321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
Lawyers for Charlie Kirk’s family filed a notice of claim with the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Sept. 9, a day before the first anniversary of his killing, alleging that security decisions at Utah Valley University left him “helpless” to a rooftop assassin. The filing is...
By Tommy Flynn
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that seven foreign nationals have been arrested on federal charges tied to illegal voting or false claims of U.S. citizenship connected to the 2024 general election. The cases were developed jointly by Paxton’s office, the U.S....
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested criminal illegal aliens across the country over the weekend, and the Department of Homeland Security on Monday published names, countries of origin, and criminal convictions that include murder, sexual assault of a child,...
By Tommy Flynn
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new mail-ballot handling rules before the Nov. 3 midterms, leaving a nationwide injunction intact less than two months before Election Day. The unsigned order denied the Justice Department’s emergency...
By Tommy Flynn
Vice President JD Vance announced Monday in Kansas City that the Small Business Administration has suspended nearly 870,000 borrowers linked to an estimated $39 billion in suspected fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program,...
By Tommy Flynn
An eight-foot bronze statue of Charlie Kirk, unveiled Thursday at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix to mark one year since his killing, was found Sunday morning smeared with red paint. Phoenix police said calls came in about 8:09 a.m. reporting vandalism at the memorial...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Department of Homeland Security broke the law when it directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce by half and took personnel authority away from FEMA’s own leadership. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a...
By Tommy Flynn
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday heard California’s challenge to the Trump Transportation Department’s freeze on non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, the follow-on court fight after a string of fatal crashes involving drivers...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Bahamian lawful permanent resident in suburban Atlanta after Homeland Security Investigations confirmed he voted illegally in the 2020 election and after a criminal record that already included armed robbery and assault on a...
By Tommy Flynn
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Genalo v. Black, the immigration-detention case that had been set for oral argument on Oct. 13, after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned the remaining respondent and erased the conviction that put him in mandatory ICE custody. Solicitor...
By Tommy Flynn
The FBI added Turkish national Onur Simsek to its Most Wanted Fraudsters list this month and GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst tied the case to a wider effort to stop overseas actors from penetrating federal programs. Prosecutors say Simsek, believed to be in Turkey, used a...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department on Friday announced the first completed case in the 30-year history of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, saying Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan lawful permanent resident from Fort Worth, Texas, has been returned to Afghanistan after conceding she...