(Thérèse Boudreaux,, The Center Square) In an epic breakdown of negotiations, Congress is leaving town without voting on Republicans’ roughly $72 billion budget reconciliation bill.
Senate Republicans ultimately deadlocked Thursday over whether to include restrictions on the Department of Justice’s controversial new “anti-weaponization fund” within the party-line bill, which funds...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal entries into the U.S. in April remained significantly lower than during the Biden administration but are slightly up from what they were in April 2024 and over the last few months, according to newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
Illegal border crosser...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted law meant to halt the spread of deepfake pornography.
Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, were both arrested Tuesday for generating sexually explicit AI...
(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Over $90 million in allegedly stolen health care funds. A major federal law enforcement operation in a Democratic-governed state. More than a dozen arrests. And one suspect allegedly jumping off a roof to evade arrest.
That was the chaotic scene in Minnesota on Thursday, where Trump administration officials...
(Headline USA) Florida's attorney general on Tuesday opened a rare criminal investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT over whether the artificial intelligence app offered advice to a gunman who killed two people and wounded six others last year at Florida State University.
Attorney General James Uthmeier said that prosecutors had done an...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michael Spitze, the father of admitted child abuser Kyle Spitze, was sentenced to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Wednesday for tampering with one of his son’s victims.
The son, Kyle, was arrested in March 2024 for a slew of child...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles as the Trump administration escalated pressure on the socialist government.
The indictment was related to Castro’s alleged role in the shootdown of two small planes...
(Headline USA) Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed Wednesday for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, authorities said.
New Mexico State Police said three of the...
(Headline USA) A former federal prosecutor in Florida sent to her personal email account a special counsel report from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents despite a judge's order that it was to remain sealed, according to an indictment made public on Wednesday.
Carmen Lineberger, who worked...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An ongoing scandal involving allegations that a transgender student secretly filmed or photographed fellow students in school bathrooms has formally drawn the attention of the Trump administration.
The Department of Education announced Wednesday that it is specifically looking into Loudoun County Public Schools after WJLA-TV reported that...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A group of African American juveniles engaged in a violent brawl inside a Washington D.C. Chipotle on Saturday evening, throwing chairs and using them to attack one another as onlookers screamed, Breitbart News reported.
A Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson told ABC 7News the department knows about...