Day: March 21, 2025

Husband of former ‘Squad’ Rep. Cori Bush charged with wire fraud linked to COVID relief funds: DOJ

7:36 am March 21, 2025

The husband of former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat, has been charged with defrauding the government after allegedly accepting $20,000 in payments from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, the Justice Department said. Cortney Merritts, 46, of St. Louis, falsified details about his purported businesses to obtain loans from […]

NTSB says lack of ‘vulnerability assessment’ by Maryland officials preceded deadly Key Bridge collapse

7:18 am March 21, 2025

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sounded an alarm during a news conference Thursday, warning 30 owners of 68 bridges across 19 states to conduct vulnerability assessments to determine the risk of a bridge collapsing due to being struck by a ship. The NTSB also cited a Maryland state authority’s lack of an assessment […]

Pentagon set to award US Air Force’s next-generation fighter jet contract, sources say

7:01 am March 21, 2025

The Pentagon is set to announce its decision on a next-generation fighter jet contract initially worth more than $20 billion as soon as Friday, despite earlier concerns about budget constraints and shifting priorities, sources briefed on the plan said. The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program will replace Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor with a fighter […]

Wife of Florida doctor found dead in mansion over a decade ago ordered to pay $200M to his children

6:56 am March 21, 2025

More than a decade after his death, a well-known Florida doctor’s wife was ordered to pay his children $200 million after a civil court found her responsible for his killing inside their Tarpon Springs mansion. Dr. Steven Schwartz, a 74-year-old kidney specialist, was found dead in May 2014 after being shot twice in his garage. […]

DOGE deputy, Treasury Secretary dish on crusade to pull the IRS out of its ‘really big hole’

6:46 am March 21, 2025

As the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) looks to slash waste and correct inefficiencies, one DOGE adviser revealed it’s “hard to really grasp the scale” of problems facing the IRS. “A huge part of our government is collecting taxes. We cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these […]