(Headline USA) Nearly three weeks after armed conservative and leftist protesters violently clashed in the streets of a diverse neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, the city's mayor said Wednesday the lack of police intervention was “not the right strategy."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police Chief Chuck Lovell have been criticized...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has granted class-action status in a lawsuit filed six years ago that alleged the Chicago Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy targeted black and Hispanic people.
Attorneys involved in the lawsuit announced Tuesday that the case's six original plaintiffs are now part of a class of more...
(Associated Press) The former student accused of murdering 17 people at a Florida high school cannot be called derogatory terms such as “animal” or “that thing” by prosecutors or their witnesses at his upcoming trial, but calling the killings “a massacre” is legitimate, the judge has ruled.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer...
The man accused of extorting Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has been indicted by a grand jury and arrested in connection to a scheme to defraud a victim, according to the Justice Department.
Stephen Alford, 62, was taken into custody on Tuesday and faces several counts of wire fraud and attempted...
An illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while out for an evening run.
The murder and subsequent manhunt captivated the country, helping to reinforce then-President Donald...
The Department of Justice, which continues to make Jan. 6 Capitol protesters its top priority, said it will not pursue the death penalty for a virulently anti-Semitic synagogue shooter who killed one and injured three in April 2019.
John T. Earnest, a 22-year-old former nursing student opened fire with a...
(Associated Press) For 15 years, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was denied parole by a California parole board that maintained Sirhan Sirhan did not show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime that rocked the nation and the world in 1968.
But on Friday, the two-person panel said he appeared...
(Headline USA) For nearly 30 minutes, armed protesters from the far-left Antifa clashed with right-wing Proud Boys last weekend in the streets, business parking lots and school grounds of a diverse neighborhood in northeast Portland, Oregon.
Cars attempted to drive by Sunday as fireworks exploded in the road and there...
(Headline USA) The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down a federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein there two years ago.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan will...
Ashli Babbitt's killer spoke to NBC's Lester Holt on Thursday, and he claimed that his decisive action displayed "the utmost courage" and "saved countless lives."
"She was posing a threat to the United States House of Representatives," said Lt. Michael Byrd, a Capitol Police officer.
Byrd shot and killed Babbitt—an unarmed,...
(Associated Press) FBI agents on Wednesday searched offices at Detroit City Hall and the homes of two City Council members, just a few weeks after another councilman was charged in an alleged bribery scheme.
Agents and state police were seen at the homes of Janeé Ayers and Scott Benson.
Agents also were...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Over the past 10 months, U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested 8,691 known criminals who have entered the U.S. illegally through the southern border. Combined, they have committed 12,685 crimes in the U.S., according to federal data.
Because Border Patrol agents do not have access to...