The FBI said scammers were able to make record profits off of Americans last year. Americans were out more than $10 billion dollars, the most successful scammers have been since the FBI started tracking the data. More than 800,000 scams, or more than 2,000 per day, were reported last year. Total losses were up from $6.9 billion…

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is one of Mexico’s most prominent criminal threats to the United States. The cartel is known for its aggressive use of violence and despite the capture of some of its top leaders, its influence is widening. According to a report by the United States Congressional Research Service, the Jalisco New…

President Joe Biden is poised to sign an executive order designed to increase the number of gun background checks; the legal stay of tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. is set to expire this spring; China is reopening its borders this week; and Uber and Lyft scored a victory in court. These…

A whistleblower told Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., that TikTok and ByteDance employees based in China can easily access U.S. data with the click of a button. That includes members of the Chinese Communist Party on the company’s payroll.  According to Hawley, the whistleblower also said, “TikTok and ByteDance are functionally the same company. They use…

House Republicans have published parts of the Federal Trade Commission’s demands of Elon Musk in its ongoing investigation into Twitter. The FTC is asking for internal communications related to Musk be turned over, as well as detailed information about journalists who were given access to company records that resulted in multiple “Twitter Files” expośes. Twitter…

According to the latest court filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, host Tucker Carlson expressed an intense dislike of former President Donald Trump in the wake of the 2020 election. The court filings were unsealed Tuesday. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly…

About 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu said all warfare is based on deception. If the Chinese philosopher and military general were alive today, he’d most likely be a customer of Inflatech, a company in the Czech Republic that makes inflatable decoys that look like military vehicles. The inflatable armaments are designed to look like many…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is planning to sue the Biden administration if it decides to detain migrant families at the southern border. It’s one of multiple proposals the administration is considering ahead of the end of Title 42 on May 11. “Putting children and their parents behind barbed wire to deter them from…

Lawmakers – under the microscope for their own stock trading practices – are questioning whether senior executive branch officials should be banned from owning and trading individual stocks. On Monday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo, plans to propose legislation that would bar them from the practice. “Senior members of the executive branch – who have access…

The 51st Iditarod kicks off Saturday with a ceremonial start in Anchorage, Alaska, and the official restart happening at 2 p.m. in Willow, Alaska. The 1,000-mile Last Great Race on Earth tests the limits for the mushers and the dogs as they traverse the frozen landscape of the Last Frontier. Before the trek begins, the…