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Hip-hop’s “Bad Boy” billionaire Sean “Diddy” Combs is drawing comparisons to the late sex-trafficking financier Jeffrey Epstein, who used his power and connections to lure young women and girls to a private island, allegedly along with a network of wealthy friends. Now Combs is facing federal sex trafficking charges himself along with racketeering and other counts. His arrest at a …

The Justice Department filed a $100 million lawsuit on Tuesday against the owner and operator of the Dali vessel that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which subsequently collapsed. The civil claim, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, targets Singaporean corporations Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, which owned and operated …

The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly published new guidelines addressing limits on when and how jurisdictions may remove voters from their voter rolls last week, a move to “intimidate” state and local election officials, says former DOJ attorney Gene Hamilton. “This is what I perceive as an attempt by the Department of Justice and Civil Rights Division to intimidate state …

A veteran Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who used his position to drug and sexually assault more than two dozen women while posted around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Wednesday. The sentence was handed down to Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, a La Mesa, California, resident, following an emotional hearing in which his victims described …

A Pakistani national with alleged close ties to Iran pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges accusing him of plotting to have U.S. politicians assassinated on U.S. soil. Asif Merchant, also known as “Asif Raza Merchant,” pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Brooklyn federal court in New York on Monday. He was indicted Sept. 10 with attempting to commit …

For the last 50 years, Gabe Briguglio has been known as one of the killers of labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Now 85 years old, he is the last FBI suspect still alive and, after all these decades, has high-powered help to try and finally clear his name. “This man has been a victim for half-a-century. He did nothing wrong,” …

A tiny, cheap device known as a “Glock switch” or a “machine gun conversion device” allows criminals to convert a handgun into a machine gun and unleash 30-plus rounds in seconds, federal authorities say. Officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) are sounding the alarm about these devices, which can be made on a 3D printer …

Two Colombian nationals will serve lengthy prison sentences for conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. soldiers by detonating a car bomb outside a military base near the Colombia-Venezuela border, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Colombian nationals Andrés Fernando Medina Rodriguez, 40, and Ciro Alfonso Gutiérrez Ballesteros, 31, were sentenced to 35 and 30 years in prison, respectively, for their involvement …

The House of Representatives is voting on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his failure to produce audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Biden. Hur’s findings cleared Biden of wrongdoing in his handling of classified documents but also said the 81-year-old president presented himself “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man …

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is vowing to force a vote on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s arrest if the Department of Justice (DOJ) fails to act on a criminal contempt resolution backed by House GOP leaders. Luna told Fox News Digital on Tuesday evening that she would plan to force a vote on her “inherent contempt” resolution against Garland …