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(Headline USA) Lindsay Clancy did not have acute psychosis when she killed her three children but rather took their lives so they wouldn’t “suffer” after she took her own life, a forensic psychologist testified Monday in her murder trial. Kirk Heilbrun said he ruled out acute psychosis with command hallucinations because...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to maintain an order placing restrictions on mail-in voting. The administration's order, issued in March, would direct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to curate lists with the names of all citizens at least...

(Adam Herbets, The Center Square) Attorneys general across the United States are using a range of strategies to withhold 2024 emails discussing the longstanding plan to file lawsuits against the second Trump administration over potential policies that had not yet been implemented. A "confidential" document obtained by The Center Square...

(Headline USA) A lip-licking alligator, a smiling moose and a hat-wearing bear are among the many cartoon animals to have found themselves in the crosshairs of Buc-ee’s, the popular Texas convenience store chain that has a penchant for protecting its buck-toothed beaver. But now Buc-ee's has set off a Buckeye...

(Headline USA) Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families. For the bombastic Infowars founder, the ruling that saves him...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s former chief-of-staff has filed a lawsuit against a local political site in response to an article suggesting that she and Mace had an affair. The former chief-of-staff, Lorie Khatod, filed her lawsuit on August 11 against South Carolina news site FITSNews and...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from subpoenaing records from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office about her investigations. In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed continued construction on President Donald Trump's estimated $400 million White House ballroom. Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stay on Friday temporarily stopping a D.C. District Court's injunction against further construction on the ballroom. The D.C. court's...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In February 2024, Headline USA published a story about the heinous activities of a Satanic pedophile named Kyle Spitze, who was still a free man at the time. Some two-and-a-half years later, Spitze has been sentenced to 77 years in prison. The Justice Department announced Spitze’s...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The family of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death on a Charlotte train last year, is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit over the matter. “The attorney representing the family and estate of Iryna Zarutska is expected to soon file a civil...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) Federal and state officials are questioning Illinois sanctuary policies after a Jordanian national charged with illegal possession of Molotov cocktails was released on electronic monitoring while he was unlawfully present in the United States. Hamed Alsaidi, 31, was arrested in Mokena on August 1 and...

(Headline USA) The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children. Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing...