Two women filed a 38-page federal civil lawsuit in Orlando accusing former Rep. Matt Gaetz and two other men of sex trafficking between 2017 and 2019, a case built on a House Ethics Committee report Gaetz says never let him face his accusers.
Federal agents are racing to intercept letters carrying an unknown substance mailed nationwide to congressional and state election offices, a probe that lands on the 25th anniversary of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
The Supreme Court sided with Republicans a second time in the fight over discounted political ad rates, letting the FCC keep its rule in place through the November 3 midterms.
A Saudi national and OpenAI engineer faces federal charges after the FBI says he hid a recording device behind a television in a meeting room used for confidential strategy and government talks.
Opening statements began Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who is accused with her partner and two recycling executives of trading city business for campaign cash and a no-show paycheck.
New Hampshire Public Radio says it 'erred' by sponsoring an anarchist book fair that declared solidarity with the defendants in the violent attack on a Texas ICE detention center.
A federal judge ordered crews to stop cutting trees at East Potomac Golf Links after 430 came down in a single Saturday, escalating the legal fight over President Trump's plan to rebuild the historic D.C. course.
One Philadelphia police officer was killed and a second wounded in a West Philadelphia ambush early Saturday, and prosecutors charged a city employee with roughly 80 counts, including murder.
An Anthropic Claude model filled out a Philadelphia police tip form with a fabricated claim about an unsolved killing, and the company did not catch its own testing failure for more than two months.
President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to revive his dismissed racketeering suit against Hillary Clinton, the DNC and others over the 2016 Russia collusion narrative, after lower courts threw out the case and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions on him and his attorney.
A new Justice Department memo lets Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Senate-confirmed appointees speak at rallies and work for party committees in their personal capacity, ending a Biden-era clampdown that treated political appointees like career staff.
The Justice Department is asking a federal grand jury to charge Cassidy Hutchinson, the January 6 committee's star witness, with lying to Congress about what happened inside Donald Trump's SUV.
The State Department's inspector general is reviewing the U.S. embassy in Athens as a new report alleges Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a Republican donor to cover a $100,000 credit card bill in exchange for access. Her attorneys dispute the messages.
A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped in a Sun City parking lot while repairing campaign signs, prompting an open Maricopa County Sheriff's Office investigation.
A burst of gang violence across the Twin Cities metro, including a Bloomington gunfight that left nearly 100 shell casings and a homecoming shooting that wounded two teens, has a Ramsey County sheriff warning that officials must act before the problem escalates.
Federal agents arrested an 18-year-old Minnesota man accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at the Mall of America after he allegedly bought an AK-47-style rifle from an undercover FBI employee.
A federal judge declined to rule from the bench Tuesday but pressed the Justice Department over why ABC's broadcast licenses needed an early review, as Disney's First Amendment fight with the FCC moves forward.
The Justice Department filed denaturalization actions against 40 people in six weeks, the largest single-period citizenship revocation push in modern U.S. history.
President Donald Trump has cleared the way for the Fort Hood terrorist to face an Army firing squad, 17 years after the 2009 massacre that killed 13 Americans.
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House, died Monday at 84, closing a career that ended in a federal felony conviction and the highest-ranking prison term in U.S. history.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has filed a judicial review against Thames Valley Police to quash the search warrants used in his Epstein-linked February arrest, setting up a private court hearing on Thursday.
Federal agents arrested an Irvine realtor at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, accusing her of running a surveillance operation on the son of Taiwan's president at the direction of Chinese government handlers.
A U.S. Marine lance corporal was arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of murder and robbery in the death of a 39-year-old Japanese woman, prompting Japan's prime minister to lodge a formal protest with Washington.
A Miami federal judge sentenced former Republican congressman David Rivera to 10 years in prison for concealing a $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela's Maduro government.
A Miami federal judge dismissed a criminal case against a noncitizen voter, ruling Congress cannot criminalize noncitizen voting in federal elections -- a decision the Trump administration is expected to appeal.
Three University of South Alabama students face federal charges of threatening President Donald Trump after social media posts surfaced ahead of his Mobile rally.
A federal judge in El Paso granted an emergency injunction halting border barrier and road construction across the Big Bend region while a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security proceeds.
Federal prosecutors charged a Department of Energy electrical engineer from Washington state with attempting to provide material support to the Iran-backed Houthis, alleging he bought bomb-making chemicals and drone parts and tried to help the group upgrade its communications.
Federal prosecutors in Boston charged a Massachusetts man with cyberstalking the wife of a senior White House adviser, alleging months of menacing calls and texts that also targeted her parents.
A federal judge ruled that the president cannot unilaterally fire a U.S. attorney appointed by a district court, reinstating Seattle's top federal prosecutor and setting up an immediate appeal.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied an emergency bid to enroll an Asian American student at Stuyvesant High School, leaving a federal discrimination suit over New York City's admissions set-aside to play out in the Second Circuit.
An immigration judge ruled that Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin's largest mosque and a longtime green-card holder, is deportable under a Cold War-era provision of immigration law.
The Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint against nearly every federal district judge in Minnesota, alleging they violated ethics rules by discussing pending immigration cases with The New York Times.
The Federal Reserve's inspector general found no grounds for a criminal referral in the central bank's $2.5 billion headquarters renovation, while faulting the board for cost overruns that ballooned by roughly a billion dollars.
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas are asking the Supreme Court to strike down New York, California and Massachusetts laws that shield abortion-pill providers from out-of-state prosecution.
Gov. Bill Lee declined clemency for Christa Pike, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday in Tennessee's first execution of a woman in roughly 200 years.
Justice Samuel Alito stepped away from Suncor v. Boulder one week before arguments, leaving eight justices to decide a climate liability case that could reshape two dozen similar suits.
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into an alleged gang rape at Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity after outrage over leniency shown to seven accused students and a civil lawsuit.
Two separate township mass shootings in South Africa killed at least 27 people over one weekend, with police still hunting the gunmen behind both attacks.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the Supreme Court's emergency docket has become an 'end run' around normal review, even as the Trump administration wins roughly 80 percent of its shadow-docket appeals.
St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry has filed a 73-page lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her and the city, alleging sexual harassment, battery and a retaliation campaign that followed his formal complaint.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to resign Thursday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and repeated state ethics violations, giving him until Friday to step down.
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco broke state law by seizing more than 650,000 ballots from the 2025 Prop. 50 election, ordering them returned six weeks before the midterms.
A 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen is under arrest after a knife attack at a Benedictine abbey in southeastern Poland killed a Catholic priest and wounded four others, jolting relations between Warsaw and Kyiv.
Jim Copenhaver, shot twice when a gunman opened fire at President Trump's 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died at 76 after two years of surgeries and permanent injuries.
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul sued Polymarket US, asking a state court to block the prediction market from operating without a gambling license and to order fines, forfeiture and user restitution.
A banking collapse has turned into a full-blown institutional crisis in Brazil, with Supreme Court justices trading accusations of abuse of authority less than a month before the presidential election.
