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Lindsey Graham Cooks Up A Big Awkward Complaint On Judge In Trump's Jan. 6 Case Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is rallying behind the “need” for a new federal judge in the case accusing former President Donald Trump of conspiring to reverse the 2020 election. But Graham has come across the judge’s name before. In fact, he voted to confirm her to the federal judiciary less than a decade ago. Graham, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, argued that “any conviction” against Trump isn’t legitimate in the nation’s capital and claimed that Obama-nominated U.S. District Judge Tanya...

A U.S. district judge on Wednesday issued a sentence against a couple who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that went beyond what prosecutors recommended, giving them jail time. The Department of Justice (DOJ) had asked that Brandon Miller and his wife Stephanie Miller be sentenced to home confinement as part of a 36-month probationary period. The Ohio couple was charged with entering the Capitol, with Brandon Miller livestreaming their actions on Facebook. As WUSA reported, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled, however, that their actions warranted time behind bars. "They didn’t just walk through a door. They...

Democrats in Washington state are cracking down on marijuana — not the actual drug, the word itself. The Evergreen State legislature recently passed a bill banning the word “marijuana” from official state law and documents over concerns that it is “racist.” At the same time, to help increase diversity in the cannabis business, a taxpayer-funded task force has been spending the last two years focusing on helping minorities in Washington state break into the marijuana business. “The term ‘marijuana’ itself is pejorative and racist,” Washington state Representative Melanie Morgan (D) said during testimony regarding the piece of legislation officially known...

A Jamaican preacher and 41 of his congregants were arrested last week after two people were killed during an alleged “human sacrifice.” Kevin O. Smith, a self-proclaimed “prophet,” and the church members were arrested for slitting the throats of 39-year-old office worker Tanecka Gardner and an unidentified man. Friends told the Jamaica Observer Gardner had been buying “essentials” in the weeks before her death, as Smith told his congregants that a flood was about to sweep in. “Even recently, she has been stocking up on kerosene oil and cooking oil,” a friend told the Observer. “She told me that the...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected his running mate and has informed top advisers about the choice, according to a person familiar with the campaign’s discussions. In recent days he had also begun to tell close allies that he had reached a decision, according to people with knowledge of those conversations. There will be no in-person announcement event on Tuesday, a Biden campaign official told The Times.

A man in Florida told police and a local news station that he gunned down an AK-47-wielding robber because he didn’t want to “go out like a punk.” The man, 60-year-old Donovan Stewart, told CBS Miami that the robber pointed the semi-automatic weapon at him while he, his wife and his son were in his van early Monday in the Liberty City section of Miami. “He put an AK-47 to my damn face,” Stewart told the news station. “I am from Kingston town in Jamaica, and I am not going to go out like a punk. So I emptied my Glock...

NPR News Now Falsely Claims President Trump Tweeted About Kamala Harris’s Race this morning. However, It was actually Donald Trump Jr. who tweeted and then deleted a shared tweet by Ali Alexander making the odd claim that Kamala was "not an American Black."

A fifteen-year-old student pilot apparently trying to recreate the 9/11 kamikaze attack on the World Trade Center slammed a stolen Cessna 172 private airplane Saturday into Tampa, Florida's Bank of America building, the city's tallest structure. Charles J. Bishop, a 15-year-old flight student from Great Britain, stole the small aircraft from Albert Whitted Municipal Airport in nearby St. Petersburg at about 5 p.m., law enforcement sources said. Bishop was killed as the Cessna carrying 56 gallons of fuel slammed into the Bank of America tower, leaving the tail section of the plane dangling precariously from its side. The fuel did ...

July 9, 2010 NOTE The following text is a quote: Three-Time Armed Bank Robber Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison; Deportation Hearing to Follow Prison Term Dwayne, K. Lewis, 28, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced Friday to 120 months in federal prison on armed bank robbery charges. Lewis pleaded guilty February 1, 2010 to armed bank robberies in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York in which nearly $269,000 was taken. Lewis, a Jamaican national, faces a deportation hearing after completing his prison sentence. United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced the sentence, which was imposed by U.S. District Court Chief...

The once powerful Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke was extradited to the US tonight immediately after a court hearing at which he expressed regret for the fighting that claimed scores of lives last month as he evaded capture. Coke was flown to the US to face trial for alleged drug and weapons trafficking. He faces a life sentence if convicted. The leader of the Shower Posse gang, who the US authorities allege is the head of a crime network that extends from Jamaica to Europe and North America, said he was deeply saddened by the more than 75 lives...

KINGSTON (Reuters) – Jamaican reggae and dance hall star Bounty Killa was arrested on assault and other charges on Thursday for an altercation with an off-duty policeman nearly two years ago. Police said Bounty Killa, whose real name is Rodney Pryce, could face a sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. Pryce was charged after a lengthy probe into the beating of a police officer on September 27, 2007, by members of the DJ's entourage. Investigators said a vehicle belonging to Pryce was being used to block a road while the music star stopped to acknowledge some fans. When...

POMPANO BEACH (CBS4) ― A South Florida man who allegedly had penchant for early morning robberies and sexual assaults along a few block stretch of Pompano Beach has been taken into custody. Broward Sheriff Sgt. Ed McCardle said after nearly four attacks in the same area, they set up a surveillance operation on December 5th. "We had placed male and female deputies on the beach dressed as citizens with the intent of identifying our assailant," said McCardle. Two days later, the trap worked, McCardle said the undercover detectives observed the suspect, later identified as 25-year old Donovan Bryan of Coconut...

"On Wednesday, several American law enforcement officials identified one of the suspected suicide bombers as a Jamaican-born British resident named Lindsey Germaine. The other suspected bombers were of Pakistani descent and lived in the gritty working-class neighborhoods of Leeds. [Page A13.] "

<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter will lead an international delegation to observe Jamaica's tightly contested upcoming general elections, the Carter Center said Tuesday.</p> <p>Carter arrives Oct. 14, two days before Jamaicans cast ballots in islandwide races muddied by a surge of violence between supporters of the governing People's National Party and the opposition Jamaica Labor Party.</p>