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(Headline USA) Defense attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk are suggesting a 2029 trial date because they say it could take them that long to prepare their case. Attorneys for Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, said Thursday that the defense's proposed schedule was “absurd” and defendant...

(Headline USA) A New York woman accused of receiving weapons training from the Islamic State group was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria, where she became an unwilling teen bride to a militant fighter, her lawyer told a jury Thursday. Halima Salman, a U.S. citizen born in Brooklyn,...

(Headline USA) A Mexican-born judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to halt investigations in nine states into whether noncitizens are registered to vote. U.S. District Court Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in Oakland found the government's effort is relying on data that is allegedly full of errors and that it's...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the wake of the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attack, federal prosecutors said that the alleged attacker, Cole Allen, shot a Secret Service agent during his failed attempt to sprint through security on his way to President Donald Trump. However, lawyers for Allen...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision Wednesday, temporarily prevented the Trump administration from challenging a policy that allows federal taxpayer dollars to support prisoners' gender transitions. The majority justices on the high court did not block an order in Trump v. Kingdom, a...

(Headline USA) New Mexico’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney and accountant, accusing them of concealing his sex trafficking operation at a sprawling Santa Fe-area ranch where the disgraced financier entertained guests. The lawsuit seeks to stop attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn from accepting...

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Guatemalan man extradited to the U.S. over his role in a 2022 human smuggling attempt that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants who had been transported in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas. U.S. and Guatemalan prosecutors called Rigoberto Ramon Miranda...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort to revive a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The agreement would have spared Mohammed the risk of execution in exchange for his guilty plea and a sentence of life...

(Headline USA) Former Cuban President Raúl Castro is facing more charges in Florida related to the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles after the U.S. government indicted the former leader earlier this year. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday accused Castro, 95, of directing spies to...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Virginia’s far-left attorney general issued an advisory bulletin to local election officials and attorneys on how to counter federal presence at polling places, raising the prospect of what critics have described as a “showdown with federal law enforcement.” Jay Jones, in coordination with the Virginia Department of Elections,...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A New Jersey deputy attorney general has been charged in Pennsylvania after investigators alleged he used artificial intelligence to create and distribute child sexual abuse material online. A CBS Philadelphia report identified the defendant as Brian Richard Fitzgerald, 51, a Lower Makefield Township resident. The Bucks...

(Headline USA)  At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company's popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. The company's chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging...