Feds charge 4 police officers in fatal Breonna Taylor raid
The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations.
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House Intelligence Committee Republicans say they will still have questions after the Justice Department’s expected release of the warrant that led to the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday fiercely pushed back against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s assertion that the Justice Department had no choice but to search his Florida residence.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations.
Senate Republicans introduced a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related to homicide, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses.
Infighting among House Democrats on Wednesday threw into disarray plans to pass gun control and police funding bills when the party’s far-left and Black members balked at giving more money to law enforcement.
People are increasingly getting away with murder in America’s big cities, with police saying they’re no longer able to roll low-level offenders to get them to snitch on the big targets.
Britain’s storied MI6 foreign intelligence service has retooled its operations with a major focus on the threat posed by China, the agency’s director said in rare public remarks Thursday.
The biggest wrinkle in President Biden’s new anti-crime plan is that the same plan didn’t work when former President Clinton tried it nearly 30 years ago.
Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd.
The U.S. Secret Service has handed over thousands of documents to the special Jan. 6 committee but has yet to recover a cache of missing text messages its agents exchanged on the day of the 2021 Capitol riot.
Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol even after an inspector general requested them as part of an investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog has found.
Casey White, an escaped convict who captured national attention during an 11-day manhunt earlier this year, is now charged with murder in the death of the woman who helped him escape.
A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde on Tuesday over surveillance footage of police officers in body armor milling in the hallway of Robb Elementary School while a gunman carried out a massacre inside a fourth-grade classroom where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Fairfax County Police shot and killed a man Thursday night inside a house in McLean.
Border Patrol agents didn’t whip or strike Haitian migrants last year, a lengthy internal affairs investigation concluded Friday, but some agents did use excessive force by positioning their horses in the Rio Grande to try to keep the migrants from reaching the U.S.
A federal appeals court has shot down the Biden administration’s request to revive its “priorities” policy for enforcing immigration law in the interior of the country — and delivered a scorching rebuttal to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
A tip from a “hero citizen” is responsible for preventing a mass shooting that was being planned for the Fourth of July celebration in Richmond, Virginia, authorities said Wednesday.
Suicide has quietly become an epidemic among the nation’s police, ranking as the No. 1 cause of officer deaths this year. Frustrated police advocates and mental health experts warn that President Biden has not only ignored the crisis but also exacerbated it with anti-police rhetoric.
The marshal of the Supreme Court requested the governors of Virginia and Maryland to enforce state laws against protesting outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices in the wake of the high court overturning the right to abortion.
The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
The crime wave across the U.S. exploded ahead of the notoriously violent Fourth of July weekend.
Attacks against police officers have skyrocketed, according to new figures.
House Republicans signaled on Thursday that the exploding crime rate in the District of Columbia might warrant congressional intervention if Mayor Muriel Bowser does not get serious about combating violence.
Former President Donald Trump urged the Secret Service to remove magnetometers at his rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, despite his supporters carrying deadly weapons, a former aide testified Tuesday.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that violence won’t be tolerated in the wake of the high court overturning the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, which gave women a national right to abortion — but he stressed the First Amendment protects peaceful protesting.
A former Army helicopter pilot has pleaded guilty to taking thousands of dollars from China to hand over aviation-related information from his work as a defense contractor.
The head of the Texas state police pronounced the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” telling lawmakers that there were enough officers and firepower on the scene to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building.
Republicans are preparing to take on Attorney General Merrick Garland if they win the House majority this year, including mulling impeachment, and several Department of Justice whistleblowers have come forward to help them.
The cellphone tracking tool that a federal agent allegedly used to track a former girlfriend may have been scuttled, but analysts say they fear police have even more invasive technology.
The House on Tuesday passed Senate-approved legislation to increase security for Supreme Court justices’ families, in the wake of an alleged attempt on the life of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Federal prosecutors revealed charges Tuesday against a deputy U.S. Marshal for allegedly using the government’s real-time cellphone tracking tool on people with whom he had a “personal relationship” and also their spouses.
A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed late Sunday while attempting to arrest a fugitive on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Oklahoma’s attorney general has asked the state’s highest appeals court to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates following a federal judge’s rejection of their challenge to the state’s lethal injection method.
President Biden on Friday said the Jan. 6 hearings that premiered in Congress late Thursday are important because the public needs to understand that the threat from pro-Trump forces remains real.
The FBI on Wednesday raided the Simi Valley, California, home of Nicholas John Roske, the man charged with attempted murder after he told police he planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, according to CBS Los Angeles.
Progressive activists are still planning to protest outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on the same day a man was arrested for planning to kill him over upcoming rulings on abortion and gun rights.
President Biden on Wednesday said that Tuesday night’s primary races sent a message that voters want elected officials to take a tough stance on crime.
Police arrested an armed man Wednesday morning outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, saying he confessed he was angry over the court’s looming decision on abortion and planned to kill the justice and himself.
An emergency dispatcher has been fired after being accused of mishandling a call from an employee inside the Buffalo, New York supermarket during last month’s shooting that killed 10 people.
The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a retired police officer wielding a fake badge, a BB gun and carrying ammunition near the Capitol on Friday morning, charging him with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition.
Special counsel John Durham’s stinging loss in federal court this week cast doubt over the future of his probe of U.S. intelligence community wrongdoing in pursuing Trump-Russia collusion theories, but the Durham team still has a narrow window in which to redeem themselves.
The white 18-year-old man accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was charged Wednesday by a grand jury with domestic terrorism motivated by hate and 10 counts of first-degree murder.
The FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies are not permitted to consider Chinese Americans as a greater security threat despite their targeting by China’s intelligence service for recruitment, according to a report made public Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The FBI has a rulebook restricting its agents’ actions, but it does not want the American people to know what it says.
Law enforcement authorities faced questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed a Texas elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.
President Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at bolstering police accountability and vowed to continue efforts to revamp police departments nationwide, despite Senate Democrats bailing on negotiations over sweeping police reform legislation last fall.
President Biden plans to sign an executive order Wednesday to bolster police accountability, sending a signal to Black voters and racial justice activists that Democrats haven’t given up on reforms, even if they can’t pass a bill in Congress.
A former business partner of the tech expert at the center of the criminal case against Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann testified Tuesday that he was asked to search internet data to tie associates of candidate Donald Trump to Russia.
Two U.S. Secret Service agents have been sent home ahead of President Biden’s first trip to Asia after an alleged drunken altercation while off-duty in South Korea.
The District of Columbia’s mayoral race is driven by a surge of violent crime in the city, with Democratic candidates pitching themselves as best equipped to restore law and order.
The pro-choice activist group leading protests outside the home of Supreme Court justices vowed not to stop its “civil disobedience” despite laws prohibiting the gathering outside of the justices’ homes.
The peril National Security Agency staff wanted to discuss with their director didn’t involve terrorists or enemy nations. It was something closer to home: the racism and cultural misunderstandings inside America’s largest intelligence service.
A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has announced the creation of a task force to craft policies to combat violent crime.