CRIME

(Headline USA) Charlie Kirk’s widow and parents are expected this week in a Utah court where prosecutors seeking the death penalty will argue that the man charged with killing the conservative activist should stand trial for murder. The five-day preliminary hearing that starts Monday will be the first time members of...

(Headline USA) A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his case when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, his family and rights advocates said Saturday. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri...

(Headline USA) A shooting at a Fourth of July cookout near New York's Coney Island beach wounded eight people, including four children, police said. One of the victims, a 21-year-old woman, was in critical condition while the others were described as being stable and expected to survive, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s claim of being politically persecuted by the Trump administration quickly unraveled on Thursday after a report revealed that one of his political appointees may have been wearing a wire for two years as part of a corruption probe. https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2072865098666807534 The timeline would put...

(Headline USA) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was involved in a hit and run on Friday in California's wine country that left one car with “major damage," according to local authorities, who said that the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges for the collision. Shortly after the announcement, the Daily Mail...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) German prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian national over his alleged role in the September 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, which previously brought natural gas from Russia to Germany. The prosecutors say that the man, identified as Serhii K, a former Ukrainian military officer, led a sabotage...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles. The acts of clemency come as Trump has issued a slew of...

(Headline USA) A shooting altercation between two groups of young people at a shopping mall in Dearborn, Michigan, left two people dead and a third injured Friday, police said. The shooting at Fairlane Town Center sent mall patrons scrambling, including a person who was hit by a vehicle outside the mall...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz last month issued a controversial pardon to a foreign national who pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl, in a head-scratching decision that effectively blocked his deportation. The recipient of Walz’s pardon, Tou Lue Vang, was facing removal proceedings as the Trump administration...

(Headline USA) A former Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where a renovation project he launched has been riddled with problems. David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, was indicted on a single count...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) The recent arrest of an alleged top figure in Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud scheme is leading to renewed calls for the release of communications with U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s office. State Rep. Kristin Robbins, R-Maple Grove, chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Following a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship, Republicans and the Trump administration are seeking ways to curb babies born in the United States to noncitizens. The 5-4 decision in Barbara v. Trump, stemming from President Donald Trump’s executive order to...