Author: Mike Nova

Chief Judge James Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to refund restitution payments and fines to Cynthia Ballenger and Christopher Price after the Washington, D.C., Circuit vacated their misdemeanor convictions. He previously denied their request to recover roughly $1,000 but reversed course following the appeals court decision. The ruling directs repayment of amounts collected underContinue reading “Boasberg Says Refunds Due After…

Refrigerated trucks lined up outside a cold-storage warehouse in Fulton County as federal agents moved in on November 20, 2025, cutting the plastic on pallets of fresh blackberries. Hidden inside the crates, investigators found tightly wrapped bricks of methamphetamine weighing a combined 1,585 pounds. Authorities later said it was the largest single meth seizure in the United States so far this year, with an estimated street value of about…

U.S. Space Command’s move to Huntsville sure looks like a done deal. Why it matters: A political football for years and the target of an ongoing lawsuit, SPACECOM’s new home at Redstone Arsenal was symbolically solidified Friday with a sign unveiling that brought out the top brass. Zoom in: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined Alabama’s congressional delegation, SPACECOM Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting and Air Force Secretary Troy Meink at…

Last week, the U.S. Senate rejected two health care bills intended to resolve the impasse over COVID-19–era Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.k.a. Obamacare, subsidies and, to one extent or another, concerns over the cost of medical coverage. Both were blocked by the near impossibility of advancing anything in that body without 60 votes in support. The …

The Patriots wide receiver knows exactly what to say after a brutal loss to a divisional rival.

On TV this Monday: FBI, St. Denis Medical, and Watson break for the holidays, and The Voice finale gets underway.

Everything you need to solve ‘Connections’ #918.

The strike vote followed talks last week between unions and government officials including culture minister Rachida Dati.

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a 90-year-old decision protecting the heads of independent federal agencies from firing by the president — a move more significant in the court’s rightward march than the 2022 decision to overturn the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, alarmed legal experts tell Raw Story. “This is the most important case of t…

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, transforming what looked like decorative cipher into a readable voice from antiquity and reshaping how I understand the intellectual world that produced […]