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Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case challenging President Donald Trump's order banning asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border. Justices on the high court agreed to hear Mullin v. Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a case centered...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh filed a 178-page appeal on Monday, asking to have his conviction overturned on the grounds that he didn’t receive a fair trial. Routh was the man found hiding in some bushes at Trump’s golf course on Sept. 15, 2024. As Trump...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A superseding indictment was filed Thursday against Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April. The new indictment adds “Act of Terrorism While Armed” to the list of charges Allen faces. He...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Shortly before he was arrested on child pornography charges, an FBI scientist was seen photographing young girls walking to school while he sat inside his FBI-issued vehicle, the Justice Department disclosed Tuesday. The DOJ’s disclosure came in a sentencing memo for Cary Andre Rue, pled guilty on...

(Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has finalized his divorce from his wife, Angela, one of his lawyers said Thursday. It comes nearly a week after Paxton, a Republican, lost his U.S. Senate race by double digits to Democrat James Talarico in one of the most expensive contests of the...

(Headline USA) The father of an 11-month-old boy who survived being buried alive in a dog crate for about 24 hours has been charged with attempted murder in South Carolina, authorities said Wednesday. Koah Sharp, who was reported missing near the state capital city of Columbia, was released from a...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Idaho man Alexander Scott Mercurio was sentenced to 216 months in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. Mercurio was arrested in April 2024 when he was 18 years old, after the FBI targeted him for years...

(Headline USA) The man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk will stand trial in the summer of 2028, a Utah judge ruled Monday. Attorneys for defendant Tyler Robinson, 23, proposed a trial starting in 2029. But District Judge Tony Graf faced pressure from Kirk's family and supporters, including President Donald...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court slapped down a ruling that said the rights of a transgender inmate in a Colorado prison were violated when the prison did not accommodate the inmate's preferences for treatment.  Justices on the high court vacated a lower court's ruling in Roybal...

(Headline USA) A judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss charges against Lindsay Clancy in the deaths of her three young children, potentially clearing the way for a retrial in the case next year. Clancy’s defense team had asked the court to end the case based on an unusual...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI supervisory special agent pled guilty last week to the theft of roughly $1 million worth of cryptocurrency, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The former agent, Patrick Yaroch, admitted to his crimes to another Justice Department employee in July—saying that he wanted to “get...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Advocates for the rights of homicide victims and legal professionals throughout California are continuing to express outrage over Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 inmates on the state's death row. "I take this action because I firmly believe that...