CRIME

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) After being sentenced to 35 years in prison for murder, Karmelo Anthony continues to enjoy the support of a small group of defenders who bizarrely portrayed his conviction as an example of racial injustice. Anthony received the sentence after a jury found him guilty in the fatal...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci is set to testify before Sen. Rand Paul’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Fauci, who was among several officials pardoned by former President Joe Biden for potential federal offenses, has faced ongoing congressional scrutiny over the use...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) One of the men convicted in the purported 2020 militia plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor had his conviction overturned Tuesday after the state’s appeals court ruled that he didn’t receive a fair trial. Joseph Morrison, who was serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted in 2022...

(Headline USA) A man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train cannot currently stand trial because of his mental illness and will undergo medical treatment to try to restore his competency, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, faces a federal...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Vice President JD Vance said the Department of Justice's Fraud Division will investigate allegations that Minnesota officials failed to stop widespread taxpayer-funded fraud. Vance said in a statement that it will be "criminal" investigations. “Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud,...

(Headline USA) A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a meet was convicted of murder Tuesday in a trial that drew national attention far beyond the booming Dallas suburb where the two students attended different high schools. A jury rejected Karmelo Anthony’s claims...

(Headline USA) Israel's latest strikes on Lebanon and Iran have made clear that U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who started the war in lockstep, want different things. Trump had publicly warned Israel not to strike Beirut in its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. When it did,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The ex-CIA official who was arrested last month after being found with some $40 million in gold bars reportedly siphoned that loot from the government by creating a fake spy program. The ex-officer, David Rush, fabricated a “special access program” (SAP), which the Washington Post described...

(Headline USA) Police still had no suspects in custody Sunday after a weekend shooting near an Ohio street festival wounded 12 people and sent attendees scrambling for cover in a busy Toledo neighborhood. Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said it appeared that at least two people fired weapons on Saturday...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Friday, the transparency group Judicial Watch published an explosive press release—claiming to have uncovered an FBI record showing that alleged would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks emailed local law enforcement ahead of his July 13, 2024, attack in Butler, Pennsylvania. However, the FBI said Sunday that...

(Headline USA) More than 80 anti-ICE demonstrators have been arrested following a series of protests at Delaney Hall in Newark, where demonstrators say they are showing up in solidarity with detainees. The protesters, some wearing gas masks and helmets, have used traffic cones, trash cans and other items as makeshift shields,...

(Headline USA) Gunfire erupted Saturday near a busy street festival in Ohio, wounding at least 12 people and sending some eventgoers scrambling for cover while others rushed to help the victims. No suspects were in custody hours afterward, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said, and officials urged people who were...