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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested Wu Shaoping, a Chinese human rights lawyer who fled a state crackdown in late 2019 and is awaiting an asylum decision, after stopping him while he was delivering packages as an Amazon…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READAttorneys for the family of Nolan Wells, a Black teenager who went missing during a July Fourth boat trip off the Mississippi coast, said Wednesday they will work with the local district attorney's office to inspect his cellphone as the…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READDeputy U.S. Marshal Drew Hanson was fatally shot Monday in Alexandria, Louisiana, while serving an arrest warrant for Clarence Frazier Jr., who had failed to appear for his sexual battery trial, the U.S. Justice Department said.
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READHunter Biden said he is "grateful that the rule of law prevailed" after a federal judge awarded him $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation lawsuit against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. U.S. District Judge Stephen…
2026-07-14 · 4 MIN READA deputy U.S. marshal was shot and killed Monday while serving an arrest warrant on a fugitive in Alexandria, Louisiana, the U.S. Marshals Service said. The suspect was taken into custody after a standoff.
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READRobert Tulloch, who was 17 when he and a friend stabbed two married Dartmouth College professors to death in 2001, began a resentencing hearing Monday in New Hampshire seeking to reduce his mandatory life without parole sentence to a…
2026-07-13 · 3 MIN READThe 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday revived more than 500 private lawsuits against Tylenol maker Kenvue over the painkiller's alleged link to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when taken during pregnancy, the…
2026-07-13 · 4 MIN READColt Gray, the Georgia teenager accused of fatally shooting two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in 2024, is expected to change his plea from not guilty at a hearing scheduled for July 24 in Barrow County Superior Court,…
2026-07-11 · 4 MIN READAbdul Zahir Qadeer, 52, a former general in Afghanistan's Border Force and former first deputy speaker of the country's House of the People, appeared in Manhattan federal court on Friday after being extradited from Kenya to face charges of…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READWeidong "Bill" Guan, the former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial Thursday to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in a $67 million fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READDavid Hearn entered a not-guilty plea Thursday in federal court for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's newly applied sealant. His attorney, Norm Eisen, said that if a felony charge can stem from touching the water,…
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has banned the sale and import of airbag inflaters bearing a part number associated with Chinese manufacturer Jilin Province Detiannuo Safety Technology, known as DTN, after the components…
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READA former campus police officer testified Monday that he discovered an apparent "sniper pad" on a rooftop near where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, as prosecutors began laying out their case against the man accused of…
2026-07-06 · 4 MIN READA federal judge in Florida has thrown out President Donald Trump's social media company's $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post, ruling the company failed to present evidence that the newspaper acted with actual…
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Attorneys for Karmelo Anthony, the Texas teenager sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet, filed a motion Tuesday seeking a new trial and the recusal of the presiding judge.
2026-07-08 · 3 MIN READThe Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges that it defrauded donors by not disclosing that some donations would be used to pay informants inside extremist organizations. Attorney Abbe Lowell entered the…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on July 4 denied President Donald Trump's request for more time to pay a $5.8 million defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving the president until Tuesday to release the funds from escrow.
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READFormer U.S. Olympic canoe racer David Hearn, 67, has been indicted on a felony charge of damaging the National Mall's reflecting pool, a Trump administration priority project. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the charges Thursday,…
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READA San Francisco jury on July 2 convicted seven pro-Palestine protesters of misdemeanor charges for blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge during an April 2024 demonstration, but deadlocked on the most serious felony conspiracy charge.
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READDerrick Callella, a California man, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of sending a false ransom note to the family of Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie. He faces up to two years in prison or a…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READSeven more people were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their roles in a July 4, 2025, shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, that wounded a police officer, with penalties ranging from nearly two years to 50…
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READThe District of Columbia has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Sam O'Hara, who was detained by police after he followed an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader's theme song on his cellphone, according to a…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READA federal judge in Manhattan on Monday sentenced U.S.-based China critic and tycoon Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for racketeering and fraud, and ordered him to forfeit $889 million.
