(Headline USA) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is assessing damage to its launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing, creating a giant orange fireball seen and felt for miles around.
The company fueled the hulking New Glenn rocket Thursday night, hoping to briefly ignite the engines ahead of a...
(Headline USA) The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who turned out to be an illegal immigrant, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison.
Ian Roberts is likely to be deported to his native Guyana in South America once he serves the sentence. He pleaded guilty in January to...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former President Joe Biden has sued the Justice Department to prevent it from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews he conducted with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, for his 2017 memoir.
The DOJ obtained the interview materials in 2023 as part of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Security members of a Charlotte hotel, some with extensive criminal records and documentation as gang members, sold narcotics and firearms to investigating law enforcement officers, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a federal complaint.
Five people face federal charges in drug trafficking and firearms...
(Headline USA) Former Attorney General Pam Bondi blamed her successor, Todd Blanche, for the botched rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein case files while testifying Friday behind closed doors to House lawmakers.
"Acting AG Blanche was managing the entire investigation," Bondi said during the questioning, according to lawmakers who spoke to reporters...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israel is pressing the US to restart heavy airstrikes on Iran that would involve the targeted killing of Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of Tehran’s lead negotiators, and attacks on the country’s oil infrastructure, Capital & Empire reported on Thursday.
The report, which cited US sources...
(Headline USA) Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before House lawmakers investigating Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse cases, a long-awaited appearance that brings fresh scrutiny of the administration's botched release of the Epstein case files.
Bondi was defiant in previous public testimony when she was confronted by lawmakers about the Epstein...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A judge has denied former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin’s motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, who is suing Seraphin over his claims that she’s an Israeli intelligence asset who’s acting as a “honeypot”—a tactic where someone sexually...
(Headline USA) The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denied Thursday evening that his office had opened an investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist who has said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store 30 years ago, hours after multiple news organizations reported that...
(Andrew Paxton, The Center Square) The Department of Justice filed separate federal lawsuits Wednesday against Washington, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and Democratic-led states over federal immigration enforcement.
The legal action follows a formal warning issued earlier this month by the Justice Department, which...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The embattled federal judge reprimanded for engaging in sexual intercourse inside her taxpayer-funded chambers was identified Thursday as U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross, whose jurisdiction includes parts of Georgia.
Nonprofit organization Marco Polo first publicly identified Ross as the judge at the center of the sexual scandal....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) For years, the North Carolina Board of Elections maintained that state law allowed certain non-residents to vote in federal elections. On Tuesday, a state court ruled that this interpretation was unconstitutional.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee against the North Carolina...