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Deep blue Maryland caught in billion dollar web of unemployment failure and fraud
Maryland is under public pressure after a state audit and a series of federal indictments exposed widespread fraud in its unemployment program. Maryland has paid out close to a billion dollars in unemployment overpayments over the past five years to individuals who...
Gregg Jarrett sizes up whether Trump has strong case against IRS
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Friday that President Donald Trump has a strong legal case against the IRS over the unlawful disclosure of his tax records. Trump filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking at least $10 billion in damages from the IRS and the Treasury...
GOP senator vows to block all fed nominees after DOJ probe into Jerome Powell
Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is vowing to block all of President Donald Trump’s future appointees to the Federal Reserve — including the upcoming Chair vacancy — citing the Justice Department’s criminal probe into chairman Jerome Powell. Tillis, a...
Trump admin accidentally doxxes ICE agent involved in shooting
Top Trump administration officials inadvertently helped journalists identify the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official involved in the Minnesota shooting by revealing a detail about his background. Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary...
Democrats try rolling out potential answer to JD Vance for 2026 midterms
Beth Macy, a 2026 Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, has drawn some comparisons to a liberal version of Vice President JD Vance, Politico reported on Monday. Macy previously served as an award-winning reporter for the Roanoke Times for 25...
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House Ethics Committee opens investigation into Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez for sexual misconduct
The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Democratic California Rep. Jimmy Gomez Monday over sexual misconduct allegations. Gomez was accused in June of kissing a much younger aide who worked for a different member of Congress, the New York Post first...
Election 2026: Balkcom, Walsh on ballots, ready for campaign sprint
(The Center Square) – Absentee ballots go out for North Carolina voters two weeks from Friday, and late changes are complete in the 11th Congressional District and state District 117 of the House of Representatives. State Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, R-Henderson, is...
Judge: Milwaukee County must contribute to Wisconsin Common School Fund
(The Center Square) – Milwaukee County can no longer keep 100% of certain motor vehicle fines and forfeitures after a judge ruled an allowance for only Milwaukee to do so was unconstitutional. The Wisconsin Constitution requires counties to send at least 50% of...
Newly declassified FBI files blow open the Eric Swalwell–Fang Fang story
BS BULLETIN Newly declassified FBI records say agents investigated whether Christine “Fang Fang” Fang secretly funneled foreign money into Eric Swalwell’s campaigns through straw donors. Swalwell acknowledged to agents that he had a sexual relationship with Fang and...
Trump DOJ zaps gun rights restoration for felons back to life
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday that the Justice Department (DOJ) was reviving a process by which those who lost gun rights due to criminal convictions could have them restored. While federal law provides for a process to restore Second Amendment rights...
Trump wants a makeover for America’s aircraft carriers— critics say his ‘aesthetic whims’ could cost billions
BS BULLETIN The Navy is studying whether to move the Ford-class carrier's command “island” forward after Trump complained about the look of the newer ships. Trump has separately ordered the Navy to develop plans for returning future carriers to steam catapults....
