(Headline USA) Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded in dozens of shootings in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend, according to police.
Between Friday night and Monday night, a total of 58 people were shot in 37 separate shootings in the nation’s third-largest city, according to preliminary...
(José Niño, Headline USA) House Republicans have launched an investigation into whether coordinated groups are manipulating Wikipedia articles on sensitive geopolitical topics, including narratives about conflicts dealing with Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine.
James Comer, R-K.y., who is Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Nancy Mace, R-S.C.,...
(Headline USA) A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida is set to represent himself during a pretrial conference on Tuesday, as final preparations are made for trial.
Barring any delays, jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 8 in Fort Pierce federal court...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The DHS Inspector General has issued a report on the Secret Service’s counter-sniper team, finding that they’re overworked and not properly qualified.
The DHS OIG study was commissioned after President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at his July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Charlotte homeless man Decarlos Brown, who stabbed a 23-year-old female Ukrainian refugee to death on a train on Aug. 22, apparently may not stand trial after a local judge ordered him to undergo a competency examination at a psychiatric hospital.
Judge Roy Wiggins signed an order...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Chinese networks are laundering billions of dollars in drug cartel cash through the U.S. financial system, according to a new report from the Treasury Department.
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said banks flagged about $312 billion in transactions from suspected Chinese money laundering networks from...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Although the Elon Musk-fronted Department of Government Efficiency has faded into the background, President Donald Trump’s efforts to ensure fiscal responsibility and exacting standards from federal government workers remain in full force---right down to the manual labor.
The former Manhattan real-estate mogul reverted back to his...
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times.
Nadler told the Times that watching then-President Joe Biden's truncated reelection campaign last year "really said something about the necessity for...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. military wants artificial intelligence to do what human propagandists cannot: create and spread influence campaigns at internet speed while systematically suppressing opposition voices abroad, according to internal Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept.
The classified wishlist reveals SOCOM's ambition to deploy "agentic AI or...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Could the now-deleted LinkedIn profile of James Westman, the father of Minnesota mass murderer Robert “Robin” Westman, hold the key to understanding what pushed him over the edge?
Online sleuths, supported by the X-based artificial intelligence platform Grok, have confirmed that the elder Westbrook spent nearly...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Outrage simmered over on social media Friday as a viral video showed a grown man at the U.S. Open tennis tournament snatching a cap from a young autograph-seeker.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1961476692511498279
Polish tennis star Kamil Majchrzak let the world know that he was hoping to identify the boy in...