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Two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material into the United States for use at the University of Michigan will remain in custody after waiving their right to a hearing Friday in federal court. Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han said in separate court appearances in Detroit that they would not challenge the government’s request to keep them locked up while their cases move forward. “This is a constantly evolving situation involving a large number of factors,” Han’s attorney, Sara Garber, told a judge. She didn’t elaborate and later declined to comment. Han was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan...

A top Homeland Security official lambasted Rep. Maxine Waters for "lies" about the peacefulness of the riots and her efforts to force entry into a detention center to meet a detained union leader. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital on Monday that access to the Los Angeles detention facility was "temporarily restricted" to ensure the safety of both detainees and uniformed personnel – when Waters hurried toward a group of guardsmen entering a plywood-protected door to the building over the weekend. The 86-year-old, 18-term Democrat approached the guardsmen saying, "Hello, hello, hello — I’m Congresswoman Waters," but the...

No update on the seven yutes seen on camera jostling open a door and 11 escaping, with 4 being recaptured soon after. Authorities suspect that family members are helping hiding the escapees. And we all pay for such insight!

New Orleans officials provided an update on multiple (reportedly 10 or 11) inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Only one of the inmates has been apprehended. The rest are still at large. Officials are reporting that the inmates may have had help from staff insight the jail. Three employees have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

A new bill requires parents to report themselves to their local school district, and parents who do not will be considered truant.. Homeschool parents would face fines, misdemeanor charges and even jail time if they do not report themselves to local public school officials, under a new proposal from Illinois Democrats. Parents also would be required to provide public school officials with a “portfolio” of their children’s work at any time, at any interval and frequency, until that portfolio meets the public school’s satisfaction. The bill, dubbed the “Homeschool Act,” requires parents to report themselves in writing to local school...

Tina Peters was once the Clerk and Recorder of Mesa County, Colorado, and was in charge of county elections. Now she is serving a nine-year term in a Colorado prison. Her crime? She identified the unauthorized destruction of voter information that took place in two consecutive county elections: the November 2020 election and a local election held in early 2021. In each case, there is irrefutable evidence showing that the election database had been removed and subsequently reinstalled, minus information needed to identify the voter intent of thousands of ballots. Peters, who is a matronly gold star mother, was concerned...

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is urging his groupies to limit the number of photos they send him in jail. Women have been deluging the accused assassin with pictures using popular apps like Shutterfly. The Independent reports that Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the high-profile murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has made a public plea to his groupies, requesting them to refrain from sending an excessive number of photographs. The 26-year-old, who was arrested in December for allegedly gunning down Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, has garnered a significant following since his...

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Welcome to CECOT, the world’s largest prison by capacity in El Salvador which was constructed to imprison the worst of the worst. Those who enter this prison are destined to never leave here. This is the world’s strictest and largest mega prison. It has a capacity of 40,000. Built in 2022, this massive prison is made up of eight separate modules spread over 410 acres of land. Each pair of modules is enclosed by two separate 3-meter-high walls with razor wire. The entire facility is surrounded by a towering 9-meter-high wall with a 3-meter-high electric fence carrying 15,000 volts. Nineteen...

President Donald Trump has restored single-sex prisons, sending male inmates who identify as women back to men’s facilities. The approximately 1,500 male federal prisoners who identify as women will now be sent to men’s facilities in the wake of President Trump’s executive order establishing single-sex prisons, according to a report by the New York Times. President Trump’s executive order, titled, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” also ends transgender-related medical procedures for prison inmates. The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a feminist organization that advocates for single-sex prisons and raises awareness about incarcerated...

Multiple lawmakers visited the Washington, D.C., jail to demand the release of pardoned January 6 rioters. Conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) members Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Chip Roy of Texas and Eli Crane of Arizona were among some of the MAGA-friendly members that visited the jail Tuesday. 'We hope they are going to be released shortly,' Roy said speaking outside of the jail on the conservative show Real America's Voice. 'A pardon is a pardon.' MAGA diehard Lauren Boebert even offered the soon-to-be released defendants a private tour of the Capitol. 'These men have already paid too much time, more...

