(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A multi-agency investigation led to the arrest of 13 alleged members of Armenian organized crime syndicates operating in California and Florida.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and law enforcement officers in California and Florida arrested 13 alleged members and associates of Armenian organized crime syndicates...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A secret surveillance network in New Orleans has sparked a national debate over privacy and police power.
For two years, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) secretly deployed a sweeping facial recognition surveillance program, scanning city streets with more than 200 cameras in search of suspects,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Barack Obama’s name was invoked Tuesday during the sex-trafficking trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Combs’s former personal assistant, David James, testified that some of the drugs Combs kept and used were molded in the likeness of Obama’s head.
“There were various pills but one...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Authorities have arrested a 33-year-old Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance worker in connection with the escape of 10 jail inmates, the Louisiana Attorney General's office said Tuesday.
Sterling Williams admitted to law enforcement that one of the escapees “advised him to turn the water off in...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Members of Congress and others gathered in the White House Rose Garden Monday for President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of first-of-its-kind federal legislation to criminalize “revenge porn,” or the sharing of nonconsensual explicit images online.
First Lady Melania Trump actively advocated for the bill –...
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is being charged with assault after a skirmish with federal officers outside an immigration detention center, said New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, who also announced Monday that she was dropping a trespassing case against the Newark mayor whose arrest led to the disturbance.
Interim...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court’s ruling, allowing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end a federal “temporary protected status” (TPS) designation for roughly 300,000 Venezuelans released into the country by the Biden...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California, has been identified by the FBI as the suspect in the apparent car bombing Saturday that damaged the clinic in the upscale city of Palm Springs in the desert east of Los Angeles, and killed Bartkus in the...
(Headline USA) Officials increased the reward for the capture of seven inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet as at least a dozen law enforcement agencies pressed their expansive search for the men for a third day on Sunday.
FBI Special...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The lead attack-dog in the Mar-a-Lago case against President Donald Trump abruptly refused to answer basic questions during a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Former federal prosecutor Jay Bratt invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He argued—without evidence—that Trump allies in Congress...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, the State Department circulated an “optional” pledge, in which signatories agreed to refrain from attending church.
State Department security officer Mark Pemberton refused to sign the “optional” pledge. As a result, his own agency referred...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been cozying up to President Donald Trump in recent months, but nearly five years ago she made the identical alleged death threat that former FBI James Comey is now under investigation for.
Whitmer is now facing renewed scrutiny after a resurfaced October 2020...