(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a bill to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gives the federal government the power to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans, and now the spying tool is expected to lapse as its last extension will...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Karmelo Anthony, the Texas man convicted of the murder of 17-year-old track star Austin Metcalf, is pleading with taxpayers to pay for his appeal attorney despite pocketing more than half a million in a controversial online fundraiser.
In a court filing submitted after his conviction and 35-year...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree reported Thursday that two Secret Service agents have been placed on administrative leave for potentially criminal wrongdoing—one for a drug deal with an undercover cop, and another for participating in a fraternity hazing ritual that left someone hospitalized.
The agent arrested for...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.
Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Strikes planned against Iran for Thursday evening have been canceled by President Donald Trump, citing a deal with the Islamic Republic close to being finalized.
“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue’s CEO, Regina Wallace-Jones, exercised her 5th Amendment right to remain silent more than 20 times during a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday.
The Committee on House Administration comes as lawmakers investigate corruption allegations surrounding ActBlue, including the possible ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of foreign...
(Headline USA) A rare lapse in a law that gives the U.S. government vast spying powers appears likely after the House failed on Thursday to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Donald Trump's refusal to name a permanent head of the nation's intelligence agencies.
Trump has doubled down...
(Headline USA) Damaging storms swept through the Midwest, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports with more potentially severe weather expected Thursday.
The National Weather Service said it received more than a dozen reports of...
Axios reported on Wednesday that the US still had not determined whether Iran intentionally downed a US Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz before the US began bombing Iran on Tuesday night.
For its part, Iran never took credit for downing the Apache, and Iran’s deputy foreign minister denied...
(Randy Diamond, The Center Square) More than 10,000 applicants are vying for 15 rent-reduced apartments under a new Seattle affordable housing program funded by a city tax on workers who make more than $1 million a year.
Amazon, Microsoft and other companies fought the tax, but voters approved it in...
(Headline USA) Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein but denied any wrongdoing as the Microsoft co-founder faced hours of questioning from lawmakers about his relationship with the disgraced financier.
In an opening statement provided to The Associated Press, Gates said...
(Headline USA) The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, as well as the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife, is due to appear in federal court Thursday to change his not-guilty plea, after federal prosecutors said...