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A retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor who received a $313 trespassing fine for walking his dogs along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Shorewood, Wis., has appealed the case, arguing that Wisconsin law entitles the public to…
4 MIN READAttorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he has lost 30 pounds and is being denied basic medical care for diabetes while detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal…
3 MIN READA federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama's use of nitrogen gas for executions requires further study on whether it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, with the state set to carry out a nitrogen gas…
3 MIN READThe Senate voted 47-52 on Friday against advancing legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as five Republicans joined most Democrats in blocking the measure over constitutional concerns and…
4 MIN READThe trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old occasional Uber driver charged with sparking the blaze that became the Palisades fire — the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history — began Monday in federal court.
3 MIN READA 43-year-old man from Georgia died June 4 at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana, marking the second death at the facility in less than two months. The facility had been cited in a recent inspection for…
3 MIN READProfessional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan died of natural causes last year, according to a Florida police report that formally closes the investigation into his death.
3 MIN READA 25-year-old Houston man is accused of using a fake boarding pass to board a United Airlines flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in mid-May, then hiding in a restroom as the plane taxied toward the runway, according to court…
3 MIN READChatbots on five different websites falsely claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by reporters, mirroring the type of output that led the state to sue the role-playing platform Character.AI last month.
3 MIN READSenior Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, have seized on the killing of a British teenager to attack Europe’s immigration policies and accuse allied governments of lacking…
3 MIN READThe Taxpayer Inspector General reported Monday that the IRS provided addresses for nearly 47,000 people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a data-sharing agreement, but that the matching process was inconsistent and…
3 MIN READThe Kennedy Center has removed President Donald Trump's name from its website, complying with a federal judge's order that the performing arts venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress. The removal on Monday, June 8, came ahead of…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration on Monday filed 17 denaturalization actions in federal courts across the country, accusing the targeted individuals of immigration fraud including sexual abuse of a minor, wire fraud, and drug distribution.
3 MIN READTrump administration border czar Tom Homan said Monday he has reviewed a plan to deploy a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to New York City, threatening to send 'more ICE agents than you've ever seen' in what he…
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Savannah Guthrie, the anchor of NBC's "Today" show, issued another emotional plea for the safe return of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, on Sunday as the search for the 84-year-old surpassed four months.
3 MIN READThe federal government dropped all charges against five activists known as the Broadview Six after a judge sharply criticized prosecutors for grand jury manipulation, marking the latest in a series of failed prosecutions of immigration…
3 MIN READFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican who was forced from office in 1995 after the Senate ethics committee investigated allegations of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, has died at age 93. Packwood's death on…
3 MIN READResearchers say anti-AI sentiment has become a driver of political violence, with a series of recent attacks targeting tech leaders and infrastructure. In February, a 20-year-old Texas man was arrested after allegedly attempting to burn…
3 MIN READAt least 12 people were wounded in a shooting near the Old West End festival in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday, according to police. Two victims were in critical condition as of Saturday evening, and no arrests had been made.
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump declined Sunday to rule out using nearly $1.8 billion from an "anti-weaponization" fund to compensate individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,…
3 MIN READFive people were injured in a mass stabbing at New York City's Penn Station on Sunday evening, and a male suspect is in custody, officials said.
3 MIN READA former senior CIA officer arrested last month on charges of stealing more than $40 million in gold bars from the agency now faces allegations that he also created a fraudulent intelligence program to siphon additional funds, according to…
3 MIN READA year-long BBC investigation has found that organized crime has deeply infiltrated Britain's High Streets, with thousands of shops serving as fronts for money laundering, illegal tobacco sales, and drug dealing. The National Crime Agency…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Friday after host Kristen Welker repeatedly pressed him for evidence to support his unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 presidential election and…
4 MIN READFired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of interfering with a planned segment on the killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good, saying Weiss demanded changes that would align the report with…
3 MIN READTaylor Parker, the Texas woman sentenced to death for killing her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock in 2020 and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, remains on death row after the U.S. Supreme Court in May declined to review her…
4 MIN READCheap, fast electric dirt bikes known as e-motos have become some of the most popular motorcycles in the United States, drawing a wave of young riders while prompting police crackdowns and new legislation from New York to Illinois. The…
5 MIN READAaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff in Lonoke County, Arkansas, said Thursday he is "more committed than ever" to his political campaign after a state judge dismissed a second-degree murder charge against him. Spencer had…
3 MIN READGroups of people have been filmed entering New York City's sewer system through manholes in Queens and Brooklyn since early May, sparking public intrigue, media comparisons to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and an investigation by the New…
3 MIN READDeputy Prime Minister David Lammy said he called US Vice President JD Vance and told him his comments linking the murder of British teenager Henry Nowak to a 'mass invasion of migrants' were 'wrong.' The call came after Vance posted on X…
3 MIN READGraham Platner, the presumed Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine, is facing mounting scrutiny over sexually explicit text messages, an accusation of past abuse from a former girlfriend, and social media posts that have…
4 MIN READAt least eight people were shot Saturday afternoon at the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio, all of whom were transported to the hospital and are expected to survive, authorities said. Police were still searching for one or more…
3 MIN READA D.C. Superior Court judge dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit against musician Chuck Redd on Friday, ruling that the Kennedy Center's suit violated Washington's Anti-SLAPP law. Redd had canceled a Christmas Eve performance after the…
3 MIN READMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her allies have reacted furiously to a U.S. indictment of Rubén Rocha, the sitting governor of Sinaloa and a member of her ruling Morena party, accusing Washington of meddling in Mexico's internal…
3 MIN READA Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police officer who resigned less than a year after joining the force to appear as a contestant on the reality dating show Love Island USA has drawn criticism from city officials and divided residents in his…
3 MIN READFamilies of immigrants detained at Delaney Hall, a private immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, described severe distress over conditions inside, including medical neglect, spoiled food, and sanitation failures, as some…
3 MIN READNew York City has seen a steady increase in complaints about dog waste left on sidewalks, prompting city council members to introduce legislation aimed at encouraging responsible pet ownership. Data from the city shows complaints have…
3 MIN READBillionaire father-and-son hoteliers Robert and Blake Rowling are waging a takeover fight for the Greenbrier, the historic West Virginia resort owned by U.S. Sen. Jim Justice. The Rowlings, who own Omni Hotels & Resorts, paid $289 million…
5 MIN READThe Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won two defamation judgments against President Trump, focusing on whether she misrepresented funding for her lawsuits, according to a report.
3 MIN READA 17-year-old Maryland high school student walked across the stage at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on May 28 to receive his diploma — a milestone his father, Marco, watched via livestream from Mexico after being arrested by…
3 MIN READA Catholic church in Luling, Louisiana, reversed its decision to include a recently convicted priest in its prayer intentions after the priest's victims objected, instead dedicating prayers to survivors of clergy abuse, according to the…
3 MIN READPeruvians vote Sunday to elect their 10th president in a decade, with polls showing a tight runoff between hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez. About a quarter of voters remained undecided heading into election…
3 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration has launched a safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a step administration officials said could lead to restrictions on how the drug is distributed and used. The study, which uses the agency’s…
4 MIN READThe U.S. State Department's official account posted Thursday that 'two-tiered policing' in the UK is a 'glaring symptom of civilizational decline,' according to The Guardian. Vice President JD Vance on Friday linked the fatal stabbing of…
3 MIN READNew Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is facing intensifying backlash from immigrant-rights advocates and protesters who say her administration dispatched state police in riot gear to suppress demonstrations at the Delaney Hall immigration…
4 MIN READA Los Angeles jury awarded $176 million to the parents of two young brothers who were killed in a hit-and-run collision nearly six years ago, finding both socialite Rebecca Grossman and former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson…
3 MIN READThe FBI on Friday fired five analysts connected to the creation of a 2023 intelligence memo that warned of a potential threat from Catholic 'violent extremists,' their attorney said, the latest wave of personnel actions under Director Kash…
3 MIN READCryptocurrency markets entered 'extreme fear' territory Friday as Zcash plunged 27% on news of a coding exploit, while European technology stocks fell and major companies released mixed earnings updates. The crypto fear index dropped to 17…
4 MIN READTestimony unfolded this week in the murder trial of a 19-year-old accused of fatally stabbing a fellow high school student during a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. The case has drawn national attention amid debate over racial…
4 MIN READThe Treasury Department on Friday issued an advisory asking financial institutions — including banks, casinos and mortgage companies — to watch for signs that employers are illegally hiring and concealing workers not authorized to work in…
3 MIN READActing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director David Venturella has issued a memo ordering the agency to stop reporting and investigating deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release, rescinding a Biden-era…
3 MIN READA Virginia judge sentenced former IRS agent Brendan Banfield to life in prison without parole Friday for the murder of his wife, Christine Banfield, and a stranger, Joseph Ryan, in a plot with an au pair with whom he was having an affair.
3 MIN READBrendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday for the aggravated murder of his wife and a man he and the family's au pair lured to the couple's Virginia home as a fall guy.…
3 MIN READA federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of Trump administration immigration policies, ruling that the government must resume processing asylum applications and green card petitions from citizens of 39 countries.
3 MIN READJesuit High School of New Orleans has agreed to pay a seven-figure sum to settle a lawsuit alleging that two janitors molested a preteen boy on the school’s campus in the mid-1970s, according to The Guardian and court records. The…
3 MIN READThe former town manager of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, was indicted on May 11 on a felony embezzlement charge for allegedly using taxpayer money to pay for personal expenses including hotel stays, restaurant meals and ammunition,…
4 MIN READDetainees at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center said guards denied them food and clean water for several days this week unless they signed documents written in English that they did not understand, according to an…
3 MIN READNew York City's new commissioner of consumer and worker protection, Samuel AA Levine, is launching an aggressive campaign against junk fees and deceptive subscription practices, warning that the United States has suffered a decades-long…
3 MIN READA 63-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with eight counts related to threatening to assault and murder Senate Majority Leader John Thune and members of his family, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of…
3 MIN READA 49-year-old Sacramento man was arrested over the weekend after attempting to pass through a security checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport carrying what federal authorities described as an explosive device powerful enough to…
3 MIN READThe SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican election overhaul that would have required proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, failed in the Senate on Thursday. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., acknowledged there were not…
4 MIN READUS officials have arrested Jamshid Ghomi, a dual US-Iranian citizen, accusing him of using his technology company to smuggle sensitive computer systems to Iran, including to the country's nuclear and military establishment. Ghomi, 63, was…
3 MIN READThe Arizona Supreme Court on June 4 denied an appeal by prosecutors seeking to overturn a lower-court order that sends the state's fake elector case back to a grand jury, marking another setback for Attorney General Kris Mayes as she seeks…
3 MIN READA new analysis from the nonpartisan Niskanen Center found that President Trump's National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., reduced opportunistic property crimes by 24% but had no measurable effect on violent crime, while costing…
3 MIN READThe U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing two men, U.S. Southern Command said, bringing the total number of people killed in such strikes since the Trump administration…
3 MIN READFormer CIA senior official David Rush was arrested last month at his Virginia home, where investigators found over 300 gold bars valued at more than $40 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The gold bars were allegedly taken from…
3 MIN READFormer Attorney General Pam Bondi told the House Oversight and Reform Committee on May 29 that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was "in charge" of the Justice Department's handling and release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records,…
5 MIN READFederal and state authorities raided a South Carolina metal casting plant on Wednesday, detaining 48 workers on alleged immigration violations and arresting two company managers on charges of knowingly hiring immigrants in the U.S.…
3 MIN READHonolulu's bike-share system Biki has lost more than 800 bikes since its launch nearly a decade ago, with vandalism and wear reducing its fleet of 1,000 to just 478 by the end of April, according to city officials.
3 MIN READA Colorado appeals court on Thursday reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics who injected the sedative ketamine into Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a police encounter in 2019. The court ordered new…
4 MIN READA New Jersey police sergeant was charged Thursday with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and equipment from an Associated Press photojournalist who had been injured covering protests outside a Newark immigration detention center,…
3 MIN READAn American journalist who has lived in China since 2010 and worked for state media organizations there pleaded guilty in a U.S. court Thursday to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, the Justice Department said.
3 MIN READOhio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that a grand jury has reindicted two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state's long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this…
3 MIN READA special judge in Arkansas has dismissed a second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff in Lonoke County, after ruling that law enforcement's loss of a dash camera memory card that may have…
3 MIN READThe family of a 20-year-old Auburn University student who vanished in Japan nearly a week ago is appealing to the public for help locating him, his mother said Thursday. Japanese police deployed search dogs, helicopters and dozens of…
3 MIN READThe Kennedy Center ordered its staff Thursday to remove all references to President Donald Trump from the center by June 12, the first sign the institution is complying with a federal judge's ruling that the board overstepped its authority…
3 MIN READThe Ohio State University has agreed to pay $100 million to 279 former students who alleged campus doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused them, the university announced Wednesday. The settlement covers claimants from a period spanning 1978…
3 MIN READJesse Calhoun, an accused serial killer in Oregon, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the second-degree murder of Ashley Real, the fifth woman he is charged with killing. The arraignment in Portland came as prosecutors said they intend to try…
3 MIN READEight people were indicted in New York this week on charges of running a retail theft ring that stole nearly $5 million worth of goods, including cheese, beef, lamb, copper wiring, and cigarettes, the Manhattan district attorney's office…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has secured the convictions of six people on healthcare fraud charges over the past three weeks, involving a total of about $1.1 billion in fraudulent billing, according to a department press release.
Officials in North Carolina's Iredell County have captured nine of the 10 wild mustangs that escaped from a local property in May, leaving one horse still on the loose, according to county animal services.
The Trump administration has abandoned its $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' after bipartisan lawmaker opposition, but the Justice Department is signaling it will use existing legal channels—including an 80-year-old damages law—to compensate allies who claim they were politically targeted by the federal government.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of attempting to stoke division in Britain over the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, as political leaders reacted to bodycam footage showing police handcuffing the teenager as he lay dying.
Giant banners bearing President Donald Trump's likeness have appeared on multiple federal buildings in Washington, and the administration has pursued plans to put his name on currency, monuments, and infrastructure projects — a proliferation of presidential imagery that critics compare to authoritarian display practices.
John Bolton, the former national security adviser who served under Donald Trump and later became one of the president's most prominent critics, plans to plead guilty to a single count of illegally retaining sensitive national security documents and will pay a fine exceeding $2 million, multiple outlets reported Thursday.
The head of the National Black Police Association has warned that police forces risk making "not well thought-out" changes to anti-racism guidance in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.
The widow of Luke Ashton, a gambling addict who took his own life in April 2021 after falling £18,000 into debt, began a legal claim on Thursday against Betfair in the UK High Court. The case could establish for the first time that a betting company owes a duty of care to customers showing signs of problem gambling.
Andrew Left, a prominent short seller known for betting against companies including Evergrande, was convicted of securities fraud on June 2, a verdict that has unsettled the activist investing community and raised new questions about how prosecutors can police traders’ public statements.
St. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao declined Wednesday to file state criminal charges against dozens of anti-immigration enforcement protesters who interrupted a January church service, a decision the lead pastor of Cities Church strongly criticized.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday accused the sons of former President Jair Bolsonaro of acting as “traitors to the nation” by lobbying the United States to impose a 25% tariff on Brazilian goods and take action against Brazil’s PIX instant payment system.
More than two months after the U.S. and Iran reached a ceasefire that ended open war, and eight months after the Gaza ceasefire took effect, fighting continues across all three main Middle Eastern fronts — Gaza, Lebanon and Iran — at levels that leave each arena in an uneasy limbo between war and peace, according to a Wall Street Journal assessment published June 3.
The US Supreme Court issued a 6-3 emergency ruling on Tuesday allowing Alabama to implement a congressional map that removes one of the state's two majority-Black districts. The conservative majority overturned a lower court order that had blocked the map over findings of discriminatory intent, marking the latest judicial development following the Court's late April decision in *Louisiana v. Callais* that weakened voting rights protections.
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine faced a new controversy Tuesday over sexually explicit texts with women outside his marriage, but top party leaders including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Bernie Sanders reaffirmed their support ahead of the June 9 primary.
President Donald Trump has appointed Bill Pulte, a close political ally with no intelligence experience, as acting director of national intelligence, a move that senior Democrats say could collapse bipartisan efforts to renew a key surveillance program before its June 12 expiration.
Policing Minister Sarah Jones said a National Police Chiefs' Council anti-racism commitment document "gives the wrong impression" as the UK government faces renewed scrutiny over police treatment of Black victims in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton.
Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, has died aged 62 after being treated for cancer, his family said. Younger led the Secret Intelligence Service from 2014 to 2020, a career that spanned three decades in British intelligence.
The FBI shot and killed a 41-year-old man early Wednesday morning after he took 10 employees of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools hostage inside a downtown Bakersfield office building and claimed to have explosive devices strapped to himself and several of the victims, authorities said.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will soon have to complete more than 500 hours of training, restoring the program's original length after it was cut by nearly half during a 2025 hiring push.
Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to proceed with debate on a $72 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies through fiscal year 2029, resuming the effort after a delay sparked by concerns over a Trump administration proposal to compensate individuals who allege being targeted by the federal government.
The Justice Department has opened 34 denaturalization cases and revoked the citizenship of 11 naturalized Americans since January, a significant increase from prior practice that senators debated during a Wednesday hearing. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution argued that denaturalizing naturalized citizens who committed fraud has been too difficult, while Democrats called the effort unconstitutional and said it reflects President Donald Trump’s broader anti-immigrant agenda.
Iranian missile and drone strikes hit Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, injuring several people and forcing its indefinite closure, as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran escalated across the Persian Gulf region.
An unidentified man with a bomb strapped to his body barricaded himself inside a downtown Bakersfield bank on Tuesday afternoon, prompting police to issue evacuation orders and lock down city government buildings, authorities said.
Two companies that sold illegal pyrotechnic devices used in a gender-reveal photo shoot that sparked California's 2020 El Dorado fire have agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle civil claims brought by the U.S. Forest Service. The blaze burned 22,744 acres, destroyed nine structures, and killed a veteran firefighter.
Ben Black, the Senate-confirmed head of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), had years of personal and business interactions with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails released by the Department of Justice. A review of more than 5,000 records from Epstein's private correspondence shows Black invested in a company alongside Epstein in 2011 and that the two men had a relationship for several years afterward, including Epstein telling a friend he attended Black's 30th birthday party.
In the small, diverse community of Winooski, Vermont, a school district of about 800 students has refused to comply with Trump administration policies on immigration enforcement and diversity programs — a stand that drew death threats, inspired a statewide law, and left its superintendent facing detention by federal agents.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to become his permanent choice for the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to an interview broadcast on Pod Force One.
The top federal prosecutor in Chicago acknowledged Wednesday that he personally addressed a federal grand jury in October 2025 before it indicted protesters who opposed the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, a rare admission of direct involvement in the secretive process.
Chinese intelligence operatives are using legitimate employment websites including LinkedIn, Indeed and Upwork to pose as recruiters and trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 warned Wednesday in a rare joint bulletin issued by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
Labour MP Jess Asato has filed a lawsuit at the High Court in London against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot was designed without safeguards that allowed users to create fake sexualised images of her. The case, filed on June 3, seeks damages and aims to establish legal precedent that AI companies are liable for design flaws in their systems.
Former victims minister Alex Davies-Jones told the House of Commons on Wednesday that survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been treated as a “footnote” in the row over Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the United States. Davies-Jones, who resigned as a justice minister in May, read a statement on behalf of U.S. survivor Lisa Phillips, who said requests to meet Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer were “ignored.” A senior cabinet minister apologized for treating Mandelson differently because of his power and influence.
The Durham County Sheriff's Office rounded up six sheep that were wandering through a neighborhood on Duck Pond Court on Monday, using trash cans and cornhole boards as makeshift barriers. Animal Services deputies captured the five ewes and a black ram, who calmed the group once leashed.
An immigration judge in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 21 ordered the deportation of a 19-year-old Honduran man who was fatally shot in November 2024, ruling that he failed to appear for his hearing. The judge rejected documentation of the teen's death, including police records, according to his attorney.
A New York judge held a sealed virtual proceeding in the Luigi Mangione murder case on Wednesday, barring the press and public from attending despite objections from media organizations who were given no opportunity to argue against the closure.
New Jersey state police and Newark police blocked journalists from covering demonstrations near the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility last week, detaining at least three news workers and denying press credentials to independent livestreamers, according to a Guardian opinion piece by Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The actions came amid a hunger strike by ICE detainees and ongoing protests that have drawn hundreds to the facility.
A UK parliamentary bill that would impose fines on airlines for damaging or losing wheelchairs and failing disabled passengers passed its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday, with Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson calling it a "significant opportunity" to transform air travel for disabled people.
Prosecutors have detailed how Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party, embezzled more than £400,000 over many years using false data entries, party credit cards, and direct transfers, according to a Crown narrative released Wednesday. Murrell, 61, faces sentencing on June 23 and is also expected to face legal action under proceeds of crime legislation to recover the money.
Federal authorities are investigating whether former Republican congressman George Santos engaged in insider trading by betting on a prediction market on his own attendance to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday.
The NYPD is investigating after security cameras recorded groups of people entering and exiting New York City’s sewer system through maintenance holes in Brooklyn and Queens in at least three separate nighttime incidents, according to surveillance footage reviewed by authorities.
Bodycam footage obtained by BBC News shows police handcuffing an 18-year-old stabbed man instead of rendering aid, after his murderer falsely told officers the victim had racially abused him. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the footage as 'harrowing' and condemned political figures who, he said, were using the case 'to create division.' The incident has reignited accusations of 'two-tier policing' in Britain, with Conservative and Reform UK leaders claiming officers treat people differently based on race.
Insurers that provide coverage to executives and boards of private-credit firms are bracing for a wave of lawsuits and regulatory actions, according to insurance executives and industry data cited by the Wall Street Journal. Some insurers have begun raising premiums, with several executives estimating that double-digit increases from a year ago could arrive soon, and coverage terms are tightening for renewals and new policies.
A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted short seller Andrew Left of securities fraud on Monday, finding the founder of Citron Research used his social media platform and reputation to manipulate stock prices for quick profits. Left, 55, was found guilty on most of 17 counts and faces sentencing Aug. 31.
The United States on Tuesday sanctioned Iran's largest digital asset platform, Nobitex, along with three other exchanges, the Treasury Department announced, accusing the platforms of processing more than half of Iran's digital asset revenue and supporting a broad sanctions evasion network.
Police in Bakersfield, California, were negotiating Tuesday night with a man holding several people hostage inside a building that houses a Chase bank branch and a school district office. Officers responded to a bomb threat call around 1 p.m. and found the man had barricaded himself inside with multiple community members.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling and cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a three-judge panel had found "tainted by intentional race-based discrimination," a decision that will likely cost a Democratic incumbent his seat in the 2026 midterm elections.
Two supporters of President Donald Trump who were wounded during an assassination attempt at his July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sued the federal government Monday, alleging the Secret Service failed to properly secure the event and that their injuries were preventable.
The Pentagon has appointed Elias Irizarry, a man convicted for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol, to a sensitive counter-terrorism position within the Department of Defense's special operations office, according to reports from the Washington Post and The Guardian.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 on Monday to block the Trump administration from discharging transgender servicemembers who challenged the president’s ban, while allowing the government to deny future enrollment to transgender Americans.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) responded to President Donald Trump calling her "crooked as hell" by pointing to his record of pardoning convicted fraudsters, including those tied to some of the largest health care and financial fraud schemes in U.S. history, and to his administration's creation of a $1.8 billion fund for individuals pardoned for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Six people were killed and a suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted wound in a series of shootings across Muscatine, Iowa, on Monday that police said stemmed from a domestic-related dispute. The Muscatine Police Department identified the suspected shooter as Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, of Muscatine, and said all six victims were believed to be his family members.
The White House Correspondents’ Association has rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24, 2026, nearly seven weeks after a shooting during the April 25 gala forced its cancellation, WHCA President Weijia Jiang announced Tuesday. President Donald Trump, who was swiftly evacuated from the original event, has pledged to attend and speak at the rescheduled dinner.
The Trump administration's $1.776 billion fund to compensate people it says were victims of political "lawfare" is facing mounting legal and political challenges, with a federal judge temporarily blocking its operation and critics from both parties denouncing it as a corrupt slush fund that could reward participants in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Cybercriminals are hijacking companies' internal artificial intelligence agents to steal sensitive business data, including customer Social Security numbers, in a growing security gap that security experts say is proving harder to prevent than traditional insider attacks. The threat was highlighted last month when CB Financial Services, a Pennsylvania-based holding company, disclosed that an AI agent had unlocked nonpublic customer information including names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The founder of a private zoo in Ethel, Louisiana, has donated its remaining 125 animals to a group of employees who are turning the facility into a nonprofit, saying he will never work in the zoo industry again. The move comes after years of animal escapes, USDA infractions and staff complaints about the zoo's conditions, including a missing Nile crocodile, two Indian crested porcupines that escaped (one killed on a highway), and a Marabou stork that was later spotted in Wisconsin.
A California cryptocurrency mogul who called himself 'The Godfather' pleaded guilty Monday to orchestrating the attempted kidnapping of a Connecticut couple whose son had been involved in a $245 million Bitcoin heist, federal prosecutors said.
Pennsylvania's elder abuse hotline received a call on March 31 about a 65-year-old Allegheny County woman living alone with a collapsed roof, exposed belongings, and electrical hazards, a situation the caller described as 'life-threatening.' Records obtained by Spotlight PA show that while the hotline intake worker agreed the case warranted immediate investigation, the state's system for protecting vulnerable older adults has repeatedly rejected similar cases that experts say should have been investigated.
Florida executed Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, on Tuesday evening for the 1996 murder of his girlfriend's 5-month-old daughter, Gabrielle Hanshaw. Lukehart died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford after the state Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, according to the Florida Department of Corrections and news reports.
Federal prosecutors have charged four suspects with trafficking more than one ton of cocaine for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel using a fake retail store in San Diego as the front for a sophisticated subterranean tunnel that ran across the border to Tijuana, Mexico, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Monday.
Hackers tricked Instagram's AI-powered customer support tool into changing email addresses and passwords on other users' accounts, Meta confirmed Tuesday, in a security incident that coincided with the reported takeover of former President Barack Obama's verified account.
Betty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, said King Charles III told her during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday that the scandal was a "dreadful thing" that "should never have happened." The 93-year-old former sub-postmaster was receiving her OBE for services to justice.
Former Republican congressman George Santos, who served four months in federal prison before President Trump commuted his sentence, is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Justice Department for insider trading on the prediction market site Kalshi, according to three people with direct knowledge of his trades who spoke to NPR. Santos allegedly misled the public about his plans to attend President Trump's State of the Union address and then bet on his own absence, turning a profit in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday publicly urged U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson to focus on the bilateral agenda and refrain from commenting on Mexico's domestic political affairs, citing constitutional principles of nonintervention and self-determination.
The New York Police Department is investigating multiple incidents in which groups of people have been seen emerging from sewer maintenance holes in Brooklyn and Queens late at night, prompting a sweep of the city's underground infrastructure.
A Texas jury on Tuesday was set to begin deliberating the sentence for Anthony Odiong, a 57-year-old Roman Catholic priest convicted of first- and second-degree sexual assault for exploiting his spiritual authority to coerce two female parishioners into sex. Odiong faces between five years and life in prison.
Human remains found in New Mexico's Carson National Forest on May 28 were identified as those of Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was reported missing nearly a year ago. New Mexico State Police said the Office of the Medical Investigator positively identified the body. A handgun was found nearby.
President Trump told the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan and Turkey on May 23 that it "should be mandatory" for them to establish diplomatic relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords as part of a deal to end the war with Iran. The demand has complicated ongoing negotiations, as Gulf states grow increasingly distrustful of both the U.S. and Israel after months of conflict.
The U.S. military said Saturday it carried out a strike against a boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men. U.S. Southern Command announced the attack, its fourth in four days, bringing the cumulative death toll from the rolling naval campaign to 205.
The Illinois state Senate passed House Bill 5487 on Saturday, sending legislation to Gov. JB Pritzker that would strengthen state prohibitions on nonlawyers managing law firms. The measure targets corporate structures that critics say allow private-equity investors to exercise de facto control over legal practices without technically owning them.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page lawsuit against OpenAI and Chief Executive Sam Altman on June 1, alleging the company knowingly released an unsafe artificial-intelligence product that harmed users. The suit makes Florida the first state to sue OpenAI and seeks to hold Altman personally liable for damages the state says the chatbot caused Floridians.
Wise Group shares fell to a near 18-month low after a report said Belgian prosecutors are investigating the cross-border payments company for potential money laundering involving €500 million in transactions. Shares dropped 9.2% in European trading on June 1, and fell more than 10% premarket in New York.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a recusal motion asking a federal judge in Atlanta to remove herself from an ongoing dispute over Georgia election records, citing recent disciplinary proceedings and prior public appearances that the department says call her impartiality into question.
The Louisiana Supreme Court voted 4-3 on Monday to approve the elimination of the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court office, ending a legal path for Calvin Duncan, a New Orleans exoneree who won a landmark election to the post. The ruling leaves Duncan without a route to assume the role and rejects a New Orleans City Council request to hold a special election for the position.
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national accused of conspiring to plot at least 18 attacks across Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, pleaded not guilty on Monday in Manhattan federal court.
The Department of Justice said on June 1 that it will comply with a federal judge's order to temporarily halt work on the Trump administration's anti-weaponization fund, pausing disbursements ahead of a scheduled mid-June court hearing. The nearly $1.8 billion initiative has drawn strong opposition from members of Congress, and its continued operations threatened to derail the president's push to secure separate funding for immigration enforcement measures.
The Justice Department said Monday it will comply with a federal court ruling that temporarily blocks the Trump administration's $1.776 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' while a legal challenge proceeds. The department said it 'disagrees strongly' with the ruling but will abide by it.
An international court in The Hague has ruled the United Kingdom does not have to pay Rwanda any of the more than £100m the Rwandan government sought over the collapsed asylum deal. The Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected Rwanda's claim that the UK breached the agreement, which was signed by the Conservative government and scrapped by Keir Starmer shortly after he took office in 2024.
June 1 marks significant historical milestones across more than 140 years, including the 2020 clearing of Lafayette Square protesters, the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, and the 1968 death of Helen Keller, United Press International reported.
President Donald Trump announced he will relinquish control of the Kennedy Center to Congress following a federal judge's order blocking his proposed renovations and mandating the removal of his name from the venue.
For nearly 12 months, members of Congress and advocates for Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse survivors have pushed federal agencies to release records and pursue criminal referrals. Lawmakers have conducted interviews with some of the highest-ranking officials connected to the investigation, including former President Bill Clinton, yet the inquiry has not produced a single charge or a definitive acknowledgment of any institutional failure.
Several protesters were arrested overnight for defying a curfew at Delaney Hall, the Newark, New Jersey, immigration detention center that has been the site of more than a week of clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators supporting immigrants detained inside.
A bus driver has been charged in connection with a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday that killed five people, including a family of four from Massachusetts that was traveling to a wedding with a carload of homemade desserts, authorities and relatives said.
Hawaii authorities on Saturday charged 36-year-old Jacob Daniel Baker with first- and second-degree murder in the killings of three people in the rural Puna community on the Big Island, according to a news release from the Hawaii Police Department.
At least seven people, including the suspected shooter, are dead after a series of shootings in Muscatine, Iowa, on June 1 that authorities said stemmed from a domestic dispute. The suspect, identified as Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, of Muscatine, shot six people believed to be family members at three locations across the city before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Actress Blake Lively's lawyers asked a federal judge on Monday to force "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni to pay her legal fees and other penalties, arguing she is entitled to the costs under California law after a judge threw out Baldoni's countersuit last year.
A federal judge on Monday postponed the civil trial over the 2024 collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge after a flurry of last-minute settlements resolved most remaining claims, including all pending lawsuits over the deaths of six construction workers.
MARTA police arrested John Elijah Matthews, 25, on Saturday afternoon following the fatal stabbing of Margaret Swan, 66, on a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority train at the Oakland City Station. Chief Scott Kreher said the attack was captured on train video and described as an unprovoked, random act of violence against a stranger.
Chilean prosecutors said organized crime groups are opening new maritime trafficking routes through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of Chile, using the passage as an alternative to the Panama Canal to move weapons, drugs and other contraband between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, elections clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to breach election systems based on 2020 election conspiracy theories, was released from prison on June 1 after Gov. Jared Polis commuted her nine-year sentence under pressure from President Donald Trump.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison condemned the state Republican party on Saturday after delegates at the annual convention held a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
Tina Peters, 70, a former Mesa County clerk convicted of facilitating a breach of local voting equipment, is scheduled for release from a Colorado state prison on Monday after serving nearly two years. Gov. Jared Polis granted Peters' commutation application last month, ending her incarceration after sustained political pressure from the White House.
Shares in the international money transfer service Wise dropped more than 10% on Monday after the company confirmed it is responding to queries from Belgian prosecutors investigating its anti-money-laundering controls. Wise said the Brussels prosecutor’s office inquiries remain incomplete and no specific findings have been shared with the company to date.
Belgian prosecutors are investigating UK money transfer company Wise over suspicions that criminals used its accounts to facilitate illicit fund movements. The probe focuses exclusively on the firm's European operations and is nearing its conclusion, authorities confirmed Sunday.
The United Kingdom's government has proposed creating a national database that would allow airlines to share information on disruptive passengers and potentially bar them from flying with any carrier. Officials from the Department for Transport plan to meet with airlines this month to discuss how the scheme would work.
Loony John Franklin Kolb Toon, a 43-year-old Oregon resident, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to firing at law enforcement officers during a June 2025 traffic stop. The Clackamas County district attorney’s office announced the ruling, which resolved the shooting case alongside outstanding criminal charges in four neighboring counties.
A federal judge on Friday reopened Trump v the Internal Revenue Service to scrutinize a $1.8 billion out-of-court settlement that created a discretionary fund for the Trump administration, after a bipartisan group of federal judges filed a lawsuit in Florida arguing the deal "is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the court."
Social Circle, a Georgia town of approximately 5,000 residents, has filed a federal lawsuit to block a proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, alleging the facility would violate state public nuisance laws and federal administrative procedures.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka imposed a curfew around the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in New Jersey early Sunday after another night of clashes between protesters and police at the facility.
Carroll County Sheriff's Deputy Logan Utt was fatally shot Friday when a man opened fire on two deputies conducting a welfare check at a home in Hillsville, Virginia, law enforcement officials said. A search was underway for the suspect.
The US military said it carried out a second strike on an alleged drug vessel in the eastern Pacific over two days, killing three men in an operation that pushes the death toll from similar attacks to more than 200 since last year.
A family-owned property group that sells temporary housing to local councils for homeless people is part of a broader business network accused of exploiting loopholes to avoid millions in property taxes, according to a Guardian investigation published May 31. The report highlights overlapping ownership within the Schreiber dynasty, whose members control a nationwide commercial portfolio.
Meta legal action forced former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams to sit silently on stage during an hour-long event at the Hay festival on May 31, 2026, after the company's lawyers warned that speaking could trigger $50,000 fines.
The killing of three people at a mosque in San Diego has renewed calls among Jewish and Muslim leaders to confront anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism as interconnected threats rather than competing grievances. In a commentary published by The Guardian on May 31, Open Society Foundations president Binaifer Nowrojee argued that both forms of bigotry are being fueled by overlapping conspiracy theories and political fear-mongering.
The lead prosecutor in former FBI director James Comey's criminal case over an '86 47' seashell photo has withdrawn from the proceedings, according to a court filing the Department of Justice submitted Friday evening. No reason was given for the departure of Matthew Petracca, a prosecutor from the U.S. attorney's office for the eastern district of North Carolina, who has been replaced by assistant U.S. attorney Timothy Severo.
Lidl is preparing to open its first-ever pub in Dundonald, east Belfast, a venture that required navigating one of Europe's most restrictive alcohol licensing systems and has renewed debate over whether Northern Ireland's century-old rules governing who can serve drinks need reform.
Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon became visibly emotional during a televised interview on Sunday, addressing the financial crimes committed by her estranged husband, Peter Murrell, while repeatedly denying any personal knowledge of the misconduct and asserting she has been cleared of wrongdoing by law enforcement.
The UK government will publish the second batch of documents detailing Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the United States on Monday, according to three government sources. The release follows a parliamentary vote forcing full transparency over the controversial diplomatic posting.
Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC she feels she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after her estranged husband pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000 from the Scottish National Party.
The tour bus driver blamed for a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 95 that killed five people and injured dozens has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Virginia State Police confirmed Saturday.
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a new congressional map into law Friday shortly after the Louisiana Legislature passed it, replacing a map with two majority-Black districts with one that creates a single such district and is designed to help Republicans gain a U.S. House seat in the 2026 midterm elections.
The U.S. military carried out a strike on a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing three men, according to U.S. Southern Command. The attack is the third in a week and pushes the overall death toll in the monthslong campaign above 200, though the command provided no evidence to support its designation of the vessel.
A federal judge said Wednesday that the Oakland Police Department could be released from one of the longest-running federal police reform oversight programs in the country as early as September, after the department's federal monitor reported full compliance with all 51 court-mandated reforms for the first time in 23 years.
A federal immigration officer wanted in the January shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis was arrested Friday in Texas, authorities said, 11 days after Hennepin County prosecutors filed assault charges against him. Christian Castro, 52, of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was taken into custody in Cameron County, the southernmost county in Texas along the Mexico border.
Three men in their late 60s and 70s were found dead in Puna, a remote Big Island community known for its off-grid living, and a 36-year-old suspect was arrested after a massive search, authorities said Saturday. The killings have shocked residents, who are now seeking answers about how the suspect, Jacob Baker, whom they described as increasingly threatening, allegedly targeted the elderly men.
Annabella Gyasi, 38, arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on May 19 with her young son, both traveling on valid visas for a medical appointment related to the boy’s severely malformed hands. Instead of receiving the scheduled care, they were detained by immigration officers after Gyasi said they had faced persecution in Ghana and feared returning, according to her lawyers. After more than a week in a windowless detention room and two hospitalizations for pregnancy complications, Gyasi felt she had no choice but to agree to return to Ghana, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia said in a petition filed on her behalf.
Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, admitting she shared articles favorable to Beijing without notifying the U.S. government as required by law, federal prosecutors said.
A Wayne County Circuit Court judge on Wednesday permanently barred a Van Buren Township landfill from accepting radioactive waste generated by Manhattan Project-era cleanup efforts, ruling the shipments posed an unacceptable long-term threat to public health and the environment.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions about President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files during a closed-door interview with House lawmakers on Friday, defending the Justice Department's handling of the matter while deflecting inquiries about the president's role.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday temporarily halted the Trump administration's $1.776 billion fund for compensating political allies who say they were targeted by a weaponized government, issuing a restraining order that bars any payouts for at least two weeks.
A federal judge in Montgomery, Alabama, ruled Thursday that execution by nitrogen hypoxia does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, the first full trial to test the constitutionality of a method that has already been used to put eight men to death. The ruling clears the way for Alabama and Louisiana to continue using nitrogen gas for capital punishment and removes a legal hurdle for Jeffery Lee, the death row inmate who brought the challenge, as he faces execution on June 11.
The death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign of strikes against suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean has risen to at least 199, according to U.S. military data released Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have indicted former Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier on additional charges of bribery in sporting contests and honest services wire fraud conspiracy, alleging he accepted a substantial bribe to exit an NBA game early in March 2023, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Thursday.
A Manhattan courtroom was silent Thursday for the four men Randy Santos killed with a metal bar as they slept on the streets of Chinatown in 2019. No friend or family member was present to deliver a victim impact statement when Santos, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago is not investigating E. Jean Carroll for perjury, the office’s top federal prosecutor said, undercutting earlier reports that the Justice Department was examining whether Carroll lied during her civil lawsuits against President Donald Trump. Instead, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that the investigation actually concerns a nonprofit that helped fund Carroll’s litigation.
Ian Roberts, the former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, was sentenced to two years in federal prison Friday after pleading guilty to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms. His attorneys said they expect him to be deported to his native Guyana once the sentence is served, closing a prosecution that traced a two-decade employment history to a counterfeit Social Security card and a final removal order issued in 2024.
A federal judge based in the Southeastern United States had an extramarital affair with a high-ranking police officer that included sexual encounters in the judge’s chambers overheard by court staff, an investigation by the federal judiciary found. The judge initially lied about the conduct but remains on the bench after receiving only a private reprimand, according to a disciplinary order affirmed last week.
An Associated Press investigation has found that a taxpayer‑funded Missouri residential treatment center for adopted teenagers is plagued by reports of runaways, bullying, and assault, with young, poorly‑trained staff providing minimal treatment and little oversight.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi declined to answer questions Friday about President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files during a closed-door interview with House lawmakers. Bondi defended the Justice Department's handling of the files and said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, now acting attorney general and Trump's former personal attorney, had overseen the publication process.
ABC-owned television stations across eight U.S. markets filed coordinated objections on Thursday with the Federal Communications Commission, calling the agency's demand for early license renewal applications arbitrary and unconstitutional.
A federal judge on Wednesday declined to block President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing a national voter list and restricting mail-in voting, allowing the administration to proceed with sweeping election-policy changes ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, rejected a request by Democratic organizations and civil rights groups for a preliminary injunction, accepting the administration’s argument that the order’s legality could not be fully assessed before it takes effect. The ruling does not address the merits of the challenge, and a separate lawsuit against the order is pending in Boston.
Republican efforts to advance a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill have stalled in Congress, tripped up by disputes over White House ballroom security funding and a $1.8 billion fund for government mistreatment claims, delaying action on what was supposed to be one of the party's easier legislative wins ahead of the midterms.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who argued that racial discrimination tainted the selection of the jury that convicted him, in a 5-4 ruling that faulted a process in which 11 of the 12 jurors were white.
Michigan House Democrats last month introduced a package of bills that would allow terminally ill patients to obtain life-ending medication, reopening a debate that once made the state the epicenter of the assisted suicide controversy with the acts of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The legislation, known as the “Death with Dignity Act,” would make Michigan the 15th jurisdiction to permit physician-assisted death, joining 14 states and the District of Columbia that cover more than 100 million Americans. The bills face uncertain prospects in the Republican-controlled Legislature, with the lead sponsor saying the referral to a committee signals GOP leadership will not advance the measure.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has stopped allowing inmates to receive hardback or used books, shifting all donations through a state school district in an effort to stem the flow of synthetic drugs soaked into book pages. The policy change, announced this week, comes after hundreds of prisoners tested positive for contraband substances, state officials said. But prison reform advocates and some prisoners say the new rule will severely curtail access to reading material and expand the thousands of titles already banned from state lockups.
The European Union fined Chinese online retailer Temu €200 million ($232 million) on Thursday after an investigation found the platform exposed consumers to illegal and hazardous products, the Associated Press reported.
Three Pennsylvania news organizations sued leaders of the Penn State Board of Trustees in federal court Wednesday, alleging that a bylaw provision barring trustees from making critical public statements about the board or the university violates the First Amendment.
Police on Hawaii's Big Island arrested a 36-year-old man Thursday on suspicion of murder after a two-day search, connecting him to the deaths of three older men in a remote rural area, authorities said.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara resigned effective immediately on Thursday, May 28, 2026, after an investigation commissioned by Mayor Jacob Frey found he had likely interfered in an internal police misconduct investigation. O’Hara, an outsider hired in 2022 to reform a department still reeling from the murder of George Floyd, became the third chief to depart in four years, deepening a leadership void in a city that has struggled to rebuild public trust in its police.
A federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled he cannot order Louisiana to improve dangerously harsh working conditions for prisoners forced to labor in extreme heat at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, citing a recent appellate court decision that altered the standard for proving cruel and unusual punishment.
Andrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said Thursday evening that his office has not opened a criminal investigation into advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, contradicting earlier reports from multiple news organizations.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington on Thursday, alleging those states are imposing unconstitutional restrictions by refusing to issue undercover license plates to federal agents, escalating the Trump administration’s conflict with Democratic-led states over immigration enforcement.
U.S. prosecutors charged a Google software engineer with insider trading on Wednesday, alleging the employee used confidential company search data to win more than $1.2 million in wagers on the prediction platform Polymarket.
Kyle Adler, a 36-year-old Chilean American, learned he was stolen from his biological mother as an infant and was adopted by an American family in 1990, the Associated Press reported. Earlier this year he reunited with his birth mother, becoming part of a wave of hundreds of Chilean adoptees using DNA tracing and nonprofit organizations to reconstruct the families that were torn apart by the regime of General Augusto Pinochet.
Washington — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Friday that foreign nationals who are already in the United States must leave the country and apply for a green card from their home nation, barring unspecified exceptions. The policy shift, unveiled by the Trump administration, could affect hundreds of thousands of applicants each year and is expected to slow processing, immigration attorneys said. Lawyers such as Flavia Santos Lloyd described the move as a “chilling effect” that may deter some candidates, while others warned it could be a scare tactic aimed at limiting legal immigration pathways.
On Wednesday, a delegation of Democratic members of Congress toured Delaney Hall, a 1,000‑bed federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, where they observed detainees on a reported hunger strike and described conditions as “inhumane.” Rep. Jerry Nadler said detainees receive food portions “very often” contaminated with maggots and that the only medication provided is Tylenol. Rep. Dan Goldman warned that people held in the facility are “living in jail conditions, and none of these people are criminals.” The visit followed a series of protests outside the facility’s security gate that began Friday and have drawn criticism of ICE’s handling of the center.
A federal judge in Miami postponed a decision Wednesday on whether to detain a 16-year-old charged as an adult with sexually assaulting and killing his stepsister aboard a Carnival Cruise ship. U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres said he wanted to consult with the U.S. Marshals Service about housing Timothy Hudson in central Florida rather than South Florida.
A South Carolina jury heard opening statements Wednesday in the murder trial of Chikei Rick Chow, 61, the store owner who fatally shot 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in the back during a foot chase on May 28, 2023, in Columbia, over an alleged theft of four bottles of water.
The Interlochen Center for the Arts announced Friday that it will tear down the Green Lake Lodge, a building formerly named for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The decision follows a board vote and comes after the school learned that at least two of Epstein’s accusers said they met him at the camp in the 1990s. Interlochen said the structure “carries associations that are not reflective of who we are as an institution.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara resigned on Tuesday after Mayor Jacob Frey said an investigation found he interfered with a probe into his conduct, including deleting a contact card and warning a city employee about the inquiry.
Jonathan Loadholt, a 37-year-old former truck and bus driver from Staten Island, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to conspiring to stalk and launder money for an Iranian government-directed assassination plot.
Former President Joe Biden sued the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to prevent the release of audio recordings and transcripts from interviews he gave to a ghostwriter that were obtained during a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday that prohibits any person — including federal agents — from accessing California voter rolls or election technology without a court order. The measure, taking effect immediately ahead of next Tuesday’s primary, also restricts law enforcement officers from disrupting election workers, except in public safety emergencies.
A federal appeals court is giving former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil more time to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him, extending a legal battle that has drawn attention over free speech and immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration announced late last week that most foreigners in the United States seeking permanent residency will have to depart and apply for a green card from their home country, a policy shift that immigration attorneys said has sown confusion and could delay applications for hundreds of thousands of people.
The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials, in the latest sign of warming relations between the White House and the oil-rich nation.
The Department of Justice acknowledged on May 23, 2026, that it removed news releases detailing criminal charges, convictions, and sentencings of defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot from its website, describing the prosecutorial information as “partisan propaganda.”
Argentine authorities seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport, conservation groups said, in what they described as a major bust of exotic wildlife destined for the ornamental aquarium trade. The April 26 seizure, disclosed Tuesday by the Associated Press, involved tropical fish and invertebrates including surgeonfish, puffer fish, lionfish, octopuses and starfish. Many of the animals arrived dead after 120 hours in transit, while survivors showed severe signs of stress.
Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss the Justice Department’s April indictment of the civil rights nonprofit, arguing the charges are part of a top-down campaign of retribution against President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies and constitute a vindictive prosecution.
Detainees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are dying by suicide at an accelerating rate, an Associated Press investigation has found, documenting deaths across a sprawling jail network where people in mental distress were isolated, denied medical care, and cut off from family contact.
A Washington tourist pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to charges accusing him of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, and a judge ordered him to stay away from the islands' beaches and marine wildlife while the case proceeds.
Happy, an Asian elephant who demonstrated self-recognition in a landmark cognitive study and whose confinement became the subject of a closely watched animal rights lawsuit, was euthanized Tuesday at the Bronx Zoo at age 55. The zoo announced Wednesday that age-related conditions had accelerated in recent weeks, and a necropsy revealed advanced arthritis and large, inoperable uterine tumors.
The Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan said its board of trustees approved a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, formerly known as the Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge, after concluding that the building “has, over time, come to carry associations that are not reflective of who we are as an institution or the values we strive to uphold.”
Attorneys for journalist Don Lemon argued Wednesday that a wave of recent findings of prosecutorial misconduct in grand jury proceedings warrants the unsealing of the secret transcripts that led to his indictment on federal civil rights charges stemming from a protest at a Minnesota church.
At least four states have enacted laws this year making it a crime to disrupt religious services, a legislative response to a January protest inside a Minnesota church that drew federal charges and national outrage. Republican lawmakers in Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas say the laws protect worshippers from harassment and violence, while First Amendment advocates warn the statutes are broad enough to criminalize peaceful protest.
A former senior CIA official with top-secret security clearance, David Rush, was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money after federal agents found more than $40 million in gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches at his Virginia home, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor abandoned a closely watched case Thursday against four activists who protested outside a federal building during an immigration crackdown last year, after a judge highlighted allegations of grand jury misconduct within his office. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros announced the dismissal in federal court following a closed-door review of grand jury transcripts, telling U.S. District Judge April Perry he was unaware until recently of the misconduct, which included a prosecutor meeting privately with a grand juror and other jurors who disagreed with the prosecution being barred from participating.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara resigned Tuesday rather than face disciplinary action for interfering with an internal investigation into his conduct, Mayor Jacob Frey announced. The resignation comes as the department was navigating reforms imposed after the killing of George Floyd and a recent federal immigration crackdown.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with President Donald Trump's administration in a procedural dispute over speech restrictions for immigration judges, ruling that the judges must take their free-speech challenge through the Merit Systems Protection Board rather than federal court.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida’s long-shot attempt to sue California and Washington state over their issuance of commercial driver licenses to immigrants who are not authorized to be in the United States. The case arose from a fatal crash last year in Florida that killed three people, involving a driver carrying a valid CDL from California.
By denying bond to many immigrants held on immigration charges, four Washington immigration judges in Tacoma reached a conclusion that later mirrored a broader Trump administration policy, according to an Associated Press review. The judges’ approach began in the early 2010s at the Northwest ICE Processing Center and became national after Trump administration enforcement theories were adopted in recent years. In May 2026, a separate legal setback knocked down the administration’s policy, setting up a likely Supreme Court dispute.
A Washington state tourist pleaded not guilty in federal court in Honolulu to charges accusing him of hurling a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, according to court proceedings. U.S. Magistrate Judge Rom Trader allowed the defendant to remain free while the case proceeds, but ordered him to stay away from Hawaii beaches and marine wildlife.
A federal judge in Miami allowed Timothy Hudson to remain free after a hearing in a case accusing him of sexually assaulting and killing his 18-year-old stepsister aboard a Carnival Cruise ship. The judge did not issue a final decision and said he needed to review detention logistics with the U.S. Marshals Service.
Alabama-based nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center asked a judge to dismiss a federal indictment it says is the result of “top-down” political retaliation by the Trump White House and FBI leadership. Prosecutors accuse the group of misleading donors through a scheme involving informants inside white supremacist and other extremist organizations.
A federal appeals court has put its ruling on hold, giving former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident, extra time to challenge the Trump administration’s effort to deport him. Khalil was detained last year after participating in pro‑Palestinian protests, and a New Jersey federal judge had previously freed him on constitutional grounds. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals now ordered a stay while Khalil prepares an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Joe Biden sued the Justice Department in federal court Tuesday seeking to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his 2016 and 2017 interviews with a ghostwriter. Biden’s lawyers said the Justice Department plans to provide the materials to Congress and to the Heritage Foundation. They argued that releasing the files would be an “unwarranted invasion of President Biden’s privacy.”
