FBI agents in the Russia probe had thoughts of arresting a mysterious Maltese professor, but he left the United States before they had gathered sufficient evidence, according to a court filing by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The federal judge who had ordered the government to restart the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty in full backed off his decision Friday and said the government does not, after all, have to begin accepting brand new applications.
Sen. Richard Burr, who leads the Senate Selective Committee on Intelligence, issued a sharp rebuke of former CIA Director John Brennan, saying that if he has evidence of Russian collusion he should have presented it to his panel.
The judge in the criminal trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort will hold a hearing Friday on whether to unseal the names and addresses of the jurors.
A Louisiana commission voted Thursday to block two banking giants from taking part in a new highway project, moving to punish the companies for gun control policies they adopted after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting this year.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed increasing the amount of marijuana that can be legally grown in the U.S. for research purposes by more than 500 percent, potentially expanding the size of the stash used by scientists to roughly 5,400 pounds in 2019.
Attorneys suing Alex Jones for defamation over his past remarks about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting told a Texas court Friday that the Infowars publisher destroyed evidence by deleting older Twitter posts prior to being suspended from the platform this week.
Authorities have charged a 47-year-old Detroit man in an alleged hit-and-run accident that killed a Wayne County sheriff's deputy.
Of all the horrific details contained in the Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, one sentence stands out: "The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid 'scandal.'"
Authorities say a man has been fatally shot on the front porch of a Kansas City home.
Authorities say a former sheriff's deputy in Kentucky has been charged with stealing more than $10,000.
A former Maui police officer has been sentenced to four months in prison and three years of probation for witness tampering.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has ratified an anti-cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media.
A California woman has said she had to drive herself to the hospital and give birth without her husband after he was detained by immigration agents.
A Tulsa County jury has found a 17-year-old competent to stand trial on murder, rape and 21 other felony charges.
Police in Wichita say two people have been killed in an overnight shooting.
An elite Connecticut boarding school has found that seven former faculty members sexually abused students primarily during the 1970s and 1980s.
A former Delaware lawmaker has pleaded guilty to multiple charges for contacting a woman he assaulted in July.
A judge will rule on whether a police body-cam video showing a former Kent County prosecutor's demeanor after a crash will be shown at the man's reckless driving trial.
Facebook could be held in contempt of court for refusing to help federal investigators eavesdrop on voice calls made using the social network's popular Messenger app, Reuters reported Friday.
North Carolina police are investigating vandalism involving a Confederate monument.
A Denver-area man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting and killing a 16-year-old boy while he was "fooling around" with a loaded gun.
A 27-year-old Missoula man has pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon after police said he attacked a Special Olympics athlete with a baseball bat, causing a severe head injury.
Police in New Hampshire's largest city say the father and mother of a 7-year-old boy who shot himself in the leg are facing criminal charges.
