Military families demand DOJ distribute nearly $800M from French cement company found guilty of bribing ISIS

In November 2017, Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy was injured in Raqqa, Syria while clearing the second floor of a hospital that ISIS had booby trapped with explosives.  Now a quadriplegic, Stacy, his wife Lindsey, and their 4 children are part of a lawsuit brought by military families against the French cement company, Lafarge, recently … Read more

California: 40,000 people ordered to evacuate over chemical leak fears

Authorities in Orange county say tank holding methyl methacrylate ‘actively in crisis’ and urge residents to leave Authorities in Orange county, California have ordered the evacuation of 40,000 people over concerns about a chemical leak that threatened to spill or explode. The problem arose on Thursday at a facility owned by GKN Aerospace in the … Read more

Way harder than it should be: Why Congress may balk on $1.7B compensation fund

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had never appeared before a congressional panel asking for money to run his department until Tuesday morning. And even though cabinet secretaries routinely make their budget requests to Congress, it appears that Blanche apparently didn’t even need to ask lawmakers for the most-controversial batch of federal funds in years.  It … Read more

DOJ vows to appeal after judge dismisses smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as ‘vindictive’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) vowed to appeal a federal judge’s decision Friday to dismiss human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who initially entered the U.S. illegally and allegedly had suspected ties to MS-13, slamming the ruling as “wrong and dangerous.” U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. on Friday threw out a … Read more

Sheridan Gorman’s parents say protecting children from failed immigration policies isn’t a one-party fight

The parents of Sheridan Gorman, the college freshman who was killed in Chicago earlier this year, appeared Friday at a New York rally hosted by President Donald Trump, where they demanded that leaders oppose sanctuary policies, saying the fight to protect children shouldn’t belong “to only one party.” Trump was at Rockland Community College in … Read more