Crime
Repeat Sex Offender Gets 27 Years for Exploiting Children Online in Washington
Corbett Lloyd Craig, 42, of Goldendale, Wash., sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for enticing two girls online and possessing child sex abuse material.
Immigration
Immigration
Border Patrol Agents Catch Illegal Immigrant With Fake Documents at Laredo Checkpoint
U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted an illegal immigrant using fraudulent identification documents at a Laredo, Texas, checkpoint on Interstate 35.
Immigration
ICE Arrests Cuban Felon Who Defied Removal Order for 26 Years in Miami
ICE arrested Elias Cardoza-Torres, 58, a Cuban illegal immigrant with seven convictions who ignored a removal order issued more than 26 years ago.
Immigration
ICE Detains 3 Cuban Illegal Immigrants in Tennessee Human Trafficking Probe
Five men arrested and nine potential trafficking victims identified in Sumner County, Tennessee, with three Cuban illegal immigrants flagged by ICE.
Immigration
Two Guatemalans Plead Guilty in 2021 Smuggling Crash That Killed Over 50
Two Guatemalan nationals admitted roles in a tractor-trailer crash that killed more than 50 illegal aliens packed among 160 in Chiapas, Mexico.
Crime
Crime
Repeat Sex Offender Gets 27 Years for Exploiting Children Online in Washington
Corbett Lloyd Craig, 42, of Goldendale, Wash., sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for enticing two girls online and possessing child sex abuse material.
Crime
San Antonio Extremist Gets 40 Years for Coercing Children Into Self-Harm
Alexis Chavez, 19, an online leader of a nihilistic violent extremist network tied to 764, sentenced to 40 years for child exploitation.
World
World
Israel-Lebanon Framework Ties IDF Withdrawal to Hezbollah Disarmament
The trilateral U.S.-Israel-Lebanon framework signed June 26 conditions Israeli withdrawal on verified Hezbollah disarmament, but the group rejects the deal outright.
World
Saudi Arabia Strikes Sanaa Airport to Block Houthi Flight to Khamenei Funeral
Saudi-led coalition struck Sanaa International Airport to prevent a Houthi delegation from flying to slain Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei's funeral, triggering retaliatory missile fire.
World
Syria Seats 210-Member Parliament as Israeli Clashes Flare Near Border
Syria's new 210-member People's Assembly includes 70 presidential appointees as IDF operations near the Golan ceasefire line continue.
World
Ukraine Offers $6,700 Monthly Pay in Sweeping Military Contract Reforms
Ukraine announced fixed-term military contracts with assault infantry earning 300,000 hryvnias monthly to address chronic manpower shortages.
Faith
Faith
Maharashtra Orders Statewide Audit of Christian Properties After $31M Fraud Claim
India's Maharashtra state ordered a three-month audit of all church and Christian organization land holdings, alarming Christian communities facing rising pressure.
Faith
Iran Orders 20 Christian Families Evicted to Seize Historic Tehran Church
Iranian authorities are confiscating St. Peter's Evangelical Church in Tehran, evicting 20 Armenian and Assyrian families from the 10-acre compound.
Faith
Lahore Court Acquits Blind Christian Jailed 10 Months on False Blasphemy Charge
Nadeem Masih, a visually impaired Christian, was acquitted in Lahore after 10 months in prison on a blasphemy accusation fabricated by park workers.
Faith
Cardinal McElroy Says Exorcist Removal Was About Privacy, Not UFOs
Cardinal Robert McElroy told CNS his removal of Msgr. Stephen Rossetti as Washington exorcist targeted the public nature of the ministry, not UFO beliefs.
Security
Security
Maryland Man Gets 15 Years for Plot to Join ISIS, Target Jews
Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., 22, sentenced to 15 years for attempting to join ISIS and planning attacks against Jewish targets in Maryland.
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Immigration
ICE Arrests Gang Member in Chicago After Police Refused Federal Warrant
ICE Chicago arrested a previously deported La Raza gang member after Chicago Police refused to honor a federal warrant and released him.
Faith
Ethiopian Christian Flees Somali Border After Islamist Death Threats Over Gospel Ministry
Teshome Getachew fled with his family from the Ethiopian-Somali border to Dire Dawa in July 2025 after Islamist extremists threatened to kill him for preaching Christianity.
Family
Cleveland Clinic Agrees to End Pediatric Gender Procedures, Fund Detransition Care
Cleveland Clinic will pay $308,000 and commit $2 million for detransition care under a DOJ resolution ending sex-rejecting procedures on minors.
Faith
ICC Report Documents Communist Vietnam's Persecution of Christians
International Christian Concern publishes new report examining religious freedom and Christian persecution under Vietnam's communist regime.
Faith
Islamist ADF Militants Kill 24 Christians in Eastern Congo, 40 Dead in a Week
Allied Democratic Forces attacked Mbau village near Beni City, killing at least 24 Christians including a pastor and his wife, days after 15 died in Ngadi.
Security
Houthi Leader Pledges Escalation Readiness, Full Coordination With Iran Axis
Abdulmalik al Houthi vows readiness to confront the U.S. and Israel while IRGC commander threatens to close the Bab al Mandeb Strait.
World
Russia Reopens 16 Military Schools to Rebuild Officer Corps Depleted by Ukraine War
Moscow is reopening 16 military schools and academies through 2034 to address a severe officer shortage caused by heavy casualties and rapid force expansion since 2022.
Immigration
CBP Officers Seize 130 Pounds of Fentanyl, Cocaine, Meth at California Ports
CBP officers intercepted more than 130 pounds of narcotics worth $383,091 in two busts at San Ysidro and Calexico East ports of entry.
Faith
Report: 79,323 Killed in Nigeria Mass Casualty Events Since 2019
A joint UN submission documents 79,323 killed and 42,033 civilian deaths in Nigeria's mass casualty events from 2019 to 2025.
Politics
Trump Appointee Gregory Gilmore Sworn In as U.S. Attorney in Central Illinois
Gregory M. Gilmore, a 30-year federal prosecutor, was sworn in as the 33rd U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield.
Crime
Four MS-13 Members Convicted of Three Murders in Angeles National Forest
A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted four MS-13 gang members of three brutal murders committed in the Angeles National Forest in 2017.
Crime
Arizona Couple Sentenced for $12 Million Medicaid Fraud, Bought Lamborghini
Thvoughn and Alexis Curry of New River, Arizona, sentenced to a combined 158 months in prison for defrauding AHCCCS of over $12 million.