A Mexican immigrant with more than a decade of service on the Los Angeles City Council agreed Thursday to plead guilty to tax evasion and racketeering charges, admitting, after months of denials, he had accepted $1.5 million in bribes from real estate developers.
Former Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) reflected on his time overseeing "one of the more consequential committees that the House has ever had" on a recent podcast.
The publisher of the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons is attempting to recover from angering players and creators after releasing a new set of licensing rules that would have threatened the intellectual property of third-party creators and forced them to pay additional royalties.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas learned within hours following an alleged abusive incident involving Border Patrol on Sept. 19, 2021, that a federal agent had not used a whip against a Haitian immigrant, yet the Cabinet official continued to perpetuate a different narrative.
U.S. and German defense officials denied there were any preconditions that tied the United States from possibly sending Ukraine its M1 Abrams tanks and Germany providing its Leopard tanks or allowing other countries to send tanks of their own.
A Republican official in Maricopa County, Arizona, has proposed new ways to get the results of elections out faster after certifying the results of the 2022 midterm elections took nearly a month.
