News from December 2025
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
The U.S. Attorney’s Office and Polyclinic, operating as Optum Care Washington, have reached a settlement following allegations that the clinic failed to provide sign language interpreter services for a patient who is deaf and blind, in violation...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increased by 0.8 points in November, reaching 99.0 and staying above its 52-year average of 98, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
A former Athens-Clarke County Police Officer, Amber Nicole Ferguson, has been indicted on several federal charges, including production and attempted production of child sexual abuse material, possession of such material involving a minor under 12...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
Fan Yang and Jing Tian, residents of Indianapolis, have been arrested following an indictment that accuses them of conspiring to commit securities fraud.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
Senator Rick Scott, chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand will convene a hearing titled “Aging with Purpose: The Positive Impact of Seniors in Today’s Economy” on Wednesday, December 10.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have released details regarding a shooting incident in Omaha, Nebraska, involving Juan Ayala Ramos, a Salvadoran national who entered the United States...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
A former college student has been arrested and charged in connection with a bomb hoax that led to the evacuation of a dormitory at a college in the Southern District of New York.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
The House Education and Workforce Committee, led by Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI), has initiated an inquiry into sports betting following reports of illegal gambling activities involving professional athletes.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
A Wisconsin man, Clyde Lewis Springfield, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for international parental kidnapping after taking his four children to South Africa in 2021 and failing to return two of them as required by a custody agreement.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Protecting Our Children Online Against the Evolving Offender.” In his...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
A Romanian national, Andrei Fagaras, age 35, was sentenced to time served for access device fraud in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
Mitchell Parsons Hughes of Decatur, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to illegally flying a drone over Truist Park during the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in July 2025.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has reached out to stakeholders for feedback on the American Medical Association’s (AMA) control over Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee has initiated an investigation into reports of potential obstruction within the civil rights offices of several federal agencies.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
Deanna L. Drumm, a 62-year-old resident of Charleston, West Virginia, was sentenced on October 16, 2025, to four years of federal probation with one year of home detention.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
Chairman John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing concerns about Ivanhoe Atlantic, a company with substantial Chinese state-linked ownership.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
A Dumas, Texas man was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material, according to an announcement from United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
A registered sex offender from St. Louis County has admitted to selling firearms illegally on five separate occasions to an undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that 14 Mexican nationals were transferred to Mexico on Dec. 5 under the International Prisoner Transfer Treaty between the United States and Mexico.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 9, 2025
Senator Bernie Sanders, the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), together with all Democratic members of the committee, has urged Chairman Bill Cassidy to hold an immediate oversight hearing with...
