An Indianapolis man who provided security for the Oath Keepers militia during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol was sentenced on Friday to two years of probation. Michael Greene was found guilty of a misdemeanor trespassing charge related to the insurrection in March. Prosecutors alleged that Greene was a “top-trusted lieutenant” in the...
A Southern California real estate developer was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for sending a $500,000 bribe to a Los Angeles city councilman, the Department of Justice announced. David Lee was found guilty of wire fraud and bribery in June 2022. He was also personally ordered to pay a $750,000 fine for this...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to track fare evasion in New York City subways, the Metropolitan Transit Authority confirmed Friday. The MTA’s May 2023 report on fare evasion notes that “computer technology” tracks evasions at seven stations in the city by counting the number of unpaid entries. AI-assisted tech will then compare that figure to...
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has cleared the donor threshold necessary to qualify for the first GOP debate, his campaign confirmed on Friday. Tricia McLaughlin, a senior adviser on Ramaswamy’s campaign, confirmed to The Hill that Ramaswamy had reached 65,000 unique donors — well over the required minimum of 40,000 donors. The criteria, announced by...
The Pfizer pharmaceutical plant severely damaged by a tornado this week in North Carolina will have no “immediate significant impacts” on drug supply chains, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday. “We do not expect there to be any immediate significant impacts on supply given the products are currently at hospitals and in the...