Treasury guts corporate ownership disclosure rule, drawing bipartisan fire over illicit finance risks

The Trump administration finalized a rule scrapping federal requirements that U.S. companies reveal their true owners, a move Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls deregulation but bipartisan critics warn will shield criminals hiding dirty money. Bessent's Treasury Department on Tuesday eliminated the beneficial ownership reporting mandate under the Corporate Transparency Act, a bipartisan law enacted during […]

Nine Democrats broke ranks to oppose Massachusetts law removing all abortion limits

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a law eliminating every gestational limit on abortion in the state, and nine members of her own party voted against it, with one calling the measure "barbaric." The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act passed the Massachusetts state House 119, 33 on July 22, with all Republican members and nine […]

Rosie O'Donnell says Wynonna Judd is the only Trump supporter she can tolerate

Rosie O'Donnell revealed that country music star Wynonna Judd is the lone Trump supporter in her life, and admitted she cannot understand anyone else who backs the president. O'Donnell, 64, made the remarks on a recent episode of The Tangle with Kyle Ridley podcast, where she described a friendship with Judd that survives only because […]

Clarence Thomas dares critics to question his race: 'Look at me'

Justice Clarence Thomas confronted critics who challenge his identity as a Black man over his political views, calling the attack a hollow substitute for genuine argument, and tracing his intellectual independence to an economist the left would rather ignore. During a conversation at the Hoover Institution with host Peter Robinson, recorded August 11, Thomas addressed […]

Appeals court clears the way for Mamdani's pied-à-terre surcharge after lower court blocked it

A New York appeals court judge lifted a temporary restraining order that had halted Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre surcharge rollout, reviving a tax fight that has already ensnared roughly 17,000 homeowners in a bureaucratic mess of the city's own making. Associate Justice Philip Hom of the Brooklyn Appellate Division stayed the lower court's order on […]

Perez Hilton's sister describes finding him during suicide attempt at his home

Barbara Lavandeira broke her silence about discovering her brother Perez Hilton mid-suicide attempt on August 4, describing a scene of severe self-harm that left the celebrity blogger covered in blood and barely conscious. Lavandeira, who gave her account to Page Six on Wednesday, said she found Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Lavandeira, standing naked […]

Klobuchar captures Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial nomination as $9 billion fraud scandal shadows the race

Sen. Amy Klobuchar cruised to the Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial nomination Tuesday, pledging to clean up a fraud scandal that federal prosecutors say could cost taxpayers more than $9 billion, a mess that built on her own party's watch. Klobuchar, who failed to gain traction in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary before dropping out and endorsing […]

Justice Department arrests former SPLC official Heidi Beirich in widening donor fraud case

Federal agents arrested former Southern Poverty Law Center executive Heidi Beirich in California on fraud and money laundering charges, the first individual arrest in the Justice Department's expanding case against the left-wing nonprofit. A 26-page second superseding indictment, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, charges Beirich with three counts: wire […]

DOJ tells D.C. Council it has 'no power' to demand National Guard withdrawal from the capital

The Justice Department fired back at the D.C. Council's attempt to force National Guard troops out of Washington, calling the effort "impotent theatrics" and telling the council it lacks any authority to make such demands. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald sent a letter to the Council of the District of Columbia on Wednesday rebuking the […]

Five 17-year-old boys killed after car plunges off cliff in Grand Junction, Colorado

Five teenage boys are dead after their vehicle veered off a residential road and plunged down a steep hillside in Grand Junction, Colorado, a loss that has left a tight-knit western Colorado community reeling. The crash happened late Saturday night on Lookout Lane, a road that runs along a steep incline overlooking railroad tracks and […]