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(Headline USA) A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary. “I think that was a front for him,” Julius Windham said as he stood at a...

(Headline USA) A businessman wanted for years in the U.S. for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody. Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into...

(Headline USA) Authorities are charging Eric Lewis, 35, with homicide for the alleged killing of a police officer early Saturday morning, according to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. Shane Seiber, 40, was shot and killed in west Philadelphia after responding to a report of a man with a gun, police said....

(Headline USA) The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press pool to halt coverage of President Donald Trump last month violated antitrust law, an agency spokesperson said Saturday. Emily Covington, a spokesperson for the department, said group boycotts among business competitors might violate...

(Headline USA) Four victims and the shooter have died following a potential murder-suicide in a rural Georgia home late Friday night. Officials say those involved were adult family members of the shooter, who died by suicide. They were found in the family's home on the outskirts of Douglas, a small city...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A New York judge on Friday ordered Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James to respond to a legal challenge seeking to disqualify James as special prosecutor in the Cornell sex scandal probe. Acting Supreme Court Justice James R. Farrell issued the order in response to...

(Headline USA) Eight people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, police said. The shooter was also dead, and there was no threat to the public, the city said. Authorities didn't provide more details. “I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,” Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department moved Friday to allow more people to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles and certain other guns without registering them with the federal government following a court ruling that struck down provisions of a key law. The Trump administration announced the enforcement...

Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on Friday whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, “I’m not going to be watching it.” The Republican vice president said, “I don’t know that that’s actually...

(Headline USA) The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of a criminal hacking group that said last month that it had breached the bureau’s jobs portal and obtained sensitive and personal data on nearly all employees of the law enforcement agency, Director Kash Patel said Friday. The arrest was the latest...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The White House has asked the Pentagon to develop plans for attacks on Iran that could be carried out before midterm elections are held on November 3, according to a report from The Atlantic. Unnamed Trump administration officials told the outlet that the planning underscores how much...

(Headline USA) U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for the beating, asphyxiation and electric shock treatment of scores of victims, including several Americans. The torture charges add to...