A Venezuelan businessman who helped hide almost $17 million in bribe payments by an ally of President Nicolas Maduro was sentenced to six months in prison Friday by a federal judge who expressed frustration that his cooperation with law enforcement was undone by President Joe Biden's recent pardon of a top U.S. criminal target.

Do Republicans prefer to eat their own when it comes to political scandals? Or are they just deathly afraid of going against Democrats? Those are just some of the questions that deserve answers after the push to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress backfired and caused the GOP to lose a seat in the House […]

Today, we commemorate the life of Frederick Douglass on (what is believed to be) the 206th birthday of one of the country’s most famous Americans. Born in February 1818, the exact date of his birth is unknown, though he would regularly celebrate it on Feb. 14. He would become an orator, author, newspaper publisher, and […]

WEIRTON, West Virginia — Most people in this town will tell you they’d rather have taken a physical punch to the gut than get the news they received yesterday when Cleveland-Cliffs Steel announced it was idling its tinplate production plant, a move that directly cost 900 people their jobs. It isn’t just those workers who […]

Judge Arthur Engoron said, despite perjury allegations, that Michael Cohen's testimony in former President Trump's New York civil fraud trial was "credible." "Michael Cohen was an important witness on behalf of the plaintiff, although hardly the linchpin that defendants have attempted to portray him to be," Engoron wrote in his 92-page trial verdict, which ordered...