President Donald Trump removed Roger Rogoff as the top federal prosecutor in Seattle on Thursday, less than an hour after Rogoff was unanimously appointed and sworn in by federal judges in the Western District of Washington. Rogoff, a former judge and veteran prosecutor, said he received an email from the...
PHOENIX, Arizona, began opening statements this week in the trial of a man accused of shooting Phoenix Police Officer Tyler Moldovan eight times, including once in the head, in a 2018 incident that left the officer critically injured. Jury selection wrapped up on Monday, nearly five years after the shooting,...
Texas, United States, has enacted a new state law requiring minors to obtain verifiable parental approval before downloading apps from digital app stores, affecting major platforms such as Apple’s App Store and Google Play. Lawmakers framed the measure as a child-safety initiative intended to give parents greater oversight of their...
U.S. forces launched a new wave of intensive airstrikes against Iranian military targets early Wednesday, July 16, in a marked escalation of regional hostilities centered on the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said the 6:00 a.m. ET operation hit Iranian coastal defense systems, cruise missile storage facilities, and launch...
NEW YORK — A 28-year-old Mexican national was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer in Florida after fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the Associated Press reported, citing federal officials. The incident occurred on Tuesday outside a gas station near St. Augustine, where the man was sitting in a vehicle...
Texas officials opened investigations this week after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, with Gov. Greg Abbott directing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to ask the state attorney general to probe two Rio Grande Valley hospitals — Mission Regional Medical Center in Mission and Knapp Medical Center...
At a defense summit held Wednesday at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump focused on rebuilding U.S. weapon stockpiles strained by ongoing military operations in Iran. Organized by Republican Senator David McCormick, the event drew senior military leaders, administration officials, and defense industry executives to...
The U.S. Treasury Department has frozen more than $130 million in cryptocurrency assets linked to the Central Bank of Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced. Officials said the funds were distributed across multiple digital wallets identified as directly connected to Iran’s central bank and used to support illicit financial transactions...
Houston. Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said Tuesday his office is conducting an independent investigation and is "more than prepared" to prosecute federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents if evidence shows criminal wrongdoing in the July 7 fatal shooting of Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, in an interview in...
New York. Maine Democrats criticized Republican Sen. Susan Collins after a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a motorist just south of Maine’s largest city on Monday; officials said the agents were not using body cameras and the victim, a 26-year-old Colombian national, was not the target. Portland-area authorities...
