(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., concealed her identity in an email using a pseudonym to solicit money from longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein, according to a recent report covering DOJ-released emails.
In one email, dated May 5, 2017, Plaskett used the pseudonym “LeRoy Daughter,” an apparent reference to her father, LeRoy...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In 2017, Oklahoma man Jerry Drake Varnell was the target of a sting operation to bomb a bank.
In that case, the FBI initially determined that Varnell, who is schizophrenic, “does not appear to have the means to actually commit this act." Nevertheless, the FBI had...
(Headline USA) A Mexican cartel drone incursion prompted an hourslong closure of airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas that was lifted on Wednesday morning, the Trump administration said.
Just hours earlier, the Federal Aviation Administration had announced a 10-day closure grounding all flights to and from the airport.
Transportation...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A North Carolina sheriff admitted he did not know how many branches of government exist and then named the wrong one during a state legislative hearing called in response to a series of deadly train stabbings, and Gun Owners of America wasted no time connecting...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Eric Burlison is one of the House Oversight Committee members investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs. As such, he is trying to visit Area 51 and other military bases that may hold UFOs or other secretive technologies.
According to Burilson, the Trump...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January alone, the Congressional Budget Office reports.
The number further heightens the risk that America will experience some kind of financial crisis unless...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cut the military's academic ties with Harvard and called for a sweeping review of all graduate programs with universities, including those in the Ivy League, in the coming weeks.
Hegseth said the money the Department of War pays Harvard for...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI held a tabletop exercise in June 2020 that previewed that year's disputed election and ensuing chaos during the Jan. 6, 2021, election certification process, according to newly released FBI records.
Dubbed an “alternative futures exercise,” the FBI’s Boston field office studied possible domestic extremist...
(Headline USA) Social media users incorrectly identified a small boy who was part of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday as Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who, along with his father, was detained by immigration officials in Minnesota and held at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
(Headline USA) One person was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday as police said that a person was in custody and the school's campus was on lockdown.
Police have a person in custody related to the shooting, according to the Montgomery County Department of Police in a...
(Headline USA) Lawmakers tried Monday to interview sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her 5th Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.
Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s...
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) The American Association of School Administrators hosted a members-only virtual webinar last week, providing school leaders with guidance on how to respond to potential encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on school campuses, according to materials exclusively obtained by The Center Square.
The webinar...