A jury awarded three Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison $42 million for their mistreatment at the hands of U.S. service members in the early 2000s.  The lawsuit filed 16 years ago claimed that Virginia-based CACI, which contracted interrogators to the United States military, is to be held to blame for the sexual abuse […]

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe revealed during the latest episode of his podcast that he intends to apologize to “absolutely nobody” over jokes he told at President-elect Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden last month. Hinchcliffe’s appearance at Trump’s rally created controversy online after he jokingly referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” […]

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) dismissed talk of replacing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as unrealistic amid calls on the Left for her to step down.  “I think that is idle speculation, and whoever makes those calls can’t count,” Durbin told reporters on Tuesday, pointing to the short window the Senate has to wrap […]

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has selected former Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) as his nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ratcliffe previously served as Trump‘s Director of National Intelligence from 2020-2021 and has been called a “warrior for truth” by the president-elect. WHO WILL SERVE IN PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP’S CABINET? WHAT […]