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A county Social Services employee in New York who was responsible for helping administer public assistance is now accused of using that access to obtain benefits for herself.
Amber Tibbetts, 37, of Jamestown, has been indicted after authorities said she used information belonging to existing Social Services clients to issue SNAP benefit cards directly to herself. Investigators also allege that...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other establishment Democrats are facing growing pressure after another round of primary results showed progressive candidates gaining ground inside the party.
The latest setback came Tuesday in Minnesota, where Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Her victory came despite Schumer backing Rep. Angie Craig, who had been viewed as...
A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been added as a defendant in a federal investigation involving allegations that millions of dollars in donated funds were secretly routed to people connected to extremist groups.
Heidi L. Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements...
Three people have been charged in connection with the Aug. 6 death of a 7-year-old Cincinnati boy in a case investigators have described as one of the most disturbing instances of child abuse they have encountered.
According to WXIX-TV, 38-year-old Kaitlin Evans, 23-year-old Nessa Keaney and 33-year-old Kirby Rankin were charged with murder and child endangerment following the death of...
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny over comments he made about Sharia law nearly two decades ago, after a 2009 New York Times interview resurfaced following his primary victory.
The interview, highlighted this week by the Washington Free Beacon, dates back to when El-Sayed was a 24-year-old medical student. At the time, he was discussing his...
TMZ is reporting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, have ended their relationship and called off their engagement. If the report is accurate, it adds some context to AOC’s recent decision to publicly discuss freezing her eggs.
According to TMZ, the New York Democrat and Roberts reportedly split about two years ago. The outlet cited reporting...
A Staten Island judge has temporarily blocked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial tax on certain second homes, handing his administration a legal setback just as the city was preparing to move forward with the new surcharge.
The order does not permanently kill the tax, but it puts enforcement on hold while a lawsuit challenging the city’s handling of...
Newly released text messages from Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone are raising fresh questions about the difference between what senior health officials were discussing privately during the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and what they were saying publicly.
Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky released one exchange they say could have an immediate impact on...
DiJonai Carrington appears determined to make this controversy even messier as she tries to explain what she meant by invoking “WHITE PRIVILEGE” after being ejected from Saturday’s WNBA game.
The Chicago Sky player was tossed after a hard foul on Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, clotheslining Cunningham as she drove toward the basket for a layup. Officials assessed Carrington a...
Paul Vaughn, a Christian anti-abortion activist and father of 11, has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice several years after federal agents arrested him during a predawn raid at his Tennessee home.
Vaughn was represented by the Thomas More Society, a conservative public-interest law firm that said the case began after he participated in a protest outside an...