Argentine authorities seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport on April 26, in a coordinated operation involving the Environmental Control Brigade, customs officials, the agricultural health agency, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Fundación Temaikèn. The shipment, which included 102 species of tropical fish and invertebrates such as surgeonfish, puffer fish, lionfish, octopuses and starfish, arrived after a 120‑hour transit with many animals dead and others severely stressed. Wildlife experts called the bust an “industrialized crime” and noted it is the third seizure this year at the same entry point, highlighting an established trafficking corridor.
An Associated Press investigation found an “alarming” spike in suicide deaths among people held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with at least 10 deaths since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. AP reported that nine of the 10 deaths involved Hispanic men, and that the pace of suicides has outpaced growth in the detained population.
A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by U.S. Secret Service officers who returned fire, the agency said. The shooting happened near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and did not injure President Donald Trump, the Secret Service said.
Four immigration judges at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, began denying bond to detained immigrants years before the Trump administration adopted the same approach nationwide — a practice now facing a likely Supreme Court showdown after an appeals court struck it down this month.
A bystander who was struck by gunfire after a man opened fire at a White House security checkpoint Saturday remained in serious but stable condition on Sunday, authorities said. The Secret Service said the wounded bystander was not in life-threatening condition, and the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department identified the suspect as 21-year-old Nasire Best.
A federal jury in Oakland, California dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI on Monday after the court found the case was filed past a statutory deadline, ending a high-profile trial that highlighted internal battles over AI’s costs and direction. The trial between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman never reached the merits, but testimony and evidence put on record disputes about whether AI development depends mainly on private profit or nonprofit backing.
Families seeking psychiatric records of long-deceased relatives say state privacy rules have made it difficult, including in New York where records can remain sealed “in perpetuity.” An Associated Press review of the issue found that some states have changed access policies after advocates pushed for reforms, while others have moved slowly.
A bystander struck by gunfire after a man opened fire on a White House security checkpoint remained in serious but stable condition Sunday, a day after U.S. Secret Service officers fatally shot the gunman.
A 21-year-old gunman was fatally shot by U.S. Secret Service officers after he opened fire near a White House security checkpoint Saturday evening, leaving an innocent bystander hospitalized in serious but stable condition, authorities said Sunday.
State laws and federal privacy regulations frequently prevent families from obtaining the psychiatric records of ancestors who died in public institutions, limiting their ability to trace hereditary mental health conditions, the Associated Press reported.
RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse in Nashville whose 2022 criminal conviction followed a deadly medication error at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is now traveling nationwide as a public speaker on hospital safety. NPR reports that after receiving three years of probation and losing her nursing license, Vaught began giving presentations aimed at drawing lessons about how healthcare systems can be designed to prevent preventable harm. Critics, including some nurses, have also argued that the attention she receives risks profiting from tragedy.
A man who opened fire near a White House security checkpoint Saturday evening was fatally shot by Secret Service officers, the agency said. The suspect was identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best, who had a prior arrest for attempting to enter a different White House checkpoint.
Caleb Vazquez, one of two teenagers who killed three people in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego this week, was flagged to law enforcement last year for exhibiting alarming behavior and idolizing Nazis, court records show. Officers obtained a court order in January 2025 to remove 26 guns from his home under a California law that allows firearm confiscation from people considered dangerous.
A man who opened fire Saturday near a U.S. Secret Service security checkpoint outside the White House is dead after officers returned fire, the Secret Service said. The shooting happened near the intersection of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. EDT, and a bystander was also struck, though it was not clear whether the person was hit by the suspect’s initial bullets or by officers’ shots.
The Justice Department has granted former President Donald Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization blanket immunity from any pending Internal Revenue Service audits, ending a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed after a 2018 leak of his tax returns. The settlement, released Tuesday, bars the IRS from examining the former president’s current tax filings while a $1.8 billion fund was set aside to compensate people the president claims were improperly investigated. Tax policy experts say the unprecedented move could erode confidence that tax rules apply equally to all Americans.
First responders in rural New Mexico became sick after answering a suspected overdose call at a home east of Albuquerque where three people died, authorities said Friday. Authorities said fentanyl and methamphetamine were found at the scene, and a hospital chief medical officer said doctors were working under the assumption fentanyl was the likely exposure. Some responders were quarantined and decontaminated, while one of the remaining hospitalized people and one responder were still being treated.
A proposed $7.25 billion settlement of thousands of lawsuits alleging Bayer failed to warn that Roundup weedkiller can cause cancer faces possible delays after an attorney asked to move the case to federal court. The dispute centers on which court should oversee the settlement, with a state-court opt-out deadline of June 4 and a scheduled July 9 hearing. The fight comes as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a case that could affect many Roundup claims filed in state courts.
Former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to rehear a ruling that put the government one step closer to deporting him. The American Civil Liberties Union said Khalil will seek an order from the 3rd Circuit to pause any detention or deportation while it asks the high court to take up the case.
Richard Knight, 47, was executed Thursday evening in Florida for the 2002 fatal stabbing of Odessia Stephens and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, Hanessia Mullings, the state said. Knight was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after a three-drug injection, following a Supreme Court decision to reject his final appeal.
San Francisco’s main immigration court shut its doors on May 1 after a sweeping purge of its judges, leaving the city without a primary venue for asylum hearings. The court, which once had 21 judges when President Donald Trump took office, was reduced to just two remaining judges by the time it closed, according to the Associated Press. The shutdown is the latest sign of turmoil in the federal immigration‑court system under the Trump administration.
The U.S. Secret Service said late Saturday that a person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at posted officers has died, and a bystander was struck. A preliminary investigation found the suspect removed a weapon from his bag and fired at officers shortly after 6 p.m. ET, the agency said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice said it removed from its website news releases about criminal cases connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The department described the purged information as “partisan propaganda.” In the latest development since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, the DOJ also announced a $1.776 billion fund aimed at compensating Trump allies who say they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted.
President Donald Trump’s critics, including a fired former prosecutor, sued Friday to block payouts from a newly announced $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” aimed at resolving the president’s IRS-related lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. The plaintiffs, backed by Democracy Forward and others, asked a federal court to halt the fund and prevent the Justice and Treasury departments from disbursing money.
Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed U.S. Department of Justice lawsuits seeking to compel the states to turn over detailed voter registration information, according to a decision in each case. A Wisconsin judge said the state voter registration list was not a record that could be requested under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, while Maine’s chief federal judge characterized the government’s argument as “half-hearted.”
President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan “Take It Down Act,” a federal law that adds criminal and civil consequences for sharing intimate images without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. The measure goes into effect immediately and requires websites and social media companies to remove such material within 48 hours after receiving notice from a victim.
Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of New York City art dealer Brent Sikkema, was convicted in federal court in Manhattan of murder-for-hire conspiracy resulting in death. Prosecutors said Daniel Sikkema used a burner phone line to order a killing in Brazil, where Brent Sikkema was stabbed to death in January 2024.
Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill to expand expungement access through an online request portal and an automatic expungement system, aiming for eligibility to be cleared by the end of 2029. The law, signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt in May, is expected to help people who have completed sentences whose records still block jobs, housing and other opportunities, advocates say.
Two former immigration judges who worked in Massachusetts said federal actions are undermining judicial independence and increasing pressure on judges, after the Executive Office for Immigration Review terminated several judges when their two-year probation ended. Nina Fróes said she received a “NOTICE OF NON-CONVERSION” email that cut short her April 10 hearing at the Chelmsford Immigration Court. Another former judge, Sarah Cade, said she resigned after being told judges were expected to grant more stipulated removal requests and that administrative closure options were curtailed.
A federal judge in Tennessee dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March 2025 despite a ruling that should have blocked it. The judge found evidence of “vindictive prosecution” by the Justice Department, according to a timeline of the case reported by The Associated Press.
A federal judge dismissed a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying prosecutors pursued the charges to punish him for challenging a mistaken deportation to El Salvador last year. The judge found the government’s case showed “presumptive vindictiveness,” and he dismissed the charges in Nashville, Tennessee.
Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted “Take It Down Act.” The charges, filed in Brooklyn, come as prosecutors say deepfake pornography has spread online, often depicting minors.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to support strong action to limit climate change, endorsing a July advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice despite diplomatic efforts by the United States to derail the measure. The nonbinding resolution passed 141-8 with 28 abstentions, with the U.S. among the countries opposing it.
Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers after execution team members struggled for more than an hour to establish an intravenous line. Gov. Bill Lee said the state will not try again for at least a year.
A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed author Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, ruling that Wolff’s attempt to stop Trump from suing him over his statements “is not how the federal courts work.” Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil said Wolff and Trump “have a real dispute,” but that it “must litigate it according to the same procedures as everyone else.”
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor dropped remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown, after a judge scrutinized allegations of grand jury misconduct. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros dismissed the case against Andre Martin, Brian Straw, Michael Rabbitt and Kat Abughazaleh, saying he learned recently of the alleged misconduct reflected in redacted grand jury materials.
The federal jury at a trial in Oakland, California, dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI after finding it missed a statutory deadline, leaving no verdict on the merits. Testimony during the three-week case, pitting Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, offered a detailed look at how executives weighed the costs of building and scaling artificial intelligence.
One of the teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque this week was flagged to law enforcement last year for alarming behavior and idolizing Nazis, according to court records. Police obtained a court order in January 2025 to remove 26 guns from the teen’s home under a California law that allows confiscation of firearms from people considered dangerous.
Fentanyl and methamphetamine were found at a rural New Mexico house where three people died and emergency responders became sick after answering a call about suspected overdoses on Wednesday, authorities said Friday.
Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post about conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Larry Bushart, a retired Perry County police officer, said his First Amendment rights were vindicated after felony charges were dropped in October.
The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to drop pending probes into whether Donald Trump properly paid federal taxes, resolving a lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. Tax experts said the settlement’s broad immunity terms are unusual and could weaken public confidence in tax enforcement.
A federal judge sentenced Aimee Bock, the former leader of Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future, to nearly 42 years in prison on Thursday. Prosecutors said the nonprofit was at the center of a $250 million fraud that helped fuel a wider crackdown on immigrants, as the case drew in federal agents and led to further charges. Bock, 45, told the court, “I understand I failed. I failed the public, my family, everyone.”
Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to review a decision that moved the government closer to deporting him, his lawyers said.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Alabama’s appeal seeking permission to execute an inmate found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled. The justices’ action on Thursday leaves in place rulings favorable to Joseph Clifton Smith, who has been on death row after a 1997 murder conviction.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of owners of Cuban property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s government more than 65 years ago, reviving claims filed by a U.S. company. By an 8-1 vote, the justices held that a federal appeals court in Atlanta erred in dismissing the claims, which target four cruise lines that brought tourists to Cuba.
A proposed $7.25 billion settlement of lawsuits over Roundup cancer claims in Missouri could be delayed after an attorney asked to move the case to federal court. The dispute could affect deadlines for people to opt out of the settlement, while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a separate case that could block thousands of similar claims in state courts.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday that former Cuban President Raúl Castro, now 94, has been indicted on murder, conspiracy and aircraft‑destruction charges for ordering the 1996 shootdown of two civilian exile planes. The indictment alleges Castro authorized lethal force against the exile group Brothers to the Rescue, killing four U.S. nationals. The move comes as Washington intensifies pressure on Cuba’s socialist government.
Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to block deportation after a federal appeals court declined to rehear his case. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia voted 6-5 against a full-court review, according to his lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Trump administration’s Justice Department acknowledged it removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, calling the information “partisan propaganda.” The change comes as the department has moved to vacate some convictions and has created a $1.776 billion fund intended to compensate people it says were unjustly prosecuted.
WASHINGTON — A powerful congressional committee is urging AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to do more to protect Americans from scams, as investigators probe the role U.S. companies may play in a surge of cyber-enabled fraud. In a request sent Wednesday evening, committee leaders asked the carriers for information on data collection, monitoring efforts and actions against bad actors, warning that scam calls and texts are increasingly hard for customers to distinguish from legitimate messages.
U.S. Treasury announced sanctions on Thursday against Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese parliamentarians, state security officials and allies, accusing them of trying to preserve the Iran-backed group’s influence over Lebanese institutions. The Treasury action also targeted former cabinet minister and senior Hezbollah figure Mohammed Fneish and other lawmakers, and it said it would continue pursuing officials it says infiltrated the Lebanese government.
The Trump administration announced Friday that most foreign nationals with legal status in the U.S. who want to become lawful permanent residents must leave the country and apply from their home nations, ending a practice in place for more than half a century.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Friday that foreigners who are temporarily in the United States and wish to become lawful permanent residents must return to their home country to file a green‑card application, except in “extraordinary circumstances,” the agency said. The policy overturns a practice that for more than half a century let visa holders adjust status without leaving the country. Immigration experts warned the change could trap families and create a “catch‑22” for applicants from nations where U.S. consular services are unavailable.
A coalition of President Donald Trump’s critics filed lawsuits seeking to stop payouts from a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” meant to compensate Trump allies they say were targeted by a “weaponized” government. The federal case was filed in Alexandria, Virginia, and attorneys are asking a court to halt the fund’s implementation and bar disbursements.
Attorneys for Tony Carruthers say they asked Tennessee officials to confirm the state has not expired lethal-injection drugs for his Thursday execution, but a response from the state’s attorney general’s office did not provide the requested assurances. Tennessee’s Department of Correction declined to say whether the drugs are expired when asked by The Associated Press.
A Manhattan federal jury convicted Daniel Sikkema on Friday of murder-for-hire conspiracy for the 2024 stabbing death of his estranged husband, prominent New York art dealer Brent Sikkema. Sikkema, 55, faces a mandatory life sentence.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday dismissed author Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, ruling that his “contorted” attempt to prevent her from suing him for $1 billion over statements about Jeffrey Epstein “is not how the federal courts work.” Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, rebuked Wolff for “an inappropriate level of tactical gamesmanship” and said the court “will not be conscripted to oversee an abusively presented spat.” The judge acknowledged that the two “have a real dispute” but must litigate it “according to the same procedures as everyone else.”
Former immigration judges in Massachusetts are publicly warning that Trump administration policies—including the firing of probationary judges and new case-completion quotas—are dismantling judicial independence and compromising due process for asylum-seekers.
A federal judge in Tennessee on Thursday dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that the Justice Department engaged in "vindictive prosecution" of the Salvadoran national. The decision closes the criminal case against Abrego Garcia, whose immigration saga has drawn national attention since he was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 despite a court order blocking his removal.
A federal judge in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday dismissed the Justice Department’s human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, finding the prosecution was brought in retaliation for Abrego Garcia’s successful challenge to his mistaken deportation to El Salvador last year. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ruled the charges amounted to selective or vindictive prosecution and said the evidence reflected “an abuse of prosecuting power.” The ruling is an extraordinary rebuke of a Justice Department that, under President Donald Trump, has faced repeated accusations of targeting defendants for political purposes.
A coalition of individuals who have faced legal action from the federal government — including a fired federal prosecutor and a university professor acquitted of assaulting officers during a protest — filed a lawsuit on Friday, May 22, 2026, seeking to halt a new $1.776 billion fund created by the Trump administration to compensate allies who claim they were victims of a weaponized government.
A sweeping new Oklahoma law seeks to transform the state's criminal record expungement system from an application-based process to an automatic one, a change advocates say will remove barriers to housing and employment for hundreds of thousands of residents with past convictions.
The Department of Homeland Security told NPR that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has “no relationship” with spyware company Paragon Solutions. The clarification follows questions about whether ICE reactivated a previously paused Paragon contract and whether it complied with a 2023 executive order restricting federal agencies’ use of commercial spyware.
Three people died and dozens of first responders were quarantined after emergency crews in rural New Mexico became sick while responding to a reported overdose call, authorities said. Fentanyl and methamphetamine were found at the home in Mountainair, east of Albuquerque, and one emergency responder was still being treated at a hospital Friday.
Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed U.S. Department of Justice lawsuits seeking detailed voter registration information, court filings described. The decisions come as the Trump administration has pursued similar demands in multiple states, arguing for access under federal civil-rights law.
El gobierno de Estados Unidos aceptó retirar de forma permanente sus reclamos fiscales contra el presidente Donald Trump como parte de un acuerdo para poner fin a una demanda que él presentó contra el IRS por la filtración de sus declaraciones fiscales, según un documento divulgado por el Departamento de Justicia. El arreglo impide que el gobierno investigue o procese no solo a Trump, sino también a sus hijos y a la Organización Trump por auditorías fiscales actuales, de acuerdo con el texto.
President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” on Monday, a bipartisan law that increases federal penalties for distributing non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-created deepfakes. The measure also requires websites and social media platforms to remove such content within 48 hours of receiving notice from a victim.
A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was executed Thursday evening, officials said. Richard Knight, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal without comment earlier that day, and his statement before the injection included thanks to Yahweh.
A Tennessee judge set a $1 million bond for white livestreamer Dalton Eatherly, who is charged with attempted murder after shooting Black man Joshua Fox outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville on May 13. The case has sparked a national debate over whether Eatherly’s on‑camera antics constitute protected speech or illegal race‑baiting. Attorneys, civil‑rights experts and fellow creators are weighing in as the livestreamer raised more than $100,000 for his legal defense in a single day.
A Virginia judge dismissed all charges against Ebony Parker, a former Richneck Elementary assistant principal accused of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun before a teacher was shot, according to court reporting. Acting Circuit Judge Rebecca Robinson issued the ruling Thursday on the fourth day of Parker’s trial.
Tennessee officials halted the execution of Tony Carruthers on Thursday after failing to establish an intravenous line for lethal injection. Governor Bill Lee announced the state would not attempt the execution again for at least a year. Carruthers was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994.
An advocacy group has filed suit challenging a Veterans Affairs rule that reinstates near-ban abortion limits for veterans and certain family members who rely on VA healthcare, the group said. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, seeks to overturn the rule issued in the VA’s final regulation published Dec. 31.
FLORENCE, Ariz. — Arizona put inmate Leroy Dean McGill to death Wednesday for the 2002 killing of Charles Perez, authorities said. Prosecutors said McGill threw gasoline at Perez and his girlfriend, lit them on fire, and Perez later died, while his girlfriend survived. McGill was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PDT after lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence.
Daniel Sikkema was convicted in federal court in Manhattan of murder-for-hire conspiracy resulting in death for arranging the killing of his estranged husband, art dealer Brent Sikkema, in Brazil. Prosecutors said Daniel Sikkema used a burner phone to order the killing while divorce proceedings were underway, and jurors found him guilty on Friday. Sikkema faces a mandatory life sentence.
Former immigration judges in Massachusetts said federal changes since 2025 have led to judge terminations at the end of probation, pressure to follow agency priorities, and a shrinking asylum caseload, as appellate guidance shifts and immigration courts struggle with large removal backlogs. In interviews cited by The New Bedford Light and distributed by The Associated Press, judges described internal directives, procedural constraints, and concerns that the changes are making the system harder to manage.
A federal judge in Tennessee dismissed a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling prosecutors brought the charges after his mistaken deportation to El Salvador last year for what the judge described as selective or vindictive prosecution. The judge, Waverly Crenshaw, said the Justice Department’s pursuit of the case was tied to Abrego Garcia’s successful challenge to the removal, while the Justice Department said it will appeal.
A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed author Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, rejecting his effort to stop her from suing him for $1 billion over statements he made about her and Jeffrey Epstein. The judge, Mary Kay Vyskocil, said Wolff’s “contorted” request for court intervention “is not how the federal courts work.”
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 2030 earlier this month to create a free online expungement request portal and an automatic expungement system aimed at clearing eligible records. The law also directs changes to good-time credit calculations and medical parole procedures under other 2026 reforms.
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor dropped the remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown, after a judge scrutinized allegations of grand jury misconduct by the prosecutor’s office.
Two men were arrested and charged in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors said, for creating nude AI-generated videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted law aimed at deepfake pornography. Prosecutors said Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, were arrested Tuesday. Joseph Nocella, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said the case shows that posting deepfake pornography is not a victimless crime.
San Francisco’s main federal immigration court shut down May 1 after most of its judges were fired, retired or resigned during a White House purge, an Associated Press report said. The remaining two judges will handle cases from a different federal building in the city that is part of an immigration court across the bay in Concord, where security has tightened as filings shifted. Attorneys and court insiders said the move has disrupted asylum proceedings and increased uncertainty for people seeking protection.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to support strong action to limit climate change, endorsing a landmark advisory opinion by the U.N.’s top court issued last year. The 193-member body approved a nonbinding resolution despite recent diplomatic efforts by the United States to have the measure withdrawn.
Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack sued the Trump administration to block payouts from a new $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” aimed at people they say were politically targeted. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Wednesday, asks a judge to prevent anyone from receiving money from the fund, including Jan. 6 rioters, and challenges the fund as an unconstitutional slush operation.
A federal judge in Minneapolis on Thursday sentenced Aimee Bock, the former head of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, to nearly 42 years in prison for her role in a $250 million fraud scheme tied to pandemic-era federal food aid. Prosecutors said her operation ran “the single largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country,” and federal authorities said the case helped spur a wider crackdown on immigration and social-services fraud. Bock, 45, apologized in court, saying, “I understand I failed. I failed the public, my family, everyone.”
Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, convicted of lying during testimony in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has died, according to Idaho’s Kootenai County. He died May 12 at age 74, the county’s chief deputy coroner said.
A Tennessee man jailed for more than a month over Facebook memes about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has reached a $835,000 settlement with Perry County and law enforcement officials. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer, spent 37 days in jail before authorities dropped a felony charge, according to court filings described in the settlement announcement.
The Supreme Court voted 8-1 Thursday to revive a long-stalled lawsuit by a U.S. company seeking compensation from four cruise lines that used dock facilities in Havana confiscated by the Castro government more than 60 years ago.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed Alabama’s appeal to execute death-row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith, whom lower courts found to be intellectually disabled, leaving in place the rulings that block the state from carrying out the sentence.
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on a group of Hezbollah-affiliated parliamentarians, a former cabinet minister, and two sitting Lebanese state security officials, accusing them of preserving the Iran-backed militant group’s influence over state institutions and obstructing disarmament efforts.
A powerful congressional committee on Wednesday called on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to do more to protect Americans from cyberscams, part of a widening investigation into the role U.S. telecommunications companies play in a surge of fraud that cost Americans an estimated $200 billion in 2024.
The U.S. imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than a dozen people, a Mexican restaurant and a security firm it linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and fentanyl trafficking, the State Department and Treasury said. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted several individuals, including a fugitive known as Chuy Gonzalez, and said the sanctions cut them off from the U.S. banking system and blocked any U.S. assets.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Alabama’s appeal on Thursday in the case of a death-row inmate found by lower courts to have intellectual disability. The court’s action left in place lower-court rulings barring the state from executing Joseph Clifton Smith, who has been on death row since 1997.
An attack by two teenage gunmen on the Islamic Center of San Diego left three men dead and two suspects dead after police responded, authorities said. FBI agents said the suspects met online and authorities recovered more than 30 firearms and rounds during searches of homes linked to them.
Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian aircraft flown by Miami-based exiles, as the Trump administration escalated pressure on Cuba. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the case honors “the families of four murdered Americans” killed in what he described as humanitarian flights. Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the indictment, calling it a political stunt.
US Treasury announced Thursday sanctions on Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese lawmakers, security officials and allies, accusing them of seeking to preserve Hezbollah’s influence over Lebanese state institutions and to obstruct disarmament efforts. The move targets sitting security officials for the first time, and includes former cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish and Hezbollah-linked parliamentarians. The announcement came amid ongoing low-level talks in Washington aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
President Donald Trump’s administration has escalated pressure on Cuba while it has pursued new diplomacy with Havana and increased sanctions, culminating this week in a U.S. indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro. The indictment was announced May 20 and comes after months of public warnings and threats, as well as talks involving U.S. officials and Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro.
Arizona executed Leroy Dean McGill on Wednesday for the 2002 killing of Charles Perez, after McGill threw gasoline on Perez and his girlfriend, lit them on fire, and Perez later died. McGill, 63, was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PDT at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence following a lethal injection, the first execution in three planned this week. Officials said the lethal drugs were administered without major complications and quoted the inmate’s last words.
WASHINGTON — A powerful congressional committee urged AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to do more to protect Americans from scams, pressing the telecoms to share information about how they collect data, monitor for fraud and cybercrime, and respond to bad actors. The request comes as lawmakers widen an investigation into the role U.S. companies play in a surge of cyberscams that cost Americans an estimated $200 billion in 2024.
A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was executed Thursday evening, state prison officials said. Richard Knight, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking an indictment against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro over the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, prosecutors say. The case revives tensions between Washington and Havana and turns the spotlight back on an organization founded to aid Cubans fleeing by sea. (Associated Press)
Two teenagers who shot and killed three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego were radicalized online after meeting there and sharing white supremacist views, the FBI said. The FBI said investigators found writings expressing hate toward multiple religious and social groups and that they found at least 30 guns, ammunition and a crossbow at residences after the Monday attack.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a federal appeals court in Atlanta wrongly dismissed claims by Havana Docks seeking recovery tied to property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s government more than 65 years ago. In an 8-1 decision, the court sent the dispute back to the appeals court and said the cruise lines used confiscated property to which Havana Docks owns the claim.
The Texas Board of Nursing has suspended the registered nurse license of Camp Mystic’s co-director and medical officer, Mary Liz Eastland, after finding she failed to help evacuate children during the July 2025 flood that killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors, according to a disciplinary order released Wednesday.
A Texas regulatory board has suspended the nursing license of Camp Mystic co-director Mary Liz Eastland, accusing the registered nurse of failing to assist children and staff during the July 2025 flood that killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp along the Guadalupe River.
Texas’ Board of Nursing suspended the nursing license of Camp Mystic co-director Mary Liz Eastland, saying she did not help evacuate children during last year’s July 4 floods that killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors. Eastland, a registered nurse who served as the camp’s medical officer, denies the board’s findings and said she will fight the suspension.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that defense attorneys for Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of starting the Palisades Fire, cannot introduce certain evidence about alleged negligence by the Los Angeles Fire Department during an earlier blaze. Judge Anne Hwang said the material is irrelevant to the arson charges and could confuse the jury.
A veterans advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on May 21, 2026, seeking to overturn a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that reinstates a near-total ban on abortion services for veterans and their family members. The suit, filed by Minority Veterans of America, argues the VA adopted the rule without citing medical evidence or other justifications, in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Michigan Department of Corrections confirmed that Rebecca Fackler, 57, died Sunday at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility, days after another inmate, Khaira Howard, 28, died, renewing scrutiny of medical care and conditions at the state’s only women’s prison in Ypsilanti. The department said it does not suspect foul play and that staff and emergency medical services performed life-saving measures in both cases. Attorneys and lawmakers said the deaths are the latest in what they describe as long-running failures tied to staffing, treatment access and facility conditions.
Three people were found dead and more than a dozen first responders were briefly quarantined after exposure to an unidentified substance in Mountainair, New Mexico, authorities said. Two people remained hospitalized Thursday, and investigators are conducting autopsies and toxicology tests to identify the substance and determine the causes of death.
Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that sought to compel the states to hand over detailed voter registration information. The rulings add to a string of defeats for the Trump administration’s campaign to force states to disclose voter rolls, with judges having rejected similar requests in at least seven other states.
Federal prosecutors charged two men Tuesday with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities, marking the first enforcement actions under the newly enacted Take It Down Act. The men face up to two years in prison for generating sexually explicit content that drew millions of views online.
A Virginia circuit judge on Thursday dismissed all eight felony child neglect charges against Ebony Parker, the former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School, ruling that the allegations against her did not amount to a crime.
RaDonda Vaught, a former Tennessee nurse convicted of negligent homicide over a medication error that killed a patient, is now working as a paid patient-safety speaker, according to an NPR report. The former Vanderbilt Medical Center nurse is drawing attention from nursing groups and hospital associations as she discusses details of the case and says she hopes it will reduce mistakes.
A Catholic diocese is challenging a federal eminent domain lawsuit seeking to take some land associated with Mount Cristo Rey, which the diocese calls a holy site. Federal officials say the land is needed for additional border wall infrastructure, while the diocese argues the seizure would burden the free exercise of religion.
Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed lawsuits by the U.S. Department of Justice that sought to compel the states to turn over detailed voter registration information. The rulings add to a series of defeats for the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain voter-roll data, including in other states where judges rejected similar requests.
A former federal prosecutor in Florida has been charged with sending to her personal email a special counsel report describing President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to an indictment unsealed this week. Prosecutors said the report was subject to a judge’s order keeping it sealed and that she altered the file name before emailing it.
A judge in Franklin County, Ohio, acquitted Maria Dearaujo on May 20 of illegally voting in the 2018 election when she was not a U.S. citizen. Judge Chris Brown said a defense entrapment argument succeeded, citing Dearaujo’s testimony that she voted only after advice from a Bureau of Motor Vehicles clerk.
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will defend his Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating title at the July 4 contest while on probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge in Indiana, his attorney said. A judge granted Chestnut permission to travel outside the state so he can compete, according to Major League Eating officials and his lawyer.
Vice President JD Vance said he is directing President Donald Trump’s anti-fraud task force to focus on Medicaid fraud in Ohio, a shift that GOP candidates say could reshape the state’s political contest. The announcement came days after a conservative outlet reported alleged abuses in Ohio’s Medicaid-funded home health program.
Federal prosecutors charged Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities, under a newly enacted law aimed at deepfake pornography. Both men were arrested Tuesday, according to criminal complaints, and prosecutors said the videos and images drew millions of views online.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Erin Merdy, 34, received a 20-years-to-life sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the 2022 deaths of her three children. The case followed an early-morning search on Sept. 12, 2022, after police received a call from relatives. The children’s bodies were later recovered from the Atlantic shoreline near Coney Island.
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor dismissed remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown after a judge raised questions about alleged grand jury misconduct by the prosecutor’s office, the Associated Press reported.
Tennessee officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers on Thursday after execution staff struggled to establish an intravenous line, Gov. Bill Lee said. The state said it could not find a suitable vein for a required backup line and that attempts to place a central line also failed, ending the attempt after more than an hour. Carruthers is scheduled for no new attempt for at least a year, officials said.
A federal judge on Wednesday refused to postpone a June 1 civil trial over claims stemming from the 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, rejecting requests from companies involved in the disaster. U.S. District Judge James Bredar said the trial will start as scheduled even after prosecutors filed criminal charges against companies tied to the container ship Dali. The civil case seeks compensation for the deaths of six construction workers killed when the bridge collapsed.
A Virginia judge dismissed all charges against Ebony Parker, a former assistant principal accused of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun hours before teacher Abby Zwerner was shot at Richneck Elementary School, Newport News, AP reported May 21. Circuit Judge Rebecca Robinson said, “The court is of the legal opinion that this is not a crime.” Prosecutors said they had hoped the community could weigh in through the full judicial process.
A Tennessee judge set bond at $1 million for a white livestreamer charged in the May 13 shooting of a Black man outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville. The case, involving a creator who has promoted racial slurs online, has drawn debate over how far free speech protections extend to content creators who profit from hate-filled interactions.
Tennessee inmate Tony Carruthers is scheduled to be executed Thursday, and his attorneys say they are concerned the state could use expired lethal-injection drugs. His lawyers asked the Tennessee Department of Correction twice last month about obtaining the appropriate drugs for the execution date and about whether the drugs had expired.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks and regulators to look for signs that some customers may lack legal status. The order is part of the administration’s broader push to clamp down on people living in the country illegally, and it frames banks’ credit risk if customers are deported.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he may release his current tax returns after his legal team reached a deal with the Justice Department involving his IRS tax examinations. The settlement would permanently drop tax claims against Trump, his family and associates, and would bar the government from pursuing or prosecuting current tax examinations. The Justice Department said the deal resolves Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over a leak of his tax returns and creates a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump allies.
The U.S. Justice Department has indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro, 94, charging him in connection with the 1996 shootdown of two unarmed civilian aircraft operated by Miami-based exiles. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said he expects Castro to face the charges in the United States.
U.S. government officials said they will permanently withdraw tax claims against President Donald Trump as part of a settlement in a lawsuit over allegations of leaked confidential tax returns. The agreement, disclosed through a document posted by the Justice Department, would also bar the government from examining or prosecuting existing IRS audits involving Trump, his children and the Trump Organization.
Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, delaying action until after Memorial Day amid GOP infighting over a proposed $1.776 billion settlement fund for Trump allies who claim political persecution.
Acting Attorney General **Todd Blanche** told a Senate oversight hearing on May 19 that a newly created $1.776 billion “Anti‑Weaponization Fund” could be available to anyone who believes they were a victim of political weaponization — including participants in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Blanche declined to say whether the five‑member commission that will administer the payouts will bar people convicted of violence, saying his personal feelings “don’t matter.” Democrats on the panel blasted the proposal as an illegal abuse of power, while some Republican senators expressed discomfort with the fund’s purpose.
Two teenage shooters opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, killing three men and then fatally shooting themselves a few blocks away, police said. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said investigators found evidence the suspects used “generalized hate rhetoric” and are looking into what led up to the attack.
Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, are suing to block payouts from a $1.776 billion settlement fund to those who claim to be victims of politically motivated prosecutions, including rioters.
Perry County, Tennessee, officials will pay $835,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by Larry Bushart, a retired police officer who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Bushart, 61, was arrested in September 2025 and charged with a felony before prosecutors dropped the case in October, after spending more than a month behind bars that cost him his job and caused him to miss his wedding anniversary and the birth of his granddaughter.
The Justice Department announced on May 18 that it will establish a $1.776 billion “Anti‑Weaponization Fund” to compensate individuals who claim they were unfairly targeted for political reasons. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche described the fund as a “lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.” Critics in Congress called the plan an unconstitutional slush fund that could reward Trump supporters, including some convicted of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The U.S. government will permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump, according to a settlement addendum posted Tuesday that expands a deal resolving Trump’s IRS-related lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. The document says the government will be “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization’s current tax examinations, and from looking into Trump’s family, affiliates and others.
Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman died on May 12 in Kootenai County, Idaho, at age 74, the county’s chief deputy coroner said. Fuhrman, who was one of the first two detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, was later convicted of perjury for lying under oath during the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Alan Dershowitz, a member of Simpson’s defense “Dream Team,” called Fuhrman “a very, very aggressive detective” whose use of the “n‑word” helped the defense, while former witness Kato Kaelin posted a respectful tribute on X.
Larry Bushart, a retired Perry County, Tennessee, police officer, reached a $835,000 settlement after being jailed for more than a month over Facebook posts about conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Federal court filings said Bushart was behind bars for 37 days before authorities dropped a felony charge in October.
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to endorse a landmark international court opinion declaring that countries’ failure to protect the planet from climate change violates international law, brushing aside a U.S. effort to have the measure withdrawn.
Richard Knight, 47, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison for the June 2002 stabbing deaths of Odessia Stephens and her 4-year-old daughter Hanessia Mullings, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal without comment.
Senate Republicans abruptly postponed a vote Thursday on a roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement funding bill, stymied by internal revolt over a newly announced $1.8 billion Justice Department settlement fund and an abandoned White House security package that had drawn derision as a “billion-dollar ballroom.”
The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than a dozen people, a Mexican restaurant and a security firm it links to fentanyl trafficking tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. The Treasury Department said the designations cut targets off from the U.S. banking system and blocked U.S. assets.
Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles, as President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Cuba. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said families of four murdered Americans waited “for nearly 30 years” for justice, while Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the indictment as a political stunt.
In Washington, federal prosecutors announced an indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 shootdown of two planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue. The move comes as tensions between President Donald Trump’s administration and Cuba’s socialist government have escalated across Trump’s second term, with the U.S. imposing new sanctions and raising talk of possible regime change.
An Arizona inmate, Leroy Dean McGill, was executed Wednesday in Florence after being convicted of murdering Charles Perez by setting him on fire in 2002. Officials said the lethal injection proceeded without significant disruption, and McGill was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PDT.
Two teenagers who shot and killed three people in an attack on a California mosque were radicalized online where they first met and shared white supremacist views, the FBI said. The FBI said the pair met online before discovering they both lived in the San Diego area, and authorities were trying to determine whether the attackers had broader plans after Monday’s attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to reconsider a decision in a Voting Rights Act case brought by two Native American tribes, saying the ruling improperly limited who can sue to enforce the law. The justices sent back a second case involving Mississippi’s legislative map and indicated both disputes should be reexamined after an earlier Supreme Court decision that weakened Voting Rights Act enforcement.
Teen gunmen attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, killing three men and then themselves, authorities said. The FBI later said the suspects met online and shared white supremacist views. Investigators said they recovered more than 30 firearms and ammunition as they searched homes tied to the teens.
Jonathan Rinderknecht will face trial starting June 8 after a federal judge barred some evidence defense attorneys wanted to introduce in his arson case tied to the Palisades Fire, according to court rulings. At a pretrial hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang limited evidence tied to alleged negligence by the Los Angeles Fire Department and excluded prosecutors’ AI-generated images created before the fire.
Tennessee officials halted the scheduled lethal injection of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after executioners spent more than an hour unable to find a vein for a backup intravenous line, a required step under the state’s execution protocol. Gov. Bill Lee announced soon afterward that the state would not attempt to execute Carruthers again for at least a year.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Connecticut over a new state law that bars federal agents from wearing masks and requires them to display identification during operations in the state. The department said the measure is “blatantly unconstitutional,” arguing that the federal government has supremacy over state rules for federal agents. Connecticut officials and lawmakers said the law is needed for public safety and assert the state has authority over policing and public areas.
A judge in Franklin County, Ohio, acquitted Maria Dearaujo of illegally voting as a noncitizen, ruling that prosecutors failed to overcome an entrapment defense. The decision came Tuesday, when Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Chris Brown said Dearaujo’s testimony matched documentary evidence and that a Bureau of Motor Vehicles clerk helped lead her to register. Dearaujo was 63 at the time of the alleged conduct and later became a U.S. citizen.
Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, a Tennessee death row inmate, say they are concerned the state could use expired lethal injection drugs when he is scheduled to be executed on Thursday. Inquiries to the Tennessee Department of Correction last month did not provide direct assurances on whether the drugs would expire before the lethal injection date, their lawyers said.
Erin Merdy, 34, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to the first-degree murders of her three children, whom she drowned in the Atlantic Ocean off Coney Island in September 2022.
A Tennessee judge on Thursday set a $1 million bond for Dalton Eatherly, the white livestreamer known as “Chud the Builder,” who faces an attempted murder charge for the May 13 shooting of Joshua Fox, a Black man, outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flown by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, as the Trump administration escalates a months-long pressure campaign against Cuba’s socialist government.
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers said Wednesday they are concerned the state may use expired lethal injection drugs when it attempts to execute him Thursday, a practice that has drawn criticism in multiple states as corrections departments keep drug supply details secret.
U.S. District Judge James Bredar on Wednesday refused to delay a civil trial scheduled to begin June 1 for lawsuits stemming from the deadly 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The ruling keeps the case on course despite the recent filing of criminal charges against companies that managed the container ship Dali.
Arizona executed Leroy Dean McGill by lethal injection Wednesday morning for the 2002 murder of Charles Perez, whom McGill killed by dousing with gasoline and setting on fire inside a north Phoenix apartment. McGill, 63, was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. The execution was the first of three scheduled this week across the United States.
A federal judge in Minneapolis sentenced Aimee Bock, the former leader of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, to nearly 42 years in prison on Thursday for orchestrating what the U.S. Justice Department called the single largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country. Bock, 45, was convicted of conspiracy, fraud, and bribery in connection with a $250 million scheme that exploited federal child nutrition programs during the pandemic.
A white livestreamer known as “Chud the Builder” was ordered held on $1 million bond Thursday after a Tennessee judge set the amount, following his arrest on attempted murder and other charges in the May 13 shooting of a Black man outside a Clarksville courthouse. Dalton Eatherly, 28, who has built an online following by confronting strangers with racist and provocative language while openly carrying a pistol, claims he acted in self-defense and that his speech is protected by the First Amendment. Civil rights advocates and legal experts say the case illustrates how hateful content, amplified for profit, can escalate into real-world violence.
Tennessee officials called off the scheduled lethal injection of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after medical personnel tried and failed for more than an hour to establish the intravenous lines required by state protocol. Gov. Bill Lee announced the state would not attempt another execution for at least a year.
The order, signed by President Donald Trump in Washington Tuesday, directs regulators and agencies to look for signs that people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining loans. But it is less sweeping than earlier reporting suggested, offering guidance to banks rather than making citizenship-data collection mandatory.
Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of Ebony Parker, a former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal in Newport News, Virginia, who faces eight felony child neglect counts in the January 2023 shooting of first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner. Prosecutors said staff warned Parker multiple times that a 6-year-old student had a gun, but that Parker did nothing, while Parker’s lawyer argued school employees should have acted if they believed a weapon was present.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities said Tuesday that three men killed by two teen shooters at the Islamic Center of San Diego died while trying to delay the attackers as about 140 children were inside during the Monday attack. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said the men were shot as they confronted the gunmen and helped move people into lockdown.
A federal jury acquitted two business executives of charges that they conspired to bribe a retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral in exchange for a military contract and a postretirement job, according to court records. The verdict ended the retrial in Washington, D.C., after an earlier trial for Next Jump co-CEOs Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger ended in a hung jury and a mistrial.
A federal jury in Oakland, California, on May 19 ruled that Elon Musk filed his lawsuit against OpenAI too late, allowing the AI firm to avoid a costly court loss. The three‑week trial, which featured testimony from former OpenAI executives and tech industry observers, ended with the jury deliberating less than two hours before delivering its verdict. While Musk said he will appeal, both sides emerged with reputational hits amid growing concerns about the rivalry among a handful of billionaires shaping artificial‑intelligence development.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday it will seek an indictment against former Cuban leader Raul Castro for the February 1996 downing of two civilian Brothers to the Rescue aircraft flown from Miami. The incident, in which Cuban fighter jets shot down the Cessna 337 Skymaster planes over international waters north of Havana, killed four members of the exile group, prompting condemnation from President Bill Clinton and a demand for an explanation from the U.S. embassy in Cuba. The upcoming case revives a Cold‑War‑era episode that remains a flashpoint in U.S.–Cuba relations.
NEW YORK (AP) — Erin Merdy, 34, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder charges in the 2022 deaths of her three young children near Coney Island, prosecutors said Wednesday. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said the sentence reflects the grief of “a seven-year-old, a four-year-old and a three-month-old baby.”
The United Nations General Assembly voted 141-8 with 28 abstentions on Wednesday to support strong action to limit climate change, endorsing an advisory opinion by the U.N.’s top court issued last July. The vote came despite recent diplomatic efforts by the United States to have the measure withdrawn. <a href='/articles/2026-02-16-us-urges-vanuatu-to-withdraw-un-climate-reparations-draft'>MSI previously reported that the U.S. urged Vanuatu to withdraw a related U.N. climate reparations draft</a>.
A federal judge in Baltimore refused to postpone a civil trial over claims stemming from the 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, rejecting a request by companies involved in the crash. U.S. District Judge James Bredar said the trial will begin as scheduled on June 1, despite criminal charges filed against firms tied to the Dali. The collapse killed six construction workers in March 2024.
Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will defend his hot dog eating title on July 4 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery and receiving 180 days of probation in Indiana, the Associated Press reported. A judge granted permission for him to travel outside the state for the Nathan’s Famous contest on Coney Island.
A coalition of Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit challenging new federal caps on student loans, arguing the limits will hinder students seeking certain healthcare degrees. The plaintiffs said the rule would fall hardest on critical healthcare professions that communities need. The U.S. Department of Education defended the caps, saying they are meant to push colleges and universities to lower tuition.
The Justice Department announced Monday it will create a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who say they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted after a settlement resolving President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the arrangement would provide “a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization.” Democrats and government watchdogs denounced the deal as “corrupt” and unconstitutional.
A former federal prosecutor in Florida, Carmen Lineberger, has been charged with sending to her personal email account a special counsel report from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s classified-documents case, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday. Prosecutors said the report was supposed to remain sealed under a judge’s order. Lineberger pleaded not guilty in federal court in West Palm Beach.
El gobierno de Estados Unidos retirará “de forma permanente” sus reclamos fiscales contra el presidente Donald Trump como parte de un acuerdo ligado a una demanda de 10.000 millones de dólares por filtraciones de declaraciones fiscales, informó el martes el Departamento de Justicia. El documento del acuerdo también indica que el gobierno queda “para siempre impedido y excluido” de examinar o procesar auditorías fiscales actuales de Trump, de sus hijos y de la Organización Trump.
A former Hartford police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the Feb. 27 fatal shooting of Steven Jones, a 55-year-old Black man whom witnesses described as suffering a mental health crisis and holding a large knife, the Connecticut Inspector General said. Joseph Magnano was fired by the Hartford Police Department after the shooting and turned himself in to state authorities before the charge was filed.
Two inmates died within days of each other at Michigan’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the state’s only women’s prison, renewing concerns about medical care and conditions. The Michigan Department of Corrections confirmed that Khaira Howard, 28, died last Thursday and that Rebecca Fackler, 57, died on Sunday, and said both deaths are under investigation. Attorneys and lawmakers allege chronic staffing shortages, treatment failures, and problems communicating with families during medical emergencies.
US prosecutors have indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro on murder and other charges over the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, according to an indictment announced by Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche in Miami on May 20, 2026. The indictment alleges Castro authorized the use of deadly force and that Russian-made fighter jets shot down the planes off the coast of Cuba, killing four men aboard.
Vice President JD Vance on May 19 said he is extending a federal Medicaid-fraud crackdown to his home state of Ohio, setting off political maneuvering among Ohio Republicans including governor nominee Vivek Ramaswamy. The move followed a conservative outlet’s investigation into abuses in Ohio’s Medicaid-funded home health program and came amid a broader fight over how much Ohio’s Medicaid oversight changes after years of Republican control.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers on Tuesday he would not bar people convicted of violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion Department of Justice fund created to compensate individuals who say they were politically targeted.
Two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, killing three men before dying by suicide a few blocks away, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said.
The Pentagon inspector general will evaluate whether the U.S. military followed the six-phase Joint Targeting Cycle when carrying out attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats that have killed nearly 200 people in Latin American waters since early September, according to a May 11 letter from the watchdog's office.
A panel of three federal appellate judges heard oral arguments Tuesday in Anthropic's appeal against the Pentagon's decision to brand the artificial intelligence company a national security supply-chain risk, with one judge calling the Defense Department's action a "spectacular overreach."
The U.S. government has permanently agreed to drop all tax claims against President Donald Trump and to bar the Internal Revenue Service from any future examination or prosecution of Trump, his adult sons, and the Trump Organization, according to a settlement addendum made public Tuesday. The one-page document signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was quietly posted to the Justice Department's website a day after the broader settlement resolving Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns was announced.
Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective whose testimony at the O.J. Simpson murder trial led to his conviction for perjury, died May 12 at his home in Idaho, the Kootenai County coroner's office said. He was 74.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Connecticut and Gov. Ned Lamont and Attorney General William Tong on Friday over a new state law that prohibits federal agents from wearing masks and requires them to display identification when operating in the state.
AUSTIN, Texas — Three young people are in custody following at least 10 random weekend shootings that injured four people, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said Sunday. The suspects drove around the city in stolen vehicles, firing at two fire stations, apartment buildings and houses during a string of robberies and shootings that stretched from Saturday afternoon to early Sunday morning.
Arizona on Wednesday executed Leroy Dean McGill, 63, for the 2002 killing of Charles Perez, who died after McGill threw gasoline on him and lit a match during an attack in a north Phoenix apartment. McGill was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PDT following a lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence.
The U.S. government will permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump under a settlement document made public Tuesday, expanding an earlier deal tied to Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over leaks of his tax returns, according to the Justice Department addendum. The document says the government is “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization’s current tax examinations.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on May 18 announced the creation of an "Anti-Weaponization Fund" worth nearly $1.8 billion, a program Democrats have criticized as unconstitutional and corrupt, as part of a deal to resolve Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.
A proposal to add $1 billion in security upgrades for the White House campus, including the president's new ballroom, faces uncertain support from Senate Republicans ahead of an anticipated vote this week, even as President Donald Trump and the Secret Service press for the funding. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that passage depends on leadership's ability to secure votes after the Senate parliamentarian ruled the plan cannot be included in immigration enforcement legislation.
More than three weeks after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the event has not been rescheduled, and the association is considering a pared-down gathering at a smaller venue, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to reconsider a ruling that would sharply limit who can sue under the Voting Rights Act, acting in a case brought by two Native American tribes in North Dakota. The justices directed the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit its decision that only the federal government — not voters or advocacy groups — can bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the landmark civil rights law.
Alex Murdaugh has filed a federal lawsuit against the former Colleton County clerk of court whose conduct during his 2023 murder trial led the South Carolina Supreme Court to unanimously overturn his convictions and life sentence for the deaths of his wife and son.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies challenging the federal government's authority to negotiate prices for high-cost drugs in Medicare, leaving in place lower court rulings that upheld the program created by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
President Donald Trump placed more than 3,600 stock trades during the first three months of 2026, according to a federal ethics filing, including as much as $6 million in Nvidia and shares of defense contractors whose profits his administration has directly influenced through policy decisions on chip exports and military spending. The volume of trading — exceeding 100 transactions per week — breaks with the practice of recent presidents who avoided holding individual stocks whose value they could affect.
Three men were killed at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday after confronting two teenage gunmen to protect roughly 140 children present in the building. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said the victims died while attempting to delay and distract the attackers. Imam Taha Hassane identified the deceased as Amin Abdullah, 51; Nadir Awad, 57; and Mansour Kaziha, 78, calling them martyrs and heroes.
Two teenagers killed three men and then themselves Monday in an attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego that investigators say was driven by white-supremacist ideology. A mosque security guard, who was among the dead, fired back and locked down the building, helping to keep the attackers away from about 140 children present at the time.
Two teenagers who killed three people in an attack on a San Diego mosque on May 18 met online where they shared white supremacist views and authored writings expressing hatred toward Jewish people, Muslims, Black people, the LGBTQ+ community, women, and both the political left and right, according to FBI agent Mark Remily and texts obtained by the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to reconsider a Voting Rights Act case brought by Native American tribes. The high court's decision comes after a ruling that weakened the Civil Rights-era law.
Two teenagers attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, killing three men and then themselves, authorities said. Investigators said the suspects had met online, and they were examining white supremacist writings for evidence of hate toward multiple groups.
An Iranian family detained in immigration custody in Texas is seeking release after U.S. authorities arrested them in Los Angeles over their familial ties to Masoumeh Ebtekar, known during the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis as “Sister Mary.” A federal judge temporarily barred deportation after the family filed petitions challenging the legality of their detention.
An Iranian family living in the United States for a decade is demanding release from immigration detention after being arrested because of their relation to Masoumeh Ebtekar, a central figure in the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in April he was revoking the family's green cards over their ties to Ebtekar, and a federal judge has temporarily barred the government from deporting them.
A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia sued in federal court Tuesday to challenge a Trump administration rule that narrows access to federal student loans for borrowers earning certain graduate degrees in healthcare-related fields. The plaintiffs argue the rule unlawfully tightens the federal definition of which “professional” degrees qualify for higher loan limits, while the Education Department says the caps are aimed at reducing college costs.
The New York Times filed its second lawsuit in five months against the Defense Department on Monday, arguing that a policy requiring journalists to be escorted while on Pentagon grounds violates the First Amendment. The Times called the escort requirement 'an unconstitutional attempt … to prevent independent reporting on military affairs,' while the Pentagon said the suit amounts to 'an attempt to remove the barriers to them getting their hands on classified information.'
Three federal judges in Wyoming dismissed felony grand jury indictments against nine defendants Friday, citing widespread misconduct by interim U.S. Attorney Darin Smith that began with "some of the first words spoken to the grand jury" and extended into off-the-record conversations during breaks between cases.
