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Today: Judge to Decide Degree of Media Access in Charlie Kirk Killing Case

(Headline USA) Lawyers for the 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk are due in court Thursday as they push to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case. A Utah judge is weighing the public's right to know details in Tyler Robinson's case against his attorneys' concerns...

Charlotte High School Student Criminally Investigated for Charlie Kirk Memorial

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A high school student in Charlotte, North Carolina was criminally investigated over a memorial she painted to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated on Sept. 10, according to a lawsuit over the matter. The student, Gabby Stout—she’s only identified by initials in court...

Cincinnati Settles with Protesters for George Floyd-Protest Arrests

(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) Cincinnati taxpayers are on the hook for an $8.1 million settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the 2020 George Floyd-murder protests in the city. City Manager Sheryl Long called the settlement of the class action suit a good financial decision. The Cincinnati City Council Public...

Judge Orders Grand Jury Materials of Maxwell Case Unsealed

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) A federal judge has approved the release of grand jury materials from the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted child sex offender and close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer’s Tuesday decision grants the Department of Justice’s request that grand jury transcripts, exhibits...

FBI Agents Who Knelt for BLM Say They Were Preventing Another Boston Massacre

(Headline USA) Twelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Washington sued Monday to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture. The agents say in their lawsuit that they...

Ex-Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Resigns as US Attorney for New Jersey

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully. In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court's ruling as political, but said...

Man Stabbed on Charlotte Train Was Defending Old Lady from Illegal Immigrant

(Headline USA) A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond after he allegedly stabbed a man on a Charlotte train who was defending an old lady from him. Oscar Solarzano, 33, wearing an orange jumpsuit and appearing via video link, listened impassively as a...

FBI Was Investigating Man in Purported Iranian Trump Assassination Plot before He Entered Country

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When the Justice Department announced that it busted an Iranian assassination plot against President Donald Trump last year, prosecutors said an unnamed person reported the plot to law enforcement and then agreed to become an FBI informant to help arrest an alleged Iran-backed operative, Asif...

U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Birthright Citizenship Case

(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide a case challenging President Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship. On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to refuse to recognize U.S. citizenship for children born...

Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use a Congressional Map Favorable to Republicans in 2026

(Headline USA)  A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump.  With conservative justices in the majority, the court acted on an emergency...

James Boasberg Snubs Senate Hearing on ‘Rogue Judges’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Two of the federal judges facing impeachment threats refused to attend a Wednesday Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on “rogue judges.”  James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman, district judges in Washington and Maryland, respectively, told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts that they would not appear over concerns about the separation...

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández Freed After Trump Pardon

(Headline USA)  Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, officials confirmed Tuesday. The...
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