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  Second Circuit Joins Courts That Recognize First Amendment "Right to Record Law Enforcement Activity in Public"

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  From today's decision in Massimino v. Benoit , written by Judge Myrna Pérez and joined by Sarah Merriam: We begin by joining a growing chorus of [eight of] our sister circuits that have recognized a First Amendment right to record law enforcement activity in public. { See Glik v. Cunniffe , 655 F.3d 78, 82 (1st Cir. 2011); Fields v. City of Philadelphia , 862 F.3d 353, 360 (3d Cir. 2017); Sharpe v

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  ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

  Aug 17, 2026 ·PBS NewsHour(Lean left)

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct.

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  One of Congress’ Most Scandal-Plagued Republicans May Be About to Lose His Primary

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in central Florida will decide whether Rep. Cory Mills should once again be their party’s nominee for Congress. In doing so, they will weigh the value of the congressman’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” from President Donald Trump versus the reality of voting for a man whose past 18 months look like this: February 2025: Washington, DC, police nearly arrest M

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  ICE calls out ‘depraved freak’ illegal immigrant deported after heinous crime in Dem-run state

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  The Department of Homeland Security called out a "depraved freak" sex offender and illegal immigrant whom the agency said it recently deported after he abused his own daughter in Democrat-run Virginia Records from the Albemarle County Circuit Criminal Division show Mexican national Marcelo Vasquez Reyna was convicted in March after pleading guilty to a charge involving a parent violating a child b

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  Hayden Panettiere autopsy finds no signs of trauma

  Aug 17, 2026 ·NewsNation(Center)

  Police say "Nashville" and "Heroes" star, who died at 36, was found in cardiac arrest.

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  Mexican man punched through closet wall to attack Georgia teen: Police

  Aug 17, 2026 ·NewsNation(Center)

  Police commend the 15-year-old girl for making a commotion and fighting off her attacker to alert witnesses to call 911

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  The International Underwear Model Who Stormed the Capitol Is Now Running for Congress

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  When Florida congressional candidate John Strand introduces himself to potential voters, he starts with his criminal record. “I’m John Strand, patriot for Congress, the J6 hostage who went to prison on principle so that you don’t have to,” he said at a January debate hosted by the Women’s Republican Club of Naples Federated. The former international underwear model spent about a year in federal pr

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  ‘Back Behind Bars’: Career Drug Dealer Freed By Joe Biden Arrested Again

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  A drug dealer let off the hook by President Joe Biden was arrested with a large stash of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Walter Lee Muhammad, granted clemency in the final months of the Biden presidency, faces drug trafficking charges after police say he was arrested with 25 kilograms of cocaine, seven kilograms of heroin, and four kilograms of fentanyl. Biden cut the Atlanta-based Muhammad’s 10-ye

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  Capitol agenda: Congress tries again to police itself

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Politico(Lean left)

  Reps. Kat Cammack and Teresa Leger Fernández are leading a bipartisan effort to fundamentally change how sexual misconduct and other bad behavior in Congress is investigated and eradicated. But the goal of changing Congress’ workplace culture could hit a wall of longstanding lawmaker resistance to putting the tools in place to better police themselves. The duo has been working on legislation for m

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  Is Congress up for an ethics overhaul?

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Politico(Lean left)

  A bipartisan House effort is underway to fundamentally change how sexual misconduct and other bad behavior on Capitol Hill is identified, investigated and eradicated. But the widely-held goal of transforming the workplace culture of Congress could quickly run up against longstanding lawmaker resistance to tools necessary to police themselves, with some worried it will turn into another avenue for

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  911 Call Reveals New Clue In Hayden Panettiere’s Shocking Death At 36

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Audio from the 911 call related to the death of “Nashville” actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, shows that she was discovered unresponsive from an apparent cardiac arrest. According to a report from entertainment site TMZ , law enforcement received a call about an “unresponsive female” at 1:51 p.m. Sunday and were dispatched to a Greenville, South Carolina apartment. Responding paramedics administered

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  Brickbat: Running With a Rough Crowd

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  In England, former Merseyside police officer Daniel Hughes was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, after being convicted of eight counts of unauthorized access to computer material and three counts of knowingly disclosing personal data without consent. Between 2016 and 2019, Hughes repeatedly used police computer systems to look up information about his friends who were invo

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  NYPD Shoots, Kills Man Who Lunged At Officers With Butcher Knife

  Aug 16, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  NYPD officers shot and killed a man who police say charged at them with a butcher knife inside a Lower East Side apartment building Sunday afternoon, according to police. Officers responded to the building around 4 p.m. following multiple 911 calls reporting a domestic dispute, assault, and a person armed with a weapon. When officers arrived, they found blood on the stairs inside the building, acc

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  I Arrested Laken Riley's Killer 6 Months Before Her Murder

  Aug 16, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  Ethan Curreri is a former New York City police officer who arrested Laken Riley's killer for a lesser crime six months before the illegal migrant was released a€” thanks to New York's sanctuarya€¦

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  Iranian Prisoner Refuses Regime Order To Film Video Trashing Trump

  Aug 16, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  An Iranian psychologist who publicly urged President Donald Trump to stand by anti-regime protesters has been sentenced to seven months in prison, and his family says authorities tried to force him to record a video insulting Trump and the American people, Fox News Digital reported Saturday. Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, a 32-year-old psychologist and counselor from Borujen who had been living in Te

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  Advocate tells freed Marine vet's physical, psychological torment in Russian prison as 5 Americans remain held

  Aug 15, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  Kieran Ramsey, the chief investigative officer for Global Reach, detailed the horrific conditions U.S. Marine veteran Robert Gilman experienced while wrongfully detained by Russia and urged the immediate release of five other Americans held in Russia in an interview with Fox News Digital. Ramsey, who worked with U.S. authorities to secure Gilman's release after 1,666 days in a Russian prison, prai

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  FBI: Violent Crime Plummeted in 2025

  Aug 15, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  The FBI's report, which compiles crime data from about 87% of the country's police departments, shows an 18.1% decrease in the murder rate compared with the prior year.

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  Calls For Another Migrant Border Invasion Force Spain And Morocco To Take Action

  Aug 15, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Spain and Morocco have boosted security around Spain’s African enclave Ceuta following calls for another Moroccan migrant border rush, two weeks after a migrant invasion left at least 96 people dead. Soldiers have been watching commercial and government buildings in Ceuta while police are patrolling main streets, according to Reuters. Along the Moroccan border, security guards were seen on the bea

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  Closing Federal Prisons: A Winning Hand

  Aug 15, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

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  The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves

  Aug 15, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  In 2022, Assistant Chief Adam Glueck, of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, purchased electric shock gloves for his officers after learning about them at a trade show. And his employees, he said, couldn’t get enough of them. “If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands,” Glueck joked on a podcast interview