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(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Advocates for the rights of homicide victims and legal professionals throughout California are continuing to express outrage over Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 inmates on the state's death row. "I take this action because I firmly believe that...

(Headline USA) An FBI agent drove his government car the wrong way down a busy Brooklyn thoroughfare, blew through a red light and then struck a pedestrian before speeding away, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Andrew Reyes later lied to investigators about the Feb. 3 hit-and-run that left the victim seriously...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrat LaKesha Womack unseated Republican Rep. Tim Moore for his congressional seat in North Carolina on Tuesday, despite her facing a felony charge for failing to return a rental car. Womack won the state’s 14th district, which covers part of Charlotte, with 51.1% of the votes...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for a man arrested when he was a teenager for attempting to provide support to ISIS have asked a judge for a relatively lenient sentence on the grounds that FBI informants encouraged their client’s terroristic behavior. The defendant, Alexander Scott Mercurio, was arrested in April...

(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...