While acting as outside counsel for ActBlue, its then-law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote memos to the Democratic payment processor warning that it may have misled Congress regarding its efforts to block foreign donations, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Back in 2023, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) and then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised concerns […]
The leader of a British association was detained this week on allegations of harassment for hanging national flags in public against the local council’s orders. Ryan Bridge, the founder of the U.K.-based group Raise the Colours, was arrested on Tuesday by Thames Valley police “on suspicion of causing racially and religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) declared an energy emergency in Michigan counties on Thursday, citing the Iran war’s impact on gas prices. “As governor, I can’t end a war overseas or undo bad policies at the federal level that led to higher gas prices, but I will do what I can to try to give families […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) joked that Pam Bondi’s firing as attorney general was over the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling below $50,000 on Thursday. Boebert’s post on X referenced a memorable moment from Bondi’s congressional hearing in February, when the then-attorney general said, “The Dow is over $50,000,” while discussing the administration’s handling of documents […]
Outgoing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s scheduled deposition in front of the House oversight committee over her handling of the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is in limbo after President Donald Trump fired her Thursday. Bondi was slated to appear before the committee on April 14 after the committee issued a subpoena for […]
The Department of Justice is undergoing a high-level leadership change, after President Donald Trump announced Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would replace Attorney General Pam Bondi on an interim basis. News reports of Bondi’s possible termination circulated in the hours before the announcement made by President Donald Trump on Thursday. He is reportedly considering Environmental […]
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) took a jab at Pam Bondi’s firing as attorney general by parodying her as a contestant on the reality television show The Apprentice. The show, hosted by Donald Trump for over a decade before he became president, features 16 contestants competing for a job with Trump, with each episode Trump telling […]
Democrats are celebrating the ouster of Attorney General Pam Bondi as overdue, while warning her firing won’t fix what they say is a Justice Department corrupted by President Donald Trump. Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be removed by Trump, as her firing came almost one month after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was […]
New York City Councilwoman Farah Louis is under increasing scrutiny amid a federal public corruption investigation involving the state’s homeless shelters for migrants. On Thursday, it was revealed that the federal investigators appeared to raid Farah Louis’s home last week, days before authorities on Tuesday arrested and charged four other individuals linked to Bhrags Home […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested eight people in Southern California on Thursday morning, finding more than $50 million in healthcare fraud. The eight defendants include three nurses, a chiropractor, and a psychologist, who were arrested on federal charges that they defrauded the nation’s healthcare system out of more than $50 million. “In coordination with […]
