A former Minneapolis-area prosecutor is facing a slew of criminal charges after allegedly submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid out of a commercial sex house she had transformed into an assisted living facility. Andrea Leigh Sampson was charged with 13 counts of promoting prostitution and 13 counts of generating profits from commercial prostitution as part of […]

Republican Mike Rogers is making a play for Jewish Democrats in his battleground Michigan Senate race and is, to at least some degree, making gains against Democratic rival and staunch Israel critic Abdul el Sayed. Rogers, the close ally to President Donald Trump who narrowly lost in 2024 to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), is deploying […]

President Donald Trump is proud of his endorsement record, in which his preferred candidate has won nearly every time, but there’s one notable candidate he has not formally endorsed for reelection this year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is contesting his seventh nonconsecutive term as Israel’s prime minister this October, but Trump has yet to […]

The Trump administration unveiled this week a new process that could allow some people long barred from owning firearms to seek restoration of their federal gun rights. Attorney General Todd Blanche finalized the Federal Firearm Rights Restoration rule on Monday, reviving a statutory process that has been effectively dormant since Congress defunded the Bureau of […]