A Florida man who attacked police officers with a flagpole during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to four years in prison, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Michael Perkins, 40, in March was found guilty of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, civil...
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon says he felt "vindicated" by the removal of Chris Licht, the network's former CEO, who took him off the air earlier this year. "Read the story, and you speak to the people who are there, and I think people get what happened. All you have to do is read The...
Americans will likely deplete the rest of the excess savings they accumulated during the pandemic this quarter, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. After rapidly accumulating “unprecedented” levels of excess savings during the pandemic, the San Francisco Fed estimates that American households held less than $190 billion in aggregate excess...
A teacher in Georgia was fired Thursday for reading a book about gender identity to her fifth-grade class last school year. The Cobb County School Board voted along party lines in a 4-3 vote to terminate Katie Rinderle for reading “My Shadow Is Purple” by Scott Stuart at Due West Elementary School in March. “The...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) doubled down Friday on his assertion that it's time for Republicans to move on from the controversies surrounding the 2020 election. "It should be such an easy path for us [Republicans] to win the White House back, but ... we have to be focused on the future, not something that...
Rep. Jim Jordan said he is honing in on an Oct. 7, 2022 meeting where the Justice Department's investigation into Hunter Biden was allegedly discussed in Republicans' probe into a now-defunct plea deal.
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced a new multiyear military exercise plan involving the U.S., Japan and South Korea ahead of President Biden's Camp David summit.
An attorney for former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark is requesting the Georgia racketeering case be pushed back, citing schedule logistics.