(Headline USA) In the summer of 2021, when the delta variant of COVID-19 was filling hospitals throughout the country, U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was conspiring to steal $5 million in federal disaster funds that were meant to slow the spread of the pandemic, prosecutors allege.
The Florida Democrat has been charged...
(Headline USA) Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees in mass job reductions that arrive as the telecommunications giant says it must “reorient” its entire company.
The job cuts began on Thursday, per to a staff memo from Verizon CEO Dan Schulman. In the letter, which was seen by...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Prosecutors defended how they presented the criminal case against former FBI boss James Comey to a grand jury after defense attorneys said the indictment failed to meet legal standards.
Defense attorneys had not filed a motion to challenge the indictment as of Thursday morning, but...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration threatened Thursday to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants.
The move by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to target Pennsylvania follows similar action against California. Both states...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson is said to have turned himself in to law enforcement on the evening of Sept. 11 after indicating to his parents that he was the man who gunned down Kirk the day before.
But according to local CBS affiliate KUTV...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Headline USA has obtained previously unpublished records about New York Attorney General Letitia James’s fugitive grandniece, who has reportedly been living rent-free at her Virginia property since 2020.
The grandniece, Nakia Monique Thompson, 36, is a key player in the Justice Department’s prosecution of James for mortgage...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday that its forces used US-provided ATACMS missiles in strikes on Russian territory, an attack that would require targeting data provided by the US.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully used ATACMS tactical missile systems to deliver a pinpoint strike on...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Newly released documents show Steve Bannon was receiving political advice, cryptocurrency funding proposals, and introductions to world leaders from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The correspondence between the two men from 2018 to 2019, released by the House Oversight Committee and reviewed by Byline Times, exposes...
Harvard University has reopened an investigation into connections between former President Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, a university spokesperson said Wednesday, and Summers' office said he would resign from the board of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
The university did not mention Summers by name, but the decision to restart the probe follows the release...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A political reporter's alleged pattern of pursuing sources romantically has come under scrutiny after her ex fiancé detailed what he describes as affairs with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mark Sanford.
Olivia Nuzzi, the 32-year-old reporter who sent raunchy photos of herself to Kennedy, 71, after...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, allegedly refused to appear before the House Oversight Committee for interviews in connection with the congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna suggested Monday that the Clintons stonewalled a congressional subpoena over...
(Headline USA) The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has pleaded guilty in New York to trying to recruit others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including one plot that would have involved dressing as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to children.
Federal prosecutors...