(Headline USA) Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of over $6 million through online romance scams will be extradited to the United States on Friday, South African police said.
The men, who were arrested in the South African city of Cape Town...
(Headline USA) Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived.
A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Eleven months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. government has added $2 trillion to the national debt, borrowing $168 billion during August alone, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.
The federal government has collected $4.8 trillion and spent $6.8 trillion, generating a deficit already higher than...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury indicted a man whom authorities allege was behind a voting fraud scheme in the infamous Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
The indictment, announced Thursday by the DOJ, alleges that James Brass, 47, paid homeless individuals in Skid Row to sign ballot...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., could be back in the Senate next week after being absent for nearly three months following a high-profile hospitalization.
Some of his staff members have told Republican lawmakers that the 84-year-old senator is tentatively expected to return ahead of the September session, according...
(Headline USA) Lindsay Clancy shouldn’t be tried a second time for killing her three young children because prosecutors don’t have enough evidence, her lawyer told a judge Thursday, saying the court should decide she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.
Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Clancy of...
(Headline USA) The highest court in Massachusetts on Thursday issued a public reprimand against a district court judge who was accused of allowing an immigrant to escape U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
The case dates back to 2018 when Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of colluding with the immigrant’s...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Three brothers found guilty of running a sex trafficking operation spanning several decades in New York have brought on veteran attorney Alan M. Dershowitz as they weigh a possible request for clemency from President Donald Trump, according to reporting from the New York Times.
Tal, Oren...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters to expect more US attacks on Iranian tankers, comments that came after Iran’s forces struck US bases in Jordan and targeted multiple commercial ships in the region in retaliation for US Central Command bombing five Iranian tankers.
Trump made the...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said he would offer every eligible American adult a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” if Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections.
“It’s $5,000 to every adult,” Trump told a crowd at the first-ever Republican midterm convention in...
(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Thursday marks one year since the assassination of Christian and conservative leader Charlie Kirk, who will be honored during a Turning Point USA service in the evening.
"The Freedom Built to Last Memorial Honoring Charlie Kirk" program will start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Mountain time...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) It is a good day to be named Michael Cohen.
The controversial convicted felon could soon benefit from President Donald Trump’s mercy in the form of a presidential pardon.
Trump said he is open to considering pardoning Cohen, his former personal attorney, when asked by reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Fielding...