A federal grand jury indicted a Mexican national on a federal firearms charge after prosecutors say he wrestled a Dallas ISD police officer's gun away and shot him in the leg during an August roadside struggle.
An Iowa judge threw out President Trump's consumer fraud lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and former pollster J. Ann Selzer over a 2024 election poll that badly missed the mark.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan released a 57-page report alleging former Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden-Harris Justice Department tried to sway the 2024 election, detailing the seizure of phone records from 44 lawmakers.
Search warrant affidavits show the Texas Rangers believe Camp Mystic leadership committed manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and child abandonment when 27 girls and counselors died in the July 4, 2025 Guadalupe River flood.
Justice Elena Kagan turned away a surrogate's emergency request to block a California custody order, leaving a newborn with a severe heart defect at the center of a fight over surrogacy, abortion and parental rights.
State records show Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford was the only sponsor of a 2026 commutation bid for Norman Smith, a man convicted of killing a pregnant woman. Ford skipped the hearing and walked away from every question about it.
Vice President JD Vance's White House Fraud Task Force is removing 750,000 suspected fraudulent enrollees from Obamacare markets and ordering fresh eligibility checks on another 419,000, a crackdown he says returns $2.2 billion to taxpayers.
A ProPublica investigation reports that FBI agents prepared a sweeping pay-to-play bribery inquiry touching Sen. Susan Collins before the case was abandoned, with Collins' office calling the contractor's allegations outlandish and the FBI saying nothing implicated her.
A three-judge bench in Colombo ended a five-year trial by convicting 14 men over the attacks that killed more than 260 people, leaving hard questions about state complicity untouched.
A 23-member Jackson County grand jury unanimously declined to indict anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, finding his death consistent with drowning and rejecting the racial allegations that spread nationwide over the summer.
Paramount Skydance has settled the antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen Democratic state attorneys general, clearing the way for its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the largest merger in Hollywood history.
Minnesota regulators confirm open investigations into two autism therapy providers, including a center operated by a longtime friend of Democratic Senate front-runner Peggy Flanagan.
A police officer was wounded and a man left in life-threatening condition in an exchange of gunfire outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, minutes after congregants gathered for Yom Kippur.
Rep. Lauren Boebert is fighting a sworn House Ethics complaint alleging relationships with three staffers and a $200,000 payment, calling the claims false and politically driven.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of election bills Saturday creating felony penalties for interfering with ballots and voting systems, the latest front in a widening state-versus-Washington fight over how November's midterms will be run.
A federal civil rights lawsuit accuses Dearborn, Michigan, and Mayor Abdullah Hammoud of spending public funds to promote Islam while refusing a Christian resident's requests for equal recognition of Easter and Passover.
Partially redacted FBI interview records kept out of two federal trials show Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel discussing whether Lisa Madigan should take his Senate seat, and how that talk reached Rod Blagojevich's office days before his arrest.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee has called the CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions and Verkada to testify Sept. 23 as lawmakers press a widening probe into AI-powered camera networks that track Americans' movements without a warrant.
President Trump personally directed the Justice Department to let a federal ruling stand that lifts the National Firearms Act's permit regime for short-barreled rifles, shotguns and silencers -- a historic Second Amendment rollback with an Oct. 5 appeal deadline.
Alabama put Jeffery Lee to death by lethal injection Thursday evening for a 1998 pawnshop double murder, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay and Gov. Kay Ivey declined clemency.
A federal judge in Los Angeles barred warrantless civil immigration arrests across seven Southern California counties unless agents first document that a person is likely to escape, drawing a sharp defense from the Department of Homeland Security.
Tacoma police body camera video shows Washington state House candidate Krista Perez admitting she drank wine, refusing voluntary sobriety tests, and then sobbing and praying in a patrol car after her August DUI arrest.
Federal prosecutors charged more than a dozen defendants across five states this week, from a Louisiana mayoral candidate to a Los Angeles signature-forgery ring, as the Justice Department escalates its election-integrity crackdown.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers convicted former President Hashim Thaci of murder, torture and illegal detention tied to the 1998-1999 war and handed him a 25-year prison term.
A federal judge in Philadelphia referred District Attorney Larry Krasner and his conviction integrity chief to federal prosecutors, finding in a 40-page memorandum that the citys top law enforcement officer may have violated the law while defending a murder conviction and may have pushed subordinates to mislead the court.
The House Oversight Committee voted 41-0 to recommend holding billionaire investor Leon Black in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify or produce records in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation, sending the fight to the full House and federal court.
A federal judge refused Tuesday to let the Kennedy Center board inscribe President Trump's name on the building, hours before the board voted to close the venue indefinitely for a sweeping renovation.
Federal prosecutors have widened their criminal investigation into California Governor Gavin Newsom, subpoenaing six years of records tied to the nonprofit that funded his international travel and personal expenses.
A woman twice showed up at Kamala Harris' Malibu property Friday night and was intercepted by private security before reaching the home, prompting a sheriff's response and stepped-up patrols.
A passenger train carrying 186 people derailed near Rouen after a section of rail was found on the track, prompting a French sabotage investigation that injured 44.
Jackson police have charged a 51-year-old man in the death of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old woman found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home last month that is now ruled a homicide, and say more arrests are coming.
The Supreme Court dismissed a major immigration detention case a month before argument after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned the convicted felon at the center of the fight.
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel ruled the Energy Department exceeded its authority by forcing Michigan's J.H. Campbell coal plant to stay open, a setback that leaves the plant running for now and the administration's broader energy push headed to the next round.
Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court issued a rare public reprimand to a sitting district judge over a 2018 courthouse escape in which an illegal immigrant slipped past ICE agents and out a back door.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to revive a redrawn Missouri congressional map, and the state's top election official has directed local authorities to hold the November election under the districts passed in 2022.
Denver and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Thursday seeking to block armed ICE agents from polling sites, citing a Civil War-era law that bars federal troops at elections.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to restore states' access to the SAVE citizenship database for voter roll verification, calling a lower court block indefensible ahead of the November midterms.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington made a direct public appeal to President Trump on Tuesday, asking him to pardon Lindsay Clancy days after her murder trial ended in a hung jury. The catch: presidential pardons do not cover state cases.
New York AG Letitia James faces GOP criticism over her probe into the police shooting of a Times Square attacker, as Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy pushes mental health reforms over the state's revolving door for the severely mentally ill.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) says he has "no sympathy" for Lindsay Clancy after her triple-murder trial ended in a mistrial, blasting the "medicalizing of evil" behind the postpartum psychosis defense.
A convicted MS-13 killer known as "The Witch" is back on California streets after a Biden-appointed judge ordered his release from immigration custody, drawing a blistering response from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
A Virginia federal judge ordered the Trump administration to disclose who designed the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, keeping the left-wing legal fight over the compensation program alive even after Attorney General Todd Blanche declared it dead.
A federal judge ordered 48 hours' notice before any ground activity at the site of the planned 250-foot veterans arch near Arlington National Cemetery, as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum prepares to begin excavation within weeks.
