(Headline USA) Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday and will face longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in a race that could decide which party controls the chamber.
Jackson replaces Graham Platner, who won the Democratic primary in...
(Headline USA) A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts, including murder, in a shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia that killed two students and two teachers.
Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously...
(Headline USA) Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever.
Fellow lawmakers and survivors...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Erika Kirk sat through five days of testimony in a Utah courtroom this month as prosecutors reconstructed her husband's killing, and people close to the family say she left carrying sadness rather than the rage she expected, according to the Daily Mail.
The hearing placed her...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A state appeals court on Monday set aside convictions for two men involved in an FBI-manufactured plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
As has been widely reported in both liberal and conservative media alike, the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer was highly driven...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The father of deceased Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has filed a lawsuit over the graphic sexual abuse allegations published about him in Giuffre’s posthumous memoir.
Giuffre’s memoir, which was published last October, accuses her father, Sky Roberts Sr., of molesting her when she was a girl. The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was sentenced to 38 months in prison on Wednesday for conspiring to steal trade secrets for the People’s Republic of China.
The ex-Fed official, John Harold Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, was arrested in January 2025. A...
(Headline USA) A Republican senator whose vote Todd Blanche needs to advance his nomination as attorney general suggested Thursday that his support hinges on Blanche first meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's accusers.
Sen. Thom Tillis' comments came a day after Blanche was pressed during his confirmation hearing over the Justice Department's...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The national news outlet CNBC ranked 10 Republican-led states as the worst to live in its 2026 America’s Top States for Business rankings.
Officials from Republican-led Texas, which ranked second to worst for quality of life in CNBC's report, scoffed at the rankings.
In its business...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Due to an apparent technicality, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man convicted in 2019 for plotting to bomb a bank in Oklahoma City.
The convicted OKC bomb plotter, Jerry Drake Varnell, filed a lawsuit last December, claiming that he has been...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, the only child in U.S. history to receive a presidential pardon from his father, praised the “rule of law” after winning a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne.
At the center of the lawsuit were Biden’s claims that Byrne defamed him by alleging...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Organizers of a so-called gay cruise were left fuming after their ship was denied entry to ports in both Egypt and Turkey, according to numerous reports.
The ship, Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady, was scheduled to dock in Turkey earlier this week but was turned away by local...