CRIME

(Joelle Webb, The Center Square).Students across Colorado recently participated in protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but according to a Colorado congressman, one demonstration got violent – to the point he's seeking a federal investigation. Five assaults were reported when a large crowd protested Sept. 4 at La Alma-Lincoln...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The lone holdout juror in the high-profile murder trial against Lindsay Clancy turned out to be a black man, a stunning revelation after the left spent days attacking the man for declining to join other jurors in finding her not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. The...

(Headline USA) A federal judge has ruled that a plan by the Trump administration to slash staffing at the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters by 50% was unlawful. The opinion issued late Friday marked a victory for labor groups who had sued the agency. The labor organization had...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday issued the strongest indication to date that embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., could face consequences in connection with allegations that she married her brother in a potential immigration fraud scheme. Speaking with podcaster Benny Johnson at the GOP’s midterm convention,...

(Headline USA) A former CIA official found with $40 million of gold bars in his home has reached a tentative plea agreement after being charged with theft for fraudulently inflating his salary, according to court records. A federal judge on Friday extended a deadline to formally indict defendant David J....

(Headline USA) Mississippi police said Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing. Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and...

(Headline USA) A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina...

(Headline USA) A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin. The jury deliberated for three days before acquitting Lil Durk,...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Nearly nine months after allegations of widespread daycare fraud first emerged in Minnesota, state Republicans are criticizing Democrats for inaction as newly-released court records show officials received early warnings in at least one case. House Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, said Minnesota Democrats have...

(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) Gubernatorial candidates in Nevada have stressed the need to regulate artificial intelligence-powered automated license plate readers. Their comments came late this week after a Nevada legislative committee voted unanimously at a recent meeting to draft a bill with legal guidelines for ALPRs, which include Flock...

(Headline USA) An Afghan woman who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the United States and whose case was the first for an obscure and long-dormant court has been deported, the Justice Department said Friday. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, was arrested in July at her Fort Worth,...

(Headline USA) Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed...