WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family. Alexander Smirnov‘s lawyers had urged the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court judge’s order that the […]
BOISE, Idaho — An 18-year-old man planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and, if he could get them, his father’s guns, according to federal prosecutors who charged him with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group. Authorities said Alexander Scott Mercurio […]
Police in New Mexico said a man tied to the killings of a state trooper and a South Carolina paramedic was captured Sunday after a shootout with officers. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said Jaremy Alexander Smith, 33, of Marion, South Carolina, was taken into custody by deputies in Albuquerque after he opened fire on authorities […]
DALLAS — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has died. Paul Alexander died Monday at a Dallas hospital, said Daniel Spinks, a longtime friend. […]
HELSINKI (AP) — Alexander Stubb was sworn in Friday as Finland’s new president and said the Nordic country has taken “the final step into the Western community of values” by becoming a NATO member. The 55-year-old former prime minister replaced President Sauli Niinistö, who held the job for two six-year terms. Stubb, a conservative, was […]
LOS ANGELES — A former FBI informant charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family must remain behind bars while he awaits trial, a judge ruled Monday, reversing an earlier order releasing the man. U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II in Los Angeles ordered Alexander Smirnov’s detention after prosecutors raised concerns […]
Hyper-exaggeration is the bane of modern politics. Whether it’s the internet or just out-of-control partisanship, political commentators and observers have lost their minds. Take Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, former Donald Trump aide who was a star witness for the prosecution in Trump’s first impeachment trial. Vindeman has become a […]
The former FBI informant arrested on charges of giving false information about the Bidens’ business dealings in Ukraine has been arrested again — on the same charges. Alexander Smirnov was arrested in Nevada on Thursday just two days after having been freed pre-trial by Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts on condition of GPS monitoring and the […]
The Justice Department doesn’t want the man accused of lying about the Bidens freely roaming America’s streets. Federal prosecutors asked District Judge Otis D. Wright on Wednesday to reverse an order releasing Alexander Smirnov from custody. “As discussed in more detail below, the nature and circumstances of the offense, weight of the evidence, and the […]
WASHINGTON — The explosive allegations at the center of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were false, federal prosecutors said, and came from an ex-FBI informant who said he was in touch with Russian intelligence. The informant, Alexander Smirnov, is “actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections,” federal prosecutors said Wednesday, as […]
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