(Headline USA) The allegation sounded like the stuff of spy movies: A Pakistani businessman trying to hire hit men, even handing them $5,000 in cash, to kill a U.S. politician on behalf of Iran 's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
It was true, and potential targets of the 2024 scheme included...
(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) A number of U.S. representatives like to be driven in style, billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for limo service from their office accounts, an investigation by The Center Square found.
Six U.S. representatives charged taxpayers nearly $30,000 to hire chauffeured limousines in the...
(Headline USA) Two men arrested Monday in connection with a weekend shooting that wounded nine people inside a Cincinnati nightclub now face federal charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the southern district of Ohio said Tuesday.
Franeek Cobb, 24, and Derrick Long, 29, each face federal charges for illegally possessing...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Scandal-laden Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, reportedly gave a generous raise to the late aide he allegedly had an affair with and later burned herself when the relationship was exposed.
Congressional records show Gonzales’s office paid Regina Santos-Aviles thousands in additional pay in 2024, the same year the two allegedly became...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A transgender-identifying individual is facing a federal grand jury indictment over accusations he threatened to kill President Donald Trump in a series of social media posts.
According to court records reviewed by Headline USA, a Washington state grand jury indicted the 20-year-old suspect — Phillip Richard Wharton, also known...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI's New York office was hacked on Super Bowl Sunday in 2023, and intruders were able to access files about sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, according to an explosive FBI record unearthed from the “Epstein files"---the trove of documents released by the U.S. government pursuant...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration will halt approximately $259 million in federal funds from Medicaid in Minnesota, Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday.
Vance, alongside Administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz, cited concerns of fraud for the pause in payments. Oz said...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid backed the idea of Israel’s “biblical borders” when asked about the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s belief that Israel had the divine right to take over all the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers.
“I support...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In one year, illegal border crossings dropped by 96% at the southwest border, an historic shift from record highs during the Biden administration.
In January, 34,626 illegal border crosser apprehensions were reported nationwide, up from numbers hovering around 30,000 in October, November and December.
The January...
(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) The Nevada Gaming Commission this week sued a multi-billion dollar company as the latest predictions market drama unfolds on the national stage.
States across the country have been back-footed by the swift takeover of prediction markets in the gambling world. Nevada’s latest lawsuit positions the...
(Chris Dickerson, The Center Square) A federal judge has ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s practice of conducting arrests with masked, unidentifiable agents violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable seizures.
In a Feb. 19 opinion, U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin ordered the immediate release of petitioner Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos,...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Jean-Luc Brunel was prepared to provide testimony against Jeffrey Epstein when he abruptly ceased cooperating with federal prosecutors in 2016, newly released Justice Department files reveal, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The French modeling scout was secretly negotiating with lawyers representing Epstein's victims. Brunel's attorney...