A judge ordered a county commissioner in New Mexico be removed from office immediately for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The state court ruled Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin became constitutionally disqualified from serving in any federal or state office effective Jan. 6, 2021. The evidence against Griffin included…

The U.S. continues to grapple with domestic terrorist violence that FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized last year as a problem “metastasizing around the country.” Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan sees it differently, claiming recently that 14 whistleblowers told him that “FBI employees were pressured to reclassify crimes as domestic terrorism.” Straight Arrow News contributor Ben…

The video game industry experienced a massive boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, but then Americans spent 13% less on gaming in the second quarter of this year from the same period a year ago and more time outside. Consumer spending has also been taking a hit amid worries about the state of the economy. Still,…

The economy has technically been shrinking all year, but what about Wall Street? After the busiest business week of the summer, now more than half of the country’s largest companies have reported second quarter earnings. Here’s what we have learned from them so far. #1: Big Oil strikes gold The two largest U.S. oil companies,…

It’s being called a “crisis” at the southern border, where a record influx of migrants is entering the U.S. from Mexico. Migrant deaths have reached an all-time high, an identity theft crime spree has emerged, and now Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has mobilized the National Guard to help handle migrants bused in from southern states. Straight…

House Democrats plan to announce a proposal next month to ban lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks, according to Punchbowl News with several sources close to the issue. The bill would force members of Congress, their spouses and senior staff to choose between putting their assets in a qualified blind trust or completely…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed insider trading charges against former Indiana congressman Stephen Buyer and eight other individuals in connection with three separate alleged schemes that together yielded more than $6.8 million in ill-gotten gains. The charges were announced in New York by United States attorney Damian Williams. “Buyer used his job…

For at least the last five years, the Department of Homeland Security tracked the movements of millions of people using cellphone data. DHS tracked citizens and non-citizens, both inside and outside the country. According to a report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, DHS spent millions of dollars to buy the data from…

Twitter has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk in an effort to force the world’s richest man to honor his agreement to purchase the social media site. Musk is attempting to terminate the $44 billion deal last week amid concerns about bots and spam accounts on the site. If Twitter doesn’t win its argument, there…

The economic forecast for the U.S. remains gloomy, and experts say the worst may be yet to come. Wall Street just endured its worst first-half performance since 1970 and the World Bank expects global economic growth to slow dramatically in 2022. As his poll numbers sink amid soaring gas prices, President Joe Biden has tried…