Series of meetings is mandated by $305m settlement agreement for 600 survivors of decades-long abuse scandal A small number of victims of New Orleans’ Catholic clergy abuse scandal filed into a local church office recently for the first of 10 group meetings with Archbishop Gregory Aymond. The New Orleans archdiocese agreed to the meetings as … Read more
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a key vote in the House of Representatives Tuesday as GOP leaders work to quell a burgeoning mutiny within their ranks. House Republican leaders had planned for a measure in the early afternoon that, if successful, would block the House from voting on reversing President Donald Trump’s … Read more
Democrats are split on whether to spare the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other agencies from the possibility of a government shutdown as lawmakers remain gridlocked over Democrats’ demands for funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The lawless, reckless people who are marauding bands wild on our street — to hell with that,” … Read more
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, a vocal critic of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who is running for re-election in November, is facing heat from Georgia Republicans over his lack of public comment until today on news that ICE lodged a detainer for a Georgia illegal immigrant accused of a heinous crime. On Jan. 27, the … Read more
A progressive organizer backed by left-wing champions Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one step away from winning a seat in Congress. Analilia Mejia, who has made rebuilding the Democratic Party a central pillar of her campaign, is the front-runner in an April special congressional election for a blue-leaning district in New Jersey … Read more
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., unleashed a blistering attack on federal agents Tuesday, calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers “thugs” and accusing them of criminal conduct during a heated House hearing. The Democrat’s comments came during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight. “I have heard and seen … Read more
The FBI raided a Georgia election hub near Atlanta and seized ballots and voter records at the urging of a lawyer who had worked with President Donald Trump to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a newly released court record revealed Tuesday
In a floor speech, Ro Khanna, a Democratic representative, revealed identities of six men after seeing unredacted files Ro Khanna, the US congressman, publicly revealed the names of six men whose identities were redacted from the Jeffrey Epstein files, including Leslie Wexner, a billionaire retail magnate, who the FBI appeared to have labeled as a … Read more
The FBI is investigating Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 election, according to newly filed search warrant affidavits outlining alleged ballot irregularities and record-keeping failures. The FBI special agent who wrote the affidavits, which were filed Tuesday in federal court by the Department of Justice, described a wide-ranging probe into missing ballot images, inconsistent recount … Read more
During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Tuesday, former U.S. tech mogul Neville Roy Singham was regularly named in the discussion and debate as to how foreign adversaries help fund U.S. agitator groups through what one witness described as “foreign dark money.” Singham, a U.S. citizen who sold his IT consulting company for … Read more
