Matt Delaney

Opening statements are scheduled for Friday in the trial against a former Marine accused of choking a homeless man to death last year in Manhattan after the vagrant boarded a crowded subway car and began behaving erratically.

Workers boarded up the District’s downtown businesses and fenced off the vice president’s residence Sunday as the city prepared for potential vandalism in the wake of this week’s presidential election.

A Minnesota church said a missionary's wife was arrested in Angola last week after authorities in the west-central African nation linked the woman to her husband's slaying.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said there are “no credible threats” to the District ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, despite several downtown businesses boarding up their buildings and the White House and other federal properties erecting climb-proof fencing along their perimeters.

Prosecutors called up two passengers who saw Daniel Penny, 26, put Jordan Neely into a chokehold in May 2023, with one of the straphangers testifying that the 30-year-old homeless man made her so nervous she nearly passed out.

Police in Illinois said a man was arrested and charged over the weekend after he attacked an elderly election official while waiting in an early voting line.

Ward 8 voters on Tuesday were expected to return indicted incumbent Trayon White to the D.C. Council for a third term, even as the embattled lawmaker faces a federal bribery case.

Voters fed up with crime in California, Illinois and Georgia on Tuesday went to the ballot box to fire prosecutors many saw as too lenient on criminals — including George Gascon, the George Soros-backed Democratic district attorney in Los Angeles County.

Former NFL player-turned-celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon was hospitalized this week after he was shot during a stickup in Prince George's County.

The incoming Trump administration has a message for left-leaning Justice Department employees hoping to block or interfere with the new president's agenda: Get out.