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The Trump administration imposed a 25% tariff on more than $11 billion in Brazilian goods, accusing the nation's popular PIX payment system of unfairly undercutting U.S. credit card companies. Brazil vowed retaliation, and the move marks…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump delivered a 25-minute prime-time address from the East Room on Thursday night, alleging the U.S. election system was compromised by Chinese interference and noncitizen voter registrations, without providing evidence…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READFormer U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer testified Thursday that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche fired her after she refused to recommend restoring firearms rights to actor Mel Gibson, and urged the Senate to reject Blanche's nomination…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump's financial disclosure showing his family businesses reported $2.2 billion in revenue last year — driven largely by cryptocurrency earnings — drew mixed reactions from Pennsylvania swing voters in two online focus…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READImprisoned R&B singer R. Kelly has formally asked President Donald Trump to commute his 31-year federal prison sentence for racketeering, sex trafficking, and child abuse images, according to court records made public this week by the…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READJay Clayton, President Donald Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, declined to say Wednesday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his Senate confirmation hearing, instead stating that Biden was 'certified' as…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READHunter Biden said he is "grateful that the rule of law prevailed" after a federal judge awarded him $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation lawsuit against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. U.S. District Judge Stephen…
2026-07-14 · 4 MIN READA federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump and his family acted in bad faith in bringing a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. In a 56-page order, Judge Kathleen Williams referred Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito…
2026-07-13 · 5 MIN READThe Justice Department is investigating allegations that United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain abused his position to secure financial benefits for his fiancée, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation, which…
2026-07-13 · 3 MIN READThe New York City Department of Investigation has opened an inquiry into a Midtown Manhattan high-rise where two supporting columns buckled this week, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. The 37-story building at 235 East 42nd Street, the…
2026-07-11 · 3 MIN READInvestigators have found evidence that Corey Lewandowski, a former senior aide at the Department of Homeland Security, may have been involved in improperly awarding government contracts during his time as an unpaid special government…
2026-07-10 · 4 MIN READThe Clearwater City Council voted 3-2 to transfer a downtown street to the Church of Scientology, clearing the way for a planned event hall. Residents opposed to the move are gathering signatures for a citywide referendum and a charter…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READDemocratic state Sen. Nathan Johnson, the party's nominee for Texas attorney general, said Friday that $110 million in state broadband grants awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX for its Starlink satellite-internet program looked like corruption,…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READChokwe Antar Lumumba, the former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, pleaded guilty Monday to federal conspiracy charges that prosecutors say involved $50,000 in payments disguised as campaign contributions. The plea came in federal court in…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READ
Klaus Schwab, the 88-year-old founder of the World Economic Forum, is seeking to return to the organization after resigning as chair last year, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Schwab sent letters to board members…
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READNigel Farage's spokesman has denied fresh allegations that the Reform UK leader may have broken parliamentary rules, after reports he failed to declare financial benefits from an ally convicted of fraud in the United States.
2026-07-05 · 3 MIN READDemocrats are casting President Donald Trump's personal income of more than $2.2 billion last year as evidence of corruption and self-dealing, shifting their midterm campaign message to tie the president's wealth to voters' economic…
2026-07-04 · 3 MIN READA congressional investigation released Thursday alleges that President Donald Trump orchestrated a takeover of the United States' 250th anniversary celebrations to enrich political allies, harvest voter data, and promote Christian…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READA 33-year-old graduate-school dropout and video blogger has prompted investigations into academic misconduct at Chinese universities, with Shanghai University removing a dean and firing a postdoctoral researcher after he alleged data…
2026-07-02 · 4 MIN READMcKinsey & Company on Wednesday appointed senior partner Andrew Pickersgill to the newly separate role of board chair and said it will reduce the size of its governing shareholders council, as the consulting giant continues to overhaul its…
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration has doubled its earthquake aid to Venezuela to $300 million and deployed over 300 rescue personnel, but the relief operation is unfolding amid widespread public anger at acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s…
2026-06-30 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump collected more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, according to his latest annual financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics on Tuesday. The income included $635 million in…
2026-06-30 · 3 MIN READCabinet Chief Manuel Adorni resigned over the weekend as Argentine federal prosecutors investigated him for suspected illicit enrichment, becoming the most senior official to leave President Javier Milei's government since he took office…
2026-06-30 · 4 MIN READA Washington state attorney promised "miracles" to tens of thousands of immigrants seeking legal status in the United States, but instead created fake stories of domestic abuse and human trafficking to apply for humanitarian visas without…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal reported that Greenwater Services, a small Ohio water-treatment company that received a no-bid $1.7 million contract to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, is partly owned by President Donald Trump's friend…
2026-06-28 · 4 MIN READFormer President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump "a loser" during a speech at a Maryland Democratic Party fundraiser on Saturday, criticizing Trump on multiple fronts while invoking his makeover of Washington landmarks.
