CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday. Ames admitted being paid $2.5 million by Moscow for […]
TLDR: Criminals trade “state hit lists” ranking which states have the weakest fraud protections, with Minnesota on those lists for years Fraudsters strategically target sympathetic programs like child care and housing because they know officials are reluctant to scrutinize aid for vulnerable populations State administrators often ignore the fraud because it’s federal money, not state […]
The administration is still reviewing more than 2 million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to see whether they should be released, government lawyers told a judge late Monday. That’s the universe of documents that have yet to be released and are “potentially responsive” to the new law requiring disclosure. The government said they are “in […]
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said it’s not believable that the military action in Venezuela has anything to do with stopping the flow of drugs into the United States after President Trump pardoned a former Honduran president of his drug crimes. Mr. Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez last month of his 45-year prison sentence for […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced that he is issuing a letter of censure to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over the lawmaker’s participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. Hegseth said that the censure was “a necessary process step” to proceedings that could result in a demotion […]
Interim Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez invited U.S. President Donald Trump “to collaborate” and said she seeks “respectful relations” in a newly conciliatory message released Sunday night. After delivering speeches projecting fierce defiance to the Trump administration this weekend, Rodriguez’s statement in English on her Instagram account marked a dramatic shift in tone. “We invite the […]
Don’t miss the full story from our staff writers, whose reportage is the basis of this article. The United States executed a dramatic military operation early Saturday morning to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife from their heavily guarded compound in Caracas. The mission involved more than 150 aircraft, including fighter jets, bombers, […]
Senate Democrats will force a vote next week on a war powers resolution directing President Trump to terminate the use of U.S. armed forces for hostilities against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress. They had filed the resolution in December amid concerns that the Trump administration was planning military action in Venezuela in support of a […]
Two men who were staying at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Bethesda fled onto a ledge after an armed man came into their ninth-floor room. They were subsequently rescued. The incident happened early on Thursday, with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue responding to the scene to get the stranded men off the ninth-story ledge at […]
Autonomous vehicle company Waymo and the city of Santa Monica, California, have each filed suit against the other over the overnight use of charging stations for Waymo cars. Santa Monica has asked a judge to order Waymo not to use charging stations, operated by the company Voltera, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time […]
