Crime & Law

The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has launched a formal investigation into New Jersey’s voter rolls after Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, publicly admitted that thousands of non-citizens were improperly registered to vote in the state, with hundreds of them actually casting ballots. Sherrill confirmed that approximately 6,600 non-citizens were erroneously added to New …

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Elaine Forbes had barely settled into her new role as Sausalito’s city manager when she found herself under arrest on suspicion of felony burglary, aboard a yacht she allegedly had no right to enter. Forbes, 53, was appointed to the top administrative job by the Sausalito City Council in May and officially started on July …

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A husband-and-wife political team from Illinois is now facing federal criminal charges after prosecutors accused them of running a scheme involving campaign funds, state grants, payments to family members, and efforts to block investigators from doing their jobs. State Rep. Carol Ammons and Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons appeared in federal court to answer a …

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A suspected extremist stabbed two men in separate attacks on Manhattan’s West Side Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves through a city already on edge about hate-motivated violence. The New York Police Department says both incidents unfolded shortly after 1:30 p.m. The first attack happened near West 84th Street and Central Park West. The second took place …

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The chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party is now serving a year of probation after being arrested last month on operating under the influence charges in Southborough. Stephen Kerrigan, who has led the state party since April 2023, received a continuance without a finding on the primary OUI charge following proceedings at Westborough District Court. …

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Nick Shirley walked into senior centers in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood carrying a camera and a laptop loaded with publicly available government billing data. What he found in 53 minutes of footage may represent one of the largest active Medicare fraud operations in the country. One center alone was billing for nearly 8,000 patients. …

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A Monday morning law enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine turned deadly after an individual allegedly attempted to ram a federal agent with a vehicle, resulting in a fatal shooting and a massive multi-agency response. Pool Street near Hill Street was shut down as investigators from multiple agencies converged on the scene. Maine State Police, the …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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