Peter Eisler

Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant.

With two weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, cases of political violence have shown the biggest and most sustained increase since the 1970s.

A California man is part of a wave of Trump supporters who bombard the ex-president’s opponents with threatening messages worded carefully to avoid arrest. As fears of violence rise ahead of the election, has he crossed a line?

As Trump enters the final stretch of the presidential campaign, he’s purged his Republican Party of lawmakers and officials deemed as disloyal.

5 hours ago ... Within hours of the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, many of his supporters began laying blame on Democrats, ...

When Donald Trump attacks the integrity of judges hearing cases against him, his followers often respond with posts urging that the jurists be beaten, tortured and killed.

“Grab-bag” extremists, a new breed of self-made radical, are driving the deadliest wave of political violence in the United States in half a century.

Pro-Trump conspiracy theories about vote-flipping supercomputers can be traced back to a computer programmer with a history of telling tall tales.

The sheriff was already under state investigation for alleged involvement in an illegal breach of a vote-counting machine.

Michigan county Sheriff Dar Leaf has teamed with a Trump-camp lawyer to probe outlandish voter-fraud claims. He’s part of a radical group of “constitutional sheriffs” claiming extraordinary powers.

A coalition of rightwing “constitutional sheriffs,” who claim legal power in their jurisdictions that exceeds U.S. federal and state authorities, has a new calling.

The previously unreported records include search warrants and investigators’ memos obtained by Reuters through public records requests.

In Vermont, lawmakers are considering bills to make it easier to prosecute people who threaten election officials. In Maine, proposed legislation would stiffen penalties for such intimidation. In Washington, state senators voted this month to make threatening election workers a felony.

The Gateway Pundit started as a tiny St. Louis opinion blog, but its readership surged to 50 million a month as it repeated Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims and inspired threats against U.S. election workers.

The story had a bombshell headline: “Thousands of fake votes” had been discovered in Madison, Wisconsin, two weeks after Democrat Joe Biden narrowly beat then-President Donald Trump in the state.

Two Georgia election workers targeted by former U.S. President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a far-right website that trumpeted the false story, alleging it incited months of death threats and harassment against them.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has subpoenaed a New York City property tax agency as part of a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s company, the agency confirmed on Friday, suggesting prosecutors are examining the former president’s efforts to reduce his...

By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.

A Reuters investigation finds high death rates at U.S. jails with private healthcare providers. A Georgia jail’s experience reveals the toll.

When COVID-19 began tearing through Detroit’s county jail system in March, authorities had no diagnostic tests to gauge its spread. But the toll became clear as deaths mounted. First, one of the sheriff’s jail commanders died; then, a deputy in a medical unit.