Retired US Army Colonel Kevin Charles Luke (62) was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison by the Honorable US District Judge James Moody Jr for unlawfully disclosing classified information relating to the national defense of the US.
Another US Army Officer Jammed Up By a Siren
Top enlisted leaders from each service testified to lawmakers on Capitol Hill that they support women serving in any role in the military, including combat arms, if they meet the established standards.
USSECDEF Pete Hegseth and Women in the US Military
Border czar Tom Homan on Sunday defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents against accusations of racial profiling, which Democrats have alleged as part of their raft of reforms necessary to pass Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding.
RCP Average 1/12 - 2/13
Approve: 37.8
Disapprove: 57.3
Spread: -19.5
Four months after it opened with promises of stable, high-paying factory jobs, a $5.8 billion Ford-backed battery plant in Kentucky is sitting idle - and 1,600 workers are out of work. Ford and South Korean battery manufacturer SK On opened the sprawling 1,500-acre site in Glendale in summer 2025, and it was hailed as a game changer for the region. By December, that optimism had evaporated when the companies ended their joint venture at the site. Soon after, Ford said it would idle the facility for roughly 18 months while shifting production toward energy storage systems instead of car batteries. Ford says the slowdown in EV demand - blamed in part with changes in federal policy under President Donald Trump - upended the company's original plans. Read more
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) vowed that he will not attend the upcoming White House dinner for governors and their families because of Donald Trump's refusal to invite Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), who is the sole Black governor in the nation.
Democratic Governors Wes Moore and Jared Polis
Moving across the country in the early 1900s wasn't as easy as it is now. That's when Tristan Stark's ancestors traveled to eastern Montana from Oklahoma to settle at the ranch the family still calls home.
Blount County officials have arrested and charged Franc Maloney, a foreign national from Canada, with multiple counts of felony voter fraud. District Attorney Pamela Casey announced that a grand jury indicted Maloney for unlawfully voting in nine state and federal elections, despite not being a U.S. citizen. The elections in question date back to 2017 and include the November 2024 general election and the March 2024 Republican primary election, among others. Read more
Robert Dell, a former pastor at The Rock Church in St. Petersburg, and his wife Jaclyn Dell, were convicted of running a multi-million-dollar organized retail theft scheme while simultaneously defrauding vulnerable Floridians.
American Christianity
The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as "unethical," because it would withhold an established, safe, and potentially lifesaving vaccine against hepatitis B from some newborns in Guinea-Bissau, Africa.
Among the verdant gardens of Havana's diplomatic quarter, Siboney, ambassadors from countries traditionally allied to the United States are expressing increasing frustration with Washington's attempt to unseat Cuba's government, while simultaneously drawing up plans to draw down their missions. Cuba is in crisis. Already reeling from a four-year economic slump, worsened by hyper-inflation and the migration of nearly 20% of the population, the 67-year-old communist government is at its weakest. After Washington's successful military operation against Cuba's ally Venezuela at the beginning of January, the US administration is actively seeking regime change. Read more
Investigators say former police chief David Crawford committed 13 arsons in five Maryland counties over the course of nearly a decade before he was caught in 2021. Read more
President Donald Trump's attack on Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show -- including a gripe that it was mostly in Spanish -- has alarmed some Republican Hispanic strategists, politicians and business leaders who warn it risks further eroding his support among Latino voters ahead of November's congressional elections.
The government promised transparency on the Epstein files, Congress passed a law, the President signed it, and the Justice Department responded by releasing a pile of blacked-out paperwork while telling the public to "trust us." The problem is, the only people who know what's missing are the same people who'd have every reason to hide it. And if you're wondering whether that smells like a cover-up " congratulations, your nose still works.
This is hitting the local schools across the region and nationwide. Now not only are people fishing to find a name, any name, things are being made up(?). Read more
An engineer has learned what happens when you reject code proposed by a random OpenClaw AI agent on GitHub. The rogue AI didn't take it lightly -- it lashed out at the developer, published a blog post, called him "gatekeeper," and blackmailed him to accept the code.
