Rebekah Jones, the founder of Florida’s official coronavirus database, turned herself in to state law enforcement Monday after authorities issued a warrant for her arrest on Sunday. The warrant alleges she accessed Florida’s computer systems without authorization, a violation of the Florida Computer Crimes Act. Following a raid of her... Read More »
A highly respected MIT Professor has been arrested and charged with grant fraud after he failed to disclose his ties to the People's Republic of China. The arrest comes after an aggressive investigation from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding American universities and any influence the Chinese government may have... Read More »
After a long civil probe that began in 2016 by the Justice Department, Toyota Motor Corp settled for $180 million. The defects found in emissions systems in Toyota vehicles were a violation of the Clean Air Act. Though Toyota publicly announced they were under investigation in 2016, the US Attorney’s... Read More »
A four-year stay at the White House is not the only thing coming to an end for the Trump Family. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced his city's plans to cut ties with the Trump Organization by ending several contracts. De Blasio recently expressed his dismay at... Read More »
The Los Angeles Police Commission has approved the use of facial recognition technology in a unanimous vote by members. The approval has come under fire by over sixty civil rights groups and public letters protesting the idea, with 931 out of 943 letters in opposition to using facial recognition within... Read More »
In an unexpected statement late last week, the NRA announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and that the organization would be leaving New York and reincorporating in Texas. According to the press release, the reincorporation in Texas comes after what the organization has described as a "corrupt... Read More »
On May 20, 2017, 2nd Lieutenant Richard Collins III, three days away from his graduation from Bowie State University, was stabbed fatally in the chest as he waited for his rideshare after visiting with friends at the University of Maryland. The assailant, Sean Urbanski, 25, approached the group but targeted... Read More »
Throughout the world, sports fans are gearing up to cheer for their home-country favorites as the qualifying season for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing gets underway. Sadly though, that anticipation has been dampened yet again by the settlement of a $1.45 million sexual abuse claim against U.S. Figure Skating... Read More »
Heightened restrictions, tighter security measures, and the first transition of power in modern history where the current president has announced his plans not to attend; the 2021 inauguration will be unlike any other in modern times. National Guardsmen Descend Upon D.C. 25,000 National Guard troops have descended upon Washington D.C.... Read More »
President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration takes place on January 20, 2021. All federal prisons in the U.S., more than 120, have been put on lockdown as of midnight on Saturday, January 16, in response to “current events,” according to a statement by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The BOP says this... Read More »
The Keystone XL pipeline project was rejected by the Obama administration because it went against its efforts to fight climate change. Trump made building the pipeline a central platform in his presidential campaign. Biden, who was vice president under Obama, plans to cancel the permit for the project as one... Read More »
Just days before President Trump is to leave office, his administration published a finalized rule amending the process by which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects applicants for H-1B visas. In one of the final attempts to leave the administration’s lasting mark on the U.S. immigration system, the new... Read More »
In 2020, the federal government executed 10 prisoners. That’s more prisoners than all the states together put to death last year. With this statistic in hand, and noting the three inmates scheduled for execution in January, Democrats revealed legislation that would end federal capital punishment. A total of 13 federal... Read More »
No one paying attention to politics in recent years suspected President Trump to accept electoral defeat in the 2020 elections graciously. The dozens of failed lawsuits and cries of foul play fell in line with what America could have predicted. However, when armed Trump supporters, freshly riled up by the... Read More »
Matthew Ryncarz, owner and operator of Fusion Health and Vitality LLC (doing business as Pharm Origins) was halted from continuing to sell Vitamin D products that he claimed were certified treatments for the COVID-19 virus and other diseases. This permanent injunction from the U.S. District Court of the Southern District... Read More »
