(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A congressional hearing featuring ICE Director Todd Lyons grew tense after Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., accused him of having “blood” on his hands and asked him what would happen to him on Judgment Day.
Lyons was testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday when...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Texas’s first openly gay judge was suspended without pay after being indicted in a criminal case involving allegations of courtroom abuse of power.
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct suspended Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez on Thursday after a Bexar County grand jury indicted her on charges of official oppression and...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., concealed her identity in an email using a pseudonym to solicit money from longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein, according to a recent report covering DOJ-released emails.
In one email, dated May 5, 2017, Plaskett used the pseudonym “LeRoy Daughter,” an apparent reference to her father, LeRoy...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In 2017, Oklahoma man Jerry Drake Varnell was the target of a sting operation to bomb a bank.
In that case, the FBI initially determined that Varnell, who is schizophrenic, “does not appear to have the means to actually commit this act." Nevertheless, the FBI had...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) A search warrant for the Fulton County Election Board offices is part of a plan to "dramatically remake" elections, said Lauren Groh-Wargo, CEO of Fair Fight Action.
The FBI raided the Georgia office on Jan. 28, taking physical ballots, tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter...
(Headline USA) A Mexican cartel drone incursion prompted an hourslong closure of airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas that was lifted on Wednesday morning, the Trump administration said.
Just hours earlier, the Federal Aviation Administration had announced a 10-day closure grounding all flights to and from the airport.
Transportation...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A North Carolina sheriff admitted he did not know how many branches of government exist and then named the wrong one during a state legislative hearing called in response to a series of deadly train stabbings, and Gun Owners of America wasted no time connecting...
(Headline USA) Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie released the first surveillance images Tuesday showing a masked person with what looked like a handgun holster on her porch the night she went missing more than a week ago.
Video released by the FBI shows the person wearing a backpack...
(Headline USA) Under questioning from Democrats on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after the late financier's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick's previous claim that he had cut ties with him after 2005.
Lutnick again downplayed his...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. House Oversight Committee is investigating claims of noncitizen voting in Michigan.
U.S. Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and John James, R-Mich., sent a letter on Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting a briefing on how the Department of Justice is handling government reports...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Ghislaine Maxwell, close associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer the House Oversight Committee’s questions in her virtual deposition Monday.
With Maxwell invoking her Fifth Amendment right to any and all questions, the deposition ended early, vexing both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
“This...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Newly released government documents show Jeffrey Epstein ordered 330 gallons of sulfuric acid for his private island on the same day federal investigators launched a sex trafficking case against him, according to records released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law November 19,...