(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump pardoned Friday Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, the former Navy sailor serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in a high-profile gun case that drew widespread condemnation from pro-Second Amendment organizations, activists and Republican lawmakers.
Adamiak, 32, of Virginia, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in...
(Headline USA) The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring with a bang.
The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%.
Hiring far exceeded the 65,000 jobs that forecasters had expected, according to a poll by FactSet. Labor Department...
(Headline USA) Federal regulators are opening an investigation into whether Tesla’s new steering-wheel-free taxis comply with safety rules, a day after the company began offering rides in the vehicles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was looking into whether Tesla was in full compliance with federal rules when it...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he was “extremely skeptical” of Iranian media reports that the US bombed a wedding in Iran on Tuesday, despite overwhelming evidence from other sources that the US was responsible.
“I’ve been briefed to the extent that I know that we’re...
(Headline USA) U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”
The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small...
(Headline USA) Police fatally shot a knife-wielding man walking on the cables of New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge after he ignored orders to drop the weapon, authorities said Friday. The shooting happened when he moved within feet of an officer trying to help him climb down.
The shooting at one of...
(Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's homewrecker law over her relationship with a member of her security detail, a judge ruled Friday.
Sinema has acknowledged having a romantic relationship with Matthew Ammel but argued that she can't be sued in North Carolina because she...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI lead electronics technician who illegally funneled at least $350,000 in government contracts to his sister’s companies has avoided prison. Instead, he and his sister both received probation and were fined $8,000 apiece.
The former FBI technician, Jeffrey Spencer, and his sister, DOJ contractor...
(Headline USA) The closely watched case of the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children was on the verge of being declared a mistrial Friday — but there was still one more dramatic moment to come.
After weeks of grueling testimony, the jury could not get beyond an impasse...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Despite a backlog of legislative responsibilities, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has canceled the final two weeks of the September legislative session.
That leaves House lawmakers only one more week of business before the midterm elections. The chamber won’t reconvene until mid-November.
While Johnson justified...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black skipped a sworn deposition before House investigators on Thursday and asked a federal judge instead to void the two subpoenas the Oversight Committee served on him in June.
His complaint landed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent Money Metals Podcast interview, host Mike Maharrey spoke with Brien Lundin, editor of The Gold Newsletter and CEO of the New Orleans Investment Conference, about the outlook for gold and silver amid swelling federal debt, rising Treasury yields, Federal Reserve policy, and what Lundin views...