Courts, cops, killers and the cases the country is watching.
According to DHS, a Venezuelan man arrested on Constitution Avenue told Secret Service officers that voices directed him to Washington to kill the president. Officers reportedly found a rifle and handguns in a car reported stolen.
A Georgia man pardoned in January 2025 after a Jan. 6-related guilty plea is charged in federal court in Atlanta with threatening to execute judges who handled Jan. 6 cases. Prosecutors cite an October post that named Nov. 4 as the day "firing squads" would begin.
A bystander was shot in the shoulder outside the Republican Party of Virginia's Richmond offices days before Election Day. Police and the party say it appears unrelated to the party's operations.
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander to 30 years apiece for a sex-trafficking conspiracy that Courthouse News reports ran from 2009 to 2017. The terms are twice the maximum the defense sought and short of the life terms prosecutors wanted.
A Virginia judge granted a $2,500 bond for the man police say took a sledgehammer to the Iwo Jima memorial in Quantico. It emerged at Monday's hearing that ICE had lodged a detainer against him, and no ICE pickup has been reported.
A 32-year-old Brooklyn woman is charged after an alleged syringe attack on a young rabbi in Midtown Manhattan. Reports say a second Jewish man was also stabbed, but the timing and many details remain unconfirmed.
The Justice Department alleges a 42-year-old contractor with Top Secret clearance accessed classified reports beyond his duties and passed them to a romantic partner who runs a Substack. He is charged by complaint and presumed innocent.
A 70-year-old Florida-licensed attorney is accused, in a criminal complaint reported by WLOX, of asking a Mississippi gun shop whether a gun could pierce body armor and talking about shooting ICE agents. The shop's owner denied the sale and reported her to the ATF.
A Massachusetts judge has refused Lindsay Clancy's lawyer a hearing into the juror at the center of her mistrial. Fox News reported that the judge found the grounds surfaced only after the mistrial; we have not read the order.
Two 15-year-old girls were arrested two weeks apart after the FBI flagged their social media discussions to police, who told KTLA the girls made specific plans for a possible revenge attack at Corona High School in Southern California.
Florida put William Reaves, 77, to death Tuesday for the 1986 killing of Indian River County Deputy Richard Raczkowski. It was the state's 18th execution of the year, one short of the record set in 2025.
A 24-year-old from Clearwater, Kansas, is charged with threatening the president over Facebook comments that allegedly said he wanted to shoot Trump and had mapped out roofs near his Wichita speech. Everything in the case so far is allegation, drawn from secondary reports of the complaint.
