A federal grand jury in North Carolina charged James Comey with threatening President Trump after he posted a beach photo showing seashells spelling out '86 47' on Instagram last May.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, long regarded as America's foremost tracker of extremist groups, now faces federal fraud charges after prosecutors say it covertly paid KKK leaders, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists millions in donor money.
Federal prosecutors acknowledged in a March 2026 court filing that the legal guidance they had cited repeatedly to justify arresting immigrants at immigration court hearings never actually applied to those settings — withdrawing portions of four court briefs and correcting statements made at oral argument, while a federal judge ordered the government to preserve all relevant records.
A former U.S. Army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb in Afghanistan has pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges stemming from a June 2025 anti-ICE demonstration in Spokane, Washington — with his trial set for May 18, 2026, and the acting U.S. attorney who declined to sign the indictment having resigned rather than proceed with the case.
A sweeping federal crackdown led to the arrest of twelve members and associates of 18th Street, Los Angeles's largest street gang, on charges that include murder, racketeering, extortion, and the fentanyl and methamphetamine trade that federal prosecutors say turned MacArthur Park into one of the most dangerous open-air drug markets in the city.
A federal jury in Brooklyn found Pakistani national Asif Merchant guilty of murder for hire after he was caught recruiting what he believed were contract killers to eliminate three prominent U.S. political figures at the direction of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
