(Headline USA) Twelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Washington sued Monday to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture.
The agents say in their lawsuit that they...
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.
In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court's ruling as political, but said...
UPDATE: The stabbing victim was arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly punching his pregnant girlfriend in October. Headline USA initially linked a GoFundMe page after he claimed to be protecting an elderly woman on the train last Friday, but is now removing that link given since the new charges call...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When the Justice Department announced that it busted an Iranian assassination plot against President Donald Trump last year, prosecutors said an unnamed person reported the plot to law enforcement and then agreed to become an FBI informant to help arrest an alleged Iran-backed operative, Asif...
(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide a case challenging President Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship.
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to refuse to recognize U.S. citizenship for children born...
(Headline USA) A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump.
With conservative justices in the majority, the court acted on an emergency...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Two of the federal judges facing impeachment threats refused to attend a Wednesday Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on “rogue judges.”
James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman, district judges in Washington and Maryland, respectively, told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts that they would not appear over concerns about the separation...
(Headline USA) Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, officials confirmed Tuesday.
The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In October 2024, the pro-transparency group Judicial Watch helped this publication file a lawsuit against Bethel Park Police Department over its refusal to release audio of the 911 call Thomas Crooks’s father made the day his son allegedly tried assassinating then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at his July 13,...
(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione appeared in court Monday seeking to bar evidence from his state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, including the gun that authorities say matches the one used in the brazen New York City attack.
Among the evidence Mangione's lawyers want to prevent the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In August, FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend sued former agent Kyle Seraphin for baselessly accusing her of being an Israeli intelligence asset who’s acting as a “honeypot”—a tactic where someone sexually manipulates their target to compromise, manipulate or spy on them.
Seraphin wants the lawsuit dropped...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Election interference charges in Georgia against second-term Republican President Donald Trump were motioned for dismissal Wednesday by the Prosecuting Attorney's Council.
In response, the president later in the day said again the 2020 election was stolen. On social media, the second-term Republican called the case...