Author, political ‘expert’ on Iran was working for Iranian propaganda machine in America

BROOKLYN, NY – A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, also known as “Lotfolah Kaveh Afrasiabi,” with acting and conspiring to act as an…

MIT Professor Charge for Illegal Ties With Communist Government of China

CAMBRIDGE, MA – An MIT university professor has been charged by the federal government for accepting funding from the Communist Chinesse government to conduct research against the law in the United States.…

Missed Phil Murphy’s State of the State Speech? Here it is

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy gave his annual “State of the State” speech on Tuesday. You can read the transcript below. My fellow New Jerseyans. I don’t need to…

Florida Man Financed Patronized Child-Sex-Trafficking Ring In The Philippines, Gets Life in Prison

TAMPA, FL – Senior U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Christopher John Streeter (63, Land O’Lakes) to life in federal prison for sex trafficking of a child under the age…

Attorney General William Barr announces results of Operation Legend

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Earlier today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the results of Operation Legend, which was first launched in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 8, 2020, and then expanded to…

Another Dallas real estate agent charged in city council development bribery scandal

DALLAS, TX – It sounded like a project with great intentions, homes for the homeless, but it turned out there was much more to it behind the scenes and city officials were…

Waxhaw restaurant owner, son charged with PPP fraud

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Two individuals were charged in an indictment that was unsealed today for their alleged participation in a scheme to obtain, through multiple fraudulent loan applications, more than $1.7 million…

Drug bust in Hampden puts huge dent in Western Massachusetts drug trade

CHICOPEE, MA – A long-running investigation into a substantial drug trafficking organization culminated this week with the arrest of five suspects, and the seizure of over two kilograms of Fentanyl, two kilograms…

Many in Delaware to lose unemployment benefits day after Christmas, state says

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – According to federal program guidelines, all unemployment compensation programs created by the CARES Act are currently scheduled to expire on or before December 26, 2020. Many unemployment compensation beneficiaries…

Mo Hill gets his $8,000,000.00 to buy long abandoned Oceanfront property in Ortley Beach

TOMS RIVER, NJ – In the end, everyone is happy. Toms River Mayor Mo Hill and Maria Maruca are able to spend $8,000,000 of taxpayer money to purchase the long-abandoned Joey Harrison’s…

Ohio sees record number of COVID-19 related hospitalizations as second wave continues

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have hit an all-time high at 5,060 people hospitalized with the coronavirus across Ohio as compared to just under 1,700 COVID-19 patients on November 1. Of…

Feds Say Owner of India-Based Call Centers Scammed U.S. Victims out of Millions of Dollars

DALLAS, TX – An Indian national was sentenced today to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating…

Former Purdue Professor Sentenced for Scheme to Defraud the National Science Foundation

HAMMOND, IN – Dr. Qingyou Han, 62, of West Lafayette, Indiana, formerly a Purdue University professor and the Director of its Center for Materials Processing Research, was sentenced today to 2 years’…

Promising Interim Results from Clinical Trial of NIH-Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

An independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) overseeing the Phase 3 trial of the investigational COVID-19 vaccine known as mRNA-1273 reviewed trial data and shared its interim analysis with the trial…

Thursday, November 19, 2020 New NIH BRAIN Initiative awards move toward solving brain disorders

The National Institutes of Health will fund more than 175 grants, totaling nearly $500 million, through the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, part of a large effort among…

San Francisco Slips Back Into Lockdown, Shuts Down Indoor Dining Again

San Francisco, CA — If San Francisco is any indicator, the COVID-19 lockdown is coming back to the country’s liberal states who instituted harsh lockdowns this past spring and summer. Effective Friday,…

As President, Biden Will Create 250,000 Jobs to Plug Oil and Gas Wells Across America

President-Elect Joe Biden today released his transition plan to the American people and one of the things the former Vice President wants to do is to plug oil and natural gas wells…

2020 Virginia Volunteerism Service Award Winners Announced

RICHMOND, VA —Governor Ralph Northam today announced the winners of the 2020 Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Awards. The annual program recognizes the outstanding contributions of individual volunteers and organizations to the…

Jersey Shore: 29 Arrested in Bloods, Crips Alliance Gang Sweep Uncovering Network of Dogfighting, Drugs, Violence

FREEHOLD – An 8-month investigation into ongoing acts of gang criminality and organized street crime has led to charges against 29 people from Monmouth and Ocean counties for Racketeering, Conspiracy, Attempted Murder, drug and…

San Fernando Business Partners Charged for PPP Loan Fraud

SANTA ANA, California – A San Fernando Valley man was arrested today on federal charges alleging he and his business partner fraudulently obtained more than $1.95 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans…

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