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READHollywood director Carl Erik Rinsch was sentenced Monday to two and a half years in federal prison for defrauding Netflix of $11 million, money he spent on cryptocurrency, luxury cars and high-end bedding instead of finishing a sci-fi…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READLuigi Mangione appeared Monday at Manhattan federal court for a pretrial hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The court appearance came after his defense team withdrew a formal notice of intent to mount an…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READMP Materials has filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing USA Rare Earth of stealing proprietary grain boundary diffusion technology used in rare-earth magnets. The suit alleges that a former senior engineer, Kevin Elkins, took the formula when…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is suing John Dehlin, an excommunicated sixth-generation member, to stop him from calling his podcast “Mormon Stories,” arguing that the branding mimics copyrighted church materials and…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READThe Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced former first lady Kim Keon Hee to seven years in prison for accepting luxury gifts in exchange for job appointments and business favors, the latest in a series of corruption cases…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READA federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, the 29-year-old man accused of sparking the deadly 2025 Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, after the jury said it could not reach a unanimous verdict…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READA Utah judge on Friday found a prosecutor in civil contempt for speaking to the media about the case against the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but declined to take the death penalty off the table as the defense…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READA man who set a Virginia council member on fire in what prosecutors described as a jealous rage has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
2026-06-25 · 3 MIN READResearcher Kent Kiehl has spent two decades scanning the brains of prisoners to identify psychopathy, and his work has been cited in thousands of U.S. criminal cases. But critics say the science is unreliable, revives discredited eugenic…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READA Utah judge on Monday denied a defense motion to compel the in-person testimony of a key witness in the murder case against Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of killing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in 2025.
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READA suburban New Orleans pastor was sentenced to 80 years in prison Thursday after being convicted of sexually molesting two boys, marking his third conviction for similar crimes.
2026-06-20 · 3 MIN READFORT STEWART, Ga. — An Army sergeant was found guilty of attempted murder Thursday in shootings last summer that wounded five people at a base in southeast Georgia.
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READBrazil's Supreme Federal Court on Wednesday convicted former federal lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, of coercion during judicial proceedings and sentenced him to four years and two months in prison. The…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READLuigi Mangione will mount a psychiatric defense at his New York state trial for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday, a strategy that would acknowledge he killed Thompson but argue he was suffering…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READA British jury on Monday convicted two men of conspiring to commit arson on properties owned or previously used by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, capping a case that revealed links to far-right recruitment and a Telegram-based online scheme.
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READSK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his former wife, Roh Soh-yeong, failed to reach an agreement in a court mediation session Monday for the division of their assets, sending the high-profile divorce settlement case back to trial…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READA federal judge dismissed most of singer Dawn Richard's lawsuit against hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs on Monday, ruling that key claims of physical and emotional abuse were filed well past New York's one-year statute of limitations.
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READTimothy Hudson, the 16-year-old charged with sexually assaulting and killing his 18-year-old stepsister aboard a Carnival Cruise ship, surrendered to federal custody Monday after a judge revoked his pretrial release, the U.S. Attorney's…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READCatholic priest Anthony Odiong, convicted of sexually assaulting two women and sentenced to life in prison, had his temporary pastor role extended repeatedly by church leaders who were aware of misconduct complaints against him for more…
2026-06-15 · 4 MIN READA former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in federal prison Monday for his role in the 2008 kidnapping of New York Times journalist David Rohde, bringing a close to a years-long saga that began with a planned interview and ended…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READThe Manhattan architect who pleaded guilty to the Gilgo Beach serial killings has spent the past three years in a segregated cell reading crime novels and briefly exchanged letters with another jailed murderer, according to Suffolk County…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READA man who threw a rock that struck a federal officer in the head during a protest at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland last June was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison.
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READA federal appeals court on Friday rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence for the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. A three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READA federal judge ruled Friday that Blake Lively is entitled to attorneys’ fees in her legal battle with “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, but denied her request for damages.
