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Monday, February 03, 2025

Thousands of people marched in downtown Los Angeles Sunday in protest of President Trump's planned mass deportations ... read more


The Federal Communications Commission demanded that CBS provide the unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that is the subject of a complaint to the FCC and a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump. read more


Saturday, February 01, 2025

A federal lawsuit filed alleges one of the main companies involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center racially discriminated against one of the project's Black American-owned local subcontractors, leaving them $40 million in the red and at risk of bankruptcy. But the company in charge of engineering and professional design services for the center pointed the finger right back, saying in an attached memo that construction costs and delays "were all unequivocally driven by the underperformance and inexperience" of that subcontractor, II in One. Robert McGee, the owner of II in One, a South Side company that provided concrete and rebar services for the center starting in 2021, sued New York-based Thornton Tomasetti in federal court earlier this month, seeking to be paid back for roughly $40 million in construction costs the local company covered itself along with its joint venture partners.


All six people on board a medical plane that went down in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday , including a child and her mother, were killed in the fiery crash. read more


John Harold Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, a former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), was arrested today on charges that he conspired to steal Federal Reserve trade secrets for the benefit of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In furtherance of the conspiracy, Rogers allegedly made false statements to the Federal Reserve Board Office of Inspector General, and those false statements had a material impact on its investigation. The indictment, unsealed today, was announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., Supervisory Official Devin DeBacker of the Justice Department's National Security Division, FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg of the Washington Field Office, and John T. Perez, Special Agent in Charge, Headquarters Operations, Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (FRB-CFPB OIG). read more


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