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(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,...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Federal authorities have charged six individuals in Maine with allegedly defrauding the federal government by submitting false claims for home care services they didn't provide.  The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury indicted six individuals and...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In December 2024, the Justice Department announced the arrest of a teenage Egyptian national named Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, who allegedly sent bomb-making instructions to an FBI informant, and who allegedly told the informant to attack the Consulate General of Israel in New York City. However, in...