Hicks, the former White House communications director under Donald Trump, is the first close adviser to testify in the criminal case against the former president.
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A 22-year-old Danish man was arrested after the shooting, Copenhagen police inspector Søren Thomassen told reporters, adding there was no indication that anyone else was involved, though police were still investigating.
Federal authorities say Josiah Kenyon, 34, of Winnemucca attacked police and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as lawmakers were certifying the presidential election.
A Lake Havasu City resident who was linked to the drug overdose-related death of a rap star known as Mac Miller will not be prosecuted on local drug charges, authorities said.
A murder suspect has been named in the deadly shooting of a defrocked New Jersey priest earlier this year. Derrick Decoste, 25, is wanted for murder and robbery, police said.
A judge is taking action against two men who took part in the occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge after Facebook photos showed they violated their release conditions by visiting the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, without permission.
In the last three months alone, AMR operations supervisor Brett Dragun responded to Hurricane Harvey in Texas in August, the shooting on Oct. 1 and the California wildfires.
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a warning to the public about common scams to look out for this tax season. Telephone scams and email phishing are the two most common types of tax scams, the IRS said in a news release Thursday.
President Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 serving life sentences.
Jason Brian Dalton will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine his competence to stand trial for the shooting deaths of six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a prosecutor said Thursday.
A Montgomery, Alabama, police officer was arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting death of a man last week, the district attorney announced.
At a court hearing on Wednesday for Ammon Bundy and other defendants, prosecutors revealed they had obtained a grand jury indictment against 16 people, including the defendants, said Bundy’s attorney Mike Arnold.
Investigators believe David Eisenhauer, the Virginia Tech student accused of killing 13-year-old Nicole Lovell, had an inappropriate relationship with the middle-school student, a law enforcement official said.
Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino shooting massacre, apparently was radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Former professional wrestler James “Superfly” Snuka pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of his former girlfriend, the Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney’s Office said.