(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...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., reportedly received medical attention Tuesday after he fell following a Republican lunch meeting.
“He was spotted walking back to his Capitol office followed by a medical team and escorted by Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who hosted the lunch meeting,” The Hill...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Media mogul Rupert Murdoch reportedly lost his bid Saturday to change his family’s trust in order to safeguard Fox News’s production of right-wing content from his leftist children.
Nevada Commissioner Edmund J. Gorman Jr. ruled against Murdoch’s attempt to give son Lachlan Murdoch, who is already in...
(Headline USA) OpenAI has publicly released its new artificial intelligence video generator Sora but the company won't let most users depict people as it monitors for patterns of misuse.
Users of a premium version of OpenAI's flagship product ChatGPT can now use Sora to instantly create AI-generated videos based on...
(Headline USA) Where's Pete this time? The perennially absent Transportation secretary has gone absent during countless crises during the Biden administration, from the supply-chain shortages due to port backups, to the train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio, to unprecedented airline groundings due to sheer incompetence.
Pete Buttigieg, the former...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) CNN’s Scott Jennings pulled out a chart Monday night to show fellow CNN panelists that assassins are “bad guys.”
On NewsNight, Jennings told a table of CNN panelists that the murder suspect who allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead in New York was “bad,” while Daniel...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Pete Hegseth returned to Fox News late Monday to defend his nomination as defense secretary by President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump named Hegseth as part of his Cabinet picks on Nov. 12, and the former Fox and Friends Weekend co-host has since faced an ambush of allegations of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A shady State Department-funded censorship network exposed by Twitter/X CEO Elon Musk last year announced Monday that it will likely be closing by Dec. 23—an early Christmas present for online free-speech advocates.
That network, the Global Engagement Network, announced its impending closure in a Monday court...