CRIME

(Headline USA) A man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he'd been trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues. Dan Sohail, 36,...

(Headline USA) Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people. Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. senators will vote next week on holding in contempt of Congress the man who led the U.S. response to the global pandemic in 2020. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said senators would vote to determine whether Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute for...

(Headline USA) Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators at Wednesday's much-anticipated hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci, who had already accepted a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden last year, was set to answer lawmakers’ questions after being subpoenaed by...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In November 2024, the FBI arrested Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, a homeless man who was supposedly plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange—a case involving at least six undercover FBI agents and an informant. But less than two years later, the government’s case against Yener has...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) ActBlue is facing scrutiny after a report last week raised questions about thousands of political donations made in the name of an 88-year-old Michigan woman. The story caught national attention after Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff posted a video interviewing Elizabeth Waffle of Milan,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The diary of disgraced former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci reveals a stark contrast between his private views and his public messaging on several pandemic-era controversies, including the lab leak theory and school closures. The diary, released Sunday by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul,...

(Headline USA) Former FBI Director James Comey urged a judge on Monday to throw out federal charges against him, arguing that a photo of seashells arranged on a beach he posted on social media was not a call to violence against President Donald Trump but protected political speech. Comey's lawyers...

(Headline USA) The teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a 2024 shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School had a chaotic, lonely upbringing and immersed himself in an online community of people interested in mass shootings, a psychologist testified Monday. Colt Gray, 16, pleaded guilty Friday to 55...

(Headline USA) A man fatally shot his wife and their six children, then himself, before they all were found in their burning Michigan home last week, investigators said Monday. Kristopher and Amanda Karolkiewicz and their six children, aged 5 to 15, died Friday in their home in Grand Haven Township,...

(Headline USA) Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in jail at least two more weeks until their next hearing as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge said Monday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis set...

(Headline USA) Police now say there were at least three suspects involved in a food festival shooting near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend, and that one of them was among those killed in the violence. In a document filed in juvenile court in Seattle, where a 15-year-old arrested in...