CRIME

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) The former leader of the FBI’s Chicago field office has filed a lawsuit claiming he was forced to resign because “false and defamatory statements” by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros created political pressure. Douglas DePodesta filed the suit Monday in...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Drug Enforcement Administration special agent David Howell has given his first televised interviews since he went public as a whistleblower to expose the DEA’s policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and May 2025. Howell’s...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Attorney General Todd Blanche has claimed that there are no national security secrets included in the “Epstein files”—the trove of documents the Justice Department holds on deceased multimillionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. "There's not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we're withholding," Blanche...

(Headline USA) A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes before crashing near a busy roadway. Everyone on board was killed, the nation's transportation secretary said. Video recorded by people inside their cars captured...

(Headline USA) Dozens of people were injured and at least six people died in mass shootings as gun violence broke out at nightlife districts in half a dozen cities across the country over the Halloween weekend. Police in Dallas, the site of the deadliest violence, said four people are dead and...

(Headline USA) The theft of billions of dollars from Binance within a matter of minutes, the biggest crypto heist in history, was orchestrated by North Korean hackers, the FBI said Saturday. The bureau said in a statement that this week's attack was tied to “malicious cyber activity” by an entity known...

(Headline USA) An arson Saturday morning damaged the building of a beleaguered police department in Mississippi that has drawn outrage from the community in recent months after an officer shot and killed a 1-year-old, authorities said. It was unclear what caused the fire at the headquarters of the Senatobia Police Department....

(Headline USA) One person was killed and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting just outside Legion Field after the annual ‘Magic City Classic’ football game on Saturday night, police in Birmingham, Ala., said. Michael Pickett, chief of the Birmingham Police Department, said most spectators and families had left the...

(Headline USA) A shooting on Friday night at a mall in Fairfield has left one person dead and six wounded, California police said. Police said they responded to a shooting at around 8:30 p.m. inside Solano Town Center at the Spirit Halloween store. They said on Facebook that there were seven...

(Headline USA) An Oberlin College professor and his wife are dead, and the educator's 31-year-old child is being held on a $3 million bond and facing murder charges in their deaths. The bodies of Pipo Nguyen-Duy, 64, a studio art and photography professor and acclaimed fine art photographer, and his...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Multiple law enforcement agencies joined together to execute warrants across the Twin Cities, raiding several locations Thursday. This comes as fraud investigations are ongoing throughout taxpayer-funded programs in Minnesota. “#FBIMinneapolis with federal and state partners conducted court-authorized investigative activity at multiple sites in ongoing efforts to...

(Headline USA) An experienced pilot was on a test run in a helicopter and a 22-year-old flight instructor with a student pilot from the United Kingdom were on another chopper when their two aircraft collided midair in Oregon and crashed into a farm field, killing all three. Details about the...