(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI held a tabletop exercise in June 2020 that previewed that year's disputed election and ensuing chaos during the Jan. 6, 2021, election certification process, according to newly released FBI records.
Dubbed an “alternative futures exercise,” the FBI’s Boston field office studied possible domestic extremist...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign on Monday did not deny using artificial intelligence to depict Texans in a recent digital ad.
Crockett, seeking the Democratic nomination for Senate, came under scrutiny after her campaign appeared to use AI-generated images instead of real people. Rather than addressing the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Two Democratic campaign organizations collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from a private prison company that contracts directly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even as the party's leaders escalated their attacks on federal immigration operations.
The Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association together...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The nation's top workplace discrimination watchdog made Nike its biggest corporate target yet in the Trump administration's sweeping campaign against corporate diversity programs, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last Wednesday that it opened an investigation into...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Eleven of 37 Mexican nationals extradited to the U.S. from Mexico are being prosecuted in Texas. The extradition was the largest transfer of fugitives in U.S.-Mexican history.
Several extradited were captured by the Mexican military.
Thirty-seven Mexicans were extradited to 16 districts in 13 U.S. states...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Anti-ICE protests continued in Minneapolis over the weekend, resulting in dozens of arrests by local law enforcement.
Protesters gathered at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Saturday, which was being guarded by officers of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office.
Throughout the day, demonstrators got increasingly...
(The Center Square) Khymani James, indefinitely suspended from Columbia University in 2024, says in a court filing the North Carolina congresswoman leading the Committee on Education and the Workforce “abused her role and authority.”
He says she tried to retaliate against and punish him for First Amendment protected criticism...
(Headline USA) Social media users incorrectly identified a small boy who was part of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday as Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who, along with his father, was detained by immigration officials in Minnesota and held at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
(Headline USA) One person was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday as police said that a person was in custody and the school's campus was on lockdown.
Police have a person in custody related to the shooting, according to the Montgomery County Department of Police in a...
(Headline USA) A trial focused on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media and whether Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms began Monday in New Mexico with opening statements.
It's the first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against major social media...
(Headline USA) A hearing about oversight of the U.S. financial system devolved into insults several times Wednesday as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clashed with Democratic lawmakers over fiscal policy, the business dealings of the Trump family and other issues.
Bessent called Rep. Sylvia Garcia “confused” when she questioned how illegal...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) US forces conducted live-fire military drills in the Persian Gulf. The exercise happened as President Donald Trump is threatening to attack Iran.
“Last week, Navy Sailors from USS Santa Barbara participated in the exercise Killer Tomato, a live-fire maritime gunnery exercise conducted in the Central Command’s...