CRIME

(Headline USA) Tennessee's execution of Christa Gail Pike for a murder she committed at age 18 was halted Wednesday about an hour before it was set to begin, as a federal appeals court sought to review whether her allegations of childhood sexual abuse and rape were fully considered at...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. Senate failed to advance a bill Wednesday that would have banned congressional stock trading after every Democrat voted against it. The Stop Insider Trading Act, introduced by Rep. Brian Steil, R-Wis., passed the House earlier this year with bipartisan support. It would bar...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A new DHS Office of Inspector General report identified several screening and documentation problems in asylum cases involving Afghan evacuees admitted after the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The report examined how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services handled asylum claims under Operation Allies Welcome. The audit reviewed...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Biden-era Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office obtained at least 4,782 personal checks from Americans who contributed to President Donald Trump or allied Republican groups, according to a Senate Judiciary Committee release. The records, supplied to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley through protected whistleblower channels, involved...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest are seeking to prevent his purported confession from being used as evidence---arguing that the FBI illegally coerced the admission. In a...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Another Muslim man in the United States has been sentenced on terrorism charges, including providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, a U.S. citizen living in West Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Dallas arrested 121 people during a summer enforcement initiative at Lake Lewis in Texas, including two confirmed members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua terrorist organization. A three-year ICE Homeland Security Investigations-Dallas investigation led to indictments against multiple defendants accused of...

(Headline USA)  Lindsay Clancy's lawyer argued Tuesday that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove she killed her three children, a striking turn after a lengthy trial that focused more on her mental state than on whether she took their lives. “This entire case is based on speculation,” attorney Kevin Reddington...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, has served a subpoena on his former father in law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, placing the senator directly inside the contentious divorce dispute between Miller and Moreno’s daughter, Emily Moreno. According to POLITICO, Miller’s lawyer, Pamela MacAdams, notified the Cuyahoga County Domestic...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The office of Special Counsel Jack Smith carried out an urgent process to purchase digital storage and management software for evidence in the weeks after it indicted President Donald Trump in June 2023. The purchase of “Axon Investigate,” revealed Monday by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, raises...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A volunteer search collective in western Mexico says it recovered at least 1,600 baby teeth from a suspected clandestine burial site, but Mexican authorities say they have no official record of such a discovery. The competing claims have fueled demands for an independent forensic investigation,...

(Headline USA) A Kentucky state trooper was fatally shot along an interstate highway Monday, and a suspect was later apprehended, state police said. Trooper Hayden Phillips was shot while patrolling along northbound Interstate 65 in Warren County, Kentucky state police said in a statement on social media. Phillips was based out...