FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Federal job safety officials began their investigation Friday into the collapse of a crane in downtown Fort Lauderdale that killed one worker, injured three people and left morning traffic snarled. Investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will try to determine what caused Thursday afternoon’s collapse that crushed two cars on a […]
The Supreme Court seemed divided during oral argument on Feb. 28 over whether it would uphold the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulation prohibiting ownership of bump stocks. That regulation came after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas where a gunman used bump stock-equipped firearms. It reversed years of ATF interpretations […]
Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds hearings to examine five years of the First Step Act. The First Step Act was the criminal justice reform law signed by former President Donald Trump. It is intended to do two things: cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve conditions in federal prisons. The hearings will be held […]
OAKLAND, Calif.—A former federal correctional officer was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison for sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison in California where the warden and other employees were charged with similar conduct. A federal jury in June found John Russell Bellhouse guilty on two counts of sexual abuse and […]
One of the most recognizable figures from Jan. 6 came out of obscurity on Sept. 27 for a broadcast interview to tell the world that he is not—and was not—a federal agent who cut down plastic fencing and pulled up steel fence posts at the U.S. Capitol. “I guess I got a hashtag on Twitter […]
ATLANTA—Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told federal court in Atlanta that because his involvement in the disputed presidential election in Georgia was related to his job as a White House official his case should be tried in federal court. The Aug. 28 hearing is being closely watched because this is the […]
A federal judge has blocked a Biden administration policy that restricted asylum for illegal border crossers. NTD spoke to former ICE special agent Victor Avila to determine why the court said the policy was illegal—and he explained what the actual situation is on the border.
Bank of America will have to pay more than $100 million to customers for doubling up on some fees, withholding reward bonuses, and opening accounts without customer consent, said a federal agency in a statement Tuesday. Separately, Bank of America will have to pay some $90 million in penalties to its organization and $60 million in […]
President Joe Biden’s son has agreed to plead guilty to federal crimes in a deal with the U.S. government, prosecutors said on June 20. Hunter Biden, 53, has admitted to intentionally failing to pay federal income tax, U.S. Attorney David Weiss said in a letter to the U.S. court in Delaware. Hunter Biden plans to […]
BRYAN, Texas—Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, on Tuesday entered a federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas—where the federal judge who sentenced Holmes in November recommended […]
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten admitted to offering edits to the CDC’s school reopening guidelines during testimony on Capitol Hill. She denies suggesting substantive changes. More than 10,000 federal employees could have access to Americans’ data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Three witnesses testified on the issue at a House Judiciary Subcommittee […]
FARMERVILLE, La.—Five Louisiana law enforcement officers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to state crimes in the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. The arraignment came nearly five months after a grand jury handed up a list of charges ranging from negligent homicide to obstruction and malfeasance, the first indictments related to Greene’s death on a roadside in […]
Senate Democrats have refused to block the District of Columbia Council from giving non-citizens the right to vote in local elections. Election integrity and voting rights leaders made an unsuccessful last-minute appeal. The federal government is allegedly tracking low-income gun owners. A new report shows federal agencies suspect people of illegally selling guns based on […]
Tens of thousands of federal employees have failed to file a tax return for multiple years, an inspector general reported this week. An analysis of data from fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2020 found more than 42,000 federal workers have “repeatedly failed to file a tax return for multiple years,” the Treasury Inspector General for Tax […]
A government agency wants to find out just how much taxpayer money is lost to fraud at the federal level. The U.S. Government Accountability Office is attempting, for the first time, to estimate the total amount of fraud in the entire federal government. Comptroller General of the United States Gene Dodaro said his agency could […]
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Feb. 8 defended her agency’s promotion of masking after a new study found that protective masks had little effect on the spread of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19. The Cochrane review analyzed randomized controlled studies, considered the gold standard by U.S. officials and […]
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Health, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, holds a joint hearing on “The Federal Response to COVID-19.” Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. […]
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability holds its first hearing of the 118th Congress at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, to investigate the rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in federal COVID relief programs. The Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) will preside over the hearing, and Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability […]
A group of bipartisan House lawmakers introduced the “Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act.” They say that federal officials belonging to government agencies shouldn’t be able to impose billions of dollars of regulatory costs on Americans every year, because those agency officials are not elected by the people.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took aim at the World Economic Forum. Meanwhile, its chairman, Klaus Schwab, wondered “What does it mean to master the future?” Unelected agency officials reportedly have imposed rules that cost Americans billions of dollars every year. A new bi-partisan bill aims to take some power away from federal agencies. Six people […]
