CRIME

(Headline USA)  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 illegal aliens in July, the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration, according to new figures. The spike in illegal immigration arrests shows that the administration has continued to advance its mass deportations agenda despite a shift...

(Headline USA) Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and be freed from prison was rejected by a federal judge Tuesday who said the claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate that new evidence had emerged were “demonstrably meritless.” Maxwell filed a habeas petition last December...

(Headline USA) Lindsay Clancy did not have acute psychosis when she killed her three children but rather took their lives so they wouldn’t “suffer” after she took her own life, a forensic psychologist testified Monday in her murder trial. Kirk Heilbrun said he ruled out acute psychosis with command hallucinations because...

(Adam Herbets, The Center Square) Attorneys general across the United States are using a range of strategies to withhold 2024 emails discussing the longstanding plan to file lawsuits against the second Trump administration over potential policies that had not yet been implemented. A "confidential" document obtained by The Center Square...

(Headline USA) A quintuple murder suspect was found dead inside a vehicle in Enumclaw, Washington, on Sunday, a day after the bodies of five people were discovered on a rural property outside Portland, Oregon, authorities said. Investigators believe the suspect, 36-year-old Benjamin Charles Parker, killed himself, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office...

A Texas judge denied a new trial for Karmelo Anthony on Saturday in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet, a killing that drew national attention due to its racial overtones. Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder in June and sentenced to 35 years...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are ongoing nationwide, including in the southeastern states of Georgia and Mississippi. In this month alone, ICE officers have arrested more than 1,200 in the two states. Arrests were made through multiagency partnerships and ongoing investigations. Dozens of local law...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from subpoenaing records from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office about her investigations. In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In February 2024, Headline USA published a story about the heinous activities of a Satanic pedophile named Kyle Spitze, who was still a free man at the time. Some two-and-a-half years later, Spitze has been sentenced to 77 years in prison. The Justice Department announced Spitze’s...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The family of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death on a Charlotte train last year, is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit over the matter. “The attorney representing the family and estate of Iryna Zarutska is expected to soon file a civil...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) Federal and state officials are questioning Illinois sanctuary policies after a Jordanian national charged with illegal possession of Molotov cocktails was released on electronic monitoring while he was unlawfully present in the United States. Hamed Alsaidi, 31, was arrested in Mokena on August 1 and...

(Headline USA) The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children. Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing...