(Headline USA) Lawyers for disgraced ex-Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. are urging a judge to be lenient at his sentencing later this month for his conviction on bribery charges, saying the ordeal has made him a “national punchline."
Late Thursday, the lawyers wrote to the judge who will sentence him to...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) New York Judge Juan Merchan, who had indefinitely suspended President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing following a Supreme Court ruling that upended the lawfare conviction last year, demanded that Trump appear virtually or in person to be sentenced in the porn star case.
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Trump was summoned to appear...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., secured the 218 votes needed to hold his position in the first round of voting after two holdouts---Reps. Ralph Norman, R-N.C., and Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, changed their respective votes supporting Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Jim Jordan of...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance took a day to play golf with Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., photos and videos posted on social media showed Thursday.
Schmitt shared video of himself and the incoming president at the golf course late Thursday, with one clip showing...
(Headline USA) Ten people were wounded in a shooting outside a New York City nightclub while they were waiting to get into a private event, police said.
About 15 people were standing outside Amazura Concert Hall at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens, when four men on foot approached the...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) A lightning strike hit the U.S. Capitol on New Year’s Eve, video posted to social media days before the 119th Congress begins Friday shows.
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But the U.S. Capitol was not the only significant U.S. landmark struck by lightning Tuesday night — additional footage shows three other lightning...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Multiple injuries were reported after a New Years’ Eve ballon drop malfunction led to a Lego display falling on a crowd of families Tuesday at arcade in Peabody, Massachusetts.
Video shows the 12-foot-tall brick display topple from the second floor onto “Noon Years’ Eve” attendees at the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Asif Merchant, the Pakistani man busted for hiring two undercover FBI agents to be “hitmen” in an Iranian-sponsored assassination plot against Donald Trump, has been held in solitary confinement under squalid conditions since his July 12 arrest, his attorney said in a letter last week.
“The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Secret Service’s counter-snipers left the July 13 deadly Trump rally believing that they took fire—with one of them telling Congress that he can’t use his agency’s radios anymore due to the trauma from the event, according to recently released interview transcripts.
The information that Secret...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A CBS reporter admitted Sunday that the legacy media underreported President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline but stopped short of acknowledging her own network’s role in the cover-up.
CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford made the admission during a segment on Face the Nation, during which guests discussed the most...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Prosecutors and operatives who worked for Special Counsel Jack Smith are working overtime to keep their skeletons in the closet ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.
Some individuals involved in the federal prosecution of Trump are seeking legal counsel, while others are retaining personal attorneys...
(Headline USA) A theme park resort and a huge hotel in central Florida either have stopped using drones or canceled their drone-based shows after several drones collided and fell from the sky during a separate holiday celebration in downtown Orlando.
The accident injured a boy who required surgery.
Universal Orlando said...