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(Headline USA) The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning. The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. While Blanche has already been leading the department in an acting...

(Andrew Paxton, The Center Square) A 37-year-old Spokane man is facing formal arson charges after allegedly confessing to starting dozens of wildfires across Spokane County over a year-long period, culminating in a massive 3,200-acre blaze that has destroyed hundreds of structures so far. According to court records filed Wednesday in...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback used a Tallahassee press conference Thursday to accuse his primary rival, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., of sitting under a federal sex trafficking investigation. Federal law enforcement contradicted the claim within hours. Fishback took no questions from reporters and delivered...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) YouTuber Candace Owens has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s former bodyguard, Brian Harpole, filed against her for implicating him in Kirk’s assassination. Harpole sued Owens in April after she aired allegations from a man named Mitch Snow that he saw...

(Adam Herbets, TJ Martinell and Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against President Donald Trump long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square. The document was signed approximately...

Jeanine John Taele was due in court Wednesday on a federal weapons charge but the hearing was cancelled

(Headline USA) The state of New Mexico sued the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday, saying the federal government blocked the state's ability to investigate the sex crimes of financier Jeffrey Epstein at a ranch there. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,...

(Headline USA) A man carrying ammunition and with a gun in his car was arrested Sunday at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course after appearing to monitor security preparations two days ahead of Trump’s fundraiser there, authorities said Tuesday. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Jeanine John Taele, 38,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI supervisory special agent has been arrested after admitting to the theft of roughly $1 million worth of cryptocurrency, according to court records. A criminal complaint filed Saturday says that the former agent, Patrick Yaroch, admitted to his crimes to another Justice Department employee...

(Headline USA) The man serving two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to federal charges related to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband made his initial appearance Monday in state court where he faces similar charges. The state case against Vance Boelter had been on hold pending...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI wants roughly 158 years to produce nearly 1 million records from a secret room in the bureau’s headquarters, according to the transparency group Judicial Watch, which is suing for the records. The secret room at FBI headquarters was revealed by FBI Director Kashyap Patel and then-Deputy...

(Headline USA) The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest...