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(Nolan McKendry, The Center Square) A New Orleans engineering firm that has contributed $115,000 to a political action committee closely aligned with Gov. Jeff Landry has been selected by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for work related to SpaceX's planned project in Vermilion Parish. Royal Engineers & Consultants...

(Headline USA) An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison plus hundreds of years of additional time after pleading...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department is escalating a criminal investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, issuing a raft of new grand jury subpoenas, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. Subpoenas seeking grand jury testimony...

(Headline USA) There was a shooting Thursday just outside the Republican Party of Virginia offices in Richmond. But it had nothing to do with the upcoming midterm elections, police said. The party said in a statement posted online that a woman was shot around 1:45 p.m. directly in front of the...

(Headline USA) Conservative activists James O'Keefe and Cam Higby were charged Wednesday with unlawful voting and identity theft after a they captured video footage of what they say are vulnerabilities in the state's voting laws. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the felony charges at a news conference. She said O'Keefe,...

(The Center Square) A top lieutenant general in a strategic planning position within the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been fired by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a Pentagon official tells The Center Square. Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was fired to “protect national security” after the general “failed three...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) The latest polling shows Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar leading Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth for Minnesota’s gubernatorial race. The average of the last four polls compiled by 270toWin report Klobuchar leading 48.3% to Demuth’s 41.5%. That is a difference of 6.8% and outside...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is sending an additional Patriot missile system to Israel to beef up the country’s air defenses as part of preparations for a potential US-Israeli attack on Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday night. It’s estimated that the US has used about 1,700...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Federal authorities have charged six individuals in Maine with allegedly defrauding the federal government by submitting false claims for home care services they didn't provide.  The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury indicted six individuals and...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In December 2024, the Justice Department announced the arrest of a teenage Egyptian national named Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, who allegedly sent bomb-making instructions to an FBI informant, and who allegedly told the informant to attack the Consulate General of Israel in New York City. However, in...

(Headline USA) A prominent Georgia Republican who ran a Ponzi scheme that federal prosecutors said caused losses of more than $76 million to more than 300 victims has been sentenced to spend 15 years in federal prison. Edwin Brant Frost IV, 69, had pleaded guilty in May to a charge...

(Headline USA) DNA connects serial killer Ted Bundy to the death of a Utah teenager, authorities announced Tuesday, exactly 52 years after her body was discovered in the woods by a hunter. Bundy has been dead since 1989, but the tally of his confirmed victims continues to grow due to...