Verizon will cut about 15,000 employees next week in the largest layoff spree to hit the company since its beginning, according to several reports. The layoffs are part of a cost-saving measure as the company moves to compete with other companies jumping into the home internet service and wireless markets, according to the Wall Street […]
Newly released internal FBI and Justice Department emails show two senior career prosecutors in 2019, during the first Trump administration, repeatedly discouraged an FBI agent from opening a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee improperly concealed payments that funded the Steele dossier. The records were made public Thursday by Senate […]
Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) and other Democrats claimed that President Donald Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as president with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among the trove of emails relating to Epstein released by the House Oversight Committee was an exchange with NEXT Model Management founder Faith Kates, during which Epstein claimed Trump […]
(The Center Square) – The race for Michigan’s next secretary of state is already a crowded one on both sides of the aisle. On the Democrat side, Ingham County Clerk Barbara Byrum seems to have the backing of the party establishment. In June, she announced she had received the endorsement of three former Michigan Democratic Party […]
Senior officials within President Donald Trump‘s administration announced four new “framework” trade agreements with Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Guatemala on Thursday. Each nation faced a reciprocal tariff rate of 15% for Ecuador and 10% for Argentina, Guatemala, and El Salvador, which will continue, as Trump renegotiates trade deals with most U.S. trade partners. The […]
The BBC issued an apology to President Donald Trump on Thursday over the network’s alleged deceptive editing of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, while contesting Trump’s basis for a defamation claim over the matter. Trump threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the network over the edit of his speech, with his lawyers […]
Many lawmakers are very upset with a provision in the federal funding bill they passed and intend to remove it, noted Washington Examiner congressional reporter Lauren Green. The provision, slipped into the Senate’s version of the funding bill, would allow senators to sue the government for accessing their data without their knowledge, receiving at least $500,000 for each […]
The Biden administration’s Jan. 6 surveillance of GOP senators has quickly become a cross-chamber dispute after House Republicans were taken aback by “last-minute” language inserted into the Senate‘s shutdown-ending funding bill. House Republicans became aware of the provision, which allows senators to sue the federal government for surveilling them without their knowledge, as the lower […]
The Justice Department sued California on Thursday to block newly approved congressional boundaries, joining a fast-moving court battle that could help decide which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, targets a new congressional map enacted […]
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration is cracking down on Mexican cartel-dug tunnels at the southwest border. The tunnels are built and used to smuggle drugs, weapons, people, and other illicit contraband, authorities have found. Two major finds this year were in the high-traffic areas of El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California, where […]
