The guilty verdict in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is raising questions about what happens next in a case where young girls were trafficked by Maxwell on behalf of deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein to rich and powerful men around the world who have yet to be prosecuted.
“It is akin...
Recently released surveillance footage appears to show Capitol Police beating Jan. 6 protestor Victoria White repeatedly in the head, according to Just the News.
"Victoria White was pushed into the tunnel and desperately tried to escape . . . she never raises a finger to the police and never commits...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More police officers in the U.S. died in 2021 than any other year officer fatalities have been recorded, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 28, 2021, 358 active duty officers died. That's compared to 296 over the...
(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...