A Republican congresswoman facilitated a $2.4 million taxpayer-backed funding earmark for an organization that recently saw its founder arrested for allegedly stealing money from Ponzi scheme victims, according to a report. Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX) obtained the appropriations earmark last year for Angels of Love Advocacy Project, a nonprofit group focused on helping domestic violence […]
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court requesting that his prison sentence be delayed as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Bannon is scheduled to report to prison by July 1 for a four-month sentence after being found guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from […]
In its effort to blast “woke” military policies, a Washington-based legal watchdog this week sued the Pentagon for documents detailing the hows and whys of the U.S. Military Academy’s decision to delete its famous motto “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement. Judicial Watch told Secrets that the move came after West Point refused to […]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked a judge to keep in place most of the provisions of a gag order the judge imposed on former President Donald Trump in April, according to a court filing made public Friday. Prosecutors said that while they agreed with Trump that witnesses in the hush money case should be fair game for Trump to speak […]
Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan said on Thursday he has “no interest” in former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of his Maryland Senate campaign. “I didn’t seek it, I didn’t want to have it, and I have no interest in it,” Hogan said in an interview with WTOP radio. “It’s not something we’re gonna be promoting, […]
While President Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic, has remained silent about Louisiana’s new law mandating the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school and state-funded university classrooms, former President Donald Trump has embraced the legislation. The first-in-the-nation law was signed by Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) on Wednesday. “I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC […]
San Francisco has created 115 commissions that have contributed to mounds of red tape and bloated bureaucracy over the years, according to a San Francisco Civil Grand Jury report released on Thursday. The 87-page report comes at a time when voters in San Francisco have expressed frustration with how the city is handling homelessness, housing affordability, […]
Maryland unveiled a new tracking system for sexual assault evidence kits Thursday. According to state officials, now a barcode will be on rape kits so victims can see exactly where the kit is located and whether it’s been tested. The move addresses the high volume of kits the state was harboring that were going untested. […]
Reparations to descendants of slaves has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years, and two Harvard University professors argue federal reparations would be in line with how the government handles matters. The study published in The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, titled “Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating […]
Border groups normally aligned with former President Donald Trump are balking at his promise to provide green cards “automatically” to any foreign student who attends a U.S. university or junior college. Nonprofit and advocacy organizations seeking to restrict immigration called on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to walk back a statement he made in an […]
