CRIME

(Headline USA) The armorer on the set of “Rust” said last week that actor Alec Baldwin violated several gun safety rules right before he fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured another. Hannah Gutierrez Reed said Baldwin neglected to ask her to inspect the revolver he used in the fatal...

(John Ransom, Headline USA) A 21-year old woman allegedly stabbed her date in the neck to retaliate for the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020, who was killed in a drone attack at the Baghdad airport. Nika Nikoubin met the man on an online dating site and then...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The attorneys of the four men charged with attempting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., say FBI agents coerced their clients. Opening statements in the case regarding the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer over her handling of COVID-19 were given, with attorneys for the four men...

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Moments after hoax-hate crime convict Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jails, the disgraced former "Empire" actor broke straight into his next performance-art con, sowing conspiracy-theory seeds and howling continued protestations of his innocence. Smollett was sentenced late Thursday to 30 months of felony probation,...

(Headline USA) Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin. After years of shooting up on streets and rooftops, he was in one of the first two facilities in the country where local officials are allowing...

(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray in response to a recent whistleblower disclosure in the Jan. 6 "pipe bomb" investigation, according to the Washington Examiner. #BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower Raises Questions about January 6...

(Headline USA) Actor Jussie Smollett was scheduled to return to court on Thursday for sentencing on his conviction of lying to police about a race hoax that he orchestrated himself. Smollett, who is expected to continue to deny his role in the staged attack in January 2019, faces up to...

(Headline USA) The focus of a trial in Michigan has quickly turned to the question of whether the FBI tricked and cajoled four defendants into agreeing to a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. During the initial round of opening statements to jurors, lawyers on Wednesday tiptoed around whether agents...

(Headline USA) U.S. authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure that illegal immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that open-border activists claim violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free. More than 125,000 people---many of...

(Headline USA) A man who tried to slither past U.S. border agents in California had 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing, authorities said Tuesday. The man was driving a truck when he arrived at the San Ysidro border crossing with Mexico on Feb. 25 and was pulled out...

(Headline USA) A prominent Black Lives Matter activist is under federal investigation for allegedly stealing funds from her multi-million dollar charity. Monica Cannon-Grant, the founder and CEO of Violence in Boston, became an influential figure in the Black Lives Matter organization during the summer of 2020. She has worked closely with...

(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) A Jan. 6 defendant -- a single father -- who was arrested in Texas in December 2021 and detained without bond sat for at least five weeks in a Washington D.C. prison without appearing before a federal judge, according to RedState. Jan6 Defendant Being Illegally Held. You...