Law & Court reports on legal developments, rulings, investigations, indictments, and judicial proceedings across the United States. Coverage is strictly factual, focusing on records, filings, verdicts, and statements from law enforcement, attorneys, and judges.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said her department is working with the Justice Department to review whether CNN could face legal exposure over a news segment about a smartphone app that lets users track immigration agents. No charges have been filed. Officials say they are examining the issue, not that a case exists. The dispute …
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington will be partially drained after vandals allegedly caused thousands of dollars in damage by slicing its newly installed industrial liner. Burgum said the vandals cut up to 350 feet of the liner. Authorities have arrested seven suspects in connection with the vandalism, …
A woman identified as Maria Santay was arrested on camera at a Southern California gas station after federal agents accused her of following and interfering with immigration enforcement operations. The dramatic footage, captured during her own livestream, spread rapidly across social media and sparked protests, a city council confrontation, and a fierce debate over the …
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz thought he had shielded a convicted child rapist from deportation with a last-minute pardon. The Trump administration had other ideas. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Tue Lue Vang, a Laotian national living in the country illegally, has been deported after federal officials stepped in to override the clemency. Rubio …
Sixty days. That’s how long California taxpayers have been waiting for an answer to a simple question: how did one well-connected nonprofit land a multimillion-dollar state diaper contract? And the Newsom administration is still not talking. The program in question is called “Golden State Start,” announced in May. The idea is straightforward enough: California hospitals …
The Trump administration is sounding the alarm on what it describes as a fraud crisis of staggering proportions, and officials say the numbers they are finding are every bit as alarming as they feared. Speaking from the White House, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller praised Vice President JD Vance for his leadership of the …
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the arrest and deportation of an illegal immigrant with ties to two of the most violent criminal organizations operating in the Western Hemisphere, a man who had been known to authorities since 2024 but was left free during the Biden administration. The individual, identified as Isaias Jose Rodriguez-Manzanares, …
Paul Pelosi, the 86-year-old husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is facing a recommended misdemeanor charge after allegedly striking a parked car and driving away from the scene in Yountville, California. The incident happened on July 3, when a witness spotted a brown convertible heading northbound on Yount Street hit the rear of a …
A 16-year-old wanted in the fatal shooting of a Penn State student has been captured, but his alleged accomplice remains on the run. Azzubair Outen-Fleming was arrested on July 1 by the U.S. Marshals Service Colorado Violent Offender Task Force in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Investigators tracked him to the home of a distant relative after …
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a target. And when a federal indictment finally landed on the matter, the press conference that followed turned into something worth watching. Jeanine Pirro faced a room full of reporters on Thursday after the announcement of a felony indictment against David Hearn, a 67-year-old three-time Olympic canoeist. The …
A damning new inspector general report from the Department of Homeland Security has pulled back the curtain on the Secret Service’s catastrophic failure in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the details are genuinely shocking. Here’s where it starts. While a gunman was perched on a rooftop just 155 yards from his target, a Secret Service counter-drone operator …
A Sunday morning drive turned dangerous for a U.S. senator when a pickup truck driver lost consciousness behind the wheel and plowed into several vehicles, including the one carrying the lawmaker. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware was riding as a front-seat passenger in a vehicle driven by a staffer when the incident unfolded around 10:20 …
A major immigration enforcement operation in Arizona has resulted in the arrest of dozens of illegal alien commercial truck drivers, dealing a significant blow to what officials describe as a growing public safety threat on American roads. During the week of May 11 through 15, U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector conducted a …
A rising star in the NFL is now facing the fight of his life, and it has nothing to do with football. Terrion Arnold, a 23-year-old cornerback for the Detroit Lions and a former first-round draft pick, turned himself in to Florida authorities on Wednesday, June 24. He made his first court appearance the following …
A growing wave of law enforcement officials and local prosecutors in Virginia are pushing back hard against the state’s newly passed assault weapons ban, declaring outright that they won’t enforce it. Virginia’s Democrat-controlled General Assembly passed the legislation earlier this year, and Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger signed it into law in May. The law prohibits …
One of the most wanted figures in a massive pandemic-era food fraud case is finally in custody. Federal authorities announced that Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota, was arrested in Mogadishu, Somalia on Thursday. He had been a fugitive for nearly four years, ever since his indictment in September 2022 as one of the …
One of the most wanted figures in a sprawling American welfare fraud case is finally in custody, and the arrest happened halfway around the world. The Department of Justice announced Friday that Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota, was taken into custody on June 25, 2026, in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is described as one …
The Department of Justice is making one thing crystal clear: threatening to kill the president or other federal officials is a serious crime, and posting those threats on social media will land you in federal prison. The latest example comes out of Michigan, where a 67-year-old Grand Rapids resident named James Donald Vance Jr. has …
A man linked to an anti-government extremist movement is heading to federal prison for a century after being convicted of shooting a police officer in the neck during a coordinated ambush outside an immigration detention facility in Texas. Benjamin Song was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in federal prison for his role in the July …
A 32-year-old Venezuelan woman working as a teacher in Illinois has been arrested by federal immigration agents after authorities linked her to a deadly mass shooting connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti on May 13. The Department of …
A suburban Chicago man has been convicted by a federal jury of threatening to kill multiple public officials, including President Donald Trump, in a case that underscores the Justice Department’s willingness to pursue charges against those who make violent threats toward political figures. Trent Schneider, 58, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, was found guilty of making …
The numbers are staggering. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government distributed roughly $900 billion in unemployment insurance to help Americans weather job losses. According to the man now running the Department of Labor, $135 billion of that money was simply stolen. Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling made the explosive claim during a recent appearance …
A former juvenile probation officer in Orange County, Florida, is facing more than 500 years in prison after authorities say she used her lingering access to a sensitive court database to tip off a drug trafficking organization about upcoming police raids — including the existence of active, unserved arrest warrants. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office …
The federal government’s crackdown on an alleged domestic terror plot is widening fast. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday the arrests of two more men connected to a scheme to attack government officials and event-goers at the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House on June 14. The new arrests — William …
President Donald Trump has confirmed reports of vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. This confirmation comes after the pool was subject to an algae bloom and peeling of its resurfacing material. These issues arose shortly after a significant renovation project that reportedly cost between $14 million and $15 million. The renovation …
An online fundraiser supporting Karmelo Anthony and his family has been taken down after collecting nearly $634,000. Anthony was convicted of murder on June 6, 2026, and sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Following his conviction, Anthony filed …
A female high school wrestler from Washington state is at the center of a lawsuit alleging sexual assault by a transgender athlete during a tournament match. Kallie Keeler, a sophomore at Rogers High School in Puyallup, claims that her opponent, identified as a biological male, assaulted her during a bout that took place in December. …