CRIME

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Department of Homeland Security watchdog review released earlier this month found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement acted on only a small share of millions of potential visa overstay cases from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024 when Joe Biden was president. The Center...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the department’s history. “When a bank of this size fails to meet its...

(Headline USA) CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday. The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2024 that accused the healthcare giant of providing massive...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  Lansing police are investigating possible connections between the deaths of five homeless men along the city’s river trail over the past year, after a 23-year-old man was charged with murder in one of the cases. Edward Smith was arrested Sept. 2 in connection with...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  More than half of Americans reported being concerned about noncitizens voting in November, according to The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll, with the 2026 midterm elections only three weeks away. The Center Square’s Voters Voice Poll found that 54% of registered voters are at least...

(Headline USA)  Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur who was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip over 30 years ago. Davis, 63, was convicted in August of first-degree murder with the use...

(Headline USA) Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year and will give the New York State Police a role in investigating alleged sex crimes on campus, university officials announced Tuesday, amid mounting outrage over its handling of...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) LaKesha Womack, the Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Rep. Tim Moore for his congressional seat in North Carolina, was recently discovered to have a pending felony charge on her record. According to court records, Womack’s charge stems from her failing to return a rental car in...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department is reportedly seeking a criminal indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission’s “star witness” in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest. The Washington Post and several other outlets have reported over the last few days that the...

(Headline USA) Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the federal trial in which Payton Gendron faces a potential death penalty for his alleged attack at the Tops Friendly Market in 2022, which killed 10 people and is believed to be the deadliest shooting targeting black people by a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) On Monday, the Justice Department announced charges involving 16 people in election related cases across the country, including alleged illegal voting by noncitizens, fraudulent voter registration, multiple voting, and an alleged attempt to cast a deceased person’s ballot. The cases span at least 10 federal districts...

(Headline USA) Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to public reports. The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents. More details about the investigation and its focus were not immediately clear, though Vice President JD Vance last May...