As he visits the Dominican Republic on the final stop of his five-day overseas mission to the region, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is sending strong assurances that the Trump administration is not shutting down the United Nations-authorized and heavily U.S.-financed multinational armed force trying to help neighboring Haiti root out deadly armed gangs….
A group of Chicago aldermen want to ban people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol Building — including the ones recently pardoned by President Donald Trump — from working for the city. Four City Council members plan to introduce a resolution later this month directing the city’s Human Resources Commissioner…
All the major pieces of the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 and the Black Hawk army helicopter that crashed over the Potomac River last week have been removed as of Thursday, according to military officials. The Baltimore District of the Army Corps of Engineers, along with the Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage…
When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly changed into a dangerous new mutant, how would we know? Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. An economist who advised the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to economic spying charges that prosecutors say could have helped Chinese officials reap enormous profits. John Harold Rogers, 63, is accused of…
The crisis PR firm Blake Lively alluded to in her California Civil Rights Department complaint — in which she first accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign — has sued the “It Ends With Us” actress amid the never-ending legal feuds surrounding the domestic violence film. Jed Wallace and his company Street Relations Inc. has sued the “Gossip Girl”…
There’s an emerging blue-state nightmare: Inspired by President Donald Trump’s call to round up immigrants who are in the country illegally, Republican governors would send their National Guard troops into Democratic-led states without those leaders’ permission. It’s a scenario that was so concerning to Washington state Rep. Sharlett Mena that she introduced legislation that would make uninvited…
A former policy advisor for former President Barack Obama’s administration was sentenced last week to over 11 years in jail after flying to the United Kingdom in an attempt to rape a child. In a recent press release, the Bedfordshire Police Department announced that 47-year-old Rahamim Shy was found guilty last Wednesday of “arranging the…
A new report claims that President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing an executive order to potentially fire thousands of federal employees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. However, the White House has denied the report. Sources familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration’s potential executive order…
A whistleblower who used to work for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently exposed the agency for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a “central” part of USAID under the Biden-Harris administration. The whistleblower’s testimony comes as President Donald Trump’s administration and the Department of Government Efficiency effectively shut down USAID this…
