(Headline USA) A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted on Monday.
A Manhattan jury delivered the verdict, clearing Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely's death last year.
A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed earlier in deliberations because the jury deadlocked...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in a few short months, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social-media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump are working to clear out pending lawfare cases against him before he takes office in January.
Federal prosecutors have already moved to end two criminal cases---the election interference case in Washington D.C. and the classified documents case in Florida.
That leaves...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must turn over to Judicial Watch any records relating to her correspondence with House Democrats' partisan Jan. 6 committee or corrupt special prosecutor Jack Smith, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The case brought by the good-government watchdog organization focused on...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal judge in Texas has put a preliminary injunction against the U.S. government enforcing of the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the country’s estimated 32.6 million active companies to submit their private ownership information to a central database ran by the Treasury Department.
The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A familiar face has joined the Justice Department’s team in the prosecution of Sean “Diddy” Combs: DOJ lawyer Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.
Comey entered her appearance Monday in the U.S. government’s sex-trafficking case against Combs, the famous rapper with numerous...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Trump-appointed U.S. Judge Mark Scarsi has agreed to close the Justice Department’s case against Hunter Biden—but not before blasting President Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter as an attempt to “rewrite history.”
Judge Scarsi agreed to close the case, even though Hunter didn’t file a copy of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) David Cassady, 55, a convicted violent sodomizer serving life behind bars at Phillips State Prison in Georgia, is set to receive a taxpayer-funded sex change after suing for one last December—a lawsuit supported by the Justice Department.
Cassady and Georgia’s Department of Corrections filed a joint status...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger has declined to pursue a grand jury investigation into the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump, according to a Pennsylvania GOP committee member who’s lobbying for such a probe.
The GOP committee member, Chet Jack, talked about Goldinger’s alleged...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Outgoing President Joe Biden may have pardoned his son, Hunter Biden—but that hasn’t stopped Justice Department prosecutors from continuing their case against him.
In a motion filed Monday, the DOJ opposed Hunter’s motion to dismiss the indictment against him, arguing that a pardon doesn’t require that...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrat-controlled state across the country are preparing to wage lawfare with the incoming Trump administration—including Maryland, which created an entirely new department to do so.
A recent job ad on the Maryland government’s website seeks attorneys for its newly established Federal Litigation Unit within the Civil...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) While millions of people feasted on Thanksgiving, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and other inmates at the low-security federal prison in Tallahassee were reportedly left starving.
According to a Friday report in the Daily Mail, Maxwell, 62, and other inmates at FCI Tallahassee in Florida are "going...