(Headline USA) A New York City police officer gravely wounded last week in a Harlem shooting that killed his partner has also died of his injuries, the city’s police commissioner said Tuesday, adding to what she called “incalculable” grief within the department.
Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, was taken off life support...
(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, posted a video Tuesday saying he took part in “no wrongdoing” after FBI agents last week conducted a search at the Texas Democrat's home, which was part of an investigation that relates to the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, The Associated Press...
(Headline USA) Wild volatility in the stock market this week has put heightened scrutiny on the Federal Reserve's meeting Wednesday and whether the Fed will clarify just how fast it plans to tighten credit and potentially slow the economy.
With high inflation squeezing consumers and businesses, the Fed is expected...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is nominating six leftist lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, a demographically diverse group of candidates in the latest picks for the top law enforcement positions.
The nominees, being announced by the White House on Wednesday, would run the federal prosecutors’ offices...
(Headline USA) U.S. and European officials are coordinating with natural gas suppliers around the globe to cushion the impact if Russia were to cut off energy supplies in the conflict over Ukraine, Biden administration officials say.
The U.S. and European allies have promised punishing economic and political sanctions if Russia...
UPDATE (1/26): Special Prosecutor John Durham put the Hillary Clinton campaign---including notorious lawyer Marc Elias---on notice in a recent court filing, according to multiple reports.
Durham repeatedly said that he was conducting an "active, ongoing criminal investigation," despite worries that Attorney General Merrick Garland and other corrupt insiders---including the wife...
(Headline USA) The Coast Guard searched through the night Wednesday for 39 people missing from a capsized boat after a solitary survivor was found clinging to the overturned hull off the Florida coast. The boat was believed to be used for human smuggling.
Crews on at least four ships and...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court rejected a request from two Oklahoma death row inmates to temporarily halt their upcoming lethal injections.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denied the inmates’ motion in a ruling on Monday. The decision paves the way for...
(Headline USA) A congressional ethics watchdog has concluded that U.S. Reps. Marie Newman of Illinois and Doug Lamborn of Colorado may have violated federal law, prompting reviews from the House Ethics Committee.
Separate investigative reports from the Office of Congressional Ethics released Monday detailed a “substantial reason to believe” that...
(Headline USA) In the nearly two months since the Supreme Court indicated openness to reversing the half-century-old Roe vs. Wade decision, money has poured into the political fundraising arm of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List.
The organization secured $20 million in pledged financial contributions, five times more than it...
(Headline USA) It was supposed to be a key part of President Joe Biden’s plans to fight major ransomware attacks and digital espionage campaigns: creating a board of experts that would investigate major incidents.
Much like a transportation safety board does with plane crashes, the Cyber Safety Review Board would...
(Headline USA) Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tested positive for COVID-19 Monday, forcing a postponement of a trial in her libel lawsuit against the New York Times.
The Republican trailblazer's positive test was announced in court just as jury selection was set to begin at a federal courthouse in New...