(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.
Scott, who was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party, was once a leading voice for Democrats on issues related to...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The Justice Department alleges the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The leaders of two House panels are investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and deaths of scientists and researchers who have recently fueled viral speculation on social media.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Economic Growth Subcommittee Chairman Eric Burlison, R-Mo., on Tuesday requested information...
(Headline USA) A judge on Tuesday delayed the criminal sentencing of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma in order to allow victims to attend the court proceeding in person.
U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo originally planned to hand down the sentence Tuesday during a court hearing conducted only by videoconferencing. But...
(Headline USA) A planned fight among young people escalated into a mass shooting at a North Carolina park Monday morning that left two teenage boys dead and five other people injured, authorities said.
Winston-Salem police Capt. Kevin Burns said a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old died at the scene after being...
(Headline USA) U.S. authorities “got the wrong man” when they charged an alleged Islamic State militant in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a defense attorney said Monday at the start of the man's trial in Virginia.
Mohammad...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Ex-Capitol Police officer and current CIA security guard Shauni Kerkhoff has sued Blaze Media for implicating her as the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill pipe bomber in an article last November that has since been retracted.
Kerkhoff also sued the two reporters who wrote the story,...
(Headline USA) Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations over what U.S. and Mexican officials were doing in northern Chihuahua when they died in an accident over the weekend, noting that any joint collaborations between the local government and the United States without federal permission would...
(Headline USA) Prosecutors once again portrayed Harvey Weinstein as a onetime Hollywood power player who used his sway as a tool of sexual assault, repainting a familiar but fraught picture Tuesday at a rape retrial nearly eight years after the former movie tycoon’s arrest.
“This case will come down to...
(Headline USA) A college student from China has been charged with illegally taking photos of U.S. military planes in Nebraska during a multistate road trip that included a stop at an Air Force base in South Dakota.
Tianrui Liang, 21, was arrested April 7 at a New York airport while...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. House Ethics Committee released a list of names of 26 current and former members of Congress who it’s investigated for sexual misconduct.
It did so after members of Congress have called for two members to be expelled, both from Florida: U.S. Reps. Democrat...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Monday issued a series of posts on his Truth Social account defending his war with Iran and a potential diplomatic deal that he may reach with Tehran, though the state of the negotiations remains unclear.
The president started with a post where he...