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READThe Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced former first lady Kim Keon Hee to seven years in prison for accepting luxury gifts in exchange for job appointments and business favors, the latest in a series of corruption cases…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READA Minnesota man charged with helping to orchestrate the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme was taken into custody Thursday in Mogadishu, Somalia, following a coordinated operation by the FBI and Somali intelligence agencies, U.S.…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal published an investigation June 22 revealing that Polymarket, the prediction market platform banned from serving U.S. users since 2022, ran a secret social media campaign that paid creators to film fake winning bets…
2026-06-22 · 4 MIN READA Spanish judge revoked the passport of Begona Gomez, wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, on Saturday, calling her a flight risk ahead of her upcoming trial on corruption charges.
2026-06-20 · 3 MIN READThe Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district has become one of the most expensive House primaries in history, with super PACs spending nearly $30 million ahead of the June 23 vote. Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old…
2026-06-20 · 4 MIN READA political action committee tied to Rep. Jim Jordan received $250,000 last year from Geo Group, the private prison company that operates dozens of ICE detention centers, according to a report from the nonprofit newsroom Pogo Investigates.…
2026-06-20 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump unveiled a new temporary Air Force One on Friday at a hangar at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, a converted Boeing 747 gifted to the United States by the Gulf emirate of Qatar.
2026-06-20 · 3 MIN READStephen Feinberg, the billionaire founder of private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, has quietly amassed extraordinary influence over U.S. military spending as deputy undersecretary of defense, according to current and former…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READFBI Director Kash Patel has been accused by the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee of directing more than $1 million in taxpayer-funded bonus payments to a small circle of loyalist agents, in what Representative Jamie Raskin…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READChinese Communist Party enforcers punished nearly a million people in 2025, the highest annual figure on record, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of disciplinary data that shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping's anti-corruption…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READDavid Rush, a senior supervisor in the CIA’s science and technology division, was arrested in May on charges of theft of public money after authorities said he created a fake classified intelligence program to fraudulently obtain tens of…
2026-06-16 · 5 MIN READThe Freedom of the Press Foundation said Paramount Skydance refused to air a 30-second ad that criticized the network's leadership, CEO David Ellison, his billionaire father Larry Ellison, and the company's acquisition of Warner Bros…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump's personal attorney Boris Epshteyn was discussed inside the Justice Department as a presence in the effort by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to get federal fraud charges dropped, according to people familiar with…
2026-06-16 · 4 MIN READFormer federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade argues in her new book that President Donald Trump governs the United States like a mob boss, trading favors for loyalty and using intimidation to silence critics, raising alarms about the erosion…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration has suspended federal funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the nation's largest homeless services agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced June 12, citing allegations of…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READU.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross, who was disciplined after an investigation found she had sex with a police officer in her chambers and then lied about it, has written a letter to a former law clerk apologizing for her "harmful,…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READA federal appeals court on Friday rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence for the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. A three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READPeter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party, pleaded guilty last month to embezzling £400,000 ($500,000) from party funds. Court documents revealed that Murrell spent the stolen money on a bizarre assortment of…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READA nonprofit fund linked to prominent election deniers with ties to President Donald Trump sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that ran misleading advertisements in swing states ahead of the 2024 election, according to tax…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READJared Kushner’s proposed $5 billion luxury resort on an environmentally protected beach in Albania has ignited the country’s largest civic protests since the fall of communism, drawing thousands of daily demonstrators, a special prosecutor…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department told Congress this week it is abandoning plans for a $1.8 billion fund to compensate political allies of President Donald Trump, but the department has not reversed a separate agreement that bars the Internal Revenue…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READFederal judges in Georgia, Idaho, and Michigan face separate misconduct allegations this week, renewing scrutiny of the judiciary’s internal disciplinary system. The incidents — ranging from an alleged sexual encounter in chambers to a…
2026-06-09 · 3 MIN READFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican who was forced from office in 1995 after the Senate ethics committee investigated allegations of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, has died at age 93. Packwood's death on…
2026-06-07 · 3 MIN READA former senior CIA officer arrested last month on charges of stealing more than $40 million in gold bars from the agency now faces allegations that he also created a fraudulent intelligence program to siphon additional funds, according to…
2026-06-07 · 3 MIN READA year-long BBC investigation has found that organized crime has deeply infiltrated Britain's High Streets, with thousands of shops serving as fronts for money laundering, illegal tobacco sales, and drug dealing. The National Crime Agency…
2026-06-07 · 3 MIN READInternational companies are pulling out of Cuba in accelerating numbers, dealing a blow to the island’s collapsing economy as the Trump administration tightens sanctions. Mastercard and Visa transactions by non-U.S. visitors will be…
