Maxwell, who lived for years with Epstein and was his frequent travel companion on trips around the world, was taken into custody around 8:30 a.m., said FBI spokesman Marty Feely. An indictment made public Thursday said Maxwell “assisted, facilitated and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to […] Read more

Joe Biden has made it a campaign talking point to demand the race data of coronavirus cases, but his campaign hasn’t been forthcoming about the diversity of his own staff. “Look at my staff,” Biden said in December, according to BuzzFeed News. “I have the most diverse staff of anybody running. I’ve always done that.” Biden’s campaign […] Read more

A man from Warrenton, Missouri, was charged with making a terrorist threat after he filmed himself licking a bunch of items at a local Walmart. “Who’s afraid of the coronavirus?” Cody Pfister, 26, taunts in a video he later posted to social media. The video spread around the world, and Warrenton police said in a […] Read more

Amidst dealing with the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, President Trump says he is “strongly considering” a pardon for his one-time national security director, Michael Flynn. Flynn had been scheduled to be sentenced in late February, but Judge Emmet Sullivan postponed it indefinitely after prosecutors filed a rare motion to delay a number of approaching deadlines that […] Read more

A congressional report on Boeing blames two fatal crashes on the company’s “culture of concealment” as well as “grossly insufficient” federal oversight. The investigation focused on the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of the MAX aircraft and the delegation of self-approval authority to Boeing. The 13-page report reveals shocking engineering and regulatory lapses regarding the design […] Read more

A New York federal appeals court ruling yesterday allows the current GOP administration to withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants from U.S. states that have passed sanctuary laws to protect illegal immigrants from federal prosecution and deportation. On February 26, 2020, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower […] Read more

More than a dozen ballistic missiles screamed into two Iraqi military bases housing US troops overnight. Iran has claimed responsibility for the missile attacks against the bases. There were no immediate reports of casualties at the heavily protected base. The attack came in the early hours of Wednesday morning, local time, with reports that several […] Read more

Turkey illegally transfers German tanks to jihadists fighting US-backed forces. Recep Erdogan’s Turkish government has transferred German-made Leopard 2 tanks to a Turkish-backed “rebel group” fighting in northeastern Syria, violating the end-user terms of the sales agreement and German law regarding arms exports. The Turkish military has transferred an unknown number of Leopard 2 tanks […] Read more

As we have reported here earlier, Representative Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had threatened to sue CNN and other news outlets for libel. He has now made good on those threats. Last week Nunes sued CNN for defamation, accusing the cable network of publishing a “demonstrably false hit piece” about him amid his high-profile opposition to the […] Read more

A total of eight individuals have been formally charged will making illegal contributions to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, new reports have revealed. Among those who’ve been charged is one of the key witnesses in special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 US presidential election, George Nader. Nadler, whose activities were allegedly reported to […] Read more