CRIME

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Advocates of the growing network of AI-driven surveillance cameras argue the technology can help make communities across the U.S. safer. But the controversial cameras have also wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent American citizens, including Florida resident Lindsey Isaacs, who spent 13 days in...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Pennsylvania man Jim Copenhaver, one of the two men who survived gunshot wounds from the July 13, 2024, Trump assassination attempt, died on Wednesday, Headline USA has learned. This reporter was informed of the 76-year-old Copenhaver’s death Thursday morning. A source close to his family confirmed the...

(Headline USA) Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning. Weinstein’s sentencing for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years. His 2020 conviction was...

(Headline USA) Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown plans to accept a plea deal on an attempted murder charge in Miami that avoids prison, as part of an agreement that his lawyer said Wednesday was too good to turn down. Brown is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 30...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, two long-time associates of Jeffrey Epstein now in charge of handling the deceased billionaire sex criminal’s estate, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Manhattan...

(Headline USA) A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah threw out more than 300 mail ballots that were being sent to voters for the state's June primary, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said during a news conference that Damon Matai Seei was arrested Tuesday...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Hackers have taken between two and three terabytes of data from the FBI in a massive cyberattack, according to the tech publication 404 Media. The hackers, known as the ShinyHunters, reportedly took the personal information of thousands of FBI employees—including their names, home addresses, phone number,...

(Headline USA)  The social media influencer “Clavicular,” who gained a following promoting the online “looksmaxxing” trend, has been charged in Massachusetts with allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl who told police she became heavily intoxicated after he gave her alcohol at his family's Cape Cod home. Braden Peters, 20, is charged...

(Headline USA) A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, the man's attorney said. Speaking by phone during a news...

(Headline USA) The attorney for a North Carolina girl accused of helping two teens who carried out a deadly attack on a San Diego mosque says prosecutors haven’t provided enough information to allow him to defend his client. Sarah Santiago, 17, is charged as an adult with three counts of...

(Headline USA)  A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy is asking a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the Massachusetts mother of murder in the deaths of her three young children. In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyer asked the court...

(Headline USA) Before taking over the Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried the lack of progress in bringing indictments. Five months later, diGenova has left his position without charging a single case, clouding the future of an investigation that the Trump administration has pursued...