Bush paid her husband, Cortney Merritts, more than $150,000 in campaign funds to work as her ‘bodyguard’ Cori Bush, Cortney Merritts (X) Former left-wing congresswoman Cori Bush’s husband was charged on Thursday with defrauding the federal government to illegally collect tens of thousands of dollars in loans under COVID-era small business relief programs. Cortney Merritts,
A longtime FBI agent has been charged with unlawfully taking and disclosing protected FBI files, according to court records reviewed by CBS News. Johnathan Buma, who specialized in national security and terror cases, has been released on $100,000 bond, with orders to appear in court in Los Angeles. Buma was arrested as he boarded an
It’s the first time the United States has sanctioned what is called a ’teapot refinery,’ which mainly buys oil from Iran. The Trump administration announced on March 20 that it has sanctioned entities it says are tied to the petroleum trade between Iran and China. The Department of State sanctioned an oil facility in China,
‘America’s student visa system has become a Trojan horse for Beijing,’ the committee chairman warned. The House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) asked six leading universities Wednesday for detailed information on Chinese students enrolled in their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. Committee chairman Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) penned the letter, addressed
‘The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic,’ the judge wrote. A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), fronted by Elon Musk, from personal Social Security Administration (SSA) information, delivering another judicial setback for the Trump administration. In a
Department cannot be officially shuttered without Congress Donald Trump, Linda McMahon; Education Dept. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, a move that he says will strip power from federal bureaucrats and give parents greater control over their children’s education. The order “directs
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the government from deporting a Georgetown University researcher who was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national, is a postdoctoral associate who was studying and teaching at Georgetown on