A federal judge rejected former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's bid to escape a North Carolina 'homewrecker' lawsuit over her affair with a married man on her security detail.
The Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for new Postal Service safeguards that verify mail-ballot recipients, just as North Carolina becomes the first state to send out ballots for the November election.
Randon Sprinkle, the finance chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia and a 2024 DNC delegate, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after an undercover FBI sting caught him distributing child sexual abuse material and plotting to abuse a child.
A federal judge refused to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes employees, ruling their CBS interview was official speech not protected by the First Amendment.
President Donald Trump's legal team filed a new court letter demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James explain her office's evidence preservation in the $450 million civil fraud case, citing star witness Michael Cohen's claims that he was pressured to help build a case against Trump.
A deadlocked jury forced a mistrial Friday in the Lindsay Clancy triple child murder case, leaving Plymouth County prosecutors to decide whether the former nurse who admitted to killing her three children in 2023 will face a second trial.
The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Republican campaign committees in a dispute over TV ad rates, clearing the way for parties to access the discounted candidate rate in the final weeks before the midterms.
A Wall Street Journal report reveals Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman skipped the funeral of three detectives slain in a York County ambush because it was too long -- and details a broader pattern of dodged meetings and skipped duties now fueling talk of a 2028 primary challenge.
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former Philadelphia union boss John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty, who was serving six years for corruption. His attorney says Dougherty will be released "any hour now" with roughly $1.6 million in restitution wiped away.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled the Trump-backed congressional map cannot be used in November and ordered a statewide referendum, triggering an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A federal judge in Maryland blocked the Trump administration's new birthright citizenship order targeting birth tourism, ruling the directive is almost certainly unconstitutional after the Supreme Court struck down the earlier version in June.
Two Minneapolis police officers were shot Wednesday when a gunman opened fire at a downtown apartment building, killing at least one civilian before dying by suicide, authorities said.
A federal judge blocked the USPS mail-ballot integrity rule tied to Trump's election security executive order days before states begin mailing absentee ballots, as critics accuse Democrats of running out the clock.
A New York assistant attorney general says his supervisor told him to target Trump, Truth Social and Trump-linked firms without a credible basis. The email was then wiped from the office's servers.
The Justice Department sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools over alleged secret gender transitions for students, with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon warning the case is the 'first of many.'
Rep. Thomas Massie read the names of 14 alleged Epstein coconspirators on the House floor and began collecting signatures to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
A divided Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for President Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project to keep moving while litigation plays out, another legal win for the administration.
Kalshi permanently banned former Rep. George Santos -- its first-ever lifetime ban -- after finding he likely engaged in insider trading on bets over his State of the Union attendance. The platform also hit him with a $71,356 penalty.
A federal judge has again blocked the Trump administration's mail-ballot verification rule, days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the election integrity measure. The ruling adds new uncertainty for states preparing to mail ballots for the November midterms.
Critics say a California law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom shields taxpayer-funded fraud and punishes citizen journalists. A lawsuit is coming, and the DOJ may intervene.
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration cannot deport noncitizen students for criticizing Israel, handing The Stanford Daily a First Amendment victory and striking down speech-based removal provisions.
An ICE officer charged in a Minneapolis shooting walked free from a Texas jail after Governor Abbott declined to extradite him to Minnesota, leaving the prosecution stalled.
The Seventh Circuit ruled that privately possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material is protected speech under decades-old Supreme Court precedent -- while two judges warned the justices that technology has outpaced their 2002 ruling.
Trump's new executive orders narrow the birthright citizenship fight to long-recognized 14th Amendment exceptions, with the first court showdown days away.
A White House teleprompter operator who bet on what President Trump would say during speeches has been ordered to pay $172,000 and banned from prediction markets for three years.
The first arrest in the Trump administration's election fraud crackdown landed Friday in Los Angeles, where a Honduran national was charged with fraudulent voter registration and false claim of U.S. citizenship.
President Trump blasts the New York Times over a report claiming he would skip the Ground Zero 9/11 ceremony because he could not speak, confirms he will attend the Pentagon remembrance instead, and threatens a lawsuit.
A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Trump administration's mail-in voting safeguards again Thursday night, just days after the Supreme Court lifted an earlier block, with the midterms weeks away.
The Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states Thursday, arguing laws granting illegal immigrants in-state tuition and financial aid shortchange American students.
The RNC sent formal National Voter Registration Act violation notices to New Jersey officials, demanding records on noncitizen registrations by Sept. 15 or facing a lawsuit.
Sen. Ron Wyden is calling for a criminal investigation into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over newly obtained letters about his 2019 Samoa trip, as HHS calls the claims defamatory.
Treasury sanctioned three transnational far-left networks -- Autistici Inventati, Palestine Action, and Masar Badil -- freezing their U.S. assets under the administration's counterterrorism crackdown.
A 25-state coalition and the District of Columbia are suing the U.S. Postal Service to block a new mail-ballot integrity rule tied to President Trump's election integrity executive order, with a temporary restraining order request pending weeks before states start mailing midterm ballots.
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, died Thursday in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague at age 84.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is facing backlash over a civil rights probe into a sheriff who cooperates with ICE and a lawsuit against federal enforcement, as Republicans accuse him of choosing politics over public safety.
Federal agents arrested Massachusetts state Rep. Francisco Paulino on 11 counts tied to an alleged $700,000 pandemic relief fraud scheme -- the second Democratic official charged in the state in less than two weeks.
A Trump-appointed federal judge rejected Minnesota's emergency bid to force Gov. Greg Abbott to hand over ICE agent Christian Castro, who faces assault charges over a January shooting in Minneapolis.
Trump's lawyers filed a reply brief in the New York Court of Appeals demanding the state's highest court throw out his civil fraud liability finding, arguing the case against him and his family should never have been brought.
New York's 25,000 Amish say they will leave the state if they lose their Supreme Court fight over school vaccine mandates, with $118,000 in fines already on the books and the case headed back to the high court next month.
A man arrested days before President Trump's visit to his California golf club allegedly carried 200-plus pages of notes on the first lady's schedule and Secret Service operations. A judge called the case 'alarming' and sent it to mental health court.
Trump's legal team filed a reply brief urging New York's Court of Appeals to throw out the $450 million civil fraud judgment, arguing the case never should have been brought.
The State Department voiced significant concerns after Chinese authorities sentenced New York-based artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison for satirical Mao Zedong sculptures created years before the law used to convict him even existed.
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that Rep. LaMonica McIver cannot use legislative immunity to escape charges she assaulted federal immigration officers during a chaotic 2025 visit to an ICE detention center in Newark.
A Maryland judge ruled the Democrat-backed redistricting amendment is legally deficient and cannot appear on the November ballot, ruling lawmakers broke their own rules. The case now heads to the state Supreme Court.
Meta agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion and overhaul Facebook and Instagram for teen users with daily usage limits and nighttime blocks, ending a landmark 29-state lawsuit over social media harms to children.
