An Orange County, California, Superior Court judge was federally charged with defrauding the state’s workers’ compensation program, according to a news release. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced Wednesday that 50-year-old Israel Claustro was charged with one count of mail fraud. Officials said Claustro signed...

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The Trump administration’s capture of socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has thrown the region into uncertainty while presenting opportunities that could give the U.S. a geopolitical and economic advantage. Once a global energy powerhouse, Venezuela’s oil sector now produces a fraction of what it did before former dictator Hugo Chávez...

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Actor Rob Schneider called Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey a “lunatic” and “disgrace” on the “PBD Podcast” Friday for the mayor’s inflammatory rhetoric after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman in his city. Frey demanded ICE “get the f*ck out of Minneapolis” during a Wednesday news...

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Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy knelt on the Senate floor on Thursday to urge Senate Majority Leader John Thune to bring up another reconciliation bill. The Republican Party is weighing another reconciliation bill, with Thune saying a potential option could be related to alleged Minnesota fraud, Fox News reported on...

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A U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing that was supposed to focus on Minnesota’s massive fraud problems took a sharp political turn on Wednesday. Instead of pressing witnesses about billions of dollars in alleged fraud, one Democrat used her time to redirect attention toward crime statistics involving white men and Jan....

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Republican and Democratic officials in about one-third of the states have considered revising their U.S. House districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for remapping as a means of boosting the chances of Republican candidates in this year’s midterm elections. New congressional districts already have been adopted in six states...

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President Donald Trump is driving climate researchers literally to the ends of the Earth as they try to save their taxpayer funding. Expect to see a slew of hand-wringing reports about, and even perhaps from, the Thwaites (aka “Doomsday”) glacier in West Antarctica. The glacier got its nickname from a...

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All eight of the rear tires of a Boeing 767 jet burst when a LATAM Airlines plane landed Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The Boeing 767-300 was coming in at around 7:30 p.m. from Lima, Peru, when the tires burst, according to WAGA-TV. As the plane landed, one passenger told...

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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration is moving to ban major investors from buying up single-family homes in the U.S. in an attempt to lower housing prices. Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that former President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have caused “record high inflation,” which...

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A Utah police department’s experiment with artificial intelligence took an unexpected turn after a software-generated report claimed an officer had transformed into a frog. The incident occurred earlier this month in Heber City, where police have been testing AI tools designed to write reports based on body camera footage. According...

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Far-left Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is urging Americans to protest the capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator and alleged narco-terrorist Nicolás Maduro, which he characterized as “immoral” and “utterly disgusting.” Platner, a Bernie Sanders-backed oyster farmer and veteran running to unseat Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins in November’s midterm...

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The Dallas Police Department announced that it has closed a missing persons case that remained unresolved for more than five decades. The case centered on Norman Prater, who was reported missing to Dallas police on Jan. 14, 1973. His disappearance launched an investigation that remained active but unanswered, according to...

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A convicted repeat offender violating his pretrial release conditions was charged with attacking and robbing a pregnant woman in Chicago while subject to an often-criticized “electronic monitoring” program, CWB Chicago reported. Devon Jones flouted his release conditions eight times prior to the incident after being arrested in August for an alleged disturbance inside...

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Chinese authorities have detained members of a prominent underground church as part of the government’s tightening control over unsanctioned religious activity in the country, Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday. Six members of the Early Rain Covenant Church, an underground Protestant congregation in Sichuan province, were arrested this week, according to...

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“DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the unborn child. Causes damage to the central nervous system.” Block after block there are reminders that contaminants still linger. House cleaners, hazardous waste workers, and homeowners alike come and go...

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Los Angeles police responded Sunday after somebody drove a U-Haul box truck down a street crowded with marchers demonstrating in support of the Iranian people's historic resistance movement opposing their Islamic government, causing protesters to scramble out of the way and then run after the speeding vehicle to try to...

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Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers took his shot, but the reaction was as loud as the clanging of the rim. Two days after Renee Good was killed in Minneapolis after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot at the vehicle occupied by Good -- who had been mocking and trash-talking ICE...

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President Donald Trump on Sunday reviewed options for military strikes in Iran amid reports that the death toll among anti-government protesters was rising rapidly. A Sunday report in The Washington Post said that “hundreds” of protesters had been killed in the past 48 hours. What the Post called a “senior...

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Former Metropolitan Police Department officer Mike Fanone said Thursday that Americans should consider taking up arms against federal law enforcement agencies in the wake of a deadly shooting during an immigration enforcement operation. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday during what...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021. Brian J. Cole Jr., of Woodbridge, Virginia, entered the plea...

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SiriusXM host Stephen A. Smith cut off a caller on “Straight Shooter with Stephen A” Wednesday after he said “there’s mental illness in some of these people” who support President Donald Trump. Prominent left-wing individuals have claimed Trump supporters are cult members or mentally unwell. When the caller made the claim...

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