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(Headline USA) Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other crimes. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The indictment alleges that, besides stealing trade...

(Headline USA) Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was scheduled to appear in court remotely Tuesday for a hearing on a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago. The hearing is part of the latest bid by Sandusky’s lawyers to secure...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the day before the 2024 presidential election, the Justice Department announced that it foiled a right-wing terrorist plot. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time that the defendant, Skyler Philippi, was planning to destroy a Tennessee energy facility. “But the FBI had already...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In April 2025, the Justice Department announced the indictment of a 25-year-old man who had elicited sexually explicit videos from a 16-year-old girl. However, lawyers for the defendant, Aniruth Kuppusamy, said last month that the FBI violated their client’s Fourth Amendment rights. Now, those lawyers want...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms. The filing came after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani extended an order against the Postal Service enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order for the...

(Headline USA) Just days before two teenagers carried out a mass shooting at a San Diego mosque, federal law enforcement officials warned the parents of one of the shooters that their son was making concerning comments about school shootings on the dark web, according to new details included in a...

(Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's homewrecker law over her relationship with a member of her security detail, a judge ruled Friday. Sinema has acknowledged having a romantic relationship with Matthew Ammel but argued that she can't be sued in North Carolina because she...

(Headline USA) The closely watched case of the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children was on the verge of being declared a mistrial Friday — but there was still one more dramatic moment to come. After weeks of grueling testimony, the jury could not get beyond an impasse...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black skipped a sworn deposition before House investigators on Thursday and asked a federal judge instead to void the two subpoenas the Oversight Committee served on him in June.  His complaint landed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the...

(Headline USA) A judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial declared a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in a case that sharply divided many Americans over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The trial generated intense interest for more...

(Headline USA)  The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday in a dramatic sixth day of deliberations. Her defense lawyer told the judge that the panel’s foreperson said in a note that a single juror won’t follow the court's instructions about reasonable doubt...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal investigators reportedly met with a top New York state prosecutor who is accusing his boss, leftist Attorney General Letitia James, of using her office to orchestrate another witch hunt against President Donald Trump. Officials with the DOJ and the FBI interviewed Daniel Wiesenfeld, a now-suspended assistant attorney...