The Justice Department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund Monday to compensate allies of President Donald Trump who claim they were targeted for prosecution for political purposes, resolving his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns. Democrats and government watchdogs immediately criticized the arrangement as unconstitutional, while acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed it as a necessary corrective measure against the weaponization of law enforcement.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Monday charged Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the nonfatal shooting of Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis during the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
The United States government has permanently withdrawn tax claims against President Donald Trump, his children, and the Trump Organization as part of a settlement resolving a $10 billion lawsuit over the leak of Trump's tax returns. The agreement, signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, permanently bars the Internal Revenue Service from examining or processing current audits of the president and his family.
Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of a former Virginia elementary school assistant principal charged with felony child neglect, with the prosecutor telling a jury that school officials warned the defendant multiple times about a 6-year-old student's gun before the child shot his teacher.
The U.S. Justice Department has decided to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro for his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two planes operated by the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue, a person familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press.
A federal jury in Washington, D.C., has acquitted two business executives of charges they conspired to bribe retired four-star Navy Adm. Robert P. Burke, who is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for his own corruption conviction.
NEW YORK — A gun and notebook that prosecutors say link Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson can be used as evidence at his murder trial, a judge ruled Monday, rejecting a defense argument that they were seized illegally.
A former Hartford police officer was charged with manslaughter Monday in the February fatal shooting of Steven Jones, a 55-year-old Black man suffering a mental health crisis, after a state investigation concluded the officer failed to de-escalate the confrontation.
An autopsy report released Monday confirmed that the death of Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian man who died after spending months at an Arizona immigration detention facility, was related to his severe dental problems, while also noting that he declined recommendations to have his problematic teeth removed.
A federal judge barred ICE agents from routinely arresting people attending immigration court proceedings in New York City, ruling that appearing for a hearing should not carry the risk of detention. A day after the order, a 21-year-old man was arrested inside a federal building covered by the ruling, raising questions about compliance.
U.S. prosecutors have moved to dismiss criminal fraud and conspiracy charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, whom authorities in 2024 accused of orchestrating a massive bribery scheme to secure a lucrative solar power contract in India. The Department of Justice said it will not devote further resources to the case as a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI, ruling that Musk filed his lawsuit too late to challenge the ChatGPT maker's shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit structure. The verdict allows OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, to proceed toward what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history, but testimony during the trial raised questions about the credibility of both Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks and regulators to look for signs that customers without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining credit. The order, announced Tuesday, frames the move as a way to prevent credit and financial-system risks tied to customers who could be deported.
Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of Ebony Parker, a former assistant principal in Virginia accused of felony child neglect in the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. Prosecutors said school employees repeatedly warned Parker that a 6-year-old student had a gun, but she did not act. Parker’s attorney argued that teachers should have intervened if they believed a gun was present.
A judge ruled Monday that prosecutors in Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial can use a gun and a notebook they say link him to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The ruling by Judge Gregory Carro allows the evidence while excluding some items and certain statements tied to an earlier search of a backpack at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Jeff Titus, who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the 1990 deaths of two Michigan hunters, agreed to a $5.25 million settlement after alleging police withheld evidence that could have helped him at trial, a lawyer said Monday.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After a federal jury found Elon Musk filed his lawsuit too late, OpenAI avoided what could have been a costly court loss, but testimony during the three-week trial also left both sides with damage. The nine-person jury deliberated less than two hours, returning a verdict essentially on a procedural deadline, according to the AP report.
Arizona carried out the lethal injection of inmate Leroy Dean McGill on May 20, 2026, marking the state’s first execution of the year and the first lethal injection since 2025. McGill was convicted of the 2002 murder of Charles Perez, whom he set on fire with gasoline in a north‑Phoenix apartment. The execution proceeded without incident, and McGill’s final words were recorded by witnesses.
Rachel Maddow is writing a history of the U.S. Justice Department that will be published Nov. 10 by Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, according to an announcement Monday. The book, titled “Department of Fate,” will examine the department’s 150-year record and link DOJ priorities to constitutional protections and democratic governance.
In Ohio, Vice President JD Vance said he is directing President Donald Trump’s anti-fraud task force to focus on the state after scrutiny of its Medicaid-funded home health program, a move that has scrambled Republicans ahead of state political races. Days later, Ohio’s governor, Mike DeWine, defended existing fraud enforcement and announced new prevention steps.
A federal jury in Oakland, California, found that Elon Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, dismissing his claims that the company abandoned its nonprofit mission after a three-week trial.
A coalition of Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration to challenge new caps on federal student loans, saying the limits will restrict access to certain health care training. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, argues the rules will disproportionately affect students pursuing degrees in critical health fields, taking effect in July.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers he would not rule out considering people who assaulted police during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol for payouts from a new $1.776 billion fund. During a Congressional hearing, Blanche said anyone could apply if they believe they were a victim of “weaponization,” and he declined to say whether he would direct a commission to exclude those convicted of violence.
Two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, killing three men, and then killed themselves a few blocks away, police said. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said investigators are looking into the attack as a hate crime after finding evidence the suspects used “generalized hate rhetoric.” Officers were searching for one of the teenagers before the shooting after his mother called police, authorities said.
President Donald Trump’s allies who say they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted could soon seek compensation through a new Justice Department fund announced Monday, the Justice Department said. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche described the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as a “lawful process” for people targeted for “improper and unlawful political, personal, or ideological reasons.” Democrats and other critics said the arrangement would be unconstitutional and corrupt, funded through the federal judgment fund and overseen by a commission appointed by Blanche.
Mark Fuhrman, a former Los Angeles police detective convicted of lying during testimony in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has died. Boise County Idaho officials said he died May 12, and he was 74.
A federal immigration officer shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who had protested President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, during an enforcement operation Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the streets in sub-zero weather.
A man was wounded on January 27 after exchanging gunfire with U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Arizona-Mexico border, according to authorities. Patrick Gary Schlegel, 34, of Arizona, fired at a Border Patrol helicopter and at agents during an apprehension attempt near Arivaca, Arizona, about 10 miles from the border. Agents returned fire, striking Schlegel, who was transported to a hospital and recovering from surgery, said Heith Janke, special agent in charge of the FBI in Phoenix.
Dr. Peter Attia resigned from his position at CBS News in late February after his name appeared in documents released by the Justice Department relating to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier convicted of sex trafficking. Attia, who hosts a popular podcast and authored "Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity," had been appointed as a network contributor by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss the previous month. In a statement, Attia acknowledged that some of his emails were "embarrassing, tasteless and indefensible," but stated he attended no parties hosted by Epstein and was guilty of no wrongdoing.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies challenging the federal government’s authority to negotiate Medicare prescription-drug prices. The justices left in place rulings by a federal appeals court in Philadelphia that dismissed the companies’ claims.
Federal judges on Friday dismissed felony grand‑jury indictments against nine Wyoming defendants, finding that interim U.S. Attorney Darin Smith’s prejudicial remarks to the grand jury could have tainted the proceedings. Defense lawyers said Smith called the defendants “bad guys” and “murderers” and suggested deliberations “won’t take long,” statements the judges said jeopardized the grand jury’s right to an unbiased evaluation of evidence.
An attack by two teenagers on the Islamic Center of San Diego left three men dead and the attackers dead Monday, as Muslim leaders called for increased security and investigators examined writings found in the suspects’ circle. FBI Special Agent Mark Remily said Tuesday the teens met online and shared white supremacist views. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said investigators recovered more than 30 firearms and rounds as they searched homes connected to the suspects.
Two teenagers who shot and killed three people during an attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego met online and left writings expressing hate, the FBI said. The FBI said the pair shared white supremacist views and referred to themselves as “Sons of Tarrant,” an apparent reference to the 2019 mosque attacker in Christchurch, New Zealand. Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, killed themselves after the Monday attack, police said.
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered lower courts to reconsider a ruling in a Voting Rights Act case brought by two Native American tribes, saying the lower court applied the law too narrowly after a recent Supreme Court decision weakened enforcement. The justices directed courts to revisit an appeals court ruling that limited who may sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
A federal judge Monday refused to block a Department of Homeland Security policy requiring members of Congress to provide a week's notice before visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. The decision came after three Democratic representatives from Minnesota — Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig — were turned away from an ICE facility near Minneapolis early this month, three days after an ICE officer shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in the city.
The Supreme Court appeared likely on Tuesday to strike down Hawaii's law restricting who can carry guns into stores, malls, and hotels, marking the justices' latest gun-rights case since their landmark 2022 decision expanding Second Amendment protections. The Trump administration backed the legal challenge to the measure, which Hawaii said aims to protect private property owners' right to decide whether firearms are allowed on their land.
The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, killing three people, according to U.S. Southern Command. The strike is part of the Trump administration's months-long campaign targeting what it calls "narcoterrorists" in small vessels along known smuggling routes, a campaign that has resulted in at least 151 deaths since early September.
The White House Correspondents’ Association says it is still weighing options to reschedule this year’s dinner after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton in an attack prosecutors said was meant to kill President Donald Trump. More than three weeks later, the WHCA has not announced a date, while some journalists and ethics experts argue the event should not return in any form.
The New York Times sued the Pentagon on Monday for the second time in five months, arguing that a requirement that journalists be escorted while on Pentagon grounds violates the First Amendment. The paper filed the new case in federal court in Washington, seeking a ruling directly addressing the escort rule, which it says is intended to limit coverage to what Pentagon officials approve.
In late January, Pentagon contractor Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones was indicted on charges he illegally removed and shared classified national defense information with a journalist. The indictment centers on documents he passed to a Washington Post reporter, a case that drew national attention after federal agents searched the reporter's home.
A federal judge ruled in January that congressional lawmakers can pursue a separate lawsuit to compel the Justice Department to release Epstein investigation documents, but cannot intervene in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer blocked the effort by Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky to append their demand to Maxwell's ongoing case, but acknowledged their concerns about DOJ compliance were 'undeniably important and timely.'
Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, asked a Utah judge on Tuesday to seal some evidence and keep reporters and the public out of parts of a key upcoming hearing—a preliminary examination scheduled for July 6–10. Judge Tony Graf said he will rule June 1 on the restrictions, which come after he previously declined to ban news cameras from the courtroom.
The U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging former Cuban President Raúl Castro with murder and conspiracy in connection with the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft flown by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue.
A judge ruled Monday that prosecutors can use a gun and a notebook they say link Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as evidence at Mangione’s state murder trial, after rejecting a defense challenge over how the items were seized. The ruling by Judge Gregory Carro also excluded some items taken from Mangione’s backpack before his arrest and barred some statements made to police before he was properly told of his right to remain silent.
A Michigan man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the deaths of two hunters in 1990 agreed to a $5.25 million settlement after suing, according to a lawyer. Jeff Titus was released in 2023 and his murder convictions were erased at the request of prosecutors, following work by an Innocence Clinic and investigators that raised questions about the original investigation.
A former Hartford police officer, Joseph Magnano, has been charged with manslaughter after a Connecticut investigation into his fatal shooting of Steven Jones, a Black man in mental distress, concluded he failed to de-escalate. Magnano was fired by the Hartford Police Department after the Feb. 27 shooting. The Connecticut Inspector General said in an arrest warrant that Jones did not pose an imminent threat to bystanders and that Magnano had space to back away, but did not use non-lethal force.
Alex Murdaugh has filed a federal lawsuit against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill, accusing her of violating his right to a fair trial after South Carolina’s Supreme Court overturned his murder convictions. Murdaugh’s filing, submitted Sunday, seeks punitive and compensatory damages and attorneys’ fees, saying Hill’s conduct during his 2023 trial “egregiously attacked” his credibility. The state Supreme Court said Hill suggested to jurors that Murdaugh was guilty and that his testimony could not be trusted.
The U.S. Justice Department is weighing seeking an indictment of Cuban leader Raúl Castro over the 1996 shootdown of two aircraft linked to the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, the Associated Press reported on May 18. The case would revive one of the lowest points in U.S.-Cuba relations, which have been shaped for decades by events tied to the group. A person familiar with the investigation told AP on condition of anonymity that Castro’s alleged role is among the factors DOJ is considering.
A federal judge in New York barred U.S. immigration agents from routinely detaining people who arrive to attend proceedings at immigration courts in Manhattan. A day after the ruling, a 21-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in a federal building covered by the court order, according to immigrant-rights advocates. The judge said the government has an interest in enforcing immigration laws but also a serious interest in letting people attend hearings without fear of arrest.
Utah prosecutors plan a preliminary hearing in July where they intend to present forensic analysis, surveillance video, witness statements and other evidence in the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Lawyers for Tyler Robinson urged a judge on Tuesday to seal some evidence and restrict media access to parts of the July 6-10 hearing in Utah County District Court. State District Judge Tony Graf said he will rule June 1 on whether to grant the defense requests.
A Minnesota county prosecutor announced charges Monday against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The officer, Christian Castro, was charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 incident, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. Castro, 52, was not in custody, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
OpenAI won its court fight against Elon Musk after a federal jury in Oakland, California found that Musk filed his lawsuit too late, according to the Associated Press. The verdict means neither side fully escaped damage from the three-week trial, which included testimony about Sam Altman’s candor and broader concerns about AI’s risks.
The Washington Post filed a federal court petition on January 21 to recover electronic devices the FBI seized from reporter Hannah Natanson's Virginia home, arguing the search violated her free speech rights and journalistic protections. A magistrate judge temporarily barred the government from examining the materials and scheduled a February 6 hearing. The agents seized a phone, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive and a smartwatch during the search, which was part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of illegally handling classified information.
A woman shot by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty to illegally entering the United States and was sentenced to one year of probation. Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras appeared by video from an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, for the federal court hearing in Portland in January. She will not serve time in prison but will have location monitoring and nighttime curfew requirements during her probation, according to court records.
A Virginia man charged with murdering his wife and another man testified Wednesday that he did not plot their deaths, despite prosecutors' allegations that he and the family's au pair orchestrated the killings. Brendan Banfield, wearing a gray suit and plaid tie, testified in Fairfax County court that he loved his wife, Christine, and did not want to end their 19-year marriage, even though he had begun an affair with au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães.
Jacques Leveugle, a 79-year-old French national, is under formal investigation in France for sexually abusing 89 children across multiple countries over more than five decades, according to prosecutors in Grenoble. The crimes came to light when a family member discovered Leveugle's detailed digital memoirs on a USB drive and reported them to authorities. Leveugle spent much of his life in North Africa and was known in the Moroccan city of Khenifra as a language teacher and community contributor. His arrest occurred in 2024.
A Georgia Power critic will not face prosecution after being arrested for allegedly stealing a notebook containing trade secrets, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced last week. Patty Durand took the notebook during a Georgia Public Service Commission meeting break on Oct. 21, 2025, and voluntarily returned it the same day. She spent almost two days in jail.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has authorized agents to force entry into homes and arrest immigrants using only administrative warrants, bypassing the judicial oversight required by the Fourth Amendment, according to an internal memo obtained by the Associated Press. The May 12, 2025 memorandum, signed by interim ICE Director Todd Lyons, represents a dramatic departure from longstanding policy that has guided immigration enforcement for years. Immigrant advocacy groups, legal aid organizations, and local governments have for years advised immigrants not to open doors to immigration agents without a court-ordered warrant signed by a judge. The policy shift comes as the Trump administration has dramatically escalated immigration enforcement, deploying thousands of additional agents in what it describes as a campaign for mass deportation.
Mickey Barreto pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud charges for attempting to claim ownership of the New Yorker Hotel by forging property records. Barreto had lived rent-free in the hotel for years using an obscure tenant-protection law, before being evicted in 2024. He was sentenced to six months in prison—already served—and five years of probation.
Patience Rousseau will receive $100,000 from Nevada following a settlement approved by the Board of Examiners on Feb. 18. The payment concludes an eight-year legal battle after Rousseau became the only person ever charged and convicted under the state's 1911 law criminalizing drug-induced abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
In January, Border Patrol officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Trump administration officials quickly characterized Pretti as an armed threat intent on harming agents. But bystander video obtained by The Associated Press contradicts key elements of that account.
A drone strike ignited a fire at the edge of the United Arab Emirates' sole nuclear power plant on Sunday in what Emirati authorities called an unprovoked terrorist attack, spotlighting the threat of renewed war as the United States and Iran traded threats.
Two teenagers were taken into custody and a third suspect remains at large after a series of seemingly random shootings across Austin, Texas, over the weekend left four people wounded, city officials said Sunday.
The average person's attention span when viewing a single screen has fallen to 47 seconds, down from 2.5 minutes in 2004, according to decades of research. Psychiatrists and cognitive scientists say the decline is driven by constant notifications, 24/7 news cycles, and the deliberate design of social media platforms — but also that it can be reversed through intentional practice.
The Supreme Court rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies seeking to block Medicare negotiations with the federal government for certain prescription drugs. The justices did not comment, leaving in place rulings that had dismissed the manufacturers’ claims.
More than 80 children are missing after a wave of militant attacks on schools in Nigeria over the past week, local officials and Amnesty International said Sunday, the latest in a long series of school abductions in the West African country.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back a closely watched Voting Rights Act case brought by Native American tribes, telling lower courts to reconsider a ruling that limited how the law can be enforced. The justices said the appeals court decision conflicted with earlier precedent after a separate Supreme Court ruling weakened enforcement of the Civil Rights-era law.
The Justice Department announced Monday it is creating an Anti-Weaponization Fund of $1.776 billion as part of a settlement that would resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of his tax returns. The department said people who believe they were unfairly investigated and prosecuted for political purposes can apply for payouts overseen by a five-member commission. Democrats and government watchdogs criticized the deal as “corrupt” and unconstitutional.
U.S. Justice Department prosecutors are considering seeking an indictment of Cuba’s former defense minister Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 shootdown of planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, the Associated Press reported. A person familiar with the investigation, speaking anonymously because the matter is ongoing, said the potential indictment is tied to Castro’s alleged role in the deaths of four people when Cuban fighter jets shot down two civilian aircraft.
Federal judges dismissed felony grand jury indictments against nine defendants in Wyoming, citing “deeply concerning” misconduct by interim U.S. Attorney for Wyoming Darin Smith that the judges said could have prejudiced jurors. The judges ordered the dismissal stayed until Wednesday or until Smith decides not to contest the ruling, and said the dismissals were “without prejudice.”
Militant attacks on schools in Nigeria over the past week left more than 80 children missing, according to local officials and Amnesty International. The attackers abducted 42 children from a primary school in Borno state between Wednesday and Thursday, Amnesty said.
More than three weeks after a man stormed the Washington Hilton lobby and fired shots during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the association has not set a date for a rescheduled event. WHCA president Weijia Jiang said the group is “continues to weigh options for rescheduling the event,” while critics and security experts argue over whether the dinner should be held again and, if so, where it can be done safely.
Three people were killed and several others were injured late Saturday night when a vehicle crashed into a parked car and multiple pedestrians in Oakland, California, police said. Authorities arrested the teenage driver, and the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Gunmen killed at least 10 people, including a child, in the town of Tehuitzingo in Mexico’s Puebla state in the early hours of Sunday, according to a statement from the state’s public security agency.
A Hong Kong court on Monday heard closing arguments in the national security trial of two former organizers of the city's annual vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, a case that has drawn attention to the erosion of civil liberties under Beijing-imposed legislation.
Austin police arrested three young people after at least 10 shootings over the weekend left four people injured, city officials said on May 18. Officials said the suspects drove through Austin in stolen vehicles and fired at locations including two fire stations.
A judge ruled Monday that a gun and notebook prosecutors say connect Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson can be used in his state murder trial, while other evidence from a warrantless search was excluded, according to court testimony and rulings. State Judge Gregory Carro said prosecutors can show jurors a possible murder weapon and motive tied to the backpack items, but he barred parts of what officers found in Altoona, Pennsylvania, before a warrant was obtained.
U.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss criminal fraud and conspiracy charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. The move would end a case accusing Adani of duping Wall Street investors tied to a large solar power project in India.
Mexican authorities said at least 10 people were killed in an attack by gunmen in Tehuitzingo, a town in Mexico’s Puebla state. The Puebla public security agency said the victims included six men, three women and a child, all shot in the early hours of Sunday.
A Hong Kong court is hearing final arguments Monday in the national security trial of two former organizers of the large Tiananmen Square crackdown vigils, with prosecutors seeking convictions under a Beijing-imposed law. Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have pleaded not guilty and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, as the judges have not yet indicated when they will deliver a verdict.
Austin officials said two teenagers were in custody and a potential third suspect was being sought after at least 10 random shootings over a weekend that left four people injured. Police Chief Lisa Davis said the suspects drove around in stolen vehicles, firing at fire stations, apartment buildings and homes from Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning. The city issued a shelter-in-place order for a large part of the south side, then lifted it after the two suspects were arrested.
A former New York City police sergeant can remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction for throwing a cooler at a suspect who then crashed and died, a state appellate court judge ruled in April. Erik Duran, 38, was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for the 2023 death of Eric Duprey, 30, who lost control of his motorized scooter after being struck by the cooler and sustained fatal head injuries.
In mid-April, the satirical news outlet The Onion submitted a proposal to a Texas state court seeking an exclusive temporary license to operate the conspiracy-focused platforms of Alex Jones as a parody site. The proposal comes as Jones' company, Free Speech Systems, faces liquidation to satisfy more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
In late April, jury selection concluded in Harvey Weinstein's third rape trial in New York. A jury of seven men and five women was chosen to decide whether the 73-year-old former Hollywood producer raped a woman at a Manhattan hotel in 2013. The trial, with opening statements scheduled to begin, was expected to last up to four weeks.
Three California residents were sentenced for insurance fraud in a scheme involving someone dressed in a bear costume staging fake attacks on luxury vehicles, according to the California Insurance Department.
President Donald Trump's lawyers are in talks with the Internal Revenue Service to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency. In a Friday federal court filing, Trump's legal team asked a judge to pause the case for 90 days while the two sides explore settlement options. The lawsuit stems from the leak of Trump's confidential tax records to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court on Friday refused to declare that Democratic state lawmakers who fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on new congressional maps had vacated their office, dealing a blow to Gov. Greg Abbott and state Republicans who sought to punish the more than 50 Democrats for their quorum break.
President Donald Trump announced late Friday that a senior leader of the Islamic State group was killed in a joint U.S.-Nigerian military operation in the Lake Chad Basin, describing Abu Bakr al-Mainuki as the terrorist organization’s second-in-command globally.
The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Monica Elfriede Witt, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran in 2013 and was later indicted on espionage charges, the bureau announced Wednesday. Witt, 47, remains at large and is accused of disclosing national defense information to Tehran and helping Iran target her former U.S. colleagues. The announcement comes during the ongoing U.S.–Iran war, though the FBI did not specify a triggering event.
U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Nigeria in a joint mission on Friday, President Donald Trump said. Trump identified the target as Abu Bakr al-Mainuki and said the operation was carried out with support from U.S. “sources.” Nigerian President Bola Tinubu confirmed that al-Mainuki was killed during a strike in the Lake Chad Basin.
Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, the former public security secretary of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, appeared in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, becoming the first of 10 indicted current and former Mexican officials to surrender to American authorities on charges of taking bribes to help the Sinaloa Cartel smuggle massive quantities of drugs into the United States.
A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday in Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial after jurors deadlocked on charges that the former Hollywood mogul raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013.
Jurors deadlocked in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial on Friday, forcing Judge Curtis Farber to declare a mistrial, the Associated Press reported. The decision leaves the Manhattan rape charge in limbo as prosecutors consider whether to seek a fourth trial. Weinstein’s attorney said later that the defense was pleased with the outcome.
The Alaska Legislature rejected Stephen Cox as attorney general in a joint session on Thursday, voting 29-31. Opponents questioned Cox’s actions as acting attorney general, including turning over confidential voter data to the federal government and supporting out-of-state conservative lawsuits. Supporters cited his legal experience and said they were impressed by meetings with him.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has committed to restricting access in the United Kingdom to accounts linked to banned terrorist groups and to reviewing flagged hate and terrorist content within 24 hours on average, the UK media regulator Ofcom announced Friday. The pledges follow mounting pressure over hate crimes targeting Britain's Jewish community and separate investigations into X's handling of illegal AI-generated imagery.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats an opportunity to gain four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives, leaving the state’s 2021 district lines in place for the upcoming elections.
Félicien Kabuga, accused of financing Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, died Thursday in a hospital in The Hague while in United Nations custody, the U.N. court said. He was over 90 and had been ruled unfit to stand trial in 2023 due to dementia.
A multiracial coalition of civil rights organizations gathered in Alabama on Saturday to oppose recent congressional redistricting and defend Black political representation, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibits states from considering race when drawing electoral boundaries. NAACP President Derrick Johnson said the coalition must respond quickly to what he called an effort to "shrink us backwards into a 1950s reality."
Suspected Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) militants attacked a secondary school in Askira-Uba, northeastern Nigeria, on Friday, leaving an unspecified number of students missing, police told The Associated Press.
President Donald Trump said that a joint U.S.-Nigerian military operation killed Abu Bakr al-Mainuki, a top commander in the Islamic State's West Africa branch, early Saturday. The strike in the Lake Chad Basin marks a significant escalation in the recently renewed military cooperation between the two countries.
The wife of a U.S. Army soldier was released from immigration detention Thursday after a U.S. senator personally intervened, the Department of Homeland Security said, ending a monthlong custody that began when she was arrested at a routine immigration appointment.
A wave of cartel drone and gunfire attacks on small Náhuatl towns in Guerrero state forced hundreds of Indigenous residents to flee their homes last week, leaving the elderly, wounded, and displaced sheltering under a basketball court while the government and local groups offered widely differing accounts of the crisis.
A Florida judge heard arguments Friday over whether a newly enacted map of the state's U.S. House districts violates the Florida Constitution's ban on drawing political lines to favor one party, part of a mid-decade redistricting push urged by President Donald Trump that could reshape the fight for control of Congress.
An Iraqi national has been charged in federal court with conspiring to bomb a New York City synagogue and providing material support to Iran-backed terrorist groups, U.S. prosecutors said Friday, alleging that Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi orchestrated a string of attacks across Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran.
X has pledged to crack down on hate and terrorist content in Britain, the country’s media regulator said. Ofcom said the platform will restrict access in the U.K. to accounts operated by or on behalf of terrorist groups banned in the country and will review suspected illegal content within set timeframes after users flag it.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Virginia’s request to restore a mid-decade congressional map drawn by Democrats, leaving the state to use its existing districts for the 2026 elections. The justices issued the decision on Friday, a move Virginia Democrats said nullified votes cast by more than 3 million voters in an April 21 special election.
Félicien Kabuga, a suspect accused of bankrolling the 1994 Rwandan genocide, died Thursday in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said. He was in his 90s and had been in legal limbo since 2023 after judges ruled he was not fit to stand trial.
Civil rights leaders and lawmakers are planning rallies and tribute events in Alabama this weekend, aiming to counter a legal shift that further weakened the Voting Rights Act’s protections for race-conscious redistricting. The groups’ push follows a U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited when states may consider race in drawing congressional and other political districts. NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Saturday’s events are meant to respond quickly and prevent a rollback of Black political representation.
President Donald Trump said a joint U.S.-Nigeria operation killed Abu Bakr al-Mainuki, a senior leader of the Islamic State’s Nigeria-linked affiliate, in the Lake Chad Basin during the early hours of Saturday. Nigeria’s government and military said the strike was carried out through a recently formed partnership with the United States, as analysts said U.S. involvement signaled a new phase of cooperation.
The French national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office said a French investigating judge will examine a complaint accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The office said the case was transferred to an investigating judge from France’s crimes against humanity unit after a May 11 ruling by the Paris Court of Appeal.
A federal judge ordered that a Montana diesel mechanic held on immigration charges be released from jail, ruling that his continued detention was unlawful. On Thursday morning, Roberto Orozco-Ramirez walked out of the Cascade County Detention Center in Great Falls and embraced his oldest son after more than 100 days behind bars.
NEW YORK (AP) — An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has been arrested and charged in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said. The complaint says Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi sought to attack a New York City synagogue and provided an undercover officer with photos and maps of Jewish sites in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona.
An unspecified number of students were missing after suspected jihadi militants attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, police said Friday. Police said the missing students may have fled during the attack and that a headcount was ongoing to determine whether students were abducted.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly left the state in 2025 to prevent a vote on new congressional maps had vacated their offices. The court rejected Gov. Greg Abbott and state Republicans’ attempt to severely punish more than 50 Democrats who bolted to New York, Illinois and Massachusetts, saying the Legislature handled the quorum problem itself.
The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday. The prospect of charges, which would be decided by a grand jury, would be tied to Castro’s alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of planes operated by a Miami-based exile group, AP reported.
The Trump administration has sued a Catholic diocese in New Mexico to seize 14 acres near El Paso, aiming to build border barriers at the base of Mount Cristo Rey, a mountain that draws thousands to an annual pilgrimage. The diocese says the plan violates its First Amendment right to religious expression, warning that barriers would damage the site’s religious and cultural sanctity.
The Alaska Legislature voted 29-31 on Thursday to reject Stephen Cox as the state's attorney general, making him only the second cabinet appointee in state history to fail confirmation. Opponents pointed to his sharing of confidential voter data with federal authorities, his support for more than 110 amicus briefs aligned with Trump administration policies, and his creation of new senior positions within the Department of Law shortly after pledging to tread lightly. Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who had appointed Cox acting attorney general last August, immediately named him counsel to the governor and elevated Deputy Attorney General Cori Mills to acting attorney general.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the prison sentence of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters on Friday, releasing her on June 1. The Associated Press reported that Polis acted after pressure from President Donald Trump and that Trump had publicly championed Peters’ case.
Cornelius Smith Jr. pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder in the November 2021 killing of Memphis rapper Young Dolph, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office announced. Under the plea agreement, Smith, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, closing a legal battle that followed the rapper’s ambush at a beloved hometown cookie shop.
Venezuela’s government said Saturday it deported Alex Saab, a Colombian-born businessman once described as Nicolás Maduro’s “bag man,” to the United States to face several criminal investigations — less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned him as part of a prisoner swap.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the nine-year prison sentence of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters on Friday, granting her release effective June 1 and citing the sentence's unusual length for a first-time, nonviolent offender. The decision followed months of sustained pressure from President Donald Trump, who had publicly attacked Polis and directed his administration to restrict federal funding to Colorado over the case.
Under federal law and the statutes of most U.S. states, antique firearms and their replicas are exempt from modern gun regulations, allowing even convicted felons in many jurisdictions to legally acquire and fire weapons dating to the Revolutionary and Civil War eras.
The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 shootdown of four planes, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday, as the Trump administration increases pressure on Havana.
Nigerian police have detained three suspects after gunmen attacked two primary schools in Oyo state in the country’s southwest, authorities said Saturday. Officials are still assessing how many children may have been abducted, police spokesperson Ayanlade Olayinka told The Associated Press.
A French investigating judge from the crimes against humanity unit will examine a criminal complaint by two rights groups accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office said Saturday. The step follows a May 11 ruling by the Paris Court of Appeal that found the complaint, which alleges complicity in torture and enforced disappearance, admissible.
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man charged with fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy staffers outside a Washington museum last May, prosecutors said in a court filing Friday. Elias Rodriguez, who shouted ‘Free Palestine’ during the attack and later told police he did it for Gaza, faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed legislation Thursday banning the sale and manufacture of certain semi-automatic firearms, drawing immediate lawsuits from the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights organizations. The measure, which takes effect July 1, makes it a misdemeanor to buy, sell, or import “assault firearms” — defined to include semi-automatic rifles and pistols with magazines holding more than 15 rounds — and marks a sharp policy reversal from Republican former Governor Glenn Youngkin, who had vetoed similar bills. “Firearms designed to inflict maximum casualties do not belong on our streets,” Spanberger said.
A federal judge ordered the immediate release of Roberto Orozco-Ramirez, an undocumented diesel mechanic from Froid, Montana, on May 14, ruling that his detention of more than 100 days without bond violated his right to due process. Orozco-Ramirez walked out of the Cascade County Detention Center the next morning, embraced his son and began the drive home to the small town whose residents had raised tens of thousands of dollars for his legal defense.
BRUSSELS — Forty-six member states of the Council of Europe adopted a political declaration Friday that reinterprets the European Convention on Human Rights in migration cases, opening the door to third-country deportation centers while drawing sharp criticism from rights groups who said it could weaken protections against torture.
A former mayor allied with a presidential candidate was shot dead Saturday in central Colombia, along with an aide, authorities said, the latest act of political violence two weeks before a presidential election.
A Tennessee judge set a $1.25 million preliminary bond Friday for Dalton Eatherly, a 28-year-old white man who posts racist videos online as 'Chud the Builder,' after authorities charged him with attempted murder and other felonies in a shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse that wounded one man and drew stray gunfire near bystanders.
London's Metropolitan Police deployed at least 4,000 officers, armored vehicles, and helicopters on Saturday to manage two rival marches and the FA Cup final, arresting 43 people by early evening.
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder in the 2021 shooting death of rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery, ending a yearslong case. Cornelius Smith Jr., 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison under a plea agreement with prosecutors, according to a district attorney’s office press release.
Three gunmen who allegedly stormed two primary schools in Nigeria’s Oyo state were taken into custody, police said Saturday. Police said authorities were still assessing how many schoolchildren might have been abducted in the Oriire area, about 220 kilometers (135 miles) from Lagos.
The U.S. Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez, who faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers shot outside a Jewish museum in Washington last May, prosecutors said in a court filing Friday.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a law banning the sale and manufacture of certain semi-automatic firearms, setting off immediate lawsuits by gun-rights groups. The measure takes effect July 1 and makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine, for people to buy, sell, transfer, import or manufacture an “assault firearm.” Spanberger said the changes are meant to protect families and support law enforcement.
Dozens of European nations have agreed on a new interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights in migration cases, including how the treaty applies to “return hubs” or other deportation arrangements in third countries. The non-binding political declaration was adopted at a meeting in Chisinau, Moldova, after calls for stricter approaches to irregular migration.
A Tennessee man known online as “Chud the Builder” was held on a $1.25 million preliminary bond on attempted murder and other charges after a shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse, authorities said. Prosecutors sought to hold Dalton Eatherly without bond ahead of a full hearing next week, but a judge set the bond, citing the number of people in the courtyard and the seriousness of the felonies.
With many antique and replica guns treated differently under federal and state law, a flintlock musket like the Brown Bess used by British troops in 1776 can fall outside what statutes call a “firearm” — even as it can fire lethal ammunition. The patchwork of exemptions and local rules has created confusion for collectors, reenactors and lawmakers, and can leave some convicted offenders able to possess certain antique weapons.
In a federal court appearance in Manhattan, Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, a former Sinaloa state secretary of public security, was ordered jailed after U.S. authorities charged him with helping the Sinaloa Cartel smuggle drugs into the United States. Mérida Sánchez, 66, has pleaded not required at his first appearance and is set to return to court on June 1. Mexico’s government said it has been maintaining communication with U.S. authorities through international cooperation mechanisms.
The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture and prosecution of Monica Elfriede Witt, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist accused of defecting to Iran in 2013 and later charged with revealing classified information to Tehran. Daniel Wierzbicki, special agent in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, announced the reward in a news release Wednesday.
Rogers Devia, a former mayor in central Colombia who allied with presidential candidate Abelardo de La Espriella, was shot dead Saturday in a rural area, local authorities said. An aide, Eder Cardona, was also killed, according to Colombia’s Public Defender’s Office.
A New York judge declared a mistrial Friday in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case from the
Police in London deployed thousands of officers and other resources on Saturday to manage two rival marches through central areas of the U.K. capital and keep them separate from the FA Cup final, which took place at Wembley. By 7:30 p.m., police said 43 people had been arrested, with an additional 22 arrests at Wembley, and authorities said they were also preparing for any problems involving splinter groups after the match.
Venezuela’s government said Saturday it deported Alex Saab, described as a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro, to face criminal investigations in the United States. The move marks a reversal for Saab, who was pardoned by President Joe Biden in 2023 as part of a prisoner swap.
Back-to-back federal court rulings on mifepristone access are thrusting abortion politics back into the center of the 2026 midterm landscape, with both parties scrambling to mobilize voters around an issue that polls show most Americans oppose restricting.
A federal appeals court heard arguments Thursday on whether to continue blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders sanctioning four major law firms, as the firms' lawyer warned that the orders "strike at the heart of the First Amendment." A Justice Department attorney urged the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse lower court rulings, arguing that the president is entitled to control security clearances and anti-discrimination investigations.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court seeking to block the D.C. Bar from sanctioning former Trump administration lawyers Jeffrey Clark and Ed Martin, arguing that the disciplinary proceedings are politically motivated.
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Wednesday blocked the Justice Department’s demand for the confidential medical records of transgender minors from the state’s largest hospital, ruling the department had lost the trust needed to wield such expansive subpoena power.
Texas executed Edward Busby Jr. on Thursday evening for the 2004 abduction and suffocation death of retired professor Laura Lee Crane, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution over his intellectual disability claims. Busby, 48, was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. It was the 600th execution in Texas since the death penalty resumed in 1982.
The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved nationwide access to mifepristone, the drug used in the most common method of abortion, granting emergency requests from the medication's manufacturers and blocking a lower-court ruling that would have suspended mail-order delivery and telehealth prescribing while a Louisiana-led lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's prescribing rules proceeds.
Richard Glossip walked out of an Oklahoma City jail Thursday, free for the first time in nearly three decades after a judge granted him a $500,000 bond while prosecutors prepare to try him again for a 1997 killing. Glossip, 61, had been on Oklahoma’s death row for most of those years, surviving three scheduled execution dates and three “last meals” before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction in February 2025, ruling that the state’s star witness had been allowed to lie on the stand.
Richard Glossip, who came within moments of execution three times, walked out of an Oklahoma jail Thursday after posting $500,000 bond, released while awaiting retrial for a 1997 murder that put him on the brink of lethal injection. His release came nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction, ruling prosecutors violated his right to a fair trial by allowing false testimony from a key witness.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to approach the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding not with pageantry but by exercising their free speech rights, calling the U.S. Constitution a shared bedrock in a deeply divided country.
The Ohio Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Cuyahoga County violated the state constitution by seizing homes over small tax debts and keeping the surplus equity — a practice a class-action lawsuit calls widespread and unconscionable.
Michail Chkhikvishvili, the 22-year-old leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Wednesday for soliciting violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including a plot to dress as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to children in New York City.
The Senate unanimously passed legislation Thursday that would allow U.S. Capitol Police officers to extend their service until age 62, while the House has already approved a companion bill raising the age to 65, as the force struggles with a staffing crisis that its chief has called potentially “catastrophic” and threats against lawmakers continue to spike.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit in Washington seeking to challenge efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, arguing the District of Columbia Bar is politicizing the legal discipline process. In a statement, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said the department wants federal prosecutors to be able to share candid legal advice without being targeted for disagreement.
Texas executed Edward Busby Jr. on Thursday evening for the 2004 killing of Laura Lee Crane, a retired college professor, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay tied to Busby’s claim of intellectual disability.
In a ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court preserved access to mifepristone, the drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The court’s order allows patients to obtain the medication at pharmacies or through the mail without an in-person doctor visit as the case proceeds through the courts.
Richard Glossip, a former Oklahoma death-row inmate, was released from jail Thursday after posting bond as he awaits retrial for a 1997 murder that put him on the brink of execution three times. Judge Natalie Mai set bond at $500,000 and ordered electronic monitoring, limits on travel and witness contact, and restrictions on alcohol and drug use.
A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian neo-Nazi leader, to 15 years in prison for recruiting others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including a plot involving poisoned candy for children. Prosecutors said he distributed extremist materials such as the “Hater’s Handbook” and sought to carry out attacks through Telegram channels and other messaging. His lawyer said the defendant has struggled with mental health and had reformed.
Back-to-back court rulings on abortion pill access are bringing the issue back into focus ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with control of Congress in the second half of President Donald Trump’s term at stake, the Associated Press reported May 5. A federal appeals court restricted mail access to mifepristone, one of the most common abortion methods, and the Supreme Court then temporarily restored broad access while it continues to consider the case.
Federal Judge Mary McElroy on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from obtaining confidential transgender patients’ information from Rhode Island Hospital, a major provider of gender-affirming care to minors, according to court records and the Associated Press. The Justice Department sought records tied to care provided over the past five years, including dates of birth, Social Security numbers and addresses, and documents related to adverse side effects and prescribing decisions.
Guyana said Thursday it has demanded Venezuela investigate two shootings targeting Guyanese troops along their shared border, including one that wounded a soldier. The demand came days after the two countries appeared at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the resource-rich Essequibo region, which Venezuela claims as its own.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence by standing for their beliefs and relying on the Constitution as a shared foundation. Speaking at a judicial conference near Miami on May 14, Thomas said Americans can disagree on many issues but still need “something in common” to sustain the country.
The U.S. Justice Department accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school, in a letter sent to the university and announced this week. The department said its investigation found Black and Hispanic applicants had higher admission odds than white or Asian applicants despite lower grade-point averages and test scores. Yale said its School of Medicine is confident in the admissions process and will review the letter.
President Donald Trump’s efforts to sanction some major law firms “strike at the heart of the rule of law,” an attorney for the firms told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday. The panel heard arguments on whether to keep court orders blocking executive actions that the government attorney urged the appeals court to reverse.
The Ohio Supreme Court on May 14 agreed to hear a challenge brought by three former homeowners who say Cuyahoga County took the “surplus equity” after foreclosing on their properties for unpaid property taxes. The plaintiffs’ class action does not contest the foreclosures themselves, but instead argues that counties win title to houses worth more than the tax debts and do not compensate the displaced owners. The case could shape how property tax enforcement works in Ohio ahead of an election year.
Hours after an Oklahoma judge set a $500,000 bond for Richard Glossip on May 14, 2026, the former death-row inmate walked out of an Oklahoma City jail and awaited a new trial. The ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court last year threw out his conviction and death sentence.
The man accused of firing at least 70 rounds from an assault-style weapon into traffic on a busy Cambridge roadway pleaded not guilty Thursday, as new details emerged about his mental health history and a parole officer’s urgent warning just before the shooting.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return a Colombian woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo, ruling that her deportation there was likely illegal after the Congolese government refused to accept her because it could not provide adequate medical care.
Oklahoma executed Raymond Johnson, 52, by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Thursday for the 2007 killings of his ex-girlfriend Brooke Whitaker, 24, and her 7-month-old daughter Kya, prison officials said. Johnson’s attorneys did not file a last-minute appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court after the state’s Pardon and Parole Board unanimously denied him clemency in April.
Oklahoma executed Raymond Johnson, 52, on Thursday after a three-drug lethal injection, state prison officials said. Prosecutors said Johnson killed his ex-girlfriend, Brooke Whitaker, and Whitaker’s 7-month-old daughter, Kya, in June 2007.
Las autoridades de inmigración de Estados Unidos detuvieron el miércoles a Joe Ceballos, exalcalde de una localidad de Kansas, después de que reconociera haber votado en elecciones pese a no ser ciudadano. Ceballos, residente permanente legal nacido en México, fue detenido en Wichita, Kansas, informó su abogado. Dijo a reporteros que teme que lo deporten.
The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race when admitting students to its medical school, marking the second such allegation the agency has leveled against a major U.S. medical school this month. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said a DOJ investigation found that Black and Hispanic applicants received a significant admissions advantage over white and Asian applicants with stronger academic credentials.
Dana Williamson, a longtime Democratic power broker and former top adviser to Xavier Becerra, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to charges including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, admitting her role in a plan to siphon money from Becerra’s dormant state campaign account. The admission, in a case that has shadowed Becerra’s bid for California governor, marks the second guilty plea in a scheme that prosecutors say diverted $225,000 for a former aide’s salary.
Six migrants from Honduras and Mexico, including a 14-year-old boy, died in a sweltering shipping container on a freight train in Texas, authorities said Thursday. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said a seventh victim likely also died after falling or being thrown from the train.
A Taylorsville, Utah, police officer was charged with second-degree felony manslaughter Thursday for shooting an unarmed man through the back window of a pickup truck in October 2024, after the man used the truck to ram the officer's police vehicle.
U.S. Rep. Max Miller filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Emily Moreno on Wednesday, claiming her public allegations that he was physically abusive have caused 'considerable reputational and financial harm.' Moreno's spokesperson said Miller is trying to silence her the same way he previously silenced ex-girlfriend and former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who leveled similar accusations.
A jury in Oakland heard closing arguments Thursday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, with Musk's attorney calling Altman's credibility into question and OpenAI's attorney firing back that Musk's claims of a broken charitable trust are baseless.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Washington state tourist with harassing an endangered species after a witness recorded video of him throwing a coconut-sized rock at a Hawaiian monk seal near a Maui beach. Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, of Covington, Washington, made arrangements to surrender to NOAA special agents in the Seattle area on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Honolulu.
TAPACHULA, Mexico — On Christmas Eve 2024, a young Cuban woman called her mother to say she had put on a life jacket and was boarding a boat that would carry her and 39 other migrants from a southern Mexican port toward the United States. It was the last anyone heard from her. Sixteen months later, her mother and other relatives arrived in the Chiapas town of San José El Hueyate to search for answers — scouring the pier, navigating the Pacific coast, and canvassing residents — but finding only silence.
A U.S. federal grand jury on Thursday broadened the indictment against Audias Flores Silva, the second-in-command of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation cartel, adding charges of methamphetamine trafficking and conspiracy to launder money to an earlier case alleging cocaine and heroin smuggling, the Associated Press reported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Joe Ceballos, the former mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, at a federal office in Wichita on Wednesday, after he admitted voting illegally in prior elections despite being a Mexican-born legal permanent resident. Ceballos, 55, resigned as mayor in December and pleaded guilty in April to misdemeanor election misconduct, but his attorney said the conviction should not have triggered immigration action. Supporters gathered outside, chanting '¡Dejen ir a Joe!' as he entered, while his lawyer argued the Trump administration was pursuing a 'nonsense' deportation case.
A Tennessee man known for posting racist videos under the moniker "Chud the Builder" is charged with attempted murder after a midday altercation outside a Clarksville courthouse ended in gunfire Wednesday, leaving both him and another man wounded, authorities said. The other man, described as Black by a witness, was taken to a hospital; his condition was not immediately released.
A federal jury has awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old global health worker who died in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia, resolving one of the last remaining wrongful death lawsuits tied to the disaster that killed all 157 people aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
Conservative state lawmakers across the country are pushing to ban or severely restrict abortion pills, a response to a new survey indicating that for the first time, more women in states with near-total bans obtained the pills through telehealth than traveled out of state for in-clinic care. South Dakota has already made it a felony to advertise, distribute, or sell the pills, and similar legislation is advancing in Mississippi, Arizona, Indiana, and South Carolina. Meanwhile, Wyoming became the only state this year to impose a new abortion ban — a six‑week prohibition that faces steep legal hurdles.
The U.S. government has agreed to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that accused Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew, Sagar Adani, of concealing an alleged bribery scheme tied to a major solar project in India, according to court filings published Thursday. The settlement, which does not include an admission of wrongdoing, would require Adani to pay $6 million in civil penalties and his nephew $12 million.
Miami residents sued President Donald Trump, Miami Dade College and Florida officials on Wednesday, arguing a state decision to donate downtown property for a Trump presidential library violates the U.S. Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause. The complaint says the land would become a Trump hotel complex and keep the parcel from MDC’s student and community uses.
Tyler Brown, accused of wounding two drivers after firing at least 70 rounds from an assault-style weapon on a busy street near Boston, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Cambridge District Court by video from a hospital bed, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old did not speak during the brief hearing as Judge David Frank ordered him held in custody pending a May 21 hearing.
A teen was among six people from Honduras and Mexico found dead in a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard in Laredo, Texas, authorities said May 14. Police said the group was believed to be part of a human smuggling effort and that federal authorities were leading the investigation.
Prosecutors charged a Utah police officer with second-degree felony manslaughter in the Oct. 9, 2024, shooting of an unarmed man, alleging the officer used excessive force when he fired through the back window of a pickup truck. The case centers on claims that Taylorsville officer Jimmy Jeremy Haas followed the pickup into a parking lot and shot after the pickup rammed his patrol SUV. If convicted, Haas faces up to 15 years in prison.
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their final arguments Thursday in Oakland, California, in a lawsuit that could shape the future of artificial intelligence by forcing changes to OpenAI’s business structure. The jury will consider whether Musk filed the case on time and whether OpenAI, Sam Altman and other executives broke a “charitable trust” and unjustly enriched themselves.
A Washington state tourist is facing federal charges after prosecutors say a video shows him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal just off a Maui beach last week. Prosecutors allege the rock narrowly missed the seal’s head and caused the animal to abruptly alter its behavior, according to a criminal complaint. Federal agents arrested the man and a judge ordered him released pending a later court appearance in Honolulu on May 27.
Families in Mexico’s Chiapas state have been scouring ports and roadside businesses for clues after 40 migrants vanished in late December 2024 while traveling a sea route used by smugglers toward the United States. The search has centered on San José El Hueyate, near the Guatemalan border, where relatives say a Cuban woman’s last call came before the group disappeared.
A tourist widely condemned in Hawaii after a video showed him throwing a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal was arrested by federal agents, the U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday. The federal complaint says the rock narrowly missed the seal’s head and caused the animal to change its behavior.
In the first stretch of 2026 state legislative sessions, conservative-governed states have continued expanding restrictions targeting abortion pills, including new rules aimed at mailing and telehealth prescribing. A survey released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute finds that in states with bans, more people obtained abortions last year through pill prescriptions sent via telehealth than by traveling out of state.
Dana Williamson, a former top adviser for California Democratic political operations, pleaded guilty Thursday in Sacramento to charges including conspiracy tied to a scheme to steal campaign funds connected to Xavier Becerra’s tenure as a federal health secretary. The plea includes admissions to three counts, as her agreement lays out potential prison and fine exposure while her attorney argues federal guidelines point to a sentence far shorter. The case has added pressure to Becerra’s bid for California governor, which is set to finish June 2.
A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. The Wednesday verdict resolves one of the last remaining wrongful-death lawsuits tied to the disaster, which killed all 157 people aboard the Boeing 737 Max jet.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring back a Colombian woman who was deported to Congo even after the Congolese government said it could not accept her because of medical needs. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled Wednesday that the deportation of Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata was “likely illegal,” and he set deadlines for the government to report on its efforts.
Federal judge Carl Nichols heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive order that would require the Department of Homeland Security to compile an eligible voter list for each state and would limit the U.S. Postal Service’s sending of absentee ballots.
US Rep. Max Miller sued his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, for defamation on May 14 in Cleveland, alleging she and others made knowingly false accusations of abuse. Miller, a two-term Republican up for reelection this fall in Ohio’s 7th District, said the lawsuit seeks damages over harm to his reputation and campaign prospects.
Dalton Eatherly, known online as “Chud the Builder” for posting racist videos, has been charged in Tennessee with attempted murder after a shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville on Wednesday, officials said.
A U.S. federal grand jury expanded charges against Audias Flores Silva, second-in-command of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel, accusing him of methamphetamine trafficking and conspiracy to launder money, the Associated Press reported. Flores Silva was arrested April 27 in the state of Nayarit during an operation by Mexican Navy special forces based on information provided by U.S. agencies, AP said.
Lawyers for Democratic Party organizations and civil rights groups argued in federal court Thursday that President Donald Trump exceeded his constitutional authority when he issued an executive order to restrict mail-in voting and create a federal list of eligible voters. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols did not rule from the bench on the plaintiffs' request to block the March 31 order.
A Washington state tourist was arrested by federal agents on Wednesday after a witness video showed him throwing a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal off a Maui beach, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Honolulu.
A burst of gunfire rang out late Wednesday in the Philippine Senate in Manila, interrupting an effort by law enforcement to detain Senator Ronald dela Rosa, who is sought by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Officials reported no casualties from the shooting, which unfolded inside the legislative complex as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked the public in televised remarks to remain calm.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told House lawmakers last week that his previous claim that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had blackmailed people was only ‘speculation,’ according to a transcript released Wednesday. The interview, released by the House Oversight Committee, shows Lutnick — the highest-ranked current administration official besides President Donald Trump to appear in Epstein case files — facing sharp questioning from Democrats who later called him evasive and dishonest.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick backed away in a House Oversight Committee interview from a previous claim that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed people, saying in the committee setting that he had been “speculating” for a podcast. The committee released the transcript this week after Epstein case files contradicted Lutnick’s earlier description of his interactions with Epstein.
