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#1 276 Arrested in Connection With ‘Scam Centers’ Targeting Americans - Drew Pittock for USA TODAY, SplexxLabs, RTTNews Top Stories, Atlas21, BSCN, and MindFrozenTime #BTC #Bitcoin on X
A transnational investigation into cryptocurrency "pig-butchering" schemes netted more than 275 arrests, including six people who are now facing charges in San Diego. The Department of Justice announced April 29 that at least 276 people allegedly connected to cryptocurrency fraud schemes were arrested, and "at least nine scam centers" used to facilitate the operations had been dismantled. The schemes reportedly siphoned millions of dollars from Americans' bank accounts. The investigation's success, the department said, was thanks to "unprecedented cooperation between the FBI, Dubai Police Department, and Chinese Ministry of Public Security." “Fraudsters who target Americans from overseas cannot operate with impunity, no matter where in the world they reside,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the DOJ’s Criminal Division... President Donald Trump announced Wednesday the U.S. is weighing a potential drawdown of American troops in Germany, opening a new front in his escalating feud with the country’s leadership just days after he blasted Chancellor Friedrich Merz over Iran. In a Truth Social post Wednesday afternoon, Trump said the U.S. is "studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany." He said a determination will be made "over the next short period of time." The announcement comes after the president on Tuesday criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, saying he "doesn’t know what he’s talking about" regarding Iran’s nuclear capabilities... A top Pentagon official said Wednesday that the cost of the ongoing U.S. war with Iran is estimated to be $25 billion so far, as the conflict nears a 60-day mark. The cost estimate came from acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst III, who testified at a House Armed Services Committee hearing alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine. "Approximately, on this day, we're spending about $25 billion on Operation Epic Fury," Hurst told the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. He added that most of those costs are from munitions and included operations, maintenance, and equipment replacements... President Trump said on Wednesday that federal stock holdings in Intel generated over $30 billion over the last several months, after he authorized the U.S. government’s investment in the struggling semiconductor chip manufacturing company last summer. “I’m very proud of that Company in that I am responsible for making the United States of America over 30 Billion Dollars in the last 90 days on that stock alone,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. “There are others that, likewise, I have been very successful with by taking pieces of the Equity for support,” he continued. “Congratulations to Intel on doing such a great job and, more importantly, congratulations to the People of the United States for making such a good investment!” The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has often been called the crown jewel of the U.S. civil rights movement. But under a U.S. Supreme Court led for two decades by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, experts said, that jewel has lost its luster. In a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday, powered by its conservative justices, the court gutted what scholars said was the last remaining pillar of the landmark law enacted after the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Alabama, with the aim of preventing racial discrimination in voting...
Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, a candidate running for US Senate, deleted thousands of tweets, some of which defended “coastal elites” and were critical of “Middle America,” after The Post first reported on them last year. Morrow, 39, purged her X account of roughly 6,000 posts, including all her tweets posted prior to 2020, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reported on Wednesday. The journalist noted the social media cleanse came after The Post’s April 2025 scoop on McMorrow’s tweet history... A North Carolina lawmaker once shifted from a regular office to a former supply closet because he challenged the speaker of the House has resigned his seat in the state Senate. Sen. Terence Everitt, D-Wake, will step away effective Friday. He plans to focus on voting rights advocacy. In January, he began work at the North Carolina Voter Protection Alliance. On Election Night in November 2024, Everitt trailed Republican Ashlee Adams of Wake Forest by 38 votes of 121,988 cast. When the race was certified, provisionals and all absentee ballots coming in later having been counted, Everitt prevailed by 128 votes of 119,206 cast in Senate District 18. The remainder of Everitt’s term will be filled by a successor chosen by the Democratic Party for Wake and Granville counties... President Donald Trump lost another appeal in his ongoing battle against paying New York writer E. Jean Carroll an $83.3 million defamation judgment after denying he sexually assaulted her. A federal appeals court based in New York refused Trump's request to have all of its judges hear his appeal, after a panel of three of its judges heard the case and upheld the $83.3 million judgment in September. That tees up a potential appeal from Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court. The development marks the latest in an ongoing legal battle between Trump and Carroll that dates back to 2019 and includes two civil trials... Three people have been indicted for allegedly attacking a Turning Point USA correspondent earlier this month outside an ICE detention facility in Minnesota, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Christopher Ostroushko, Deyanna Ostroushko, and Paige Ostroushko are charged with assaulting Savannah Hernandez on April 11 as she was reporting on an anti-ICE protest in St. Paul, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Christopher Ostroushko and Paige Ostroushko have also been indicted on charges of interfering with a federally protected activity, prosecutors said. In chaotic video of the disturbance near the Whipple Federal Building, Hernandez is seen being swarmed by people screaming obscenities, blowing horns and whistles. She is also seen being shoved. Local authorities at the time said they were reviewing charges...
#2 Trump Weighs Pulling US Troops From Germany Amid Clash With Chancellor Over Iran War - Alexandra Koch for Fox News, Gunther Eagleman, War Radar, CBS News, Republicans Against Trump, Bitcoin Teddy, and The Epoch Times on X
#3 Iran War Has Cost the U.S. $25 Billion So Far, Pentagon Official Says - Alexandra Marquez for NBC News, Gary Buckley™, Caroline Ramsey-Hamilton, DM02131, Pam Rotella, and Fox News Politics/TheTrumpToken on X
#4 Trump Says US Government’s Intel Stock Made the Country $30B in Last 90 Days - Sarah Davis for The Hill, The Kobeissi Letter, Autopilot, Unusual Whales, Financelot, and The Singularity on X
#5 US Supreme Court Under Roberts Takes ‘Wrecking Ball’ to Voting Rights Act - John Kruzel for Reuters/MSN, Paul Millard, Donnie Detroit/Jeremy Moss, Mayor Brandon Johnson/Gatorborne, bunnie, CPUGuru, and Captain Mark Kelly/AP The Associated Press/Morning Glory on X
#6 Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Mallory McMorrow Purges X Account Following the Post’s Report on Her Social Media History - Victor Nava for New York Post, Andrew Kaczynski, AIPAC Tracker, Michigan GOP, Alex Paxton, and Rugged Individualist on X
#7 Senate Democrat Resigns - Alan Wooten for The Mountaineer, The Black Chronicle, Carolina Journal, WAVY TV 10, Tracy Taylor, DPT/A.P. Dillon, and Margo on X
#8 Federal Appeals Court Refuses to Rehear Trump Appeal of $83M E Jean Carroll Defamation Judgment - Aysha Bagchi for USA TODAY, bytesizenetwork, Twin, iTamara/Carlos Perez, Erik Hoffmann, and Marcus Burt on X
#9 Feds Charge Trio in Alleged Attack on TPUSA Journalist in Minnesota - Michael Ramsey for News Nation, The Heartland Post, Savannah Hernandez/Joe Donlan, Ph.D., Alex West, Kimmie Kay, and JonathanFrye/Eric Daugherty on X
#10 Trump Administration Appeals Ruling That Blocked RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Overhaul - Erika Edwards and Gary Grumbach for NBC News, Georgeanne Matranga, Elena, Srbija Evropa, News from Science, Reuters Legal, and Health and Family on X
The Trump administration has appealed a Massachusetts federal judge’s ruling that blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent overhaul of the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule. A filing Wednesday evening in the District of Massachusetts indicates the administration is appealing Judge Brian Murphy’s order of March 16. Murphy put any decisions made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee on hold, ruling that Kennedy replaced the committee “unlawfully.” Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate signed the appeal...
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