321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
Five additional defendants pleaded guilty this week in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, one of the largest pandemic-relief fraud investigations in U.S. history. The latest guilty pleas bring the total number of convictions and guilty pleas in the Minnesota-based...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge on March 20, 2026, issued a ruling that temporarily blocks key parts of the Pentagon’s revised journalist credentialing policy. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman found that certain requirements in the rules — including mandatory pledges not to publish...
By Tommy Flynn
Federal prosecutors in Miami have subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey as part of a Justice Department investigation into the actions of Obama-era intelligence officials, expanding scrutiny of the origins and handling of the 2016 Russia probe. The subpoena, first reported...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, California, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, on March 2, 2026, of one count each of felony stalking for following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer home from work...
By Tommy Flynn
Attorneys for Brian J. Cole Jr. filed a motion in federal court this week arguing that President Donald Trump’s broad pardons for January 6-related offenses should apply to their client, potentially leading to dismissal of all charges. Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, convicted nine individuals linked to Antifa on March 12, 2026, for their roles in a violent ambush at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado during a July 4, 2025, anti-deportation protest. Benjamin Song, identified as the ringleader,...
By RWTNews Staff
Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard has denied a motion for a new trial filed by Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national convicted in the 2024 murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. In an order issued March 10, 2026, Judge Haggard...
By Tommy Flynn
NEW YORK – A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Asif Merchant, a 47-year-old Pakistani national, on murder-for-hire and terrorism charges Wednesday after a week-long trial, where he admitted to orchestrating an assassination plot against then-candidate Donald Trump on behalf of...
By RWTNews Staff
WASHINGTON – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Wednesday to begin refunding $130 billion in tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court, denying a government request for a 90-day delay and asserting sole jurisdiction over the process. Judge Richard Eaton, a Clinton...
By Elyse Apel
(The Center Square) – Dozens have now been indicted on federal charges related to a protest that disrupted a Jan. 18 church service in St. Paul. U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced another round of arrests following the release of an indictment charging 30 additional...
By RWTNews Staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted an emergency request to pause a New York state court order requiring the redrawing of the state’s 11th Congressional District, preserving the existing map for the 2026 midterm elections. The decision, issued over the...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON – U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee who has repeatedly been assigned cases challenging President Trump’s administration, pressed forward on December 8, 2025, with a criminal contempt investigation against Justice Department lawyers over March...