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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Palestinian man arrested in Louisiana last year for allegedly participating in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has signaled that he has an alibi. The alleged Oct. 7 attacker, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, revealed his alibi defense in a filing on Friday in...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) The former leader of the FBI’s Chicago field office has filed a lawsuit claiming he was forced to resign because “false and defamatory statements” by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros created political pressure. Douglas DePodesta filed the suit Monday in...

(Headline USA) Four more people have been charged with participating in a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials to try to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel, federal authorities said Friday. The new indictment comes nearly five months after eight pro-Palestinian activists were charged with...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Jack Teixeira, the former Massachusetts Air National Guard member who caused an international uproar when he leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, is suing the U.S. government for transferring him to the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado—widely considered the harshest detention center...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) New amicus briefs are in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case challenging gun and magazine bans in Illinois and Connecticut. The consolidated case Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois and Grant v. Connecticut is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court...

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday set a September 2027 trial date for a man charged with attempting to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner earlier this year. Cole Tomas Allen's trial is scheduled to start with jury selection on Sept. 7 in Washington,...

(Headline USA) An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison plus hundreds of years of additional time after pleading...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department is escalating a criminal investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, issuing a raft of new grand jury subpoenas, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. Subpoenas seeking grand jury testimony...

(The Center Square) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday evening denied the Trump administration's request for a temporary restraining order to force the state to segregate mail-in ballots that the federal government thinks could have been submitted by noncitizens. "Never before in American...

(Headline USA) Conservative activists James O'Keefe and Cam Higby were charged Wednesday with unlawful voting and identity theft after a they captured video footage of what they say are vulnerabilities in the state's voting laws. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the felony charges at a news conference. She said O'Keefe,...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Candace Owens has secured a procedural victory in her legal battle with Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, but the dispute over her false claims about France’s first lady is far from finished.  A Delaware judge dismissed the claims against Owens personally while allowing the case against her...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday after a Washington, DC, grand jury reportedly declined to return an indictment in connection with alleged false statements she made to Congress. The DOJ had sought to secure an indictment against Hutchinson,...