(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department disclosed in a Tuesday afternoon court filing that attorneys for Ryan Routh are considering an insanity defense for their client, who allegedly tried killing Donald Trump on Sept. 15 at his Florida golf course.
The DOJ’s disclosure came in a filing opposing Routh’s...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) An ongoing war in Syria has suddenly ended with the overturning of the longstanding Syrian government, creating national-security and humanitarian concerns but also threatening global oil markets.
“Russian oil and gas companies have operated in Syria for years adding to the world’s supply,” Daniel Turner,...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The latest federal numbers show the U.S. deficit is soaring as President Joe Biden heads out of office.
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office released its monthly budget review on Monday, which showed that in the first two months of this fiscal year, the federal government...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Small business owners' optimism saw a significant spike after President Donald Trump won the White House and Republicans took both chambers of Congress, according to the latest survey data.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses released the data Monday, which showed that small business owners...
(Headline USA) In a dramatic new wrinkle in a case that has rivited the media cycle with shocking twists and turns, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO appeared to suggest outside a Pennsylvania courthouse that he had been framed for the brazen public murder, which took place...
(Headline USA) Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. He was 96.
Reed was chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966 to 1976, beginning at a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A Department of Homeland Security special agent in Utah was arrested last week for selling bath salts that may have been stolen from DHS facilities.
A criminal complaint unsealed Monday alleges that the agent, David Cole, worked with one other DHS agent as well as a...
(Headline USA) The police department in Worcester, Massachusetts, allowed officers to engage in sexual contact with women suspected of being involved in the commercial sex trade, according to a report the U.S. Justice Department released Monday following a two year investigation.
The 41-page report also found that the police department...
(Headline USA) Wisconsin Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to resolve a discrepancy between state and federal law about what date the state's presidential electors must meet to cast Wisconsin's 10 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump.
State law calls for the electors to meet on...
(Headline USA) As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.
Lawmakers in a growing number of states are proposing to give...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) The average American household credit card balance as of the third quarter of 2024 was about $10,757 after adjusting for inflation, according to a new study.
The personal-finance website WalletHub onFriday released its new Credit Card Debt Study, which found that consumers added $21 billion in...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) A Georgia woman died in a wreck with a member of the Rome Police Department's bomb squad that was responding to a bomb threat at U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's residence on Monday, the congresswoman said.
Greene said she was "sick to her stomach" and...