A coalition of immigrant-owned New York City grocers filed two lawsuits Monday against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan for five taxpayer-backed supermarkets -- and now warns it will sue any private company that signs on to operate them.
A Seattle man is charged with threatening to kill Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson after allegedly detailing a plan to storm the governor's mansion in Olympia.
A federal judge blocked Ohio's proof-of-citizenship voter registration requirement at motor vehicle offices, ruling it conflicts with federal law weeks before the midterms.
The Justice Department told a federal court the aging Kennedy Center could be torn down and replaced with an amphitheater if a lawsuit blocks the Trump administration's renovation push.
The Justice Department is weighing federal charges against ICE agent Christian Castro over a January shooting in Minneapolis, with federal prosecutors potentially moving as soon as Tuesday as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison battle over extradition.
The Justice Department sued Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday over a local rule barring ICE arrests at the courthouse, arguing it obstructs federal immigration enforcement and endangers officers.
The FBI arrested an Ohio man accused of sending graphic death threats to President Donald Trump and Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., including a vow to behead the congressman.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is holding roughly 650,000 ballots from California's November 2025 special election while the state Supreme Court decides whether he must hand them over to election officials.
The Supreme Court lifted a lower court block on President Trump's mail-in voting executive order, allowing the administration to enforce the election integrity rules in 23 states ahead of the November midterms.
The Trump administration released a proposed rule Monday to lock in a $103,265 fee on H-1B visa petitions, pushing ahead with reform of the high-skilled worker program after a federal court blocked an earlier attempt.
FBI agents interviewed Gambino crime family underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano in the James Comey "86 47" case, and a new court filing says the mob legend told them the former FBI director knew the slang term for killing.
The Supreme Court declined to halt construction of Trump's new White House ballroom, keeping the roughly $400 million project on track. Trump says private donors -- not taxpayers -- are footing the bill.
Jake Lang, the pardoned January 6 defendant turned free speech activist, was arrested for probable cause riot after police said vehicles he was traveling in drove onto a sidewalk toward a crowd outside Minneapolis City Hall. All occupants of two vehicles were taken into custody and both vehicles impounded.
A Manhattan federal judge vacated the State Department's immigrant visa freeze covering 75 countries, ruling Secretary of State Marco Rubio exceeded his authority -- but the fight over protecting American taxpayers from public-charge dependence is far from over.
The Postal Service published its final mail-in ballot integrity rule Friday night, ready to take effect the moment courts lift the injunctions blocking it ahead of the November midterms.
President Trump's legal team is demanding the Center for American Progress retract its attack on his National Guard deployments or face a $5 billion defamation lawsuit. The left-wing think tank has refused to back down.
The Justice Department will take the New York subpoena fight to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court ruled against it Friday, keeping the push for accountability over politically weaponized prosecutions alive.
The Supreme Court granted an administrative stay Friday, allowing President Trump's White House ballroom project to keep moving while the justices weigh the administration's emergency appeal.
The FBI seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell's phone and laptop at San Francisco International Airport and raided his Washington home in an escalating federal investigation tied to sexual misconduct allegations.
Two Singham-linked nonprofits are formally fighting House Ways and Means subpoenas over CCP-linked funding, accusing lawmakers of McCarthy-era tactics as Chairman Jason Smith vows to force compliance.
The FBI arrested an Albany woman accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired bombing attack on the New York State Capitol, foiling the plot before it could begin.
FBI agents confronted former Rep. Eric Swalwell at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, seizing his phone and other devices under a search warrant before raiding his Washington, D.C., home the next day in an escalating sexual misconduct investigation.
A Chinese national living in Massachusetts is facing federal voter fraud charges after allegedly impersonating another Chinese national to register and vote in the 2024 presidential election -- then tipping off immigration authorities to frame the victim.
The Kennedy Center board has agreed not to restore President Trump's name to the venue until at least September 8, pausing a heated legal battle over the landmark's identity as renovation work continues.
Lawyers for a woman in the House Ethics investigation into Rep. Jimmy Gomez dispute his 'consensual' account, accusing the California Democrat of sexual harassment and assault.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Palm Beach County Clerk Michael Caruso within hours of his Tuesday arrest on five felony counts tied to the alleged abuse of a young relative, stripping him of his duties and pay while the case proceeds.
A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas in the Justice Department probe of whether Alaska Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan entered the race to confuse voters and siphon support from incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.
The Supreme Court could rule this week on whether the White House ballroom project, which the administration calls a vital national security complex, must halt pending congressional approval.
Disney and ABC filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block an FCC-ordered early license renewal review of eight ABC television stations, calling the accountability push a retaliatory campaign against the network's programming.
The Justice Department is asking the Sixth Circuit to reinstate human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, arguing a Tennessee judge overstepped by calling the prosecution vindictive.
President Trump is vowing to restore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after blaming vandals for National Mall damage, while federal prosecutors filed felony charges against a Kentucky woman accused of defacing the World War II Memorial.
The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's rehearing request in the E. Jean Carroll case, finalizing the $5 million verdict and closing his final appeal option.
President Donald Trump's administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow construction to continue on the White House's $400 million security complex, warning that halting the project would endanger the president as a lower-court deadline looms.
Federal investigators are examining a U.K.-based anti-Israel nonprofit with a $100 million war chest over possible donations to a U.S.-sanctioned Palestinian group, with ties reaching New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's inner circle.
Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department may ask the Supreme Court to intervene in its fight for state voter rolls after losing 22 lower court battles.
President Trump's legal team at Sullivan & Cromwell is adding partners as key appeal deadlines approach in the Manhattan, civil fraud, and defamation cases.
Five people were shot early Saturday near dormitories at Virginia State University, with one victim in critical condition and multiple suspects still at large, prompting an hours-long campus lockdown.
Rep. Thomas Massie and journalist Nick Shirley are feuding over daycare fraud on social media, as the Trump administration expands a crackdown on taxpayer-funded daycare scams from Minnesota to New York.
Newly filed court records show former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema testified she repeatedly had sex with her then-married security guard while serving in office. His ex-wife is suing her under North Carolina's alienation-of-affection law.
The Justice Department formally called the July 8 Iranian missile threat against Air Force One an assassination attempt in a Supreme Court appeal, confirming the secret plane switch in Ankara and pushing to resume White House ballroom construction.
A landmark federal ruling deregulating suppressors and short-barreled firearms took effect after the Trump DOJ declined to appeal, marking the biggest Second Amendment win in nearly a century.
President Trump stepped off stage mid-speech to embrace the parents of Jacob Freytes, the 12-year-old Bronx boy killed by a stray bullet last month.
Candace Owens conceded during a nationally streamed debate that she has no direct evidence Israel was behind Charlie Kirk's assassination, as the case against accused shooter Tyler Robinson barrels toward trial with his defense no longer disputing he fired the fatal shot.
Paul Pelosi did not appear in a Napa County courtroom Friday for his first court date on a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge, with his attorney entering a not guilty plea on his behalf.
A Newsom-appointed California judge who released a Venezuelan migrant hours before he allegedly stabbed a 68-year-old retiree to death previously said justice 'sometimes means a dismissal.'
