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A judge on Thursday handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, sentencing three men who forged an early alliance with a leader of the scheme before the FBI broke it up in 2020.
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The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer had a list of future targets that included Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and California Governor Gavin Newsom, a San Francisco police investigator testified.
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Georgia's top elections official urged lawmakers on Wednesday to end general election runoffs — this month's bitter Senate contest was the latest example — but offered no specific proposals, saying there is a "wide range of options."
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The new findings from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, published Wednesday, count at least 3,544 deaths involving long COVID through June 2022 — a number researchers say is likely an underestimate of the true toll.
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A Russian man living in New Hampshire allegedly used his Merrimack home as a "transshipment point" to smuggle American-made military-grade equipment into Russia, part of a coordinated effort to evade U.S. export laws, federal prosecutors announced.
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During the 12-month span that ended on Sept. 30, the State Department issued 493,000 visas to immigrants overseas who had applied to move to the U.S. permanently, a 73% jump from fiscal year 2021 and a 7% increase from fiscal year 2019.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that in some cases, mortgage rates are slightly higher than they should be “because of regulatory policy."
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The North Carolina power grid attack was "unquestionably deliberate," cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs said on Sunday. With similar events throughout the country, Krebs added, "There is a significant threat to our nation's critical infrastructure."
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Rep. Adam Schiff said on Sunday that he thinks the risk for direct conflict with Russia "is growing." "I think it is manageable," Schiff said. "But you see Putin continue to rattle the nuclear saber, which is extremely dangerous."
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Pres. Biden is "absolutely right" in saying U.S. citizens being taken by other countries for political reasons is a national emergency, fmr. NSC Russia specialist Fiona Hill said. "They're doing it for trading purposes, but they're also doing it to mess about in our politics."
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Americans who travel to countries like Russia, Iran or North Korea, need to realize "they stand the chance of being grabbed for no reason at all, except to be used as a political chip," Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday.
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The Shargi family to date has not been granted a meeting with President Biden to discuss the case of Emad, an Iranian-American dual citizen wrongfully detained in Iran. “I don't think there is a good reason not to meet with us,” his daughter Ariana said on Sunday.
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Notable: Fiona Hill confirms that Russia asked the Trump administration to swap Viktor Bout & another Russian for Paul Whelan following the 2018 arrest of the US Marine vet. She says the President Trump was not “particularly interested.” Good context.
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There was a potential prisoner swap raised during the Trump administration of Marine veteran Paul Whelan for Viktor Bout, former National Security Council Russia specialist Fiona Hill says. But, Pres. Trump wasn't "particularly interested" in Whelan's case though, Hill adds.
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If the January 6th committee moves forward with referrals for criminal prosecution, we will learn those names & details on December 21st per
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On the Jan. 6 committee's potential criminal referrals it may issue to the DOJ, Rep. Adam Schiff says it would be "an important statement, not a political one." "I think it's an important decision in its own right...one that the department ought to give due consideration to."
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“….we don't always really know whether you have a mild recession or hard recession. And if it happens, we're going to be fine. I feel bad, terrible, for people who lose jobs. We want to keep it as short as possible,” JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on US economy
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“The war in Ukraine is a turning point,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon tells @margbrennan. “All this sort of self-illusion that we had, that somehow the world's at peace, and everything would be fine, that should have been shattered.”
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