Vice President JD Vance and CMS head Dr. Mehmet Oz announced a $1.3 billion deferral of federal Medicaid payments to California and a six-month freeze on new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home care providers on Wednesday, part of a widening anti-fraud crackdown on federal health programs. The administration also warned states to investigate possible Medicaid fraud or risk losing federal funds.
Vice President JD Vance announced new steps to fight fraud in federal health programs, including a $1.3 billion deferral in Medicaid funding to California. The administration also plans a six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home care providers and is urging states to investigate Medicaid fraud or risk losing federal money.
Palestinian authorities said Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man as he tried to climb the concrete barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem, near the West Bank town of Al-Ram. The man was identified by Palestinian health officials and the Palestinian Red Crescent as Zakaria Qatusa, 44. Another Palestinian teenager, 16-year-old Youssef Kaabneh, was killed in a separate clash in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
Israeli police shot and killed a 44-year-old Palestinian father of four as he attempted to climb the concrete barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, according to Palestinian authorities. The man's brother said he was crossing the wall to find work in Israel, citing a lack of economic opportunity in the West Bank.
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked enforcement of an $83 million defamation judgment against President Donald Trump while he seeks Supreme Court review, requiring him to post a $7.4 million bond. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday means Trump will not have to pay the award to writer E. Jean Carroll while the high court decides whether to take the case.
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of disgraced former lawyer Alex Murdaugh, ruling that a court clerk’s improper comments to jurors deprived him of a fair trial. Murdaugh, once a prominent figure in the state’s legal establishment, remains in federal prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients, and prosecutors said they intend to retry him in the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife and son.
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, ruling that the court clerk’s improper comments to jurors about his testimony denied him a fair trial. Prosecutors said they will retry the disgraced lawyer, who is currently serving time for multiple financial crimes. Murdaugh’s defense team, which has long cited a lack of physical evidence, welcomed the chance for a new trial.
FBI Director Kash Patel angrily denied allegations that he drinks on the job during a Senate budget hearing Tuesday, calling a recent Atlantic magazine article “unequivocally, categorically false” and filing a $250 million lawsuit against the publication.
An attempt to arrest Philippine Senator Ronald Marapon dela Rosa on an International Criminal Court murder charge sparked gunfire and a tense standoff at the Senate building in Manila on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
President Donald Trump will not have to pay an $83 million defamation award to E. Jean Carroll until the U.S. Supreme Court reviews the case or rejects an appeal, according to a court filing Tuesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to let Trump delay payment and required him to post a $7.4 million bond to cover any additional interest costs.
Pakistani security forces said they launched an operation against insurgents in Balochistan’s Barkhan district and clashed with militants on Wednesday, killing five soldiers, including an army major. An outlawed separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army, said its fighters attacked the troops, triggering the shootout.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions and life sentence in the shooting deaths of his wife and son, citing misconduct by a court clerk during his trial. Prosecutors said they plan to retry him on the murder charges, even as he remains imprisoned on federal convictions tied to stealing from clients.
Prosecutors plan to retry Alex Murdaugh in the killings of his wife and son after South Carolina’s Supreme Court overturned his murder convictions, citing improper comments made by the trial court clerk to jurors. The court found the clerk, Becky Hill, “egregiously attacked” Murdaugh’s credibility, though Murdaugh will remain imprisoned as prosecutors prepare for another trial.
Gunfire erupted late Wednesday in the Philippine Senate as authorities tried to arrest Sen. Ronald dela Rosa, a former national police chief wanted by the International Criminal Court. Officials said no one was hurt, and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked the public to stay calm.
Gunfire erupted Wednesday at the Philippine Senate as authorities sought to arrest a lawmaker wanted by the International Criminal Court on a charge of murder as a crime against humanity, the Associated Press reported. No one was hurt during the tense standoff in Manila, AP said, two days after the ICC unsealed an arrest warrant for Ronald Marapon dela Rosa.
The U.S. government has agreed to settle an SEC lawsuit accusing Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew of misleading investors about alleged bribery tied to Adani Green Energy’s solar project in India, according to court filings published Thursday. The settlement would require Adani to pay $6 million in civil penalties and his nephew to pay $12 million, the filings say.
Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities have named former presidential chief of staff Andrii Yermak as a suspect in an alleged 460-million hryvnia money-laundering scheme, intensifying a major graft probe that reaches into the highest levels of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s wartime administration.
French prosecutors asked an appeals court Wednesday to sentence former President Nicolas Sarkozy to seven years in prison for allegedly accepting illicit campaign funds from the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, pressing for a conviction on charges that a lower court dismissed last year.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the CIA on Wednesday vehemently denied a CNN report that the U.S. intelligence agency facilitated a targeted killing of a Sinaloa cartel member on Mexican soil, with Sheinbaum calling the story a 'lie' and the CIA spokesperson labeling it 'false and salacious.' CNN and The New York Times, which published a similar account, both said they stand by their reporting.
Four Memphis residents filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing the Trump-ordered Memphis Safe Task Force of systematically harassing, arresting, and physically mistreating them for exercising their First Amendment rights to observe and record law enforcement activity in public. The task force, staffed by agents from 13 federal agencies as well as Tennessee State Troopers and the National Guard, has conducted over 120,000 traffic stops and more than 9,000 arrests in Memphis since late September.
Louisiana officials have reached a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who died after a violent 2019 roadside arrest, two people with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press.
The three young sons of Kouri Richins, the Utah children’s author convicted of murdering their father, told a judge ahead of her sentencing they fear she would harm them if she is ever released from prison. Their victim-impact statements, filed by prosecutors, describe a woman they no longer consider a mother and a life shadowed by the killing.
Joe Ceballos, the former mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor election conduct for voting in elections as a noncitizen, his attorney said. Ceballos, 55, is a legal permanent resident who was brought to the United States from Mexico as a child and now faces potential deportation.
Dalton Eatherly, 28, who livestreams racially derogatory confrontations under the handle “Chud the Builder,” was charged with attempted murder following a shooting outside a Clarksville, Tennessee, courthouse on Wednesday, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said.
A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Lu Jianwang, 64, on Wednesday of acting as an illegal agent for China after prosecutors said he established a secret police outpost in Manhattan’s Chinatown that monitored and intimidated pro-democracy dissidents. Lu was also convicted of obstructing justice for deleting WeChat messages with his Chinese handler, though he was acquitted on a conspiracy charge. His defense maintained the outpost was a community center offering driver’s license renewals, not a spy operation.
Dan Sohail, 36, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court to intentionally ramming his car into the entrance of the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, a synagogue and office complex, causing $19,000 in damage while about 2,000 people were inside. No one was injured in the January attack, but Sohail admitted driving from New Jersey specifically to damage the building because of its religious identity.
The parent company of the Canvas educational platform said it reached a deal with hackers to delete the data they stole in a cyberattack that disrupted finals for students at thousands of schools worldwide, acknowledging there was 'never complete certainty' the data was truly erased.
The city of Austin has tentatively agreed to pay $35 million to settle claims with three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused in the 1991 rape and murder of four girls at an “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” store, officials said Tuesday. A Travis County judge declared the men innocent in February after new DNA evidence pointed to a deceased suspect, closing one of the most prominent wrongful conviction cases in Texas history.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday in a federal trial in Oakland, California, denying accusations that he betrayed the company’s founding mission and misled its board. The civil lawsuit, brought by Elon Musk, seeks Altman’s removal and unspecified monetary damages, alleging the firm abandoned its nonprofit purpose to become a for-profit venture now valued at $852 billion.
Miami residents, a Miami Dade College student and others sued President Donald Trump, the Trump presidential library foundation and Florida officials, alleging the plan to donate a prime downtown parcel for the library — potentially including a hotel — violates the U.S. Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause. The lawsuit says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis helped transfer the 2.63-acre site last year.
French prosecutors asked judges on Wednesday to send former President Nicolas Sarkozy back to prison for seven years in an appeal tied to allegations that Moammar Gadhafi secretly financed Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign. Prosecutors also sought a 300,000-euro fine and asked the court to find Sarkozy guilty on corruption and campaign-financing charges prosecutors say were improperly cleared at his first trial.
Federal and Tennessee officials are facing a lawsuit from four Memphis residents who say the Memphis Safe Task Force harassed, arrested and physically mistreated them for observing and recording law enforcement in public. The suit, filed Wednesday in federal court, challenges actions allegedly taken during a Trump-ordered task force operation and also contests Tennessee’s “Halo Law,” which requires warned observers to stay at least 25 feet from officers.
Utah children’s book author Kouri Richins, convicted in March of killing her husband, faces sentencing Wednesday in a case that prosecutors say involved fentanyl poisoning. In a memo submitted to the judge, her sons said they would feel unsafe if she were ever released from prison.
Park City, Utah, judge Richard Mrazik sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2022 fentanyl overdose killing of her husband, Eric Richins, on Wednesday. Richins was convicted in March of aggravated murder and also found guilty of insurance fraud, forgery and other offenses tied to an earlier attempt to poison him.
The former mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities Wednesday after acknowledging that he voted in elections despite not being a U.S. citizen, according to his attorney. Joe Ceballos, a legal permanent U.S. resident, was detained during a meeting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wichita, and his lawyer said he now fears deportation.
A federal judge ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Colorado violated an order limiting when they can arrest people without a warrant. The order, issued by U.S. District Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson, required ICE to have probable cause that a person is in the country illegally and is likely to escape before officers can make a warrantless arrest.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups said the timing of the expected closure of Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades — nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” — is tied to their federal lawsuit and a remand to the same judge who previously ordered the facility shut down. A federal appellate court last month kept the center open while it sent the case back for further proceedings, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he has not received “official word” that detainee transfers will stop.
A man known online as “Chud the Builder” was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse on Wednesday, authorities said. Dalton Eatherly, 28, was taken into custody in Clarksville, where he has drawn attention online for livestreaming racially derogatory statements in public.
A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Lu Jianwang of acting as an illegal foreign agent for allegedly running a secret Chinese police outpost in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The jury also found him guilty of obstructing justice by deleting text messages prosecutors said contained Beijing orders aimed at silencing pro-democracy dissidents.
Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused in the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday. A judge declared the four men innocent in February after investigators concluded a suspect who died in 1999 committed the crimes. The settlement still needs approval from the Austin City Council.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified Tuesday in Oakland, California, in the trial brought by Elon Musk against Altman and Greg Brockman. Altman took the witness stand to defend his business record and disputed testimony that portrayed him as dishonest.
Louisiana officials have reached a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who died during a 2019 roadside arrest, according to two people familiar with the agreement. The settlement would end a federal wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Greene’s family, but it is subject to approval by the Louisiana Legislature.
Instructure, the parent company of the education platform Canvas, said it reached an agreement with hackers who stole data in a cyberattack that disrupted schools and universities during finals. The company said it received “digital confirmation” that the hackers destroyed remaining copies of the data, in the form of “shred logs.”
The former New York City judge Edward Harold King was charged Wednesday with a wire fraud conspiracy involving real estate investors, after he resigned last year while under investigation for professional misconduct, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors said King and politically connected developer Yechiel “Sam” Sprei abused King’s position to obtain at least $5 million from investors for a bogus property bid, then returned only part of the money. King, 72, and Sprei, 37, were released on bail and were scheduled to return to Brooklyn federal court on Monday.
A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to intentionally ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, telling a federal judge he did so to damage the Jewish landmark. Prosecutors said Dan Sohail drove into the entrance five consecutive times in January after moving barriers and urging people to get out of the way.
Ukraine’s former chief of staff Andrii Yermak has been named as a suspect in a corruption probe involving alleged money laundering tied to a luxury construction project outside Kyiv, two Ukrainian anti-corruption watchdogs said. A Ukrainian court this week ordered him held in pretrial detention, setting bail at 140 million hryvnias, according to the Associated Press. The watchdogs said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not under suspicion in the case.
An Israeli nonprofit’s two-year investigation has found that sexual violence was systematic, widespread and a deliberate tactic in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, documenting gang rape, sexual torture and forced nudity based on more than 400 testimonies and nearly 2,000 hours of visual analysis.
Greece’s defense minister said Tuesday that a Ukrainian sea drone carrying explosives had been discovered on a popular tourist island, describing the incident as an “extremely serious” threat to Mediterranean shipping. The craft was found May 7 by a fisherman on Lefkada and later moved to a naval base, where the explosives were destroyed.
A report by an Israeli nonprofit says sexual violence was systematic, widespread and integral to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks and their aftermath, based on a two-year investigation. The report, “Silenced No More,” was published Tuesday by the Civil Commission, which documents and researches gender-based violence by Hamas after its 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas has subpoenaed NYU Langone Health for records on all patients under 18 who received gender-affirming care in the last six years, the hospital system disclosed Tuesday — the first time a major medical institution has publicly acknowledged a criminal subpoena in the Trump administration’s expanding legal campaign against such treatment for transgender youths. The subpoena, issued May 7, demands patient information and the names of providers for children treated from 2020 to 2026, NYU Langone said in a statement. The health system, which operates seven inpatient facilities and more than 300 locations in the New York City area and Florida, said it was one of several institutions to receive the subpoena but was the first to confirm it.
The mayor of Arcadia, California, has resigned and agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony charge of acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles said Monday. Eileen Wang, 58, was charged in April with one count of failing to register as a foreign agent, stemming from her work promoting Chinese government content through a news website she co-operated.
Federal prosecutors opened a murder-for-hire trial Tuesday in Manhattan, alleging that Daniel Sikkema arranged the stabbing death of his estranged husband, prominent art dealer Brent Sikkema, in Rio de Janeiro. Testimony revealed the defendant expressed a direct desire for his spouse's death shortly before the December 2023 killing.
Honduran authorities arrested former Tocoa mayor Adán Fúnez and two others on Tuesday, accusing them of masterminding the 2024 assassination of environmental leader Juan López — a breakthrough in a case that had drawn international condemnation and symbolized the lethal dangers facing environmental defenders in Central America.
Harvey Weinstein’s defense counsel on Tuesday urged jurors to acquit the former film producer and end a landmark #MeToo-era rape case, while prosecutors fought to restore a conviction previously set aside, in closing arguments at his retrial in New York.
Residents of the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince protested Tuesday, demanding government protection after a weekend of gang violence forced hundreds from their homes, shuttered two hospitals, and left an unknown number of people dead.
An 85-year-old French widow said she heard children crying and guards shouting nonstop during 16 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center, in an interview with The Associated Press that has reignited scrutiny of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement methods. Marie-Thérèse Ross, the widow of a U.S. military veteran, was arrested at her Alabama home on April 1 over an alleged visa overstay and released last month after international pressure. Her account describes officers handcuffing her in a bathrobe, the separation of mothers from their children inside the facility, and a profound shift in how she views U.S. immigration policy.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched an 11 billion reais ($2 billion) public security initiative on Tuesday at the presidential palace in Brasília, targeting two of the country's largest organized crime gangs in what some political figures described as a pre-election bid to bolster his crime-fighting credentials ahead of October's general election.
A man armed with an assault-style rifle fired more than 60 rounds at cars along a busy Cambridge roadway Monday afternoon, seriously wounding two motorists before a Massachusetts state trooper and a Marine veteran separately returned fire and stopped the gunman, authorities said.
An Atlanta man was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to breaking into a Jeep Wagoneer and stealing hard drives containing unreleased Beyoncé music, footage plans, and concert set lists. Kelvin Evans, 41, entered the guilty pleas in Fulton County Superior Court on charges of entering an automobile and criminal trespass. The stolen items, which have not been recovered, were taken from a vehicle rented by members of the singer’s "Cowboy Carter" tour crew in July 2025.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Singapore-based ship operator and a technical superintendent with criminal counts including conspiracy and misconduct causing death, alleging the company deliberately relied on an improper fuel pump that caused the Dali container ship to lose power twice before it struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024, killing six construction workers.
Federal prosecutors on May 12, 2026 announced criminal charges against the operator of the massive cargo ship that struck and destroyed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in 2024, killing six construction workers and severing a major East Coast transportation artery for months.
President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis face a lawsuit over a plan to donate a downtown Miami parcel for Trump’s presidential library, with plaintiffs alleging the deal violates the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause. The suit, filed in Miami by attorneys representing a Miami Dade College student and others, seeks to block the land transfer and characterizes the proposed library as potentially including a hotel.
Federal prosecutors in Texas have sought records from NYU Langone Health about children who received gender-affirming care and the providers who administered it, the hospital system said. NYU Langone said it received a grand jury subpoena in a federal criminal investigation and is deciding how to respond. The move is part of broader efforts by the Trump administration to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
A Florida judge has ruled that Tiger Woods’ prescription drug records will be handed over to prosecutors in a DUI case, after a hearing in Martin County court on Tuesday. The records involve Woods’ medications from a Palm Beach pharmacy, subpoenaed for the period from the start of the year through the end of March.
LOS ANGELES — Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has resigned and agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, according to federal officials and city authorities. Wang, 58, was charged in April with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government for conduct officials said ended when she took office in December 2022.
The murder-for-hire trial in the stabbing death of New York City art dealer Brent Sikkema began in federal court in Manhattan, as prosecutors presented testimony from his estranged husband’s former spouse’s confidante. A witness testified that Daniel Sikkema said he hoped Brent Sikkema was dead before Brent was found stabbed 18 times in a townhouse in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Honduran authorities arrested three people, including former mayor Adán Fúnez, accused of masterminding the 2024 killing of environmental defender Juan López, a case that activists and international figures highlighted as emblematic of corruption and the risks of protecting the environment. Authorities said Fúnez was arrested at his home on Tuesday, along with businessman Héctor Eduardo Méndez and Juan Ángel Ramos Gallegos.
Harvey Weinstein’s defense urged jurors Tuesday to acquit him in his New York rape retrial, saying the case should end after three trials. Prosecutors, meanwhile, pressed to restore a previous rape conviction that a judge later overturned, and said the victim, Jessica Mann, underwent five days of intense testimony.
Residents of Cite Soleil, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, protested Tuesday demanding police protection after gang violence forced hundreds of people to flee their homes over the weekend, the Associated Press reported.
Brazil’s government launched a new anti-organized crime program with 11 billion reais (about $2 billion) in spending on public security, citing arms trafficking, criminal finances, and improvements to homicide investigations. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he discussed the plan with U.S. President Donald Trump during Trump’s visit to Washington last week.
A man previously convicted of firing a gun at police shot at motorists on a busy road outside Boston, seriously wounding two drivers on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The shooting happened along the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a state trooper returned fire with a Marine veteran who had pulled over.
The operator of the cargo ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is facing criminal charges tied to actions leading up to and after the crash that killed six people, federal prosecutors announced May 12, 2026. The charges come more than two years after the Dali lost power and rammed the bridge in the early hours of March 26, 2024, closing the port for months.
An 85-year-old French widow, Marie-Thérèse Ross, has described her 16 days in federal immigration custody in Louisiana after she was arrested in Alabama last month on an alleged visa overstay. In an interview with The Associated Press, Ross said guards shouted and treated detainees condescendingly, and that she heard children crying, including babies, in the facility.
A man pleaded guilty in an Atlanta case prosecutors say led to the theft of hard drives containing unreleased music by Beyoncé. Kelvin Evans, 41, entered the guilty pleas in Fulton County Superior Court on Tuesday and was sentenced to two years in prison.
A Florida judge on Tuesday approved an agreement between Tiger Woods' defense team and prosecutors that will hand over the legendary golfer's prescription drug records to authorities investigating his March arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Malaysia’s top maritime enforcement official on Wednesday pushed back against accusations that authorities are ignoring a long-running scheme that lets Iran evade U.S. sanctions by transferring oil between tankers near the country’s coast. The U.S.-based advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran says waters off southern Malaysia have become a key hub for ship-to-ship transfers involving Iran’s so-called “shadow fleet” — aging tankers that disable tracking systems and falsify identities to conceal the origin of crude destined largely for China.
Turkish authorities detained 324 people suspected of links to the Islamic State group in a nationwide sweep, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said the arrests involved suspects in 47 provinces and included people suspected of financing Islamic State and others previously known to be active in the group.
Malaysia’s maritime enforcement agency says Iranian-linked tankers have been exploiting “jurisdictional gaps” for ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned oil near its waters, but it rejected allegations that it has ignored the problem. U.S.-based monitors say the Eastern Outer Port Limits off Johor has become a hub for Iran’s “shadow fleet” transfers. Indonesia, which shares a maritime boundary in the area, said it is reviewing the legality of the activity.
David Venturella, a former executive at private prison operator GEO Group, will become acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after current acting director Todd Lyons steps down at the end of this month, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.
Indonesian prosecutors have asked a Jakarta court to sentence Nadiem Anwar Makarim, a co-founder of ride-hailing giant Gojek and a former education minister, to 18 years in prison for his alleged role in a corruption scheme involving the procurement of Google Chromebook laptops for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported.
Harvey Weinstein experienced chest pains in a New York courthouse holding area Wednesday as jurors began deliberating in his rape retrial, his lawyer said, prompting the judge to send the jury home early on the first day of deliberations.
Indonesian prosecutors on Wednesday sought an 18-year prison sentence for Gojek co-founder Nadiem Anwar Makarim in a corruption case tied to the procurement of Google Chromebook laptops for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to court testimony at Jakarta’s Corruption Court.
Harvey Weinstein, 74, reported chest pain in a New York courthouse on Wednesday as jurors deliberated in his closely watched rape retrial, prompting the judge to end the first day of deliberations early, according to his lawyers. The jury had been about four hours into closed-door deliberations and had asked to rehear part of accuser Jessica Mann’s testimony and review a prosecution timeline before being sent home.
The Trump administration says former private prison executive David Venturella will become the acting leader of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after ICE’s current director steps down at the end of the month. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said late Tuesday that Venturella would succeed Todd Lyons, who led the agency during the administration’s crackdown on immigration.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday they have named former presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak as an official suspect in an alleged 460-million-hryvnia ($10.5 million) money-laundering scheme, a step short of formal charges in a widening corruption investigation that has entangled several senior officials.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and a specialized anti-corruption prosecutor’s office named Andriy Yermak, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff, as a suspect in a money-laundering investigation. The agencies said Zelenskyy is not suspected in the case, which they described as involving an alleged 460 million hryvnias ($10.5 million). The announcement came as Zelenskyy met Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp in Kyiv and Russia launched more than 200 drones against Ukraine overnight, officials said.
A bomb attached to a rickshaw exploded in a crowded bazaar in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than two dozen, according to local police.
A bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a bazaar in Lakki Marwat in northwest Pakistan, killing at least nine people and wounding more than two dozen others, police said Tuesday. The blast damaged nearby shops, and traffic police officers were among those killed, local officials said.
MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine senator said Tuesday he will fight any attempt to send him to the International Criminal Court for prosecution on an alleged crime against humanity, adding he never condoned extrajudicial killings when he led the country’s police force.
A performer who disrupted Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance was found guilty Monday of resisting an officer, after police said he ran across the field at the Caesars Superdome with a Sudanese flag reading “Sudan and Free Gaza.” The case in New Orleans ended with the performer convicted only of the misdemeanor resisting charge, with sentencing set for June 1.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, was among the dancers in black outfits during the Feb. 9, 2025, halftime show but deviated from his role when he displayed a flag bearing the phrase 'Sudan and Free Gaza' atop a prop car, then jumped off the stage and ran from security, according to Louisiana State Police. Chief Judge Juana Marine-Lombard found him guilty only of resisting an officer after a bench trial.
Philippine Sen. Ronald dela Rosa said Tuesday that he will fight any move to send him to the International Criminal Court for prosecution over alleged crimes against humanity, insisting he will face local courts rather than “foreigners.” The ICC in The Hague unsealed an arrest warrant Monday for dela Rosa, a former police chief who led President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drugs crackdown.
Cole Tomas Allen, the California man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives and attempting to kill President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday. His attorneys immediately moved to disqualify acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from the prosecution, arguing the two senior Justice Department officials were present at the event and could be considered victims or witnesses — creating a conflict of interest.
The Oslo District Court said Monday it will announce its verdict on June 15 in the trial of Marius Borg Høiby, the stepson of Norway’s crown prince, who faces 40 criminal charges including four counts of rape. Prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of seven years and seven months; Høiby denies the rape allegations but has admitted to lesser drug and traffic offenses.
Three forensic handwriting examiners told The Associated Press that a note a former cellmate said he found after Jeffrey Epstein’s first suspected suicide attempt was all but certainly written by the same person who authored a note authorities discovered in Epstein’s cell after he killed himself. The experts based their conclusions on shared characteristics including letter shapes, spacing, use of capital letters, and unique punctuation.
A Norwegian court said Monday it will deliver its verdict next month in the rape trial of Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit. The Oslo District Court said the decision will be announced June 15, after six weeks of proceedings that prosecutors said included charges of rape and other offenses.
Virginia Democrats on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to halt a state court ruling that invalidated a voter-approved congressional map and denied the party four winnable U.S. House seats. The appeal comes after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Friday that the Democratic-controlled legislature improperly began the process of placing the redistricting amendment on the ballot after early voting had already started in the 2025 general election.
The European Union imposed sanctions on 16 Russian officials and seven indoctrination centers accused of abducting tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, forcing many to change their identities, and placing others for adoption. The sanctions, announced Monday, are part of a broader international push to hold Russia accountable for war crimes in Ukraine.
The Treasury Department is directing U.S. banks to monitor for Iranian money laundering networks that use shell companies and cryptocurrency to smuggle sanctioned oil, according to a department report released Monday, as the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran teeters on what President Donald Trump called 'life support.'
Republicans in Tennessee rushed a new congressional map through the legislature this week, carving Memphis into three safe Republican districts less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a core Voting Rights Act provision.
Virginia’s highest court struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan on Friday, ruling 4–3 that the legislature violated procedural rules when placing the constitutional amendment on the ballot. The decision wipes away a map that had promised Democrats up to four additional U.S. House seats in a state currently split 6–5 in their favor, reinforcing Republican redistricting advantages nationwide ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed an arrest warrant for Philippine Senator Ronald dela Rosa, charging the former national police chief with the crime against humanity of murder over his alleged role in the extrajudicial killings of at least 32 people during the Duterte administration's drug war.
A suicide bomber and gunmen rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a security post in northwestern Pakistan late Saturday, killing at least three police officers and wounding others in an ongoing firefight, a police official said.
Pakistan summoned the Afghan chargé d’affaires on Monday to lodge a formal complaint over a weekend suicide attack that killed 15 police officers in the northwest, with Islamabad citing evidence that the assault was planned from Afghan soil.
A 37-year-old man faces charges of causing an explosion with terrorist intent after a bomb detonated inside the Netherlands' ruling D66 party headquarters on May 8, prosecutors announced Monday as a judge extended his detention by two weeks.
A state appeals court on Thursday upheld most of Michigan’s rules limiting local control over large renewable energy projects, while rejecting two provisions that legal challengers argued exceeded the state’s regulatory authority. The Michigan Court of Appeals panel found that state regulators followed proper legal processes when implementing the 2023 law, but ruled on two specific points in favor of dozens of local governments that sued over the permitting framework.
European Union foreign ministers unanimously agreed Monday to impose sanctions on leaders of Hamas and figures in the Israeli settler movement, citing growing outrage over violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The political agreement, reached at a meeting in Brussels, marks a shift after years of deadlock, but ministers failed to endorse tougher economic measures against the Israeli government sought by several member states.
The backlog of pending immigration cases in Honolulu’s federal court reached a 15‑year high of 1,413 as of March, and detained immigrants now face an average wait of 19 months for a first hearing, according to Department of Homeland Security data released Monday.
Hamburg police on Thursday arrested a 17-year-old Syrian national suspected of planning an extremist-inspired attack on a shopping mall, a bar, or a police station, prosecutors said Monday.
The British government on Monday imposed sanctions on nine individuals and three organizations accused of engaging in 'hostile activity' on behalf of Iran, with Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper saying the moves directly target groups and individuals threatening security in the U.K. and Europe.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to drop one of its two majority-Black congressional districts before November’s midterm elections, handing Republicans a significant victory in the fight for control of the narrowly divided U.S. House. The ruling, which lifted a lower court order requiring the use of a court-drawn map with two largely Black districts, came just one week before Alabama’s primary elections. It follows an April decision that struck down a majority-Black district in Louisiana as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, weakening a core section of the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court, in an order by Justice Samuel Alito, on Monday temporarily extended women’s access to the abortion pill mifepristone, preventing restrictions imposed by a federal appeals court from taking effect until at least Thursday. The order keeps in place current FDA rules that allow the drug to be prescribed via telehealth and dispensed by mail, as the justices weigh a challenge from Louisiana.
The U.S. Treasury Department asked U.S. banks and other financial institutions to monitor for suspected Iranian money laundering networks that use their funds to smuggle sanctioned oil through shell companies and crypto-linked channels, according to Treasury and a related report released Monday. The guidance comes as President Donald Trump said the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after he rejected Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday he will not resign as Parliament establishes an impeachment committee to reinvestigate allegations tied to a cash scandal. In a televised address, Ramaphosa said he would challenge the parliamentary report that found credible evidence of misconduct, a legal process that could delay possible impeachment proceedings.
The remaking of the U.S. political map accelerated this week in courts and state legislatures, with multiple changes expected to benefit Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. A Virginia Supreme Court ruling struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional map, while states elsewhere moved quickly amid fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month.
A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle near a police security post in Bannu, in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, late Saturday, triggering a firefight that killed at least three police officers, police said. Police official Zahid Khan said multiple explosions caused some nearby houses and the security post to collapse.
Pakistan summoned Afghanistan’s charge d’affaires on Monday to lodge a formal complaint over a suicide attack in the country’s northwest that killed 15 police officers, according to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry. Islamabad blamed the late Saturday attack on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, and told Kabul it “reserves the right to respond decisively” against the perpetrators.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday that a 37-year-old man accused of bombing the Dutch premier’s party headquarters was suspected of acting with terrorist intent. The suspect was arraigned in The Hague, where a judge ordered that his detention be extended by two weeks.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops will spend weeks in military prison after a video circulated showing one soldier allegedly defacing a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon and another taking a photograph of it, the Israeli military said. The soldier who posed faced 21 days in military prison and the one who photographed it was sentenced to 14 days, the military said Monday.
Israeli lawmakers approved a bill creating a special tribunal to try Palestinians convicted of participating in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza, and to allow the death penalty for those convicted. The measure passed 93-0 in Israel’s 120-seat Knesset, with 27 lawmakers absent or abstaining.
The British government on Monday sanctioned nine people and three organizations it accused of engaging in “hostile activity” on behalf of Iran, saying the alleged networks threaten the U.K. and global security. The Foreign Office said it froze assets and banned travel tied to the alleged use of gangs and illicit financing to support Iranian aims, including actions meant to block the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued an order leaving women’s access to mifepristone in place while the justices consider whether restrictions on the drug can take effect. Justice Samuel Alito’s order blocks a federal appeals court ruling from pausing mail access and telehealth-style prescribing while the lawsuit brought by Louisiana proceeds.
A Michigan appeals court upheld most of the state’s rules limiting local control over renewable energy projects, while narrowing aspects that critics said went too far. The three-judge panel agreed Michigan regulators largely followed proper procedures for implementing a 2023 law that allows the Public Service Commission to approve large wind, solar and battery projects despite local objections. The ruling clarifies deadlines for local approvals and who qualifies as an “affected local unit,” both of which could shape how projects move through the permitting pipeline.
Democrats filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stop a Virginia ruling that struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment creating new congressional districts.
Brussels’ foreign ministers unanimously agreed to impose new EU sanctions on Hamas leaders and on leaders and organizations tied to Israeli settler activity in the occupied West Bank, but did not endorse broader economic pressure against Israel, diplomats said. The bloc said a committee will finalize which specific groups and individuals are targeted.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested in Hamburg on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping mall, a bar or a police station, prosecutors said. Authorities allege the suspect was inspired by the Islamic State extremist group and had sought items that were later seized.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court unsealed an arrest warrant Monday for Ronald Marapon dela Rosa, a former Philippine national police chief and ally of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, over allegations tied to killings during the Philippines’ “war on drugs.” The warrant charges him with crimes against humanity of murder for acts prosecutors allege were committed between July 2016 and the end of April 2018.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional districts before the May midterm elections. The decision overturns a judicial order that had required Alabama to use a court-imposed U.S. House map and directs a lower court to reconsider the case in light of the just-completed Voting Rights Act analysis in a similar Louisiana case.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to allow mid-decade U.S. House redistricting, a decision that benefits Republicans ahead of this year’s midterms. The court ruled 4-3 that voters’ April 21 approval cannot revive the plan because the amendment was submitted “in an unprecedented manner,” according to the majority.
Federal authorities arrested a 17-year-old in Georgia accused of opening fire last month on an Iowa City pedestrian mall near the University of Iowa, injuring five people.
Hundreds of people fled new gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, over the weekend, scattering families along roads leading to the country’s main airport, residents said Monday. In a statement released Monday, Doctors Without Borders said it evacuated its hospital in Cité Soleil after intense clashes and treated more than 40 gunshot victims within 12 hours.
Faith leaders and Louisiana and local officials on Saturday paid tribute at a funeral for eight children killed in a mass shooting last month in Shreveport. The service at Summer Grove Baptist Church included prayers, remembrances for each child, and remarks from state and city leaders. Police say the children were killed in an April 19 attack that also wounded multiple people, and an investigation remains ongoing.
The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing OpenAI, arguing the company’s ChatGPT provided advice that helped plan the attack, including details about timing, location, and weapons. The lawsuit was filed Sunday in federal court, according to the Associated Press.
Eight children killed in an April 19 mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, were laid to rest Saturday at Summer Grove Baptist Church, as hundreds of mourners filled the sanctuary and faith leaders, politicians, and a survivor of gun violence offered tributes and prayers.
The National Science Foundation suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley in April, attorneys representing university scientists said, raising concerns the Trump administration is circumventing a federal court order that restored previously canceled projects.
A Washington-based nonprofit filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to stop the Trump administration's ongoing repainting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, arguing the project violated historic preservation laws by proceeding without required reviews on one of the most iconic sites on the National Mall.
Google said Monday it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit a previously unknown software vulnerability, a development one of the company’s top threat analysts called the arrival of an era cybersecurity experts have long warned about.
The U.S. military said it carried out a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two men and leaving one survivor. A video posted by U.S. Southern Command showed a boat-shaped image and an explosion over the ocean, and the command said it notified the U.S. Coast Guard to activate search and rescue for the survivor.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a civil investigation Monday into the Southern Poverty Law Center's fundraising practices, issuing a subpoena for records of donations and payments to informants. The inquiry comes after a federal criminal indictment unsealed last week accused the nonprofit of fraud for using funds to pay informants inside extremist groups. The SPLC said it is reviewing the subpoena and has called the federal allegations 'provably wrong.'
The widow of a Florida State University shooting victim is suing OpenAI, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot provided tactical advice that assisted the gunman in the 2025 attack, according to a federal lawsuit filed Sunday. State authorities previously disclosed ChatGPT offered the shooter information on campus crowd patterns, weapon selection, and the media appeal of targeting children. OpenAI denied wrongdoing, maintaining its responses were factual and did not promote violence.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli Knesset voted 93-0 on Monday to establish a special tribunal that will have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of participating in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that killed some 1,200 people and sparked the war in Gaza. The measure, which passed with no opposing votes, requires the trials to be livestreamed from a Jerusalem courtroom, immediately evoking comparisons to the 1961-62 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann — the last time Israel carried out an execution.
A federal judge dismissed Raymond Epps’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, ruling that Epps did not show enough evidence that the network knew its statements were false. U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Hall granted Fox’s motion to dismiss in Delaware on Friday, a second dismissal in the case.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s fundraising practices. The probe follows a federal indictment of the organization announced by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Tucson advocates have launched an online map documenting immigration enforcement activity across the city as arrests surge under the Trump administration’s mass deportation initiative, offering a public record of incidents that often go unseen.
The U.S. military struck and destroyed an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing two people and triggering a Coast Guard search-and-rescue operation for a third survivor, U.S. Southern Command said. The strike is the latest in a Trump administration campaign that has killed at least 193 people since September across the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, according to military records, while the Pentagon has not released evidence confirming any destroyed vessel was carrying narcotics.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday he will not resign and will legally challenge a parliamentary report that found evidence of misconduct, hours after the legislature launched an impeachment committee to reinvestigate a scandal over missing cash at his private game ranch.
Two sergeants with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office have filed a defamation lawsuit against Artists Equity, the production company of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming the Netflix thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details from a 2016 narcotics case and harmed their reputations.
WARSAW, Poland — Former Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, sought in his homeland for alleged abuse of power, said Sunday he has traveled from Hungary to the United States, prompting prosecutors in Poland to open an investigation Monday into whether others helped him evade criminal liability.
The Hillsborough State Attorney's Office filed a notice to seek the death penalty Friday for Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh, 26, a day after a grand jury indicted him on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh.
FLINT, Mich. — A Michigan man who fatally ran over his best friend with his vehicle on his wedding night after an alcohol-fueled argument was sentenced Monday to at least 30 years in prison.
Armed vessels linked to the Libyan coast guard fired live ammunition at the humanitarian rescue ship Sea‑Watch 5 on Monday shortly after it had pulled approximately 90 migrants from an overcrowded wooden boat in the central Mediterranean, the German aid group Sea‑Watch said. The crew, along with about 30 people on board, feared for their lives and issued a mayday call, the group said. An Italian coast guard official confirmed receipt of the report and said authorities had been notified.
Authorities completed a search of a property in Arroyo Grande, California, tied to the man convicted of killing college student Kristin Smart and did not find her remains, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.
Israel’s military has sentenced two soldiers to military prison for desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon after one stuck a cigarette in the statue’s mouth and the other photographed the act. The incident follows a similar episode involving an ax-wielding soldier targeting a Jesus statue in the village of Debel, both condemned internationally as anti-Christian acts amid Israel’s ground campaign against Hezbollah.
U.S. marshals arrested Damarian M. Jones, 17, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in Georgia on Monday, charging him with five counts of attempted murder and five counts of assault in connection with an April 19 shooting on an Iowa City pedestrian mall that left five people wounded, authorities said.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police arrested 321 foreign nationals on Saturday in a raid on an alleged online gambling operation in a commercial building near Jakarta’s Chinatown, authorities said, in one of the country’s largest crackdowns on illegal digital betting networks. The operation, announced by the Indonesian National Police, targeted more than 70 gambling websites operating from the site, with investigators recovering marketing records and digital evidence suggesting the platforms catered to players outside Indonesia.
A surge in gang violence across Haiti’s capital over the weekend forced hundreds of people from their homes, scattered families, and prompted the evacuation of a hospital run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders after more than 40 gunshot victims arrived in 12 hours.
A federal jury in Miami convicted four men on Friday of conspiring to kill or kidnap Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the 2021 assassination that plunged the Caribbean nation deeper into turmoil, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The men were found guilty of conspiracy, providing material support, and violating the Neutrality Act, and could face life in prison.
A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by Raymond Epps against Fox News, ruling that the former Trump supporter failed to provide sufficient evidence that the network knew its Jan. 6 conspiracy theories were false.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection canceled the visas of 27 cruise ship workers, most from the Philippines, after boarding eight ships in late April and determining the workers were involved with child sexual abuse images, the agency said Friday. Disney Cruise Line said it cooperated with authorities and the workers are no longer with the company, while immigrant rights advocates are questioning the enforcement action's transparency and due process.
General Motors will pay $12.75 million in civil penalties and stop selling driver data to consumer reporting agencies for five years under a settlement announced Friday, the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act. The agreement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and county district attorneys resolves an investigation into GM’s sale of location, driving behavior, and contact information from hundreds of thousands of OnStar subscribers to data brokers LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk Analytics, allegedly without the drivers’ knowledge or consent.
Six people believed to be migrants were found dead inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday, in what federal authorities are investigating as a potential human smuggling event, according to local police and Homeland Security Investigations.
Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America sent a letter to the United Nations on Monday warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is expanding rapidly in rainforest territories, driving violence and environmental destruction. The groups urged U.N. member states and agencies to prioritize territorial protection and international cooperation against criminal networks, while cautioning that responses reliant on military force often worsen conditions for Indigenous communities.
A Washington-based nonprofit filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from repainting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a blue color and to require restoration of historic elements, arguing federal preservation laws were bypassed. The suit, filed Monday against the Interior Department and the National Park Service, says the work proceeded without relevant reviews. Trump said Monday the pool would reopen “sometime next week” and called the project “highly sophisticated stuff,” while Interior’s Katie Martin said the work will make the capital “a shining beacon.”
Cole Tomas Allen, accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and firing a shotgun at a Secret Service officer, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court in Washington. His attorneys asked the judge to disqualify senior Justice Department officials from any role in prosecuting him, arguing they could be considered victims or witnesses. Allen faces a federal attempted-assassination charge and other counts, and is scheduled to return to court on June 29.
Poland’s national prosecutor’s office said Monday it is investigating whether Zbigniew Ziobro, a former justice minister sought at home, received help in evading liability after he said he traveled from Hungary to the United States. Ziobro, who authorities say is sought over allegations including abuse of power and misuse of a justice victims fund, told a Polish broadcaster he arrived in the U.S. the day before. The Polish foreign ministry said it wants the issue handled without political spillover, while the current justice minister said Poland has invalidated Ziobro’s travel documents.
Prosecutors in Tampa, Florida, filed notice seeking the death penalty for Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh, accused of killing two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh. The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office filed the notice a day after a grand jury indicted Abugharbieh on two counts of first-degree murder and other charges.
A young man accused in a fatal shooting after a dispute at a Michigan school appeared in court Friday, three days after police said the argument over who could play soccer escalated. Police said the shooting killed a teenager and a woman who was trying to help him. Prosecutors charged Rafael Martinez-Lopez, 18, with murder and other offenses, and he was ordered to remain jailed without bond.
General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties after California accused the company of selling driving data from hundreds of thousands of motorists to data brokers without their consent, the state announced. California’s investigation led by Attorney General Rob Bonta also cited regulators including the California Privacy Protection Agency and several county district attorneys.
Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America sent a letter to the United Nations warning that organized crime, including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging, is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. The groups urged governments to avoid heavily militarized responses in Indigenous territories and urged the UN to incorporate Indigenous perspectives in anti-crime and anti-corruption efforts.
Federal agents are investigating the deaths of six people found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, as a potential human smuggling event. Webb County medical examiner Dr. Corinne Stern said one victim’s autopsy found hyperthermia, or heat stroke, and she believes the others also died of heat stroke, with identities being confirmed through fingerprints and federal missing-person records.
Armed vessels linked to the Libyan coast guard opened fire Monday on a German rescue ship in the Mediterranean shortly after it saved about 90 migrants from an overcrowded wooden boat, an aid group said. Sea-Watch said the vessels fired live ammunition and ordered the ship to stop about 27 miles from Libya’s coast, prompting distress calls to Italian and German authorities.
Honolulu’s federal immigration court has hit its highest backlog in 15 years, with detainees waiting an average of 19 months for a hearing date, according to new data cited by an immigration tracking project.
Authorities in California did not find the remains of Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college student who disappeared in 1996, after finishing a search of a home tied to her convicted killer, officials said May 10. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said the search targeted the Central Coast property of Susan Flores in Arroyo Grande, more than 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
A driver accused in a wrong-way crash that killed a Los Angeles sheriff’s recruit and injured other recruits has withdrawn his guilty plea, his lawyer said. The move came after crash victims spoke in court and a judge decided to sentence him to a year in jail, the lawyer said.
A Florida jury convicted four men of conspiracy tied to the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse, according to prosecutors and the verdict in U.S. federal court in Miami. The convictions followed an investigation that traced planning and financing for the plot to South Florida, where investigators said the men sought to kill or kidnap the elected leader and back a replacement chosen by conspirators.
Google said it disrupted a criminal operation that used artificial intelligence to find and exploit a previously unknown software vulnerability, and that it notified the affected company and law enforcement. The company said the vulnerability helped attackers bypass two-factor authentication to reach an online system administration tool. The episode comes as U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump’s administration, debate how to vet and regulate the most powerful AI systems.
A handwriting analysis reviewed by Associated Press experts found that a newly released note tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s jail time appears to share authorship characteristics with another note authorities found after his death. Three forensic document examiners said the notes appear to have common authorship based on similarities in spacing, letter forms, capital letters, punctuation and other writing traits.
A Michigan man was sentenced Monday to at least 30 years in prison for killing his best friend on his wedding night after an alcohol-fueled argument, the Associated Press reported. The sentencing was carried out in Genesee County court.
Indonesian police on May 9 arrested 321 foreign nationals in a raid in Jakarta tied to banned online gambling, the national police said. Investigators said the operation targeted players outside Indonesia and operated through more than 70 online gambling websites. Police said those detained included 228 Vietnamese and 57 Chinese, and they estimated the operation had been running for about two months.
U.S. immigration authorities have canceled the visas of 27 people tied to cruise ships, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The agency said the people were involved in the “receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing” of child sexual abuse images, and that authorities boarded eight cruise ships in late April.
A Diamond Bar man has rescinded his guilty plea to charges stemming from a 2022 wrong-way crash that killed one Los Angeles County sheriff's recruit and injured more than two dozen others, his attorney said Saturday, after a judge indicated a one-year jail sentence.
Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai’s family is looking to President Donald Trump’s expected trip to Beijing to press for his release, after Lai was sentenced to 20 years under Hong Kong’s national security law. Lai’s son said the family hopes Trump can help secure his father’s freedom as Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.
Tucson migrant advocates have built a community-tracking map to document immigration-related enforcement in and around the city as federal arrests surge, drawing data from residents’ observations and local reporting. The Tucson Migra Map tracks activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies, and classifies incidents as “confirmed” or “credible but unconfirmed.” Its creators say the project is designed to make enforcement patterns visible while raising questions about safety and transparency for people living through the raids.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court set aside a 2022 parliamentary vote that had shielded President Cyril Ramaphosa from an impeachment inquiry over a $580,000 cash scandal, ruling Friday that a scathing panel report must now be referred to a full impeachment committee.
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Interior Secretary Juanito Victor Remulla Jr. said Sunday that former national police chief Ronald dela Rosa will be summoned as part of a new investigation into alleged extrajudicial killings during the anti-drug crackdowns ordered by ex-President Rodrigo Duterte.
A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a security post in the Bannu district of northwestern Pakistan late Saturday, killing at least 14 police officers, authorities said. The attack was claimed by a newly formed militant group that Pakistani officials say is a front for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Between 800 and 1,000 families fled their homes in the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, on Sunday after four days of bombardment with drone‑launched explosives and gunfire from the criminal group Los Ardillos, community representatives said. The attacks, which began on Wednesday, drove entire households—including children and the elderly—to take refuge in a nearby sports field with little more than backpacks.
Police in Sinzig, Germany, freed two people from a locked bank vault on Friday after responding to a reported hostage situation, but found no perpetrators when they entered the building. The two individuals were unharmed, and authorities said the assailant or assailants appeared to have fled immediately after locking them in the vault, though it remained unclear how they escaped or whether any money was taken.
A bomb that was pushed through a letter slot detonated at the headquarters of Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten’s centrist D66 party late Thursday, but no one was injured, police said. A 37-year-old suspect has been arrested. The attack occurred during a meeting of about 30 members of the party’s youth wing.
German police freed two people from a bank vault in the town of Sinzig on Friday after a reported hostage-taking, but the suspected perpetrators had vanished before officers stormed the building, authorities said. The two captives were unharmed.
A Rwandan academic and government critic, Aimable Karasira, died in custody as he was preparing to be freed from jail, prompting calls for an independent investigation. The death was reported as resulting from an overdose of his prescribed medication, but Human Rights Watch questioned the circumstances and urged scrutiny by a “body of experts.”
Pakistan’s police said a suicide attack on a security post in Bannu, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, killed 14 officers and wounded three early Sunday, after a vehicle packed with explosives detonated late Saturday.
More than 800 families fled their homes in rural mountainous areas of Mexico’s Guerrero state as gunmen attacked communities with handmade explosives launched from drones and other weapons, community and human rights groups said. The displacement began on Wednesday when a powerful group known as Los Ardillos began attacking communities, they said.
Police in Germany freed two people from a locked room at a Volksbank branch in Sinzig after entering the bank following a hostage alarm, the Associated Press reported. Officers said they believed there were “several perpetrators and hostages” and that the driver of an armored van was among those held. Special forces later freed the two people unhurt, and police said they found no hostage-takers.
A bomb exploded at the headquarters of the centrist D66 party in The Hague, targeting Prime Minister Rob Jetten’s party office but injuring no one, according to police and Jetten. Police said they arrested a 37-year-old suspect late Thursday, and Jetten said the blast occurred during a youth-wing meeting.
Authorities in Greece are investigating an armed unmanned surface vessel found by a fisherman on the island of Lefkada off the country’s western coast, Greece’s public broadcaster said. The craft was towed to a nearby harbor and moved Friday to a naval base on the mainland for inspection, with investigators not confirming where it originated.
Attorneys for Cole Tomas Allen, the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, asked a federal judge Thursday to disqualify Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from the case, arguing their presence at the event creates a conflict of interest.
A man charged in the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attack wants a judge to disqualify senior Justice Department officials from direct involvement in prosecuting him, citing a potential conflict because they were present as victims or witnesses. In a court filing late Thursday, Cole Tomas Allen’s lawyers argued Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro attended the April 25 event at the Washington Hilton and were affected by the shooting.
Federal prosecutors filed a civil denaturalization complaint in Miami seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of former diplomat Manuel Rocha, who admitted serving for decades as a secret agent for Cuba. Prosecutors said Rocha lied on his citizenship application, including by denying Communist Party of Cuba affiliations and claiming he believed in the U.S. Constitution.
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday to present her country's claim to the mineral- and oil-rich Essequibo region before the International Court of Justice, the latest chapter in a decades-old territorial dispute with neighboring Guyana.
Academic and government critic Aimable Karasira died in custody in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 6 — the day he was set to be released from prison — prompting Human Rights Watch to demand an independent investigation into the circumstances of his death.
A federal judge sentenced Preston Henry Tolth to five years in prison Friday for robbing Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay, the only person ever charged in her unsolved 2021 disappearance, closing a troubled case that had renewed national focus on missing and murdered Indigenous people.
A cyberattack on the Canvas learning management system left thousands of schools and universities without platform access Thursday, disrupting coursework and final exams across the country. Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at cybersecurity firm Emisoft, said the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company that operates Canvas.
The Cohutta, Georgia, town council voted Friday to reinstate the city’s entire police department, reversing Mayor Ron Shinnick’s decision to terminate the chief and about 10 officers two days earlier. The council acted after the town attorney advised that the firings violated the town charter’s requirement for 30 days’ notice before employee removal, Vice Mayor Shane Kornberg told The Associated Press.
A Utah judge on Friday rejected a defense request to prohibit cameras during the high-profile murder prosecution of the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, ruling that public access to court proceedings outweighs concerns that media coverage could prejudice potential jurors.
A Chadian court in the capital N’Djamena sentenced eight opposition leaders to eight years in prison Friday on charges including insurrection, rebellion and disturbing public order, marking the latest in a series of prison terms handed down against critics of President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s government.
Federal prosecutors filed a civil denaturalization complaint to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, the former American ambassador convicted of serving for decades as a secret agent for Cuba, alleging he lied about his communist party affiliation when he naturalized in 1978.
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez arrived in the Netherlands to appear before the International Court of Justice in a case involving the Essequibo region, which both Venezuela and Guyana claim. The final hearing with Rodríguez’s appearance is scheduled for Monday, with the court expected to take months to issue a legally binding ruling.
