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WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former IRS contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking tax documents belonging to former President Donald Trump and other wealthy Americans was sentenced Monday to five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000. Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October to one count of taking tax return information […]
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is raising red flags on what he calls a growing problem linked to the rise of mobile payment services such as Venmo, Zelle and Cash App. And Bragg said he is looking forward to working with those companies to secure people’s money. Bragg told […]
Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas called the impeachment proceedings against him “baseless” and the accusations made against him by the Homeland Security Committee “false.” “I will defer a discussion of Constitutionality of your current effort to the many respected scholars and experts across the political […]
Lela Black is seen here in an undated file photo released by authorities. | Byron Black is seen here in an undated file photo released by authorities. (Kentucky State Police) (NEW YORK) — A missing 5-year-old girl has been found safe and her father — who was wanted for the murder of the little girl’s […]
SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is warning that several people may have recently been exposed to hepatitis A at a grocery store. An employee at a ShopRite, located in the northeast part of the city, was confirmed to have “acute hepatitis A” and was working behind the […]
Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the tax filing season began Monday, the IRS Criminal Investigation division urged taxpayers to protect themselves from scams. Some of those scams include questionable refund schemes, return preparer fraud, abusive tax schemes, according to the agency. “Tax crimes surge during filing season because criminals steal unknowing taxpayers’ information, […]
CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least four people are dead after a boat carrying over a dozen tourists sank in the waters off the coast of Cancun. The boat, which was traveling from Isla Mujeres to Puerto Juárez, caught a strong sea swell and the vessel began to sink as it took on water, […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate negotiators are racing to put the finishing touches on a national security spending bill they hope can simultaneously fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and offer legislative solutions to slow the surge of migrants at the southern border. Yet fresh criticism Monday from former President Donald Trump […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A judge denied Alex Murdaugh’s request for a new trial Monday in the homicides of his wife and son. Judge Jean Toal dismissed a motion filed by Murdaugh’s attorneys last year that claimed the jury for the murder trial was tampered with by Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca […]
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former president Donald Trump trounced his Republican opponents in the first two primary contests, setting the course for a potential general election rematch with likely Democratic nominee President Joe Biden. The decisive issue, according to polls, may prove to be the economy. Seventy-four percent of Americans say the economy […]