A suspect is in federal custody less than a day after vandals dumped soap in the World War II Memorial's fountains and scrawled graffiti across the sacred National Mall monument. The suspect faces two felony charges, each carrying up to 10 years in prison.
The Trump administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on Friday asking the justices to keep the $400 million White House ballroom project moving before an appeals court order halting above-ground construction takes effect Aug. 21.
Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday morning in Manhattan federal court to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, with a hearing set for 11 a.m. before Judge Margaret Garnett.
President Trump released the FBI's 2025 crime statistics at the Nassau County Police Academy, showing violent crime fell 9.3% nationwide -- the largest single-year drop on record, with murder down 18.1%.
The 5th Circuit overturned a lower court's block on nine provisions of Texas Senate Bill 1, restoring mail ballot ID requirements, ballot-curing rules, and voter-assistance oaths.
A federal judge's ruling deregulating silencers, short-barreled rifles and shotguns took effect after the Trump administration declined to appeal, ending a 92-year-old registration scheme.
The Kennedy Center board voted Thursday to inscribe President Trump's name on the building and advance a two-year, $250 million renovation of the main campus.
A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard in a narrow procedural ruling, but the Justice Department is weighing next steps and a separate civil rights investigation continues.
Vice President JD Vance is urging the Justice Department to prosecute hospitals and providers who allegedly pushed lucrative transgender procedures on children through fraudulent billing, citing an HHS report detailing $60 million in questionable claims.
Ohio Rep. Max Miller's ex-wife filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging he recklessly published a nude image of their 2-year-old daughter through a public Dropbox link he shared on social media while defending himself against abuse claims.
Left-wing media groups sued President Trump over Truth Social's paid early-access feed, the latest lawfare attack on his business empire.
Former SPLC finance chief Heidi Beirich was arrested in California as the Justice Department expands its donor fraud case against the nonprofit, adding wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges.
A Texas court granted an emergency order requiring lifesaving care for 'Baby Gabriel,' an unborn child with a severe heart defect, after the intended parents demanded his surrogate abort the pregnancy and refused to consent to surgery.
A federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing part of President Trump's mail-in ballot executive order ahead of the November midterms, setting up an appeal fight over election integrity.
The White House has asked the Justice Department to weigh bringing a new case against the former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, after prosecutors dropped the charges last month.
A Syrian court sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Syria's 14-year conflict.
Todd Blanche was sworn in Monday as the 88th attorney general after a narrow 50-49 Senate confirmation, taking permanent command of the Justice Department.
A New York judge temporarily blocked Mayor Zohran Mamdani's second-home tax rollout, ordering the city to pull its list of 900,000 properties after homeowners sued over the botched implementation.
The 9th Circuit cleared the way for thousands of lawsuits accusing Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap of engineering addictive platforms that harm young users, ruling Section 230 does not shield the companies at this stage.
The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force marks its first anniversary with more than 16,000 arrests, 35 homicide suspects taken down, and nearly 2,000 illegal guns seized from the streets of the nation's capital.
Former OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six years in prison plus probation for the 2022 stabbing death of her boyfriend Christian Obumseli in Miami.
Maryland's lone Republican congressman and a conservative watchdog group are fighting to keep a Democrat-backed redistricting amendment off the November ballot, calling it a partisan power grab tied to Gov. Wes Moore's rumored 2028 ambitions.
A Senate committee voted 8-5 to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and sent the case to the Justice Department, while three GOP state attorneys general subpoenaed him over alleged COVID-era profiteering.
President Trump urged U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to revisit the dropped Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case, sharing new photos he says prove deliberate damage.
The Justice Department is standing by its hiring standards after its Los Angeles office brought on a law enforcement liaison with three DUI convictions and a pending battery charge, insisting every employee passes a thorough background check.
Justice Samuel Alito confirmed he will remain on the Supreme Court for another term, ending months of speculation that he might step down and hand President Trump a fourth appointment.
A federal appeals court ordered a halt to President Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project, ruling it needs congressional approval. The administration has 14 days to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced she will vote against Todd Blanche's nomination to lead the Justice Department, leaving President Trump's attorney general pick on the brink with the Senate expected to vote within days.
A Senate committee voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer COVID questions, and Sen. Rand Paul is demanding the Justice Department prosecute him.
Ohio Sen. Jon Husted became the latest GOP leader demanding Rep. Max Miller resign and drop his reelection bid as the House Ethics Committee investigates domestic abuse allegations.
Kansas voters overwhelmingly defeated a GOP-backed constitutional amendment that would have replaced merit-based judicial selection with contested elections for state Supreme Court justices.
New Mexico's attorney general sued the Justice Department and Acting AG Todd Blanche on Wednesday, accusing the feds of blocking the state's Epstein probe into crimes at Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe.
A California man faces felony weapons charges after being arrested near Trump National Golf Club with loaded hollow-point ammunition; a search later turned up a loaded pistol and a cache of weapons, body armor and ammunition at his home.
President Trump confronted D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro in the Oval Office after her office dropped felony vandalism charges over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, demanding the case not be walked away from.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 to advance Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination after GOP holdouts secured written assurances over the Trump-IRS weaponization fund.
The Justice Department is moving to strip citizenship from 25 naturalized Americans accused of hiding violent crimes and fraud, marking the largest denaturalization effort in department history.
A coalition of 25 Democratic-led states filed suit Monday against the Trump administration, challenging the new Section 301 tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners as an unlawful attempt to resurrect duties the Supreme Court struck down earlier this year.
The House Ethics Committee recommended censure for Rep. Chuck Edwards after finding he sexually harassed two young female staffers, detailing gifts, poems, casino outings, and deleted messages.
Capital One is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Trump trust lawsuit, saying it closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts after an anti-money laundering review, not politics.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is back on track for Senate confirmation after Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis dropped their opposition, with a Judiciary Committee vote set for Tuesday.
Sen. Bernie Moreno publicly called on his former son-in-law, Trump-endorsed Rep. Max Miller, to resign from Congress over abuse claims tied to a bitter divorce and custody battle, days before Ohio's Aug. 5 ballot replacement deadline.
Jake Lang, the pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and Florida GOP Senate candidate, was attacked at Dearborn's Arbaeen march after shouting pro-ICE messages. Video shows police pulling him from the crowd.
President Trump publicly broke with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after the Justice Department moved to drop felony vandalism charges against three-time Olympian David Hearn over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, blaming a botched contractor installation for the damage.
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur was hospitalized Sunday morning after a hit-and-run crash in Toledo. The 80-year-old congresswoman, the longest-serving woman in Congress, is alert and being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Israeli police arrested six religious Jews -- five of them minors -- after they spat on and threw stones at the St. James Monastery in Jerusalem's Old City, home of the Armenian Church's top cleric in the region.
President Trump warned Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn that blocking Todd Blanche's confirmation as attorney general will bring back the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund and keep Blanche in the acting role.
