The bizarre case of a Kansas sheriff’s department that mistook tomato plants and loose-leaf tea for evidence of a marijuana grow and accordingly launched a SWAT-style raid on an innocent suburban family will return to a lower court for a third crack at a judgment.
Read moreBlasting courthouse immigration raids as antithetical to public safety, New York prosecutors announced a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security.
Read moreThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI in federal court for information on the raid on the California home of reporter Bryan Carmody.
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Anti-Taliban raids by Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes killed at least 40 civilians attending a wedding party in the southern Helmand province, Afghan officials said.
Read moreA former Houston policeman who prosecutors say made false statements in a warrant, leading to a drug raid in which a married couple were shot to death by police was charged with two counts of murder Friday.
Read moreActresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi.
Read moreMore court documents unsealed Tuesday indicate a San Francisco judge signed off on a police raid of a freelance journalist’s home despite knowing the man is a member of the press.
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The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not.
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Effects of the largest immigration raid in at least a decade are likely to ripple for years through six Mississippi small towns that host poultry plants.
Read morePolice used records of a journalist’s private communications with a confidential source, obtained by a now-quashed search warrant, to secure permission to raid the reporter’s home and office, two judges revealed in court Friday.
Read moreSiding with a lower court, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is immune from civil liability in a U.S. court for commanding a 2010 raid on a humanitarian flotilla that left 10 people dead in the Mediterranean Sea.
Read moreA 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.
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