Category: National News

President Trump came out swinging in Brussels after arriving on Air Force One for his second NATO summit. Trump slammed Germany for expecting the US to foot the bill for Europe’s security in the face of Russian aggression while Germany and others cut massive energy deals with Russian energy companies.

A former Main Line investment banker known as the “Godfather of payday lending” for preying on low-income borrowers was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison and stripped of over $64 million in assets. “The only difference between Mr. Hallinan and other loan sharks is that he doesn’t break the kneecaps of people who don’t pay his debts,…He was charging more interest than the Mafia.” Loans could have an annual rate of as high as 1,825.000%.

In a rare moment of transparency, more than 250 videos of previously classified US nuclear bomb tests have been uploaded to YouTube this week, providing a fascinating but terrifying glimpse into the United States’ nuclear program.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved a bill to legalize hemp, an industrial crop that has been banned for decades.

Five people have been killed and several others were “gravely injured” during a shooting Thursday afternoon in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette.