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An arrest warrant has been issued for a 24-year-old man who authorities say posted social media video of himself licking ice cream from a carton in Texas and returning it to a supermarket freezer
The will that Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577 million in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult for his dozens of accusers to collect damages.
Declaring the criminal justice system ruined by pervasive racism and “corporate profiteering,” Sen. Bernard Sanders proposed a massive overhaul Sunday that would free many drug convicts, abolish the death penalty and solitary confinement, and promote an unarmed “civilian corps” to replace the police for lower-level calls.
A Las Vegas man accused of plotting to firebomb a synagogue or bar catering to LGBT customers also allegedly planned an attack on a fast-food restaurant.
The New York City medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s death a suicide Friday, confirming after nearly a week of speculation that the financier hanged himself in his jail cell.
From dousing police with water to doxxing immigration agents to attacking detention centers, it’s been a long, hot summer for law enforcement, and the inflammatory political rhetoric on the left isn’t helping.
Federal prosecutors opened the trial of Greg Craig on Thursday by painting the former top lawyer in the Obama White House as a man so intent on protecting his reputation that he was willing to lie about his work for a foreign government.
Democratic presidential hopeful Cory A. Booker on Thursday released a plan intended to combat hate crimes and white supremacist violence that includes a new White House office devoted to the issue and collaboration with social media and online platforms.
Deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly suffered injuries to his neck that are more common in homicides than suicides, according to the autopsy.
Michael Avenatti, the one-time Trump nemesis, asked a federal judge Wednesday to toss the criminal case against him in New York, saying he’s getting a bum rap because of his “feud” with President Trump.
The FBI dismissed claims by two former intelligence community inspector general employees who claimed China may have hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server, according to a report released Wednesday by two Republican senators.
“His commander in chief is telling people that if they kneel, they should be fired, or if they burn a flag, they should be punished,” said Lance Jasper, attorney for Curt Brockway.
Attorney General William P. Barr on Tuesday reassigned the warden of the federal jail where sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead over the weekend.
Attorney General William P. Barr said Monday there were “serious irregularities” at the Manhattan jail where wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead over the weekend, and he vowed to get to the bottom of the situation.
Legal scholars say police departments considering the use of facial recognition tools should think twice given Supreme Court rulings curtailing warrantless tracking with high-tech machinery.
The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released, but medical officials have performed an autopsy on the high-profile inmate accused of sexually abusing underage girls and paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for massages.
Attorney General William P. Barr on Saturday said there are unanswered questions about the death of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in federal custody while awaiting sex trafficking charges in New York.
The suspect in a Southern California stabbing rampage that left four people dead and two injured pleaded not guilty Friday to murder, attempted murder and other counts.
Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who compiled the salacious anti-Trump dossier that sparked the Russia investigation, feared congressional inquiries, according to new documents released Thursday night.
President Trump has named Joseph Maguire, the current director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as acting national intelligence director.
Sue Gordon, deputy director of national intelligence, will follow the former director in leaving the Trump administration.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging his firing last year was retaliation for the bureau’s probe into alleged ties between members of President Trump’s campaign and Russia.
A man who was “full of anger” stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities in a bloody rampage that killed four people and wounded two others who were apparently targeted at random, authorities said.
Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a white Missouri police officer stands as a seismic moment in American race relations. The fledgling Black Lives Matter movement found its voice, police departments fell under intense scrutiny, progressive prosecutors were elected and court policies revised.
President Trump is likely to commute the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in part because of his disgust with the “Comey gang” who prosecuted the Illinois Democrat.
The attorney for a Montana man accused of throwing a 13-year-old boy to the ground at a rodeo because the teenager didn’t remove his hat during the national anthem said Wednesday his client believes he was acting on an order from President Trump.
The federal judge who has handled most of the high-profile cases that came out of the Mueller probe will also oversee anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok’s wrongful termination lawsuit, according to a court order Wednesday.
President Trump, senior members of Congress and others labeled this weekend’s mass shootings as domestic terrorism. Yet there is no official crime by that name.
Democrats blaming President Trump for last weekend’s mass shootings saw their argument continue to unravel Tuesday as more details emerged indicating that the suspected gunmen held some avowedly left-wing views.
Some Trump campaign associates have sent letters to the Justice Department’s special Trump-Russia investigator, complaining about how former special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI conducted the nearly three-year investigation.
Prosecutors say Justin Hiemstra and a second defendant were students at Haverford College outside Philadelphia when they tried to access President Trump’s tax returns.
A veteran FBI agent who wrote derogatory text messages about Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the bureau caved to “unrelenting pressure” from the president when it fired him.
Cyntoia Brown, championed by celebrities as a symbol of unfair sentencing, was released early Wednesday from the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was a 16-year-old prostitute.
The Florida man who mailed 16 packages of inoperable pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN will learn his punishment.
The New York Police Department suspended Officer Daniel Pantaleo on Friday after an administrative judge recommended he be fired for his role in the video recorded “I can’t breathe” death of Eric Garner five years ago.
The widow of Eric Garner, who was killed unarmed in 2014 during a scuffle with a New York City police officer, expressed doubt Friday that Mayor Bill de Blasio will follow through with his presidential debate promise to get justice for her late husband.
President Trump said he was surprised by a report that the Justice Department won’t prosecute former FBI Director James B. Comey for allegedly violating laws on handling classified information.
The FBI has identified conspiracy theories, including those espoused by QAnon, as a domestic terrorism threat, according to report Thursday.
Sen. Cory A. Booker on Thursday said that former Vice President Joseph R. Biden hasn’t had the “courage” to own up and admit that tough-on-crime policies Mr. Biden championed in the past have negatively affected the U.S.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii made it clear Wednesday that she is not enamored with Sen. Kamala D. Harris’ background as a prosecutor, accusing the California Democrat of failing to stand up for people when it mattered most.
Fired FBI Director James B. Comey told agents he appeared to have lost track of two memos he kept detailing conversations with President Trump, according to new documents revealed Wednesday by Judicial Watch.
Rep. John Ratcliffe promises as the nation’s top spy to accelerate President Trump’s effort to find out how the FBI began investigating him, aided by the unfounded Democratic Party-financed dossier.
A Wisconsin man suspected of killing four people may have tried to imitate the abduction last year of teenager Jayme Closs by shooting his way into the home of a family he didn’t know, authorities said Tuesday.
The body of 1930s gangster John Dillinger is set to be exhumed from an Indianapolis cemetery more than 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents.
Two refugees from Somalia were arrested as they prepared to board a flight from Arizona to Egypt, where they planned to join the Islamic State, federal authorities announced Monday.
Joseph R. Biden was the floor general for the crime bill as it moved through the Senate in 1993, imploring his fellow lawmakers to “take back the streets” from thugs who had imperiled the safety of average Americans.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday urged residents, businesses and organizations to the participate in the city’s Private Security Camera System Incentive Program in an effort to prevent crime and help police capture criminals.
Before a 19-year-old gunman opened fire on a famed garlic festival in his California hometown, he urged his Instagram followers to read a 19th century book popular with white supremacists on extremist websites, but his motives for killing two children and another young man were still a mystery Monday.
President Trump granted clemency Monday to seven people convicted of a variety of crimes, such as drug trafficking and weapons charges, and included an Arkansas man who was accused of Medicaid fraud in connection with his faith-based health treatment center.
Key House Democrats said last week their investigation into President Trump essentially has become an impeachment inquiry, as they hope to persuade a federal court to approve their request to see secret grand jury information.
President Trump announced Sunday afternoon that Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats will be stepping down and that he’s picking a Texas congressman to replace him.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is set to introduce a bill that would prevent the Justice Department from reinstating the death penalty.
A day after authorities captured a man they say fatally shot his father, brother and two other people during a 12-hour rampage across Los Angeles’ sprawling San Fernando Valley, they were still struggling to answer a key question: What set him off?
Members of the Montgomery County Council are questioning County Executive Marc Elrich’s decision to pass over acting police Chief Marcus Jones and nominate Tonya Chapman, a former police chief in Portsmouth, Virginia, to lead the county’s troubled police force.
