POLITICS

(Headline USA) Democratic Sen. John Fetterman spoke to the Republican midterm convention via video Wednesday, an extraordinary escalation of the growing rupture between the Pennsylvanian and his party. Fetterman spoke for just over one minute in a recorded video introducing his fellow Pennsylvania senator, Republican Dave McCormick, whom Fetterman called “a...

(Headline USA) A lone juror blocked Lindsay Clancy from being acquitted, insisting he wouldn’t find her not guilty by reason of insanity despite saying during deliberations that he had reasonable doubt, the jury’s foreperson complained in a TV interview Tuesday. The interview with Boston’s NBC10 aired four days after a...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) A special interest group is not happy with news that Nevada’s secretary of state received seven election-related subpoenas from the FBI. All Voting is Local said this marks a “dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to control state-run elections” in the U.S. “As the...

(Headline USA) Five members of a crew killed when an Amazon cargo jet smashed into their van were wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at the Miami airport when the crash happened, lawyers for one of the victims said on Wednesday. Two other workers in the van were in...

(Headline USA)  Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis denied a defense motion for release, meaning the...

(Headline USA) Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot. Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's priorities, he's nowhere...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration. The gifts of $45,000 each to executive assistant Natalie Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin, and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris as well as a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Roy Cooper, the Democrat who once governed North Carolina and now chases a Senate seat, put a former Bloods gang member onto a criminal justice reform group he formed in 2020, according to a Fox News report.  He created that Racial Equity in Criminal Justice task...

(José Niño, Headline USA) With the 25-year mark since September 11 approaching, the Trump administration has quietly scrubbed several high profile Al Qaeda affiliated operatives off its terrorism sanctions list, according to Max Blumenthal's reporting in The Grayzone.  Among them is Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric whose career involved funneling...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New court filings appear to paint a very different picture of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony than the one his supporters and defense attorneys have presented, with new alleged racist, homophobic and gun-related images and messages emerging. The documents, reported by the Daily Mail on Monday, were part...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal judge in California is facing scrutiny from the Trump administration after ordering the release of a Salvadoran national wanted for aggravated murder in his home country. Jinsook Ohta, a district judge for the Southern District of California, ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez,...

(Headline USA) A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s task force to fight crime has been arrested for pulling a gun on a fellow Guard member in an alleged dispute over regulation haircuts. Zion Mitchell, 21, was arrested earlier this...