Crime
House Ethics Committee probes Rep. Madison Cawthorn for cryptocurrency promotion, relationship with staffer
Rep.-elect Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., arrives for the House Republican leadership elections at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The House Ethics Committee is investigating controversial Rep. Madison Cawthorn for his possibly improper promotion of a cryptocurrency in which he may have […]
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Giuliani interviewed for hours by 1/6 committee
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to media about the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan outside his apartment building in New York City, U.S., August 20, 2021. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Rudy Giuliani, who as a lawyer for then-President Donald Trump pushed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election, met for hours with the […]
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Jan. 6 panel seeks information from GOP Rep. Loudermilk about Capitol tour he led day before Trump riot
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., attends a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Rayburn Building titled “Financial Industry Regulation: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,” on June 13, 2018. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot is asking GOP Rep. Barry […]
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‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from federal prison and into New York halfway house
Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli departs the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, August 3, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Getty Images Notorious “Pharma bro” fraudster Martin Shkreli was released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Wednesday and into a U.S. Bureau of Prisons halfway house […]
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Biden travels to Buffalo to grieve shooting victims, condemn racial violence
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 15, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Joe Biden is in Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to console the families of victims of a mass shooting this weekend where a lone white gunman targeted […]
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Shooting at Taiwanese church in California that killed 1, wounded 5 investigated as hate crime, FBI says
A church staff member raises police tape for a car to exit at the Geneva Presbyterian Church May 16, 2022 after one person was killed and five injured during a shooting May 15, 2022 at the church in Laguna Woods, California. The shooting was motivated by political tensions between China and Taiwan, authorities said Monday, […]
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Biden calls on states to ‘fund the police,’ mental health programs using federal money
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on gun control in the Rose Garden at the White House April 8, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Friday urged states and cities to use federal funds to invest in more cops, crisis responders and mental-health and substance-abuse programs […]
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Five U.S. states order a metaverse casino with alleged ties to Russia to halt sale of NFTs
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Source: Flamingo Casino Club Regulators in five states simultaneously filed emergency orders Wednesday against a virtual casino they say has ties to Russia and that has been operating in the metaverse, a digital world where participants can interact with each other, purchase products and even gamble. State law enforcement officials […]
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Europe wants to fight online child abuse. Critics fear it may erode privacy
Policymakers have long wrestled with tech giants over the potential abuse of encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp and iMessage. Chesnot | Getty Images The European Union on Wednesday unveiled tough new proposals that would require online platforms to more aggressively screen and remove child abuse online. Proposed legislation would allow EU countries to ask […]
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Al Jazeera journalist killed by gunfire in the West Bank
Israeli security forces in the village of Romana near the West Bank city of Jenin, on May 8, 2022. An Al-Jazeera journalist was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. Nidal Eshtayeh | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images […]
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