A twice-announced nationwide sweep of immigrants and refugees has not materialized, yet, but the mere prospect of it has prompted legions of pastors, rabbis and their congregations across the United States to offer sanctuary and other services to families who fear deportation.
Read moreA new batch of Michael Cohen search-warrant materials made public Thursday details the actions of the president’s former fixer after the release of the “Access Hollywood” video threatened to derail Donald Trump’s campaign. Within days of the release, according to the warrants, Cohen exchanged a “series of calls, text messages and emails” with Trump, his then-press secretary Hope Hicks; the National Enquirer’s David Pecker; and Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Keith Davidson.
Read moreThe first time a tranche of search warrants against former Trump fixer Michael Cohen became public, U.S. prosecutors aggressively redacted those materials to protect what was then an ongoing campaign-finance probe.
Read moreFor the second time this year, immigrant communities and advocacy groups braced for deportation raids that began Sunday across the nation as promised by President Donald Trump, who telegraphed the federal immigration activity via Twitter last month.
Read moreOn the cusp of raids set to sweep up thousands of immigrant families on Sunday, resistance to the planned mass arrests have been popping out all over. Even among Immigration and Customs Enforcement rank and file, agents are reportedly voicing unease about arresting babies and young children.
Read moreFederal agents descended on the suburban Maryland house with the flash and bang of a stun grenade, blocked off the street and spent hours questioning the homeowner about a theft of government documents that prosecutors would later describe as “breathtaking” in its scale.
Read moreFederal officials seized 33,000 pounds of cocaine from a ship at Philadelphia’s port in one of the largest drug busts in American history. They said the haul could have been worth more than $1 billion on the street.
Read moreThe San Francisco police chief said Tuesday that he respects the news media, but a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by officers had “crossed the line” by joining a conspiracy to steal a confidential report.
Read moreOn the second day of a trial over claims that Berkeley, California, targeted homeless campers for their speech, witnesses Tuesday described how police repeatedly raided their camps and seized their property as they grew more vocal in opposing city policies.
Read moreA freelance journalist is vowing to protect his source after San Francisco police raided his home and office while keeping him handcuffed for several hours as part of a criminal investigation, according to a newspaper report.
Read moreFBI and IRS agents conducted sweeping raids Thursday morning on Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, searching both of the Democrat’s homes as well as her offices at city hall, the offices of a nonprofit with which she is associated and the office of her personal lawyer.
Read moreMexican police and immigration agents detained hundreds of Central American migrants Monday in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through the country last year.
Read moreThai authorities have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner, who sought to be pioneers in the “seasteading” movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation’s laws. They could faith the death penalty.
Read moreSwedish authorities were raiding the headquarters of one of Sweden’s largest banks on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether Swedbank was connected to a massive money laundering scandal in the Baltic countries.
Read moreSeven slaughterhouse workers who were caught up in a workplace immigration raid in Tennessee last year filed a class action Thursday against the federal agents who carried it out, claiming they were racially profiled and arrested using a warrant that only authorized a search for documents.
Read moreSiding with major news outlets, a federal judge ordered prosecutors on Thursday to release redacted copies of the search warrants justifying the raids on President Donald Trump’s prison-bound former attorney Michael Cohen.
Read moreA Palestinian broadcasting corporation says masked gunmen have raided its studios in the Gaza Strip.
Read moreFBI agents raided the home and office of a Los Angeles City Council member Wednesday morning under the authority of a federal search warrant.
Read moreInvestors are asking a South Florida judge to freeze mobile-app developer Stocket’s account and appoint a corporate monitor in the wake of a purported FBI raid on the company’s offices.
Read moreTwenty-one alleged gang members were arrested and 26 were charged Thursday after 228 guns were seized from a home in Lakeside, northeast of San Diego
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