(Headline USA) Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges stemming from allegations from two women---including a state trooper---that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks, a suburban prosecutor said Tuesday.
It's the latest in a series of decisions about whether a raft of sexual assault and harassment...
(Headline USA) Agents with an investigative unit of the Department of Homeland Security will wear body cameras for the first time as part of a six-month pilot program that will focus on the costs and benefits of using the technology in federal law enforcement, officials said.
The cameras will be...
(Headline USA) Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges after a female state trooper said she felt “completely violated” by his unwanted touching at an event at Belmont Park in September 2019, a Long Island prosecutor said Thursday.
Acting Nassau County District Attorney Joyce Smith said in...
(Associated Press) The man known as the “Unabomber” has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after spending the past two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado for a series of bombings targeting scientists.
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, 79, was moved to the U.S. Bureau...
(Headline USA) A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser was convicted of manslaughter Thursday in the death of Daunte Wright, prompting tears from the young black man’s parents and a celebration by supporters outside the courthouse who chanted “Guilty, guilty, guilty!”
The jury...
(Headline USA) Five suspects were in custody Thursday after being found in a vehicle stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, Delaware State Police said.
It was the second reported carjacking of an elected Democrat in 24 hours as the wave of violent urban crime that...
UPDATE 12/23, 5 a.m.: The White House downplayed a statement by the U.S. Secret Service that nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs, saying Wednesday that the estimate is based on old reports.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, when asked to comment on the...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department has reversed its own legal opinion and said this week that it would allow federal inmates released on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic to stay out of prison.
The decision announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who previously jumped at the chance to...
UPDATE: China on Wednesday defended its international scientific 'exchange' programs in the wake of the conviction of a Harvard University professor charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said China manages such exchanges along the same lines as the U.S. and other...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was forced to ask the Biden administration for help this week as the city continues to grapple with a rising crime wave.
Lightfoot has previously claimed that she and other city officials “have done absolutely everything possible” to combat crime, but “we need help from the...
(Headline USA) Doling out pardons is a holiday tradition for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Around every Christmas, the two-term Republican grants them to a handful of ordinary citizens, typically for minor offenses committed years or decades ago.
But one name stands out on his desk: George Floyd.
In February 2004, Floyd was...
(Headline USA) San Francisco's top prosecutor, a leftist notorious for, ironically, not prosecuting criminals, pushed back on the mayor's call for increased policing to battle rampant drug dealing in one of the city's most vulnerable neighborhoods, urging her instead to put more money into housing and treatment that he...