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(Headline USA) Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever. Fellow lawmakers and survivors...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man who supplied the gun used in the Old Dominion University school shooting in March has pled guilty to dealing in firearms without a license and three counts of making false statements during purchases of firearms. Kenya Mcchell Chapman, 32, of Smithfield, will be sentenced...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Erika Kirk sat through five days of testimony in a Utah courtroom this month as prosecutors reconstructed her husband's killing, and people close to the family say she left carrying sadness rather than the rage she expected, according to the Daily Mail. The hearing placed her...

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president. A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A state appeals court on Monday set aside convictions for two men involved in an FBI-manufactured plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. As has been widely reported in both liberal and conservative media alike, the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer was highly driven...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former Trump 2.0 official who was fired after claims that she was involved in a "sugar baby" relationship filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against her ex-boyfriend, alleging he orchestrated the accusations Julia Varvaro, who served as deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism in the second Trump...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was established in 1996 but had never received a petition until this...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The father of deceased Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has filed a lawsuit over the graphic sexual abuse allegations published about him in Giuffre’s posthumous memoir. Giuffre’s memoir, which was published last October, accuses her father, Sky Roberts Sr., of molesting her when she was a girl. The...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The Hawaii Supreme Court issued an insubordinate rant in a recent legal opinion that accused the U.S. Supreme Court of being racist and seemed to assert a special dispensation to ignore the law of the land. “A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties,...

(Headline USA) Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met Thursday with accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following the demand by a Republican senator whose support is crucial to advancing his nomination to lead the Justice Department. Blanche spent about an hour at Justice Department headquarters in Washington with the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Just last week, disgraced former first son Hunter Biden celebrated after a federal judge awarded him over one million dollars in connection with a defamation lawsuit. But that victory may be short-lived after his former attorneys filed a lien seeking the proceeds. The June 10 $1.7 million...

(Headline USA) A Republican senator whose vote Todd Blanche needs to advance his nomination as attorney general suggested Thursday that his support hinges on Blanche first meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's accusers. Sen. Thom Tillis' comments came a day after Blanche was pressed during his confirmation hearing over the Justice Department's...