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Donald Trump is planning on sending migrants to the controversial prison Guantanamo Bay where inmates have been 'tortured', ...

A former Navy detective and El Cajon police officer who choked a handcuffed Navy sailor at Naval Base San Diego to the point of unconsciousness was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was ...

FBI interviewed David Headley for information. He was also an informant for DEA, which, along with CIA, may have used him to ...

Lopez, 30 of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico with ties to a Mexican cartel has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced in February 2025 that a Phoenix-area pharmacist was sentenced in a health care fraud ...

Russia has allegedly detained another American citizen on charges of transporting marijuana, similar to those faced by Marc ...

The trajectory of R. Kelly's dramatic fall from grace has taken another definitive turn as a federal appeals court delivered a devastating blow to ...

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put ...