Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was charged Friday with making a false statement to the FBI about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The Washington Post says the case is “another monumental development” in the wide-ranging probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The charge...
Federal and state authorities across the country denied just 226,000 applications for gun permits or firearm transfers out of a total of 17 million received in 2015, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study. The number of rejections (1.4 percent) for 2015, the last year...
For three days last year, immigration officials detained a man who became a U.S. citizen more than 20 years ago despite repeated assertions of his citizenship, the Desert Sun reports. Sergio Carrillo of Rialto, Ca., was born in Mexico and became a citizen in 1994....
For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that at Wednesday’s oral argument in Carpenter v. United States, which asks whether the government must obtain a warrant for cell-site-location information, “[a]t least six justices seemed keen to widen the Fourth Amendment umbrella for the digital age, but...
A homeless man whose undocumented immigration status intensified a national debate over sanctuary laws was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges Thursday in the shooting of Kate Steinle as she strolled with her father on San Francisco’s Pier 14 in 2015, the San Francisco Chronicle...
A homeless man whose undocumented immigration status intensified a national debate over sanctuary laws was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges Thursday in the shooting of Kate Steinle as she strolled with her father on San Francisco’s Pier 14 in 2015, the San Francisco Chronicle...