CRIME

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A mass shooting reportedly occurred in Trenton, New Jersey shortly after midnight on Sunday—leaving at least eight injured and two dead. Some reports say 11 were shot, while others say 10. According to the Trentonian, the shooting took place at a party described by Trenton’s mayor...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department filed a 28-page document on Friday, responding to accusations that a former Capitol Police officer and current CIA employee Shauni Kerkhoff planted the pipe bombs found outside of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021. The DOJ’s...

(Headline USA) A South Carolina police officer died and a second was injured in a “gunfight” Saturday in a park, following a call about a domestic dispute, Columbia police Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said. The suspect, a 33-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record, also died, Holbrook said at a news...

(Headline USA) Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the U.S. Southern Command announced on Friday, hailing the arrest as a result of stronger military cooperation between the historically close allies. The capture on Thursday of Luis Saúl Pérez Nieto, who Colombian...

(Headline USA) Jurors ended a second day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of the Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023. Clancy doesn't deny strangling her children, but her lawyer said she did it because she had lost her grip on reality due...

(Headline USA) The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter. The move away...

(Headline USA) A Kentucky woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that she intentionally damaged The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Melissa Farris is scheduled to be arraigned next week on two felony counts. Grand jurors indicted her Thursday on charges...

(Headline USA) A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had...

(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...