(Headline USA) Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie released the first surveillance images Tuesday showing a masked person with what looked like a handgun holster on her porch the night she went missing more than a week ago.
Video released by the FBI shows the person wearing a backpack...
(Headline USA) Under questioning from Democrats on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after the late financier's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick's previous claim that he had cut ties with him after 2005.
Lutnick again downplayed his...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. House Oversight Committee is investigating claims of noncitizen voting in Michigan.
U.S. Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and John James, R-Mich., sent a letter on Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting a briefing on how the Department of Justice is handling government reports...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Ghislaine Maxwell, close associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer the House Oversight Committee’s questions in her virtual deposition Monday.
With Maxwell invoking her Fifth Amendment right to any and all questions, the deposition ended early, vexing both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
“This...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Kentucky judge sparked outrage after slashing in half a jury’s recommended 65-year sentence for a convicted felon who robbed, kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman.
Jefferson County Judge Tracy Davis reduced the sentence of Christopher Thompson on Feb. 2 despite the jury’s recommendation.
Davis’s sentence effectively spared the 24-year-old from what would...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI held a tabletop exercise in June 2020 that previewed that year's disputed election and ensuing chaos during the Jan. 6, 2021, election certification process, according to newly released FBI records.
Dubbed an “alternative futures exercise,” the FBI’s Boston field office studied possible domestic extremist...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Two Democratic campaign organizations collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from a private prison company that contracts directly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even as the party's leaders escalated their attacks on federal immigration operations.
The Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association together...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Eleven of 37 Mexican nationals extradited to the U.S. from Mexico are being prosecuted in Texas. The extradition was the largest transfer of fugitives in U.S.-Mexican history.
Several extradited were captured by the Mexican military.
Thirty-seven Mexicans were extradited to 16 districts in 13 U.S. states...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Anti-ICE protests continued in Minneapolis over the weekend, resulting in dozens of arrests by local law enforcement.
Protesters gathered at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Saturday, which was being guarded by officers of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office.
Throughout the day, demonstrators got increasingly...
(Headline USA) One person was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday as police said that a person was in custody and the school's campus was on lockdown.
Police have a person in custody related to the shooting, according to the Montgomery County Department of Police in a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When FBI Director Kashyap Patel and former deputy director Dan Bongino first started investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case last year, one of the issues they were interested in was whether Epstein had video footage of others committing sex crimes.
Agents told Bongino and Patel that no...
(Headline USA) Lawmakers tried Monday to interview sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her 5th Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.
Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s...