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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) was the top pick of attendees at a progressive convention in Washington, D.C., to be Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2028 presidential election. Of the 990 poll respondents at Crooked Con, hosted by Crooked Media, 38.4% of attendees selected Ossoff as their first choice for the 2028 Democratic nominee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came in second with 16.6% of the vote, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came in third with almost 14%. The conference brought together elected officials, journalists, and political strategists for panels, strategy sessions, media appearances. Several floated 2028 contenders appeared at Saturday’s event...

When Democrats spent election night telling Republicans to "lawyer up," President Donald Trump made it clear he isn't going to sit there and take it. It's no secret that the Democrat Party plans to weaponize its new House majority against Trump, his administration, his allies, and even his staffers. Democrats couldn't even wait for the ink to dry on the midterm results before they started promising subpoenas and investigations. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming chairman of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led the charge. He issued a victory statement laying out his investigative plans and branding Trump's relatives...

A terrified teenage girl was seen making a desperate dash for freedom after allegedly being kidnapped and brutally stabbed inside a Baltimore basement. The newly released surveillance footage captures the 15-year-old fleeing a property on Garrison Boulevard at 8.52pm on October 22, just 43 minutes after arriving with her alleged attacker, who is an illegal immigrant released into the US under Biden. The girl had been taken to the property by Abubakarr Barrie, 23, who is accused of stabbing her repeatedly during a horrific ordeal that left her with a collapsed lung.

Much information on the Iraq prison torture story is making it's way into the major media. Most of it is confusing, if not deliberately misleading. Given the amount of information available to the average news reader, a better understanding of the situation could likely result from reviewing the events of the story in chronological order.

Donald Trump’s criminal investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar—which is aimed at stripping her citizenship—is far more than just another attack on a vocal critic. As many have noted, this denaturalization push is an assault on the constitutional order itself. It amounts to a declaration of dictatorial or czar-like power, in which the sovereign can declare any foe an “enemy of the people” at will and delegitimize even the opposition’s duly elected representatives by fiat. All of which raises a question: Can Democrats do anything about this? Well, yes, they actually can. enior House Democrats tell me they’re discussing a dramatic...

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CBS News is facing a defamation lawsuit as a Maryland teenager seeks $20 million in damages, claiming he was falsely identified as a person arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s lining. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, identified the 15-year-old plaintiff simply as “JV.” “He was not arrested for vandalizing it. He was not accused by law enforcement of vandalizing it. Yet CBS News broadcast and published a story to a national audience that placed JV’s image alongside the assertion that five people had been arrested for vandalizing and ‘sabotaging’...

Maryland-based activist... Tiffany Carlock, who goes by Candidly Tiff online, shared a video of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello telling Rolling Stone that he 'certainly did not' vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.'I certainly did not... I couldn't do it. V for vendetta. That one inch, that one inch of who you are belongs to you, and they can't have it,' Morello, a left-wing political activist, stated.Carlock then posted the clip to her X account and wrote: 'I don't know who this white man is, but I'm not surprised he didn't vote for Kamala in the...

Maryland’s chief medical examiner has officially ruled that a Black man found hanging from a tree in Prince George’s County on Sunday morning died by suicide. The ruling came Monday, just one day after the body was discovered high in a tree in front of an industrial business on the 9300 block of D’Arcy Road in unincorporated Upper Marlboro, WTOP News reported. Police and fire crews arrived around 7:55 a.m. Sunday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Because of the height of the body and the need to wait for the medical examiner, many drivers passing by saw...

A medical examiner determined a man found hanging from a tree Sunday morning in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, had committed suicide, officials in Prince George’s County said Monday. County leaders reached that conclusion just hours after it happened. Still, the symbolism behind the death meant emotions were raw and heightened as county leaders held a press conference — something nearly unheard of when it involves a suicide — to promise honesty and transparency as the investigation continues. And police say the case is not closed yet. The body, a Black man whose identity has not been made publicly available, was found...

