House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to former Social Security Administrator Martin O’Malley requesting that he testify on telework standards he set for the agency just before his departure.  The hearing will focus on the relationship between the rising number of hours that SSA employees are working from home and the […]

A federal judge postponed the trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course, to September, nearly a year after the chaotic attempt on the president-elect’s life. The delay comes as defense counsel and prosecutors navigate the complexities of additional charges and jurisdictional disputes between state and federal […]

President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates has sparked an uproar in the legal and political worlds, with critics calling the move a blatant overreach of executive power. The action, taken in Biden’s final days in office, converted the sentences of those on federal death row to life imprisonment […]

The suspect believed to be behind the automotive attack on a Christmas market in Germany made multiple threats to commit terrorist attacks in the years before the massacre. Taleb al Abdulmohsen, a Saudi Arabian national and doctor granted asylum in Germany in 2016, is accused of driving an SUV through an outdoor Christmas marketplace Friday […]