South Africa’s highest court set aside a lawmakers’ vote rejecting a report that found credible evidence of wrongdoing by President Cyril Ramaphosa linked to a long-running cash scandal, setting up possible impeachment proceedings. The court’s Friday ruling means the report must be referred to an impeachment committee for a full investigation, Chief Justice Mandisa Maya said.
The Philippines will summon former Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa, a senator, as part of a new investigation into alleged extrajudicial killings during anti-drug crackdowns ordered by former President Rodrigo Duterte, Interior Secretary Juanito Victor Remulla Jr. said Sunday. Remulla said dela Rosa will be summoned Monday, and he described the inquiry as a first step toward accountability for what police killings became a “state policy” during Duterte’s years in office.
A federal judge in Phoenix sentenced the only man charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay to five years in prison for robbing her. U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes accepted a plea agreement under which Preston Henry Tolth pleaded guilty to robbery after previously having a confession suppressed in court.
Cohutta, Georgia, reinstated its police department and returned jobs to the officers the mayor fired two days earlier, following a special Town Council meeting. The council reinstated the officers immediately and directed back pay, while citing a charter requirement for 30 days’ notice before suspending or removing employees. Mayor Ron Shinnick said the firings followed social media comments by officers.
La policía en Alemania entró el viernes en un banco de la localidad de Sinzig y rescató a dos personas que estaban encerradas en una habitación con llave, horas después de que se reportara una supuesta toma de rehenes. Autoridades regionales dijeron que creían que había varios perpetradores y rehenes en el lugar y que el conductor de un vehículo blindado era un rehén.
A Chadian court in the capital N’Djamena sentenced eight opposition leaders to eight years in prison on Friday for convictions that included insurrection, according to the Associated Press. The High Court also fined the group’s members 500,000 Central African francs (about $897) each, and the prosecutor had asked for 10 years for each defendant. Defense lawyer representative Adoum Moussa said the court’s decision was based on what he called “non-existent offenses.”
The Canvas learning-management system was offline Thursday after a cyberattack, leaving students at thousands of schools and universities unable to access course materials as final exams approached, according to a threat analyst and school officials. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach, and Instructure, which operates Canvas, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Cameras will not be banned from the Utah murder case involving a man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a judge ruled Friday. Judge Tony Graf said requests from news stations would continue to be evaluated case by case, after defense lawyers argued that camera access could bias jurors and interfere with a fair trial.
Justice Clarence Thomas hit a historic milestone on Thursday, becoming the second longest-serving member of the U.S. Supreme Court as he enters his 35th year on the bench.
Clarence Thomas reached a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in U.S. history, the Associated Press reported. The tenure puts him behind only William O. Douglas, and AP said there is no sign Thomas plans to retire soon.
A handwritten note that Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate claims to have found after the financier's first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 has been made public — and the Justice Department said Thursday that it had never seen the note before. Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of murder, said he discovered the note in a book in their Manhattan federal jail cell after Epstein was found with a strip of bedsheet around his neck. The note, which has not been authenticated, was released by a federal judge at the request of The New York Times, unsealing a document that had been locked in a court vault since 2021.
A note that Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first suspected suicide attempt in jail was made public Wednesday, years after being sealed in a court vault. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the release at the request of The New York Times, with no opposition from federal prosecutors. The handwritten note, portions of which are hard to decipher, describes the ability to choose “the time to say goodbye” and ends with “NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!!”
A man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and a public order offense after he was reported behaving in an intimidating manner near the Sandringham home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, Norfolk Constabulary said Thursday.
A San Luis Obispo County sheriff said evidence suggests human remains were present at a home connected to Paul Flores, the man convicted of killing Kristin Smart. The search began Wednesday after authorities served a warrant at the Arroyo Grande property and used specialists in human decomposition and soil to take samples.
A former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein said he found a handwritten suicide note after Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019, and the note was later released in court documents in an unrelated case. The Justice Department said Thursday it was seeing the note for the first time, even though records relating to Epstein are among those the department has previously disclosed. The note, presented through statements tied to a federal judge’s decision, has not been authenticated.
A federal judge in White Plains, New York, released a note a former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein said he found after Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019, according to court records. The note had been sealed in a separate legal dispute involving Nicholas Tartaglione, who is serving a life sentence for killing four people. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the unsealing after The New York Times asked him to make the document public, and prosecutors did not oppose the request.
A split federal appeals panel ruled Thursday against 10% global tariffs President Donald Trump imposed after a Supreme Court loss, saying the tariffs were “invalid” and “unauthorized by law.” The Court of International Trade in New York said Trump exceeded the tariff power Congress allowed under the governing statute after small businesses sued.
A federal court in New York ruled Thursday that the 10% global tariffs President Donald Trump imposed after a Supreme Court defeat are illegal, siding with small businesses that argued the president exceeded his trade authority.
A federal judge in New York ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional, permanently blocking the Department of Government Efficiency from terminating the funding. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon found the cuts violated the First Amendment’s free-speech protections and the Fifth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee, and she sharply criticized DOGE’s use of artificial intelligence to identify grants for elimination.
President Donald Trump’s lawyer on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to stay its decision upholding an $83 million defamation award to writer E. Jean Carroll, seeking to block payment while Trump appeals to the Supreme Court. The request, filed by attorney Justin D. Smith, argues that Trump would suffer irreparable harm if forced to pay Carroll now because she has said she plans to give the money away, making recovery impossible if the high court reverses the verdict. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, did not oppose the stay request provided Trump increases an existing bond by $7.4 million to cover potential interest during a Supreme Court review.
Western intelligence officials say Russia has escalated a campaign of targeted killings against its opponents in Europe since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, expanding beyond military defectors to include Russian activists and foreign supporters of Ukraine. Three intelligence officials from different countries told The Associated Press that Russia's security services are now more brazen in their choice of targets and that the campaign carries political authorization from the Kremlin. The assessment follows a series of disrupted assassination plots across Europe — in France, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, and Spain — that authorities have linked to Russian operatives and, increasingly, to cheap proxy recruits Moscow has turned to after the mass expulsion of its intelligence officers from Western capitals.
An armed group attacked two villages in central Mali on Wednesday, leaving several people dead and injured, according to Mali’s military governor for the region. He described the assault as “cowardly” and “barbaric.” Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), the group behind the attacks, said it was targeting pro-government militias. The twin strikes in Kori Kori and Gomossogou follow a major offensive last month that has deepened the country’s already severe security crisis.
More than two years after the 2023 Israel-Hamas war protests, former Moorpark College professor Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of Paul Kessler, the Associated Press reported. Alnaji, 53, admitted to striking Kessler, 69, with a megaphone during a confrontation in Thousand Oaks, California, causing Kessler to fall and fatally strike his head on the pavement.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled against the Trump administration's policy of denying bond hearings to people in immigration proceedings, further splitting the federal circuits on whether mandatory detention is legal. The 2-1 ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals aligns with the 2nd Circuit but conflicts with decisions from the 5th and 8th Circuits, increasing the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue.
A Colorado judge on Thursday sentenced Mohamed Sabry Soliman to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a firebombing attack on a demonstration in Boulder that killed an 82‑year‑old woman and injured more than a dozen others, the Associated Press reported. Soliman, an Egyptian national, pleaded guilty to murder and a host of other charges for the June 2025 attack that targeted a weekly vigil held by Jewish community members demanding the release of Israeli hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, assault.
The gunman who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar on March 1 was a “lone actor” with no evidence of support or direction from a foreign terrorist group, the FBI said in an investigative update Thursday. The agency said the attack by Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old lawful permanent resident from Senegal, was likely triggered by the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran and his admiration for Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Russia is ramping up attempts to kill opponents in Europe, Western intelligence officials told The Associated Press, describing a more brazen campaign that includes Russian activists and foreign supporters of Ukraine. The AP report cites cases in France, Lithuania and Spain, and says officials linked the effort to Russia’s broader actions intended to undermine European countries supporting Kyiv.
A former Southern California college professor pleaded guilty in Ventura County, California, to involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counterprotester during 2023 demonstrations tied to the Israel-Hamas war, prosecutors said. The case is scheduled for sentencing June 25.
An Atlanta-based appeals court rejected a Trump administration policy of keeping people in immigration proceedings detained without bond, a ruling that deepens a split among federal courts. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday that the law does not give the executive branch “unfettered authority” to detain people without bond while their cases are pending.
A judge sentenced Mohamed Sabry Soliman to life in prison without parole after he pleaded guilty to a 2025 firebombing attack on a pro-Israeli hostages demonstration in Boulder, Colorado. Prosecutors said the attack killed Karen Diamond, 82, and injured a dozen others when Soliman threw Molotov cocktails at demonstrators on a downtown pedestrian mall.
The FBI said investigators have found no evidence that the gunman who killed three people in a downtown Austin bar attack in March was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group. The agency released an update saying the shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, acted as a “lone actor,” and that the investigation remains open.
Double attacks by an armed group have killed several people in two villages in central Mali, authorities said. The military governor said the attacks struck Kori Kori and Gomossogou on Wednesday afternoon, while the group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, claimed responsibility.
MINNEAPOLIS — Anthony Kazmierczak, who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis on Jan. 27, pleaded guilty to assault in federal court Thursday after reaching a deal with prosecutors, according to court testimony reported by the Associated Press.
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants and said the Department of Government Efficiency lacked lawful authority to end funding.
The U.S. State Department said Thursday it will begin revoking the passports of thousands of parents with significant unpaid child support debts, starting Friday. The initial action targets roughly 2,700 passport holders who owe $100,000 or more, with plans to expand the program to all parents owing more than $2,500. The program, based on a long-standing but little-enforced 1996 law, is part of an effort to compel delinquent parents to pay what they owe, officials said.
The United States Postal Service is considering a rule change that would allow individuals to mail handguns for the first time in nearly a century, a shift the Justice Department argues is required by the Second Amendment but that Democratic attorneys general in two dozen states say will undermine public safety and bypass state firearm regulations.
A U.K. Border Force officer and a former Hong Kong police superintendent were convicted Thursday of assisting a Chinese intelligence agency in carrying out “shadow policing” operations against dissidents in Britain.
AP reported on May 7 that cybersecurity professionals advise users to clear out dormant accounts, unused apps, and old files from their digital devices, a process that frees storage space and reduces exposure to scammers.
The co-founder of British fashion brand Superdry was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for raping a woman in May 2022, following a trial at Gloucester Crown Court. James Holder, 54, was found guilty by a jury of one count of rape but acquitted of a separate charge of assault by penetration.
Idaho’s women’s prisons, overflowing and without enough beds, are placing nonviolent inmates into segregated housing normally used for punishment, confining them to their cells for 23 hours a day, according to an InvestigateWest investigation distributed by The Associated Press. Civil rights advocates say the practice violates state policy and inflicts lasting psychological harm.
The Food and Drug Administration, under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Commissioner Marty Makary, has shifted from the established, legally required process of federal rulemaking to announcing major policy changes through press conferences, medical journal articles, and television interviews, an Associated Press review of the agency’s actions has found.
In a federal trial in Oakland, California, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting over the future of artificial general intelligence, with Musk claiming Altman betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission and Altman accusing Musk of seeking control for his own AI company.
Thirty former Ohio State football players, including several NFL veterans, have agreed to join a federal lawsuit against the university over sexual abuse by a former team doctor, attorney Rocky Ratliff said Thursday. The men are among hundreds of former student athletes who say they were abused by Dr. Richard Strauss, who worked at Ohio State from 1978 until his retirement in 1998. They are “tearful and living with it,” Ratliff said, but have stepped forward after years of shame and fear.
A Los Angeles jury on Thursday found the city not liable in the 2021 death of a 14-year-old girl who was killed by a police officer’s stray bullet inside a North Hollywood department store. The verdict concludes a nearly monthlong wrongful death trial brought by the parents of Valentina Orellana-Peralta.
Hungary has returned a shipment of cash and gold worth roughly $82 million to Ukraine’s state Oschadbank, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, ending a two-month seizure that Kyiv had condemned as politically motivated.
A former Franklin County sheriff's deputy was found guilty of reckless homicide Thursday for the December 2020 killing of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man who was shot six times while entering his grandmother's home with a bag of sandwiches. Jurors could not agree on the more serious charge of murder, resulting in a mistrial on that count, marking the second time Jason Meade, who is white, has faced a jury in the case.
French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and his social platform X over child sexual abuse images, sexually explicit deepfakes, and Holocaust denial generated by the platform's AI system, Grok. The Paris public prosecutor's office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation that includes charges of complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse imagery, unlawfully collecting personal data, and denial of crimes against humanity. The probe expanded after Grok produced posts that denied the Holocaust and spread deepfakes, and after a French lawmaker alleged biased algorithms likely distorted an automated data processing system. Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned for voluntary interviews in April but did not appear, authorities said.
Rapper Kodak Black was arrested this week in Orlando, Florida, on a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, the synthetic drug also known as ecstasy, after police found the drug during a November search of a vehicle linked to him, authorities said.
A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a handwritten note that convicted murderer Nicholas Tartaglione says Jeffrey Epstein left behind in their Manhattan jail cell in 2019, the latest twist in the case that has confounded Epstein's accusers and fueled conspiracy theories.
A $3.8 billion California program to convert motels into homeless housing during the pandemic produced thousands of new units but also left roughly 3,000 promised homes unfinished, a CalMatters investigation has found, with one contractor facing federal fraud charges and dozens of projects stuck in limbo.
Three days after announcing a settlement of her lawsuit over the 2024 film "It Ends With Us," Blake Lively's lawyers called the deal a "resounding victory" on Thursday, asserting that Justin Baldoni and other defendants now face potential personal liability for legal fees and penalties after his countersuit was dismissed. Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, countered that his camp considers it "a win and total victory," maintaining that Lively voluntarily dismissed the bulk of her claims after a judge threw out most of them.
Federal authorities and the LAPD carried out a major drug raid around MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles as the city’s mayoral primary campaign entered its final stretch. The operation led to 18 arrests and targeted fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution, according to the U.S. attorney’s office and local officials. The raid also sharpened debate in the mayor’s race over public safety measures, including whether to end a needle exchange program at the park.
A U.K. border official and a former Hong Kong police officer were convicted Thursday in London of spying for China by carrying out what prosecutors described as “shadow policing” operations in Britain. Peter Wai and Bill Yuen, both dual Chinese and British nationals, were found guilty of violating the U.K. National Security Act by assisting a foreign spy service.
A British court sentenced Superdry cofounder James Holder to eight years in prison for raping a woman after a night of drinking, the Associated Press reported. Judge David Chidgey at Bristol Crown Court described the crime as “a despicable piece of sexual violence.”
The trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI leadership is centered on a legal dispute over OpenAI’s nonprofit origins, but testimony has also drawn jurors into questions about the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. In Oakland, California, the judge warned lawyers not to stray into broader safety debates, even as witnesses raised concerns about workforce disruption and the long-term threat posed by superhuman AI.
A jury found the city of Los Angeles was not liable for the death of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta after she was struck by a police officer’s stray bullet during a shootout in a North Hollywood shopping center while Christmas shopping in 2021, according to a verdict issued Thursday.
French prosecutors said they have opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s social platform X, seeking charges tied to child sexual abuse images, sexually explicit deepfakes, and what they describe as denial of crimes against humanity. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said it is also investigating whether X and its managers unlawfully collected personal data and disseminated non-consensual images or other content.
Rapper Kodak Black was arrested in central Florida and booked into the Orange County Jail on a felony MDMA trafficking charge, according to the Associated Press. Kodak Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, pleaded not guilty and asked for a jury trial, with bond set at $75,000.
Former FBI Director James Comey asked a judge to cancel his scheduled court appearance in eastern North Carolina, saying he already surrendered in Virginia and has faced a judge there in the Trump threat case. The Department of Justice is supporting the request.
Authorities in Norway arrested a Chinese citizen on espionage allegations on Thursday in an operation linked to an alleged plan to set up a receiver for sensitive satellite data, Norway’s domestic intelligence service said.
A former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy was found guilty of reckless homicide in the 2020 killing of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who entered his grandmother’s home in Columbus with sandwiches. Jurors in the second trial said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on the more serious murder count, and a judge declared a mistrial on that charge.
Blake Lively’s lawyers said a court settlement in her lawsuit over “It Ends With Us” is a “resounding victory,” three days after announcing the deal. Her attorneys said the settlement waives the right to appeal and leaves Baldoni and others facing “personal liability” for allegedly abusing the legal system. Justin Baldoni’s lawyer said the other side views the settlement as “a win and total victory,” with fees issues remaining.
Idaho prison overcrowding has led the Department of Correction to place some women with good behavior in segregated housing units, prisoners and advocates say, including at South Idaho Correctional Institution in Boise.
Handguns could be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service for the first time in nearly 100 years if a proposed rule change takes effect, according to the U.S. Postal Service and the Justice Department. Democratic state attorneys general in about two dozen states sent a letter opposing the change, saying it could undermine state gun-safety laws and make it harder to investigate gun crimes. The proposal would expand mailing to concealable firearms such as pistols and revolvers, while the Postal Service said it is reviewing public comments before making final changes.
The U.S. State Department will begin revoking the passports of thousands of parents with significant past-due child support, beginning Friday, the department told The Associated Press. The initial revocations will focus on parents who owe $100,000 or more, which would apply to about 2,700 passport holders.
Former FBI Director James Comey asked a federal judge Thursday to cancel his upcoming court appearance in North Carolina on charges that he threatened President Donald Trump, arguing he had already surrendered to authorities in Virginia.
Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some NFL veterans, agreed to join a federal lawsuit alleging the school failed to stop sexual abuse of student athletes decades ago by former team doctor Richard Strauss, a lawyer said May 7.
A man was arrested in eastern England on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon after reports that the former Prince Andrew was threatened by a masked person while walking his dogs near his home, police said. Norfolk Constabulary said the arrest came Wednesday evening after officers were called about a person “behaving in an intimidating manner” near Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s residence.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione was a former police officer awaiting trial when he shared a cell with Epstein in 2019. A judge recently unsealed a note Tartaglione said was found inside a book he received from Epstein, a document that has reignited questions about Epstein’s injuries and death.
The FBI searched the hometown office of Virginia state Senate leader L. Louise Lucas and a nearby cannabis shop on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, AP reported. The FBI declined to comment beyond confirming the search was court-authorized in Portsmouth, Virginia, where Lucas also maintains her political office and a disabilities services business. Democrats including House Speaker Don Scott said they want more facts before drawing conclusions.
Authorities searched a home in Arroyo Grande, California, connected to a man convicted in the 1996 killing of Kristin Smart after a warrant served Wednesday. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said Friday that evidence suggests human remains were present on the property, though he said investigators cannot yet confirm whether they are Smart’s.
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Vladimir Sklarov, who used multiple aliases, with stealing about $450 million from Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego through a sham stock-backed loan scheme tied to the Astor name. Prosecutors said Sklarov was arrested in Chicago on Saturday after an indictment was unsealed in federal court in New York. A detention hearing is scheduled for Friday in federal court in Chicago, court records show.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, describing his contacts after Epstein’s 2008 conviction and telling lawmakers he “has done nothing wrong.” GOP Chairman James Comer said Lutnick was “forthcoming,” while Democrats accused him of lying and evading their questions in the closed-door interview.
FBI agents raided the Portsmouth, Virginia, office of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas and her cannabis business on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. The FBI said it was conducting a court-authorized search warrant but did not disclose what it was seeking.
Chief Justice John Roberts told a gathering of judges and lawyers from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Hershey, Pennsylvania, that the United States Supreme Court does not function as a political institution. He said the Court’s decisions, even when unpopular, are grounded in the Constitution rather than partisan policy goals. Roberts made the remarks as public confidence in the high court remains low following a recent decision that weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
ATLANTA — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department does not have to return 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia. In a decision after Fulton County sought to undo the Jan. 28 seizure, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee found the county did not show its constitutional rights were “callously disregarded,” and noted the government had provided the county copies of the documents. The Justice Department said the investigation would continue.
A man accused of firing at law enforcement officers near the Washington Monument this week was walking along the route of Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade beforehand and made hostile remarks about the White House after the shooting, according to a court filing. Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, was shot multiple times during the Monday confrontation and is now facing federal charges, including assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon.
President Donald Trump signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that makes eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere the administration’s highest priority, the White House announced Wednesday. The 16-page document also lays out additional priorities that include targeting Islamic military groups, violent anti-American secular political groups, and preventing nonstate actors from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
The Justice Department is aiming to replace immigration judges it says are ruling too slowly or not following immigration law, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday in Phoenix. The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to cut a backlog of 3.7 million pending immigration cases, as it pursues faster deportations.
The Justice Department agreed to return Rep. Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, according to a court filing revealed by his lawyers. The FBI confiscated the phone in August 2024 and the case has been tied up in court over whether investigators could review the device and Ogles’ email accounts.
The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty Thursday on behalf of the civil rights group to federal charges that it defrauded donors by failing to disclose money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups. Bryan Fair represented the nonprofit in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, where prosecutors outlined allegations tied to money laundering conspiracy, wire fraud and false statements to a bank.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed a Rankin County judge’s decision that deputies bore no blame for the 2021 death of Damien Cameron, sending the civil case back for further proceedings. The appeals court said there are disputed facts over whether deputies’ use of force was objectively reasonable and whether qualified immunity applies.
Federal authorities arrested 18 people on charges related to selling illicit drugs including fentanyl and methamphetamine around MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Officials said investigators seized 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of fentanyl from a single home and identified a South Los Angeles couple as a key source of the drugs sold in the park. The defendants are scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
San Luis Obispo County deputies served a search warrant Wednesday at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores, mother of Paul Flores, the man convicted of killing 19‑year‑old college student Kristin Smart in 1996. The warrant is part of a renewed investigation into Smart’s disappearance, whose remains have never been found and who was declared legally dead in 2002. Authorities said the search aims to locate her remains and bring closure to her family.
The Anti-Defamation League said the number of antisemitic incidents it tallied in the United States declined sharply in 2025, with campus incidents driving much of the drop. ADL’s latest annual audit, released Wednesday, counted 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assaults, harassment and vandalism overall, down 33% from 2024. ADL attributed part of the decline to colleges curbing pro-Palestinian protests amid pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Alaska Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman ruled Wednesday that the state can resume shooting and killing black and brown bears, including from helicopters, under a plan aimed at helping recover the Mulchatna caribou herd. Two conservation groups had sought to halt the program as their lawsuit challenging the plan’s legality proceeds.
A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial of a former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy in Ohio charged in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. Prosecutors say Jason Meade shot Goodson, who is Black, five times in the back as he tried to enter his grandmother’s house in December 2020.
A major federal drug raid around MacArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles led to 18 arrests and targeted fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution as voting began in the city’s mayoral race. The raid also amplified a debate between Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and Republican rival Spencer Pratt over whether the city should end needle exchange services at the park.
U.S. prosecutors say Lu Jianwang operated a secret Chinese police outpost in New York City to silence and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents. His trial in Brooklyn federal court began Wednesday after authorities arrested him in April 2023, more than three years after prosecutors say they first uncovered the operation.
Oakland’s City Council on Tuesday voted to fine two landowners $915,135 after city staff said they illegally cut 38 protected trees in the Oakland hills, in violation of the city’s Protected Trees Ordinance.
The Orleans Parish School Board voted 6-1 to accept an agreement settling a 2019 lawsuit against the city of New Orleans over how tax collection fees and school funding were handled. Under the settlement, the city will lower sales tax collection fees and eliminate property-tax fees, and it will end practices district lawyers said diverted school money toward municipal pension obligations.
Scientists took soil samples Thursday outside a home connected to Paul Flores, convicted in 2022 of killing Kristin Smart, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office served a search warrant on the home of Susan Flores in Arroyo Grande, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
The Justice Department released a large batch of records tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations and the push to make more of the government’s files public, Associated Press reported. The documents include materials from early Palm Beach, Florida, investigations and internal Justice Department emails, according to the AP timeline.
The FBI searched the office of Virginia Senate leader L. Louise Lucas and a nearby cannabis shop in Portsmouth, Virginia, as part of a corruption investigation, AP reported. The FBI said it was conducting a court-authorized search, while Lucas said the actions reflect a pattern of intimidation against lawmakers who challenge the administration.
Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, faced closed-door questioning Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee about his contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 conviction involving a minor. The committee chairman said Lutnick was “forthcoming,” while Democrats accused him of lying and evading questions. The interview was not recorded on video, a decision Democrats criticized as limiting scrutiny.
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted California man Cole Tomas Allen on a new charge of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon Tuesday, alleging he fired a shotgun that struck a Secret Service officer during a breach of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last month that also resulted in charges of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. The 31-year-old Torrance resident was armed with guns and knives when he ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on April 25, pointing his weapon at the officer — who fired five times without striking anyone, authorities and court records say.
A California man accused of trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and attempting to kill President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on a new assault charge. Prosecutors said the man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer during the April 25 attack at the Washington Hilton.
A Massachusetts jury found former New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs not guilty of felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault on Tuesday, ending a two-day trial that centered on conflicting accounts of a December encounter between the NFL player and his live-in personal chef, Jamila Adams. The verdict followed less than two hours of jury deliberation in a case in which the defense argued the accusation was financially motivated and the prosecution pointed to a power imbalance between the athlete and his employee.
A 69-year-old man opened fire at a Koreatown shopping center and then an apartment complex in Carrollton, Texas, on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding three others before he was captured at a grocery store, police said.
A federal indictment unsealed in New York says Vladimir Sklarov, who used multiple aliases, ran a bogus stock-backed loan scheme that authorities say helped him steal about $450 million from Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego. Prosecutors said Sklarov used the Astor family name and false claims of financial backing to convince Salinas to provide the loan in 2021.
Former New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs was found not guilty Tuesday of assaulting his personal chef, ending a short two-day trial in Massachusetts. The case, arising from a Dec. 2 incident in Dedham, turned on conflicting testimony about what happened during an argument and what Diggs’ staff saw afterward.
A man shot five people in back-to-back attacks Tuesday north of Dallas, killing two and injuring three, police said. The shootings began just before 10 a.m. at a shopping center in Carrollton’s Koreatown area, then continued about four miles away at an apartment complex where officers found the suspect dead.
The Orleans Parish School Board voted 6-1 to accept an agreement with the city of New Orleans resolving a 2019 lawsuit that challenged how the city handled taxes and other money tied to the district. Under the settlement, the city will lower sales-tax collection fees and eliminate them for property taxes, and it will stop skimming school-board funds to cover pension obligations, district officials said.
Connecticut’s Senate on Monday passed a bill that sets the state’s first homeschooling regulations, voting 22-14 shortly before midnight after a debate that split largely along party lines. The measure heads next to Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont for his signature.
The United States and its Gulf allies have proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution threatening Iran with sanctions if it does not halt attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, stop imposing what the draft calls “illegal tolls,” and disclose the location of all sea mines to allow freedom of navigation, according to a copy of the draft obtained by The Associated Press. The resolution also demands that Iran “immediately participate in and enable” U.N. efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor through the strait for the delivery of vital aid.
Federal authorities have charged a Federal Aviation Administration contractor in New Hampshire with interstate communication of a threat against President Donald Trump, alleging the man sent an email to the White House stating he intended to kill the president after previously conducting targeted searches on federal security and firearms access.
Washington, D.C., interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll announced Tuesday that 13 officers have been placed on administrative leave in connection with an internal investigation into the department’s crime statistics reporting. The investigation, launched earlier this year after a referral from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, follows congressional and Justice Department probes that found the department’s former leadership had pressured commanders to misclassify crimes in order to artificially lower the city’s crime rates.
A London jury convicted four members of the activist group Palestine Action on Tuesday for breaking into an Elbit Systems factory in Bristol, England, in August 2024 and smashing equipment with sledgehammers and crowbars.
Boko Haram militants killed 23 Chadian soldiers and wounded 26 others in an assault on a military post in the Lake Chad region on Monday night, the country’s armed forces said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that the White House says makes eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere the administration’s top priority. The strategy, a 16-page document, also lists Islamic military groups, violent secular political groups, and efforts to keep nonstate actors from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, according to the White House.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice does not have to return 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta that held records for Fulton County, Georgia. The county had argued the seizure was improper and violated the Constitution, but the judge said it did not show the government’s rights were “callously disregarded” and noted the Justice Department has already provided copies of the documents.
The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday that antisemitic incidents it tallied in the United States declined sharply in 2025, with a steep drop on college campuses a key driver. The ADL said its latest annual audit counted 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assaults, harassment and vandalism overall in 2025, down 33% from 2024’s record-high 9,354.
Chief Justice John Roberts said the Supreme Court is not made up of “political actors,” urging criticism of the court to focus on rulings rather than personal attacks. He spoke Wednesday to a conference of judges and lawyers from the 3rd U.S. Circuit in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
A Federal Aviation Administration contractor in New Hampshire was arrested and is expected to face court on Tuesday after federal prosecutors accused him of sending a threatening email to the White House, saying he intended to “neutralize/kill” President Donald Trump.
London’s Woolwich Crown Court convicted four Palestine Action activists on May 5 for breaking into an Israeli defense factory in the United Kingdom and damaging equipment. Prosecutors said the Aug. 6, 2024 raid at Elbit Systems in Bristol was organized to cause maximum damage and gather information about the company.
A man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleaded not guilty Tuesday in San Francisco to state charges including attempted murder and attempted arson. Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, who also faces federal charges, entered the pleas during an arraignment in state court.
Boko Haram militants killed 23 soldiers in an attack on a military post in Chad’s Lake Chad region, the country’s armed forces said Tuesday. Chad’s military said another 26 soldiers were injured in the Monday night attack and that the attackers were eventually repelled.
The United States and Gulf allies have proposed a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening Iran with sanctions or other measures unless it halts attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The draft also calls on Iran to stop imposing “illegal tolls,” disclose the placement of mines, and “immediately participate in and enable” U.N. efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor for aid deliveries.
EDMOND, Okla. — Police in Edmond said Tuesday that a shooting at a lakeside party near Arcadia Lake left one person dead and 22 others with gunshot and shrapnel wounds. Investigators said the shooting began after a fight erupted at the party on Sunday night, and they have not arrested anyone.
The Trump administration sued Denver and the city’s police department on Tuesday, seeking to strike down an assault-weapons ban that has been in place in Colorado’s largest city since 1989. The lawsuit follows Denver officials’ public rejection of a U.S. Department of Justice request to repeal the ordinance.
Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, was shot multiple times during a confrontation with law enforcement near the Washington Monument on Monday. A court filing says Marx had been walking along the path of Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade beforehand and made a vulgar remark about the White House after the shooting.
A former Rutland City police sergeant who shot and wounded two Massachusetts brothers during a 2023 traffic stop was sentenced Monday to two years of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment, the Vermont attorney general's office announced.
A former Rutland City police sergeant, Andrew Plemmons, was sentenced in Vermont to two years of probation after pleading guilty for a 2023 shooting incident in which he shot and wounded two men while on duty, according to the Vermont attorney general’s office. The sentence includes 100 hours of community service, with no prison time if he follows probation conditions, but up to a year in prison if he violates them.
A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death on Tuesday for the 2022 murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand, whom he abducted from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift. Jurors in Fort Worth reached the decision after hearing weeks of testimony that included harrowing audio and video from inside the delivery van.
The 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a firebomb at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to attempted murder and attempted arson, as his public defender said he was experiencing a mental health crisis and had been overcharged.
A shooting at a weekend lakeside party at Arcadia Lake in Edmond, Oklahoma, left an 18-year-old woman dead and 22 others with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, police said Tuesday. No arrests have been made, but investigators believe there is no ongoing threat to the public.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, alleging the news organization bypassed a white male editor for a promotion in favor of a candidate it said was less qualified to meet diversity goals.
Pennsylvania has sued Character Technologies Inc., the company behind Character.AI, alleging that its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors and deceive users into believing they are receiving medical advice from professionals. Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration called the filing a “first of its kind enforcement action” against an AI firm over the unlawful practice of medicine, saying an investigator easily found chatbots on the platform that claimed to be licensed psychiatrists and offered to assess the investigator as a doctor.
Record-high global gold prices are fueling a renewed illegal mining surge across Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected conservation zones and driving mercury contamination to hazardous levels.
A 13-year-old student admitted carrying out a shooting attack at a public school in Rio Branco, Brazil, on Tuesday, killing two female staff members and injuring another staff member and a student, authorities said. Police said the suspect used a gun owned by a legal guardian; local media reported the guardian was the teenager's stepfather, who was also detained.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the city of Denver on Tuesday, challenging the constitutionality of a local ordinance that has banned the possession of assault weapons since 1989, the Associated Press reported. The lawsuit, filed a day after Denver officials publicly refused the Trump administration's demand to repeal the law, alleges the ban violates the Second Amendment.
The Department of Justice is seeking the names and personal contact information of every person who worked on the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, according to a court filing by the county. Lawyers for the county filed a motion Monday to quash a grand jury subpoena they called “a chilling escalation in the campaign to terrorize Fulton County election workers.” The subpoena, dated April 17, demands the “name, position/function, residential and email addresses, and personal telephone number(s)” of thousands of employees and volunteers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a court‑authorized search warrant on Wednesday at the Portsmouth office of Virginia Senate president pro tempore L. Louise Lucas and at her Cannabis Outlet store, the state‑licensed hemp and CBD shop she opened after helping legalize marijuana. The FBI said only that it was conducting the search; the reason for the raid has not been disclosed.
The U.S. military launched another strike Tuesday on a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men, according to U.S. officials. The new attack came a day after U.S. forces struck an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people. The Trump administration has said the campaign is aimed at stopping “narcoterrorism” and reducing fatal drug overdoses in the United States.
Oakland, California, officials on Tuesday fined Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner $915,135 after they cut down 38 protected trees in the Oakland hills without permits. The City Council voted 5-3 to impose the fine, after two earlier attempts to reach a decision, and the council heard arguments from city staff, environmental advocates and the property owners.
Federal authorities said they arrested 18 people Wednesday on charges tied to selling illicit drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, around MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Prosecutors said agents seized 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of fentanyl from a home and alleged a South Los Angeles couple provided drugs to a storefront where the drugs were later distributed to street-level dealers.
U.S. prosecutors say Lu Jianwang ran a secret Chinese police outpost in Manhattan’s Chinatown to silence and harass pro-democracy dissidents in the United States, and he violated federal foreign-agent registration requirements. His lawyer said the site was a community center where members of the Chinese diaspora renewed driver’s licenses during COVID-era travel restrictions and played ping-pong and mahjong. Lu, 64, went on trial Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, more than three years after U.S. authorities arrested him.
Alaska Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman ruled Wednesday that state wildlife agents can resume killing black and brown bears, including from helicopters, under a plan aimed at recovering the Mulchatna caribou herd. Conservation groups challenging the program said the state lacked key data about bear populations and sustainability.
Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department is trying to remove immigration judges it says are ruling too slowly or not following the law. He made the remarks in Phoenix at an event that gathers immigration officials, law enforcement and contractors as the Trump administration seeks to reduce a backlog of 3.7 million immigration cases.
Indigenous people across the United States are gathering this week to honor relatives who are missing or have been killed and to call for better data collection, law-enforcement response and reforms to make communities safer. The observance, marked as a national day of awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples movement, included marches, rallies, talking circles, self-defense classes and candlelight vigils planned for the May 5 week.
A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial of former Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who is charged in the December 2020 shooting death of Black man Casey Goodson Jr. Prosecutors say Meade shot Goodson five times in the back as Goodson tried to enter his grandmother’s house. The first trial ended in a mistrial more than two years ago.
Scientists specializing in human decomposition and soil took samples Thursday outside a home connected to Paul Flores, who was convicted of killing Kristin Smart in 1996. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant Wednesday on the home of Susan Flores in Arroyo Grande, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Authorities served a search warrant Wednesday at a home connected to Paul Flores, the man convicted in the 1996 killing of Kristin Smart, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said. The search in Arroyo Grande, on California’s central coast, is linked to the ongoing effort to find Smart’s remains, which have never been located.
The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty Thursday on behalf of the civil rights group in a federal donor fraud case. Bryan Fair appeared in federal court in Montgomery as the Justice Department alleges the group defrauded donors by using money to pay informants inside extremist organizations.
Washington interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll said Tuesday that 13 officers were placed on administrative leave as part of an internal investigation into how the department collects crime statistics. Carroll said the probe began earlier this year after a referral from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and that he would not release specifics.
A jury in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday sentenced Tanner Horner, 34, to death after he pleaded guilty to capital murder in the 2022 killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand. Horner took the child from her home while delivering a Christmas gift, according to testimony and evidence presented in court.
A school shooting in Brazil’s Acre state on Tuesday left two women dead and two others injured, authorities said. Police said a 13-year-old student was detained after authorities said the student carried out the attack at a public school in Rio Branco.
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking the names of people who worked the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, seeking records that include personal contact information for county employees and poll workers, according to a court filing. Lawyers for Fulton County asked a judge to quash a grand jury subpoena served after an FBI seizure of ballots and related records from the county earlier this year, arguing the request is overly broad and cannot yield evidence for a criminal case because time limits have expired.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a discrimination lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, saying the newspaper passed over a white male editor for a promotion in favor of a less-qualified woman to meet diversity goals. The EEOC says the complaint alleges gender and racial discrimination under Title VII, and the New York Times said it will defend itself “vigorously.”
Gold prices have helped fuel a renewed illegal gold mining rush in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation inside protected areas and raising mercury contamination risks, officials and experts said. A study released May 5 found illegal mining sites drove clear-cutting inside three conservation areas in the Xingu region, and prosecutors described enforcement as a “cat-and-mouse game.”
The Mississippi Court of Appeals reversed a Rankin County judge’s ruling that deputies were not to blame for the 2021 death of Damien Cameron, and sent the civil case back for further proceedings. In its Tuesday ruling, the appeals court said there are “genuine issues of material fact” about whether deputies’ use of force was objectively reasonable and whether they should receive qualified immunity.
Pennsylvania sued Character Technologies, the maker of Character.AI, accusing its chatbots of illegally holding themselves out as licensed doctors and misleading users into thinking they receive medical advice from professionals. The lawsuit, filed in Commonwealth Court, seeks an order stopping the alleged “unlawful practice of medicine and surgery.”
The Supreme Court issued an administrative stay on Monday that restores the ability to obtain the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail-order and pharmacies without an in-person doctor visit, temporarily blocking a lower court ruling that had imposed restrictions.
Howard Lutnick, the U.S. commerce secretary, told House Oversight Committee members in a closed-door interview that he did nothing wrong regarding his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a transcript of the session released by the committee. Republican lawmakers praised Lutnick’s answers as forthcoming, while Democrats accused him of lying or evading questions about earlier meetings and a trip involving Epstein’s private island.
A secret program by U.S. Customs and Border Protection uses a nationwide network of license plate cameras and algorithmic profiling to track millions of American drivers, flagging 'suspicious' travel patterns and triggering traffic stops that have netted no contraband but resulted in detentions, searches, and cash seizures, an Associated Press investigation has found.
A U.S. indictment unsealed this week says Vladimir Sklarov, who also used multiple aliases, duped Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego with a bogus stock-backed loan scheme using the Astor family name. Prosecutors said Sklarov set up a sham lender, Astor Asset Group, connected to the storied New York family to persuade Salinas to hand over shares worth at least $450 million.
A federal magistrate judge in Washington on Monday pressed jail officials to explain why the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was placed on restrictive suicide watch after his arrest, questioning whether the conditions violated his due process rights.
Secret Service officers shot a man who opened fire on them near the Washington Monument on Monday afternoon, the agency said. A minor bystander was also wounded in the exchange, which prompted a brief White House lockdown while President Donald Trump attended an event inside.
Malian junta leader and interim president Assimi Goita has assumed the duties of defense minister, authorities said Monday, after the incumbent was killed in a suicide bombing that was part of the largest coordinated militant offensive in the country in over a decade. The presidential decree, broadcast on state television, also named former armed forces chief of staff Gen. Oumar Diarra as deputy defense minister. The killing of Defense Minister Gen. Sadio Camara on April 25 in the garrison town of Kati near Bamako was part of a multi-city assault by al-Qaida-linked militants and Tuareg separatist rebels that overran several towns and military bases.
Two people were killed and three seriously injured when a driver deliberately drove into pedestrians in a shopping district of Leipzig, Germany, on Monday, according to the Associated Press. The attack, one in a spate of vehicle-ramming assaults worldwide, prompted the wire service to publish a roundup of such cases spanning two decades and multiple continents.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais has gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, setting off a nationwide redistricting war in which Republican-led states are moving to eliminate Democratic congressional districts and Democrats threaten retaliation. The ruling, issued last week, weakens the requirement that states draw districts giving racial minorities a fair opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, a protection that many lawmakers and experts said had been the last national restraint against partisan gerrymandering. The decision escalated a conflict that former President Donald Trump stoked when he urged Republicans to redraw maps mid-decade, pushing the American democratic system toward what analysts describe as winner-take-all political combat.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman plans to plead guilty this week to state murder charges stemming from a firebomb attack on a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, where an 82-year-old woman was killed and more than a dozen people were injured.
A federal appeals court panel on Monday expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s practice of keeping top federal prosecutors in office for extended periods without U.S. Senate approval, in a case involving First Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sarcone in northern New York. Judges at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over a lower court ruling that Sarcone was not lawfully serving as the district’s top prosecutor and that his actions were voidable.
Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block parts of Texas’ immigration law, known as Senate Bill 4, that would allow state police to arrest people suspected of illegally entering the U.S. across the Mexico border. The groups—led by the Texas Civil Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas—argue the measure is unconstitutional because immigration enforcement belongs to the federal government. The law is set to take effect May 15 after a federal appeals court lifted a long-running pause, and it could still be halted by another court.
Drone launched by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces targeted Khartoum International Airport on Monday, but was shot down by the country’s air defenses before reaching the airport, officials said. The airport briefly stopped flights and later said it would resume after routine checks. The attack was reported amid fighting that began in April 2023 and has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions, according to conflict and UN estimates.
Mali’s junta leader and president, Assimi Goita, has assumed the duties of defense minister, authorities said, after the previous defense minister was killed in coordinated attacks by separatist and militant forces. A presidential decree announced on state television said Goita would remain president while also serving as defense minister, with former armed forces chief of staff Gen. Oumar Diarra assisting as deputy defense minister. The announcement comes after Defense Minister Gen. Sadio Camara was killed April 25 in a suicide bombing in the garrison town of Kati.
A man accused of killing a woman and injuring a dozen others in a firebomb attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in downtown Boulder is expected to plead guilty this week to murder and other charges, court documents say. Mohamed Sabry Soliman planned the June 1 attack, which occurred during a weekly demonstration supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza, according to the filings. Prosecutors and defense attorneys described separate cases in state and federal court, including hate-crime charges in the federal case.
An Associated Press investigation says U.S. technology helped lay the foundation for China’s surveillance systems used to police dissidents, minorities and “key persons,” including in Xinjiang. AP reports that internal documents and other records show American companies designed and marketed tools that Chinese officials used to track people’s communications and movements, detain them and restrict their travel.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that threatened to disrupt one of the main ways abortions are provided in the country. The court’s order temporarily allows patients to obtain mifepristone through pharmacies, mail and telehealth channels without an in-person doctor visit.
Prosecutors say the man accused of starting the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was angry at the world, upset about spending New Year’s Eve without plans, and ranted to rideshare passengers about capitalism and the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter. A pretrial memo filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office outlines Jonathan Rinderknecht’s alleged state of mind before the Jan. 1, 2025, fire that authorities say smoldered undetected underground for a week before reigniting into one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, killing 12 people.
Prosecutors said Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of sparking Los Angeles’ Palisades Fire, was angry and ranting about being “pissed off at the world” in the hours before the first blaze. In court documents filed by prosecutors, they described a New Year’s Eve Uber trip in which passengers said he spoke about capitalism, vigilantism and UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione.
A Mauritanian criminal court sentenced two female opposition lawmakers to four years in prison on Monday after they criticized President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani on social media and accused the country’s Arab-dominated justice system of treating Black citizens as second-class citizens, their lawyers told The Associated Press.
Two opposition lawmakers in Mauritania were sentenced to four years in prison after they posted messages insulting President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and accusing the justice system of racial bias, their lawyers told The Associated Press. The case was decided in criminal court in Nouakchott after the lawmakers were charged last month with attacking symbols of the state and calling for gatherings to undermine public security.
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department on Monday asked a federal judge to block Minnesota’s lawsuit accusing oil companies and industry groups of deceiving residents about climate change. The department argued that regulating greenhouse gas emissions is a federal responsibility, not a matter states can impose on the rest of the country, according to a filing in federal court in Minneapolis.
The Trump administration asked a federal court Monday to block a nearly six-year-old Minnesota lawsuit that accuses major oil companies and an industry trade group of deceiving residents about climate change, arguing that the state is improperly attempting to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a power reserved for the federal government.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes told the Trump administration not to cut down more than 10 trees at the historic East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, D.C., without first giving notice, pending a lawsuit alleging the planned renovation would violate an 1897 law establishing the park for “the recreation and the pleasure of the people.”
Civil rights organizations filed a new lawsuit Monday seeking to block core provisions of a Texas immigration law, Senate Bill 4, that would allow state police to arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization and empower state magistrates to order deportations. The law is scheduled to take effect May 15 after a federal appeals court lifted a years-long injunction two weeks ago.
A shooting at an unsanctioned party at Arcadia Lake in Edmond, Oklahoma, sent at least 18 people to hospitals, with three victims in critical condition, after an argument among a group of girls erupted into chaos late Sunday, police said.
Calvin Duncan, a Louisiana man who spent decades in prison for a wrongful murder conviction before becoming an attorney, briefly took office Monday as the elected clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court — only to see his term frozen hours later when a federal appeals court stayed a lower court’s order that had allowed him to assume the post. Duncan’s election last fall, winning 68% of the vote, was followed by a hurried legislative push by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature to eliminate the clerk position before his term began, drawing accusations of voter disenfranchisement from civil rights groups.
A former New York corrections officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in the March 2025 beating death of 22-year-old inmate Messiah Nantwi, who prosecutors said was struck 69 times by guards using fists, boots, and batons inside a cell at the Mid-State Correctional Facility. Caleb Blair, who had been the most seriously charged of several officers indicted in the killing, entered the plea just as jury selection was to begin in his trial in Oneida County Court in Utica, and he agreed to serve 11 years in prison. The guilty plea is the latest in a series of convictions that prosecutors and the family’s attorneys hope will force a reckoning over what they describe as a systemic pattern of violence against incarcerated people in New York’s state prisons.
A driver plowed into a crowded shopping area in central Leipzig on Monday, killing two people and seriously injuring three others in what officials believe was a deliberate rampage, authorities said.
A California man who was shot multiple times by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an attempted arrest pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he rammed his vehicle into two agents, prosecutors said.
OAKLAND, Calif. (MSI) — Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and the top lieutenant to CEO Sam Altman, testified in court Monday that his stake in the artificial intelligence company is worth nearly $30 billion, a disclosure that would place him among the world’s richest people.
Actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have ended their legal feud over the acrimonious production of the 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” agreeing to a settlement on Monday, two weeks before a trial was to begin on her sexual harassment claims and his defamation countersuit. The costars turned courtroom adversaries said in a joint statement that they hoped to raise awareness for domestic violence survivors and foster a respectful environment online. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Nine federally recognized Lakota Sioux tribes from South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near Pe’Sla, a sacred meadow in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for South Dakota, alleges the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture violated federal law by approving the project without an environmental review and without consulting the tribes, whose members have used the site for ceremonies, prayer and youth camps for centuries.
Across the United States, Indigenous peoples gathered this week to honor relatives who are missing or have been killed and to demand better data collection, law‑enforcement response and reforms to keep their communities safer, the Associated Press reported. Events took place in cities from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Denver, Colorado, and from Madison, Wisconsin, to Oklahoma City, with participants wearing red to signal solidarity. Advocates cite the U.S. Department of Justice’s finding that Native Americans are more than twice as likely as the general population to be victims of violent crime, and they call on federal agencies to act on longstanding legislation such as Savanna’s Act and the Not Invisible Act.
The U.S. military launched a strike Tuesday against a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing three men, according to the Pentagon’s Southern Command. The attack came a day after U.S. forces struck an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people, as the Trump administration continues a campaign of destroying suspected drug-trafficking vessels.
A federal judge told the U.S. government Monday not to cut down more than 10 trees at the historic East Potomac Golf Course without providing notice, while a legal dispute over the planned renovations moves forward. U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes said she would not issue a temporary restraining order yet in the case brought by the DC Preservation League.
Federal magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui pressed a city jail official to explain why Cole Tomas Allen, charged in a White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attack, was placed on restrictive suicide watch after his arrest. The judge’s questions came after the jail removed Allen from suicide status following his attorneys’ complaints about conditions, including being in a padded room with constant lighting and being strip-searched.
Police in Edmond, Oklahoma, said a weekend shooting at a lakeside park left at least 18 people treated at hospitals in the Oklahoma City area and critically injured at least three. Authorities were still searching Monday for suspects and had made no arrests.
Louisiana’s Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law to eliminate the elected Orleans Parish criminal court clerk position before Calvin Duncan’s term began, but a federal judge blocked the change on Sunday. Duncan, a Louisiana man whose murder conviction was vacated after decades in prison for a wrongful conviction, briefly began work Monday before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals froze the decision. The case now heads through appeals as civil rights groups argue Duncan’s term cannot be cut short.
A former corrections officer, Caleb Blair, pleaded guilty in upstate New York to manslaughter for his role in the fatal beating of inmate Messiah Nantwi at the Mid-State Correctional Facility near Utica. Blair entered the plea in Oneida County Court on Monday, before jury selection in a separate trial, and prosecutors said Nantwi’s family was OK with the deal.
The U.S. Border Patrol has been monitoring millions of drivers nationwide through license plate readers and a predictive intelligence program, according to a new Associated Press investigation. The program uses cameras and algorithms to identify vehicles based on where they came from, where they are going and which routes they take, and it has led to stops, searches and arrests, the investigation found.
A driver plowed into people in a busy shopping area in central Leipzig, Germany, on Monday afternoon, leaving two people dead, authorities said. Officials said three additional people were seriously injured, and police detained the driver in the vehicle.
The Associated Press reviewed recent vehicle-ramming attacks worldwide, including a suspected deliberate attack in Leipzig, Germany, that killed two people and injured three others on May 4. Prosecutors said the 33-year-old German citizen detained after the crash is under investigation on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. The roundup also cites past cases that killed dozens and left survivors badly hurt.
A federal grand jury indicted Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez on assaulting federal officers and damaging government property after an ICE arrest in central California, prosecutors said. Mendoza pleaded not guilty Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and is seeking a jury trial. His attorney said he panicked and tried to flee when agents blocked his vehicle.
Actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni agreed Monday to end their legal feud over the 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” avoiding a trial in New York. The parties settled a civil case brought by Lively and involving Baldoni’s countersuit, which had been set for jury selection May 18.
Secret Service officials said a man opened fire on plainclothes officers near the Washington Monument on Monday before being shot by law enforcement in an exchange. The incident prompted a brief lockdown near the White House as President Donald Trump continued a small business event, officials said.
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and CEO Sam Altman’s top lieutenant, testified in a trial in Oakland, California, that his stake in OpenAI is worth nearly $30 billion. Brockman told the court Monday that he did not personally invest any money in OpenAI, as the civil lawsuit accuses Altman and Brockman of double-crossing Elon Musk’s founding mission.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that buckshot from the shotgun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner became embedded in the bullet-resistant vest of a Secret Service agent, confirming the agent was struck by the suspect’s fire and not by friendly fire during the April 25 attack.
An Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus left one Palestinian man dead and four others seriously wounded, the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said the man’s wife was giving birth when she was informed of his death, and the Red Crescent said a 12-year-old was shot in the shoulder.
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces killed at least five people in a drone strike on a civilian vehicle traveling to Omdurman on Saturday, according to the Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers.
Authorities have determined that buckshot fired by the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner struck a Secret Service agent, the federal prosecutor leading the investigation said. Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro told CNN the agent’s bullet-resistant vest shows evidence the shot came from the suspect’s shotgun. The Secret Service officer survived, and the man remains jailed pending trial.
