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(Adam Herbets and Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said he was "not surprised" to hear of confidential documents obtained by The Center Square revealing plans to sue him nearly seven months before he was reelected. Trump made the comments at a press briefing on Monday, acknowledging investigative...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) An FBI scientist has pled guilty to child-pornography related charges as part of a plea deal struck earlier this month. The DOJ Inspector General announced this week that the FBI scientist, microbiologist Cary Andre Rue, pled guilty on August 4 to one count of advertisement for child...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department finalized a rule Monday that will pave the way for people who've been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated. The process launched by newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is a victory for Second Amendment advocates...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow continued construction on the White House ballroom.  Construction of the ballroom, which has taken over the East Wing of the White House, has gone on for the past several months. A panel of...

(Headline USA) A person has been arrested in connection with vandalism at The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Friday. Pirro announced on X that her office was filing two felony charges against Melissa L....

(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference and gunned him down on a New York City street in 2024. Mangione, 28, said he even used a...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is being sued for having sex with her security guard and breaking up his family in the process. Depositions from the case were filed in federal court on Wednesday, revealing details about the affair ahead of a legal hearing set for Wednesday. The...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Thomas Crooks was seen at a “peaceful democratic political event” on July 11, 2024, just two days before allegedly trying to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to newly released FBI records. The records about Crooks and the political rally were included in a batch...

(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, who was not authorized to talk publicly about the case and spoke to...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal employees can once again access TikTok on government equipment after officials determined the platform's revamped ownership structure removes the security risks that led to the original prohibition. Bloomberg reported that the shift came after TikTok's U.S. business moved under the control of American investors. The...

(Headline USA) The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk shouldn’t get the death penalty because the shooter “hit the intended target” and no one else was endangered when the conservative activist was shot from a rooftop as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an event in Utah last...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Heidi Beirich, who was the Southern Poverty Law Center’s director of intelligence between 2012 and 2019, has been arrested as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing case against the SPLC for improperly raising millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan...