The Department of Justice (DOJ) has identified and indicted a senior leader of the Russia-based LockBit ransomware group as the U.S. government continues its pursuit of those involved in the group’s cybersecurity attacks in recent years. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev is facing 26 counts in federal court in New Jersey for his alleged role in the...
NEW YORK — Former President Trump’s hush money judge has denied the defense’s demand for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels’s salacious testimony on Tuesday. “I do think some things were better unsaid,” Judge Juan Merchan said. “I don’t believe we are at the point where a mistrial is warranted.” Trump’s lawyers argued that Daniels, one...
The partisan chasm on immigration proposals is so wide that there is little, if any, common ground to be found between the right and left on policy solutions, according to a new poll commissioned by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The survey, conducted by Ipsos, asked respondents to rate their support or opposition to eight different...
FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg apologized to his staff Tuesday after an investigation by a law firm confirmed a report that sexual misconduct, lewd behavior and retaliatory administrative practices were rampant at the federal banking regulator. “To anyone who experienced sexual harassment or other misconduct at the FDIC, I again want to express how very sorry...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is delivering a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon. President Biden earlier in the day spoke at a ceremony for the Holocaust Days of Remembrance. Biden condemned those who he characterized as having already forgotten the horrors of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. The administration continues to...
The head of the House Democratic Caucus defended the right of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) to remain in Congress while his criminal trial runs its course, saying the Texas Democrat — recently indicted on bribery and foreign influence charges — is presumed innocent “just like every American.” “He's entitled to make his defense, he's entitled to the...
Meta’s Oversight Board will review three Facebook posts that included the phrase “from the river to the sea” that the social media company ruled to keep up on the platform, the board announced Tuesday. The phrase pre-dates the current conflict, but the three posts under review were published on Facebook in November, following the...
The anti-Israel demonstrations sweeping American college campuses share similar traits to Mao's Cultural Revolution and the Black Lives Matter movement.