(Headline USA) New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if he was working even when they met alone in apartments and traveled to vineyards for wine tasting.
Cantrell...
(The Center Square) Days after President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day” by federalizing the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and deploying hundreds of National Guard members to curb crime, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming the federal takeover is unlawful.
Schwalb describes...
(Headline USA) A Brooklyn construction magnate was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, resolving one of two related federal cases after the mayor’s criminal charges were dropped.
Erden Arkan, 76, told...
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) The man accused of killing Minnesota’s former House speaker and her husband faces state charges of first-degree murder.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Thursday a state grand jury indictment of Vance Luther Boelter includes two first-degree premeditated murder charges for the killing of House...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump's decision to take over the Washington police department.
Bondi said she's giving Cole the powers of police chief and the Metropolitan...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly declassified email exposed former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper dismissing serious warnings from a top intelligence official about compromising standard procedures in the 2017 assessment on alleged Russian interference.
The email shows Clapper brushing aside concerns from former National Security Agency Director Mike...
(Headline USA) The Washington, D.C., police chief stepped up cooperation between her officers and federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump’s law enforcement takeover of the nation’s capital took root Thursday. National Guard troops watched over some of the world’s most renowned landmarks and Humvees took up position in front...
(Headline USA) A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation's capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post Thursday.
A video of Sean Charles Dunn berating a group...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The local government of the District of Columbia has settled a lawsuit filed by a police sergeant who accused her superiors of misclassifying offense records to deflate crime statistics, the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday.
Charlotte Djossou, a former sergeant at the Metropolitan Police Department, sued the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A newly released inspector general’s report shows that a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission analyst teleworked from at least 10 different countries during the COVID era, when the Biden administration allowed bureaucrats to work remotely.
The CFTC analyst, Malcolm Alexander-Neal, also filed to run for U.S....
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A newly unearthed FBI memo shows that agents seemingly had a strong case against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for trading political favors in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation when she was Secretary of State—but that top Justice Department officials prevented the bureau from...
(Headline USA) Police are investigating whether the armed robbery of a Brinks truck on Tuesday outside a Philadelphia-area store is related to four other attacks on armored vehicles in and around the city this summer.
Two armed males got away with between $700,000 and $800,000 in the midday Tuesday heist at...