(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) – A judge on Friday ordered a pharmaceutical company to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and $450 million in criminal forfeiture for misleading doctors about the safety of an opioid medication.
It was the the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties ever levied against...
(Derek Drapin, The Center Square) – A lawsuit brought by Republicans alleges that Nevada’s mail ballot deadline violates federal law.
Nevada allows for mail-in ballots to be counted up to four days after Election Day as long as a ballot is postmarked on or before Election Day.
The lawsuit, filed on...
(Headline USA) Fears of Democrats taking over the House of Representatives ahead of the next congressional term may have waned slightly as one of the most politically vulnerable Democrats now faces serious criminal charges.
However, the indictment raises questions whether Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas---a sometime critic of the Biden administration's...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that the...
(Headline USA) On the heels of a newly passed $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and other foreign nations, as well as more rounds of controversial student-loan "amnesty" announced by the Biden administration, the root cause of inflation---unfettered federal spending and borrowing---has yet to be addressed in any meaningful...
(Headline USA) With a growing belief during the Biden administration that the U.S. government has actively been engaged in gaslighting and propagandizing its own citizens with the aim of manipulating them to undermine the democratic process, the U.S. military unveiled yet another tone-deaf advertising campaign Thursday that creepily celebrated...
(Headline USA) The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, the Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.
The proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White...
(Headline USA) Compromised Judge Juan Merchan---whose daughter Loren has reaped some $18 million in profits by peddling the prospect of a conviction for former President Donald Trump---delivered him a $9,000 fine Tuesday for exposing the judicial double-standard on Truth Social, purportedly in defiance of a previously issued gag order.
Donald...
(Headline USA) Four law enforcement officers in North Carolina who were killed while trying to capture a man immediately faced gunfire as they approached, unable to withstand shots from upstairs in a house, authorities said Tuesday.
Still reeling from Monday's attack—the deadliest against U.S. law enforcement officers since 2016—investigators in...
(Headline USA) The Utah Republican Party on Saturday selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
While the endorsement carried Staggs through convention with more than two-thirds of delegate votes, that support may not translate...
(Headline USA) Rep. Victoria Spartz, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia.
But when $61 billion in additional support for the war effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted...
(Headline USA) For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family, but these days many of the kernels in the package might not be Hawaii-grown.
This little-known fact is surfacing at the state Legislature as lawmakers wrestle over...