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(Headline USA) Federal authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state with encouraging an 18-year-old to commit one of the worst school shootings in Canada's history by offering to livestream the February attack, providing money and sharing advice on how to delete online...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Georgia’s State Election Board executive director has asked the Trump administration to examine the state’s voting system weeks before Election Day. The request puts QR code ballot tabulation, election software, voter data sharing, and access to records under renewed scrutiny, per a report by the...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Newly released FBI records have renewed debate over the methods used in former special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents investigation of President Donald Trump. The documents describe monitoring of Susie Wiles’s communications, internal disagreement over the Mar-a-Lago search, and an unexplained lack of substantive notes...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A piece of embalmed femur bone that weights about two grams is all that remains of an unidentified leg found in the rubble of the Oklahoma City bombing some 31 years ago, according to Angela Berg, a forensic anthropologist with Oklahoma’s Office of the Chief...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A young man who attended the Sept. 10, 2025, event where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated has sued YouTube personality Candace Owens for implying that he was part of the plot against Kirk. Utah man Robby Hild Jr. said in a federal lawsuit filed last...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has released another batch of records on alleged would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks, revealing some of his text messages, as well as photos he took with his drone in early 2024. The FBI records on Crooks—who was killed after allegedly shooting at Donald Trump...

(Austin Reed, The Center Square) Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, the 51-year-old Richland man and Department of Energy employee accused of attempting to provide material support to the Houthis, made his first federal court appearance Friday. Ellaboudy made his first appearance before a federal judge in downtown Richland on Friday morning following...

(Headline USA)  Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying...

(Headline USA)  Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband of 34 years. Noem, who was tasked with leading President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown from January 2025 to March 2026 and previously served as South Dakota's governor, is seeking a divorce from Bryon...

(Headline USA) A Massachusetts man was arrested Thursday in a federal case alleging he cyberstalked conservative podcaster and former Trump administration official Katie Miller, targeting her dozens of times with menacing phone calls and messages, according to court papers. Authorities say the man contacted Katie Miller at least 40 times...

(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged a store clerk and his son with selling kratom that authorities believe is linked to the death of a University of Mississippi student, prosecutors announced Friday. The U.S. attorney's office in Mississippi said authorities established a link between the kratom derivative found at the...

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Christa Pike survived two injections that were to be lethal, fulfilling a Tennessee death penalty sentence Wednesday evening and was taken to a hospital for care, according to her lawyers. Her condition remained publicly unknown at time of publication. It’s the second time the state has...