Rep. Max Miller went live on X Sunday to deny abuse allegations from his ex-wife, release evidence he says clears him, and vow to win reelection in November as Democrats circle his Ohio seat.
Louisiana becomes the third state to open an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times in a Senate hearing, joining Alabama and Florida in probing potential state-level offenses.
Hunter Biden testified under oath that his family is broke, owning nothing of value, as law firm Winston Taylor pursues him for $17 million in unpaid legal bills.
An Obama-appointed federal judge issued another administrative stay blocking the Trump administration from ending Somalia's TPS designation, drawing sharp rebukes from DHS and state officials just days after a federal appeals court rejected similar stays.
Three people are dead and two wounded after a gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho. The suspect was found dead at the scene and police say the threat is over.
The Justice Department dropped criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, admitting the Reflecting Pool damage was caused by a botched renovation, not vandalism.
President Trump said the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is 'dead' even as he defended victims of weaponized justice, while Sens. Cornyn and Tillis hold up Todd Blanche's attorney general confirmation.
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 3-0 to deny former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson's bid for early release under the state's medical release law, keeping him behind bars for the 2024 killing of Sonya Massey.
A liberal-majority federal appeals court reversed two district court orders blocking the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for South Sudan and Ethiopia, delivering a major immigration win.
Rep. Max Miller's ex-wife, Emily Moreno, filed for a restraining order Thursday, alleging the Ohio congressman harassed her legal team and touched one of her attorneys during a court hearing.
Rep. Nellie Pou faces fresh backlash as inmates released early under the COVID-era New Jersey law she sponsored were later charged with murder.
A Biden-appointed federal judge blocked the Justice Department from accessing New Jersey's voter rolls as the state grapples with a widening noncitizen voting scandal involving thousands of improperly registered individuals.
The Trump administration has made history by invoking the never-before-used Alien Terrorist Removal Court to deport an Afghan woman accused of aiding an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror plot. Nazira Haji Zada of Fort Worth, Texas, is the first person to face the court created in 1996.
Sen. Bernie Moreno dropped an F-bomb on Dr. Anthony Fauci during a fiery Senate hearing Wednesday, telling the former COVID czar 'it is a total disgrace what you did to this country' as Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times.
President Donald Trump and the DOJ have petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the $83 million E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict, arguing presidential immunity protects his official statements.
New Jersey's illegal voting scandal widens as 75,000 noncitizens are discovered in state databases. Republicans who warned of honor system failures demand a bipartisan investigation with subpoena power.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer warned Dr. Anthony Fauci that Biden's preemptive pardon has limits as the former COVID czar prepares to testify before the Senate this Wednesday amid newly released diary entries that reveal a fixation on fame over truth.
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, blasted a House Ethics Committee review of spending allegations as 'baseless,' saying he is the fifth Texas GOP Trump ally targeted by what he called unelected OCC bureaucrats.
Biden's attorneys dropped their legal fight to block the release of his Hur investigation interview tapes, clearing the way for the public to hear recordings that revealed concerns about his mental fitness.
America First Legal has issued a 35-page guide telling NYPD officers they can contact ICE directly despite sanctuary city policies, as border czar Tom Homan prepares a major immigration enforcement surge in New York City.
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to block President Trump's executive order tightening mail-in voting rules in 23 states, as the DOJ prepares to take the fight to the Supreme Court ahead of critical midterm elections.
Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke was indicted Friday on bribery and corruption charges tied to a COVID-19 testing contract scheme in a 12-count indictment that represents the highest-profile public corruption case in state history.
President Donald Trump set off a national debate after donning a red ‘Trump 2028’ hat at the WHCA dinner and teasing a third-term run. Here is what the 22nd Amendment actually says and whether Trump has any path to extend his presidency beyond 2029.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the First Amendment Coalition have given the Los Angeles City Council 30 days to repeal its ban on specific words during public meetings or face a federal lawsuit.
A court-appointed U.S. attorney fired 54 minutes after being sworn in is suing the Trump administration, setting up a landmark legal battle over presidential removal authority and judicial appointment powers.
President Trump returns to the WHCA Dinner tonight as the Secret Service unveils sweeping security changes at a new venue following the April assassination attempt. Officer Victor Gonzales, who was shot stopping the gunman, will be honored.
A 51-year-old man yelled 'Allahu Akbar' as he stabbed an Asian man and a Jewish man in separate attacks near Central Park. The NYPD is investigating the assaults as potential hate crimes.
The Trump DOJ withdrew subpoenas against three New York Times reporters Thursday after a federal judge threatened to quash them, ending -- for now -- a clash over press freedom and leak investigations involving President Trump's new Air Force One jet.
Vance Boelter received two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years in federal prison for the 2025 stalking murders of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shootings of Senator John Hoffman and his wife.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a criminal referral against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, accusing him of making false statements under oath about obtaining lawmakers' text messages during the Trump investigation.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley says she is 'devastated' after 18-year-old Yoseliani Marte was found shot dead inside a Boston rental home owned by the congresswoman's husband, Conan Harris. Police say no connection to the owners.
The Department of Justice has opened an active criminal investigation into Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) focusing on his finances and international business dealings, multiple sources confirm. Mills denies wrongdoing and has not been charged.
The Justice Department has accused UC San Diego's medical school of running a discriminatory shadow admissions process that locked out qualified White and Asian applicants in favor of less qualified Black and Hispanic students, putting nearly $1 billion in federal funding at risk.
Andrew and Tristan Tate appeared in Miami federal court Monday to fight UK extradition on 59 charges including rape, sex trafficking, and indecent images of a child, with their legal team vowing to challenge the proceedings.
Hunter Biden declared on the 'I've Had It' podcast that his father's appointment of Merrick Garland as attorney general was the single greatest mistake of the Biden administration, exposing the failure of a politicized DOJ that satisfied no one.
Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Tucson early Sunday morning. Police shot the suspect, who was fleeing the scene in the busy entertainment district near Sixth Avenue and Congress Street.
ICE officer David Brouillette, who killed a Colombian national in Maine, had a documented history of severe mental illness, a traumatic brain injury from a 2021 accident, and multiple abuse allegations from ex-wives, raising serious questions about the agency's vetting procedures.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration is exploring legal options to arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu under an ICC warrant when he visits for the UN General Assembly in September, drawing an immediate rebuke from the Trump administration.
Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins issued a 91-page opinion attacking SCOTUS conservatives, comparing originalism to Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson, and declaring Hawaii 'takes no instruction' from the Roberts Court.
The Trump administration has charged more than 550 individuals with assaulting ICE agents in the most aggressive federal prosecution of attacks on law enforcement in modern history, sending a powerful message that violence against immigration officers will not be tolerated.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled New Jersey's ban on semiautomatic rifles and large-capacity magazines unconstitutional, marking the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state's assault weapons ban in the post-Bruen era.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Friday that DHS identified over 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states and threatened prison time for state officials who refuse to cooperate with election security measures.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Jeffrey Epstein survivors at the DOJ for an hour Thursday after Sen. Thom Tillis demanded the meeting as a condition for advancing Blanche's nomination.
