(Headline USA) The Justice Department's internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration for the past year.
The review from the inspector general's office will...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The Justice Department alleges the...
(Headline USA) The Gates Foundation is reviewing its ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the global health funder confirmed Wednesday, as its only remaining founder faces mounting scrutiny over his appearances in Justice Department documents related to its investigation of the disgraced financier.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates reportedly spoke...
(Headline USA) A judge on Tuesday delayed the criminal sentencing of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma in order to allow victims to attend the court proceeding in person.
U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo originally planned to hand down the sentence Tuesday during a court hearing conducted only by videoconferencing. But...
(Headline USA) U.S. authorities “got the wrong man” when they charged an alleged Islamic State militant in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a defense attorney said Monday at the start of the man's trial in Virginia.
Mohammad...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Ex-Capitol Police officer and current CIA security guard Shauni Kerkhoff has sued Blaze Media for implicating her as the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill pipe bomber in an article last November that has since been retracted.
Kerkhoff also sued the two reporters who wrote the story,...
(Headline USA) Prosecutors once again portrayed Harvey Weinstein as a onetime Hollywood power player who used his sway as a tool of sexual assault, repainting a familiar but fraught picture Tuesday at a rape retrial nearly eight years after the former movie tycoon’s arrest.
“This case will come down to...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is once again under legal scrutiny after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a damning lawsuit accusing the group of deceptive practices and lax safeguards around foreign donations.
Paxton, who is running for the Republican nomination for Senate, announced the lawsuit Monday, calling...
(Headline USA) FBI Director Kash Patel hit The Atlantic magazine with a $250 million defamation lawsuit on Monday, claiming an article that talked about mismanagement at the agency and his alleged excessive drinking was false and a “malicious hit piece.” The Atlantic said it stood by its reporting and...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer revealed that the Supreme Court’s three radical left-wing judges may be trying to run out the clock on a crucial decision impacting the midterm election cycle by slow-walking their dissenting opinion.
The final case on the court’s present docket is...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its final oral arguments sitting of the current term on Monday. The justices will hear several high profile arguments on various issues before the term ends in June.
On Wednesday, justices will hear arguments in Blanche v. Lau, a...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled New York Attorney General Letitia James broke with other top New York officials over her refusal to release personal tax filings.
James, a Democrat who has faced a grand jury indictment tied to alleged mortgage fraud, said Friday she would not release her tax returns and...