An illegal immigrant rideshare driver accused of sexually assaulting a teenage female passenger in Maryland has a history of sex abuse in New York, federal authorities said. Abdoulaye Dia, of Lanham, Maryland, was charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police officers were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape. She told police she was raped by an Empower rideshare driver. Dia, a citizen of Guinea, took her to a parking lot in Silver Spring, where the alleged assault occurred....

The Atlantic hurricane season reaches its climatological peak this week, and AccuWeather meteorologist are monitoring just one area for potential development. VIDEO AT LINK.......... As the climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season arrives this week, tropical activity remains largely suppressed due to an unusually strong El Niño. The one exception is off the southeastern coast of the United States, where AccuWeather hurricane experts have highlighted an area with a low chance of tropical development into the middle of the month. "A slow-moving front will drift into the southeastern United States, leading to enhanced thunderstorm coverage. An area of tropical...

A Maryland daughter has claimed that the nurse who provided home care to her father battling Parkinson’s transferred the deed to his South Carolina property for just $5 before he died. Nora Rowland not only learned that the property rights to her 75-year-old father Robert Rowland’s home had been transferred, but also that he had died when she paid what she thought would’ve just been a routine visit on Father’s Day in June 2024, WMBF reported last Thursday. Robert Rowland, who lived in Conway, received visits from his nurse Sarah Smalls in March 2024 before he was moved into a...

A B-24D Liberator bomber called “Suzy Q” went down in flames near Capo Stilo, Italy, on August 16, 1943, and for 83 years nobody could say for certain what happened to its pilot. That changed this week, when the remains of 1st Lt. Walter R. Bateman, a 22-year-old Maryland native, arrived home at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Friday for a dignified transfer ceremony followed by a police-escorted procession to Bel Air. Bateman piloted the bomber, assigned to the 67th Bombardment Squadron of the 44th Bombardment Group, on a mission targeting enemy airfields in Foggia, Italy, when his aircraft...

A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada's National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday. Konan Michel Yao, 42, "was taken into custody" while crossing from Manitoba into North Dakota A Public Health Agency of Canada spokeswoman [said] Yao "was working on vaccines for the Ebola virus and HIV, among other things." The Ivory Coast-born scientist is said to have studied at Laval University in Quebec and briefly worked at the University of Manitoba's plant sciences department.

The Prince Georges County Police Department (PGPD) has arrested six suspects who are accused of leading an alleged retail theft ring. A lengthy investigation revealed a multi-state organization that included Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Six suspects involved in the ring are currently in custody. They are 30-year-old Daryl Michael Jackson of Washington, D.C., 25-year-old Cyan Rocke of Capitol Heights, 37-year-old Marco Morgan of Washington, D.C., 31-year-old Tia Courtney of Capitol Heights, 26-year-old Chyna Parker of Suitland and 22-year-old Quasaan Parker of Suitland. On Monday morning, PGPD, together with Maryland State Police, the Metropolitan Police Department,...

Licensed Maryland clinicians can receive abortion training and a $4,000 stipend through the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) “Reproductive Health Fellowship.” The fellowship offers a “comprehensive curriculum on abortion and reproductive health care,” a $4,000 stipend, an abortion simulation, and post-completion support “to actively deepen your knowledge in reproductive health and abortion care.” “Join Maryland’s next generation of reproductive health leaders in providing high-quality, trauma-informed abortion care,” the description reads. “Build your confidence and expertise in prescribing medication abortion while gaining valuable exposure to procedural abortion care.” “Upon completing the program, clinicians become part of a strong, supportive community committed...

An instructor for the University of Maryland's (UMD) School of Pharmacy was detained by immigration officials last month at Dallas Fort Worth airport, according to the university and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A statement by UMD said that on July 21, Dr. Berhanu Kibret was arrested at the airport after attending a job-related conference in the city. "He was returning from a meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, where he received a Teacher of the Year award." "Dr. Kibret has a valid Work Authorization, so it is our hope that any issues surrounding his...

A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court, had asked U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to spare him from a prison sentence. Instead, the judge sentenced Goldstein to five years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay over $3.1...