(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) The Georgia district attorney who took on Donald Trump, only to be removed from the case over a romance with her lead co-counsel, likely spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money on the years-long racketeering prosecution. And taxpayers might be on the hook for...
(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down the state's redistricting amendment 4-3 on Friday.
Virginia’s congressional maps are to remain in place for the 2026 election cycle. The decision wipes out the results of the April 21 statewide referendum, which voters had approved...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI released another batch of records on Thursday about alleged would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks. The disclosure is in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by transparency group Judicial Watch.
The 52 pages of new documents offer little new information about Crooks,...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A new public data tool reveals that more than half of the 4,234 criminals granted early release by former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper in 2021 have been convicted of additional crimes or post release violations, according to a press release published by watchdog organization Cooper...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment claims that anger over the Iran war may have driven suspected shooter Cole Allen to attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Reuters reported.
The preliminary report from DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis,...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The CIA secretly spent millions of dollars staging fake academic conferences around the world to lure Iranian nuclear scientists out of their homeland and pitch them to defect, ProPublica reported in a 2017 story that's going viral again.
In one operation about a decade ago, the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Border czar Tom Homan has simultaneously floated legal status for some illegal immigrants while overseeing an aggressive deportation campaign that has detained nearly 300 DACA recipients since Donald Trump's second term began, creating widespread confusion about the administration's actual immigration endgame.
Homan initially floated the possibility...
(Headline USA) The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” like an object that a drone pilot says shone a bright light in the sky and then vanished.
It said in a post on X on...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has disclosed that there’s classified information in the case of Payton Gendron, the mass shooter who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, 2022. The DOJ wants to keep that information hidden at Gendron’s federal trial, which is set...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Mozambique officials are considering converting $1.4 billion in debt it owes China into yuan loans as part of a debt restructuring plan.
This is yet another sign of ongoing de-dollarization.
A spokesperson from the country’s finance ministry hinted that the Chinese suggested the move.
“In this specific...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After going negative in March after the outbreak of hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, flows of gold into ETFs flipped positive again in April, with all regions reporting inflows of metal.
Net global ETF gold holdings increased by 45 tonnes, totaling $6.6 billion...
(Headline USA) Federal authorities said they arrested 18 people Wednesday on charges related to selling illicit drugs including fentanyl and methamphetamine around a Los Angeles park.
The area, called MacArthur Park, is a densely populated immigrant neighborhood west of downtown LA where federal immigration authorities and the National Guard made...