China is buying American oil. Not a token amount. Enough to cover the gap in its Asian fuel markets opened by a war Beijing is allegedly winning. Asia Times reported it earlier this month: Chinese refiners are importing US crude to keep Asian fuel supplies…
Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state legislator running as an independent, defeated Republican-endorsed Maria Lazar on Tuesday night to claim a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Associated Press projects. Taylor took 60.8% of the vote to Lazar's 39.1%, a margin that wasn't close…
Two young men from Pennsylvania plotted to kill as many as 60 people in an ISIS-inspired bombing outside the New York City mayor's residence, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment released Tuesday. The charges describe a chilling, premeditated attempt at domestic terrorism that failed only…
Rex Heuermann, the 62-year-old Long Island architect who led a double life for decades, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of murder and admitted responsibility for an eighth uncharged killing, ending one of the most haunting serial murder cases in modern American history before it…
A federal judge sentenced Jasveen Sangha, the drug dealer known as "the Ketamine Queen", to 15 years in prison for supplying the ketamine that killed actor Matthew Perry. United States District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence, matching the term prosecutors had recommended.…
Speaker Mike Johnson's allies are openly fuming after what they describe as a "bait and switch" on a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, a sudden reversal that left rank-and-file House Republicans blindsided during a conference call and raised fresh questions about the Speaker's grip…
A 38-year-old illegal immigrant charged with snatching a 4-year-old girl from a Patchogue, New York, laundromat was re-arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after local authorities released him back into the community, the Department of Homeland Security told the New York Post. Carlos Corte…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Mexican national wanted for murder this week during a targeted operation in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, pulling a fugitive off American streets who had allegedly killed a woman in the Mexican state of Sinaloa nearly seven years ago.…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told American service members Tuesday they have "a duty to refuse illegal orders", a striking call from a sitting lawmaker aimed directly at undermining the military chain of command while President Donald Trump presses Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and…
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to stop his investigation into alleged fraud in last November's special election, directing him to preserve more than 650,000 ballots his office had already seized from local election officials. The order freezes a…
Bodycam footage played in a Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom Wednesday captured the moment Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who abducted and killed seven-year-old Athena Strand, told officers he could lead them to the child, and then described how he disposed of her body. "She wasn't…
California's first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom told an audience in San Francisco late last month that she and Governor Gavin Newsom are pursuing legislation aimed at tech companies, because boys, including their own son, are moving to the political right after spending time online. The…
Four seventeen-year-olds face aggravated kidnapping charges in Travis County after they allegedly lured a former high school classmate to a garage, held a gun to his head, bound him with duct tape, and beat him with aluminum bats, all because he had talked to one…
A federal judge denied Minnesota's emergency bid to unfreeze more than $243 million in Medicaid funds this week, ruling that the state filed its lawsuit prematurely and that the Trump administration's deferral of payments likely complies with federal regulations. The decision hands the administration a…
