(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Legal troubles for Eric Swalwell may be far from over, despite his decision to end his campaign for California governor and resign from Congress amid sexual abuse allegations.
The Fair Political Practices Commission, the state agency overseeing campaign finance enforcement, is examining whether Swalwell’s campaign illegally paid...
(Headline USA) More than 80 anti-ICE demonstrators have been arrested following a series of protests at Delaney Hall in Newark, where demonstrators say they are showing up in solidarity with detainees.
The protesters, some wearing gas masks and helmets, have used traffic cones, trash cans and other items as makeshift shields,...
(Headline USA) There was a time when Donald Trump was just another celebrity sitting courtside at New York Knicks games. He was famous, but not yet flanked by Secret Service agents or defined by the politics that have left him deeply unpopular in his hometown.
Now, more than a decade after...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New details have emerged suggesting that Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner may not have been truthful about when he learned that a tattoo on his chest was linked to Nazism.
Platner is now struggling to explain why a former girlfriend appeared to recognize the tattoo's meaning...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The White House pushed back Friday on reporting from several outlets claiming that Israel’s aggressive spying on U.S. officials has raised concerns within the Trump administration’s intelligence community.
Israel has long been accused of conducting intelligence operations targeting the U.S. However, recent reporting suggested that those activities...
(Headline USA) Gunfire erupted Saturday near a busy street festival in Ohio, wounding at least 12 people and sending some eventgoers scrambling for cover while others rushed to help the victims.
No suspects were in custody hours afterward, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said, and officials urged people who were...
(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) Florida became the first state this week to sue OpenAI.
The civil complaint against OpenAI and Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman accuses the company of deceptive practices and harms to Floridians. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges Altman prioritized commercial gain and ignored warnings that OpenAI's products could...
(Headline USA) U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day anniversary speech on Saturday to appear to link illegal immigration by sea to the wartime liberation of Europe, warning that the freedom won by Allied troops could prove temporary if leaders failed to defend it.
Hegseth, speaking at the Normandy American...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Several FBI analysts who drafted a 2023 memo that cited Southern Poverty Law Center information to justify targeting “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential violent domestic extremists were fired Friday, according to their lawyer, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of its director Kash Patel.
The...
(Headline USA) Democrat Xavier Becerra advanced to the general election for California governor Friday after pitching himself as an experienced choice to lead the nation’s most populous state and succeed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Becerra leaned on his more than 35 years in public office, including as state attorney general and...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for trades made...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to provide Ukraine with billions in additional military aid and increase sanctions on Russia, a move that comes as the more than four-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine is escalating.
The Ukraine Support Act passed in a vote...