Bill would stop the Defense Department from using tutoring companies owned or controlled by foreign adversaries, such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Scammers Exposed: Protecting Older Americans from Transnational Crime Networks.” The hearing focused on elder fraud and financial abuse to help raise public awareness about the recent increase in financial threats and scams targeting older Americans. The hearing provided an opportunity to discuss how the federal government can bolster protections for vulnerable populations like elderly Americans who are most at risk of being victimized by these financial scams. Before Durbin delivered his opening statement, he noted the Senate received a bipartisan briefing following the horrific shooting of Minnesota state lawmakers this weekend and federal agents forcefully removing United States Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) during a Department of Homeland Security press conference on
Let’s talk about constitutional hypocrisy so brazen, so comprehensive, so morally bankrupt that it would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous to the republic. I’ve learned something about modern Republicans that crystallizes everything wrong with our current political moment: they care more about the constitutionality of Biden’s student debt forgiveness than they do about […]
Paul McCartney has gotten a shoutout from Beyoncé.Beyoncé wrapped up a six-night stand of her Cowboy Carter tour in London on Monday and took to Instagram to thank McCartney for writing…
"We’ve heard over and over again we want more vibrancy," said Susan Buse, an alderwoman who sits on the commission. "I think this captures a lot of that."
The city of St. Louis will pay former police chief Joe Mokwa and his attorneys $505,000 to settle a lawsuit over the death of his wife, court documents say.
On Wednesday, Schmitt and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, D-Texas, will chair a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into who was running country during Biden’s apparent cognitive decline.
The money awarded to Ryan Ferguson on Monday, combined with the 2017 settlement, is the largest individual award for a wrongful conviction in U.S. history, according to Ferguson's attorney
When a federal judge ruled last week that Marco Rubio can’t just declare that the US can detain green card holder Mahmoud Khalil based on the Secretary of State’s “vibes check” assessment of his political beliefs, you might think Khalil would finally be free to return to his family. You’d be wrong. The DOJ has […]