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A retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor who received a $313 trespassing fine for walking his dogs along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Shorewood, Wis., has appealed the case, arguing that Wisconsin law entitles the public to…
4 MIN READAttorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he has lost 30 pounds and is being denied basic medical care for diabetes while detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal…
3 MIN READA federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama's use of nitrogen gas for executions requires further study on whether it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, with the state set to carry out a nitrogen gas…
3 MIN READProfessional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan died of natural causes last year, according to a Florida police report that formally closes the investigation into his death.
3 MIN READThe federal government dropped all charges against five activists known as the Broadview Six after a judge sharply criticized prosecutors for grand jury manipulation, marking the latest in a series of failed prosecutions of immigration…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump declined Sunday to rule out using nearly $1.8 billion from an "anti-weaponization" fund to compensate individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,…
3 MIN READFive people were injured in a mass stabbing at New York City's Penn Station on Sunday evening, and a male suspect is in custody, officials said.
3 MIN READA former senior CIA officer arrested last month on charges of stealing more than $40 million in gold bars from the agency now faces allegations that he also created a fraudulent intelligence program to siphon additional funds, according to…
3 MIN READA year-long BBC investigation has found that organized crime has deeply infiltrated Britain's High Streets, with thousands of shops serving as fronts for money laundering, illegal tobacco sales, and drug dealing. The National Crime Agency…
3 MIN READFired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of interfering with a planned segment on the killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good, saying Weiss demanded changes that would align the report with…
3 MIN READAt least eight people were shot Saturday afternoon at the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio, all of whom were transported to the hospital and are expected to survive, authorities said. Police were still searching for one or more…
3 MIN READThe Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won two defamation judgments against President Trump, focusing on whether she misrepresented funding for her lawsuits, according to a report.
3 MIN READMore than 80 people have been arrested following a series of protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, since late May. Demonstrators say they are gathering in solidarity with detainees over…
3 MIN READA 17-year-old Maryland high school student walked across the stage at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on May 28 to receive his diploma — a milestone his father, Marco, watched via livestream from Mexico after being arrested by…
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A Catholic church in Luling, Louisiana, reversed its decision to include a recently convicted priest in its prayer intentions after the priest's victims objected, instead dedicating prayers to survivors of clergy abuse, according to the…
3 MIN READThe FBI on Friday fired five analysts connected to the creation of a 2023 intelligence memo that warned of a potential threat from Catholic 'violent extremists,' their attorney said, the latest wave of personnel actions under Director Kash…
3 MIN READTestimony unfolded this week in the murder trial of a 19-year-old accused of fatally stabbing a fellow high school student during a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. The case has drawn national attention amid debate over racial…
4 MIN READA Virginia judge sentenced former IRS agent Brendan Banfield to life in prison without parole Friday for the murder of his wife, Christine Banfield, and a stranger, Joseph Ryan, in a plot with an au pair with whom he was having an affair.
3 MIN READBrendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday for the aggravated murder of his wife and a man he and the family's au pair lured to the couple's Virginia home as a fall guy.…
3 MIN READJesuit High School of New Orleans has agreed to pay a seven-figure sum to settle a lawsuit alleging that two janitors molested a preteen boy on the school’s campus in the mid-1970s, according to The Guardian and court records. The…
3 MIN READNew York City's new commissioner of consumer and worker protection, Samuel AA Levine, is launching an aggressive campaign against junk fees and deceptive subscription practices, warning that the United States has suffered a decades-long…
3 MIN READA new analysis from the nonpartisan Niskanen Center found that President Trump's National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., reduced opportunistic property crimes by 24% but had no measurable effect on violent crime, while costing…
3 MIN READFormer Attorney General Pam Bondi told the House Oversight and Reform Committee on May 29 that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was "in charge" of the Justice Department's handling and release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records,…
5 MIN READFederal and state authorities raided a South Carolina metal casting plant on Wednesday, detaining 48 workers on alleged immigration violations and arresting two company managers on charges of knowingly hiring immigrants in the U.S.…
3 MIN READHonolulu's bike-share system Biki has lost more than 800 bikes since its launch nearly a decade ago, with vandalism and wear reducing its fleet of 1,000 to just 478 by the end of April, according to city officials.
