Category Archives: Breaking News

Nimrata Randhawa Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador and governor of South Carolina, is running for the GOP nomination for president. Haley is the first well-known rival to officially challenge 2020 election loser Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2024. Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina and earned an accounting degree from ClemsonContinue reading “Nimrata Randhawa Haley is running against Donald Trump “

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said only Republican Sen. Rick Scott proposed and supported an initiative to sunset Social Security and Medicare. Scott, who unsuccessfully ran against McConnell for the top spot in the Senate, proposed a plan in 2022 to sunset all federal legislation after five years, forcing Congress to reauthorize them. Scott isContinue reading “GOP boss says ending Social Security, Medicare is a ‘Rick Scott plan’”

A broadcast reporter was pushed to the ground, handcuffed, and arrested while covering a news conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio. “Doing a live shot gets you arrested in America in 2023,” Lambert said while being escorted out. “I got arrested because I was trying to do a live report aboutContinue reading “NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert arrested for covering news conference”

A Russian national was charged in an indictment unsealed today in connection with a series of computer system intrusions that occurred in 2009 and 2010. Vitaly Kovalev, aka “Bentley,” “Bergen,” and “Alex Konor,” is charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and eight counts of bank fraud and he was identified as a senior figureContinue reading “Russian national charged with bank fraud by intrusion of computer systems”

Three suspected Chinese spy balloons pass over the continental US while Donald Trump was in the White House, according to a senior defense official who revealed that the prior administration failed to address such incursions after President Joe Biden took a good deal of abuse from Republicans over the last week. After Biden ordered theContinue reading “Three Chinese spy balloons floated over US during Trump administration”

Uniformed officers of the Fort Lee Police Department responded to a residence on John Street in the city of Fort Lee at approximately 8:13 a.m. in response to a 9-1-1 call. One civilian man was shot by police and pronounced deceased at 10:39 a.m. The Attorney General’s Office is investigating a fatal police-involved shooting thatContinue reading “Fort Lee police fatally shot man”

U.S. fighter jet assigned to U.S. Northern Command, acting on an order from President Joe Biden, successfully shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, the Pentagon said, ending what senior administration officials contend was an audacious attempt by Beijing to collect intelligence on sensitive American military sites. Biden hadContinue reading “U.S. military shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean”

In January 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finalized firearm mortality data for 2021. In 2021, gun violence killed 48,830 people in the U.S., a nearly 8% increase from 2020’s record-breaking magnitude of firearm deaths. Among those killed by gun violence in 2021, 2,571 were children (aged 0-17) – a 12.7% increaseContinue reading “2021 had the most mass shootings and gun deaths in recorded U.S. history”

A New Jersey community is breathing a sigh of relief following the arrest of the suspect caught on camera throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Bloomfield synagogue. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 26-year-old Nicholas Malindretos, of Clifton, was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted use of fire to damage and destroy a building used inContinue reading “Nicholas Malindretos charged with firebombing Bloomfield synagogue”

A Beavercreek, Ohio, man, who was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at John Glenn International Airport in 2018 while trying to travel to Afghanistan to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) or ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), was sentenced today, Wednesday, February 1, 2023, in federal court. Naser Almadaoji, 23, an Iraqi-bornContinue reading “Iraqi-born US citizen gets 10 years in prison in plot to join ISIS, trigger MAGA”

Republican Sayreville councilwoman Eunice Dwumfourwoman Eunice Dwumfour was fatally shot outside her home in New Jersey on Wednesday night in what police say was a targeted attack. Police responded to a 911 call reporting gunshots fired outside an apartment complex, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. When officers arrived, they found Dwumfour, 30, unresponsiveContinue reading “Republican Sayreville councilwoman was shot dead outside her home”

The search continues for an unknown driver who killed a 4-year-old girl that was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene in Newark Tuesday night. A 4-year-old girl died after she was one of three people struck by a hit-and-run driver in Newark, according to law enforcement officials. Police said the child was walkingContinue reading “Newark hit-and-run driver killed one 4-year-old girl, injured two other people”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will seek criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in connection with the election loser’s effort to In a hearing before Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney last week, Willis hinted in arguments against releasing the special purpose grand jury’s report she would seek indictments against several people following theContinue reading “Georgia judge vows ‘no rash decisions’ Fulton County DA is set to indict Trump”

The share of Democratic voters who think President Joe Biden should be their party’s nominee in 2024 dropped by six percentage points since June, according to polls conducted by Emerson College but only one potential rival appears to be on the horizon. Biden is expected to confirm that he will run for re-election soon, dismissingContinue reading “Fewer Democrats think President Joe Biden should be the nominee in 2024”

Immigration justice advocates are mourning a Cuban teenager who was shot and killed after being forced to wait in Mexico while requesting an appointment to seek asylum in the U.S. with his family. Jairon Abraham Cruz, who was only 17 years old, arrived in Mexico with his family on the same day President Joe BidenContinue reading “Cuban teenager shot and killed while waiting on Biden restrictions in Mexico”

Prosecutors in the nation’s capital have declined to file charges against Micki Witthoeft, who was arrested on traffic charges on the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot where her daughter was fatally shot by a police officer. Witthoeft’s daughter, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed as she tried to gain access to aContinue reading “Prosecutors drop charges against the mother of slain terrorist Ashli Babbitt”

Senior Turkish officials on Thursday called former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a liar, branding his new book misinformation in an attempt to propel him to the presidency. Pompeo, who is laying the groundwork for a 2024 presidential campaign, wrote that in 2019 he tried to “break through” a locked door in Ankara’s presidential complex toContinue reading “Turkish officials call former CIA chief, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a liar”

Police and prosecutors have been lying to the public and to judges in their effort to justify outrageous, sensational charges against environmental activists who oppose a police training facility development in Georgia. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund said police who brought terrorism charges against Stop Cop City protesters justified those allegations by claiming that a group,Continue reading “Georgia prosecutors are lying to justify excessive charges, hide police brutality”

U.S. special operations forces have killed a senior Islamic State group official and 10 other terrorist operatives in remote northern Somalia, said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III. The operation targeted Bilal al-Sudani, a key financial facilitator for the global terrorist organization, in a mountainous cave complex. In a statement from the Pentagon, AustinContinue reading “US military operation executed in northern Somalia kills ISIS leaders”

Among the stollen documents recovered from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home by the FBI were classified because they contained highly sensitive intelligence about Iran and China, which could reveal the identity of American spies and expose secret intelligence-gathering methods. Some of the documents recovered from Trump’s home detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that manyContinue reading “Trump stole secrets about Iran, China, that may expose American spies & intelligence-gathering”