(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of 35 little-known former federal judges gained national attention Wednesday after filing a petition urging a federal court to reopen President Donald Trump’s case against the IRS — seemingly in a bid to cancel a $1.776 billion settlement fund.
The now-settled lawsuit paved the way...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former senior CIA official has been implicated in a scheme to apparently steal some $40 million in gold bars that he has obtained from the government for unspecified “work-related expenses.”
The ex-CIA official, David Rush, was arrested on May 19, a day after the FBI...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The federal government has walked away from its prosecution of Ori Solomon, the Israeli citizen arrested in connection with an illegal biological lab operating out of a Las Vegas short-term rental, though a state charge for hazardous waste disposal still hangs over him, according to...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny.
Parent company Meta Platforms Inc. appealed after Vermont’s highest court allowed a suit filed by its...
(Headline USA) A federal judge in Brooklyn agreed Wednesday to dismiss charges against a former Fox executive and South American sports media company in a corruption case related to TV rights for international soccer tournaments.
Judge Pamela K. Chen accepted an explanation provided by U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. that...
(Headline USA) U.S. military contractors need at least three years to replenish stockpiles of three key weapons systems used heavily in the Iran war, according to an analysis released Wednesday, adding to concerns that American forces would have limited firepower in any future conflict with China.
The weapons systems are...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement on Tuesday that the United States will no longer have a “safe haven” in the Middle East for its military bases, remarks that come after the Iranian military struck US bases across the region during...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) White House officials urged a group of state attorneys general to partner with the Trump administration to combat fraud in welfare programs and hold fraudsters accountable.
“One of the things we’ve realized in combating fraud is that the resources of the federal government, while vast,...
(Headline USA) A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving nine others unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said.
Another nine people were injured, some severely, in...
(Randy Diamond, The Center Square) Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is claiming that his hardline policies on the homeless will mean that thousands of the unhoused will relocate to Seattle, with its more permissive policies, if he is elected to office.
The former reality television star-turned-political candidate has made...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday ousted four-term incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn during a night of major upsets and a race that got national attention.
Paxton won the long anticipated Republican runoff for the Senate despite Cornyn, a former Senate Republican whip, getting...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Ex-Sen. Bob Menendez may be behind bars on corruption charges, but his son, Rep. Rob Menendez, appeared eager to defend the family name during a heated confrontation with a peaceful protester outside a New Jersey ICE facility over Memorial Day weekend.
Menendez, a Democrat representing the same New...