Mozzy Clark, a former inmate who was jailed in a Washington state facility, recently filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections, accusing state employees and officials of ignoring her pleas for safety after they allowed a violent, six-foot-four-inch man to be her cellmate all because he said he was a woman; they also reportedly tried to silence Clark by threatening that if she were to press on or go public with her ordeal, she may be guilty of a “hate crime.”Here’s the story, from a report at Fox News:The 35-year-old Christopher Scott Williams, who has not changed his...

In this startling true crime case, a Kentucky sheriff allegedly guns down a longtime judge inside his courthouse chambers, igniting a firestorm of questions. Newly surfaced evidence points to a lurid web of extortion, coerced sex-for-freedom arrangements, and corruption involving the judge, deputies, and home incarceration programs. The sheriff’s sudden act followed the chilling discovery of his teenage daughter’s number in the judge’s phone, raising alarming questions about motive and the murky depths of these alleged sex-for-favors schemes. Watch for a full breakdown of the shocking incident, the “extreme emotional disturbance” defense, and the explosive allegations rocking this Appalachian community.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said that if President-elect Donald Trump had his Department of Justice go after political enemies, it would be “banana republic stuff.” When asked about January 6 committee members potentially being prosecuted, Goldman said, “Donald Trump’s entire purpose with his selection for the FBI is to do just that and to jail his political enemies, that’s banana republic stuff. It’s not just bad for the political enemies and for a political system, is undermines our entire rule of law. It undermines the credibility of every single prosecution that’s out there, and you...

Liz Cheney, a former member of the partisan January 6 Committee, said Monday that she should not go to jail for allegedly destroying 117 of the panel’s files. President-elect Donald Trump accused members of the partisan panel on Sunday of destroying committee evidence that he said exonerated him from allegations of wrongdoing. The accusation came after Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the House Administration Committee’s oversight investigation, said in January his computer forensic investigators discovered that 117 files went missing, presumably deleted or encrypted by the panel’s members.

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first post-election TV interview, promised a confrontational return to the White House, saying he would like to see many of those who investigated him jailed, including lawmakers who led an inquiry into his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. **SNIP** In a 45-minute interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday and was recorded on Friday, Trump said members of the now-defunct House select committee tasked with investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol should be in jail. “Everybody on that committee … for what they...

CNN host Kasie Hunt was visibly stunned by incoming border czar Tom Homan’s recent statement that he’d jail one Democratic mayor who said he may not comply with the second Trump administration’s deportation plans. After playing a clip Wednesday morning of Homan saying he’s “willing to put” Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in jail for declaring he will not deport illegal immigrants living in his city — Johnston had said himself he was willing to be arrested for his defiant stance — Hunt looked visibly disturbed and described the rhetoric as “more extreme” than that on the Trump campaign trail.

Questions are being raised after a convicted murderer was caught with a loaded gun inside the Harris County Jail on Tuesday morning. The video above is from ABC13's 24/7 livestream. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said jailers at the 1200 Baker Street facility discovered the gun hidden inside a seat cushion on inmate Tyrone King's wheelchair after getting an anonymous tip. "It's something that amazes and astounds me and ought to make us go, 'Come on now,'" legal analyst Brian Wice said. King was serving time in prison for a 1995 murder conviction but was later paroled. He was arrested...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” incoming Border Czar Tom Homan stated that he agrees with Denver Mayor Mike Johnston because “He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.” And that sanctuary jurisdictions are violating the law. Host Sean Hannity asked, “Tom, you heard this Mayor out there in Colorado. I want to get your reaction to it, and I want you to be clear about who has jurisdiction, the federal government or state and local governments, and if you’re a sanctuary state or city, are you breaking the law?”

(The Center Square) – Noncitizens, including those in the country illegally, are committing crimes, and they’re being charged, imprisoned and convicted for them in Texas. A new report by the Texas Department of Public Safety highlights the extent of criminal charges...The data, covering roughly 13 years from June 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2024, represents “the minimum number of crimes associated with criminal illegal noncitizens” charged with committing state offenses.... In the first category, criminal noncitizens previously known to DHS, more than 443,000 were booked into local Texas jails during the timeframe evaluated. The majority, 314,000, were in the country...