Three anti-deportation rioters in Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty to federal crimes in one week after attacking or interfering with federal officers. Oriana Korol was convicted on July 23, followed by Ginovanni Brumbelow on Monday and Katherine Vogel on Tuesday, according to DOJ statements. U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford’s office is handling Portland’s protest-related cases after President […]
President Donald Trump is set to hold an event announcing the new “Freedom Haulers” trucking program on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the White House. DUFFY ANNOUNCES ‘FREEDOM HAULERS’ TRUCKER PROGRAM FOR VETERANS The program is aimed at helping U.S. veterans begin careers in trucking, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced as he unveiled the program […]
Hundreds of migrants in Morocco have bull-rushed through the Spanish border into the European Union, exacerbating the migration crisis. A mob of African migrants plowed past border guards and circumvented barriers into the Spanish territory of Ceuta this week, creating what the city’s leader calls a “total humanitarian and social emergency.” “In the past few […]
Former late-night show host Stephen Colbert has received an anti-censorship award from the Before Columbus Foundation, an honor announced just months after CBS ended his long-running late-night program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert was named one of the recipients of the 47th annual American Book Awards, sharing the award with Mitchell Kaplan, the […]
Maine‘s Democratic Senate candidate, Troy Jackson, ran an anonymous political trash talk account that he used to troll former Gov. Paul LePage and other state Republicans while he served in the state Senate. Jackson managed an alias account called “Canadians for LePage” while LePage served as governor in 2012, commenting on negative statements about the […]
An absentee ballot scandal in Bridgeport, Connecticut, already forced the state’s largest city to throw out a Democratic mayoral primary and hold it again. Now, a local judge is forcing two Democratic operatives at the center of the case to plead guilty or risk facing a jury trial. Former local Democratic Party official Wanda Geter-Pataky […]
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has expressed an openness to approving more oil drilling in the North Sea, after President Donald Trump claimed the new British leader would fully lift restrictions for the region. In the days before Burnham took office, rumors were circulating that he would lift the United Kingdom’s ban on new drilling […]
Wisconsin‘s Minocqua Brewing Company, whose owner promised free beer on the day of President Donald Trump’s death, lost its alcohol permit following a raid last month that seized products allegedly transported from Illinois without the necessary permits and taxes. Kirk Bangstad owns the brewery and is a progressive activist who has branded his company to […]
The 16-year-old California lifeguard who saved a young boy from drowning Saturday at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz released a statement Wednesday, saying, “I love what I do.” “I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to return the child to his family safely,” Ryder Williams said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles […]
This time, Republicans said, it was going to be permanent. Republicans had passed massive tax packages under Presidents George W. Bush in 2001 and Donald Trump in 2017, but most of the provisions were temporary. After Trump won a second term, GOP leaders had a more controversial idea. From the start of the new Congress […]
