Former Attorney General William Barr reportedly pushed back strongly on President Trump when discussing claims the president was circulating about the election being “stolen” from him. Barr, during a meeting with Trump at the White House in early December, told the president that such theories of a stolen election were “bullshit,” Axios reported Monday. Other […]
CHICAGO — A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months. Aditya Singh, 36, is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor […]
A Pennsylvania woman accused of being one of the Capitol rioters told a former “romantic partner” that she planned to steal a laptop computer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and sell it to Russian intelligence, court documents revealed Monday. The woman, Riley June Williams, 22, was on the run, charged with disorderly conduct on […]
President Donald Trump should be convicted by the Senate but not criminally prosecuted for inciting Capitol rioters, former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday, adding that it would give America space to “heal.” “The country would be better off if we did not give him the platform that a prosecution would for the next three […]
The New York Jets hired San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh to be their new head coach, making him the first Muslim to run an NFL sideline, the team announced Thursday night. “We’ve reached an agreement in principle with Robert Saleh to become our head coach,” the Jets said in a statement. Saleh has […]
An associate of Rudy Giuliani told a former CIA officer a presidential pardon was “going to cost $2m”, the New York Times reported on Sunday in the latest bombshell to break across the last, chaotic days of Donald Trump’s presidency. The report detailed widespread and in some cases lucrative lobbying involving people seeking a pardon […]
President Trump’s approval rating has cratered after he incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, led by a dramatic drop in support among voters of his own party. A new Pew Research Center poll released Friday found just 29 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing in office, by far the […]
A migrant caravan moving from Honduras toward the U.S. border is calling on the incoming Biden administration to honor what it says are “commitments” to the migrants moving north, amid fears of a surge at the border when President-elect Joe Biden enters office. More than 1,000 Honduran migrants moved into Guatemala on Friday without registering, […]
A frenzied mob of pro-Trump insurrections that breached the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 came perilously close to confronting Mike Pence and his family, according to a report by the Washington Post, as the vice president was rushed into a room off the Senate floor approximately 60 seconds before the rioters charged onto a […]
The U.S. could tally more than 87,000 new coronavirus deaths over the next three weeks as the nation grapples with the deadliest phase of the pandemic, according to a projection from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC’s national ensemble forecast — an aggregate of dozens of independently developed forecasts — estimates […]
Jobless claims in the first full week of January spiked to a seasonally adjusted 965,000, a 23 percent increase from the previous week, and the highest weekly amount since August. The increase in jobless claims follows a December jobs report that showed the economy shedding jobs, putting the recovery of the labor market in reverse. […]
Violent extremist activity will likely surge in the United States and pose “the greatest domestic terrorism threat in 2021,” a trio of federal law enforcement agencies warned in a recently released bulletin. The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center announced in a Joint Intelligence Bulletin released Wednesday that this threat […]
