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...
A federal judge on Thursday ruled Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann explained that the Trump administration made Habba the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey through a "novel series of legal and personnel moves,"...
A rainbow crosswalk near Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., honoring the victims of one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings was painted over late Wednesday after close to a decade, part of a state and nationwide effort to scrub “political banners” from public roads. The Pulse Memorial’s crosswalk, first painted in 2017, honored the 49 people killed...
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives. The decision partially lifts a Boston-based judge's ruling that declared the cancellations illegal and blocked the administration from moving forward. Five of the court's six Republican-appointed...
Democratic strategist James Carville criticized Democrats for failing to adequately target Vice President Vance in their political messaging. “Use JD Vance,” Carville said in Thursday’s episode of his "Politics War Room" podcast, “and just kick the s--- out of him every chance you get.” Carville pointed to Vance’s recent trip to England as a missed...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and as more detention facilities may pop up around the U.S. “There, at some point, is going to be a reckoning for all of this,” Ossoff told MSNBC...
Most Americans said partisan redistricting in the House threatens democracy, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Fifty-five percent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said there is a negative effect on democracy from changing House district maps to secure seats, with 46 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Democrats saying the same. California and...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced it had terminated California’s participation in a federal sex education grant program after the state refused to remove information about transgender people from its curricula. The department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) asked California in March to submit all learning materials for its Personal...
Kim Davis has asked the Supreme Court to erase Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, but the odds of the court revisiting the issue are slim and the case is more about religious liberty than same-sex marriage.
Tens of millions of dollars in funding for health programs run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had been blocked by the Trump administration is being released to grantees. According to several CDC employees, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the agency’s spending plans for specific grants,...
The number of unauthorized immigrants in the US reached an all-time high of 14 million in 2023, driven by policy shifts from the Biden administration and the COVID-19 pandemic, before Trump reversed some of those policies upon his return to office in January 2024.
U.S. Marshals Service Director Gady Serralta on Wednesday said President Trump’s D.C. takeover is reducing rampant crime that residents have been forced to experience for more than four decades. “These are folks that have been living this for 40 years, 40 years of having to live in fear,” Serralta said during a Wednesday evening appearance...
