Suicides among active-duty service members decreased over 15% from 2020 to 2021, according to the Pentagon’s annual report on suicides in the military released today. The 2021 suicide rate for active-duty service members in 2021 was 24.3 per 100,000 which is down from 28.7 in 2020. 2020 had the highest …
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Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers. It’s at least the second legal challenge this week to the sweeping proposal laid out by President …
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When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Justice Department’s investigation into records with classified markings stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. The document purported to be …
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Another $1.5 billion in student debt is getting wiped out, the Education Department announced Tuesday, less than a week after the Biden administration announced broader student loan forgiveness of up to $20,000. Some 79,000 students who attended Westwood College, a private, for-profit institution that closed in 2016, will receive full …
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Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys say executive privilege should protect records seized this month from his residence in Florida, as the legal battle over who should control the Trump presidency’s records continues. Trump’s attorneys, who have requested that a “special master” review documents taken in the Aug. 8 search, argued in a …
Read More »Washington — House Republicans and allies of former President Donald Trump erupted in anger late Monday after he revealed the FBI conducted a search of his South Florida home of Mar-a-Lago, with the GOP leader in the House vowing to open investigations into the Justice Department if Republicans win control …
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Washington — Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana was killed in a car crash Wednesday, along with two of her aides and the driver of another vehicle, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said. In an updated release on Thursday, Sheriff Jeff Siegel said Walorski, 58, was in a SUV traveling …
Read More »Washington — Former President Donald Trump continued to push the argument in federal court that he is entitled to broad immunity from civil lawsuits brought by congressional Democrats and veteran Capitol Police officers who attempt to hold him accountable for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the …
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Former President Donald Trump claimed that if he did not pursue the presidency again, Washington would leave him alone. “If I announced that I was not going to run any longer for political office the persecution of Donald Trump would immediately stop,” Trump said at a rally in Prescott Valley, …
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Washington — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol assault expects the Secret Service to hand over text messages that the panel subpoenaed by Tuesday, committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren said Sunday. The committee issued the subpoena last Friday after the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general told lawmakers …
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