By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s crunch time for ex-Presidential hopeful John Edwards. Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in federal court in Greensboro, N.C. for Edwards,58, who faces charges that he violated campaign finance laws and accepted illegal contributions, the News Observer reports. The trial is sure to bring out embarrassing details of his…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and Secret Service have jumped into a probe involving a ridiculous number of bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh. The Daily mail reports that there have been 56 bomb threats since mid-February, prompting professors to start holding classes outside. The paper reports that investigators have a person of interest…
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Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com If you ever wondered why e-books were so pricey, now you know. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it has filed an antitrust lawsuit in New York against Apple and five big-time publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, accusing them of conspiring to keep the price of ebooks high. At…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Old expressions of hatred live on. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Tuesday announced charges against A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man for burning a cross in 2010. Authorities said that Ryan M. Held, aka Ryan M. Foley, 20, of Philipsburg, Penn., was indicted on March 27 by a federal grand jury for burning the…
By Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Apparently the DC Elections Board didn’t find a recent activist video about voter fraud very funny. The undercover video posted online triggered a DC Board of Elections investigation Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. The video showed an unidentified member of Project Veritas attempting to vote as U.S. Attorney General Eric…
By Courthouse News Service Two Secret Service agents must face claims that they violated the First Amendment rights of protesters at a 2004 campaign stop for President George W. Bush, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday. The federal appeals court in Portland, Ore., denied qualified immunity to agents Tim Wood and Rob Savage, finding that they…
