(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A 28-year-old man in Houston, Anas Said, has been indicted and arrested on charges he attempted to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a federally designated foreign terrorist organization.
U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will take over a new effort to make the government more efficient.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, is a government efficiency effort that has turned a public spotlight onto government waste and duplication in...
(Headline USA) Biden administration officials are working to dole out billions in grants before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
“Let’s make every day count," President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation last week after Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat to Trump in the presidential race.
Trump has pledged...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former DC Homeland Security official, who now works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has pled guilty to one count of bank fraud—a charge stemming from her perpetrating an $880,000 fraud on the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program.
The DOJ announced the plea from Wendy Nicole...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Polis embraced Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services in a social media post Thursday afternoon.
Polis said he is “excited” about Kennedy’s potential to shake up HHS and the Food and Drug...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has opened an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency after one of its workers said she was told by her bosses to avoid Trump supporters in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
The former FEMA worker, Marn’i Washington, was initially blamed for directing...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump met Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with him since the GOP leader's victory in last week's election.
The meeting was confirmed by a person who insisted on anonymity to discuss an event that hadn't yet been...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California still has four uncalled Congressional races as 1.7 million ballots remain to be counted over one week after Election Day, less than 10% of which are mail-in ballots that arrived after the election.
Republican Rep. John Duarte’s lead has grown to nearly 4,000 votes in...
(Headline USA) A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices—and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife—was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison.
Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly changed her tune on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., during Thursday’s episode of her radio show with Ruthless podcast co-hosts.
Ruthless co-host Comfortably Smug pointed out that President-elect Donald Trump’s recent appointment of Gaetz as attorney general was meant to signify “there’s a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has made dubious claims that Iran is actively trying to assassinate Donald Trump. Top Trump supporter Elon Musk apparently isn't buying the DOJ propaganda, and the incoming administration is reportedly open to peace talks.
Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Iran offered written...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) CNN’s Scott Jennings shut down CNN panelists up in arms over President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services Thursday on NewsNight.
As CNN’s chyron labeled Kennedy a “vaccine skeptic,” former Republican Liet. Gov. Geoff Duncan expressed disapproval of...