(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California still has four uncalled Congressional races as 1.7 million ballots remain to be counted over one week after Election Day, less than 10% of which are mail-in ballots that arrived after the election.
Republican Rep. John Duarte’s lead has grown to nearly 4,000 votes in...
(Headline USA) A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices—and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife—was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison.
Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his...
(Headline USA) Bombshell reports on the campaign donations of Federal Reserve employees showed that at least one thing was clear about the nebulous central bank, which loans Congress its money and has the power to set the interest rates affecting the entire U.S. economy: It is not apolitical.
Nor do...
(Headline USA) After spending four months in federal prison for snubbing a congressional subpoena, conservative strategist Steve Bannon had a message Tuesday for prosecutors in cases against him and President-elect Donald Trump.
“You wait. The hunted are about to become the hunters,” Bannon said outside a New York court where...
(Headline USA) Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConnell into a key position as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Thune, 63, has promised to work closely with Trump, despite differences the two...
(Headline USA) Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday during internal House Republican leadership elections and will establish the new power centers in Congress for a Washington dominated by President-elect Donald Trump.
Johnson and his leadership team are all working behind the scenes...
(Headline USA) A judge recused himself Tuesday from presiding over Arizona’s lawfare attack on alternate electors in the 2020 election after an email surfaced in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign for the presidency.
In the Aug. 29 email,...
(Headline USA) Annual inflation rose in October for the first time in seven months.
Consumer prices are thought to have increased 2.6% from 12 months earlier, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet, up from 2.4% in September.
Measured month to month, prices are believed to have...
(Jon Styf, The Center Square) U.S. senatorial candidate Eric Hovde posted a statement on Tuesday saying that he has not decided if he will ask for a recount and has intentionally not commented on his race with incumbent Tammy Baldwin, which was declared a victory for Baldwin last Wednesday.
Baldwin has 49.38% of...
(Headline USA) Corrput Manhattan judge Juan Merchan delayed a key ruling on Tuesday in President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing over his highly-dubious felony convictions in a lawfare case involving the misreporting of campaign expenditures in 2016.
Outrage over the perversion of justice enabled by Merchan---whose daughter, Loren, actively colluded with Vice...
(Headline USA) Nearly a week after most states had their races decided, and even other highly contentious and razor-thin ones resolved, Arizona leftists formally stole the race from GOP candidate Kari Lake for the second consecutive election cycle.
Several counties---notably deep-blue Pima, populous Maricopa and the border region of Yuma---saw...
(Headline USA) Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress following a tax fraud conviction, is paralyzed from the chest down after being thrown from a horse during a polo tournament, according to friends who are raising funds to pay for the ex-lawmaker's medical care.
Grimm, 54, suffered...