Crime & Courts

321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.

Screenshot from NYPD bodycam showing Oscar Belgal after his arrest.
Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderOctober 9, 2026

Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Deportation of Dominican National Who Accelerated Toward ICE With Child in Car

By Tommy Flynn

A federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the government from deporting or transferring Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old Dominican national ICE officers shot Thursday afternoon in Marble Hill after he accelerated his vehicle toward them with a 5-year-old boy in the back seat....

Nidal Hasan
Crime & CourtsNational SecurityOctober 9, 2026

Pentagon Says Fort Hood Shooter’s Firing Squad Will Be Livestreamed

By Tommy Flynn

The Pentagon said Thursday that the firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Dec. 3 execution at Fort Hood would be public. Hegseth, speaking Wednesday to Real America’s Voice from the USS Abraham Lincoln,...

Cassidy Hutchinson, 06/28/2022 Select Committee Hearing, United States House Select Committee on J6.
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 9, 2026

Grand Jury Hears Evidence on Cassidy Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 Account

By Tommy Flynn

A federal grand jury in Washington has been shown evidence on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made false statements to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. As of yet, no charge has been filed. Fox News Digital reported...

 An ICE officer oversees an immigration enforcement operation.
Immigration & BorderCrime & CourtsOctober 8, 2026

ICE Arrests Nigerian Overstay DHS Links to a Pennsylvania House Campaign

By Tommy Flynn

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a Nigerian national the Department of Homeland Security said was working as a canvasser for the Democratic nominee in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, the department said Wednesday. DHS identified him as Chimaobim...

D’Angelo Caraballoon left and Sneider Mejia on right, -- Image: Courtesy of Homeland Security
Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderOctober 7, 2026

Two Dominican Nationals Charged in NYPD Detective Stabbing Arrested in Massachusetts

By Tommy Flynn

Two men the Department of Homeland Security identified as illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic were arrested Wednesday in a Lynn, Massachusetts, basement, a day after the department named them as suspects in the stabbing of an off-duty New York police detective. NYPD...

A black wooden gavel rests on its block atop a judge’s bench in an empty courtroom.
Crime & CourtsUS NewsOctober 7, 2026

Biden-Era NLRB Cases Still Clog the Docket Two Years Into Trump’s Term

By Tommy Flynn

Nearly two years into President Donald Trump’s second term, the National Labor Relations Board is still working through a backlog and a stack of union-friendly rulings built under Joe Biden, according to a Just the News review published this week. Biden fired the board’s general...

Vote Here sign
Politics & ElectionsCrime & CourtsOctober 7, 2026

Federal Judge Leaves New Hampshire’s Ban on Student IDs at the Polls in Place

By Tommy Flynn

New Hampshire students cannot use a college identification card as proof of identity to receive a ballot, a federal judge ruled, leaving in place a law Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed in April. The same order blocked a broader directive from the secretary of state that had tried to bar...

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Crime & CourtsUS NewsOctober 7, 2026

Report Puts Known Federal Fraud at $521 Billion a Year

By Tommy Flynn

Fraud against federal programs is running as high as $521 billion a year, about 7 percent of everything Washington spends, according to a Foundation for Government Accountability report first detailed by The Center Square. The same report puts improper federal payments since...

Justice Department Files to Strip Citizenship From 40 Convicted Offenders
Immigration & BorderCrime & CourtsOctober 6, 2026

Justice Department Files to Strip Citizenship From 40 Convicted Offenders

By Tommy Flynn,

The Justice Department said Monday it has filed civil denaturalization actions against 40 naturalized citizens accused of serious crimes, the largest single-period set of such complaints under the Trump administration. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the filings, which...

Nidal Hasan
Crime & CourtsNational SecurityOctober 6, 2026

President Trump Approves Army Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan

By Tommy Flynn

President Trump Approves Army Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan President Donald Trump has approved a U.S. Army firing squad for Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army major convicted of the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon said Monday...

The Supreme Court building in Washington D.C.
Crime & CourtsUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

Supreme Court Opens October Term with a Short Docket and a Climate Suit

By Tommy Flynn

The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term on Monday, the first Monday in October. Chief Justice John Roberts told the courtroom that the October 2025 term was closed and the new term was convened. The first argument was Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of...

Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John O. Brennan speaking at the 2019 John J. Rhodes Lecture
Crime & CourtsUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

Jack Smith’s team interviewed John Brennan in 2023. The FBI agents’ notes are blank

By Tommy Flynn

FBI memos released Monday show that special counsel Jack Smith’s team met former CIA Director John Brennan at CIA headquarters on Nov. 3, 2023, to discuss expert testimony in the classified-documents case against President Trump. The agents who attended left their notes blank. A...