Category: US News

Rep. Victoria Spartz Confronts FBI Chief Wray About FISA Abuses

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses at this week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on “the politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency.” …


Homeless RV Sewage Is Going Into the Ocean in Southern California: Insider

“Nine thousand gallons [of sewage] a month are going into the wastewater system. That’s the storm drain system, not the sewer. The storm drain carries it straight to Santa Monica Bay,” said Barry Coe, regarding the monthly wastewater of the 600 recreational vehicles (RV) that are being used by homeless persons in the Harbor Gateway…


EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Prisoner Takes His Obstruction Charge to the Supreme Court

In a historic move, a Jan. 6 prisoner has taken his challenge of the infamous obstruction charge, levied against him and hundreds of other Jan. 6 prisoners and defendants, all the way to the Supreme Court. On July 7, attorneys for Jan. 6 prisoner Edward Jacob (Jake) Lang filed a document with the Supreme Court…


Trump Launches 2nd Petition to Quash Fulton County Election Interference Probe

Former President Donald Trump is, for a second time, requesting that a Georgia court shut down an investigation into allegations he interfered in the state’s elections in 2020. On Thursday, Mr. Trump’s legal team asked the Superior Court for Fulton County, Georgia, to quash a report prepared by a special purpose grand jury (SPGJ) involved…


Fire Breaks out at Dow Louisiana Facility

A fire broke out at Dow’s Plaquemine chemical facility in Louisiana, the U.S. chemical maker said in a statement late on Friday. Everyone at the facility was accounted for and the fire was being managed by the company’s Emergency Operations Center, Dow Louisiana said in a statement posted on Facebook, adding that they were in…


Eligibility for Biden’s $39 Billion Student Loan Forgiveness—Find Out Who Qualifies

The Biden administration recently announced a $39 billion student loan forgiveness program aimed at individuals who have taken certain federal loans and are paying them back under the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plan. The loan forgiveness is only applicable on loans that were made under the IDR plan provided the borrowers have made 240 or 300…


Nearly 1 in 10 American Kids Have Developmental Disabilities, Says CDC

Almost one in ten children in the United States have a developmental disability, with their rates rising during the pandemic period when students were isolated and faced numerous restrictions. Developmental disability among children between the ages of three and 17 rose to 8.56 percent during 2019–2021, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for…


Vegas Could Break Heat Record as Tens of Millions Across US Endure Scorching Temperatures

LAS VEGAS—Visitors to Las Vegas on Friday stepped out momentarily to snap photos and were hit by blast-furnace air. But most will spend their vacations in a vastly different climate—at casinos where the chilly air conditioning might require a light sweater. Meanwhile, emergency room doctors were witnessing another world, as dehydrated construction workers, passed-out elderly…


ANALYSIS: The Key to ESG: Controlling the Shareholder Vote

During the discussion in which BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told his audience that his firm was “forcing behaviors” on companies whose shares it held, he also divulged a key lever of the progressive movement to control corporations: proxy voting. Fink told attendees at a 2017 New York Times conference that as an index fund manager,…


A New Look at an Old Clue Helps Investigators Arrest the Man Accused of Gilgo Beach Murders

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y.—The first find was startling: a woman’s skeletal remains cast into the dunes along a remote Long Island highway. Then came the shock. Days after that discovery in December 2010, police discovered parts of three more women nearby on a spit of sand known as Gilgo Beach. The remains of six other people…