CAIRO/AMMAN—U.S. forces said they conducted a drone strike in eastern Syria on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader. The strike utilized the same MQ-9 drones that had “earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that had lasted almost two hours,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a statement on July…
ISIS Leader Killed by Airstrike in Syria, US Central Command Says
CAIRO/AMMAN—U.S. forces said they conducted a drone strike in eastern Syria on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader. The strike utilized the same MQ-9 drones that had “earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that had lasted almost two hours,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a statement on July…
Attorney Leaves Trump Defense Team, Joins Former President’s Save America PAC
Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is no longer on the former president’s legal defense team in the high-stakes New York state fraud case and will assume a new role with his political action committee. Mr. Trump’s Save America leadership PAC announced in a press release on July 7 that Ms. Habba will take over as…
Attorney Departs From Trump Defense Team in New York Civil Fraud Case
Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is no longer on the former president’s legal defense team in the high-stakes New York state fraud case and will assume a new role with a political action committee. Mr. Trump’s Save America leadership PAC on Friday announced in a press release that Habba will take over as their legal…
Biden Says Ukraine ‘Not Ready’ to Join NATO
President Joe Biden says Ukraine is “not ready” to join NATO despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent push to join the treaty organization. Ahead of Biden’s trip to a NATO summit in Lithuania, Zelenskyy said during an interview that it is wholly in Biden’s power to advance the eastern European nation’s membership with NATO. Many…
Supreme Court Revives Whistleblowers’ Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits
July 9, 2023
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The Supreme Court resurrected two whistleblower lawsuits against companies for allegedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. The cases concern the federal False Claims Act (FCA), a key tool the government uses to combat health care fraud, and “scienter,” a legal term meaning prior intent or knowledge of wrongdoing. Sen. Charles Grassley (R) has called the FCA…
Justice Ketanji Jackson’s Claim in Supreme Court Case Comes Under Fire
An attorney who was involved in the Supreme Court’s recent landmark affirmative action case responded to a claim made by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent in which she stated that black newborn babies are more likely to die if they aren’t treated by a black physician. In her dissent, Ms. Jackson sought to…
Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Placed Under Arrest Over Assange Protest
Ben Cohen, co-founder of ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, was arrested last week during a protest in favor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. During an event in Washington, Cohen sat outside the Department of Justice building along with left-wing CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans. They were both arrested for blocking the entrance to the DOJ…
Treasury Secretary Says US Recession ‘Not Completely Off the Table’
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that a U.S. recession is still “not completely off the table” in the near future, but she claimed the country is on the right path in bringing down decades-high inflation. “It’s not completely off the table,” Ms. Yellen told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday about a possible recession…
Ninth Circuit Greenlights Lawsuit Accusing Cisco of Aiding Beijing in Persecuting Falun Gong
A lawsuit accusing California tech giant Cisco of facilitating the Chinese regime’s violent persecution of Falun Gong can now move forward to trial, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 7. Adherents of Falun Gong, a faith group heavily persecuted in China since 1999, filed a lawsuit in 2011 against Cisco along…
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