Financial institutions have already detected $500 million in bogus coronavirus unemployment benefit claims from overseas fraudsters, officials revealed to Congress on Tuesday, saying the scammers use databases of stolen personal identifying information and file jobless claims in the names of unsuspecting Americans. Some of the scammers are Nigerian fraudsters, already famous for their ridiculous email…
Report: Federal agents seize Sen. Richard Burr's cellphoneNorth Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was reportedly forced to surrender his cellphone to federal agents as part of the Justice Department's investigation into stock trades he made in the early days of the coronavirus crisis.Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been questioned by law…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reportedly questioned Tara Reade's sexual harassment allegations against Joe Biden Thursday, calling them "absolutely ridiculous" while asking "where has she been all these years?"Feinstein discussed the matter with reporters while defending her support of Christine Blasey Ford, whose sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh riled Washington for several months in 2018…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…