by Shawn Meehan | Jun 25, 2020 | News
The United States Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s 200th judicial appointee to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday. Judge Cory Wilson, a conservative judge who currently serves on the Mississippi Court of Appeals, is the 200th judge Trump has...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 25, 2020 | News
A Justice Department official turned whistleblower appeared caught off-guard Wednesday when Republican Rep. Doug Collins pressed him in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his efforts in 2019 to work for House Democrats during the Trump impeachment saga. John...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 25, 2020 | News
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is suing a left-wing super PAC for producing a manipulated ad that falsely suggests the president called the coronavirus pandemic a “hoax.” The campaign filed a defamation complaint against Priorities USA Wednesday for...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 21, 2020 | News
In a stunning series of events that unfolded Friday night, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, said that he was not resigning from his post, rebuffing an announcement that Attorney General William Barr made earlier in the evening. Berman, who has led...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 21, 2020 | News
A federal judge on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request to block a book by former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The upcoming book, “The Room Where It Happens,” is filled with criticisms of Trump. The Justice Department sued Bolton Tuesday to...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 20, 2020 | News
A massive spyware effort targeted users of Google’s Chrome web browser extensions downloaded tens of millions of times, Reuters reported Thursday. The people responsible for the spyware attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s web browser,...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 20, 2020 | News
The statue of a Roman Catholic saint, Junípero Serra, will be removed over accusations that statues of the missionary reflect oppression of indigenous peoples, California officials announced Thursday. The statue currently stands with his back to the Ventura City...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 20, 2020 | News
The Pentagon has begun to form review committees to address racial diversity and equal opportunity in the military, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Thursday. Esper announced the new Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion in the Military in a statement. The...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 19, 2020 | News
The U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday that about 1.9 million new jobless claims were filed over the past week. The latest data showed a roughly 249,000 decrease in claims from the previous week’s numbers, showing that 1,877,000 new jobless claims were filed...
by Shawn Meehan | Jun 19, 2020 | News
There is a disparity between how Americans view policing countrywide and how they view policing in their own communities, a national poll found. Seventy-seven percent of respondents said they approved of how their local police did their job, according to the...