3 MIN READA Colorado appeals court on Thursday reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics who injected the sedative ketamine into Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a police encounter in 2019. The court ordered new…
4 MIN READOhio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that a grand jury has reindicted two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state's long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this…
3 MIN READA special judge in Arkansas has dismissed a second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff in Lonoke County, after ruling that law enforcement's loss of a dash camera memory card that may have…
3 MIN READThe family of a 20-year-old Auburn University student who vanished in Japan nearly a week ago is appealing to the public for help locating him, his mother said Thursday. Japanese police deployed search dogs, helicopters and dozens of…
3 MIN READThe Ohio State University has agreed to pay $100 million to 279 former students who alleged campus doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused them, the university announced Wednesday. The settlement covers claimants from a period spanning 1978…
3 MIN READEight people were indicted in New York this week on charges of running a retail theft ring that stole nearly $5 million worth of goods, including cheese, beef, lamb, copper wiring, and cigarettes, the Manhattan district attorney's office…
3 MIN READThe head of the National Black Police Association has warned that police forces risk making "not well thought-out" changes to anti-racism guidance in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.
3 MIN READThe widow of Luke Ashton, a gambling addict who took his own life in April 2021 after falling £18,000 into debt, began a legal claim on Thursday against Betfair in the UK High Court. The case could establish for the first time that a…
3 MIN READAndrew Left, a prominent short seller known for betting against companies including Evergrande, was convicted of securities fraud on June 2, a verdict that has unsettled the activist investing community and raised new questions about how…
3 MIN READSt. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao declined Wednesday to file state criminal charges against dozens of anti-immigration enforcement protesters who interrupted a January church service, a decision the lead pastor of Cities Church strongly…
3 MIN READThe Justice Department has opened 34 denaturalization cases and revoked the citizenship of 11 naturalized Americans since January, a significant increase from prior practice that senators debated during a Wednesday hearing. Republicans on…
4 MIN READAn unidentified man with a bomb strapped to his body barricaded himself inside a downtown Bakersfield bank on Tuesday afternoon, prompting police to issue evacuation orders and lock down city government buildings, authorities said.
3 MIN READLabour MP Jess Asato has filed a lawsuit at the High Court in London against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot was designed without safeguards that allowed users to create fake sexualised…
4 MIN READAn immigration judge in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 21 ordered the deportation of a 19-year-old Honduran man who was fatally shot in November 2024, ruling that he failed to appear for his hearing. The judge rejected documentation of…
3 MIN READA New York judge held a sealed virtual proceeding in the Luigi Mangione murder case on Wednesday, barring the press and public from attending despite objections from media organizations who were given no opportunity to argue against the…
3 MIN READFederal authorities are investigating whether former Republican congressman George Santos engaged in insider trading by betting on a prediction market on his own attendance to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, multiple…
3 MIN READThe United States on Tuesday sanctioned Iran's largest digital asset platform, Nobitex, along with three other exchanges, the Treasury Department announced, accusing the platforms of processing more than half of Iran's digital asset…
3 MIN READTwo supporters of President Donald Trump who were wounded during an assassination attempt at his July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sued the federal government Monday, alleging the Secret Service failed to properly secure…
3 MIN READSix people were killed and a suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted wound in a series of shootings across Muscatine, Iowa, on Monday that police said stemmed from a domestic-related dispute. The Muscatine Police Department identified…
3 MIN READThe White House Correspondents’ Association has rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24, 2026, nearly seven weeks after a shooting during the April 25 gala forced its cancellation, WHCA President Weijia Jiang announced Tuesday. President…
3 MIN READThe founder of a private zoo in Ethel, Louisiana, has donated its remaining 125 animals to a group of employees who are turning the facility into a nonprofit, saying he will never work in the zoo industry again. The move comes after years…
4 MIN READA California cryptocurrency mogul who called himself 'The Godfather' pleaded guilty Monday to orchestrating the attempted kidnapping of a Connecticut couple whose son had been involved in a $245 million Bitcoin heist, federal prosecutors…
3 MIN READFlorida executed Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, on Tuesday evening for the 1996 murder of his girlfriend's 5-month-old daughter, Gabrielle Hanshaw. Lukehart died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford after the state Supreme…
3 MIN READBetty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, said King Charles III told her during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday that the scandal was a "dreadful thing" that "should never have happened." The…
4 MIN READA Texas jury on Tuesday was set to begin deliberating the sentence for Anthony Odiong, a 57-year-old Roman Catholic priest convicted of first- and second-degree sexual assault for exploiting his spiritual authority to coerce two female…
3 MIN READThe Louisiana Supreme Court voted 4-3 on Monday to approve the elimination of the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court office, ending a legal path for Calvin Duncan, a New Orleans exoneree who won a landmark election to the post. The…
3 MIN READActress Blake Lively's lawyers asked a federal judge on Monday to force "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni to pay her legal fees and other penalties, arguing she is entitled to the costs under California law after a judge threw out…
