(Headline USA) A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old, who allegedly threatened the owner's son with a firearm.
The jury returned the verdict for Chikei Rick Chow. Chow, 61, who is Asian, shot Cyrus Carmack-Belton in...
(Headline USA) A prediction market reported former U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he'd be going to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance, according to the Associated Press.
Kalshi, the online prediction marketplace, referred Santos to the Department of...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is no more.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed in remarks to the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that the Department of Justice is walking away from the initiative.
“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche told lawmakers in...
(Headline USA) In a remarkable sign of the turmoil at CBS’s top-rated “60 Minutes,” correspondent Scott Pelley said CBS News head Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job, according to reports.
Pelley made his accusations in an introductory meeting...
(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has appointed members to a new council tasked with documenting the impacts of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS, two federal immigration enforcement operations that sparked controversy, litigation and criminal investigations that remain ongoing.
Walz, a Democrat, announced the appointments ...
(Tim Clouser, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $4 billion funding opportunity for homelessness services on Monday, shifting away from the Housing First model.
The notice of funding opportunity, or NOFO, for HUD’s Continuum of Care program, represents a major turning point in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Tuesday responded to an Axios report that alleged President Donald Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s escalations in Lebanon, saying that it was “all talk” and pointing out that the US could withhold military aid if...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that the United States isn’t producing enough anti-ballistic missiles and that he has requested a license for Ukraine to start producing Patriot missiles.
“There is not enough anti-ballistic missile production in the United States, and this could lead to a...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Border Patrol agents in Southern California have found another underground cross border tunnel, leading to the arrest of four men and the seizure of enough cocaine to kill 34 million people.
As illegal crossings across the southwest border have dropped by 95% under the Trump...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, has sued MS Now and two of its reporters for a story claiming that the bureau had agents escort one of her inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville.
The Dec. 5 story, written by Carol...
(Headline USA) Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.
He testified that U.S. negotiators have seen signs that Iran’s new supreme leader...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The two men who survived gunshot wounds from the July 13, 2024, Trump assassination attempt have sued the U.S. government for the egregious security failures from that fateful event.
The victims, Butler rallygoers Jim Copenhaver and David Dutch and their wives, seek over $150,000 apiece in...