White House Funded Surveillance Program Gives US Police Unlimited Access to...
According to a recent letter sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice, a surveillance program called Data Analytical Services (DAS) has allowed federal, state, and local law...
View ArticleNYPD Spends Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Encrypt Radio System, Deny...
The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communication, denying the public and press access to police dispatches for the first time in more than a century,...
View ArticleConnecticut Business Owner Fabricated Paid Medical Study to Sexually Assault...
A Connecticut business owner is accused of lying to several women about a fake medical study in order to physically violate and photograph them for money, Angela Fortuna reports for NBC Connecticut....
View ArticleHaitian Gang Member Accused of Kidnapping Americans Extradited to the U.S.
A man belonging to a violent gang accused of kidnapping four U.S. citizens in Haiti’s central Artibonite region in July 2022 has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges, the Associated Press...
View ArticleUS Catholic Priest Marries Teen After Fleeing to Italy, Avoids Charges
A Roman Catholic priest in Alabama has legally married a recent high school graduate he met through his ministry after fleeing with her to Europe amid an investigation by the Mobile county sheriff’s...
View ArticleSeven Mexican Immigration Agents Kidnapped at Gunpoint in Cancun
Suspected drug cartel members abducted seven Mexican immigration agents in Cancun at gunpoint near the city’s bustling airport Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. The victims were beaten and...
View ArticleOklahoma Executes Phillip Hancock, Ignoring Parole Board’s Clemency...
The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate Phillip Hancock on Thursday, dismissing years of claims of self defense and a recommendation for clemency by the state’s parole board, Adam Kemp reports...
View ArticleEx-Cardinal Accused of Child Sex Abuse Could Avoid Punishment
Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was charged with sexual assault in the fourth degree for fondling an 18-year-old family friend in the 1970s, could escape punishment now that a Wisconsin prosecutor...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Hear Arguments in Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Case
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Monday over a bankruptcy deal for Purdue Pharma that would give billions of dollars to those harmed by the opioid epidemic, while also shielding...
View ArticleFamilies, Experts and Lawmakers Push for Stronger Safeguards Amid Surge in...
Explicit AI-generated material that overwhelmingly harms women and children is booming online at an unprecedented rate, Haleluya Hadero reports for the Associated Press. According to an analysis by...
View ArticleGeorgia Prosecutors Seek Jail Time for Trump
Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his top allies, Hugo Lowell reports for The Guardian. Trump, his former White...
View ArticleTrump Immunity Appeal Represents His Last Chance to Dodge 2020 Election Trial
Donald Trump is attempting to avoid his impending trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat by appealing a ruling by the federal judge overseeing the trial denying Trump’s claim...
View ArticleJapanese Ex-Soldier Wins Landmark Sexual Assault Case
A Japanese court has found three former soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague who complained to her superiors at the time of the incident but later decided to leave the army when no...
View ArticleGeorge Santos in Plea Talks with Prosecutors Over Corruption Charges
US prosecutors said they are now engaged in plea negotiations with the former US representative George Santos to resolve criminal corruption charges ahead of trial, Luc Cohen reports for Reuters....
View ArticleVirginia Doctor Convicted of Decade-Long Drug Distribution Conspiracy
An Arlington County doctor has been convicted on all but one count of oxycodone distribution in a 21-count indictment naming her as part of decade-long drug distribution conspiracy, Salvador Rizzo...
View ArticleFederal Prosecutors Charge Two Men for Illegal “Killing Spree” of Eagles in...
Two men have been charged by federal prosecutors in Montana with illegally shooting about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, and selling them, as well as their wings and feathers, on the...
View ArticleSuspect Charged for the Murder of Detroit Synagogue President
Michael Jackson-Bolanos, the man who allegedly fatally stabbed Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll on October 21st, has been charged with felony murder committed while in perpetration or...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Could Upend Trump Prosecution for Election Interference
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether federal prosecutors can charge January 6 riot defendants with a statute that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding of Congress, a charge...
View ArticleFamily of 11-Year-Old Boy Shot by Police File $5 Million Lawsuit After...
The family of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he called 911 and asked for their help have launched a $5 million federal lawsuit against the city of Indianola, Mississippi and two police...
View ArticleStamford, Connecticut Trading Company Pays $98 Million for International...
A commodities trader in Stamford, Connecticut, Freepoint Commodities LLC, has agreed to pay the federal government over $98 million to resolve a DOJ investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt...
View ArticleArkansas Sheriff Relieved of Duties, Indicted on Obstruction and Concealment...
A southwest Arkansas sheriff has been ordered by a federal judge to give up all his law enforcement duties and stay away from the sheriff’s office following his indictment and arrest on charges of...
View ArticleJulian Assange to Launch Final Appeal Against US Extradition in February
WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s possible final legal challenge to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges will be held at London’s High Court...
View ArticleJudge Sets Deadline for Sexual Abuse Claims Against Baltimore Archdiocese
A federal bankruptcy judge started the clock on Monday for sexual abuse survivors seeking damages from the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, setting a date of May 31, 2024, for claims to be filed,...
View ArticleU.S. Conducts Major Prisoner Swap With Venezuela
As part of a major prisoner swap between the United States and Venezuela, Venezuela has arrested Leonard Glenn Francis, the fugitive defense contractor who admitted to a $35 million bribery scheme in...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Release of Names of 150 People Involved With Epstein
A federal judge has ruled that the names of 150 recruiters, associates and “affiliates” of sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell will be made public after the first of the year, Julie...
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