The FBI estimates that Americans lost $4.9 billion to scams in 2024, up 43% from the previous year. And seniors lost exponentially more than younger generations.
The Chicago News Guild on Monday joined other news organizations that have sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in connection with allegations of excessive force used on journalists at recent protests in the area. "As a labor union, we fight to protect the health and safety of our...
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said Democrats are taking Republicans "hostage" with their demands to extend ObamaCare tax credits, but he conceded that winning the public relations battle over the issue was "very challenging." Speaking Tuesday at The Hill's "Health Next Summit," Marshall, a medical doctor, said he did not believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the formation of a new “barracks task force” to improve living conditions for U.S. service members during his Tuesday speech to new military recruits at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. Hegseth said the Department of Defense (DOD) task force will be in charge of developing a “department-wide” barracks...
Sen Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Tuesday described the choice to have Bad Bunny perform during the NFL's upcoming Super Bowl LX halftime show as political. "Why else would you pick, you know, some second-rate musician to play in our greatest sporting event?" Moreno told independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy. "It makes no sense whatsoever. I thought...
A man arrested outside the annual Red Mass ceremony held at St. Matthew’s Cathedral had over 200 explosive devices in a tent on the church's stairs, according to police. Louis Geri, 41, touted homemade explosives when officers approached him on the step ahead of the service typically attended by Supreme Court justices to ring in a new...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) slammed President Trump for signaling Monday that he could “take a look” at issuing a pardon for convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. “I just want to add just how outrageous it was for Donald Trump, in today’s White House interview that he had with the press, to even, somehow, lean into...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) touted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, as he doubled down on his opposition to funding the government without addressing the expiring tax credits. In remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Democratic leader read aloud from part of a social media...
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Tuesday strongly criticized the White House budget office for circulating a draft memo indicating that furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay when the government eventually reopens. “I think it’s a horrible message to send to people who are basically hostages right now to the Democrats shutting...
The man who was allegedly attacked by Mark Sanchez during an altercation in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend is suing the former NFL starting quarterback turned television analyst and his network, Fox. In a suit filed Monday, lawyers for Perry Tole, a 69-year-old truck driver, alleged Sanchez started a fight that left him with "severe...
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) is holding a press conference Tuesday afternoon to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. During the event, he is expected to unveil bipartisan legislation that will require school curriculums to educate students about the attack and rising antisemitism...
Congress must act now to ensure the responsible development of automated AI systems, before the next generation of AI systems begins writing the future without us in the loop.
In the resignation letter announcing her departure from the Grey Lady in July 2020, opinion journalist Bari Weiss memorably lamented that "Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor." What Weiss meant was that the extremely progressive sensibilities of elite social media users — leftist...
Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, clapped back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday after she joked about his height and called him a "clown." “Well, we knew that her brain didn’t work,” Miller told Fox News's Laura Ingraham on her show "The Ingraham Angle." “Now we know that her eyes...
