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(Headline USA) The Justice Department moved Friday to allow more people to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles and certain other guns without registering them with the federal government following a court ruling that struck down provisions of a key law. The Trump administration announced the enforcement...

(Headline USA) U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for the beating, asphyxiation and electric shock treatment of scores of victims, including several Americans. The torture charges add to...

(Headline USA) Christa Pike, who regained consciousness almost six days after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, is aware of what happened and “angry and confused,” one of her attorneys said Wednesday. Pike, 50, survived despite receiving two lethal doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30. She was sentenced to death...

(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...