(Headline USA) A federal judge has dealt a setback to Justice Department efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, temporarily barring prosecutors from using evidence they had relied on when they initially secured criminal charges.
The ruling Saturday night from U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly does not...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump expressed buyer’s remorse Sunday after pardoning embattled Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat now threatening the Republican Party’s House majority.
In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump blasted Cuellar for not switching to the Republican Party before re-election. He wrote that by running as a Democrat,...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Charlotte welcomed its new police chief Friday morning, and by nightfall returned to the spotlight of light rail train safety and the nation’s debate on immigration, two recent flashpoints coming together in one case.
Court filings confirmed the suspect in a fatal stabbing on the...
(Headline USA) The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week's shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia's governor said Friday.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe's head wound is slowly improving and “he's beginning to ‘look more like himself,’” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement quoting Wolfe's parents.
Wolfe and...
(Headline USA) The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weekslong cross-country drives. Rahmanullah Lakanwal's behavior deteriorated so sharply that a...
(Headline USA) Police in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train, just a few months after a Ukrainian refugee riding one of the city's trains was killed in an unrelated knife attack.
Oscar Solarzano, 33, was charged...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has rejected a request from the Trump administration to toss a lawsuit challenging the detention of migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan denied the federal government's motion to dismiss the case...
(Headline USA) A federal law enforcement operation at an Arizona taco shop resulted in a fracas on Friday, with agents deploying pepper spray as a group of protesters tried to stop authorities.
Two agents were injured, and U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva was in the vicinity as protesters were sprayed. The...
(Nolan Mckendry, The Center Square) Louisiana investigators have fielded more than 20,000 tips on online child sexual abuse so far this year, already surpassing the state’s total for 2024, according to figures provided to The Center Square.
The tips have led to 457 arrests, with 70 child victims identified and...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal border crossings continued a downward historic trajectory in October and November, representing the lowest numbers ever reported at the beginning of a fiscal year in recorded U.S. history. The fiscal year goes from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
In October, 30,573 illegal border crosser...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) One of the top officials in the Obama-era DEA was taken into federal custody on charges of agreeing to launder millions for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most violent drug cartels in Mexico.
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Paul Campo, the former chief...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who abruptly announced he was stepping down in October, was pushed out by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The report said that Hegseth and Holsey were at odds during the...