by...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Breaking footage of a top aide for Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon facing arrest for drunken driving and public intoxication in 2021 put Gascon's office in hot water this week, according to the Daily Caller.
Police officers stopped Joseph Iniguez, Gascon's chief of staff at the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Republicans released new details this week about the CIA’s role in falsely deeming the Hunter Biden laptop as part of a Russian disinformation campaign before the 2020 election—including a bombshell revelation that Donald Trump’s own CIA director, Gina Haspel, greenlit the election-interference operation.
According to a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Bloomberg published a bombshell investigation Wednesday about an Israeli cybercriminal who scammed innocent victims out of untold millions of dollars while working as an FBI informant.
Citing interviews with some 50 anonymous government officials, Bloomberg reported that European law enforcement agencies are currently investigating the hacker-informant,...
(Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security admitted this week that it has identified more than 400 illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. by a network affiliated with ISIS.
Federal law enforcement has arrested 150 of the known illegals, according to a senior DHS official, but another 50 remain unknown. All...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the FBI is allowed to keep its records about pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein secret because there’s a risk that his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, could go back to trial.
The plaintiff seeking the Epstein records, news outlet Radar Online, filed...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., announced that nine lawmakers have joined her effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” of Congress, giving him until Friday to comply with a subpoena for an audio recording of President Joe Biden.
“It's important to note that when...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Another federal case highlights how Mexican cartel operatives in the U.S. are partnering with the Chinese underworld to traffic illicit drugs and launder the proceeds.
The Justice Department announced the result of a multi-year investigation after the DEA uncovered a partnership among Mexican Sinaloa Cartel...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) An election worker in Arizona’s Maricopa County who was arrested Friday for allegedly stealing a key fob to the state’s primary election tabulator machines, had plans to eventually run for the United States Senate, the Arizona Independent reported.
Maricopa County detectives recently arrested and charged Walter Ringfield Jr.,...