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(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged a store clerk and his son with selling kratom that authorities believe is linked to the death of a University of Mississippi student, prosecutors announced Friday. The U.S. attorney's office in Mississippi said authorities established a link between the kratom derivative found at the...

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Christa Pike survived two injections that were to be lethal, fulfilling a Tennessee death penalty sentence Wednesday evening and was taken to a hospital for care, according to her lawyers. Her condition remained publicly unknown at time of publication. It’s the second time the state has...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A surveillance technology firm associated with Hunter Biden laptop analyst Yaacov Apelbaum listed Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office among its customers in a 2019 marketing presentation, according to a Newsroom report. According to the Tuesday report, XRVision promoted facial recognition, video analytics, and artificial intelligence based surveillance tools...

(Headline USA) Tennessee's execution of Christa Gail Pike for a murder she committed at age 18 was halted Wednesday about an hour before it was set to begin, as a federal appeals court sought to review whether her allegations of childhood sexual abuse and rape were fully considered at...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest are seeking to prevent his purported confession from being used as evidence---arguing that the FBI illegally coerced the admission. In a...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Another Muslim man in the United States has been sentenced on terrorism charges, including providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, a U.S. citizen living in West Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, has served a subpoena on his former father in law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, placing the senator directly inside the contentious divorce dispute between Miller and Moreno’s daughter, Emily Moreno. According to POLITICO, Miller’s lawyer, Pamela MacAdams, notified the Cuyahoga County Domestic...

(Headline USA)  A New Jersey man was sentenced on Monday to nearly six years in prison for taking homemade explosive devices to a Washington, D.C., church that was preparing for an annual Mass celebrating the start of the Supreme Court’s term. Louis Geri declined to address the court before U.S....

(Headline USA) Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Friday, temporarily allowed the Trump administration to use a federal database that verifies whether voters are eligible to participate in an election.  In March 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directed the Department...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s one-time bodyguard and lover has reportedly been arrested for breaking into her home and damaging $200,000 worth of artwork and expensive alcohol. The incident comes as Sinema faces a lawsuit from the bodyguard, Matthew Ammel’s, ex-wife for having an affair with...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The high-profile fashion designer behind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., "Tax the Rich" dress is facing a $1 million civil lawsuit alleging she failed to pay event planners for a "celebrity mega bash," according to a recent news report.  Aurora James is facing the lawsuit from The Gathery, which alleges that James never paid the company...