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{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Supreme Court sends back geofence warrant The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to their cellphone location data, tossing out a ruling against a man convicted in a Virginia bank robbery case. © Natasha Kaiser The justices...

TMZ received an email from someone claiming to have video of a suspect in the case.

A coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia is suing the Trump administration over a new rule implementing Medicaid work requirement exemptions for medically frail people.  According to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in federal district court in Massachusetts, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) violated congressional protections when it...

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), reiterated his allegations of mortgage fraud against Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook on Monday, after the Supreme Court blocked President Trump from immediately firing her for cause. “As I have repeatedly said, I believe Lisa Cook will be indicted for mortgage fraud,” Pulte...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was spotted Monday on Capitol Hill, amid the high court releasing a slate of opinions before it heads on recess for the summer. While Thomas, surrounded by a Metropolitan Police Department officer and another man, was walking through the House side of the Capitol, the justice told MS NOW’s Mychael...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that President Trump is the “biggest threat” to the U.S., while downplaying concerns about far-left candidates like democratic socialists who have notched wins recently. “I will say, though, what binds together, I think, every Democratic candidate that is running, including the ones in New York, is that they are...

President Trump slammed democratic socialist candidates Monday, calling their movement more dangerous to the U.S. than previous world wars and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “They use the word social democrat because it sounds so nice, but it’s really communism you’re talking about,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I think it’s the...

President Trump referred to a bipartisan housing bill as a “yawn” on Monday, arguing that the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act is more important.  "It's so unimportant compared to the SAVE America Act,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “When I look at the bill, it's a bill. When I look at...

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday tossed out two cases involving new redistricting ballot measures that would have favored Democrats.  One ruling said the redistricting measure violated the state constitution’s “single subject” requirement that calls for measures proposed by petition to focus on one issue for inclusion on the ballot.  The Democratic aligned group, Coloradans...

The nation’s top pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) lobbying group is going on the offensive, stepping up its advocacy efforts against the pharmaceutical industry after Congress passed a PBM industry overhaul last winter. The pharmaceutical industry spent years pointing fingers at pharmacy benefit managers as the reason for high drug costs, and Congress finally was able...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the 15 individuals who will make up the new Defense Policy Board, just over a year after the previous panel was cleared out by the Pentagon chief.  Robert Lighthizer, who was the U.S. Trade Representative during President Trump’s first term, will be the chair of the board, which was established...

The Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) filed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) accusing the senator of making inappropriate advances toward several women and violating campaign finance rules. The Ethics panel informed Gallego in a letter Friday that its investigations “did not find evidence that your actions violated...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) punched back at President Trump on Monday after Trump called out Cassidy and other GOP senators for not supporting the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, even though Cassidy has consistently voted for the bill. Cassidy took a shot at Trump’s staff for having “misled” the president after Trump lumped...

House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said he believes the Pentagon’s policy chief misled him about a plan to reduce by thousands the number of U.S. soldiers in Romania. Rogers accused Elbridge Colby, under secretary of Defense, of not keeping Congress in the loop on force posture changes in Europe after the Alabama...