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Brant Frost IV’s First Liberty Building and Loan lied to investors about lending high-interest loans to small firmsA prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a …
Thomas Wenski says ‘it would be more financially sensible and more morally acceptable to expand legal pathways’. This blog is now closed.The US state department is firing more than 1,300 employees in line with the Trump administration’s reorganization …
Texas governor unveiled plan to redraw state’s districts in a move opponents are calling ‘an egregious gerrymander’US politics live – latest updatesGreg Abbott, the Texas governor, has been accused by political opponents of trying to “fix” next year’s …
Agents, supported by national guard, fire chemical munitions at two cannabis farms in central coast area. This blog is now closed.You can read the trove of documents Erez Reuveni turned over to the senate judiciary committee here.Erez Reuveni, a fired …
Redistricting gives Republicans in the state the opportunity to ‘increase their strength and numbers’, experts sayExperts, politicians and concerned Texans say their state could be a blueprint for Republican efforts to stave off losses in next year’s e…
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floorThe Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”, t…
Oksana Markarova will be recalled from Washington in move designed to strengthen ties with Trump teamVolodymyr Zelenskyy is replacing Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, who has been heavily criticised by leading Republicans, as part a diplomatic reshuffle…
Justices lift lower court order that froze ‘reductions in force’ federal layoffs while litigation in case proceededThe US supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume plans for mass firings of federal workers that criti…
DTE Energy had denied involvement in dark money non-profits, but court documents show a $100,000 donationNewly released court documents show power utility DTE Energy knowingly contributed $100,000 to a dark money non-profit that helped sabotage Michiga…
The 32-year-old was instrumental in high-profile national security firings, and has cheerled the attacks on IranAfter years of claiming to be the vanguard of a new “America First” isolationist movement rebelling against the neoconservative policies of …