The authoritarian government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro arrested a fourth American citizen, a top official said Tuesday, the latest in a string of foreigners detained in the government’s post-election crackdown. Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, a hard-line Maduro ally, accused the U.S. national of a plot “against Venezuela” and said the fourth American had been detained in Caracas after allegedly taking photos of electrical, oil and military facilities. The American...

The Secret Service didn't have a solid plan in place to protect Donald Trump at the hospital after this summer's shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a report from Senator Josh Hawley. The shooting at the former president's July 13 rally brought fierce criticism of the Secret Service and forced the head of the agency to resign. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called for answers as to how the security failure happened, and a congressional task force is...

Amid claims that Trump is a "danger to this country and the world," Hillary Clinton - the original sinner of 'Russia, Russia, Russia'-propaganda - has called for anyone spreading "misinformation" to be criminally charged as a "better deterrence" ahead of the election. Specifically, the former Secretary of State told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday that Americans "engaged" in "propaganda" - similar to the type that led to the Russians "boosting Trump" in 2016 - should face...

Hundreds of U.S. border officers are under investigation for alleged misconduct including trafficking, bribery and sexual assault, Newsweek can reveal Official figures seen by Newsweek show that 211 officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) face accusations ranging from serious crime such as drug smuggling, to non-criminal misconduct. The documents show 17 alleged cases of domestic violence, 11 cases of sexual assault, and 10 cases of smuggling migrants across the border. Another 11...

Stanley Black & Decker, the owner of popular hardware brands like Craftsman and DEWALT, is ditching many of its diversity efforts after conservative activist Robby Starbuck threatened to expose them, he told the Caller. The company is dropping a number of DEI policies, including dismantling their DEI department and abandoning a mandate to buy from diverse suppliers, Starbuck told viewers in a Monday video he posted to X.

This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 16 episode of "Inside with Jen Psaki." On Monday night, during a livestream on X, Donald Trump unveiled his latest business venture: World Liberty Financial. It’s basically a crypto stock exchange where you can borrow, lend and invest. Alongside Trump, founders include Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Barron Trump, according to a person briefed by a member of the group’s founding team. Now, it’s not like Trump himself is running this business, the...

More than two decades ago, when gay men and lesbians were prohibited from serving openly in the U.S. military and no state had legalized same-sex marriages, a national LGBTQ+ rights group decided to promote change by grading corporations on their workplace policies. The Human Rights Campaign initially focused its report card, named the Corporate Equality Index, on ensuring that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer employees did not face discrimination...

27a of the Copyright Law) Explosions have been reported by Lebanese media in several other areas of Lebanon in the last few minutes, and not just in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut. According to some of the reports, the blasts were caused by communication devices in use by Hezbollah. Images circulating online purport to show the devices, which appear to be different from the pagers that exploded yesterday.

Taiwanese pager manufacturer Gold Apollo Co., at the center of the exploding pagers incident used by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon—resulting in nine deaths and nearly 3,000 injuries—shifted the blame onto Budapest-based BAC Consulting Kft.  The Washington Post cites Hsu Kuang, the founder of Gold Apollo, who told reporters that BAC Consulting "entirely handled" the AR-924 pager manufacturing process.  On Wednesday, Kuang told reporters at the company's...

A picture began to emerge Wednesday of a highly complex attack carried out by Israel, after thousands of pagers carried by members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah exploded around the same time a day earlier. Many of the affected pagers were from a new shipment that Hezbollah had received recently, part of a nearly yearlong process to swap out older devices. The group said they detonated in rough unison at 3:30 p.m. Survivors reported hearing the pagers beep and...