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A blue and gold Michigan State Police cruiser with a red roof beacon parked across a rural two lane road at sunset, yellow police tape strung across the foreground, a cut hay field and treeline behind it.

Five Killed Across Three Missaukee County Scenes Before the Suspect Was Found Dead

A 911 call from a house on LaChance Road just before noon on Friday…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

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A Nevada Judge Threw Out the Fake Electors Case Because the Defendants Never Hid What They Did

Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed forgery charges against six Nevada Republicans, ruling…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

Morning light falls across the terrazzo floor of an empty federal courthouse corridor lined with arched windows, a single closed banker's box of documents sitting on a wooden bench

The Justice Department Just Charged the Woman Who Spent Her Career Tracking Hate Groups

Federal agents arrested Heidi Beirich in California on Wednesday. She is the first individual…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 13

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Nick Reiner’s Indictment Adds Lying in Wait, and Erases the Hearing That Would Have Tested It

A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted Nick Reiner on July 20 in the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

Yellow police tape across a suburban street with two marked police SUVs and a white investigation van parked outside single-story houses

A Licensed Daycare in Hopkins Was Also Someone’s Home, and Three People Died Inside It

Police in Hopkins, Minnesota, were called to an in-home daycare on Wednesday morning and…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

A pole-mounted automated license plate reader camera with a small solar panel overlooking a quiet suburban street at dusk, a car's tail lights streaking past parked cars and houses

119,000 Cameras Are Reading American License Plates, and Cities Are Only Now Doing the Math

Over the past week, “flock camera map” became one of the most-searched phrases in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

Two National Guard soldiers in camouflage standing beside a tactical vehicle on a Washington DC sidewalk while commuters walk past without looking, US Capitol dome in the background

Trump’s D.C. Crime Emergency Turns One, and the Bill Now Runs to Inauguration Day 2029

A year ago Tuesday, the emergency in Washington was supposed to last 30 days.…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

A president in a navy suit and red tie seated at a desk in the Oval Office, holding open a leather folder with a signed document toward a crowd of press photographers

A Judge Blocked This Exact Childhood Vaccine Cut in March, and Trump Signed It Anyway

The executive order President Donald Trump signed on Monday cuts the federal childhood vaccine…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

Bashar al-Assad in a dark suit at the left of an empty Syrian courtroom, a vacant metal defendant cage standing behind him

Assad Was Sentenced to Death in Absentia, and Atef Najib Was the Only One in the Cage

A criminal court in Damascus sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday for crimes…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

A man in a navy suit and red tie raises his right hand and rests his left hand on a Bible during an Oval Office swearing-in, facing another man who reads the oath from a card

Todd Blanche Is Attorney General, and Trump’s Immunity Memo Outlived the Confirmation Fight

Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general at the White House on Monday,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

A four-story 1928 buff brick county courthouse with terracotta trim and a carved central entrance, set on a green lawn below pine-covered mountain slopes

Tyler Boebert Was Charged 30 Months After the Tip That Started the Case

Garfield County deputies arrested Tyler Boebert on Sunday on five felony counts, three of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

NYPD Harbor Unit and US Coast Guard boats sweep searchlights across dark choppy water near the illuminated Statue of Liberty at night, with an overturned white powerboat hull partially submerged in the foreground

Liberty Island Boat Capsizing Kills a Woman and an Infant as the Coast Guard Probes an Illegal Charter

A 22-foot pleasure boat carrying roughly 14 people capsized in New York Harbor late…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 9

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ICE Spent $30.9 Million on Body Cameras and Kept the Release Button for Itself

Tower cranes and steel framing rise over the cleared East Wing site beside the intact White House residence, behind green construction fencing

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom, but the East Wing Is Already Gone

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Meta Owes New Mexico $942 Million. The Part That Should Scare It Costs Nothing.

Two uniformed sheriff's deputies and a plainclothes agent speaking into a radio stand beside a white patrol SUV at a clifftop golf course overlooking the Pacific Ocean at sunset

The Man Arrested at Trump’s Golf Club Was Filming Security Prep. The Public Found Out Hours Before Trump Arrived.

Burned homes reduced to concrete foundations with brick chimneys and a street sign still standing on a scorched pine bluff above the Spokane River, smoke haze in the valley and firefighters in the distance

Police Stopped the Old Trails Fire Suspect Saturday With Matches in His Pocket. The Arrest Took Two Days.

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36 People, One Statute: How the DOJ Turned ICE Protests Into Federal Conspiracies

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HOA Foreclosures Jumped 40% Because the Associations Themselves Ran Out of Money

Twin barbed-wire border fences run down a hillside to a beach at Ceuta, with a rock breakwater extending into the Mediterranean and a patrol boat offshore

57 Died Reaching Ceuta. Spain Returned 48,300 People to Morocco Within Two Days.

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Artificial Intelligence

A $500 Fine in Las Vegas Shows Why AI Keeps Ending Up in Court Filings

A man in a dark navy suit walks alone down a sunlit marble corridor in a US Senate office building

Trump Would Rather Lose His Attorney General Than Limit His Own Tax Immunity

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes in dress uniform standing behind a lectern with his head lowered, American and Washington State flags behind him

Shon Barnes Was in Dallas When the Shooting Started, and Seattle Answered a Communications Failure by Firing Him

A gray-haired man in a dark navy inmate uniform sits with his head bowed at a wooden courtroom defense table, a judge visible on the bench behind him

Colin Gray Is the First Parent Convicted of Murder for a School Shooting, and He Got 15 Years

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Two Timelines Do Not Match in the Search for Liz Waddell, and Grenada Police Are Working Both

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A $500 Tax Dispute Just Cost Minocqua Brewing Its Permits, and That Is the Real Story

Author Salman Rushdie seated in a sunlit stone corridor, wearing tinted glasses with a darkened right lens after losing sight in that eye

Hadi Matar Convicted of Terrorism in the Rushdie Stabbing, and This Time the Case Turned on Why

Empty wood-paneled courtroom with a vacant jury box, an American flag beside the judge's bench, and a bare defense table with one chair pushed back

Colt Gray Gets Life Without Parole for the Apalachee Killings, and the Judge Called the Motive Fame

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Tennessee Grandmother Says Her Arrest Was Staged for a Reality TV Show. Her Lawsuit Exposes a System That Treats People Like Content.

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Amazon Prime’s $2.5 Billion FTC Settlement Deadline Is Today: How to Claim Your Refund Before It Expires