CRIME

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A nighttime curfew remains in effect outside of a New Jersey ICE detention center Monday after days of violent confrontations with demonstrators that prompted Gov. Mikie Sherrill to deploy state police to restore order. Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka enacted the 9 p.m. to 6...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Since Florida launched its immigration enforcement effort, Operation Tidal Wave, in February, nearly 25,000 arrests have been made statewide. “Florida will continue to use every available resource to identify dangerous individuals, support federal immigration enforcement and keep our citizens safe,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said. “No...

(Headline USA) The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205. U.S. Southern Command announced the strike with its usual...

(Headline USA) The mayor of Newark imposed a curfew early Sunday around an immigration detention center in New Jersey after protestors attacked law enforcement. The curfew around Delaney Hall will be in place between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. until further notice, Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement. The move came...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) An FBI scientist was indicted Thursday on a slew of child-pornography related charges, including for the advertisement, transportation, distribution, receipt and possession of such heinous material. The FBI scientist, microbiologist Cary Andre Rue, was first put under investigation after Google submitted multiple tips last September about...

(Headline USA) A family of four from Massachusetts who were killed when a bus driven by a Chinese native crashed into multiple vehicles in Virginia were traveling to a wedding with a carload of homemade desserts for the celebration. The family wedding will go forward Sunday in South Carolina, but it...

(Headline USA) A sheriff’s deputy in Virginia died Friday after a man shot at deputies who were conducting a welfare check, law enforcement officials said. The suspect has been identified as Michael Timothy Puckett. The U.S. Marshals have offered $10,000 for information leading to his arrest. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former President Joe Biden has sued the Justice Department to prevent it from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews he conducted with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, for his 2017 memoir. The DOJ obtained the interview materials in 2023 as part of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation...

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Security members of a Charlotte hotel, some with extensive criminal records and documentation as gang members, sold narcotics and firearms to investigating law enforcement officers, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a federal complaint. Five people face federal charges in drug trafficking and firearms...

(Headline USA) Former Attorney General Pam Bondi blamed her successor, Todd Blanche, for the botched rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein case files while testifying Friday behind closed doors to House lawmakers. "Acting AG Blanche was managing the entire investigation," Bondi said during the questioning, according to lawmakers who spoke to reporters...

(Headline USA) U.S. prosecutors slapped insider trading charges against a Google employee this week, alleging the software engineer used confidential company information to pocket more than $1.2 million from prediction market platform Polymarket with bets on search trends. In a complaint unsealed in New York, authorities identified the employee as 36-year-old...

(Headline USA) Protesters attacked federal immigration officers in front of a New Jersey detention center where advocates have demonstrated over poor conditions. Groups of demonstrators, many wearing gas masks and other face coverings, linked arms in a human chain in front of Delaney Hall in Newark on Wednesday night, videos and...