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(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit Wednesday to block a new federal rule governing mail-in ballots. But a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who's now working at a think tank says the suit is unnecessary. Prompted by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting into a Minnesota home was released from a jail in Texas Thursday after a federal judge refused to extradite him to Minnesota. ICE officer Christian Castro was in custody in Cameron County, Texas. Castro was arrested...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Republican lawmakers, independent journalist Nick Shirley and a large crowd of activists spoke out against a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law that some said would impede the work of journalists reporting on immigration services providers. Assembly Bill 2624, authored by Assemblymember Mia...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Former Border Patrol commander at large Gregory Bovino used a recent sitdown with Tucker Carlson to repeat a claim he has made for months, that the United States currently harbors 107 million people living here illegally. Bovino, who oversaw border operations from October 2025 until his...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) A local Missouri health department has told Kathy Kite, a grandmother who serves free breakfast to her neighbors from her home, that she will face legal action if she continues doing so without a permit. That letter came in July, and Kite has continued to...

(Headline USA) Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, are deliberating Wednesday whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023. While both sides agree she killed her children, Clancy’s defense team argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis, with...

(Headline USA) Social media influencer Tristan Tate took the witness stand in federal court on Thursday and said he and his brother Andrew can’t adequately defend themselves from criminal sex charges if they have to remain in a Miami jail while fighting extradition to the United Kingdom. Lawyers for the...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Kathy Sanders, who lost two grandchildren in the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, has filed a lawsuit for records about an unidentified leg found in the rubble more than 31 years ago. The unidentified leg remains one of the enduring mysteries from the bombing, the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) On the fifth anniversary of the Kabul terror attack, the Trump-led Pentagon accused the Biden administration of hiding classified documents connected to the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell made the revelations in a heartfelt video commemorating the 13 U.S. servicemen who died on...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A man was arrested and charged with weapon-related offenses after federal law enforcement officers spotted a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. U.S. Capitol Police said in a press release that the man, Philan-Tam-Duy Le, had traveled...

(Headline USA) A 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the wrong home and was waiting for friends to come get him when he was shot, his father said Wednesday. Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded...

(Jon Styf, The Center Square) American voters say local communities should be able to limit data centers if they cause a strain on electricity, water, land or infrastructure, according to a new poll. The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll found that 68% think that communities should be able to limit...