Three men in Minnesota were sentenced this week to a combined 155 months in prison for submitting false meal claims in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, joining nearly two dozen others already sentenced for their roles in the sprawling fraud. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Abdihakim Ali Ahmed, 40, of Apple Valley, […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is not planning to hit the campaign trail for one-time primary opponent James Talarico as he campaigns against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate. “I will be campaigning downballot,” Crockett said on CNN’s Laura Coates Live when asked if she would appear with the Democratic state senator. During her […]
A Maryland office received $622,883 from the Department of Justice to help youth escape drug and mental health problems but hardly served any clients, a federal watchdog agency found. The state’s Office of the Public Defender never found an approved mental health agency to treat the children despite spending all the money between 2020 and […]
Washington, D.C.’s Democratic mayoral nominee, socialist Janeese Lewis George, seeks to roll back the Metropolitan Police Department’s cooperation with federal immigration officials and the Trump administration’s “Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force” on her first day in office. As the Democratic nominee in deep-blue D.C., Lewis George is expected to win the Nov. 3 […]
A military judge on Friday ruled that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s 2007 confession to FBI agents was involuntary, excluding the statements from evidence in the long-delayed prosecution stemming from the 2001 terrorist attacks. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, the judge overseeing the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, also ruled that statements Mohammed […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is holding off on fundraising for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his race to replace the senator in the upper chamber, calling Paxton “lazy.” “Paxton’s a poor campaigner,” Cornyn told the Texas Tribune. “He’s lazy and doesn’t raise money. And he basically is not offering a very compelling case for […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will return to the South next week for a four-day swing through Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, continuing his increasingly active role in Democratic politics outside California. The trip to South Carolina, the first presidential primary state on the Democratic nominating calendar, comes just a few days after California […]
The State Department said Friday that five Americans have been safely evacuated from Nepal after devastating floods swept through the region near the Chinese border, killing hundreds and leaving thousands missing. About 90 Americans remain unaccounted for, according to the State Department. Officials said they are aware of no U.S. citizen deaths. “As of 6 […]
The FBI under the Biden administration took “minimal corrective action” after its Richmond office targeted traditional Catholics as possible extremists, defending the employees behind the scandal, giving them positive performance reviews, and continuing work on a revised memo after headquarters pulled the original product amid backlash, according to a new Justice Department report. The DOJ’s […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has agreed to four debates against former state Sen. Troy Jackson, her Democratic opponent, as the two face off for Collins’s seat in the Senate. Collins agreed to the four debates hosted by local media outlets, while Jackson, who entered the race in late July, has yet to agree to any. […]
