Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Google employee with insider trading on Polymarket. In a seven-page complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York (SNDY), the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, a software engineer at Google, exploited his access to confidential, nonpublic data on Google’s “Year in...
Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, knocked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday, after a federal judge ruled she lacks the authority to serve as the Garden State’s top federal prosecutor. “Number one, I was the nominee to become the U.S. attorney. And [Democratic New Jersey Sens.] Cory Booker and Andy Kim,...
Young Democrats are excited about socialism. They are rallying behind mayoral candidates like Zohran Mamdani in New York and Omar Fateh in Minneapolis, as though these democratic socialist politicians have something new to sell. They do not.
Federal agents raided the Washington-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning. FBI Director Kash Patel wrote “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” in a post on X at 7 a.m., shortly before the New York Post broke the news of the raid. An FBI...
No matter how much President Trump is working to remove any mention of Jeffrey Epstein from the front pages, time is working against him. When Congress returns in a few short weeks, after some members spent the August recess having to answer angry questions from constituents about why the administration refuses to release the oft-promised...
Even before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement was already taking heat for attempting to revive mail-order abortion rules within the Comstock Act — provisions that, if enforced, would immediately prohibit the mailing or shipping of abortion drugs on a national scale. Modern legal debate over its enforcement has left these rules...
Wildfires may be responsible for raising local deaths by about 67 percent in a given month, a new study has found. Scientists linked 82 “excess deaths” to the devastating blazes that struck Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 — or two-thirds more fatalities than they would have otherwise expected for that month, per the study, published...
A federal judge in Florida ordered late Thursday that some of "Alligator Alcatraz" be shut down and barred the Sunshine State from bringing in more detainees to the migrant detention facility in a blow to the administration as it ramps up its immigration crackdown. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Obama,...
A National Guardsman was ticketed on Wednesday after running a red light and injuring a person in a crash with a civilian vehicle in Washington, D.C. The incident, which occurred at 8th Street SE and North Carolina Ave near Eastern Market early Wednesday morning, involved a D.C. National Guard transport vehicle, according to the Joint...
Former Vice President Pence urged the Senate on Thursday to pass a major sanctions bill against Russia, arguing that the hefty tariffs, along with continued military aid to Ukraine, provide the best “pathway” to reaching peace in Eastern Europe. “He's fully capable of doing the diplomatic thing and being friendly and shaking hands and at...
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons said on Wednesday that the federal law enforcement agency will “flood the zone” with immigration agents in Boston after Mayor Michelle Wu (D) fired back at President Trump’s administration over the city’s sanctuary policies. “We’re definitely going to, as you’ve heard the saying, flood the zone,...
U.S. forces on Tuesday killed a senior ISIS official in Syria, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced in a statement Thursday. The “successful raid” in northern Syria targeted an unnamed senior ISIS member who also served as a “key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq,” according to the Centcom statement. Centcom said the senior...
