(José Niño, Headline USA) Despite promising to protect civil liberties such as free speech, the Trump administration is gearing up to expand the government’s domestic surveillance powers.
This past Tuesday, prosecutors at the Justice Department filed a motion to appeal a federal judge's order that ruled so-called “tower dumps" are...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote to reinstate a lower-court order for the Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid.
The court threw out an emergency appeal from the Trump administration. It also instructed U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to clarify...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Oran Alexander Routh, the son of alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh, is still trying to get out of prison after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child pornography in January.
Oran, who faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, had been on...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump-led DOJ announced Monday a review of the heavy-handed prosecution of Tina Peters, a gold star mother and former Colorado clerk sentenced to nearly a decade in state prison after sounding the alarm in 2021 about alleged flaws in Dominion Voting Systems machines.
Federal prosecutors, unaffiliated...
(Headline USA) Thirty officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility have been charged for their role in facilitating so-called "gladiator fights" between youth in their care, the state's attorney general said Monday.
A grand jury indictment alleges the officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles County allowed and...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department disclosed in a Monday court filing that Ryan Routh is no longer considering an “insanity defense” against the allegations that he attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last September on his Florida golf course.
The DOJ first disclosed Routh’s potential insanity defense last December, and...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The federal government, now led by President Donald Trump, may finally compensate the grieving family of Ashli Babbitt—a veteran and MAGA activist who was fatally shot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Judicial Watch, a conservative non-profit, sued the federal government for $30 million in...
(Headline USA) An Illinois man pleaded guilty Monday to killing seven people and injuring dozens more when he opened fire on a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb, a stunning development moments before opening statements in his trial on murder and attempted murder charges.
Appearing in a Lake...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former DC Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Agriculture was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for perpetrating an $880,000 fraud on the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program.
The defendant, Wendy Nicole Villatoro, 40, formerly of Washington, D.C., pleaded for leniency leading up to Friday’s sentencing—asking a judge for...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Newly unsealed court records reveal that a confidential informant made $665,638.63 over roughly the last eight years working for the FBI—with one of his recent assignments being to pose as an Iraqi terrorist.
“ has been working with the FBI since approximately 2014. CHS1 has no...
(Headline USA) Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution.
Ivey said Myers, 63, will spend the rest of his life in prison without the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Two North Dakota nonprofits have settled their lawsuit against the white nationalist group Patriot Front, which allegedly vandalized local businesses and public property in recent years.
Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed. The settlement, which was docketed in federal court on Feb. 7, appears to cover...