Federal appeals judges said Monday they were skeptical that President Donald Trump can keep certain top federal prosecutors in place for extended periods without U.S. Senate approval. The concern arose as the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed a decision involving First Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sarcone and his role in New York’s northern district.
Hoax calls involving alleged bomb threats and active-shooter claims have triggered evacuations and closures at multiple U.S. zoos in recent days, authorities say. Police swept the Akron Zoo in Ohio after a threat prompted an evacuation of visitors, and a similar threat led to visitors being evacuated at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Zoo officials said the incidents follow a broader trend in “swatting” calls that divert public safety resources and can lead to federal charges.
Emergency Lawyers said a drone strike Saturday morning hit a civilian vehicle traveling from Sudan’s White Nile province toward Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum. The rights group said the Rapid Support Forces, which have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces for more than three years, were responsible.
Landlords who say they were barred from evicting nonpaying tenants during a federal pandemic moratorium want compensation from the federal government, filing a lawsuit that challenges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s authority and Fifth Amendment. The plaintiffs, which include property owners in Texas and Nevada, say they have reached settlement discussions with the Justice Department after winning on appeal.
Hoax calls alleging bomb threats and active shooters prompted evacuations and early closures at multiple zoos across the United States over the weekend, with authorities finding no explosives or genuine danger at the sites.
Amarillo police are searching for two suspects after a late-night shooting at an apartment complex killed two teenagers and wounded 10 others, authorities confirmed.
Police in eastern Austria have detained a suspect after authorities discovered rat poison in jars of HiPP baby food on supermarket shelves across Central Europe. The probe began when a customer reported a suspicious jar on April 18, and authorities confirmed that five tampered jars were recovered before any infants consumed the product.
ARMED, HOODED men abducted Mountaga Tall, a former Malian minister and prominent critic of the ruling military junta, from his home in Bamako late Saturday, his family said Sunday. The men did not identify themselves or present an arrest warrant, but a relative said they were from the armed forces, marking the latest incident in a widening crackdown following the country's worst coordinated armed assault in over a decade.
Landlords who lost revenue during the federal pandemic eviction moratorium are pressing the Trump administration for compensation, with settlement talks underway in a federal lawsuit that could see the government pay as much as $1.5 billion to more than 1,500 property owners.
Austrian police arrested a 39-year-old suspect after rat poison was discovered in jars of HiPP brand baby food, authorities said Sunday, in a case the company called an extortion attempt. The first tampered jar was found by a customer at a SPAR supermarket in Eisenstadt on April 18, triggering a recall across Central Europe.
The assault trial of former New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs began Monday in Dedham, Massachusetts, as a chef who said Diggs assaulted her testified about what she described as a violent attack at his home. Diggs’ defense attorney told jurors the attack never happened and said there was no evidence supporting the allegations.
Indigenous people across the United States are gathering this week to honor relatives who are missing or have been killed and to call for better data collection and law enforcement response, ahead of a national day of awareness observed May 5. The events include marches, rallies, candlelight vigils and other activities planned for the week of May 5, organizers said.
New Mexico state prosecutors opened the second phase of a three-week bench trial Monday, asking a judge to order fundamental changes to Meta’s apps and algorithms to better protect children. The case stems from allegations that platforms including Instagram created a public safety hazard and contributed to children’s mental health harms.
Police in Amarillo, Texas, are asking the public for help identifying suspects in a shooting at an apartment complex that killed two teenagers and wounded 10 other people. City authorities said the shooting happened at about 2 a.m. Saturday. Police released surveillance video and asked residents to check doorbell and surveillance cameras for any unusual activity around that time.
Vienna-based police in Austria said on May 3 they have arrested a 39-year-old suspect after rat poison was found in some HiPP baby food jars on supermarket shelves in central Europe. The Burgenland State Criminal Police Office said investigators began after a poisoned jar was bought at a supermarket in Eisenstadt on April 18. HiPP said it was “greatly relieved” by the arrest and that it had recalled certain jars in Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic after the case surfaced.
Armed, hooded men abducted former Malian education and science minister Mountaga Tall from his home in Bamako, a family member told The Associated Press, as attacks on Mali’s government spread. Mahmoud Touré said the men stormed Tall’s residence shortly before midnight Saturday, did not identify themselves or provide a reason, and mistreated Tall’s wife while taking his phone.
Un sospechoso de 39 años fue detenido en Austria tras el hallazgo de raticida en frascos de comida para bebés de la marca HiPP en estanterías de supermercados de Europa central, según la policía del este de Austria. La detención se produjo después de que las autoridades abrieran una investigación por sospechas de poner en peligro a la población de forma deliberada, y HiPP retirara productos en Austria, Eslovaquia y la República Checa.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blocked mail-order access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, a ruling that drugmakers immediately asked the Supreme Court to halt, warning of "confusion and upheaval" in medical care.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled this week that states may not rely on racial demographics when drawing congressional districts, a decision that critics say guts a core protection of the Voting Rights Act and imperils Black political representation across the South.
Britain raised its terror threat level to severe on Friday after two Jewish men were stabbed in a London neighborhood, an attack police called terrorism. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for tougher action against chants at pro-Palestinian protests, saying some marches should be banned.
The Trump administration has been found in violation of court orders in at least 31 lawsuits since February 2025, an Associated Press review of court records shows. Legal experts warn the defiance, which includes more than 250 additional instances of noncompliance in immigration petitions, is eroding respect for the rule of law.
Federal judges have raised alarms in recent months about the Trump administration’s failure to follow court orders in individual immigration cases, according to an Associated Press review of court records. The AP found district judges ruled the administration violated an order in at least 31 lawsuits dating back to the first days of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, said Saturday that tougher action may be needed against some chants at pro-Palestinian protests in the U.K. after two Jewish men were stabbed in London. Starmer said he would defend the right to protest but suggested some marches could be banned. The remarks came as British authorities raised the U.K.’s terror threat level to “severe” after Wednesday’s attack.
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to block an appellate ruling that cut off mail-order access to the abortion pill mifepristone, according to a filing by the drugmakers. Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro asked the high court on Saturday to pause the decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that took effect the day after it was issued.
The Associated Press review found district court judges ruled the Trump administration violated court orders in at least 31 lawsuits over a wide range of policy areas during the administration’s first 15 months. The review also found higher courts, including the Supreme Court, sided with the White House in nearly half of those cases, a pattern critics say can embolden noncompliance. The administration said it will continue to comply with lawful court rulings.
Two senior members of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena party in Sinaloa state announced they would temporarily leave office after a U.S. indictment accused them and eight other politicians and security officers of protecting the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for bribes and political support.
The Trump administration violated court orders in at least 31 lawsuits during its first 15 months in office, an Associated Press review of court records has found. The violations span issues from mass deportations and spending freezes to immigration detention practices, and legal experts say the pattern has no precedent in modern U.S. history.
The New York City Police Department on Friday released body camera footage showing two detectives fatally shooting a machete-wielding man who had randomly stabbed three people at a Midtown subway station last month. The video captures the officers repeatedly telling Anthony Griffin, 44, to drop his weapon before one of them fires two shots as Griffin advances with the blade raised.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have charged four residents with illegally voting in federal elections and submitting false statements on their U.S. citizenship applications.
New Mexico state prosecutors began a second phase of a landmark bench trial Monday, asking a judge to impose broad changes on Meta’s social media apps and algorithms to protect children. The trial follows a first-phase civil verdict that ordered $375 million in penalties against Meta over findings related to children’s mental health and concealment of what the state said the company knew about child sexual exploitation.
About 1 in 4 Asian American and Pacific Islander adults say they experienced a hate crime or incident in the past year, according to a new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll released as AAPI Heritage Month begins. The share reporting overt anti-Asian attacks is down from 2023, but many AAPI adults say racial discrimination concerns remain.
A Massachusetts assault trial involving former New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs began Monday at Norfolk County District Court as the prosecution’s main witness, the chef who accused Diggs, described alleged choking and an earlier exchange of angry texts. Diggs’ defense attorney told jurors the alleged attack never happened and said the chef’s testimony would be challenged.
New York City police released body-worn camera footage showing detectives shooting and killing Anthony Griffin after he stabbed three people at a Grand Central subway station on April 11. The video, posted to the NYPD’s YouTube page Friday, shows officers repeatedly ordering Griffin to drop his knife before shots were fired, police said.
NEWARK, N.J. — Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have charged four residents with illegally voting in federal elections, saying they were not U.S. citizens when they registered and cast ballots. The U.S. attorney’s office also alleges the defendants lied on naturalization applications by claiming they had never voted or registered to vote in a federal election.
Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, announced Friday that he will retire at the end of June after an independent review of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The college said the review found Botstein did not do anything illegal but raised concerns about decisions he made during the relationship.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires a showing of intentional discrimination, a decision legal experts say will make it significantly harder to challenge maps that dilute the voting strength of racial minorities.
A 45-year-old London man was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbings of two Jewish men in Golders Green, an attack police have designated as terrorism. Essa Suleiman, a Somalia-born British citizen, was remanded into custody after appearing in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on three counts of attempted murder, including an earlier attack on a friend in south London. The UK government responded by raising the national terror threat level to severe, the second-highest rung, and pledging to increase security for the Jewish community after a series of recent arson attacks on synagogues.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act that has helped protect minority voting rights for more than six decades, in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana. The ruling leaves voting rights advocates and lawmakers warning that political mapmakers will face fewer legal barriers when drawing districts.
A 45-year-old man, Essa Suleiman, was charged Friday with attempted murder in stabbings of two Jewish men in London, authorities said. Suleiman was remanded after appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, and his case was transferred to the Central Criminal Court for a May 15 hearing.
A body discovered by a kayaker in Tampa Bay has been identified as Nahida Bristy, a University of South Florida doctoral student from Bangladesh, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said Friday. Bristy is the second USF doctoral student from Bangladesh found dead in the bay in recent weeks, following the discovery of Zamil Limon's body two days earlier.
The White House informed Congress on Friday that hostilities with Iran have 'terminated,' a declaration that, if accepted, would nullify the impending 60-day deadline under the War Powers Resolution. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley, President Donald Trump asserted that the conflict that began on Feb. 28 ended when a fragile ceasefire took hold in early April, even as the U.S. Navy continues to blockade Iranian oil tankers. The deadline passed without action from Republican lawmakers, who have repeatedly deferred to the president on war powers.
An Oklahoma judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors presented enough evidence for nearly all charges against the founders of Epic Charter Schools to proceed to trial, nearly four years after their arrests.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana on Thursday, a decision that Republican officials in at least five other states are using to redraw voting maps before the November midterms, with Alabama and Tennessee calling special legislative sessions and Florida already passing a new map that could net the GOP up to four seats.
A grenade attack killed a Shiite cleric in a Damascus suburb on Friday, Syrian state media reported, as security forces boosted their presence and launched an investigation into the killing.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sided unanimously with a faith-based pregnancy center that raised First Amendment concerns about a New Jersey investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions. The procedural ruling allows First Choice Women's Resource Centers to sue over a state-issued subpoena in federal court, though it does not resolve the underlying case.
BAMAKO, Mali — Some military officers in Mali worked with jihadis and separatist rebels who this week launched the country's largest coordinated assault in over a decade, killing the defense minister and forcing the army to abandon strategic towns across the north, Malian authorities said Friday.
A Maine judge has ruled that Deven Young, the 18-year-old charged with murder in the killing of a paddleboarder last summer, is competent to stand trial, clearing a key procedural hurdle as prosecutors seek to move his case from juvenile to adult court.
Assailants killed Shiite cleric Farhan al-Mansour near Damascus by hurling a grenade into his car, state media reported Friday. The attack occurred in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, where security was boosted and authorities said they launched an investigation.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with an anti-abortion pregnancy center that challenged a New Jersey investigation, ruling that the group can seek review in federal court over a state subpoena. The unanimous decision is a procedural win for First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, but it does not resolve the underlying dispute about the state’s investigation.
Mali’s military-run government said late Friday that investigations found “solid evidence” some military officers collaborated with jihadis and separatists behind major attacks this week. Separately, the separatist Azawad Liberation Front said it captured a strategic military camp in the northern town of Tessalit after Mali’s army and its Russian allies withdrew. The attacks also followed reports that militants have blocked roads leading to Bamako, compounding a fuel blockade imposed late last year.
A Maine judge has ruled that an 18-year-old man charged with murder in the killing of a paddleboarder is competent to stand trial, a step prosecutors need if they are to pursue an adult case. The judge ruled this week that Deven Young understands the proceedings and can consult with his attorney. Young is scheduled to return to court May 7.
A former Miami congressman, David Rivera, was convicted Friday in a secret foreign lobbying case tied to Venezuela’s government during President Donald Trump’s first administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. A federal jury found Rivera and an associate, Esther Nuhfer, guilty on charges including failing to register as foreign agents and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Judge Melissa Damian ordered Rivera taken into custody after finding he posed a flight risk.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana has intensified redistricting fights in multiple states ahead of the Nov. midterms, Republican governors and legislatures said. Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee announced special sessions or moved congressional primaries as they try to adjust House maps or related elections. Courts have already weighed in on Louisiana’s congressional primary timing, while Georgia’s governor said new congressional maps cannot be changed for this year’s election.
The Trump administration appealed a federal judge’s order Wednesday that halted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to end broad vaccination recommendations for children against influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis A and B, certain meningitis strains, and RSV. The one-sentence filing, submitted in Boston, offered no explanation for why the administration believes the block should be lifted, and U.S. health officials declined immediate comment.
In an appeal filed Wednesday, the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s order that blocked its effort to cut the vaccines recommended for most children in the United States. The move comes as a lawsuit by pediatric and other medical groups challenges changes made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, including actions affecting the advisory panel that guides which vaccines are recommended.
A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for about 3,000 Yemeni refugees, ruling on Friday that TPS granted to them should be extended while a lawsuit proceeds. The judge, Dale E. Ho, said TPS repeatedly granted to Yemenis and due to expire Monday must be extended again because the United States had already determined the people could face threats if returned to a country still marked by ongoing armed conflict.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky man who led police on a high-speed chase after a deadly bank robbery in Berea has been charged by federal investigators, federal court records show. The FBI says the robbery, at a U.S. Bank branch near Berea College, left two people dead.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday blocked the Trump administration from forcing roughly 3,000 Yemeni refugees to leave the U.S., ruling that the Department of Homeland Security failed to follow proper procedures when it ended their Temporary Protected Status. In a sharply worded opinion, U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho criticized former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for describing TPS holders as 'killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies' in a social media post.
A federal jury in Miami convicted former U.S. Representative David Rivera and political consultant Esther Nuhfer on all counts Friday for a clandestine $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela’s government, a case that drew testimony from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and exposed the underbelly of foreign influence operations in South Florida.
A TikTok trend in which groups of young people, often in costume, rush into Church of Scientology properties in Hollywood has drawn law enforcement attention and prompted the church to remove exterior door handles and increase security. The Los Angeles Police Department has responded to multiple incidents in the past month, including one investigated as a potential hate crime, and a church official says one staff member was injured.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran on Friday after twice losing consciousness and suffering a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation and lawyer said.
In November 2025, Bill and Faith Piersing of Grand Haven, Michigan, dialed 911 hoping to get their 23-year-old son Bailey, who has bipolar schizoaffective disorder, to a hospital. Instead, responding officers arrested him; this week an Ottawa County judge sentenced him to 10 months in jail — an outcome his parents say illustrates a system that criminalizes mental illness rather than treating it.
Prosecutors in London charged Claire Freemantle, 49, with dangerous driving on Friday, more than two years after her Land Rover crashed into a school tea party and killed two 8-year-old girls.
Israeli police arrested a 36-year-old man caught on video attacking a Catholic nun outside Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, in the latest incident of harassment targeting Christians in the holy city.
Jessica Mann, the former hairstylist and actor who says Harvey Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, concluded five days of emotional testimony at his New York retrial on Friday, ending a cross-examination that scrutinized her account and her continued relationship with the former film producer.
Grammy-winning Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel reported to a federal prison in Arizona on Thursday to begin a 14-year sentence for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign campaign contributions and acting as an unregistered foreign agent, a spokesperson said.
Orange County prosecutors filed involuntary manslaughter charges Friday against Tommi Jo Mejer after her 14-year-old son, riding an unlicensed electric motorcycle, struck and killed 81-year-old Ed Ashman last month in Lake Forest. The case extends a novel legal theory of parental criminal liability to e-motorcycle deaths, and comes as prosecutors across California increasingly seek to hold parents accountable for children's illegal operation of the powerful vehicles.
Unknown assailants shot and killed a magistrate of Bolivia's Agro-Environmental Court late Thursday in Santa Cruz, the country's largest city and economic engine, authorities said. Víctor Hugo Claure was struck by six bullets as he arrived at his home in a central neighborhood, according to prosecutor Yolanda Aguilar.
Federal authorities charged an 18-year-old Kentucky man, Brailen Weaver, on Friday with armed bank robbery and firearms offenses that caused death. Law enforcement officials said Weaver fatally shot two people inside a Berea U.S. Bank branch on Thursday before leading police on a chase that exceeded 130 mph.
Adopted children represent an estimated 25 to 40 percent of the youth held in privately run residential treatment programs across the United States, where an Associated Press investigation found they are subjected to physical restraints, emotional abuse, and neglect rather than the therapeutic care promised to their desperate adoptive parents.
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the mailing of prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone, ruling that the drug must be dispensed only in person at clinics and not through telehealth or the mail. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns years of FDA regulations and marks the most significant court-imposed restriction on abortion since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure in 2022. The ruling is expected to quickly reach the U.S. Supreme Court. It affects every state—including those where abortion is legal—and could cut off mail-order access to the medication used in the majority of U.S. abortions.
A viral TikTok trend dubbed “Scientology speedruns” has prompted security concerns for the Church of Scientology in Hollywood, where participants have entered properties in attempts to quickly map out the organization’s buildings and operations. The Los Angeles Police Department said it has responded to multiple incidents in the past month, including one investigated as a potential hate crime.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after her foundation said her health suffered “catastrophic deterioration.” The foundation said she experienced episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis, and it blamed “systematic medical neglect” since her Dec. 12 arrest.
A Michigan family says a 911 call for help during a mental health crisis led to their son’s arrest and jail time, highlighting concerns about how law enforcement responds when someone may be a danger to themselves or others. Bill Piersing and others cited training and earlier treatment as key gaps, as lawmakers consider changes to outpatient services and crisis systems.
A woman who drove a Land Rover into a tea party outside a London primary school in 2023, killing two 8-year-old girls, was charged with dangerous driving, authorities said. Prosecutors charged Claire Freemantle, 49, with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Israeli police said they arrested a 36-year-old man suspected of attacking a nun near Jerusalem’s Old City, in an incident captured on video. Police said the suspect was taken into custody after the Wednesday attack near David’s Tomb, outside Zion’s Gate, and they described it as racially motivated. The arrest came amid ongoing scrutiny of treatment of religious minorities in Israel.
Jessica Mann, the woman accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape, finished five days of testimony on Friday after saying she was struggling to focus. Mann, 40, testified about emails and messages with Weinstein and about her account of an alleged 2013 assault in a New York hotel room, as lawyers cross-examined her on details and dates.
Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a Grammy-winning rapper known for the Fugees, reported to federal prison in Arizona to begin a 14-year sentence after a conviction tied to illegally funneling foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Michel, 53, reported Thursday, a spokesperson said, with federal records listing him as an inmate at a low-security correctional institution in the state.
Nearly four years after their arrests, a judge moved the criminal case against Epic Charter Schools founders David Chaney and Ben Harris forward, ruling prosecutors presented enough evidence for most charges to proceed. Oklahoma County Special Judge Jason Glidewell dismissed one count of embezzlement against both men and one computer-fraud count against Chaney, finding probable cause for the remaining charges. A formal arraignment is scheduled for June 24.
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — A California woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after an 81-year-old man died from injuries after being struck by her 14-year-old son’s e-motorcycle, prosecutors said. The charge stems from an April 16 collision involving a Surron e-motorcycle that prosecutors said her teen son was riding illegally.
An Associated Press investigation says adopted children are being confined in private, for-profit residential treatment and boarding programs where families believed they were getting “forever home” care. The report describes allegations of violence, restraints, strip-searching and limited communication with parents, and says experts dispute the diagnoses often used to justify confinement.
Un magistrado del Tribunal Agroambiental de Bolivia fue asesinado a tiros por presuntos sicarios cerca de la medianoche del jueves en Santa Cruz, según la fiscal Yolanda Aguilar. La policía realizaba operativos el viernes para buscar a los responsables, tras el ataque en un barrio céntrico de esa ciudad.
A body found in Tampa Bay has been identified as the second missing University of South Florida doctoral student from Bangladesh, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said May 1. Chronister said the killings involved two garbage bags and that DNA and dental records were used to make a positive identification.
Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down its social media services in New Mexico, including Instagram, as New Mexico prosecutors seek court-ordered changes aimed at protecting children. The filing came as the state prepares for a bench trial next week on allegations that Meta created a public nuisance by harming children’s mental health and by concealing what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.
Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down Facebook and Instagram in New Mexico if a state court imposes sweeping new requirements aimed at protecting children, a move that would silence the platforms for 2.1 million residents.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday released security footage showing a man armed with guns and knives storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., in what authorities say was an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. The video, posted by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, captures the moment Cole Tomas Allen, 31, sprinted through a magnetometer and pointed a long gun at a Secret Service officer, who returned fire five times.
Federal prosecutors released a video showing a man authorities say carried guns and knives as he tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton and attempt to kill President Donald Trump. The release came amid questions about who shot a Secret Service officer during the attack.
Brazil's Congress voted Thursday to override President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's veto and adopt legislation that significantly reduces former President Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup, marking a blow to Lula ahead of October's election.
Congress on Thursday approved a short-term extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provision that lets spy agencies collect communications from foreign targets without a warrant, pushing off its Friday expiration while broader negotiations continue. The House sent the measure to President Donald Trump after the Senate cleared it earlier in the day, with the temporary authorization set to run through June 12.
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on former Congolese President Joseph Kabila, accusing him of funding and providing political support to rebel groups that have destabilized eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Treasury and State departments announced the sanctions, freezing any U.S.-based assets of Kabila, who led Congo from 2001 to 2019.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas executed James Broadnax on Thursday evening for the 2008 murders of two men in a robbery, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last‑minute stay and his cousin claimed in a prison video that he, not Broadnax, was the gunman.
WASHINGTON — The Senate and House on Thursday approved a short-term extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s warrantless surveillance powers, pushing the program’s expiration to June 12 and averting a midnight lapse. The extension, which now goes to President Donald Trump’s desk, gives Congress six more weeks to negotiate a permanent reauthorization after months of deadlock over privacy protections and a divisive cryptocurrency provision. The move came hours after the House passed a full three-year reauthorization, but that version included a ban on central bank digital currencies — a measure that Senate leaders said they could not process, forcing the temporary patch.
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on former Congolese President Joseph Kabila, accusing him of supporting rebel groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The U.S. Treasury and State Department said Kabila faces a freeze on any assets he has in the United States or that transit through U.S.-jurisdiction financial institutions.
James Broadnax, a North Texas man who denied being the shooter in a 2008 robbery and murder, was executed Thursday evening in Huntsville, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the execution. Prosecutors said Broadnax and his cousin, Demarius Cummings, fatally shot two men outside a music studio in Garland.
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was executed Thursday evening for the 1976 killing of Cynthia Driggers, his brother’s 13-year-old stepdaughter. He was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of his final appeal earlier that morning.
Brazil’s Congress voted to override President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s veto and adopt a bill that would reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup. The bill, approved Thursday, also draws legal challenges and is expected to face scrutiny at Brazil’s Supreme Court.
Amtrak is considering a policy change that would allow passengers to store guns in lockboxes on most of its trains, a plan that was under consideration before a man allegedly used the railroad to transport firearms for an attempt on the president’s life at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, according to two people familiar with the proposal.
Vatican prosecutors on Thursday appeared to defy an appeals court order to turn over all evidence in the Holy See’s large financial trial, telling judges the material was available for their review but refusing to provide it to defense lawyers.
A Texas appeals court has temporarily blocked a deal that would have let the satirical news outlet The Onion take over the platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars, delaying an effort to turn the site into a parody hub and direct its revenue to Sandy Hook shooting victims' families. The ruling leaves the proposed licensing deal in limbo and pushes the next court hearing to late May.
Elon Musk clashed with OpenAI’s lawyer on April 30 during his third day of testimony in a trial over the company’s transformation from a nonprofit to a for-profit behemoth, with a federal judge sharply limiting the proceedings to contractual disputes and barring any discussion of artificial intelligence’s dangers to humanity.
Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 41-year-old commercial truck driver whose body was found in coastal Glynn County, Georgia, on April 17, hours after he was last seen at a Florida rest stop, an FBI spokesman said Thursday. Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez pulled into an I-95 rest stop in Brevard County, Florida, at about 1:20 a.m. that morning while hauling a shipment of vehicles from Brunswick, Georgia, to Miami. His tractor-trailer was discovered later the same day roughly 320 miles away in Port Wentworth, Georgia, near Savannah, with Gonzalez and several of the cars he was transporting missing, according to the FBI. A body later confirmed to be Gonzalez’s was found the same day in Glynn County, nearly 80 miles south of where the semitrailer was located. No charges or arrests have been announced and the FBI declined to provide further details, citing an active investigation.
Israel and Max Makoka, teenage brothers from the Republic of Congo, were released from U.S. immigration custody on April 29 after eight days in detention separated across Louisiana and Texas, returning to their host parents in Diamondhead, Mississippi. The brothers fell out of status on their F-1 student visas after transferring schools without notifying immigration authorities, but their detention ignited a rapid political and community response — including intervention from Mississippi's two U.S. senators — that secured their freedom.
Six Idaho residents are suing the state after lawmakers made it a crime to use a public restroom that does not align with the sex assigned at birth, a law they say will force them to stay home or risk arrest.
Jessica Mann, the woman who has accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, told a Manhattan jury she felt ‘dissociated’ and court ended early Thursday after she was confronted with a previously undisclosed note she wrote to herself two days after the alleged 2013 assault.
A Ugandan judge sentenced Christopher Okello to death after rejecting his insanity plea for the April 2 machete killings of four children at a nursery school outside Kampala, court heard Thursday. The judge said Okello “failed to adduce any evidence to support” his claim he was mentally unwell when he committed the crimes.
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial in Manhattan ran about 45 minutes shorter than planned Thursday after the judge took breaks when his accuser, Jessica Mann, said she was struggling to testify and later felt “dissociated” and “spacey” from stress. Prosecutors and defense attorneys focused on a note Mann wrote to herself days after the alleged 2013 assault, which the defense said reflected her feelings about a relationship rather than a rape.
Amtrak is considering a policy change that would allow passengers to bring guns aboard many more trains by using lockboxes, despite heightened scrutiny after an alleged gunman traveled by Amtrak and opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Two people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that Amtrak has been weighing the change since early this year after pressure from Trump administration officials to ease restrictions.
Elon Musk sparred with an attorney for OpenAI on Thursday during his third day of testimony in a federal trial in Oakland, California, over the company’s origins and its pivot from nonprofit status to a for-profit venture. The dispute centers on OpenAI’s 2015 founding as a nonprofit largely funded by Musk, and on Musk’s allegation that promises were broken about keeping the company dedicated to humanity.
Israel and Max Makoka were reunited with their guardians after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the brothers in Mississippi last month, according to a statement attributed to the Department of Homeland Security. The siblings, who say they came to the United States legally as students, are now back with host parents in Diamondhead, Mississippi, while legal efforts continue to keep them in the country.
The Onion’s proposed deal to temporarily take control of Infowars, Alex Jones’ conspiracy media platform, remained in legal limbo Thursday after a Texas appeals court paused the transfer of Infowars assets, according to court proceedings reported by The Associated Press. A hearing that had been set for Austin, Texas, was pushed into a May 28 date, while Jones’ lawyers argued the deal should not proceed during pending litigation. The dispute unfolds as Infowars faces liquidation over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments that Jones owes relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
The FBI is investigating the death of a truck driver whose body and semitrailer were found in different areas of southeastern Georgia after he was last seen alive at a Florida rest stop. Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez, 41, went missing while heading to Miami, and federal agents said his tractor-trailer later turned up in Port Wentworth, west of Savannah.
Six transgender Idaho residents are suing the state in federal court, seeking to overturn a strict new law that bars people from using bathrooms, locker rooms or changing areas that do not match their sex assigned at birth. The law, set to take effect in July, carries misdemeanor penalties for first-time violations and felony exposure for repeat offenses.
Vatican prosecutors on Thursday said they would not deposit all evidence collected in the Vatican’s big financial trial with the appeals court-ordered defense deadline, setting up another fight in the long-running case. A June 22 hearing is scheduled after prosecutors told judges the withheld material was “irrelevant” and could “pose a grave danger” to the Vatican’s interests.
A Ugandan judge on Thursday sentenced Christopher Okello to death after rejecting his insanity plea in the machete killing of four children at a nursery school in a suburb of Kampala earlier this month, in a trial that was fast-tracked at the order of President Yoweri Museveni and conducted in an open-air tent before hundreds of onlookers.
A man charged in an alleged attempt to kill President Donald Trump before the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner took a photo of himself with a knife in his hotel room shortly before moving toward the event, prosecutors said in a court filing. Investigators said Cole Allen wore a shoulder gun holster and had an ammunition bag as he tried to reach the ballroom area near the Washington Hilton. Trump was uninjured, and a Secret Service officer wearing a bullet-resistant vest was shot and survived.
A federal jury in Virginia convicted Mohammad Sharifullah of aiding an Islamic State regional branch in a case tied to the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Kabul airport known as Abbey Gate, but deadlocked on whether the bombing’s deaths “resulted from” the conspiracy. Sharifullah faces up to 20 years in prison after the one-count conviction, and sentencing had not been set immediately after the verdict.
Prosecutors said a roommate charged with two counts of premeditated murder used ChatGPT in the days before the disappearance of University of South Florida doctoral student Zamil Limon and his girlfriend Nahida Bristy, including questions about disposing of a body. In court filings ahead of a Tuesday hearing, prosecutors described what they said was the suspect’s ChatGPT search history and said OpenAI could provide information to investigators.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House on Wednesday approved a three-year extension of a foreign intelligence surveillance program that critics say falls short of warrant requirements for spying on communications. The measure passed 235-191 with support from Democrats, but its renewal still faces uncertainty in the Senate and with President Donald Trump.
Brazil’s Senate voted Wednesday to reject President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s nomination of Jorge Messias to the Supreme Court, a setback for Lula ahead of his October re-election bid. The Senate vote was the first rejection of a Supreme Court nominee in more than 130 years, according to the Associated Press. Only 34 senators voted to approve Messias, while 42 rejected him.
The U.S. State Department accused China of violating Panama’s sovereignty in a dispute involving ships at Panama Canal-related ports, prompting a sharp response from China that criticized the Trump administration as hypocritical. The latest exchanges come after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio alleged that China was “bullying” Panama-flagged vessels and after Panama took control of two ports earlier this year.
Louisiana’s Supreme Court is weighing whether Act 314 of 2024 can override a long-standing Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office policy that generally refuses to hold people in the Orleans jail at the request of federal immigration authorities. Civil rights lawyers defended the policy during arguments April 28, while state attorneys argued it violates the 2024 law aimed at so-called “sanctuary cities.”
The U.S. Justice Department said it moved Wednesday to roll back and modify gun regulations, in a shift in federal firearm policy as Senate-confirmed ATF chief Robert Cekada takes charge. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the changes are designed to align regulations with Supreme Court precedent and reduce burdens on firearms sellers and lawful gun owners. Gun control advocates criticized the move as dangerous, citing the recent gunfire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case challenging the Trump administration’s push to end Temporary Protected Status protections for migrants from Haiti and Syria. The court appeared to confront questions about how much authority judges have to review the Trump administration’s steps to terminate the program, and whether justices will rely on prior precedent.
A man arrested in connection with an attempted assassination of President Donald Trump after an event at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner arrived in Washington on an Amtrak train from California with a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol, federal authorities said. The case has revived calls from rail worker unions and passenger advocates for changes to how firearms and other threats are screened on long-distance trains. It also drew comparisons to how airports use Transportation Security Administration screening for carry-on bags and people, while train passengers are not screened by security officials at stations.
Federal investigators said the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed an MIT professor did not act randomly, describing the attacks as rooted in personal grievances and a sense of marginalization. In a behavioral assessment released Wednesday, the FBI identified Claudio Neves Valente, 48, as the attacker and said he planned the Brown assault in isolation before killing two students and wounding nine others on Dec. 13.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday issued a 6-3 ruling that largely removed the Voting Rights Act requirement that districts be drawn to give minority voters a chance to elect representatives of their choosing. With congressional and statehouse mapmaking deadlines already passing in parts of the country, Republicans are urging faster changes as candidates and voters move through primaries.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, saying it relied too heavily on race. The 6-3 ruling could reshape redistricting nationwide and may affect efforts by Republicans to keep control of the House, with impacts potentially felt more strongly in 2028.
The U.S. on Wednesday unsealed a federal indictment in Manhattan charging the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, Rubén Rocha Moya, and nine other current and former Mexican officials with drug trafficking and weapons offenses. Prosecutors accused the group of helping mass narcotics importation into the United States, and said some of the defendants shielded cartel leaders from enforcement in exchange for millions of dollars in drug proceeds.
A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a request for an en banc rehearing of an $83 million defamation verdict against President Donald Trump tied to statements about magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not convene all active judges to hear the appeal, a decision coming after Carroll won a defamation case in federal court. Trump’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Less than two years after her 6-year-old son was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Nicole Hockley helped launch a nationwide student program that teaches peers to spot warning signs and report concerns to an anonymous tip system or a trusted adult. The program, “Say Something,” has been presented to thousands of students, and nearly 395,000 tips have been sent in since it began in a Columbus, Ohio, church.
San Francisco and Oakland have settled a two-year legal fight that will let Oakland use “San Francisco” in its airport name, with restrictions on how the words are displayed. The settlement announced April 28 ends litigation sparked in 2024 after Oakland changed its airport name, prompting San Francisco to argue it violated trademark rights.
A New Orleans grand jury indicted Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson after a jailbreak that freed 10 inmates from a parish jail in February, according to Louisiana and court records. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the state probe found Hutson’s poor management of the jail contributed to the escape, though the indictment does not accuse Hutson of personally opening doors. Hutson is scheduled to leave office on Monday, after losing her reelection bid.
The federal government unsealed an indictment alleging that three family members assaulted a journalist who writes for a conservative organization during a protest against immigration enforcement in Minnesota. The indictment says Christopher and DeYanna Ostroushko and their daughter, Paige, each face a federal assault count, and it also charges Christopher and Paige with interfering with a federally protected activity.
Two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh were killed in connection with the case of Hisham Abugharbieh, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, authorities said. The Associated Press reported that family members told deputies Abugharbieh’s behavior worsened after he began smoking cannabis, including medical marijuana.
Rashaad Muhammad, a Georgia man held at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, said medical neglect there led to amputations of his fingers and lower legs, his lawyers said. Muhammad met with Sheriff Pat Labat on Wednesday, and attorney Ben Crump described the treatment as “the very definition of deliberate indifference.” The Fulton County Jail has faced scrutiny for years, including a U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation and a later court-enforceable consent decree.
Labor prosecutors in Brazil filed a civil lawsuit seeking nearly 119 million reais against JBS, accusing the meatpacking giant of buying cattle linked to slavery-like labor conditions on ranches in Para state. The case, filed Wednesday in a labor court, alleges that 53 workers were rescued from properties of ranchers who supplied JBS between 2014 and 2025.
Former FBI Director James Comey made his first court appearance Wednesday in a criminal case brought by the Justice Department that alleges he threatened President Donald Trump with a social media post featuring the numbers “86 47.” Prosecutors charge Comey in North Carolina on Tuesday with making threats tied to the Instagram photograph, while his defense argues the message was political speech and not a call for violence.
NEW YORK — A father and daughter pleaded guilty in federal court in New York after prosecutors said they used fake artworks of major artists, including Andy Warhol and Banksy, to defraud art dealers and auction houses out of at least $2 million. Prosecutors said the pair, Polish citizens living in New Jersey, forged paintings and passed them off to buyers, including consigners and major auction firms.
Federal agents carried out a new round of searches in Minnesota on Tuesday, seizing records tied to fraud investigations involving social programs for children, according to the Associated Press. The raids come amid an earlier Medicaid and child-nutrition scandal that prosecutors have described as involving hundreds of defendants and potentially billions in wasted federal funds.
Elon Musk took the witness stand Wednesday for a second day in the federal trial in Oakland, California, that pits the Tesla chief against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the company’s nonprofit origins and Musk’s later decision to stop funding it. Musk testified that by late 2022 he believed Altman was trying to “steal the charity,” and he said the answer to whether OpenAI was formed as a nonprofit in December 2015 was “yes.”
Kémi Séba, a pro-Russian Beninese activist wanted in his home country for “inciting rebellion,” appeared in a South African court on separate charges, including allegations he tried to illegally leave South Africa. The case came as Benin seeks his extradition after a failed coup attempt last December.
A Romanian man, Thomasz Szabo, was sentenced to four years in prison in Washington, D.C., for organizing a swatting and bomb-threat scheme that prosecutors said targeted dozens of U.S. government officials, including members of Congress and federal judges. Prosecutors said the calls and threats hijacked police and other first responders and reduced resources available for real emergencies. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson also ordered three years of supervised release after the prison term, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Bangkok’s Corrections Department said Thursday that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be released from Klong Prem Central Prison on May 11 after a Justice Ministry panel granted him parole. The decision comes as Thaksin completes the legally required minimum of two-thirds of his one-year sentence.
The Onion is asking a Texas judge to approve its proposed takeover of Alex Jones’ Infowars platforms, a move Jones is trying to block through last-minute appeals in state and federal courts. The hearing comes as Jones faces legal fights tied to more than $1 billion he owes Sandy Hook shooting victims’ relatives after he falsely portrayed the 2012 massacre as a hoax.
A U.S. special forces soldier pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges that he used classified information about a mission to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, was released on $250,000 bail and ordered to return for a pretrial conference June 8.
Federal agents executed multiple searches in Minnesota on Tuesday, seizing records and other evidence in an ongoing fraud investigation tied to publicly funded social programs for children, authorities said. The searches occurred months after a right-wing influencer posted a video claiming Minnesota’s Somali community was running fake childcare centers to collect federal subsidies, a claim inspectors said was inaccurate. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz welcomed the raids, saying agencies “catch criminals” when state and federal officials share information.
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted again Tuesday in a case tied to a social media photo that officials said constituted a threat against President Donald Trump. Prosecutors charged Comey in a North Carolina federal court over a message officials linked to “86 47,” which Comey said he believed was a political reference, not a call to violence.
Former NBA player Damon Jones pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiracy counts tied to a sports betting scheme and to rigged poker games, according to court proceedings reported by The Associated Press. Jones told Magistrate Judge Joseph Marutollo that he used insider information from his relationships as a former player to gain an edge in bets.
WASHINGTON — Preservationists plan to press ahead with their lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom after the Department of Justice asked them to withdraw the case following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation said. Trust attorney Gregory Craig told the Justice Department that the legal issues at the heart of the dispute remain unchanged, even as the government said it would seek dismissal if the Trust did not voluntarily drop its complaint.
Federal prosecutors charged Cole Tomas Allen with attempted assassination of President Donald Trump after an attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington that left shots fired and Trump unharmed. Prosecutors said Allen traveled from California and that investigators believe he had been planning the assault for at least several weeks.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to grant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit brought by Falun Gong over alleged U.S.-based technology used to persecute the spiritual movement in China. Justices questioned how broadly the court should rule on Cisco’s liability and whether lower courts have allowed too many similar cases to proceed. A decision is expected late June.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled April 28 that “cast vote records” from the 2020 presidential election in Lycoming County are public records. The decision allows access to spreadsheets of raw ballot data tied to each ballot, while the court said the ruling preserves the state constitution’s requirement that votes remain secret.
Jessica Mann, the woman accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape, testified for the third time at a New York retrial that he trapped her in a hotel room in 2013 and assaulted her despite her pleas not to. Mann told jurors, “I said ‘no’ over and over, and I tried to leave,” and said, “He just treated me like he owned me.”
The Connecticut House has passed a bill that would ban the sale of handguns that can be easily converted into machine guns with a thumb-sized device, a measure supporters say targets Glock-style “switches.” Gun dealers and firearms advocates say the proposal is unconstitutional and has already pushed some customers to buy Glocks before a possible ban, while the governor says the change is needed to update gun safety laws.
A federal appeals court in New York ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot detain immigrants without allowing them to seek bond, citing “serious constitutional questions” about what it said would otherwise be a broad mass detention-without-bond mandate. The unanimous ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sets the stage for a possible U.S. Supreme Court review.
The Justice Department urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a historic preservation group over a planned $400 million White House ballroom, filings submitted after a shooting at a media gala at the White House. The government said the lawsuit should end, arguing it would “greatly endanger the lives of all Presidents, current and future.” The preservation group, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, argued Congress and key federal agencies had to approve the project before construction.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether state courts can proceed with thousands of lawsuits accusing Bayer, which makes Roundup, of failing to warn that its weedkiller could cause cancer. Justices pressed lawyers on how federal pesticide regulation affects state law claims, and the court is expected to decide the case by the end of June.
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in a federal trial in Virginia of Mohammad Sharifullah, an Afghan man prosecutors say helped plan the Aug. 26, 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul’s Abbey Gate during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Defense attorney Lauren Rosen told jurors at the close of the trial that prosecutors offered no evidence linking Sharifullah to the attack beyond statements he made to FBI agents during questioning.
Most Maui wildfire victims are nearing the start of settlement payments after a $4.03 billion deal reached to compensate people for losses, but the payouts are unlikely to make many survivors whole, attorneys and advocates said. Checks could begin flowing as early as June, with payments scheduled in installments and amounts still subject to a claims-administration process. Lawyers’ fees and insurance recoveries are also expected to take parts of the settlement, while federal tax policy could further reduce what survivors keep.
Washington state asked a federal judge on Tuesday to require private prison operator The Geo Group to allow state health inspectors into its Tacoma immigration detention center, known as the Northwest ICE Processing Center. The state said inspectors from the Washington Department of Health have repeatedly been denied entry despite a 2023 law granting Washington broad authority over contractors running private detention facilities.
The European Union accused Meta of failing to stop children younger than 13 from accessing Facebook and Instagram, alleging the company violated the bloc’s digital rules meant to protect minors. The European Commission said Meta lacked effective measures to prevent under-13 sign-ups and did not do enough to identify and remove children after accounts were opened.
Plaintiffs in New Mexico’s landmark Yazzie/Martinez education case have asked a judge to let them rewrite the state Public Education Department’s court-ordered reform plan. In a joint motion, the plaintiffs outlined a potentially eight-month process and said the department’s November plan lacks specific, enforceable steps and cost estimates. The request comes after a judge last spring ordered the department to develop a “comprehensive remedial action plan,” and the department defended its approach as too lengthy to prescribe every program detail at once.
A Nevada judge on Monday sentenced “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls. The jury had convicted him of 13 charges tied to assaults of three women, and he will be eligible for parole after serving 37 years.
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, moved some final exams after police said they found a man inside Wells Hall with household substances that could be used to make methamphetamine, according to court filings and a campus police chief. Police charged the 31-year-old man with malicious destruction of property and possessing substances to operate a meth lab, and Wells Hall was closed after the discovery.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico will investigate a U.S. indictment of 10 current and former officials accused in New York of drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession tied to the Sinaloa Cartel, and she vowed Mexico would not allow foreign interference in prosecutorial decisions. The move follows Mexico’s statement that it saw an extradition request but found it lacked evidence to justify arrests.
President Isaac Herzog invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and prosecutors to his residence to try to settle an ongoing corruption case, according to an invitation signed by Herzog’s legal adviser. The invitation came days after Herzog said he would not decide Netanyahu’s request for a pardon and instead urged the sides to reach a settlement.
Three students injured in the Dec. 13 Brown University shooting in Providence, Rhode Island, have sued the Ivy League school, alleging it ignored prior warnings about the gunman and failed to provide adequate campus security. The lawsuits were filed last week in Rhode Island Superior Court. Brown said it is reviewing the complaints “carefully and promptly,” but declined to discuss details about the merits of the litigation.
Upstate New York businessman Miles “Burt” Marshall pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say stole more than $50 million from hundreds of people and organizations, according to the state attorney general. Marshall faces four to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in Madison County Court to second-degree grand larceny, securities fraud and first-degree scheme to defraud, prosecutors said.
A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Arizona seeking access to the state’s detailed voter records, dealing a new setback to the Trump administration’s bid to obtain voter data. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich, a Trump appointee, said Arizona’s statewide voter registration list is not a document the attorney general can request under federal law.
Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday in a federal civil trial in Oakland, California, where he is suing OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, and others over the direction of the company’s AI mission. Jury selection finished Monday, and the trial is scheduled to last about three weeks.
Exonerees in the U.S. say the stigma of time behind bars can follow them into everyday life, making it hard to find and keep work even after wrongful convictions are overturned. The issue has drawn fresh attention in Louisiana, where voters elected Calvin Duncan as clerk of criminal court, but Republicans have moved to abolish the post as he prepares to take office.
A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, David Morens, has been indicted on federal charges that allege he concealed communications related to COVID-19 research while working at the National Institutes of Health. The Justice Department said Morens used a private email account to intentionally circumvent public records laws and allegedly concealed or destroyed records of discussions tied to COVID-19 research grants.
New York federal judge Colleen McMahon said she felt “assaulted by SantaCon” as the organizer of the annual New York City bar crawl, Stefan Pildes, appeared in Manhattan federal court for the first time in a fraud case. McMahon said the day is marked by “drunken kids who are wearing Santa costumes” crowding the city’s sidewalks. Pildes, who was arrested a week earlier and released on bail, pleaded not in the appearance and denied any wrongdoing through his lawyer.
In New York on April 28, a federal judge ruled that Maurene Comey can pursue her lawsuit claiming she was wrongfully fired as a federal prosecutor. Judge Jesse M. Furman rejected the Justice Department’s request to move the case out of district court and said the government’s stated reason places the dispute outside the usual administrative-review channel.
A Mexican man living in the United States pleaded guilty to impersonating a Border Patrol agent and following federal immigration officers in Southern California in a bid to disrupt enforcement missions, federal prosecutors said. The case stems from an incident on Jan. 8 in San Diego, where prosecutors said the man used markings and equipment meant to mimic agents and then confronted real officers after they noticed him.
Mississippi’s largest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation in northeast Jackson, opened to local media as it continued rebuilding after an arson attack in the early hours of Jan. 10. Leaders said their goal is to resume services by the Jewish New Year in October 2027, even as asbestos abatement is expected to cost about $2 million.
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice criminal probe, a step tied to a sweeping settlement that will dissolve the company by the week’s end. U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo also heard hours of impact statements from people harmed by opioid addiction and asked her to reject the negotiated sentence.
A judge ordered Hisham Abugharbieh held without bond on Tuesday, days after a SWAT team arrested him in the case involving the deaths of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh. Hillsborough County Judge Logan Murphy prohibited Abugharbieh from contacting witnesses or the victims’ relatives during a brief Tampa court hearing.
A judge scheduled the trial of Timothy Hudson for June 1 in Miami on charges including first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the November death of his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, on a Carnival Cruise ship, according to a court order. Hudson, 16, previously faced juvenile charges before the case was transferred to adult court, and he entered a written plea of not guilty last week, the order said.
Authorities said a man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner railed against President Donald Trump in writings he sent to family minutes before the attack at the Washington Hilton.
A California man arrested after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on Saturday was identified by authorities as Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, officials said. The Associated Press reports that Allen will face charges including using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer.
Prosecutors say Hisham Abugharbieh, accused in the deaths of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh, asked ChatGPT days before they went missing how to dispose of a body. According to a pretrial detention report filed by prosecutors, Abugharbieh also asked the chatbot about changing his car’s vehicle identification number and about keeping a gun at home without a license.
Federal law enforcement officials are evaluating how to handle President Donald Trump’s upcoming high-profile events after an attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. The planning follows Saturday’s incident, when a man armed with guns and knives tried to storm the Washington hotel ballroom where Trump was set to speak.
Jury selection began Monday in Oakland, California, in a civil trial brought by Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board. Musk alleges they double-crossed him by shifting OpenAI away from its founding mission as an altruistic nonprofit steward of artificial intelligence. OpenAI says the claims are unfounded and aimed at slowing its growth and bolstering Musk’s competing xAI venture.
The Justice Department urged the National Trust for Historic Preservation to drop its lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom, citing security concerns after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday the time had come to proceed with the ballroom project, and the department set a deadline of 9 a.m. Monday for the preservation group to dismiss its case.
London police said a man has been arrested after two Jewish men were stabbed on a street in the Golders Green area of the city, calling it an act of terror. The Metropolitan Police said the attack Wednesday left the men, ages 34 and 76, hospitalized with knife wounds. Police also said counterterrorism detectives are investigating whether the stabbing is connected to recent arson attacks on synagogues and other Jewish sites in London.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower-court injunction blocking Texas from enforcing a 2023 law that allows state police to arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally, according to the court’s order released Friday. The appellate court dismissed the lawsuit brought by Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, American Gateways and El Paso County, citing plaintiffs’ lack of standing.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared inclined to allow police to use geofence warrants that collect cellphone location history to identify suspects near crime scenes, according to questions from justices during nearly two hours of arguments. The case involves Okello Chatrie, who pleaded guilty to robbing a bank in a Richmond, Virginia, suburb, and whose identification was tied to such a warrant after police said he evaded them.
Slovakia’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that sentenced Juraj Cintula to 21 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico in Handlová in May 2024, according to a court ruling reported by The Associated Press. The court said the sentence is final. Cintula, 73, was convicted of a terrorist attack after he opened fire on Fico during a public event.
Islamic State militants attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria overnight, killing at least 29 people, authorities said April 27. The attack occurred in Guyaku, in Adamawa state, and the Islamic State group said it carried out the attack in a Telegram message, authorities said.
An alliance of al-Qaida-linked militants and separatists carried out Mali’s largest coordinated attack in more than a decade, striking multiple locations across the country on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. The weekend attacks included the airport in Bamako, the nearby garrison town of Kati, and cities in the north such as Kidal, where the separatist Azawad Liberation Front said it seized control. Authorities had not released an official death toll by Monday.
United Nations officials opened the monthslong Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference with an appeal to prevent nuclear annihilation. As the U.N. session began, the United States and Iran clashed over Tehran’s nuclear program and disputed whether Iran is meeting its NPT obligations.
President Donald Trump and members of his administration were moved from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after a gunman tried to breach the ballroom during the event, the Associated Press reported. AP said the crowd of about 2,300 ducked as security shouted “Shots fired,” and law enforcement responded as shots rang out outside the ballroom. Officials said at least one Secret Service officer was shot in a bullet-resistant vest and was recovering, and the suspect was later in custody.
A divided federal appeals court panel ruled Monday that the Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a lower-court decision blocking enforcement of a Pentagon press access policy challenged by The New York Times. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended an April 9 ruling by Judge Paul Friedman, who found the policy violated journalists’ constitutional rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether the Trump administration properly ended Temporary Protected Status protections for Haitians and Syrians, and whether the decision unlawfully prejudiced non-white immigrants. For an estimated 200,000 Salvadorans, the case is also closely watched because Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador is set to expire unless it is renewed later this year.
Richmond, Va., April 27 — The Virginia Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether the Democratic-led legislature followed constitutional requirements when it sent a voter-approved U.S. House redistricting plan to voters, in a case that could reshape party power in the chamber. Justices heard arguments on whether an intermediate “election” window in the amendment process was handled too late, Republicans said, to allow lawmakers to place the constitutional change before voters.
A Wyoming judge has blocked a state law that bans most abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected while a lawsuit challenging the measure moves ahead. Natrona County District Judge Dan Forgey issued a temporary restraining order against the law on Friday, setting up another court fight after Wyoming’s Supreme Court struck down earlier, broader abortion bans in January.
