Author: Elaine Mallon

The Pentagon mischaracterized the nature of a Black Hawk helicopter exercise that led to its crash and the killing of all five soldiers on board last November.  The Army reported that on Nov. 10, 2023, a Black Hawk helicopter was conducting aerial refueling training in the Mediterranean Sea when an emergency occurred, and it crashed…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says the pro-Israel lobby is responsible for Democrats failing to flip the House and losing the Senate. “If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC,”…

Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic National Committee, is running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  Leading his state party since 2011 and serving as vice chairman of the national party since 2017, Martin has already garnered the endorsement of 83 members of the DNC — nearly one-fifth of the body. Martin is…

Seventy-five of Michigan‘s 83 counties have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer‘s (D-MI) Michigan Public Service Commission over concerns that the three-person board will erode local governments’ abilities to regulate green energy projects. The 178-page lawsuit, filed on Nov. 8, asserts that the MPSC is trying to redefine the terms of Public Act 233,…

President-elect Donald Trump is standing by his pick of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017. “President Trump is nominating high-caliber and extremely qualified candidates to serve in his administration,” Steven Cheung told the Washington Examiner. “Mr. Hegseth has vigorously denied any and all accusations, and…

Monday is the last day for Cash App users to submit a claim to receive a portion of a $15 million class-action settlement. Cash App was ordered to pay $15 million to app users who faced a security breach resulting in the release of millions of users’ personal data. Users can receive up to $2,500 for unauthorized or fraudulent activity on their…

Bucks County commissioners who voted to violate the law by flouting a ruling from the Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania Supreme Court spurred outrage from local and national Republicans. The decision to count roughly 124 provisional ballots that were missing signatures, against the advice of the board’s lawyers, shocked Bucks County Republican Party Chairwoman Pat Poprik, who blasted…

Editor-in-chief of Scientific American Laura Helmuth resigned following a string of expletive-laced posts criticizing President-elect Donald Trump’s voters. Helmuth made a series of posts on Bluesky — a rival platform to X — in which she said Trump supporters were “f******” fascists.” The posts have since been deleted, but they were shared to X. TRUMP…

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is skipping the protocol of using the FBI to conduct background checks, according to a report. Instead, the president-elect’s team is turning to private companies to vet administrative appointees, people familiar with transition planning told CNN. Trump has criticized the FBI for its slow investigation process and feared it would…

Bucks County commissioners voted to count ballots lacking proper signatures, violating a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.   The three-member board voted two to one to count these illegal ballots in the Senate race recount.  “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people…