Sen. Chuck Schumer dodged questions Thursday after a bombshell New York Post report revealed Sen. Ruben Gallego had relationships with two House staffers, adding to the Arizona Democrat's mounting scandals.
President Trump fired the court-appointed Seattle US Attorney Roger Rogoff just 54 minutes after he was sworn in, asserting executive authority and setting up a major constitutional showdown over the president's power to remove federal prosecutors.
Rep. Thomas Massie and a bipartisan coalition introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II on Wednesday, giving state attorneys general and victims the power to sue the Department of Justice for failing to release over 3 million Epstein-related records.
A former Marine running for Congress in Florida posted a video calling President Trump the Antichrist and saying he 'must be killed.' The Marine Corps disavowed him within hours.
Todd Blanche faces the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday for his confirmation hearing as attorney general, with Epstein survivors and Democrats mounting opposition while Republican insiders predict smooth confirmation.
UK counter-terrorism police have confirmed that the murder of former minister and Reform UK figure Ann Widdecombe was a targeted attack, as the investigation shifts toward terrorism with the suspect rearrested on terrorism suspicion.
Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will testify before a House appropriations panel Tuesday in a rare appearance, seeking $228 million to boost security at the Supreme Court amid escalating threats against the judiciary following a historic term.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a joint task force with the DOJ to prosecute government officials who leak classified information to the media, empowering the Pentagon to collect records and work directly with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to bring federal charges.
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's dismissed IRS lawsuit was filed for an improper purpose and referred a Trump lawyer to the state bar -- but the controversial settlement at the center of the case was already abandoned weeks ago.
An armed man drove onto restricted grounds at the U.S. Capitol Monday and was arrested at the North Barricade after officers discovered he was carrying a firearm. Capitol Police are investigating his motive.
Newly obtained documents reveal Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's pardon board cleared a convicted illegal immigrant child rapist, citing immigration concerns and family hardship over the brutal crimes against a 10-year-old victim.
A weeklong preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, concluded with prosecutors presenting video evidence, DNA testimony, and revelations of campus security failures. Judge Tony Graf will rule Sept. 1 on whether the case goes to trial.
President Trump's renegotiation of the Gordie Howe Bridge deal delivers US control over toll profits and a new development fund as the crossing opens July 27.
A Trump-appointed judge granted the DOJ's motion to dismiss seditious conspiracy convictions against Proud Boys leaders, completing the administration's effort to unwind politically motivated January 6 prosecutions.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold Illinois' ban on AR-15s and large-capacity magazines, setting the stage for a potential Supreme Court showdown over the Second Amendment.
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz accused blue states of treating Medicaid fraud as a 'feature' of the system, calling out California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the Trump administration cuts $1.3 billion in reimbursements.
The DOJ sent letters to all 50 states threatening criminal prosecution of election officials who knowingly allow noncitizens to vote, giving them five days to explain compliance with federal voter eligibility laws.
Day four of the Charlie Kirk assassination preliminary hearing featured explosive testimony as the suspect's roommate was granted immunity and a recorded interview was played in court, revealing chilling text messages.
Agents with the Trump-created Memphis Safe Task Force shot an armed suspect who pointed a handgun at officers during a drug warrant operation at a Memphis motel Wednesday, the fourth officer-involved shooting since the task force launched in September.
A federal appeals court struck down key provisions of Florida's Stop WOKE Act on Tuesday, ruling the law violates the First Amendment and setting the stage for a potential Supreme Court showdown over classroom speech.
Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was arrested in Alabama on drug charges after police found methamphetamine and marijuana in his vehicle during a traffic stop, marking the latest chapter in the Democratic rising star's dramatic fall from grace.
An Obama-appointed federal judge in Boston blocked key parts of President Trump's election integrity executive order, ruling the president lacks constitutional authority over elections. The administration has vowed to appeal.
Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is facing total abandonment from party leadership after a former girlfriend publicly accused him of rape, with Schumer, Warren, Khanna, and the Maine Democratic Party all calling for him to drop out.
A Paris appeals court reduced Marine Le Pen's ban from public office, allowing the National Rally leader to potentially run in the 2027 presidential election under electronic monitoring.
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader and Trump ally, resigned from Parliament and triggered a by-election in Clacton amid investigations into millions in undeclared gifts from a crypto billionaire and a convicted fraudster.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding records from Capital One over Trump's CFPB nominee Brian Johnson while pressing the Trump family on whether it will re-file its de-banking lawsuit against the bank.
Utah prosecutors begin five-day preliminary hearing against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, as his widow and parents face the alleged killer in court for the first time.
Paul Pelosi, 86, faces misdemeanor hit-and-run charges after crashing his convertible into a parked car in Napa County and driving away -- his second Napa crash since 2022.
FBI Director Kash Patel joined Acting AG Todd Blanche to announce federal charges against the SPLC for allegedly funneling $4.1 million in donor funds to extremist groups.
The Livingston County Democratic Party in Michigan posted an AI-generated image featuring the assassination code '8647' targeting President Trump. Party Chair Judy Daubenmier refused to answer who posted it and dismissed concerns as a 'distraction.'
Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faces a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge after striking a parked car in Napa County and driving away until his vehicle became disabled. Alcohol was ruled out, but the case has been referred to prosecutors.
House Democrats are preparing a sweeping campaign of subpoenas targeting President Trump, his family, and Cabinet members after his $2.2 billion financial disclosure -- a move critics say is political lawfare ahead of the midterms.
Two men were killed and a bystander wounded in a Friday afternoon shooting at Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Michigan, stemming from a fight between acquaintances that escalated into gunfire on the July Fourth holiday weekend.
President Donald Trump signed pardons for six Americans convicted of federal emissions violations, declaring they had been unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration's weaponized Justice Department for 'fixing their car.'
German prosecutors formally charged a Ukrainian army officer with the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, stating he and his team acted on orders from Ukrainian state authorities.
Congressional Democrats are staying conspicuously silent after the Supreme Court upheld state laws barring biological males from women's sports -- exposing a deep political divide within the party ahead of the November midterm elections.
The Justice Department announced murder and kidnapping charges against eight illegal Venezuelan gang members, blaming Biden's open border policies for allowing the violent criminals into the country.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz voted to pardon a Laotian illegal immigrant convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, shielding him from deportation and drawing fierce condemnation from the Trump administration.
House Democrats released a partisan report accusing Trump's Freedom 250 of defrauding donors, but the timing and thin evidence suggest a political hit job designed to spoil America's 250th birthday celebration.
The Trump administration is launching a multi-front crackdown on birth tourism after the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, with the DOJ prioritizing prosecutions, DHS exploring visa restrictions, and the White House pushing Congress for legislative action.
The Trump Justice Department filed federal lawsuits against Virginia and California on Wednesday, challenging new state laws that restrict the sale of semi-automatic rifles and handguns as unconstitutional violations of the Second Amendment.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal confirmed Democrats are actively discussing expanding the Supreme Court to 13 seats and imposing term limits, citing recent rulings she says prove the court is 'incapable' of faithfully interpreting the law.