3 MIN READMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison condemned the state Republican party on Saturday after delegates at the annual convention held a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering…
3 MIN READThe Texas Department of Criminal Justice has stopped allowing inmates to receive hardback or used books, shifting all donations through a state school district in an effort to stem the flow of synthetic drugs soaked into book pages. The…
4 MIN READA federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled he cannot order Louisiana to improve dangerously harsh working conditions for prisoners forced to labor in extreme heat at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, citing a recent appellate court…
3 MIN READAndrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said Thursday evening that his office has not opened a criminal investigation into advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, contradicting earlier reports from multiple news…
3 MIN READThe Department of Justice acknowledged on May 23, 2026, that it removed news releases detailing criminal charges, convictions, and sentencings of defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot from its website, describing the prosecutorial…
3 MIN READA Washington tourist pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to charges accusing him of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, and a judge ordered him to stay away from the islands' beaches and marine wildlife while the…
3 MIN READAt least four states have enacted laws this year making it a crime to disrupt religious services, a legislative response to a January protest inside a Minnesota church that drew federal charges and national outrage. Republican lawmakers in…
3 MIN READChicago’s top federal prosecutor abandoned a closely watched case Thursday against four activists who protested outside a federal building during an immigration crackdown last year, after a judge highlighted allegations of grand jury…
4 MIN READAn Associated Press investigation found an “alarming” spike in suicide deaths among people held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with at least 10 deaths since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. AP reported…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Secret Service said late Saturday that a person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at posted officers has died, and a bystander was struck. A preliminary investigation found the suspect removed a…
3 MIN READOklahoma lawmakers passed a bill to expand expungement access through an online request portal and an automatic expungement system, aiming for eligibility to be cleared by the end of 2029. The law, signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt in May, is…
3 MIN READFederal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted “Take It Down Act.” The charges, filed in Brooklyn, come as prosecutors say deepfake…
3 MIN READTennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers after execution team members struggled for more than an hour to establish an intravenous line. Gov. Bill Lee said the state will not try again for at least…
3 MIN READChicago’s top federal prosecutor dropped remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown, after a judge scrutinized allegations of grand jury misconduct. U.S.…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Alabama’s appeal seeking permission to execute an inmate found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled. The justices’ action on Thursday leaves in place rulings favorable to Joseph Clifton Smith, who…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration’s Justice Department acknowledged it removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, calling the information “partisan propaganda.” The change comes as the…
3 MIN READAttorneys for Tony Carruthers say they asked Tennessee officials to confirm the state has not expired lethal-injection drugs for his Thursday execution, but a response from the state’s attorney general’s office did not provide the…
3 MIN READA sweeping new Oklahoma law seeks to transform the state's criminal record expungement system from an application-based process to an automatic one, a change advocates say will remove barriers to housing and employment for hundreds of…
3 MIN READTennessee officials halted the execution of Tony Carruthers on Thursday after failing to establish an intravenous line for lethal injection. Governor Bill Lee announced the state would not attempt the execution again for at least a year.…
3 MIN READFLORENCE, Ariz. — Arizona put inmate Leroy Dean McGill to death Wednesday for the 2002 killing of Charles Perez, authorities said. Prosecutors said McGill threw gasoline at Perez and his girlfriend, lit them on fire, and Perez later died,…
3 MIN READOklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 2030 earlier this month to create a free online expungement request portal and an automatic expungement system aimed at clearing eligible records. The law also directs changes to good-time…
3 MIN READChicago’s top federal prosecutor dropped the remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown, after a judge scrutinized allegations of grand jury misconduct by the…
3 MIN READThe U.S. imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than a dozen people, a Mexican restaurant and a security firm it linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and fentanyl trafficking, the State Department and Treasury said. The Treasury Department’s…
3 MIN READArizona executed Leroy Dean McGill on Wednesday for the 2002 killing of Charles Perez, after McGill threw gasoline on Perez and his girlfriend, lit them on fire, and Perez later died. McGill, 63, was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PDT at…
3 MIN READA Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was executed Thursday evening, state prison officials said. Richard Knight, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after a three-drug…
3 MIN READA federal judge ruled Wednesday that defense attorneys for Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of starting the Palisades Fire, cannot introduce certain evidence about alleged negligence by the Los Angeles Fire Department during an earlier…
3 MIN READThree people were found dead and more than a dozen first responders were briefly quarantined after exposure to an unidentified substance in Mountainair, New Mexico, authorities said. Two people remained hospitalized Thursday, and…
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