Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months probation on Thursday for lying to police about a hate crime and politically motivated robbery he staged against himself.  As previously reported by Human Events News, Smollett was found guilty in December on five of the six counts of felony disorderly conduct charges.…Continue Reading

Republican Virginia Rep. Bob Good introduced a bill Wednesday to designate MS-13 as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The legislation, titled Every Town a Border Town Act, would change the gang’s designation from a Transnational Criminal Organization to a Foreign Terrorist Organization, giving the government a wider range of options to prosecute rather than just financial…Continue Reading

KYIV, Ukraine — With reports of a large-scale military convoy positioning itself into a firing posture around Kyiv, Russian forces widened their offensive in Ukraine on Friday, attacking more major cities while also pounding targets farther from the front line.The intensified assault on the ground came even as the United States somewhat improbably insisted that diplomacy still…Continue Reading

WASHINGTON — The amount of evidence collected as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection rivals what the Hubble telescope has amassed in its three-decade orbit. And sorting through it all has ground many of its criminal cases to a halt.To speed things along, U.S. attorneys and public defenders have teamed up to create…Continue Reading

MOSCOW — On a wintry January day in 1990, the grand opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in what was then the Soviet Union was hailed as an emblem of the thawing Cold War. A serpentine line wound through the capital’s Pushkin Square, a throng of thousands waiting patiently for a first taste of American fast food.This…Continue Reading

A group of Canadians is organizing to stop a proposed condo development at Juno Beach in France, the site of the D-Day landing that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Canadian soldiers.The site of the proposed condo development at Juno Beach, with the Juno Beach Centre museum visible near the bottom-left of the frame.…Continue Reading

“Empire” star Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 150 days in jail for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated in 2019, which caused a national uproar as it unfolded.Describing Smollett’s crime as “a crime of opportunity” and a “crime of premeditation,” Cook County Judge James Linn also sentenced the…Continue Reading