CRIME

(Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black said Friday that Jeffrey Epstein deceived him during a yearslong relationship in which he paid the disgraced financier $158 million, but insisted he committed no criminal wrongdoing as he appeared before the House Oversight Committee. Black is the 16th person to appear before the...

(Headline USA) Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally retaining classified information, sealing a deal with federal prosecutors that could allow him to avoid a prison term. Bolton is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 by U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Greenbelt,...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas study concluded that the wave of illegal immigrants arriving during President Joe Biden's tenure inflated housing prices and rental costs for Americans, Breitbart News reported. Biden's immigration policies ushered millions of migrants onto American soil at historic speed. When his...

(Headline USA) New Mexico’s governor on Wednesday called for a criminal investigation into the Drug Enforcement Administration after an Associated Press investigation found federal agents allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets over a two-year period while pursuing larger drug-trafficking cases. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham asked...

(Headline USA) A liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was cut with a sharp knife or razor this month, causing damage to the foam sealant installed as part of a $16 million rehabilitation project, a top official at the National Park Service says. The U.S. Park...

(Randy Diamond, The Center Square) The Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee approved an emergency plan Tuesday that will allow closure of residential streets off Aurora Avenue in North Seattle to through traffic after residents had complained for months about increasing crime and gunfire. The plan is expected to be...

(Headline USA) A chief of staff to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with accepting more than $100,000 in bribes to steer a lucrative migrant shelter contract to a Queens hotel, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Frank Carone’s arrest Wednesday was the latest in...

(Headline USA) A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday that authorities don’t believe she was acting alone. Michelle Zajko, who has been jailed in...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that 455 people have been indicted for alleged health care fraud, believed to cost taxpayers over $6.5 billion. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the defendants spanned 45 states and territories. “These individuals participated in health care fraud schemes...

(Headline USA) Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa were sentenced Tuesday to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer and prosecutors called an act of terrorism. One of the defendants, a former U.S....

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has asked a judge to sentence Satanic pedophile cultist Kyle Spitze to 77 years in prison for heinous crimes against young girls—crimes that were exposed by Headline USA in February 2024, when Spitze was still a free man. Spitze is set to be sentenced...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Republicans said Monday that they’re planning to hold the pro-Democrat political action committee ActBlue in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply fully with their subpoenas. “For more than a year, the Committees have conducted oversight regarding ActBlue's fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention, which may...