Newly unsealed court records reveal an Albany woman and FBI informants posing as ISIS operatives trading messages about bombing the New York State Capitol and killing state senators.Albany resident Jessica Bowie, 35, was arrested Wednesday night and charged Thursday with attempting to provide materi…
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White nationalist leaders gathered in Rome, Italy, this year to map out how they could exploit America’s collapsing local news industry, openly celebrating the death of community journalism as a golden opportunity to organize unchecked in rural areas.Phil Williams, a legendary local reporter from Na…
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) drew ridicule Wednesday after blaming “socialist policies” for the national debt reaching $40 trillion, a milestone critics said he helped create.The Iowa Republican posted on X Thursday morning, calling the debt a “wake-up call” and blaming “unaffordable socialist policie…
Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) has given her runoff opponent more attack fodder after a voter question-and-answer appearance.The sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was appointed to his seat after he passed away suddenly, is currently reeling from a debate performance where she appeared …
Religious groups want President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security officials to be held in contempt, according to a new report.A federal judge has been asked to consider this punitive move after a recording device found in a Minnesota church raised concerns Immigration Control and Enforc…
A federal appeals court has exempted the Minnesota Voters Alliance, a conservative election-integrity group, from Minnesota’s election misinformation law ahead of the November midterms.The Eighth Circuit issued its ruling Thursday, reversing a lower court that had denied the group a preliminary inju…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was given notice by Senate Democrats Thursday that they intend to launch a probe over his alleged misuse of active-duty personnel.The Democrats claim Hegseth installed loyalist inside Stars and Stripes, an independent news source that dates back to the Civil War, corre…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was presented a real head-scratcher on Thursday, he admitted at a press conference. “We’ve got a spike in oil prices today that I don’t really understand,” Bessent said during a White House address.Bessent made this bold claim as the international price benchmark for…
Even if Democrats sweep the midterms, the country could be barreling toward a cascade of crises that no election can head off. That’s the warning from national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, the independent reporter behind the long-running blog emptywheel.In a post published Thursday, Wheeler ar…
Wild horses couldn’t keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y…