CRIME

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minnesota police on Tuesday allegedly raided the apartment where the son of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., resides while investigating his roommate in a weapons probe. Officers with the Minneapolis Police Department raided the home of Adnan Hirsi while investigating his roommate, Abdulrahman Tulle Abdi. Guns and ammunition...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting into a Minnesota home was released from a jail in Texas Thursday after a federal judge refused to extradite him to Minnesota. ICE officer Christian Castro was in custody in Cameron County, Texas. Castro was arrested...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Republican lawmakers, independent journalist Nick Shirley and a large crowd of activists spoke out against a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law that some said would impede the work of journalists reporting on immigration services providers. Assembly Bill 2624, authored by Assemblymember Mia...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) A local Missouri health department has told Kathy Kite, a grandmother who serves free breakfast to her neighbors from her home, that she will face legal action if she continues doing so without a permit. That letter came in July, and Kite has continued to...

(Headline USA) Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, are deliberating Wednesday whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023. While both sides agree she killed her children, Clancy’s defense team argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis, with...

(Headline USA) Social media influencer Tristan Tate took the witness stand in federal court on Thursday and said he and his brother Andrew can’t adequately defend themselves from criminal sex charges if they have to remain in a Miami jail while fighting extradition to the United Kingdom. Lawyers for the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A man was arrested and charged with weapon-related offenses after federal law enforcement officers spotted a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. U.S. Capitol Police said in a press release that the man, Philan-Tam-Duy Le, had traveled...

(Headline USA) A 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the wrong home and was waiting for friends to come get him when he was shot, his father said Wednesday. Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Massachusetts state representative Francisco Paulino, a Democrat, has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief funds from around April 2020 to December 2021. According to the federal indictment filed Tuesday, Paulino incorporated a company called Jackson Enterprise, and used that...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) An Ecuadorian official confirmed that US Green Berets were engaged in anti-cartel operations. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump formed a coalition, dubbed Shield of the Americas, that was aimed at combating cartels in Latin and South America.  A local official told AFP and UPI that US...

(Headline USA) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a report released Tuesday on the lead-water crisis in the city is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people. Flint residents...

(Headline USA) Testimony concluded Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of strangling her three young children in a case that has drawn attention to postpartum mental health. Closing arguments are expected to begin Thursday, before the jury begins deliberating. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by...