Day: January 4, 2025

Bernie Sanders hits out at H-1B visa program for replacing American jobs with ‘indentured servants’

2:30 pm January 4, 2025

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is taking aim at the controversial H-1B visa program, arguing that it replaces “good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad” — just as the program is at the center of a debate within the Republican Party. “The main function of the H-1B visa program and other guest worker initiatives […]

Speaker Johnson faces year of tight votes and acrimony: ‘A lot of expectations’

2:30 pm January 4, 2025

While the high-stakes fight to lead the House of Representatives is over, Speaker Mike Johnson’s politically perilous year is just beginning. Winning the speaker’s gavel was no easy feat considering Johnson, R-La., had no Democratic support and could only lose one fellow Republican, thanks to the House GOP’s razor-thin majority. All House Republicans except for […]

2nd Homeland Security agent in Utah arrested on charges of selling illicit drugs that were seized as evidence

11:53 am January 4, 2025

A second Department of Homeland Security agent in Utah was arrested and charged in federal court on accusations of using a confidential informant to sell illicit drugs that were seized as evidence. Nicholas Kindle, a special agent investigating illegal narcotics trafficking, was arrested three weeks after the arrest of his alleged co-conspirator, special agent David […]

A user’s manual to certifying the presidential election

10:32 am January 4, 2025

The House and Senate will meet on Monday in a Joint Session of Congress to certify the results of the 2024 presidential vote. The Capitol riot and contretemps over certification of the 2020 presidential election converted the quadrennial, often sleepy affair of certifying the Electoral College into a full-blown national security event. Congressional security officials […]

Greenland PM seeks independence following Trump acquisition comments

8:25 am January 4, 2025

Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede recently declared his intentions for the island’s future, stating taking major steps to gain independence from Denmark is “necessary.” Egede’s remarks, which follow a Dec. 22 post on Truth Social by President-elect Donald Trump advocating for the “ownership and control” of Greenland, focused on the basis of secession from Denmark. […]