(Associated Press) Federal prosecutors in R. Kelly's sex trafficking case say he had sexual contact with an underage boy in addition to girls, and the government wants jurors in his upcoming sex trafficking trial to hear those claims.
Prosecutors aired a wide-ranging raft of additional allegations — but not new...
(Associated Press) A judge has ordered a man accused of planning to kill sorority members at an Ohio university to remain behind bars.
Magistrate Judge Stephanie Bowman on Friday cited a parole violation and the "serious nature of the charges" as reasons to keep 21-year-old Tres Genco in custody.
The Hillsboro,...
(Headline USA) The Walt Disney Co. stands to benefit from more than a half billion dollars in tax breaks for building a new regional campus in Florida that promises to employ at least 2,000 professional employees who will be relocating from southern California to work in digital technology, finance and...
(Associated Press) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t have to testify in a judicial inquiry into the 2014 police chokehold death of Eric Garner, a judge ruled Friday, dashing a long-running quest by Garner’s relatives to have the mayor questioned under oath.
Judge Erika Edwards also excused Police...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) From immigration to crime, energy, and beyond, Democrats have the Midas touch in reverse: Everything they handle turns to manure.
Can the Left get anything right?
IMMIGRATION
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly has claimed that “the border is closed.” Regarding the illegal-alien surge through Mexico, “we...
President Joe Biden on Friday was set to make his first major political foray since taking office, campaigning for a fellow Democrat whose race to be re-elected as Virginia governor could serve as a test of the national mood.
Biden was making a short trip across the Potomac River to...
(Headline USA) Republican politicians were under increasing pressure to persuade COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as the Biden administration faces a wall of resistance with only half the country fully vaccinated.
Amid an aggressive public-relations push, there were signs that messaging was changing...
The Biden administration is shipping buses full of illegal immigrants detained near the southern border to other parts of the country, according to the New York Post.
Throughout the border crisis, the four bus companies that operate out of McAllen, Texas, have added as many as six daily routes out...
A group of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee this week claimed the FBI did not adequately investigate the sexual-assault allegations made against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, seven Democratic senators accused the FBI of being “politically constrained by the Trump White...
(Headline USA) When Nancy Pelosi raised a glass to Liz Cheney, it was the most unlikely of toasts.
Democratic lawmakers and the Republican congresswoman were gathered in the House speaker’s office as the group prepared for the first session of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol.
Pelosi spoke...
The Justice Department refused to take up a civil-rights investigation into Michigan's Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her policy of requiring nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients during the pandemic.
Whitmer’s policy came under scrutiny after an investigation discovered the state’s health department severely undercounted the number of coronavirus deaths...
Amid a new surge in coronavirus fearmongering, the NFL's recently announced vaccination policies could create even more disruptions to the upcoming football season than its mitigation efforts did during the topsy-turvy 2020 season.
Here’s more from today’s memo, which also says the team responsible for a canceled game because of...