An accused killer’s escape from the country is renewing outrage toward leftist Virginia prosecutor Steve Descano’s reliance on insanity pleas in violent cases. Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda boarded a plane to Turkey in July after the Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney gave him an insanity plea agreement over a landlord’s 2019 killing, leading to loose restrictions requiring him […]

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is insisting that the conversations he had with a scammer impersonating a top White House official were of “zero consequence” and did not present a security concern despite a recent leak of multiple ministers’ phone numbers. Burnham messaged back and forth with a phone number claiming to be White House […]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld limits on warrantless U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at churches affiliated with a coalition of religious groups, ruling that the Trump administration’s policy likely violated a federal religious freedom law. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a February preliminary injunction issued last year by U.S. […]

The National Park Service submitted a proposal to transfer control of the D.C. Armory, the longtime hub of the D.C. National Guard, to the district’s government. Within the Interior Department, the federal agency is asking the National Capital Planning Commission to transfer “administrative jurisdiction” to Washington, D.C., while the U.S. government retains title to the […]