The inspector general in Washington, D.C., has opened an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department’s crime reporting system following allegations that the police force manipulated its data to lower the city’s crime rates artificially. In a letter sent Monday to interim MPD Chief Jeffery Carroll, Inspector General Daniel Lucas said he aims to “assess the […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson is scheduled to hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The press conference comes as the House GOP holds a razor-thin majority following the death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and the departure of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). HOUSE VOTES TO RENEW OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES IN BLOW TO GOP LEADERS […]
EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are looking to the top watchdog at the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate suspected Medicare fraud schemes in California that mirror the taxpayer theft in Minnesota. Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in conjunction with the House Committee on Ways and Means, sent a letter […]
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is honing in on where he will run after the state redrew congressional districts to favor Democrats. Kiley said his district is being sliced into six pieces — districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 — and he won’t run for the 4th District. “This means that as of January […]
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol could face the death penalty after prosecutors requested the punishment in his criminal case on Tuesday. Yoon is facing insurrection charges after he briefly declared martial law in South Korea just over a year ago. The prosecution’s request for the death penalty will be reviewed by a panel […]
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said on Monday the Federal Reserve “ignored” her office’s request for more information related to the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell multiple times. Pirro directly challenged Powell’s claim that the Trump administration had threatened a “criminal indictment” against the embattled […]
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the speed and breadth of his administration’s actions caught his political opponents off guard. Critics and supporters alike called Trump’s flurry of executive orders and unrivaled dominance of the news cycle “shock and awe,” a phrase typically reserved for aerial bombing campaigns like the one that […]
Federal prosecutors’ criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is echoing the Department of Justice’s failed prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, raising questions about whether the Powell inquiry will follow a similar trajectory and collapse under its own legal and political weight. Powell disclosed Sunday that the DOJ has issued grand jury […]
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to appear before the House Oversight Committee this week to further the investigation into the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The former president is scheduled for Tuesday, with Hillary Clinton set for Wednesday. The committee announced last week that […]
President Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail to promote his economic policies after a week consumed by his capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Trump is expected to address the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan on Tuesday with a similar message he had last month in Pennsylvania. But at least one Republican […]
