A new poll looking at Americans’ belief in conspiracy theories finds high levels of support for loony-tunes ideas about sex, Satan, and U.S. institutions. In addition, more than half of those surveyed believed child sex-trafficking myths. The situation echoes fears prevalent during the 1980s and ’90s, a mass hysteria that has in retrospect been dubbed […]
Operation Cross Country, the FBI’s annual vice squad bonanza disguised as a human-trafficking rescue mission, is back. This year’s operation was conducted throughout the first two weeks of August, involving more than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S. The FBI reports that Operation Cross Country 2022 located 37 missing minors, […]
Food fight for religious schools resolved. Religious schools need not follow new Biden administration Title IX guidelines in order to receive federal funding for school lunch programs, according to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The announcement comes amid a major battle that somehow wraps up gender identity and cafeteria food. This […]
A federal court has allowed a burdensome licensing requirement for child care workers to stand. In 2016, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education passed a rule requiring all child care professionals to have a college degree. The rule—which applies to staff at day care centers and at some home-based child care operations—says workers […]
Fallout from the Mar-a-Lago raid? A man attempted an attack at an FBI field office in Cincinnati on Thursday. The assailant, Ricky Shiffer, tried to enter the visitor screening area around 9:15 a.m., wearing body armor. When stopped by security, Shiffer fled, taking off up the nearby I-71 highway. The FBI says Shiffer was “armed” […]
Is Walgreens an illicit drug dealer? That’s essentially what a federal court has ruled, suggesting the pharmacy should have stopped “suspicious orders” for opioids from being filled. In failing to do so, the retailer “substantially contributed” to the opioid epidemic in San Francisco, Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District […]
More reporting on the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club suggests the FBI was after classified documents Trump may have illegally retained. The backstory: Early this year, Trump returned 15 boxes of material he had taken from the White House, after “several months of back and forth between his lawyers and the […]
Republicans have rediscovered skepticism of FBI power following a Monday raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Many questions remain about both the origins or purpose of the raid. It does not mean Trump will necessarily be charged with a crime, though it does make this possibility seem more likely. Getting and […]
The U.S. Senate passed the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday before senators adjourned until September. The bill—which allocates around $740 billion—passed with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris; it will now head to the House of Representatives, which is expected to vote on it Friday. Democrats say the bill will curb […]
COVID misinformation not protected speech. A man who lied on Facebook about paying someone with COVID to lick items at a grocery store is not protected by the First Amendment, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The court’s decision upholds a conviction handed to 40-year-old Christopher Charles Perez last October. […]