CRIME

(Headline USA) A federal indictment was unsealed Friday against 11 people in the smuggling deaths of seven migrants, including a 14-year-old boy, who were hiding inside a sweltering rail cargo container in Texas in May. Six people were found dead inside the shipping container in a rail yard in the...

(Headline USA) A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts, including murder, in a shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia that killed two students and two teachers. Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed three leftist nonprofits over more than $39 million routed to them by Marxist technology magnate Neville Roy Singham, Fox News reported. The letters—published on Tuesday—went to People's Forum Inc., BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Chairman Jason...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An alleged fraudster who gained national attention after jumping from a fourth-floor window to evade FBI agents has pleaded guilty to health care fraud, several news outlets reported Thursday. Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to court filings...

(Headline USA) Some bystanders appeared to barely bat an eye when a man set off a fountain of fireworks then started a blazing fire outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan, according to security camera video released Wednesday. The surveillance footage from the U.S. Attorney's Office offered the most complete...

(Headline USA) A Madison police officer shot and killed a man who had injured him with a knife while resisting arrest, officials said Wednesday, prompting swift protests as crowds marched to the state Capitol to demand accountability. Cellphone video of the shooting, where three gunshots could be heard, circulated on...

(Headline USA) A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have made false statements to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him. Lawyers for Smith deny the allegation and say he testified...

(Headline USA) Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever. Fellow lawmakers and survivors...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) CNN reported Thursday that a Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s security detail has been put on administrative leave and is suspected of leaking information about his travel to a news site. According to CNN, the agent is suspected of leaking to MS NOW...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Thousands of non-citizens are coming off New Jersey's voter rolls after an automated system signed them up without authorization, the Wall Street Journal reported. Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed Tuesday that roughly 6,600 people who lack citizenship entered the rolls between June 2023 and June 2024...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors are opening up a criminal investigation of Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., Fox News reported on Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter said the Justice Department inquiry stays active, though nobody has described its focus. MS NOW broke the story a day earlier, citing...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man who supplied the gun used in the Old Dominion University school shooting in March has pled guilty to dealing in firearms without a license and three counts of making false statements during purchases of firearms. Kenya Mcchell Chapman, 32, of Smithfield, will be sentenced...