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Thursday acquitted former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander of a misdemeanor charge stemming from his arrest last year at an immigration court facility, ruling that video footage showed he did not intentionally block…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READA Louisiana jury has awarded $1.1 billion in damages to Pamela Lockridge, who sued over childhood sexual abuse committed by her late stepfather in the 1960s and 1970s. The verdict in Bossier Parish was made possible under Louisiana’s…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READFormer Western Asset Management chief investment officer Ken Leech pleaded guilty Friday to obstructing a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, days before he was set to stand trial on a broader set of fraud charges.
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READThe New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the second-degree murder conviction of Adam Montgomery, the man found guilty of killing his 5-year-old daughter Harmony Montgomery in 2019. The court ruled that combining the murder…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READA federal appeals court ruled that Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia execution method poses a substantial risk of serious harm, blocking the scheduled execution of death row inmate Jeffery James Lee. The state may still execute Lee using lethal…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READSocial media companies including Meta, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok face a wave of lawsuits in the coming months over claims that their platforms harm children, with trials set to begin in cases brought by school districts, states, and…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READBrad Lander, the former New York City comptroller and Democratic primary candidate for Congress, is scheduled to stand trial Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan stemming from his arrest in September 2025 after he and 10 other elected…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READA 21-year-old Navy culinary specialist was sentenced to 44 years in federal prison after admitting he fatally strangled a fellow sailor in his barracks at Naval Station Norfolk, violently squeezed the neck of a second woman aboard an…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READA Texas jury on Tuesday found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the April 2025 stabbing death of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. The racially polarising trial drew national attention…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Tuesday found Decarlos Brown Jr., the 35-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train in August 2025, incompetent to stand trial at this time, the U.S.…
2026-06-09 · 3 MIN READA former Air Canada pilot flew thousands of passengers on commercial flights over 17 years without the required airline transport pilot license, allegedly using forged credentials to maintain his captain qualification, police in Ontario…
2026-06-09 · 3 MIN READThe trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old occasional Uber driver charged with sparking the blaze that became the Palisades fire — the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history — began Monday in federal court.
2026-06-08 · 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…
2026-06-08 · 3 MIN READTaylor Parker, the Texas woman sentenced to death for killing her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock in 2020 and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, remains on death row after the U.S. Supreme Court in May declined to review her…
2026-06-07 · 4 MIN READAaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff in Lonoke County, Arkansas, said Thursday he is "more committed than ever" to his political campaign after a state judge dismissed a second-degree murder charge against him. Spencer had…
2026-06-07 · 3 MIN READA Los Angeles jury awarded $176 million to the parents of two young brothers who were killed in a hit-and-run collision nearly six years ago, finding both socialite Rebecca Grossman and former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson…
2026-06-05 · 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…
2026-06-05 · 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.
2026-06-05 · 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.…
2026-06-05 · 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…
2026-06-04 · 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…
2026-06-04 · 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…
2026-06-04 · 3 MIN READJesse Calhoun, an accused serial killer in Oregon, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the second-degree murder of Ashley Real, the fifth woman he is charged with killing. The arraignment in Portland came as prosecutors said they intend to try…
2026-06-04 · 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…
2026-06-04 · 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…
2026-06-04 · 3 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…
2026-06-02 · 3 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…
2026-06-02 · 3 MIN READHawaii authorities on Saturday charged 36-year-old Jacob Daniel Baker with first- and second-degree murder in the killings of three people in the rural Puna community on the Big Island, according to a news release from the Hawaii Police…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Monday postponed the civil trial over the 2024 collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge after a flurry of last-minute settlements resolved most remaining claims, including all pending lawsuits over the deaths of…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READTina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, elections clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to breach election systems based on 2020 election conspiracy theories, was released from prison on June 1 after Gov. Jared Polis commuted…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READTina Peters, 70, a former Mesa County clerk convicted of facilitating a breach of local voting equipment, is scheduled for release from a Colorado state prison on Monday after serving nearly two years. Gov. Jared Polis granted Peters'…
2026-06-01 · 4 MIN READLoony John Franklin Kolb Toon, a 43-year-old Oregon resident, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to firing at law enforcement officers during a June 2025 traffic stop. The Clackamas County district…
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