House GOP passes pro-law enforcement bills as party weighs DOJ and FBI funding cuts
House Republicans are taking up a series of pro-law enforcement bills this week, as the party grapples with cutting funding to federal law enforcement agencies.
2023-05-18 09:53
Senate GOP Covid origins probe finds circumstantial evidence but no 'smoking gun' to support lab leak theory
A Republican-led investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has unearthed additional, though circumstantial, evidence supporting the theory that the virus likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, but it did not find any "smoking gun" evidence to prove the theory, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
2023-05-18 08:28
US attorney in Massachusetts leaked sensitive information to journalist and lied under oath, DOJ watchdog report says
Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, leaked sensitive Justice Department information to a journalist in an effort to influence a local election, according to a report released Wednesday by the department's inspector general.
2023-05-17 22:49
Ex-First Republic CEO blames contagion for bank's collapse
The former chief executive of the First Republic Bank Michael Roffler blamed the bank's collapse on the contagion
2023-05-17 13:25
Truss urges Sunak to class China as 'threat' to UK security
Ms Truss has asked the UK prime minister to deliver on pledges he made to clamp down on China.
2023-05-17 10:21
US student suspended for filming teacher using racial slur
The school says the girl was removed for "inappropriate use of electronic devices", but family wants an apology.
2023-05-17 07:26
Stardust fire victim's father was haunted by tragedy
Laura Millar told the inquest her brother James Millar, 21, had been planning to buy a house with his fiancee.
2023-05-16 21:57
Trump weaponizes FBI-Russia report he demanded to keep fighting the election that never ends
A long-awaited report by Republican-appointed special counsel John Durham failed to find the "crime of the century" that ex-President Donald Trump said targeted him at the center of the Russia investigation. But it delivered him a potential political payoff nonetheless.
2023-05-16 12:20