(Sean Reed, The Center Square) Illinois State Rep. Carrol Ammons, recently federally indicted on multiple charges of wire fraud, pleaded not guilty in her first court appearance Thursday morning.
With the courtroom gallery at its maximum capacity of 49 people, roughly 30 people, consisting of members of the public —...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The widow of the man killed during the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania says she thinks that the attack was an inside job.
“I don’t believe there was another shooter there, but I believe he was working with somebody. I...
(Headline USA) An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday.
Tau is one part of a toxic duo fueling Alzheimer’s but prior attempts to develop drugs that can...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The United States appears to be on the cusp of returning to full-scale strikes against Iran after pounding the Islamic Republic over the weekend, stemming from Iranian aggression over control of the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump told Fox News Monday that the U.S....
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With the SAVE America Act facing an uphill climb even before the unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Saturday, President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to find a legislative workaround that would allow them to close election-integrity loopholes.
One solution may be targeting...
(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) California saw $1.4 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program errors for Fiscal Year 2025.
That accounts for $3.8 million every single day.
That's part of a trend of Southwestern states having to repay the federal government for SNAP benefits.
A payment error rate refers to instances of...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) More than $225 million in fraud was reported by state education departments and school districts from 2019 to 2026, according to a new report.
Open the Books, a federal spending watchdog, and the State Financial Officers Foundation, analyzed six years’ worth of reports from the...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) President Donald Trump called the American military operation in Iran a “tremendous military success” on Wednesday at a news conference concluding his time at the 2026 NATO Summit.
He also called the conflict a war, though it has yet to be declared a war by...
(Headline USA) Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. A federal judge fined her $5,000 and cited her otherwise law-abiding life in issuing the sentence.
“I think this is a...
(Headline USA) The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk strolled Utah Valley University in shorts and a T-shirt, bought a meal at Chick-fil-A and made contact with Kirk's staff, before returning in different clothes to shoot the conservative activist from a rooftop, an investigator testified Tuesday.
Utah State Bureau of...
(Headline USA) A woman who previously dated Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report released Monday, leading prominent supporters to pull their endorsements and throwing a must-win race for the party...
(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) More than 400 fugitives have been arrested in Illinois, and another 117 in Missouri, over the last two months.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said recently that 305 fugitives were brought into custody since May 1.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said...