CRIME

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) President Donald Trump touted his record on crime and public safety during a visit to New York on Friday, which was also aimed at boosting Republican candidates in tightly contested races ahead of the midterms. Trump toured the Nassau County Police Academy in Long Island,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The late founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, reportedly alerted the FBI in 2005 to alleged sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein involving a Playboy Playmate, according to a series of new reports. The alleged victim, then-model Audra Christiansen, has since said that the FBI ignored Hefner’s repeated...

(Headline USA) Police arrested a 19-year-old found hiding in a dormitory closet at Virginia State University on Saturday in connection with an overnight shooting on campus that left five people wounded, including one with critical injuries. Camron Harris of Henrico, Virginia, is not a student on campus nor were four of...

(Headline USA) Five people were wounded in a shooting involving multiple suspects at Virginia State University early Saturday, prompting a campus lockdown and police investigation just as students got ready for a new school year. It happened near the university's Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers discovered...

(Headline USA) A series of shootings in Michigan left five people plus a suspect dead Friday, police said, following an extensive search around two homes and a wooded area. Officers responded just before noon to reports of a shooting at a home in Missaukee County, about 170 miles northwest of Detroit,...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is giving county sheriffs a final ultimatum to end immigration agreements with the Trump administration or face possible legal action for violating a new state law.    In a joint statement issued Friday, Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James put seven...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The number of foreign nationals apprehended nationwide was historically low in July but the highest they’ve been since January, according to the latest data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The increase is largely due to a greater number of illegal border crossers being...

(Headline USA) A person has been arrested in connection with vandalism at The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Friday. Pirro announced on X that her office was filing two felony charges against Melissa L....

(Headline USA)  A Massachusetts mayor was arrested Friday and charged with fraudulently obtaining a pandemic loan and using the money to fund his election campaign as well as pay off high-interest mortgages on several of his properties and personal taxes. Lawrence Mayor Brian DePena was charged Friday with one count...

(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference and gunned him down on a New York City street in 2024. Mangione, 28, said he even used a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, spent years cultivating a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while running a startup she described as a "revolutionary porn company," according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.  The outlet reports that literary agent John Brockman connected Clark and...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Thomas Crooks was seen at a “peaceful democratic political event” on July 11, 2024, just two days before allegedly trying to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to newly released FBI records. The records about Crooks and the political rally were included in a batch...