(Christian Wade, The Center Square) Connecticut lawmakers are calling for an investigation and changes in state election laws following allegations of absentee ballot fraud in a mayoral election. Following the Sept. 12 primary, John Gomes, a Democrat who challenged incumbent Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, released video footage showing a woman…
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Scruggs, who prosecuted numerous peaceful Jan. 6 protestors, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stabbing someone who crashed into his car that morning. According to reports, Scruggs is accused of stabbing a driver who hit his car following another collision in Florida around 9:30…
(AP) Police had been searching for the man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur since last week as a suspect in a separate rape and arson, officials said Thursday. Jason Billingsley, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Pava LaPere, was released from prison…
(The Center Square) A security expert says Congress should reduce food stamp fraud as it faces a Saturday deadline to renew the Farm Bill. Haywood Talcove is the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Government Group, which provides fraud prevention tools to 26 state unemployment programs and 50 U.S. banks. He…
(Headline USA) Billionaire Elon Musk announced this week that he plans to visit the southern border and see the border crisis for himself as immigration officials continue to log record migrant crossings. Musk has shown interest in the crisis and has posted frequently about it on Twitter. In a post…
(Will Kessler, Daily Caller News Foundation) A new estimate for U.S. economic growth released Thursday could mean that higher interest rates will be with Americans for longer. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of economic growth, for the U.S. remained at 2.1% for the second quarter of 2023 in its…
(AP) Home loan borrowing costs climbed again this week, pushing the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate to its highest level in nearly 23 years, another blow to prospective homebuyers facing an increasingly unaffordable housing market. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose to 7.31%, from 7.19% last…
(Headline USA) Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., blasted his embattled colleague Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., this week, saying he plans to return all of the money Menendez donated to his 2022 Senate campaign in envelopes stuffed with cash. Fetterman is one of several Democrats who has called on Menendez to resign after…
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(Headline USA) A new report from House Republicans alleges former COVID czar Anthony Fauci secretly went to the CIA’s headquarters to try and “influence” the agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed on Tuesday that it had obtained “concerning information” that “lends…