Staffing firm to pay $2.7M in DOJ settlement over mishandled COVID data

Insight Global, a staffing firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for the state of Pennsylvania, will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the Department of Justice. Employees of the firm stored the private medical information of tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians on unauthorized, easily-accessible Google accounts. "Contractors for the …...Read More

Georgia Gov. Kemp signs law requiring jails to check immigration status of inmates

Georgia’s governor gave the final approval on Wednesday for a bill requiring jailers across the state to check the immigration status of inmates and work with federal immigration officials instead of sheltering people who are in the U.S. illegally. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into law at the Georgia …...Read More

Thousands of mysterious jellyfish-like creatures wash up on California shores

Southern California beachgoers may notice a plethora of jellyfish-like creatures washed up on local shores – but sea jellies these blue blobs are not. Thousands of Velella velellas, or by-the-wind sailors, have recently emerged on Golden State beaches from San Diego to Marin County. Pictures taken on April 28 in …...Read More

Laura Ingraham reacts to Democrats' silence on the anti-Israel protests

Fox News host Laura Ingraham analyzes why the Biden administration has remained silent about the anti-Israel protests on college campuses on " The Ingraham Angle. " LAURA INGRAHAM: Silence speaks volumes. That's the focus of tonight's "Angle." Now, right down to the spooky staging, we've seen how the White House …...Read More

Over 40% of Americans see China as an enemy, a Pew report shows. That's a five-year high

More than 40% of Americans now label China as an enemy, up from a quarter two years ago and reaching the highest level in five years, according to an annual Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. Half of Americans think of China as a competitor, and only 6% consider the …...Read More

2 WV county commissioners removed after arrests for skipping public meetings

A three-judge panel ordered Wednesday that two county commissioners in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle be removed from office over a month after they were arrested for purposefully jilting their duties by skipping public meetings. Circuit Court Judges Joseph K. Reeder of Putnam County, Jason A. Wharton of Wirt and Wood …...Read More

University of Tehran professor says protesters at US colleges will support Iran in American conflict

A University of Tehran professor said in an interview that Iran likes seeing protests on U.S. college campuses, adding those are their supporters if there is ever a conflict between the two countries. Professor Foad Izadi, who, according to the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy, earned his …...Read More

Former OH Senate candidate Josh Mandel threatened with jail time in divorce case

Former Ohio state Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Republican who has run for U.S. Senate three times, has been threatened with jail time for noncompliance with a 2020 divorce agreement. Both Mandel and his ex-wife, Ilana, were found in contempt of court and sentenced to seven days in jail. The sentences …...Read More

Several antisemitism committee members resign after Northwestern makes deal with anti-Israel agitators

Seven members of Northwestern University’s President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate announced they are calling it quits on Wednesday after the school’s response to anti-Israel protests earlier this week. In a letter obtained by the Daily Northwestern, professors Efraim Benmelech, Martin Eichenbaum, Daniel Greene and Philip Greenland, Weinberg …...Read More

Mexican police say 5 dead in Santeria 'power' ritual

Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria ‘power’ ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police chief, said four men and one woman died after drinking a mix of substances he did not specify. He …...Read More