POLITICS

(Headline USA) A man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he'd been trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues. Dan Sohail, 36,...

(Headline USA) Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people. Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) The executive vice president of a coalition advocating for data center development says reversing course on incentives in Illinois could have “detrimental” economic consequences. Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Aspen Climate Summit he reversed course on offering tax exemptions to data centers to...

(Headline USA) Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved. After Graham was eulogized Tuesday in the nation's capital as an indefatigable dealmaker by the president, vice president and others,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) After meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the talks as “one of the best conversations” he’s ever had with the US president. “It was a meeting with full cooperation, with mutual support, with...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The Senate narrowly approved Walter “Jay” Clayton as the next Director of National Intelligence, where he will oversee the 18 federal agencies making up the U.S. Intelligence Community. The partisan 51-47 vote highlighted Democrats’ growing distrust of the U.S. Attorney. Clayton’s responses to lawmakers during...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. senators will vote next week on holding in contempt of Congress the man who led the U.S. response to the global pandemic in 2020. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said senators would vote to determine whether Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute for...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Few venture funds triple investor money inside two years. Donald Trump Jr. helps run one that did. The flagship fund at 1789 Capital returned roughly 200 percent as of June 30, The New York Times reported. Competing firms founded in 2023 averaged about 21 percent, PitchBook...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Green card applicants who lean on government assistance will face tougher scrutiny starting this fall under a rule the Trump administration finalized last week. The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it is reviving a stricter public charge standard, one that lets officers weigh an...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) All 100 members of the US Senate have been invited to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday evening, when he will be in the US to attend the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, Reuters reported on Monday. Zelensky’s meeting with US senators will be...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) ActBlue is facing scrutiny after a report last week raised questions about thousands of political donations made in the name of an 88-year-old Michigan woman. The story caught national attention after Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff posted a video interviewing Elizabeth Waffle of Milan,...

(Headline USA) Newly released audio tapes, disclosed by a conservative activist group, appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020. About three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts...