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Iranian Death Plot Defendant Says He Thought He Was Hunting $250k Thief

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Days after Trump won the November 2024 election, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he foiled another purported Iranian assassination plot. However, the DOJ’s case against Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran; Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn; and Jonathan Loadholt, 36, of Staten Island, didn’t charge any of them...

D.C. Attorney General Sues Trump, Claiming ‘Unlawful’ Takeover

(The Center Square) Days after President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day” by federalizing the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and deploying hundreds of National Guard members to curb crime, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming the federal takeover is unlawful. Schwalb describes...

Construction Magnate Sentenced for Funneling Foreign Funds to NYC Mayor Eric Adams

(Headline USA) A Brooklyn construction magnate was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, resolving one of two related federal cases after the mayor’s criminal charges were dropped. Erden Arkan, 76, told...

Grand Jury Indicts Accused Killer of Minnesota Lawmaker

(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) The man accused of killing Minnesota’s former House speaker and her husband faces state charges of first-degree murder. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Thursday a state grand jury indictment of Vance Luther Boelter includes two first-degree premeditated murder charges for the killing of House...

Melania Trump Threatens to Sue Hunter Biden

(Headline USA) First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not. Trump takes issue with two comments Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, made in an interview this month with American journalist Andrew Callaghan....

Christian Businessman Beats Absurd ‘Hate Crime’ Charge—But Justice Came at a Cost

(Christina Urso) Three years after being charged with a hate crime for making an historically accurate statement, Washington man Tyler Dinsmoor has finally received a modicum of justice—though it came at a heavy price. It was the height of the leftist’s war on free speech in 2022 when Dinsmoor’s trouble...

Conservative Plagiarist Benny Johnson’s Show Sued for Stealing Content

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “The Benny Show,” hosted by conservative grifter Benny Johnson, is being sued for allegedly cribbing someone’s video of flooding in Black Mountain, North Carolina from Hurricane Helene last year. The plaintiff, Virginia resident Billy Bowling, said in his lawsuit that he published his video of the...

Trans Child Kidnapper Walks Free Thanks to Controversial Law

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A transgender registered sex offender will avoid prison after attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old child, thanks to a controversial Colorado law shielding certain offenders. Solomon Galligan, 33, was caught on surveillance video chasing the child at recess in April 2024 at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in...

Report: Alleged Minnesota Political Assassin Says He Was Working Undercover

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man accused of killing a Minnesota politician and her spouse in June reportedly claimed he was working in an undercover investigation of the “sudden and unexpected deaths of 400 Minnesota citizens" as well as the "ties between Minnesota politicians and the Chinese government.” The alleged...

SCOOP: Secret Service Shot ‘Suicidal’ Man 18 Times Outside of the White House

(Christina Urso) WASHINGTON DC — In March, Secret Service agents shot and wounded a man who had driven from Indiana to the White House, supposedly with the intent to commit “suicide by cop.” At the time, few details were provided about the suspect, 27-year-old Andrew Dawson, other than that...

Epstein/Maxwell Grand Jury Transcripts Won’t be Unsealed, Judge Rules

(Headline USA) Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell won’t be released, a judge decided Monday. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling the government had suggested the materials could be released publicly “casually or promiscuously,”...

New U.S. Attorney for South Fla. May Have Key Role in Russia-Gate Prosecution

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The first U.S. Attorney officially cleared by the Senate in President Donald Trump's second term could offer a major clue as to what the Republican administration is planning to prioritize---and, more importantly, where. Despite the frustrating foot-dragging from Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.,  who adjourned...
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