2026-06-06 · 4 MIN READMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her allies have reacted furiously to a U.S. indictment of Rubén Rocha, the sitting governor of Sinaloa and a member of her ruling Morena party, accusing Washington of meddling in Mexico's internal…
2026-06-06 · 3 MIN READBillionaire father-and-son hoteliers Robert and Blake Rowling are waging a takeover fight for the Greenbrier, the historic West Virginia resort owned by U.S. Sen. Jim Justice. The Rowlings, who own Omni Hotels & Resorts, paid $289 million…
2026-06-06 · 5 MIN READPeruvians vote Sunday to elect their 10th president in a decade, with polls showing a tight runoff between hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez. About a quarter of voters remained undecided heading into election…
2026-06-06 · 3 MIN READThe former town manager of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, was indicted on May 11 on a felony embezzlement charge for allegedly using taxpayer money to pay for personal expenses including hotel stays, restaurant meals and ammunition,…
2026-06-05 · 4 MIN READFormer CIA senior official David Rush was arrested last month at his Virginia home, where investigators found over 300 gold bars valued at more than $40 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The gold bars were allegedly taken from…
2026-06-04 · 3 MIN READOhio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that a grand jury has reindicted two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state's long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this…
2026-06-04 · 3 MIN READBen Black, the Senate-confirmed head of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), had years of personal and business interactions with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails released by the…
2026-06-03 · 4 MIN READFormer victims minister Alex Davies-Jones told the House of Commons on Wednesday that survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been treated as a “footnote” in the row over Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to…
2026-06-03 · 4 MIN READScottish Secretary Douglas Alexander met with Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel within weeks of becoming a minister in July 2024 but did not publicly declare the meeting for about 20 months, newly released government documents…
2026-06-03 · 3 MIN READProsecutors have detailed how Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party, embezzled more than £400,000 over many years using false data entries, party credit cards, and direct transfers, according to a Crown…
2026-06-03 · 3 MIN READFederal authorities are investigating whether former Republican congressman George Santos engaged in insider trading by betting on a prediction market on his own attendance to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, multiple…
2026-06-03 · 3 MIN READU.S. Senate candidates Ken Paxton, a Texas Republican, and Graham Platner, a Maine Democrat, made parallel pilgrimages to the nation's capital on Tuesday to rally party support, each facing skepticism from within their own coalitions about…
2026-06-02 · 4 MIN READBetty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, said King Charles III told her during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday that the scandal was a "dreadful thing" that "should never have happened." The…
2026-06-02 · 4 MIN READFormer Republican congressman George Santos, who served four months in federal prison before President Trump commuted his sentence, is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Justice Department for insider…
2026-06-02 · 4 MIN READMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday publicly urged U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson to focus on the bilateral agenda and refrain from commenting on Mexico's domestic political affairs, citing constitutional principles of…
2026-06-02 · 3 MIN READShares in the international money transfer service Wise dropped more than 10% on Monday after the company confirmed it is responding to queries from Belgian prosecutors investigating its anti-money-laundering controls. Wise said the…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READUS Senator Cory Booker said Sunday he has 'concerns' about Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign after reports that Platner sent sexually explicit text messages to other women while married.
2026-05-31 · 3 MIN READA family-owned property group that sells temporary housing to local councils for homeless people is part of a broader business network accused of exploiting loopholes to avoid millions in property taxes, according to a Guardian…
2026-05-31 · 3 MIN READFormer Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon became visibly emotional during a televised interview on Sunday, addressing the financial crimes committed by her estranged husband, Peter Murrell, while repeatedly denying any personal…
2026-05-31 · 3 MIN READNicola Sturgeon told the BBC she feels she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after her estranged husband pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000 from the Scottish National Party.
2026-05-31 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials, in…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READA former senior CIA official with top-secret security clearance, David Rush, was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money after federal agents found more than $40 million in gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara resigned Tuesday rather than face disciplinary action for interfering with an internal investigation into his conduct, Mayor Jacob Frey announced. The resignation comes as the department was navigating…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READBP abruptly removed Chairman Albert Manifold on Tuesday, less than a year into his tenure, after the board uncovered what it described as serious governance and conduct issues. The board was “surprised and disappointed” by the matters,…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READMichael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, told NPR that he views some moves by the Trump administration as “epic corruption in plain sight.” Waldman pointed to a proposed nearly $1.8 billion “antiweaponization”…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump’s critics, including a fired former prosecutor, sued Friday to block payouts from a newly announced $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” aimed at resolving the president’s IRS-related lawsuit over the leak of his…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READWASHINGTON (AP) — Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is at the center of a Republican firestorm over a $1.776 billion Justice Department fund meant to compensate people who say they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. The…
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