President Donald Trump was preparing to speak Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner when a gunman tried to storm the event, triggering chaos for journalists in the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. In the immediate aftermath, reporters described sheltering under tables, struggling with cell service, and trying to file fast updates while accuracy was still uncertain.
In the minutes after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, reporters snapped into action to provide real-time, scene-based accounts — yet conspiracy theories still flooded the internet. An Associated Press report described how multiple unfounded narratives, including claims the attack was staged, spread even as live reporting provided rapidly corroborated facts.
Washington state asked a federal judge to order The Geo Group to allow state health inspectors into its for-profit immigration detention center in Tacoma, the Associated Press reported. Gov. Bob Ferguson said inspectors from the Washington Department of Health have been turned away repeatedly, including 10 times since a 2023 state law, and that the detention center houses up to about 1,600 people under a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, renewing claims that the company abandoned its founding aim of benefiting the public. The complaint, filed in Northern California federal court, characterizes Musk’s case as a “textbook tale of altruism versus greed” and says Altman and others “intentionally courted and deceived Musk.” A spokesperson for OpenAI disputed the allegations, saying Musk’s earlier emails continue to speak for themselves and pointing to emails OpenAI released in March.
The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court it was not hiding its paid informant program from law enforcement, as it fights fraud and money-laundering charges. In filings, the Alabama-based nonprofit said the Justice Department and agents received information from its confidential informants for years, rejecting assertions by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that authorities had “no information.” Bryan Fair, SPLC’s interim president and CEO, said in a statement Tuesday that information shared with the FBI “has saved lives.”
Utah prosecutors are seeking the extradition of a California man, John Vea Uasike Jr., on murder charges tied to a deadly January shooting outside a church parking lot in Salt Lake City. Prosecutors said law enforcement took Uasike into custody April 14 in connection with felony charges that include two counts of murder. Court documents unsealed Monday describe the shooting as unfolding during a dispute involving people attending a funeral.
El hombre arrestado tras un ataque en la cena de corresponsales de la Casa Blanca en Washington, a la que asistieron el presidente Donald Trump y miembros de su gobierno, ha sido descrito por autoridades como tutor y desarrollador de videojuegos en California. El sospechoso, Cole Tomas Allen, fue detenido el sábado por la noche en Washington cuando intentaba pasar un punto de control de seguridad con armas de fuego y cuchillos, según autoridades policiales citadas por The Associated Press.
California officials are asking a federal judge in Los Angeles to order Sable Offshore Corp. to stop using and remove a pipeline that crosses part of Gaviota State Park, a state official said at a hearing scheduled for Monday. The state argues the Trump administration’s order to restart drilling and pipeline operations exceeds federal authority and permits that expired, while Sable says it has proper authorization.
A Queens judge sentenced Guy Rivera on Monday to 115 years to life in prison for the 2024 shooting death of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop, according to prosecutors and testimony. The judge told Rivera he “most certainly will” die in prison, after a jury earlier this month convicted Rivera of aggravated manslaughter but acquitted him of murder.
A magistrate in Johannesburg ordered Bellarmine Mugabe, the son of late Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, to be immediately deported from South Africa after he pleaded guilty to two criminal charges earlier this month. Magistrate Renier Boshoff also ordered him to pay about $36,000 in fines or serve two years in prison.
A Manhattan judge tossed the murder conviction of Harry Ruiz after a review of his case found new evidence that prosecutors may have withheld, including thousands of dollars in payments to the mother of the key witness. Ruiz, who had served 25 years in prison, was released on parole in 2019. At Monday’s hearing, Judge Robert Mandelbaum also rebuked a former assistant district attorney’s refusal to participate in the reinvestigation.
Jessica Mann testified Monday at Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial in New York for a third time, telling jurors about the relationship she says began as professional advice and turned sexual. Mann testified that she tried to resist and later said Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel in 2013, while Weinstein denies sexually assaulting anyone.
Twelve prisoners have been charged with murder and other crimes in a deadly fight at a Georgia state prison in January, corrections officials said Monday. The fight broke out Jan. 11 at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, about 130 miles southeast of Atlanta, leaving four inmates dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after settling a lawsuit that said a state agency showed political bias against him and his rocket company. The California Coastal Commission said it made “improper” statements about Musk’s political beliefs in a 2024 hearing tied to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch plans at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Luther Davis, 37, entered guilty pleas in federal court in Atlanta on Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of a scheme that prosecutors said used makeup and wigs to impersonate NFL players for investor loans. Prosecutors said Davis and co-defendant CJ Evins used fake bank and email accounts to convince lenders they represented athletes or were the athletes themselves.
Nearly a quarter-century after Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot to death, Jay Bryant pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to a murder charge connected to the 2002 killing. Prosecutors said Bryant helped other people get into a Queens recording studio to ambush the DJ, whose real name was Jason Mizell.
A British prosecutor told a jury that three men accused in London of arson were offered payment by a Russian-speaking contact online to burn property linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The prosecutor said one of the men allegedly identified the others through Telegram, and that the fires occurred between May 8 and May 12 last year in north London. The defendants deny the charges.
Guillermo Sainz Gurrola, a Pennsylvania voter registration drive manager, pleaded guilty Monday to three misdemeanor counts and was sentenced to a month in county jail, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors said his operation offered financial incentives to canvassers who met registration quotas in 2024, while the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office said additional charges against six canvassers remain pending.
A judge ordered Monday that a Chicago robbery suspect who allegedly pulled a gun from under a blanket inside a hospital will remain jailed on charges of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors said the man shot two officers who arrived to transport him for treatment after he told police he had ingested narcotics.
Two brothers from California face federal conspiracy charges tied to an alleged scheme to import nearly half a million armor-piercing rounds into the United States, prosecutors said. They also allege the brothers recruited the chief of police in a small town in southeastern Wisconsin to help them submit a fraudulent paperwork application to import the ammunition.
Families of victims of a school shooting in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge are suing OpenAI in U.S. federal court, seeking to hold the company liable for failing to alert police after the shooter used ChatGPT. A lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of 12-year-old Maya Gebala is among the first of multiple cases the families say they plan. OpenAI has said it has “zero-tolerance” for using its tools to commit violence.
President Donald Trump called for unity and bipartisan healing after authorities said a man tried to rush a security perimeter near a Washington hotel where Trump was about to speak at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Speaking late Saturday at the White House and again on Fox News Sunday, Trump also described the incident as proof that violence tied to politics has escalated.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld federal racketeering convictions of imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in a long-running $60 million bribery scheme. With their last legal option exhausted, Householder and Borges remain convicted after the high court declined to hear Householder’s and Borges’ appeals.
President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday at the Washington Hilton when a shooting suspect was detained, and officials said the suspect appeared to have reached the hotel’s outer perimeter because he was a guest. Two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that the suspect, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, had a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives.
Prediction markets that let people bet on real-world events are coming under renewed pressure from regulators and lawmakers seeking to curb alleged insider trading and other abuses. The scrutiny has intensified as high-profile bets—such as trades tied to a Venezuelan military operation and to U.S. and geopolitical developments—spark questions about whether nonpublic information is being used.
A Massachusetts woman, Janette MacAusland, has been charged with the murder of her two young children, Kai, 7, and Ella, 6, in their Wellesley home. The charges come amid a custody dispute with her former husband.
Chicago police identified Officer John Bartholomew, 38, as the man fatally shot Saturday at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital while in police custody, authorities said. A second officer was wounded and remained in critical condition Sunday, police said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Security at the Washington Hilton has changed substantially since Ronald Reagan was shot outside the hotel in 1981, and a new incident Saturday at a Washington Hilton dinner forced the evacuation of President Donald Trump and other officials. Officials said a gunman fired at least one shot near security checkpoints leading to a ballroom during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, but did not get close to the president.
The U.S. military says its latest strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific killed three people Sunday, according to U.S. Southern Command. The Trump administration has repeatedly struck suspected drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters, with critics questioning the legality and the lack of publicly provided evidence.
El hombre acusado de abrir fuego en la cena de la Asociación de Corresponsales de la Casa Blanca en Washington había expresado quejas contra el gobierno de Donald Trump en escritos enviados a familiares minutos antes del ataque, según informó The Associated Press. Investigadores usan esos mensajes, publicaciones en redes sociales y entrevistas con familiares para evaluar el estado mental del sospechoso y sus posibles motivos.
Islamic militants and separatists carried out coordinated attacks across Mali on Saturday, including at Bamako’s international airport, the Associated Press reported. Mali’s government said 16 people were wounded and did not give a death toll, while the militants’ claim also pointed to central and northern cities.
An explosive device killed 13 people traveling on a bus in southwestern Colombia on Saturday and injured at least 38, authorities said. The attack occurred along the Panamerican Highway in Cajibío, as Colombia reported a recent run of explosions and drone attacks linked to drug-trafficking violence in the region.
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday in Washington was disrupted when shots were fired as a gunman charged toward the ballroom, and President Donald Trump was rushed offstage. The Secret Service and police took the suspect into custody, and authorities said an officer was shot but protected by a bullet-resistant vest.
President Donald Trump called for unity and “bipartisan healing” after a man with weapons tried to breach a White House security perimeter ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. Trump said he was “undoubtedly” the target and, in remarks to reporters and on Fox News, urged Americans to “resolve our differences,” while also linking political violence to his own presidency and past incidents.
A former University of South Florida student has been charged with killing his roommate and the roommate’s girlfriend, two doctoral students from Bangladesh who vanished earlier this month, authorities said. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, was ordered held without bond in Tampa.
The Justice Department has ended its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, clearing a roadblock to the Senate’s confirmation of Kevin Warsh as his successor, the AP reported. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said her office was ending its probe into renovations at the Fed after the agency’s inspector general would scrutinize them instead.
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case involving “geofence” warrants, a method that uses a location-based search to identify suspects and then gather cellphone location history. The justices will decide whether the warrants violate the Fourth Amendment’s limits on unreasonable searches. The case comes as the court considers how constitutional rules apply to digital data collection that the nation’s founders did not face.
An appeals court reversed an $8.2 million defamation verdict against Senate Majority PAC for a 2017 television ad that relayed allegations involving Roy Moore, a former Alabama politician. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Moore did not prove the group acted with “actual malice,” a standard that applies to defamation claims by public figures. Roy Moore’s lawyers said they are considering asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced he will call a special session for judicial redistricting after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a Voting Rights Act case, Louisiana v. Callais. Reeves said the Legislature will meet 21 days after the ruling and that a federal decision last August required Mississippi to redraw the state Supreme Court’s electoral map.
South Dakota’s Supreme Court has ruled that Marsy’s Law can cover police officers, allowing some officers’ names and other identifying information to be redacted from future court records in a criminal case. The justices said what should be withheld will depend on the circumstances and the interests that courts must balance.
The suspect detained after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was believed to have entered the hotel through its outermost security layer because he was staying as a guest, officials said Saturday. At the event at the Washington Hilton, several additional checks—including magnetometers run by the Secret Service and TSA—were used to reach the ballroom, where Secret Service agents maintained a buffer around President Donald Trump, officials said.
A Massachusetts woman accused of killing her two children was charged Saturday with two counts of murder, according to Massachusetts State Police and court records. Authorities said the deaths were discovered after police in Wellesley received a request for a well-being check involving family members at a home in the town.
Un hombre acusado de abrir fuego en la cena de la Asociación de Corresponsales de la Casa Blanca en Washington había enviado a familiares escritos minutos antes del ataque en los que criticaba políticas del gobierno de Donald Trump, según autoridades citadas por The Associated Press. La fiscalía provisional dijo que el hombre habría intentado atacar a personas que trabajan para el gobierno y que está previsto que enfrente cargos el lunes.
Autoridades de varios pueblos indígenas en Guatemala protestaron el jueves para pedir la liberación de dos líderes indígenas encarcelados desde hace un año, acusados de presunto terrorismo. La marcha incluyó una solicitud al Ministerio Público y después una exigencia ante la Corte de Constitucionalidad, mientras ambos permanecen en prisión preventiva sin una acusación firme ni juicio.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman apologized after his company did not alert law enforcement about the online behavior of the person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February, according to a letter posted this week. Altman said OpenAI had banned the account in June after identifying it for “furtherance of violent activities,” but concluded then it did not meet a threshold to refer the matter to police.
Mexico’s Ministry of Security said Saturday that two U.S. federal agents killed in a car crash in northern Mexico were not authorized to participate in operations on Mexican territory. The ministry said one entered as a visitor and the other with a diplomatic passport, and it said it was reviewing the case with local authorities and the U.S. Embassy.
Louisiana State Police said a podcast helped investigators solve the decades-old rape and murder of 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp and announced Friday that four men face criminal charges. The 1982 killing in St. Tammany Parish, north of New Orleans, remained unsolved for years until investigators renewed public leads after a six-part series aired last year.
Authorities in Louisiana said Friday that they have charged a 17-year-old with murder in connection with a Thursday shooting at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge that killed 1 teenage girl and injured five other people. Police Chief TJ Morse said the incident was not random and appeared linked to “social media beefs” and “maybe gang-related stuff,” and officials said they were searching for another suspect.
A man in police custody opened fire on officers at a Chicago hospital on Saturday, killing one officer and critically injuring another, police said. Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling said the officers were transporting the individual to Swedish Hospital for an observation when the shooting occurred. The suspect fled, was later detained, and a gun was recovered, authorities said.
President Donald Trump and members of Congress are facing growing attention over conspiracy theories that link the disappearances or deaths of U.S. scientists. The theories, which began in online forums, have spread to mainstream political platforms and prompted investigations by the FBI and the House Oversight Committee.
ICE arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement fell by an average of nearly 12% nationwide in the weeks after a Minneapolis killings and a shake-up of top immigration officials, according to data analyzed by the Associated Press. The drop followed a Feb. 4 drawdown announcement by “border czar” Tom Homan, who was sent to oversee immigration enforcement in Minnesota after the killings. The AP analysis also found arrest levels rose in some states during the same post-drawdown period, while others saw steep declines.
A jury convicted Brian Scott Lorenz in the 1993 killing of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo, ending his third trial after decades of legal proceedings. Lorenz was convicted Friday on murder and burglary charges, according to court proceedings described by the Associated Press.
Panama said Cuba released three of 10 citizens detained earlier this year in Havana, where they were accused of making subversive propaganda. The women have arrived in Panama, while seven others remain detained, the Panamanian government said.
Suspected Somali pirates hijacked a fuel tanker off Somalia’s northeastern coast, a Puntland official said, and Britain’s military reported a hijacking incident in the same area. The seizure took place in waters between Hafun and Bandarbeyla, as the tanker was traveling toward Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people, according to U.S. Southern Command. The military did not provide evidence that any vessels were carrying drugs.
The U.S. Justice Department will allow firing squads as a federal execution method and will reauthorize the use of pentobarbital, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday. The changes are intended to increase and speed federal capital punishment cases as the Trump administration seeks to resume executions after a moratorium ordered under President Joe Biden.
A Kenyan court of appeal on Friday overturned a 2022 High Court ruling that found access to abortion was protected under the constitution, setting up another legal fight that may reach the Supreme Court. The appeal court said abortion is prohibited under the constitution except in limited circumstances, such as to save a mother’s life or protect her health.
South Korean prosecutors rejected a police request for an arrest warrant for Bang Si-Hyuk, the chairman of HYBE and founder of the agency behind BTS, prosecutors said. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency had sought the warrant as Bang faces a high-profile investigation into alleged investor fraud.
A U.S. special forces soldier was granted $250,000 unsecured bond in North Carolina after federal prosecutors alleged he used classified information about a mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win money on Polymarket. The case moves to a New York federal courthouse, after a magistrate judge ordered the soldier to report there by Tuesday, according to the court proceedings reported by the Associated Press.
Tampa Bay law enforcement found the body of a University of South Florida doctoral student on the Howard Frankland bridge and took his roommate into custody on preliminary charges, officials said Friday. Authorities said a woman who disappeared with him remains missing as detectives search the bay and await autopsy results to determine the manner and cause of death.
New York sued the U.S. government on Friday to challenge a Transportation Department decision to withhold nearly $74 million in federal highway money tied to the state’s decision not to revoke certain commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants. New York said it followed federal rules when the licenses were granted and that canceling the funding would harm safety investments, jobs and communities.
A U.S. Army major who works as a nurse at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, has been charged with conspiring to provide financial and tactical support to separatist fighters in Cameroon, according to federal court records unsealed this week. The charges accuse Maj. Kenneth Chungag and co-defendant Mercy Akwi Ombaku of plotting to transfer money from the U.S. to buy AK-47 assault rifles for the Ambazonia Defense Forces.
Former Colorado funeral home owner Carie Hallford was sentenced to 30 years in prison after prosecutors said she helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies at a Colorado Springs-area mortuary, a case that prompted state changes to regulate funeral homes. Judge Eric Bentley imposed the sentence Friday in El Paso County District Court.
Canada’s citizenship rules changed Dec. 15, and immigration lawyers and applicants say the shift has triggered a surge of Americans seeking dual Canadian citizenship based on ancestry. The new rules broaden eligibility to descendants of Canadians beyond the prior parent-to-child limit, while requiring proof for a certificate of citizenship.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an executive order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug on April 24, a move that advocates say could reshape parts of drug policy. But the order does not address existing federal penalties or the people already serving long sentences under marijuana-related convictions.
Peru police raided the home of now-resigned elections chief Piero Corvetto and five other officials Friday as part of a widening investigation into a ballot shortage and other irregularities in the April 12 first round of the presidential election, police said. Corvetto resigned Tuesday to take responsibility for the election shortcomings and denied wrongdoing.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s “gold card” visa, which allows qualifying foreigners to live and work in the U.S. after a $1 million investment, has been approved for one person so far.
President Donald Trump’s administration has reclassified medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug, moving it from Schedule I to Schedule III. The order, signed Thursday by the acting attorney general, applies to how federally regulated agencies treat state-licensed medical marijuana, but it does not legalize marijuana under federal law.
BATON ROUGE, La. — An exchange of gunfire inside a food court at the Mall of Louisiana on Thursday killed one person and wounded five others, police said. Police Chief TJ Morse said five people were in custody and there was no ongoing threat to the public. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said some innocent bystanders were struck.
Two young people were arrested in an alleged plot to attack a Houston synagogue and drive through the congregation to “kill as many Jews as possible,” according to authorities and court documents. One is identified in North Carolina court records as 18-year-old Angelina Han Hicks, while the FBI said a juvenile was arrested in the case in Harris County, Texas.
State lawmakers advanced legislation on April 23 that would require California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to notify vehicle owners within 14 days if the DMV receives surplus proceeds from lien sales of towed cars. The bill, introduced by Sen. Kelly Seyarto, would also require the notice to be sent by certified mail with a return receipt and to explain how owners can claim the money.
A federal judge ordered the release from immigration custody of the family of a man charged in a 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, an Associated Press report said. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ruled Thursday that Hayam El Gamal and her five children can leave a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, if the mother and her oldest child wear electronic monitoring.
Haiti’s new UN-backed gang-fighting force has received more pledges than the 5,500 members it is seeking, with Chadian troops already deployed in Port-au-Prince, the U.N. special envoy said after briefing the U.N. Security Council.
Michigan was cleared of liability Thursday in a lawsuit tied to the 2020 Edenville Dam collapse that flooded parts of Midland, destroyed more than 100 homes and drained Wixom Lake, according to a Court of Claims ruling. Court of Claims Judge James Redford said torrential rain and a 100-year flood, along with conditions at the privately owned dam, led to the disaster rather than actions taken by the state’s regulators.
A child at the center of a custody dispute involving gender identity was returned to their biological mother after federal authorities said a Utah couple took the child to Cuba. Rose Inessa-Ethington and partner Blue Inessa-Ethington face parental kidnapping charges, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court. Federal officials involved Cuban authorities and sent a government plane to retrieve the child, the court filings and U.S. law enforcement actions described in the case say.
Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George said Wednesday she will not bring charges against six people arrested during a federal immigration raid in South Burlington last month. George said her office reviewed the cases to find where the harm was and who contributed to it.
Civil rights groups condemned the Southern Poverty Law Center’s criminal indictment as a threat to civil rights and vowed coordinated support as the case begins in federal court in Alabama. The Justice Department alleges the nonprofit used a network of paid informants in extremist groups to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and money-laundering conspiracy.
A feud over burial plans has left former Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s body unburied nearly 10 months after his death, with Zambia’s government seeking custody of the remains for a state funeral. Lungu died in South Africa in June and his family had planned to bury him there, refusing to repatriate his body for a ceremony that would include President Hakainde Hichilema.
Two Chinese nationals face U.S. charges alleging they managed a large Myanmar cyberscam compound where, prosecutors say, workers were forced to participate in cryptocurrency investment fraud scams. The complaint, unsealed in Washington, details alleged management of the Shunda Park compound in Min Let Pan before it was seized by armed forces in November 2025.
Federal authorities arrested more than two dozen alleged Mexican Mafia members and associates in an early morning crackdown across Southern California on April 23, federal officials said. The FBI and other agencies executed search and arrest warrants at about 30 locations, mostly in Orange County, prosecutors said. A total of 43 people were indicted on charges including murder, kidnapping, extortion, illegal gambling and drug trafficking.
Honolulu’s statewide speed-enforcement camera program has begun issuing speeding citations, but the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation has sent only 17 speeding tickets in the program’s first four months, according to court and state records reviewed by Honolulu Civil Beat and distributed by The Associated Press. State officials said they are targeting the “worst of the worst” speeders so the expected volume will not overwhelm police, courts and the judiciary’s information systems.
A prominent Georgia Republican, Edwin Brant Frost IV, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a single federal wire fraud count tied to a Ponzi scheme involving First Liberty Building and Loan, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors said the charge stems from an investigation that began after the company collapsed last June. The charge carries a potential 20-year prison sentence, and U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg said prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence close to the top of the range.
Six current or former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty by April 23 in an alleged drug trafficking bribery scheme, while a Greenville police officer was found not guilty. The case stems from federal indictments that said an FBI agent posed as a member of a Mexican drug cartel and paid bribes in exchange for help transporting cocaine through Mississippi Delta counties.
A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the January operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was charged with using classified information about the mission to profit from a Polymarket prediction bet worth more than $400,000, federal officials said Thursday. Prosecutors said Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the planning and execution for about a month starting Dec. 8, 2025, and allegedly used that access despite nondisclosure agreements.
Más de dos docenas de integrantes y colaboradores de la Mafia Mexicana fueron arrestados en una redada de madrugada en el sur de California, informaron autoridades federales el jueves. El FBI y otras agencias ejecutaron órdenes de cateo y arresto en unas 30 ubicaciones, principalmente en el condado de Orange.
South Africa’s top police official was suspended by President Cyril Ramaphosa after being charged with breaking finance laws tied to an allegedly corrupt police contract, the Associated Press reported. Fannie Masemola appeared in court and is facing four counts under the Public Finance Management Act, related to a 360 million-rand ($21 million) deal for health and well-being services for police officers.
President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, signed an order on Thursday reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, a policy shift sought by advocates for years. Blanche said the change would allow research into the safety and effectiveness of cannabis used for medical purposes, while licensed operators would also receive a major federal tax break.
The Senate on Thursday voted to adopt a budget plan to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for three years, the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans used the budget-reconciliation process to move the measure despite Democratic objections, and sent the plan to the House after a final vote early Thursday morning.
The Justice Department has settled a lawsuit brought by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page for $1.25 million, resolving Page’s claims that he was subjected to unlawful surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation. The settlement, announced in a filing to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, came while Page’s appeal was pending after lower courts dismissed his case as filed too late, according to court filings discussed by the Associated Press.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Michigan can keep its lawsuit in state court as it seeks to shut down part of Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that Enbridge waited too long to try to move the case to federal court.
A federal appeals court blocked a California law requiring federal immigration agents to wear identification, dealing another setback to the state’s efforts to limit enforcement tactics by the Trump administration. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction pending appeal, saying the law “attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions.”
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Texas requirement that the Ten Commandments be posted in public school classrooms, rejecting arguments from parents and other groups that the rule violates students’ or families’ rights. The decision, handed down Tuesday, comes amid a broader wave of state laws requiring or expanding religious materials in public classrooms.
Authorities in multiple states said a former North Carolina law enforcement officer planned a mass shooting targeting Black people at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Christopher Gillum, authorities said, was arrested at a Florida hotel with a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and is expected to be extradited to Louisiana.
President Donald Trump’s administration sent a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah amid a custody dispute tied to the child’s gender identity, the Associated Press reported. Federal and state authorities had sought the child’s return after a family member raised concerns the child had been taken to Havana for gender-affirming surgery. The government plane carried the 10-year-old back to the child’s biological mother, federal prosecutors said.
California lawmakers are pushing bills that would tighten “elderly parole” rules for some sex offenders after two men were found suitable for release in 2025. The proposals would raise the earliest parole age for inmates with life sentences and expand additional psychological screening requirements.
Six people have been charged in a federal indictment alleging they plotted to steal at least 20 cars from the Washington, D.C., area and sell them in the United States and Ghana, according to prosecutors. The indictment was unsealed Wednesday, and authorities searched an automobile storage facility in Decatur, Georgia, they said was linked to the ring.
A man who stole then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse while she dined with family in a Washington, D.C., restaurant was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. The prosecution said the purse contained credit cards and about $3,000 in cash, and that police recovered it from the man’s motel room.
Houston city leaders amended an ordinance limiting how police cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to withhold public-safety grants. The original ordinance, passed on a 2-week timeline, removed a requirement that officers wait 30 minutes for ICE agents to pick up people detained on nonjudicial administrative warrants.
An immigration officer has been charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief after an investigation into how he treated a protester outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Durango, Colorado, the district attorney said. The protester, Franci Stagi, told authorities a masked agent grabbed and put her in a chokehold during an October demonstration against the detention of three Colombian asylum-seekers.
Voting and civil rights groups sued Alaska election officials in state court, alleging the state violated its constitution by sharing the state’s full voter registration list with the U.S. Department of Justice. The suit, filed against Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher, argues the sharing infringes voters’ privacy rights and violates due process by letting the DOJ flag voters for removal without notice or a process to challenge decisions.
Opening statements began Thursday in the retrial of a former Franklin County, Ohio, deputy charged with murder and reckless homicide for killing a Black man as he entered his grandmother’s home, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors allege that former deputy Jason Meade shot Casey Goodson Jr. multiple times in the back on Dec. 4, 2020.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times said the FBI investigated whether a reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, violated laws against stalking after she published a story about federal agents assigned to protect and transport FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The FBI said its agents interviewed Patel’s girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, when she expressed concern about a death threat after Williamson’s article was published, and took no further action.
Police in Iowa City are seeking a 17-year-old on attempted murder charges after a shooting early Sunday in a nightlife area near the University of Iowa campus, authorities said Wednesday. Iowa City Police Chief Dustin Liston said five people were treated for gunshot wounds, including three University of Iowa students, and one woman remained in critical condition. Authorities said an arrest warrant was issued and that Iowa law requires the 17-year-old, from Cedar Rapids, to be charged as an adult for forcible-felony offenses.
Democrats celebrated an election win in Virginia that sets up new U.S. House districts, but the state attorney general’s office said it will immediately appeal a judge’s order blocking certification. The Virginia Supreme Court is expected to decide whether Democrats violated procedural rules when they sent a constitutional amendment to voters, and what happens next in Florida could further shape the national redistricting contest.
A federal appeals court has allowed President Donald Trump to continue work on a planned White House ballroom even as litigation continues over the project, which is set to include security facilities beneath the East Wing site. The case has offered a rare glimpse of a bunker concept tied to the White House’s underground “continuity” plans.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened a rare criminal investigation into whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT provided guidance to the gunman in last year’s Florida State University shooting. Prosecutors will review chat logs and sought records from OpenAI about policies and training related to threats and reporting crime, Uthmeier said Tuesday in Tampa.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to make rotisserie chicken and other prepared foods eligible for purchase under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP. The bill would replace a long-standing rule that bars SNAP benefits from paying for hot, ready-to-eat items from grocery stores. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat, said the proposal would help families buy convenient, protein-forward options, while Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican, called it a way to put food on the table without long cooking times.
Court rulings are bolstering state mandates to display the Ten Commandments in U.S. public schools as supporters press for a larger role for religion in classrooms. On Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower-court ruling that had blocked about a dozen Texas districts from hanging the posters.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a California law requiring federal immigration agents to wear identification, issuing an injunction pending appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the measure improperly targeted the federal government’s performance of governmental functions. California had argued the ID requirement was needed for public safety and would apply to law enforcement generally.
California lawmakers advanced two bills to protect patients held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after concerns that federal agents can isolate patients from families and attorneys and interfere with care. The proposals would limit “blackout” practices, require facilities to better facilitate communication and visitation, and direct staff to document when agents refuse to leave exam and treatment discussions.
Authorities say Christopher Gillum, a former North Carolina law enforcement officer, planned to kill Black people at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and was arrested in Florida with a handgun and ammunition. Federal investigators and law enforcement in multiple states said they warned that he was heading to Louisiana for the planned attack as the festival runs through May 3.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue a government contractor for whom the attacker worked when he built the explosive. The court ruled 6-3 in favor of former Army Spc. Winston Hencely after determining the company allegedly failed to supervise the Afghan employee who constructed the vest.
A federal appeals court upheld a life prison sentence for Akayed Ullah, convicted for a 2017 suicide bombing attempt in a pedestrian tunnel beneath Times Square in New York. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Ullah’s conviction for providing material support to the Islamic State group. The court left other convictions in place and rejected the idea that Islamic State directed Ullah because, the panel said, he acted entirely independently.
A Canadian tourist was killed and at least 13 people were injured when a gunman opened fire on visitors at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids, authorities said. Officials said the 27-year-old assailant carried materials they said were apparently related to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge has ruled that a former state lawmaker can recoup thousands of dollars seized from his salary after lawmakers censured him over sexual misconduct allegations. The decision, issued late last week by Cole County Circuit Judge Brian Stumpe, found the Missouri House lacked authority to levy fines or recoup costs after the House’s ethics process recommended punishment in December 2020.
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday struck down several Trump administration actions that slowed clean-energy development, including a requirement that solar and wind projects on federal lands and waters receive personal approval from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Chief Judge Denise J. Casper issued a preliminary injunction, saying wind and solar developers were likely to succeed on claims that the administration’s actions violate federal law and could cause irreparable harm.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of limiting federal regulators’ power in a telecommunications data-privacy dispute that involves Verizon and AT&T. The companies are challenging a Federal Communications Commission process that led to penalties totaling more than $100 million after the FCC found they sold customers’ location data without proper safeguards. A ruling is expected by late June.
The Justice Department has reached a $1.25 million settlement with Carter Page, a former adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who sued after saying he was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation. The settlement was announced after Page’s appeal reached the Supreme Court, and the court filing did not disclose the dollar amount.
Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Monday over its approval of BP’s ultra deep-water drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. The groups said required information for the approval was missing and that the project would endanger Gulf residents’ health and harm ecosystems.
Anthropic told a U.S. appeals court it cannot “manipulate” its Claude artificial intelligence tool once it is deployed inside classified Pentagon military networks, arguing the Trump administration is seeking to portray the company as a supply-chain risk. The company’s filing came ahead of oral arguments set for May 19 in a case tied to a Pentagon contract dispute over how AI could be used in autonomous weapons and possible surveillance.
An immigration officer in Colorado has been charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief after a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, the Durango district attorney said. The case follows allegations that the officer grabbed and put a protester, Franci Stagi, in a chokehold during an October demonstration.
California lawmakers are moving to raise the minimum age for “elderly parole” eligibility for some sex offenders with life sentences after two men were found suitable for parole last year, including in the Sacramento region. Democratic Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen’s bill would increase the earliest eligibility age from 50 to 65 and add mental-health screening requirements. Supporters say the changes reflect the severity of the crimes, while some civil rights and prisoner advocacy groups warn they could weaken parole laws aimed at reducing California’s prison population.
A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Oregon for the death of his then-girlfriend, Teresa Peroni, in a cold case reopened in recent years, authorities said Tuesday. Marcus Sanfratello, 73, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and will serve a minimum of 10 years, the Oregon Attorney General’s office said.
Six people were charged in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday alleging they plotted to steal at least 20 vehicles in the Washington, D.C., area and sell them in the United States and Ghana, West Africa. Investigators also suspect the group stole more than 100 cars in the District and more than 30 in Maryland’s Prince George’s County, according to the U.S. attorney’s office of Jeanine Pirro. Authorities searched a car storage facility in Decatur, Georgia, tied to the alleged ring.
A man who stole a purse belonging to then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she was dining in Washington was sentenced to three years in prison, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Mario Bustamante Leiva also faces deportation after the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden.
The New York Times said the FBI investigated whether one of its reporters, Elizabeth Williamson, violated laws against stalking after she wrote a story about federal agents assigned to protect and drive FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The FBI said agents interviewed Alexis Wilkins after Wilkins expressed concern about a death threat, but took no further action.
Police in Iowa City are seeking a 17-year-old on attempted murder charges after a shooting early Sunday in a nightlife district near the University of Iowa, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities said five people were treated for gunshot wounds, including three University of Iowa students.
Houston City Council amended a recently passed ordinance that limited some police cooperation with federal immigration agents after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned the city could lose public-safety grants. Council members voted 13-4 on Wednesday, with Mayor John Whitmire citing a need to protect about $114 million tied to the World Cup and other security funding.
Voting and civil rights groups sued Alaska election officials, alleging they violated the state constitution by sharing the state’s full voter registration list with the U.S. Department of Justice. The lawsuit, filed in state court against officials including Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and election division Director Carol Beecher, challenges a memorandum of understanding they say allows the Justice Department to flag voters for removal without notice or a process to challenge the decisions.
President Donald Trump’s administration sent a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah after a custody fight tied to the child’s gender identity, the Justice Department said. The child’s parent, Rose Inessa-Ethington, was arrested with her partner, Blue Inessa-Ethington, and charged in federal court with international parental kidnapping.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Wednesday that bans counties and cities from funding or promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, arguing that DEI programs have discriminated against white men. Speaking after the signing, DeSantis said white men have been “discriminated against” through what he called an “ideological construct” designed to promote a political agenda. The NAACP branch president in Gainesville, Evelyn Foxx, criticized the comments as out of touch.
Opening statements began Thursday in the retrial of former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who is charged with murder and reckless homicide in the 2020 shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr. in Columbus, Ohio. Prosecutors say Meade shot Goodson multiple times in the back as he entered his grandmother’s home, while Meade’s defense argues the retired deputy feared for his life.
A man charged in a series of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead died in jail Tuesday night, authorities said. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell and later pronounced dead. Officials said the official cause of death had not been determined and that they did not suspect foul play, while conducting an internal review.
The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant is being held by ICE at a detention facility in El Paso, Texas, while she challenges the case in federal court, according to her husband and her attorney. Jose Serrano, who said he served three tours in Afghanistan, said immigration agents arrested his wife April 14 during an immigration appointment. The case comes as DHS has moved to end a policy that treated military service in a family as a mitigating factor in immigration enforcement.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Texas can require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, rejecting arguments that the policy amounts to religious indoctrination. The 9-8 decision reverses a lower court ruling that had blocked roughly a dozen Texas school districts. The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups said they plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a U.S. civil rights group, was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the payments to donors, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The Justice Department alleges the center used donor money in ways it described as aimed at dismantling extremism, while prosecutors say the money funded informant-linked activity by extremist groups. The center’s CEO Bryan Fair denied the allegations, saying the payments supported confidential informants used to monitor threats of violence and that the information was shared with law enforcement.
Romania’s National History Museum received a 2,500-year-old golden helmet and three golden bracelets from the Netherlands on Tuesday, nearly a year after the artifacts were stolen from the Drents Museum while on loan. Dutch and Romanian authorities said they completed a long recovery effort after investigations, diplomatic coordination, and an ongoing trial.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Coinbase and Gemini in Manhattan on Tuesday, arguing their prediction market platforms operate as illegal gambling without state licenses. The lawsuit seeks to stop the companies from offering the platforms in New York unless they obtain authorization from the state Gaming Commission.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint in federal court against Washington, D.C., and DC Water seeking financial penalties over a Potomac River sewage leak, the Justice Department said. The complaint stems from a January collapse of a 72-inch Potomac Interceptor pipeline that spilled 244 million gallons of raw sewage, and it alleges the utility failed to properly operate and maintain the system.
Un hombre abrió fuego en la zona arqueológica de Teotihuacán, al noreste de Ciudad de México, y murió después. Una canadiense murió y 13 personas más —incluidas varias de Estados Unidos y otras nacionalidades— resultaron heridas; la Fiscalía del Estado de México informó que el atacante fue el único agresor y que la causa de su muerte se determinará conforme a protocolos.
A man whose firearm was used in a Louisiana rampage that killed eight children told investigators he believed Shamar Elkins stole the assault-style gun from his truck weeks before the killings, according to court documents. Federal charges accuse Charles Ford of being a felon in possession of a firearm and making a false statement to federal agents.
The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in its investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, and is now asking for voluntary interviews instead of grand jury testimony, AP sources said Tuesday. The shift followed a change in the team leading the inquiry, according to people familiar with the matter.
Rex Heuermann told his ex-wife while he was in jail that he killed most of the women in the Gilgo Beach serial murders in the basement of the family’s home on Long Island, according to a teaser for a new documentary episode. Asa Ellerup said Heuermann told her that the eight women he admitted to killing were his only victims, and that he killed seven of them in the basement while she was away.
ATLANTA — Georgia State Patrol fired three troopers and their supervisor after an internal investigation found they violated department policy and ethical standards by allegedly seeking personal-injury payouts tied to high-speed pursuits, according to the agency. The probe started in January after another trooper reported hearing jokes about which chases would qualify for a “check,” the Department of Public Safety said.
A college student from China, Tianrui Liang, was arrested April 7 at a New York airport while trying to leave the United States for Glasgow, Scotland, the FBI said. Federal prosecutors charge that Liang illegally took photos of U.S. military aircraft at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska during a road trip that included stops at other bases.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Florida immigration detention facility in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open, rejecting a judge’s order to wind down the center. The Eleventh Circuit said the facility is not under federal control, and therefore does not require federal environmental review under the law at issue.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Prosecutors in El Salvador have opened a joint mass trial of nearly 500 alleged MS-13 gang members, with charges that include homicide, extortion and arms trafficking, according to the Salvadoran government. The trial began Monday in San Salvador as the country continues to rely on a yearslong “state of exception” that rights groups say suspends key due-process protections.
Judge Madeline Cox Arleo postponed Purdue Pharma’s criminal sentencing to next Tuesday after opioid victims protested outside the federal courthouse in Newark, New Jersey, and asked to attend in person. Arleo had originally scheduled the hearing for Tuesday but planned to hold it by videoconference.
Rideshare drivers filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court challenging Uber’s deactivation decisions and saying the company failed to provide the appeals process promised under California’s Proposition 22. The plaintiffs accuse Uber of violating the law it carved out for app-based drivers and of not providing a meaningful pathway to contest being kicked off the app.
Timothy Hudson, charged as an adult with killing his 18-year-old stepsister Anna Kepner on a Carnival Cruise ship, pleaded not guilty in Miami federal court and waived his appearance at a Wednesday arraignment, his defense attorney said. Prosecutors are seeking to keep him jailed while the case proceeds, an issue the court has not resolved.
A 17-year-old pleaded guilty in northwest London to arson that caused smoke damage at Kenton United Synagogue, then said he did not know the building was a synagogue and bore no ill will toward Jewish people. The case came before Westminster Magistrates’ Court, with police investigating a series of arson attacks targeting Britain’s Jewish community in recent weeks.
A California judge on Monday ordered a man shot multiple times during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest to remain in custody, citing flight-risk concerns. Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, who holds dual citizenship from El Salvador and Mexico, was shot during an enforcement stop on April 7 in Patterson, about 75 miles southeast of San Francisco. He is charged with assaulting a federal officer for allegedly striking an ICE agent with his car before reversing into a law enforcement vehicle, according to court documents.
Fatal domestic violence cases in Louisiana and Virginia have prompted calls for more prevention resources for Black communities and for expanded mental health and support services, the Associated Press reported. In Shreveport, Louisiana, police identified Shamar Elkins as shooting seven of his children and another child. In suburban Washington, D.C., police said former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot his estranged wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, and then himself.
A man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead, including a Department of Homeland Security employee walking her dog, died in jail Tuesday night, authorities said. Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell at the DeKalb County jail, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, and later was pronounced dead.
Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial opened in New York on Tuesday for the third time, with prosecutors again arguing that he used his Hollywood power to control and manipulate a former assistant. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Candace White told jurors the case would come down to “power, to control and to manipulation.” Weinstein’s lawyer Jacob Kaplan countered that the trial “is about consent, about choice and about regret.”
Pope Leo XIV visited a prison in Equatorial Guinea’s port city of Bata on Wednesday, telling inmates in Spanish that “You are not alone” and promising that the Church would stand by them. The visit came at the end of the pope’s four-nation Africa tour and drew attention to prison conditions and human rights abuses that campaigners have long criticized.
The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant was being held Tuesday at an immigration detention facility in El Paso, Texas, after agents arrested her during a visit related to immigration paperwork, according to her husband. Her case has moved to U.S. District Court, where her attorney has sought an order to block her removal to Mexico.
Nicholas Gutierrez, 25, of Diamond Bar, California, pleaded guilty Monday to causing a wrong-way crash that killed a Los Angeles County sheriff's recruit and injured nine others during a training run in 2022. Gutierrez was sentenced to eight years suspended prison time and five years' probation, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The plea came more than three years after his SUV veered onto the wrong side of the road in suburban Whittier, striking recruits on a morning jog.
A court in southern Turkey sentenced eight people on Monday to prison over a 2024 cable car accident in Antalya that killed one passenger and injured seven. Four defendants were convicted of causing death and injury through negligence and received 7½-year sentences; four others received between three years and four months and five years.
FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million Monday in federal court in Washington, accusing the publication of defamation over an article that alleged excessive drinking and mismanagement. The Atlantic said it stands by its reporting and will vigorously defend against what it called a "meritless lawsuit."
A Louisiana father fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, in what authorities described as the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in more than two years. The attack unfolded in two homes in a Shreveport neighborhood Sunday morning, with police responding to the first report around 5:55 a.m., Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said. The gunman, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, died after a police pursuit that ended with officers firing on him. Police also said Elkins shot and wounded his wife and another woman.
Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris for Monday by French prosecutors investigating allegations of child sexual abuse material and deepfakes on the social media platform X, the Paris prosecutor's office said. Linda Yaccarino, X's former chief executive, has also been summoned for what prosecutors describe as "voluntary interviews."
Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, was executed in Florida on Tuesday evening for the 1990 killing of Marlys Sather, after authorities said he set her on fire following a burglary. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal without comment hours before the lethal injection.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case from two Colorado Catholic preschools challenging their exclusion from the state's taxpayer-funded universal preschool program because they refuse to admit children from LGBTQ+ families. The case, brought by St. Mary Catholic Parish and the Archdiocese of Denver, marks the latest religious-liberty dispute before the conservative-majority court, with backing from the Trump administration. The schools argue Colorado violates their constitutional rights to operate according to their faith, while the state says religious schools are welcome to participate if they comply with nondiscrimination laws.
A trial began Monday in Alexandria, Virginia, for Mohammad Sharifullah, an Afghan national accused of scouting the route a suicide bomber would take to the Kabul airport before a 2021 attack. The bombing, at Abbey Gate, killed approximately 160 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members during the American military's chaotic final withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sharifullah's defense attorney told jurors that the U.S. government "got the wrong man," saying his client gave a false confession.
Reza Dindar, a 44-year-old Iranian citizen indicted in 2014 for smuggling military sonar equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions, was extradited to Seattle and made his initial appearance in federal court on Monday. Dindar was arrested in Panama in July 2025 at U.S. request.
A Pennsylvania appellate court on Monday struck down a four-decade-old law banning the use of state Medicaid funds for abortions, ruling that the state constitution guarantees a right to reproductive autonomy. The seven-judge Commonwealth Court panel's decision marks the first time Pennsylvania's constitution is explicitly recognized as protecting abortion access, joining a handful of states that have secured reproductive protections through state constitutional analysis. The case will likely be appealed to Pennsylvania's Supreme Court.
U.K. police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London over the past month are the work of Iranian proxies. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans said counterterror officers are probing fires at synagogues, Jewish charity ambulances, and an attack on a Persian-language media company critical of Iran's government. No one has been injured in any of the incidents, the latest of which caused minor damage to a north London synagogue on Saturday night.
A man killed eight children—seven of his own and a nephew—and shot two women before dying after a police pursuit Sunday in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the nation's deadliest mass shooting in two years. The violence erupted before dawn at two homes in the city of 180,000 residents in northwestern Louisiana, authorities said. The shooter, identified as Shamar Elkins, died after fleeing during a police pursuit, though it was unclear whether he was killed by officers or from a self-inflicted gunshot, Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said.
An armed man opened fire on tourists at Teotihuacán pyramids Monday, killing one Canadian and wounding at least 13 others at the archaeological site north of Mexico City, authorities said. The gunman was identified as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso of Mexico, a state official told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. He later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Domestic violence killings of Black mothers in Louisiana and Virginia have renewed debate about access to prevention services and mental health care for Black communities. In Shreveport, Louisiana, a man police identified as Shamar Elkins fatally shot seven of his children and another child, authorities said; in Annandale, Virginia, police found former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and his estranged wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, dead, along with their children, in what they described as a murder-suicide.
A New York jury heard opening statements Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial for the third time, nearly eight years after his arrest, as prosecutors focused on the alleged encounter involving hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Candace White told jurors the case would come down to “power, to control and to manipulation,” while Weinstein’s lawyer Jacob Kaplan argued it is about consent, choice and regret.
Tony Mathews, a 49-year-old homeless man, died from injuries sustained in a series of attacks across the Atlanta area, authorities said. The death marks the third fatality in the spree as police seek an additional murder charge against Adon Abel, a 26-year-old U.S. Navy veteran accused in the attacks.
Mississippi College School of Law is requiring all first-year students to complete a mandatory artificial intelligence course, becoming the first law school in the Southeast to implement such a requirement. The school's dean, John Anderson, said the goal is to train lawyers to use the technology "effectively, efficiently, and ethically" and to prevent mistakes that have already begun plaguing the profession.
More than 100 animal welfare activists gathered outside Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' Capitol office Monday morning, chanting "Free the dogs!" and demanding that state officials take action against Ridglan Farms, a beagle breeding and research facility in rural Blue Mounds about 25 miles southwest of Madison. The Capitol protest followed a weekend clash at the facility Saturday in which an estimated 1,000 activists attempted to access the property, where approximately 2,000 beagles are housed.
A planned confrontation among young people escalated into a mass shooting Monday morning at a public park in Winston-Salem, N.C., leaving two teenage boys dead and five others wounded, authorities said. The two fatalities were 16 and 17 years old and were pronounced dead at the scene after shots were fired around 10 a.m. at Leinbach Park. Five other people between ages 14 and 19 sustained injuries ranging from critical to minor, according to police Capt. Kevin Burns, with four of the five wounded being female.
Carmine Agnello, the reality-TV-star grandson of late mob boss John Gotti, was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining $1.1 million in federal pandemic-relief loans meant for small businesses. Federal Judge Nusrat Choudhury imposed the sentence in U.S. District Court on Long Island, along with a requirement that Agnello repay the funds and perform 100 hours of community service.
The National Guard troops roaming Washington's streets, parks and metro stations arrived eight months ago as part of President Donald Trump's declared crime emergency. With more than 2,500 members still deployed and no announced endpoint, local officials and civil-rights advocates question the indefinite military presence in the nation's capital.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta unsealed court filings Monday alleging that Amazon pressured major retailers, including Walmart and Levi Strauss, into a price-fixing scheme. According to the filing, Amazon leveraged its market dominance to demand that vendors increase prices on competing websites, threatening them with promotion restrictions or removal from Amazon's platform if they refused.
Seven years after Kelly Knight was found dead in her Medellin apartment, her family is appealing for international intervention. The parents said that Colombia's justice system has failed them, and they have filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging that the country violated Knight's right to access justice. No one has been detained or formally charged in connection with her death.
Peru's electoral tribunal on Monday set a May 15 deadline for the nation's elections agency to publish full vote tallies and name the two candidates advancing to a June 7 runoff. The April 12 presidential election saw more than 30 candidates competing for the presidency, with no contender securing more than half the votes needed to win outright.
Slovakia will hold a referendum on July 4 to decide whether to cancel lifelong payments for political leaders including Prime Minister Robert Fico, President Peter Pellegrini said Monday. Voters will simultaneously decide whether to reopen the special prosecutor's office, which handles major crime and corruption investigations. The dual referendum follows a petition organized by the opposition Democrats party and signed by more than 350,000 citizens.
In April, Russian drone strikes on Ukraine killed at least two people as the Ukrainian military targeted a Russian drone manufacturing facility, escalating the exchange of long-range attacks between the countries. A "massive" nighttime drone strike on Chernihiv in northern Ukraine killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded four others, according to Dmytro Bryzhynskyi, the head of the city's military administration. Russian drones also attacked the southern city of Kherson, where a man died of his wounds after a drone hit a van in the city center, according to regional administrator Oleksandr Prokudin. The Ukrainian military said it struck the Atlant Aero factory in Taganrog, a drone manufacturing facility in southwestern Russia, using Neptune cruise missiles. Ukrainian officials said the strike sparked a fire at the site, which designs and produces reconnaissance drones and components for armed unmanned aircraft.
Around 25 protesters were arrested Saturday as approximately 1,000 animal welfare activists attempted to breach Ridglan Farms, a beagle breeding facility in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, about 25 miles southwest of Madison. Officers fired pepper spray and rubber bullets to repel the group, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Office.
A refund system for businesses to claim refunds for Trump administration tariffs that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down launched Monday, with importers and their brokers able to begin submitting claims through an online portal operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The court ruled in February that Trump imposed the tariffs without constitutional authority, and the agency estimated over 330,000 importers paid roughly $166 billion in tariffs.
Jon Husted, Ohio's Republican U.S. senator, is seeking re-election this fall in a campaign shadowed by a $60 million bribery scandal that has roiled state politics for more than five years. Husted was recently called to testify as a defense witness in the criminal trial of two former energy executives. A mistrial in March has set the stage for a retrial scheduled to begin Sept. 28, just weeks before the November elections.
The United States Navy seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first interception since launching a new blockade of Iranian ports last week. Iran's joint military command said the boarding violated the ceasefire and called it an act of piracy, vowing swift response. The seizure raised immediate questions about planned diplomatic talks set to begin Monday in Pakistan as the ceasefire moves toward expiration Wednesday.
A 31-year-old Louisiana man fatally shot eight children, seven of his own, in a Shreveport neighborhood Sunday morning, the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years. Two women, including the gunman's wife, were critically wounded. The suspect, Shamar Elkins, died during a police pursuit that ended with officers firing on him.
The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild workforces depleted by a wave of resignations and departures over the past year, easing hiring requirements and accelerating recruitment in ways that current and former officials say are lowering long-accepted professional standards. The changes include abbreviated training for FBI agents transferred from other federal agencies, waived written assessments for support staff seeking agent positions, and the Justice Department's decision to hire prosecutors fresh out of law school to fill vacancies in U.S. attorney's offices. Some officials also say the FBI is promoting less experienced employees into senior leadership positions more quickly than historically customary.
A 44-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses and ammunition between Iran and the Sudanese Armed Forces, federal prosecutors said Sunday. Shamim Mafi, an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident in 2016, was taken into custody as Sudan enters its fourth year of civil war. According to a criminal complaint, Mafi operated a company in Oman through which she allegedly trafficked the weapons with an unnamed co-conspirator.
Five people were shot in a nightlife district near the University of Iowa campus early Sunday, including three students, during a large fight, according to police and university officials. One victim was in critical condition while four others were stable.
