A federal judge on Monday set a tentative trial date for the soldier who was charged with using classified information to profit from bets on Polymarket related to the military operation that resulted in the capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The trial of Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke has been scheduled for […]
Washington, D.C., Council Chairman Phil Mendelson returned his budget recommendations on Monday with a proposal that cuts deeper into separating the district’s local taxes from President Donald Trump‘s nationwide tax cuts. In late 2025, after Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s sweeping tax cuts into law, the district approved emergency legislation allowing D.C. […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called out President Donald Trump in an X post on Monday, writing: “You’re a president, not a dictator. Act like it.” Sanders’s comments came in response to Trump’s Meet the Press interview on Sunday, in which Trump repeated his long-standing claim that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to former […]
Disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried has applied to expunge his ongoing prison sentence from his permanent record. The request was made by Bankman-Fried to the Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney, according to its database. The California native was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in 2024 for defrauding investors of more […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gordon S. Wood, the eminent and prolific scholar who forged a highly influential and sharply debated narrative of the country’s early years of independence through such prize-winning works as “The Creation of the American Republic” and “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” has died. He was 92. Wood, a professor emeritus at Brown […]
The Kennedy Center has removed President Donald Trump’s name from its website ahead of a Friday deadline imposed by an Obama-appointed judge late last month. The performing arts institution’s website previously said “The Trump Kennedy Center” at the top of every page. The same was done to the center’s YouTube channel, but on its other […]
After winning Fox Business’s “Made in America” contest, the phone has not stopped ringing for veteran and TGU Home Solutions founder Jared Gay. TGU Home Solutions, a veteran-owned construction firm based in Aberdeen, North Carolina, was one of three businesses thrown into the national spotlight through the Fox Business contest, earning $25,000 and a feature […]
The Supreme Court tossed a lower court’s ruling that had upheld Biden-era regulations on gas furnaces and commercial water heaters, which opponents argued were overreaching and would ban various gas appliances from being sold. The high court announced its decision in an order list released Monday, sending the case back to the U.S. Court of […]
Pope Leo XIV on Monday condemned sexual abusers holding positions of authority in the Catholic Church, expressing support for reparation for victims. The Catholic Church has for decades faced investigations concluding it systematically turned a blind eye to thousands of child sex predators operating globally as priests and in other capacities within the Vatican’s network. […]
The federal government is moving to denaturalize more than a dozen “criminal aliens” for allegedly lying about their past crimes, including child sexual abuse, fraud, and drug dealing, during the naturalization process. Officials with the Justice Department told the Washington Examiner that the denaturalization actions, announced on Monday, are “unprecedented.” The suspects include convicts originally […]
