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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department is concealing information about Southern Poverty Law Center informants who may have also worked for the FBI, according to a recently filed status report filed by the DOJ and the SPLC. The joint status report was filed Friday in the DOJ’s case against...

(Headline USA)  Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a Florida grand jury in a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump, and is the target of a separate inquiry into whether he made false statements...

(Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom does not like being on Donald Trump's side on any issue. But when it comes to men in women’s sports, particularly at the school level, the Democrat said he largely agrees with the Republican president. Newsom, one of his party's leading White House prospects,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The transparency organization Judicial Watch has sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for records about an ATF informant who warned the agency about a terrorist plot being planned in Oklahoma months before the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The ATF informant in...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An NBC affiliate in Boston triggered widespread condemnation after its controversial soft doxxing of the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. In a story written by self-described “investigative reporter” Ryan Kath, the juror’s criminal background and interviews with his family took center stage. Critics quickly slammed...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The lone holdout juror in the high-profile murder trial against Lindsay Clancy turned out to be a black man, a stunning revelation after the left spent days attacking the man for declining to join other jurors in finding her not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. The...

(Headline USA) A federal judge has ruled that a plan by the Trump administration to slash staffing at the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters by 50% was unlawful. The opinion issued late Friday marked a victory for labor groups who had sued the agency. The labor organization had...

(Headline USA) A former CIA official found with $40 million of gold bars in his home has reached a tentative plea agreement after being charged with theft for fraudulently inflating his salary, according to court records. A federal judge on Friday extended a deadline to formally indict defendant David J....

(Headline USA) A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin. The jury deliberated for three days before acquitting Lil Durk,...

(Headline USA) An Afghan woman who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the United States and whose case was the first for an obscure and long-dormant court has been deported, the Justice Department said Friday. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, was arrested in July at her Fort Worth,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury indicted a man whom authorities allege was behind a voting fraud scheme in the infamous Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The indictment, announced Thursday by the DOJ, alleges that James Brass, 47, paid homeless individuals in Skid Row to sign ballot...

(Headline USA) Lindsay Clancy shouldn’t be tried a second time for killing her three young children because prosecutors don’t have enough evidence, her lawyer told a judge Thursday, saying the court should decide she’s not guilty by reason of insanity. Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Clancy of...