Two alleged dark web drug dealers sold almost $9 million worth of fake Adderall online, only to see their illicit empire fall apart by buying postage on Stamps.com.
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and former vice president Joe Biden have an equal chance of being the Democratic nominee for the 2020 US presidential election, according to PredictIt, a political-prediction betting market run by Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
More than a decade before Iran shot down a US military RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone on June 20, its manufacturer pitched the Department of Defense on expanding the fleet by presenting a hypothetical conflict with the Islamic Republic.
People in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Northern California will no longer get mustard, mayonnaise, or ketchup with their sack lunches, according to a newly-issued federal solicitation reviewed by Quartz.
When an Orange County, California deputy sheriff pulled over a maroon Toyota van last month for speeding, something seemed amiss.
The first mass was held at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris today since the centuries-old church was ravaged by fire in April. Priests wearing hard hats led the service in the Chapel of the Virgin, along with a small number of worshipers, construction workers, and members of the media, also in protective headgear.
O.J. Simpson, who more than two decades ago stood accused of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, has apparently joined Twitter in order to settle old beefs.
Unpaid presidential advisers Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner earned between $82 million and $135.1 million last year in outside income, newly released financial disclosures reveal.
People across the world unwittingly consume roughly 5 grams of plastic each week in the course of daily life, or about the weight of a credit card, according to Australian researchers. That’s about 250 grams per year—more than a half-pound of plastic every 12 months.
The United States Border Patrol (USBP) will buy as many as 1,800 infant onesies between now and the end of next February for babies up to 12 months old, according to a $448,000 contract the agency signed earlier this week. The clothing will be delivered twice a month to two holding facilities in the El Paso, Texas area.
The US Army Corps of Engineers continues to gear up to spend the money contrived by the Trump administration to fortify the southern border.
Three decades after five New York City teens were wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park, the four-part Netflix dramatization When They See Us is fueling a renewed conversation about the fairness of the US justice system.
When a Freightliner tractor-trailer pulled up to a US Border Patrol checkpoint just north of Laredo, Texas, the agent working the lane thought he recognized the driver as a person of interest. A record check revealed the passenger had two active warrants for arrest on charges of cocaine sales and assault.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) improperly charged almost 73,000 disabled veterans more than $286 million in home loan fees they didn’t owe, according to a report by the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released Thursday.
Cuba’s intelligence services have managed to infiltrate at least one US airport, obtaining highly sensitive information from sources apparently working on the inside. That’s according to copies of classified Cuban government documents published by Spanish-language news site CiberCuba. (Quartz reviewed both the Spanish documents and the English-language translation provided by the outlet.)
A small new exchange-traded fund launched today with an eye-catching concept: It plans to invest in companies that have large numbers of government contracts, which it thinks will protect them from the trade wars launched by US president Donald Trump.
Over the past seven years, a New York City-based fraud ring allegedly stole more than $19 million worth of iPhones by posing as cellphone subscribers to get new devices at little or no cost. The six people authorities say ran the ring would then sell the stolen phones on the black market, getting away with the scam for years, according to a now-unsealed complaint originally filed by federal prosecutors at the end of April.
US president Donald Trump’s four adult children and their spouses have joined him on his state visit to the United Kingdom this week. And US taxpayers are picking up the hefty bills for their hotels, transportation, and security.
Update June 14: ICE said it has found a total of 297 confirmed cases in 39 ICE facilities from Sept. 2018 until June 13, 2019.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is looking to purchase 20,000 baby bottles, 3,000 boxes of baby wipes, and 2,224,000 baby diapers for a newly-erected tent city holding families and unaccompanied children seeking asylum in America.
A California court charged nearly four dozen people last week for violating US drug and money laundering laws as part of a multi-state methamphetamine distribution ring. The drug traffickers, however, didn’t use any sophisticated techniques to get the drugs over the border. They simply mailed them through FedEx and the US Postal Service.
Robert S. Mueller III spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US elections since the special counsel’s office launched its inquiry two years ago.
The US Secret Service plans to spend almost $100,000 this summer on golf cart rentals in Bedminster, New Jersey. Bedminster is the home of the Trump International Golf Club, where the president has spent at least 58 days since taking office.
Living in a place named for the US president no longer seems to appeal to a certain set of homeowners.
