(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) State and local officials have announced the results of a California-wide operation to combat human trafficking.
Speaking Monday at a press conference in San Diego, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said the effort was known as Operation Stand On Demand.
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(Headline USA) The CEO of a Los Angeles homeless services charity faces federal and state fraud charges after prosecutors said he lived a luxury lifestyle that included lavish vacations and designer clothes paid for with $23 million in public money meant to keep people off the streets.
Alexander Soofer, 42,...
(Headline USA) Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 30 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold.
Deep snow...
(Headline USA) A New York police officer who fatally shot a raccoon at a New York City beach has been placed on modified duty while the matter is reviewed, according to officials.
The shooting occurred Thursday morning at Rockaway Beach, after someone called 911 to report a vicious animal, a...
(Headline USA) A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned top FBI fugitive is expected to appear in federal court Monday on charges he allegedly ran a billion-dollar multinational drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings.
Ryan Wedding, 44, turned himself in at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City last week and...
(Mark E. Johnson, Contributor) Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, 65, died suddenly in May at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel, 2,000 miles from his $12 million estate in Carmel, Indiana.
According to ABC News, the FBI and the DEA are investigating Irsay’s death, focussing on a California addiction specialist who...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The USS Abraham Lincoln and its support ships have arrived in the Middle East as President Donald Trump is mulling strikes on Iran.
A US official told CBS News that the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) area of control....
(Headline USA) Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that she believes Noem is attempting to “mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis.
The call from Rosen, a moderate from Nevada who was...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In October, Bank of America raised its 2026 gold price forecast to $5,000.
Mission accomplished as of January 23.
Now the big bank has upped its projection again, calling for $6,000 gold this year.
BoA analyst Michael Hartnett said gold’s performance in past bull markets influenced his...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said the U.S. used a secret weapon he called “The Discombobulator” to disable Venezuelan equipment when the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro. Trump also renewed his threat to conduct military strikes on land against drug cartels, including in Mexico.
Trump made the comments in an interview Friday...
(Mark E. Johnson, Contributor) What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.
According to a complaint from the United States Office of Inspector General, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who is married, traveled with her federal bodyguard to a Las Vegas casino resort and spa in October while the two...
(Headline USA) A man was arrested Friday night at a party during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, for allegedly assaulting a Florida congressman.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost wrote on X on Saturday that he was punched in the face by a man who told Frost that President...