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(Headline USA) A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, the man's attorney said. Speaking by phone during a news...

(Headline USA)  A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy is asking a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the Massachusetts mother of murder in the deaths of her three young children. In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyer asked the court...

(Headline USA) CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday sued President Donald Trump’s administration days after they were barred from covering the White House, calling the selective ban an illegal action and “a blatant violation” of the First Amendment, despite the possession of press credentials not being a First...

(Headline USA) Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to settle their lawsuits on Monday, effectively paving the way for the $81 billion mega merger to cross the finish line, with some new commitments from the company. The blockbuster deal will still bring...

(Headline USA) Before taking over the Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried the lack of progress in bringing indictments. Five months later, diGenova has left his position without charging a single case, clouding the future of an investigation that the Trump administration has pursued...

(Headline USA)  A man serving 130 years in prison for killing two teen girls in Indiana is asking an appeals court to overturn his convictions, saying that he confessed while he was having a psychological crisis and was unfairly barred from arguing at trial that the girls were killed...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced on Friday their commitment to bring greater transparency and accountability “to rogue local prosecutors who refuse to enforce Texas law.” The news comes after Abbott has proposed creating a new office of...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) As the Trump administration continues to pursue ways to quell “birth tourism,” legal scholars are probing potential actions Congress could take to rewrite the common interpretation of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause. The clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,...

(Headline USA) Federal law banning licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under age 21 is unconstitutional and can't be enforced, the Justice Department said in a legal opinion released Friday. The opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel says the law aimed at making it harder...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury in Texas returned an indictment against a woman accused of threatening to kill the grieving father of late high school track star Austin Metcalf just three months after the trial of Karmelo Anthony. The woman, Sharifa Nicole Henderson, was indicted on Sept. 9...

(Headline USA)  The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn't listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday in his first public comments on the...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  Suspended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro appeared in both state and federal courts this week in Minnesota for initial hearings. On Friday, Castro pleaded not guilty in a hearing before the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on six federal charges of...