CRIME

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An illegal alien is claiming that his reputation was destroyed, not because he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but because President Donald Trump highlighted his criminal case to condemn illegal immigration. Ortiz-Vite, who is serving 39 to 102 years after pleading guilty in connection with the killing...

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president. A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...

(Headline USA) Bill Gates and the staff of his charitable foundation met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than two dozen times even as employees expressed concerns about the reputational risk of working with him, an external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found. The conversations appeared to focus...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A man arrested by federal agents Monday for starting a large blaze outside a New York City immigration court was an "anti-government extremist" who told law enforcement officials he was willing to injure or kill people, authorities said. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, of Poughkeepsie, was taken...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) EcoHealth Alliance founder Peter Daszak and recently retired university professor Ralph Baric were both collaborators with the Wuhan Virology Institute in China—where COVID-19 is suspected by some researchers to have originated. Daszak and Baric may also have been FBI informants, according to an April 2025 letter...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A state appeals court on Monday set aside convictions for two men involved in an FBI-manufactured plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. As has been widely reported in both liberal and conservative media alike, the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer was highly driven...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former Trump 2.0 official who was fired after claims that she was involved in a "sugar baby" relationship filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against her ex-boyfriend, alleging he orchestrated the accusations Julia Varvaro, who served as deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism in the second Trump...

(Headline USA) Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, their lawyer said Monday, suggesting their arrest in Miami was politically motivated. The Tates appeared in federal court Monday for the first time since...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was established in 1996 but had never received a petition until this...

(Headline USA) A person set off fireworks and started a fire Monday morning outside a New York building housing an immigration court and other government offices, according to federal authorities. https://twitter.com/BreannaMorello/status/2079250751012876448 As the flames erupted outside an entrance to the building at 26 Federal Plaza, the person was tackled by a...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The father of deceased Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has filed a lawsuit over the graphic sexual abuse allegations published about him in Giuffre’s posthumous memoir. Giuffre’s memoir, which was published last October, accuses her father, Sky Roberts Sr., of molesting her when she was a girl. The...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) An former Marine, currently running as a write-in candidate to challenge Rep. John Rutherford in Florida’s 5th District, was arrested following an unhinged rant that referred to President Donald Trump as the antichrist and appeared to encourage another attempted assassination. In two videos posted to his...