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order 6-3 while simultaneously upholding state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports, capping a blockbuster end-of-term session.
NPR published and quickly retracted a false report claiming Justice Samuel Alito retired, blaming the error on a misheard remark. The blunder highlights ongoing questions about media standards and Alito's actual retirement timeline.
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear challenges to AR-15 bans in Cook County and Connecticut, setting up the biggest Second Amendment case since Bruen.
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear challenges to state-level bans on AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles, setting up a landmark Second Amendment showdown for its fall term.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that President Trump can fire independent agency heads at will, overturning the 91-year-old Humphrey's Executor precedent in a landmark victory for presidential authority over the administrative state.
Flock Safety runs 80,000+ ALPR cameras across 49 states scanning 20 billion plates monthly with no warrant. After today's SCOTUS geofencing ruling, the Fourth Amendment questions are unavoidable.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch called for the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 libel ruling New York Times v. Sullivan after the court declined to hear Alan Dershowitz's defamation case against CNN.
Colorado Supreme Court unanimously blocks Democrat-backed redistricting ballot measures, preserving 4R-4D congressional split through 2030 and killing gerrymander push.
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that geofence warrants triggering Google cellphone location data are Fourth Amendment searches. Kagan writes majority; Alito dissents in Chatrie v. United States.
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states can count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received days later, rejecting a GOP challenge in Watson v. RNC.
The Supreme Court declined to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million civil judgment in the E. Jean Carroll case, leaving the 2023 jury verdict intact.
President Donald Trump called D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George a 'communist' and vowed to block her far-left agenda, setting up a major clash between the White House and the nation's capital.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer issued two subpoenas to billionaire Leon Black mid-interview after he refused to answer questions about NDAs linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Black walked out with subpoenas in hand.
Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to unlawfully retaining classified information, admitting he shared top-secret material with family members for seven years and faces up to five years in prison.
Former national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty to illegally retaining classified information, admitting he shared over 1,000 pages of secret diary notes with family and allowed Iranian hackers to access sensitive data through his personal email.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was separated from his four-year-old twins for 24 hours after a false anonymous report to Michigan Child Protective Services, which authorities determined was politically motivated and fabricated.
A Utah judge held prosecutors in the Charlie Kirk murder case in civil contempt for violating a publicity order, but refused to remove the death penalty as a potential sentence. The preliminary hearing is set for July 6.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed billionaire Leon Black after he refused to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements tied to Jeffrey Epstein during a voluntary interview that ended abruptly Friday.
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to one count of illegally retaining classified information in federal court, resolving an 18-count indictment under a plea deal that could keep him out of prison.
A federal judge ordered Acting AG Todd Blanche to release unredacted Epstein files by July 2, ruling the DOJ violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The order includes emails, co-conspirator names, and FBI interview notes.
A federal judge in Boston has blocked key provisions of President Trump's executive order securing mail-in voting, ruling against the administration in a case brought by 23 Democratic-led states.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that federal law blocks state failure-to-warn lawsuits against Roundup maker Monsanto, ending tens of thousands of cases and delivering a major win for farmers and regulatory certainty.
SCOTUS wraps term with major conservative wins on nationwide injunctions, immigration, and Second Amendment — plus a few losses on religious liberty, with birthright citizenship still pending.
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to expand expedited removal nationwide, clearing the way for faster deportations of illegal immigrants arrested far from the border.
Eight defendants linked to antifa were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison for the July 4 attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Texas, including Benjamin Song who received 100 years for shooting a police officer.
Justice Clarence Thomas authored a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling on his 78th birthday, siding with the Trump administration and DHS in a key immigration case about green card holders accused of crimes.
Conservative House Republicans led by Rep. Chip Roy are blocking a bipartisan housing affordability bill unless the SAVE America Act election security legislation is attached, setting up a major floor fight as the chamber returns Tuesday.
Alberto Carvalho stepped down Sunday night, four months after FBI agents raided his home and district offices in a probe tied to the failed $6 million 'Ed' AI chatbot project.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's expanded use of the SAVE immigration database for voter screening, halting a major election integrity initiative ahead of the November midterms.
A federal judge blocked six DOJ grand jury subpoenas targeting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other officials, ruling the subpoenas were retaliatory and a blatantly unlawful use of the grand jury process in the administration's immigration enforcement fight.
With two weeks left in the Supreme Court term, four major cases will define President Trump's executive authority. The birthright citizenship fight leads the docket as Trump pushes back on judicial overreach.
President Trump says the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will likely be drained again for repairs after alleged vandalism including a 250-foot gash and chemical damage, with multiple arrests already made.
U.S. Park Police arrested former three-time Olympian David Hearn for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, proving President Trump was right to call out saboteurs undermining the refurbishment.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the government cannot automatically strip gun rights from marijuana users, rejecting federal overreach under Bruen's history-and-tradition test.
DHS confirmed the alleged ringleader of the foiled UFC Freedom 250 terror attack at the White House is a Mexican illegal immigrant who entered the U.S. as a child and was granted DACA protections under the Obama administration.
Luigi Mangione will pursue an extreme emotional disturbance defense at his state murder trial for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a New York judge revealed Wednesday. The psychiatric defense could reduce a murder conviction to manslaughter.
Federal prosecutors charged 15 Minnesota residents tied to Direct Action Minnesota with conspiracy to obstruct ICE agents during Operation Metro Surge. Twelve were arrested Tuesday; two remain at large.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced the disruption of an alleged plot involving explosive drones and snipers targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, with multiple individuals in custody after a multi-state operation.
California Governor Gavin Newsom went public Monday accusing President Donald Trump of directing the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, in what he calls a politically motivated fishing expedition.
Federal courts refused to pause an order requiring President Donald Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy Center, leaving a June 12 deadline in place.
Federal authorities are investigating apparent '86 47' markings on the National Mall as officials weigh vandalism, anti-Trump rhetoric, and possible threat concerns.
Vance Luther Boelter pleaded guilty to all six federal counts in the targeted attacks that killed Melissa and Mark Hortman and wounded John and Yvette Hoffman.
Shamso Ahmed Hassan charged in $21 million Minnesota Medicaid autism fraud scheme involving fake billing and kickbacks to families.
Karmelo Anthony convicted of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet. Jury rejected self-defense claim after three hours of deliberation.
Defense rests in Karmelo Anthony murder trial; closing arguments set to begin Tuesday as jury prepares to deliberate.
FBI reports locating over 7,000 missing children and arresting nearly 2,900 predators in the past year, a sharp increase driven by AI tools and targeted operations.
The trial of Karmelo Anthony, accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet, has sparked protests and national debate over self-defense and race.
A man who carried out multiple swatting attacks, including one against a Grand Theft Auto 5 voice actor, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
Justice Neil Gorsuch cited FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's targeting of Jimmy Kimmel as evidence of agency overreach, as the Supreme Court overturned a 91-year-old precedent and handed President Trump sweeping new power over independent federal agencies.