Federal judge Troy L. Nunley blocked a $6.2 billion merger between television giants Nexstar Media Group and Tegna on Friday, finding that state attorneys general and DirecTV are likely to prevail in their antitrust lawsuit challenging the deal. The merged company would have owned 265 television stations across 44 states and the District of Columbia, the judge noted.
A 58-year-old gunman opened fire in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district on Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 14 others before barricading himself in a supermarket with hostages. Police killed the attacker during a 40-minute standoff, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.
A lead prosecutor in the John Brennan investigation was removed from the case Friday after expressing concerns to Justice Department officials about the strength of potential criminal charges, according to a person familiar with the matter. Maria Medetis Long, who heads the national security section at the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida, informed defense lawyers that she was no longer participating in the probe.
In a ruling April 17, an Arizona Superior Court judge largely sided with Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap in his lawsuit against the county board of supervisors over election operations, giving Heap expanded authority to oversee voting procedures in the state's most populous county. The decision comes as Heap has implemented controversial changes to signature verification on mail ballots and has used a federal system to check voter rolls for noncitizens, drawing criticism from state officials and county board members. The conflict between election administrators is raising concerns about voter confidence in election administration as Arizona approaches its July primary and November general election.
President Donald Trump signed legislation on Saturday extending a controversial national security surveillance program until April 30, setting up a new Capitol Hill conflict over privacy safeguards and government power. The measure, which passed the Senate on Friday in a last-minute scramble, grants a short-term reprieve to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — a program that allows the CIA, NSA, FBI, and other intelligence agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of international communications without a warrant.
British counterterrorism police are investigating a series of attempted and completed arson attacks on Jewish and Iranian community premises in London. An attempted firebombing outside a building previously used by the Jewish community on Friday evening, combined with separate attacks this week on a synagogue and a Persian-language media organization, have prompted authorities to examine potential links between the incidents, though no injuries have been reported.
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on three people and two firms on Friday over their alleged recruitment and deployment of Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of war crimes. The sanctions targeted a Bogota-based employment agency network founded by retired Colombian military officer Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra and his wife. The action marks the latest U.S. measure against the RSF, which has been engaged in armed conflict with Sudan's military since April 2023.
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a lower court's order blocking above-ground construction on President Trump's $400 million White House ballroom, allowing work to resume while the court scheduled a full hearing for June.
Daniel Kinahan, described by Irish media as the alleged leader of a major Irish criminal network, has been arrested in Dubai, Irish and Dubai police said. Garda Síochána said an Irish man in his late 40s was arrested Wednesday under a warrant from Irish courts over alleged serious organized crime offenses.
About 1,000 animal welfare activists attempted to storm Ridglan Farms, a beagle breeding and research facility in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, on Saturday, but police fired rubber bullets and pepper spray to repel them, authorities said. The Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs, led by Wayne Hsiung, had organized the operation to seize the approximately 2,000 beagles kept at the facility. Hsiung was arrested along with an unspecified number of other protesters.
A federal jury has ordered Los Angeles to pay $11.8 million to Isaac Castellanos, who was permanently blinded in one eye by a police projectile while celebrating the Dodgers' 2020 World Series championship. The jury returned the verdict Thursday after deliberating less than two hours in Castellanos' federal lawsuit alleging excessive use of force. Castellanos was a senior at California State University, Long Beach, when he was struck in the face during a peaceful downtown Los Angeles gathering on the early morning of October 28, 2020. According to his complaint, Los Angeles Police Department officers advanced toward the crowd and began firing less-lethal munitions—including rubber bullets and bean bags—without warning.
A suspected drug trafficker considered one of Europe's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said on Saturday. János Balla, also known as Dániel Takács, was captured in Quintana Roo, a southern Mexican state, according to Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch. Balla is wanted in Hungary on drug trafficking charges and is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, García said.
Charles Adair's family filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Friday over his death in a Kansas jail, renewing demands for the public release of video showing what investigators say led to his death while in custody. Adair, arrested last July on misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear, died after deputy Richard Fatherley allegedly knelt on his back for one minute and 26 seconds while he was handcuffed in his cell, according to a Kansas Bureau of Investigation affidavit. Fatherley was charged with second-degree murder; he remains free on bond. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Adair's family, said "The public has a right to transparency when someone dies in custody in this manner." The sheriff's office declined The Associated Press's records request for the video, though Crump and co-counsel Harry Daniels have viewed it.
A Canadian man facing 14 murder charges has agreed to plead guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide, his lawyer said Friday. Kenneth Law, from the Toronto area, allegedly sold sodium nitrite online to people at risk of self-harm. Under the plea agreement, Canadian prosecutors will withdraw the murder charges.
A New York judge declined Friday to dismiss murder charges against Pedro Hernandez in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, clearing the path for a third trial in a case that became emblematic of the nation's missing-child crisis. Judge Michele Rodney rejected arguments from Hernandez's lawyers that prosecutors waited too long to charge him and that he cannot receive a fair trial after decades of media coverage. "The court will carefully work, together with the parties, to ensure that jurors are selected who promise to be fair and to consider only the evidence and the law, despite what they have learned about the case from the media," Rodney wrote.
The Supreme Court unanimously sided with oil and gas companies on Friday, ordering a Louisiana environmental lawsuit back to federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay more than $740 million for coastal damage. Writing for an 8-0 court, Justice Clarence Thomas found the lawsuit was related to companies' World War II efforts to supply aviation fuel for the U.S. government and should be heard in federal court.
Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax fatally shot his estranged wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, in their basement before killing himself early Thursday, Fairfax County police said. The deaths occurred in Annandale, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The couple, who had been separated for nearly two years while living together with their two teenage children, was in the midst of divorce proceedings when the deaths occurred. Their son called 911.
Defense attorneys have asked to bar cameras from Tyler Robinson’s Utah courtroom as the case proceeds in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Prosecutors, in a court filing, argued that allowing cameras would improve transparency and help address misinformation and “distorted narratives” about the case. The trial date has not been set.
A Massachusetts judge on Friday blocked turbine manufacturer GE Renewables from terminating its contracts with the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm, ruling that the company must continue providing installation and maintenance services. Judge Peter Krupp granted Vineyard Wind's request for a preliminary injunction after the developer argued that losing the manufacturer would devastate the project at a critical phase.
The Senate approved a temporary extension of surveillance powers through April 30 on Friday, after the House staged a chaotic post-midnight struggle to prevent a critical counterterrorism program from expiring. The measure passed by voice vote without formal roll call, clearing a Monday deadline and heading to President Donald Trump for his signature. The action sets up another showdown in weeks as Congress wrestles with Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — a tool that balances what U.S. officials describe as uniquely effective intelligence gathering against what critics say are significant privacy risks.
Congress and the White House are moving to regulate prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket over concerns that the platforms enable insider trading and war profiteering. The push comes after reports of highly profitable bets placed on military and geopolitical events, including bets on when a U.S. airman downed in Iran would be rescued and on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's ouster.
A federal judge Friday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit demanding that Rhode Island provide detailed voter registration data, ruling that federal law does not permit such a demand. U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy sided with election officials and civil rights advocates, finding that the Justice Department was conducting what amounted to a "fishing expedition."
The Associated Press reported Friday that some newly hired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began work before completing background checks and had financial, legal and employment issues in their histories. The AP said it found examples by reviewing LinkedIn disclosures and public records, and that the agency keeps the identities of employees shielded from public view.
A man accused of killing two people and critically injuring another in a series of attacks in the Atlanta area on Monday morning had, shortly before the shootings, gotten into an intense argument with a roommate over how cold he kept their shared home, according to those who lived with him. Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, is charged with two counts of malice murder, aggravated assault, and firearms counts in state court in DeKalb County, Georgia. He also faces federal firearms charges. Among his victims was Lauren Bullis, an auditor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The attacks occurred over several hours Monday morning: a 31-year-old woman was shot and killed around 12:50 a.m. outside a fast-food restaurant in Decatur; a 49-year-old homeless man was shot multiple times while sleeping outside a grocery store around 2 a.m.; and Bullis, found with gunshot and stab wounds around 7 a.m. near the suspect's home, was also killed. The homeless man remained hospitalized in critical condition.
Patients and colleagues in Virginia's dental community are mourning Dr. Cerina Fairfax, a 49-year-old dentist police say was killed by her estranged husband in their Annandale home early Thursday. Police believe former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife before killing himself.
President Donald Trump claimed that 98.2% of drugs entering the U.S. by sea have been stopped under his administration, but the figure misrepresents federal data and cannot support the conclusion, according to drug trafficking experts and government officials. The statistic reflects a month-to-month drop in seizures at coastal locations, not a measure of total drug trafficking or policy effectiveness.
Todd Lyons, who led U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Thursday. Lyons' last day will be May 31. The announcement comes after the agency faced mounting scrutiny over high-profile enforcement operations and the deaths of two American protesters during federal immigration officer conduct.
Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Lancaster County is charged with stealing more than 100 human remains from Pennsylvania cemeteries across multiple counties, authorities said. Gerlach was arrested in January near Mount Moriah Cemetery on the outskirts of Philadelphia after police spotted bones and skulls in his car, investigators said.
A federal judge sentenced a former Wisconsin resident to 20 months in federal prison on Wednesday for funneling over $400,000 in illegal campaign donations into U.S. elections after renouncing his U.S. citizenship and becoming a citizen of the Caribbean nation Saint Kitts and Nevis.
A judge in Arizona's most populous county on Friday sided with the county's elected recorder in a lawsuit that will reshape authority over election administration in the state's premier battleground ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The defense team for Tyler Robinson, accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, pressed a Utah judge Friday to ban cameras from his courtroom proceedings. Robinson's attorneys argue that live broadcasts are fueling media sensationalism and depicting the 23-year-old as a "monster," making a fair trial impossible.
Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Monday to strip nearly $200 million in state public safety funding from Houston, Dallas, and Austin, claiming their policies limiting police cooperation with federal immigration authorities make streets less safe rather than safer. Houston faces the largest potential cut at approximately $110 million. Dallas stands to lose more than $32 million in grants plus an additional $55 million in World Cup public safety funding. Austin could forfeit approximately $2.5 million. Abbott gave Houston an extended deadline to comply, while Austin and Dallas received similar letters Thursday. The threatened cuts stem from each city's policy directing police officers not to prolong detention of individuals to facilitate contact with Immigration and Customs Enforcement during routine encounters like traffic stops.
Luther Davis, a former University of Alabama defensive tackle, and his co-conspirator CJ Evins are accused of defrauding lenders of nearly $20 million by impersonating NFL players on video calls. Federal prosecutors say Davis used makeup, wigs, and fake driver's licenses bearing the athletes' photos to secure at least 13 fraudulent loans between early 2024 and July 2026, with proceeds used to purchase real estate, jewelry, and cars.
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, the youngest son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, avoided an attempted murder charge Friday after reaching a plea deal in which he admitted to pointing a gun and breaking immigration laws in South Africa. His co-accused, Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and four other charges. A court set sentencing for both men for April 24.
Illinois's first-in-the-nation law banning credit card interchange fees on the tax and tip portions of consumer transactions faces a coordinated industry repeal campaign, a threatened federal preemption order and a pending appeals court ruling — all converging before the law's July 1 effective date. The Electronic Payments Coalition, representing banks, credit unions and card companies, has run a seven-figure advertising campaign warning of "credit card chaos" if the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act is not repealed. The Illinois Retail Merchants Association called those warnings a "complete fabrication," saying compliance requires nothing more than a software coding change.
QVC Group, owner of home shopping network pioneer QVC and HSN, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas comes as the company faces declining sales from consumers shifting to livestream shopping on TikTok and online marketplaces like Shein.
Federal prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office made an unannounced visit Tuesday to a Federal Reserve construction site under criminal investigation, but were turned away by a building contractor and referred to Fed attorneys, according to two people familiar with the visit. The same day, President Donald Trump renewed his threat to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell if Powell remains on the central bank's governing board after his chairmanship expires next month.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked above-ground construction of a planned $400 million White House ballroom, ruling that the Trump administration's claim that the entire project qualifies as a national security measure is "neither a reasonable nor a correct" reading of his earlier order. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said that below-ground work on a bunker and other security facilities at the site may continue, but that the ballroom's surface structure may not.
Russia fired nearly 700 drones and dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 100 others in one of the worst aerial assaults of recent weeks, Ukrainian authorities said. Strikes hit the capital Kyiv, the southern port city of Odesa, and the central Dnipro region. The attack came days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy completed an urgent 48-hour diplomatic trip to Germany, Norway, and Italy to press European allies for additional air defense systems, as Ukrainian officials acknowledged that stocks of advanced interceptor missiles are running low.
South Carolina’s state Senate approved a bill that would protect nearly all historic statues, monuments and building name changes across the state, moving the measure to the House with about a month left in session. The proposal, approved 31-7, would also bar QR-code stickers on monuments that supporters said could add context about Confederate and segregationist figures.
U.S. military forces struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs, according to U.S. Southern Command. The Southern Command said no U.S. personnel were harmed.
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered John Eastman disbarred, stripping the attorney who devised a plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to block certification of the 2020 presidential election of his license to practice law in the state. The court ordered Eastman's name stricken from the California roll of attorneys, capping a yearslong disciplinary proceeding that the State Bar's chief trial counsel said was driven by clear evidence of misconduct.
U.S. military forces attacked a vessel Wednesday in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men the Pentagon said were drug traffickers, the Southern Command reported. No U.S. military personnel were injured in the operation, the command said.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI warned drone operators Thursday against flying near Coors Field in Denver after more than a half-dozen unauthorized drone sightings disrupted law enforcement operations during Colorado Rockies home games April 3 through April 5. No operators were arrested, but the agencies said violators could still face fines of up to $75,000 per incident.
South African police arrested prominent Beninese activist Kemi Seba on Thursday in a sting operation in Pretoria, charging him and his son with conspiracy to commit a crime and immigration violations as Benin seeks his extradition on allegations of inciting rebellion following a failed coup against President Patrice Talon.
Nigerian security forces are on high alert for a planned Islamist militant attack on the international airport and a prison facility in the capital, Abuja, and a military detention center in neighboring Niger state, according to an internal government memo obtained by the Associated Press. The April 13 memo, issued by the Nigeria Customs Service, warned that sleeper cells of the Islamic State West Africa Province and Boko Haram intend to free detained terrorists and damage critical aviation infrastructure.
Two Pennsylvania men pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal terrorism charges stemming from an alleged plot to detonate homemade bombs at an anti-Islam protest outside the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, both from the Philadelphia area, entered the pleas during a brief appearance in federal court in Manhattan on April 15.
Former Philippine lawmaker Zaldy Co, a key suspect in a flood control corruption scandal that triggered mass protests, was arrested in Prague after entering the Czech Republic without proper documentation, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday. Marcos said his government is in close coordination with Czech authorities to arrange Co's return to the Philippines, though the two countries have no extradition treaty.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said in a federal court filing Thursday that it has completed its review of the Second Avenue subway project and will resume reimbursing New York transit officials for construction costs, ending a seven-month funding freeze that state officials had challenged in court. The $7.7 billion expansion is building new stations northward along Manhattan's Upper East Side toward the Harlem neighborhood, with the federal government covering approximately $3.4 billion of the total cost.
Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax killed himself and his estranged wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, on Thursday, police said. The apparent murder-suicide occurred at their home in Annandale, Virginia, with their two children in the home. The deaths came during divorce proceedings, just two weeks before a court-ordered deadline for Fairfax to vacate the family residence.
Authorities allege SantaCon organizer Stefan Pildes pocketed most of $2.7 million raised for charity from 2019 to 2024, using proceeds for personal expenses rather than neighborhood charities. Pildes, 50, of Hewitt, New Jersey, was arrested and appeared in Manhattan federal court after prosecutors filed a wire fraud charge, federal prosecutors said.
The Associated Press reported Friday that some newly hired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began working before their full background checks were completed, and that several had problems in their financial, legal and employment histories. The investigation traced details through public records for more than 40 officers who posted their new jobs online and analyzed what the agency and the Department of Homeland Security said about vetting. ICE has said it keeps employee identities shielded to protect them from harassment.
Tyler Robinson’s defense pushed to bar courtroom cameras in the Utah case accusing the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, arguing media coverage could bias jurors. Prosecutors, in a court filing, urged cameras be allowed and said transparency could counter “distorted narratives” about the case. The court had not set a trial date as of the filing.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday set a June 11 execution date for Jeffery James Lee, who was convicted of killing two people during a 1998 pawn shop robbery. The execution would use nitrogen gas, a method Alabama began using in 2024, and it is scheduled while Lee pursues a federal lawsuit challenging the procedure’s humaneness.
Google's annual ads safety report released Thursday detailed how the company's artificial intelligence blocked over 99% of policy-violating advertisements in 2025, part of a broader push to defend against AI-generated spam and scams. The company blocked or removed 8.3 billion ads total last year, up from 5.1 billion in 2024, with 602 million of those carrying scam-related violations, according to the report.
A California bill advancing through the state Legislature would require medical providers and affiliated businesses to notify the state attorney general before complying with federal subpoenas seeking records related to abortion, gender-affirming or reproductive care — a measure that three independent constitutional scholars say may face substantial legal challenge. Assembly Bill 1930, authored by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur of Los Angeles and co-sponsored by Attorney General Rob Bonta, passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote after 17 minutes of discussion and now moves to the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
A man carrying a backpack containing an AR-style pistol was arrested Thursday after entering health insurer Aetna's headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, according to police. Security guards detained him without incident within three minutes of his arrival, shortly after 10 a.m., and held him until city police officers arrived. He was charged with illegal possession of an assault weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, possession of a large-capacity ammunition magazine, and trespassing.
A federal jury in New York found Wednesday that Live Nation Entertainment ran a harmful monopoly over large concert venues across the United States, handing a victory to more than 30 states that pressed ahead with an antitrust trial after the Trump administration reached a separate settlement with the company. The jury found that Ticketmaster, Live Nation's subsidiary, overcharged customers $1.72 per ticket in 22 states — an amount a judge could order the company to repay, potentially costing Live Nation hundreds of millions of dollars. Live Nation said Wednesday that the verdict "is not the last word on this matter."
Preston Henry Tolth, 26, pleaded guilty to federal robbery charges Thursday in Phoenix in the case of Ella Mae Begay, a 62-year-old Navajo grandmother who disappeared from the Navajo Nation in 2021 and has never been found. Under a proposed agreement, Tolth faces a maximum of five years in federal prison with credit for three years already served. U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes is scheduled to review the agreement in May.
Hennepin County on Thursday charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with pointing a gun at a motorist and passenger on a Minneapolis highway — what a local prosecutor described as the first criminal case brought against a federal officer involved in the Twin Cities immigration enforcement operation. The charge against ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. is one of several active investigations into federal officers' conduct during the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign in Minnesota, which has included two deaths, at least one other shooting and dozens of additional incidents under prosecutorial review.
A Massachusetts state program that launched at the end of 2025 to provide free legal representation to immigrants in removal proceedings reached capacity less than five months after launch, with a program hotline receiving 6,000 calls since December but finding attorneys for fewer than half of eligible callers, as pending removal cases against state residents topped 126,000, program officials said.
A longtime Drug Enforcement Administration informant was sentenced Wednesday in Austin, Texas, to time served after pleading guilty to failing to report $3.8 million in DEA payments on his federal tax returns. Andres Zapata, 48, a Colombian-American dual national and professional money launderer, received the sentence as part of a cooperation agreement in a decade-long investigation into agent misconduct, according to two people not authorized to discuss the inquiry who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Former NBA player Damon Jones is expected to become the first person to plead guilty in a federal gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people, including reputed mobsters and other basketball figures, according to the Associated Press. Jones, 49, is scheduled for plea change hearings on April 28 in Brooklyn federal court in two separate cases — one charging him with profiting from rigged poker games and another alleging he sold non-public injury information about LeBron James and Anthony Davis to sports bettors.
A Venezuelan emergency room physician was detained by immigration officials at a Texas airport Saturday while attempting to join her husband for a long-awaited asylum interview, entering her sixth day in detention at the time the Associated Press reported the case. Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, who held work authorization valid through 2030, was arrested at McAllen International Airport by Customs and Border Protection while traveling to Los Angeles where her husband, Milenko Faria, had scheduled an asylum interview Thursday after waiting more than a decade for the appointment.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with two counts of felony second-degree assault Thursday, saying the agent pointed his service weapon at two people in a car after pulling alongside them on a Minneapolis-area highway in February. The case is the first criminal charge brought against a federal officer involved in Minnesota's immigration crackdown, Moriarty said at a news conference. A nationwide warrant has been issued for the agent, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, who had not surrendered as of Thursday.
Alexandre Ramagem, Brazil's former intelligence agency chief who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in a 2023 coup attempt, was released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Florida on Wednesday after a two-day detention, according to the Associated Press. Ramagem thanked President Donald Trump in posts on his social media channels for the release, though he provided no evidence that Trump had any connection to the move. ICE did not respond to the AP's request for comment.
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday it will withhold more than $73.5 million in federal funding from New York state after the state refused to revoke 32,606 non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses issued to immigrants that a federal audit found had significant problems. More than half of the 200 licenses reviewed during the audit had serious deficiencies — including licenses that remained valid long after the holder's authorization to be in the country had expired — according to the department.
China's foreign ministry and embassy urged citizens traveling to the United States to avoid Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Thursday, citing what Chinese officials described as a pattern of continual harassment by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. The advisory followed the denial of entry to about 20 Chinese scholars who arrived at the airport with valid visas to attend an academic conference.
Jay Bryant, one of three men charged in the 2002 killing of Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay, has signaled his intent to plead guilty in federal court, according to court records reviewed Thursday — a development that would mark the first admission anyone has made in court to any role in the death of Jason Mizell more than two decades after he was gunned down in his Queens, New York, recording studio. Bryant's attorney and federal prosecutors told the court in recent letters that they were negotiating a plea agreement, the Associated Press reported. A court docket entry Thursday indicated Bryant intends to change his plea, though no date was set and prosecutors declined to comment.
A minibus taxi exploded into fire on a highway in southwest Zimbabwe on Thursday, killing approximately 18 people, police said. The vehicle caught fire on a road near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said authorities were still working to confirm the exact number of victims but put the toll at "approximately 18."
Benin's Constitutional Court on Thursday confirmed Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni as the West African country's president-elect, ratifying his first-round landslide in Sunday's election in which he received 94.27% of votes against a single opponent. The court said voter turnout reached 63.57%. Opponent Paul Hounkpè, who received 5.73% of ballots, has five days to file any appeals before the court announces final results.
Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque testified Thursday in a trial examining Diego Maradona's death, declaring his innocence and expressing love for the soccer legend. Maradona died of a heart attack on November 25, 2020, while recovering at home from subdural hematoma surgery. Seven health professionals, including Luque, face charges of negligent homicide carrying a maximum 25-year prison sentence.
Reps. Eric Swalwell of California and Tony Gonzales of Texas resigned from Congress on Monday within hours of each other, both facing imminent expulsion votes after a bipartisan group of congresswomen threatened to force the issue. The two men — a Democrat and a Republican — were each accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members, violations of House conduct rules that bar members from sexual relationships with their employees.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a sustained public critique of the Supreme Court's conservative majority Monday, calling the emergency stay orders that have allowed President Donald Trump to implement contested immigration and federal spending policies "back-of-the-envelope, first-blush impressions" that can "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow." Jackson spoke for nearly an hour at Yale Law School, addressing roughly two dozen emergency orders the court issued last year that let the Trump administration move ahead with immigration restrictions, steep federal funding cuts, and other controversial policies while lower courts were weighing whether those measures were likely illegal. Yale Law School posted video of the event on Wednesday.
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that a federal judge must stop his “intrusive” criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration’s deportation flights to El Salvador. The court said Chief Judge James Boasberg abused his discretion by moving forward even though the order he cited did not meet the standard for criminal contempt.
A former student opened fire at a vocational high school in Siverek, in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, Gov. Hasan Sildak said Tuesday. The attacker, who was 18, fired inside the school and later died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound after police cornered him, Sildak added.
A New York jury found Wednesday that entertainment giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary maintained a harmful monopoly over major concert venues, delivering a significant legal defeat to the company that dominates live entertainment ticketing in the United States. The jury, which deliberated for four days, found that Ticketmaster's anticompetitive practices caused concertgoers in 22 states to pay an extra $1.72 per ticket.
Congress is set to consider the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a program that allows U.S. spy agencies to collect overseas communications without a warrant. President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to extend the foreign surveillance authority for 18 more months, even as critics push for warrant requirements and tighter limits on how Americans’ data is handled. House Republican leaders canceled planned votes earlier this week amid difficulties reaching an agreement, with Congress facing an expiration deadline on Monday.
Tennessee’s Senate on Monday passed an amended bill that would require certain health care providers and insurers to report transgender-related care to the state, according to the Associated Press. The vote came 24 to 7 after more than half an hour of debate, with Democrats and Sen. John Stevens voting against. The bill’s sponsors said the measure would provide transparency, while opponents and protesters argued it would expose non-cisgender people.
U.S. military forces struck a vessel Wednesday in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men the Pentagon said were trafficking drugs, the Southern Command said. No U.S. personnel were harmed, according to the command.
An Austin district judge on Monday ordered Texas’s Historically Underutilized Business Program rules to be temporarily reinstated, allowing women- and minority-owned businesses to qualify for the state’s HUB program again while a lawsuit proceeds. The move came after plaintiffs sued the state and the acting Texas comptroller, alleging emergency changes removed women and minorities from the program and stripped some businesses of HUB certifications.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday protested the deaths of Mexican citizens in U.S. immigration custody and vowed to press the issue through international rights bodies and U.S. lawsuits. She spoke a day after Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, died in an ICE detention center in Louisiana.
Republicans in Congress are preparing to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security in a strategy Senate Majority Leader John Thune called “the hard way,” after bipartisan talks stalled, leaving the department shut down for nearly two months. Thune said the GOP plan would bypass Democrats and use budget reconciliation to pass an ICE and Customs and Border Protection funding bill with a simple majority in the 53-47 Senate. Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said they will continue pressing for restraints and changes to President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell announced he is leaving Congress and suspended his bid for California governor as lawmakers pressed for a bipartisan vote to expel him. The Associated Press reports that the move followed allegations of sexual misconduct that he denies and additional accusations reported by CNN.
The man accused of trying to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by throwing a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s San Francisco home appeared in court and was ordered held without bail after prosecutors brought state charges, according to court records and officials. His public defender said he was in the midst of an “acute mental health crisis” and that prosecutors have escalated the case, while San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the charges are supported by evidence.
The U.S. military launched another strike on a boat suspected of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. The attack was the fourth such strike announced in days, and the latest in a broader campaign described by the Trump administration as targeting cartel routes in Latin American waters.
El Ejército de Estados Unidos informó que el lunes realizó un ataque contra una embarcación que, según el gobierno, transportaba drogas en el océano Pacífico oriental, en el que murieron dos personas. El anuncio se suma a una campaña de ataques contra embarcaciones en rutas del contrabando que se ha extendido por más de siete meses, incluso mientras el país ha estado ocupado con la guerra en Irán.
Israeli police said they found about 70 Palestinian men hiding inside a garbage truck as it tried to cross from the occupied West Bank into Israel, apparently in search of work. The incident occurred as Israeli forces opened the truck late Monday and took the men for questioning at a West Bank checkpoint, police said.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned three individuals and two casinos this week over alleged links to Mexico’s Cartel del Noreste, which Washington has intensified its crackdown on. The designations include casinos in Nuevo Laredo and Tampico, and individuals described by U.S. authorities as helping the cartel move people and provide illicit support.
Pauls Valley High School Principal Kirk Moore tackled and disarmed a gunman who entered the school lobby and opened fire on April 7, security video released by the district shows. Moore was shot in the leg during the attack but managed to wrestle the suspect onto a bench and remain on top of him until law enforcement officers arrived, according to court records. No students were injured.
The New York Islanders solicited fan donations via a jumbotron display during Tuesday's home game against the Carolina Hurricanes for former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran, who was sentenced last week to three to nine years in prison for manslaughter in the 2023 death of a Bronx man. The promotion, organized by the Sergeants Benevolent Association, featured Duran's photograph, a QR code directing fans to his legal defense fund, and a message urging them to join "the fight for justice." The team also directed a quarter of proceeds from a 50/50 raffle — which took in $44,890, according to the Islanders' website — toward the cause, the union said.
The security guard on duty at Camp Mystic the night of last summer's deadly flood testified Wednesday that an early evacuation order could have saved the lives of campers killed when floodwaters surged through the Guadalupe River in the predawn hours of July 4. Glenn Juenke, who directed a group of girls to run uphill on his own initiative, also told the hearing he did not recall camp operators ever training campers, counselors, or staff on where to go in an emergency.
The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to throw out seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack cases. The filing would vacate the convictions so prosecutors can permanently dismiss the indictments, the government said.
The annual SantaCon bar crawl in New York is facing federal wire-fraud charges tied to allegations that organizer Stefan Pildes pocketed most of money raised for charity from 2019 to 2024. Federal prosecutors say Pildes, president of Participatory Safety Inc., diverted more than half of proceeds to personal expenses and unrelated purchases, including renovating a lakefront property in New Jersey and trips to Hawaii and Las Vegas.
Roblox will pay more than $12 million to Nevada and add new safety protections for minors after the Nevada attorney general reached a settlement this week with the popular gaming platform, the Associated Press reported. Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford said the agreement is intended to create safer conditions for children online. The settlement also comes amid lawsuits in other states accusing Roblox and other platforms of failing to protect children.
Authorities say Olaolukitan Adon Abel has been charged in a series of attacks in the Atlanta suburbs that killed two women and critically injured a man, according to court and police accounts. The attacks occurred Monday in Decatur-area, Brookhaven, and Panthersville neighborhoods in the early morning hours, officials said. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin called the shootings “acts of pure evil.”
A Florida grand jury indicted Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky on a second-degree manslaughter charge for an Aug. 21, 2024 surgery in which prosecutors say he removed a patient’s liver instead of his spleen. The case stems from the patient’s death on the operating table after what authorities described as catastrophic blood loss.
The Trump administration fired four U.S. Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases targeting anti-abortion activists, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the dismissals were meant to stop what he described as selective prosecution under the Biden administration’s Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act cases.
A former UCLA gynecologist, James Heaps, pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse charges after an appeals court overturned his earlier conviction. Prosecutors said Heaps admitted guilt to 13 felony counts and now faces 11 years in prison.
A California woman said Tuesday that Rep. Eric Swalwell raped her in 2018 and plans to report the allegation to law enforcement. The woman, Lonna Drewes, said she believes Swalwell drugged her and sexually assaulted her at a hotel in Southern California.
Body-camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer fatally shooting a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police account that said the teen pointed a gun at officers. The family’s attorney, Al Watkins, said he obtained the video through discovery in a federal lawsuit after a records request attempt failed.
Southern Haiti’s Marigot mayor appealed for central government help after a gang attack in Seguin left seven people dead and a police station set on fire, according to the Associated Press. Marigot Mayor René Danneau said the victims were young men who worked alongside police to gather information. He criticized authorities for not responding quickly enough and asked the prime minister to take “all necessary measures.”
A man who was shot multiple times during an April 7 arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in central California was charged Tuesday with assaulting a federal officer, prosecutors said. The case is in federal court in Sacramento, where a magistrate judge set a $50,000 bond after ordering him released pending further review.
Massachusetts’ highest court heard arguments in a lawsuit that says Meta designed Facebook and Instagram features to be addictive for young users, a case brought by state Attorney General Andrea Campbell.
Two U.S. families went before Italy’s highest court Tuesday to challenge a year-old law that limits Italian citizenship-by-descent to people whose Italian ancestors qualify under the rules set by Giorgia Meloni’s government. Attorneys argued the Cassation Court should narrow the law so it applies only to people born after it took effect, potentially affecting descendants in the United States and parts of Latin America.
Selina Nelson-Reilly, the wife of former Chester, New York highway superintendent John Reilly III, pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence after admitting she deleted doorbell-camera videos of a shooting involving a DoorDash delivery driver. Prosecutors said she deleted 17 videos after investigators spoke with her the day after the May 2025 shooting, and a plea came shortly after Reilly was convicted of assault for firing at the driver’s car.
Guards at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees on April 2 after they complained about non-functioning phones, according to a court declaration filed by attorney Katherine Blankenship on behalf of two detainees held at the remote Everglades site. Blankenship said guards began taunting detainees who had raised concerns about inoperable phones — their primary means of reaching family and attorneys — before the confrontation turned physical. One of her clients was punched in the right eye, thrown to the floor, beaten by several guards, kicked in the head, and had a guard's knee pressed to his neck while being restrained, she wrote.
A Miami federal jury awarded $300,000 last Friday to Diana Sanders, a 45-year-old nurse from Vacaville, California, after finding Carnival Cruise Line negligent in serving her at least 14 shots of tequila before she fell aboard one of its ships and suffered a possible traumatic brain injury.
A federal judge on Wednesday extended a halt on work to convert an 825,000-square-foot Maryland warehouse into an immigrant detention facility, issuing a preliminary injunction that will remain in place until the state's lawsuit is resolved. The Department of Homeland Security purchased the building near Hagerstown for $102.4 million in January and had planned to house between 500 and 1,500 detainees there. The ruling limits contractors to only minor work — fence installation and heating and cooling upgrades — while the case proceeds.
The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release an 85-year-old French national from immigration custody after she was detained in Alabama for overstaying her visa. Marie-Therese Ross, the widow of a former U.S. Army captain, has been held at a federal immigration detention facility in Louisiana since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her on April 1. France's consul general in New Orleans said the government has "fully mobilized" to secure her release.
A man has been charged in a string of early-morning attacks across the Atlanta area that killed two women and left a man in critical condition, authorities said Tuesday. One of the victims, Lauren Bullis, was an employee of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General, a development that prompted DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to raise questions about how the suspect had obtained U.S. citizenship.
Authorities said Monday that the man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home traveled from Texas to San Francisco intending to kill Altman, and later threatened to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters. Court documents describe alleged threats tied to the suspect’s anti-AI writings.
A federal judge in Florida dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday. Judge Darrin P. Gayles said Trump had not yet made the argument needed to show the article was published with malicious intent, but he allowed Trump to file an amended complaint.
Ramsey County officials said they are seeking evidence from DHS/ICE for their investigation into the Jan. 18 arrest of ChongLy “Scott” Thao, 56, after a video showed federal officers forcing him out of his St. Paul home in freezing conditions.
A 16-year-old boy was charged in federal court in Florida with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, on a Carnival Cruise ship in international waters, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. The Justice Department said the boy, Timothy Hudson, had been indicted after initial charges were filed in February, and a judge later ordered he be prosecuted as an adult.
The U.S. military reported conducting another strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, resulting in the deaths of two individuals. The military alleges the boat was involved in drug trafficking.
The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to throw out seditious conspiracy convictions for leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors said the government wants to vacate the convictions and permanently dismiss the indictments. The motion also targets convictions for other named leaders, while some defendants already received Trump commutations or pardons, including founder Stewart Rhodes, who was not pardoned last January.
Congress is set to consider renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a program that allows U.S. spy agencies to collect and analyze communications of foreigners overseas and that can also incidentally capture Americans’ communications. President Donald Trump said the program is “extremely important” and urged lawmakers to extend it. Critics want changes such as warrants before authorities can access Americans’ data and limits on how the government uses internet data brokers as the current authorization expires Monday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that American forces have begun a blockade of Iranian ports as Washington pushes Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz and accept terms to end a war that has raged for more than six weeks. Iran responded with threats affecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, raising risks to shipping and global oil prices.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California said Monday that he will resign from Congress after sexual assault and misconduct allegations that prompted calls from lawmakers across the political spectrum for him to step down. The House Ethics Committee said it has begun investigating whether Swalwell engaged in sexual misconduct toward an employee working under his supervision. Swalwell, who has denied the allegations, said he will resign to avoid distracting his constituents from his work.
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian senator said on Monday that former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sen. Jorge Seif said he had told the U.S. embassy in Brasilia that Ramagem should not remain in custody because he is being persecuted in Brazil.
Regan Prater, described by prosecutors as linked to white supremacist movements, pleaded guilty Monday to setting a fire that destroyed an office at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, a court document shows. Sentencing is set for Sept. 9 in Knoxville.
President Donald Trump said a U.S. blockade of Iranian ports began Monday after talks aimed at a ceasefire ended without a deal, raising questions about how the U.S. would enforce restrictions near the Strait of Hormuz and whether the tactic can withstand scrutiny under international law. Experts said enforcing a blockade would require sustained Navy resources, clear guidance for how restrictions would work in practice, and decisions about whether humanitarian relief can reach Iranian ports.
A Texas court hearing Monday featured testimony from the director of Camp Mystic, where 27 campers and counselors were killed in a devastating Guadalupe River flood in 2025. Edward Eastland told the court he did not see flood warnings issued the day before the storm, that staff did not hold meetings about the danger, and that the camp did not order evacuations until it was too late.
A federal judge temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction market operator Kalshi and paused an Arizona criminal wagering case against the company. The order calls off a Monday arraignment and comes in a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration.
Police in the Bahamas have released Brian Hooker, of Onsted, Michigan, after he was questioned following his wife’s disappearance from a small boat in waters off the island nation, authorities said Monday. Hooker told police that Lynette Hooker fell overboard while the couple traveled from Hope Town to Elbow Cay, according to a police statement.
Jury selection began Tuesday in New York City for Harvey Weinstein’s latest retrial on a rape charge. Jurors will weigh, for the third time, whether he raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel in 2013.
A suspect was arrested in North Carolina after a woman with serious burns told authorities that a man entered her home, doused her with gasoline and set her on fire, according to law enforcement. The Sampson County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect was found in a wooded area behind a residence and taken into custody without incident.
A retired judge’s 763-page inquiry into the 2024 Taylor Swift-themed stabbing attack in Southport found the killing of three girls and injuries to others “could and should have been prevented,” according to a report released Monday. The report said parents and state agencies repeatedly missed opportunities to intervene as Axel Rudakubana’s fixation on violence escalated, and it includes 67 recommendations aimed at preventing future atrocities. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government would make “fundamental changes” in response.
Haiti’s authorities arrested seven people, including five police officers, after a stampede at La Citadelle in Milot killed at least 25 people over the weekend, police said Monday. Dozens were injured, with 30 still in hospital as investigators work to determine what caused the crush.
A U.S. magistrate judge ordered Courtney Williams, an Army veteran accused of leaking classified information about a special military unit at Fort Bragg, to be released on home detention with location monitoring pending a possible trial. The judge also barred Williams from contacting the media or using social media.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced April 13 that murder and sexual abuse charges have been brought against a 16-year-old boy in the death of his 18-year-old stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship in international waters. The case stems from the Nov. 6, 2025, death of Anna Kepner, who was found concealed under a bed in the cabin she shared with her stepsister and other teens.
A man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an enforcement stop in central California last week has been arrested by the FBI after being discharged from a hospital, his attorney said Monday. Attorney Patrick Kolasinski said federal officials have not told him what charges Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez might face.
OSHA has cited three subcontractors for safety violations connected to the July 21, 2025, death of a worker building Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas. A federal watchdog group said one of the companies was owned by a donor to President Donald Trump, and OSHA declined to cite the prime contractor tied to the fatal incident.
A Senegal court in Pikine-Guédiawaye on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old laborer to six years in prison and fined him 2 million CFA ($3,300) under a new law that increases penalties for homosexual acts. The court convicted him of “acts against nature and public indecency,” after he was arrested earlier this month.
A man running for Florida governor has been arrested after charges connected to a domestic altercation involving two older people in a Palm Coast home, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said. Kevin Cichowski, 46, faces multiple counts of aggravated battery as well as charges including tampering with a witness and robbery, according to the sheriff’s office.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell suspended his campaign for California governor on Sunday after sexual assault allegations published this week by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN. Swalwell, who has denied the allegations, said the fight over them “is my fight, not a campaign’s.”
Police in the Bahamas released Brian Hooker, a Michigan man who had been in custody after his wife, Lynette Hooker, disappeared from their small boat near the island nation, authorities said. Hooker told investigators he believed his wife fell overboard while they were traveling from Hope Town to Elbow Cay on April 4, and he later contacted people on shore, according to the police account.
The U.S. military reported conducting another strike on Monday against a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, resulting in the deaths of two individuals. The military asserted that the vessel was involved in drug trafficking.
Jury selection began Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s latest retrial on a rape charge in Manhattan, where jurors will consider allegations by Jessica Mann that Weinstein assaulted her in 2013. More than 80 prospective jurors asked to be excused during initial screening, and the day ended without jurors chosen. Prosecutors said they have a new piece of evidence before the retrial begins, including a remark Weinstein allegedly made years earlier to a court officer.
U.S. military forces said they blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday, killing five people and leaving one survivor, AP reported Sunday. The same day, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would begin a naval blockade of Iranian ports after ceasefire talks with Iran ended without an agreement.
Peru voted Sunday in a presidential election that will choose the country’s ninth president in a decade, with mandatory voting for Peruvians ages 18 to 70 drawing more than 27 million registered voters, according to election coverage. The contest features 35 candidates amid public anger over violent crime and corruption, and many contenders are proposing tougher security policies as protests over crime continue.
Police said one person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a Chick-fil-A in Union, New Jersey, late Saturday. Investigators said the attack at about 9 p.m. was not random, and authorities said there is no immediate ongoing threat to the general public.
A woman with burns over about two-thirds of her body reported that a man doused her with gasoline and set her on fire at her home in Roseboro, North Carolina, the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office said. Authorities said firefighters and deputies responded to a structure fire on Saturday night and the woman was taken to a trauma center. The sheriff’s office said it obtained documents accusing a named suspect of first-degree arson, first-degree burglary and other charges, and that the person was still at large Sunday afternoon.
Britain said legislation to ratify a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has run out of time in Parliament after the Trump administration withdrew support for the agreement.
New York police fatally shot a knife-wielding man after he attacked three people at the 42nd Street–Grand Central subway station on Saturday morning, officials said. Police received reports of stabbings at about 9:40 a.m., and the suspect later died at Bellevue Hospital, the Police Commissioner said.
U.S. military forces said they blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday, killing five people and leaving one survivor. President Donald Trump said Sunday that after ceasefire talks with Iran ended without an agreement, the U.S. Navy would begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, involving Iranian ports.
The Trump administration acknowledged to the Associated Press that it used incorrect figures in trying to justify a Medicaid fraud probe in New York, a miscalculation that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesman Chris Krepich said stemmed from a billing-code methodology issue. The error involved claims about how many New Yorkers received personal care services, which Dr. Mehmet Oz cited in a social media video and a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul announcing the investigation. The CMS investigation remains ongoing, Krepich said, as the agency reviews New York’s response.
A federal appeals court ruled Saturday that a judge overseeing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom must reconsider how halting construction could affect national security. The D.C. Circuit panel said it lacked enough information to determine what parts of the project could be suspended without jeopardizing the safety of the president, his family, or White House staff.
A man running for Florida governor, Kevin Cichowski, was arrested and charged after deputies in Palm Coast responded to reports of a domestic altercation involving two older people, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said the charges include aggravated battery, tampering with a witness and robbery.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him, as prominent supporters withdrew their backing and called on him to leave California’s governor race. The accusations were reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Manhattan district attorney’s office said it is investigating an alleged 2024 assault in New York.
Peruvians are set to vote Sunday for a new president and Congress, but illegal mining—driven by high gold prices and linked to deforestation and mercury pollution—has received limited attention in campaign platforms, according to environmental and anti-corruption groups. Experts say the narrow focus reflects a broader failure to confront what they describe as the country’s largest illicit economy, with consequences for Indigenous communities and public health.
London police arrested 212 people during a Saturday protest against a ban on Palestine Action, which Britain’s government has labeled a terrorist organization. Metropolitan Police said officers detained protesters aged 27 to 82 after the demonstration in Trafalgar Square organized by Defend Our Juries.
LONDON (AP) — British authorities have charged a Sudanese man they allege piloted a boat linked to the deaths of four migrants as they tried to cross the English Channel, the National Crime Agency said. The man, 27-year-old Alnour Mohamed Ali, was charged under a new British immigration law, prosecutors said.
A man fatally shot a Tulare County sheriff’s deputy on Thursday morning while officers served an eviction notice in Porterville, California, prompting a standoff that ended with authorities running him over with a vehicle, Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said. The deputy later died, and residents were evacuated or told to shelter in place for hours while the confrontation unfolded.
The U.S. Coast Guard and authorities in the Bahamas are investigating the disappearance of Lynette Hooker, who vanished while sailing between Hope Town and Elbow Cay. Police arrested her husband, Brian Hooker, and authorities said he told them she fell overboard from a small motorboat, but she has not been found. Her family and an attorney for Hooker say he has been cooperating and denies causing her disappearance.
U.S. Court of International Trade judges heard oral arguments Friday on an effort to overturn temporary global tariffs President Donald Trump imposed after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier emergency-powers approach. The tariffs, set to expire July 24, are being challenged by two dozen states and some businesses, who argue the government is relying on an authority Congress never intended to cover trade deficits.
Calls are growing in Congress for investigations into Polymarket after the platform’s users placed large, highly timed bets on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire shortly before President Donald Trump announced it late Tuesday. The Associated Press reported that newly created accounts placed the trades in the minutes before the ceasefire announcement.
Police arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home after 4 a.m. Friday, authorities said. Less than an hour later, officers detained the same suspect at another business after reports that he threatened to burn down the building, police said.
The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that the city of Boulder cannot charge journalists fees for body camera footage tied to a complaint of officer misconduct. The decision came in a lawsuit from Yellow Scene Magazine after Boulder sought more than $8,000 for footage connected to a December 2023 shooting in which officers killed Jeanette Alatorre.
Prediction markets have increasingly drawn scrutiny as regulators and lawmakers probe whether geopolitics and insider information are being turned into profit online. The Associated Press reported this week that the U.S. government charged a U.S. special forces soldier connected to a January raid on former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with allegations that the soldier used classified information to bet on Maduro’s downfall on Polymarket. Polymarket said it alerted the Justice Department after it determined someone traded on classified government information and cooperated with investigators.
Texas’ highest criminal court overturned the death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan, who had been on death row for nearly half a century, according to a Thursday ruling. Jordan, 70, was convicted in 1978 of murdering Joe L. Williams, a Houston grocer, and was later found incompetent for execution. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated the death sentence and sent the case back to Harris County for a new punishment proceeding, though the Harris County district attorney said Friday it would not seek resentencing.
A Mexican judge ruled that the aircraft involved in a 2018 Cuba crash that killed 112 people suffered severe maintenance failures and should never have flown. The judge ordered charter operator Aerolíneas Damojh to pay millions of dollars in damages to the families of Mexican crew members who sued.
Communities across the United States have pushed back against plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers, as the Department of Homeland Security reviews contracts signed under the agency’s predecessor. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is reviewing a plan to transform warehouses across the country to house tens of thousands of immigrants, the Associated Press reported. In several states, local officials said they were not notified in advance, and in others state or local authorities moved to block or challenge deals.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Louisiana’s GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court job won by exonerated man Calvin Duncan, before his scheduled May 4 swearing-in. Duncan, who was imprisoned nearly 30 years before being cleared, said lawmakers’ move is retaliating against him for insisting on his innocence.
A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking the state’s detailed voter registration records, a new setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain sensitive data on voters. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin said the government failed to make the factual showing required by federal law for such demands.
Vineyard Wind, the developer of a Massachusetts offshore wind project, has sued GE Renewables seeking to stop the company from ending turbine services and maintenance contracts as of the end of April. The dispute follows a July 2024 blade failure that caused fiberglass fragments to wash onto Nantucket beaches and led to a settlement in which GE Vernova agreed to pay $10.5 million to compensate island businesses.
An immigration appeals board has denied Mahmoud Khalil’s bid to dismiss his deportation case, a ruling his lawyers said brings him closer to re-arrest and possible expulsion. The Board of Immigration Appeals issued the final order of removal on Thursday, according to Khalil’s attorneys, in a case that began after a federal crackdown on noncitizens who criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza.
A woman charged in the 2011 killing of real estate agent Ashley Okland pleaded not guilty in Iowa court on April 10, nearly 15 years after Okland was found dead at a model townhome during an open house. Prosecutors say the case stems from an incident Okland’s colleague was hosting in West Des Moines, and court filings described a neighbor’s account of seeing the defendant outside before she drove away and returned.
President Donald Trump shared on Truth Social a video portraying a deadly attack in Florida that authorities allege involved a Haitian immigrant, using it to support his administration’s deportation agenda, the Associated Press reported. Rolbert Joachin, 40, was arrested and charged after a woman was killed at a gas station in Fort Myers on April 2, according to court and law-enforcement records. Critics said Trump’s post demonizes Haitian immigrants and broader immigration protections.
First lady Melania Trump on Thursday denied any connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying “the lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.” Her written remarks left unanswered questions among supporters and critics alike about what prompted the statement, which came after months in which Epstein had receded from Washington’s focus.
Prominent Democrats and labor unions withdrew endorsements for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s California governor bid after he denied multiple sexual-assault allegations, according to statements issued over the weekend. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party figures urged that the matter be investigated and handled outside the gubernatorial campaign, as the race heads toward mail ballots for the June 2 election.
Belarusian authorities detained 52 people at the Minsk offices of ZROBIM Architects in the country’s largest single raid this year, according to human rights monitors. The arrests followed the firm’s founder, Andrei Makouski, posting online that authorities demanded the private company hire a full-time “ideologist” to monitor staff. The Associated Press reported the case as part of what activists described as a new escalation of repression under President Alexander Lukashenko.
Five people have been charged with murder over a July 1 explosion at an illegal fireworks warehouse near Esparto, Calif., that killed seven people, authorities said April 10. The charges stem from a grand jury indictment related to the blast that also injured two others, Yolo County prosecutors said.
A man convicted and later cleared in the killing of Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC will remain in jail as federal prosecutors seek to block his release on $1 million bond, according to a federal appeal filed after a judge granted bail with electronic monitoring. Karl Jordan Jr. was positioned for release on Friday, but the judge agreed to put the bond order on hold while the government’s appeal is argued.
New York City-area jurors finished their first day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict in an antitrust case accusing Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster unit of monopolizing ticketing for live events. The jury in Manhattan federal court asked the judge to review certain testimony and later sought additional trial testimony, with deliberations set to resume Monday, according to the Associated Press.
Nevada has signed a deal with a company called Fog Data Science that may let investigators track cellphone location data without obtaining a warrant, according to privacy experts and legal advocates. The Nevada Department of Public Safety adopted the system in January through a state contract, and the agreement allows more than 250 queries per month. Civil liberties advocates say the arrangement could circumvent the warrant process required for detailed location information under the U.S. Constitution.
First lady Melania Trump denied any ties to Jeffrey Epstein and knowledge of his sex crimes, saying Thursday that “stories are completely false” and that “smears about me” need to end. Speaking at the White House, she urged Congress to hold a public hearing centered on Epstein survivors and to let victims testify.
Federal appeals court judges questioned whether Sean “Diddy” Combs received too long a prison term after his conviction on prostitution-related charges, during oral arguments in New York on Thursday. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not rule immediately. Combs is challenging both his conviction and his four-year, two-month sentence.
NEW YORK — A former New York City police sergeant was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for throwing a picnic cooler at a fleeing suspect in 2023, setting off a fatal crash involving a motorized scooter. Erik Duran, 38, was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Eric Duprey and was taken into custody after sentencing Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s temporary global tariffs are back in court after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier attempt to impose broader tariffs using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Court of International Trade heard oral arguments on Friday. The dispute centers on whether the Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to use temporary, nationwide tariffs to address “trade deficits” through a provision aimed at “fundamental international payments problems.” The tariffs are set to expire July 24.
A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 5,000 Ethiopians, saying it was done “without regard for the process delineated by Congress.” The decision, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, keeps the protected status in place while legal challenges to the administration’s TPS terminations continue.
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday postponed a decision on how Rio de Janeiro state chooses a new governor, extending a three-week political standstill after Cláudio Castro resigned March 23. The case hinges on whether Castro’s successor until January is selected in an early election or by lawmakers in Rio’s state legislature, a question Justice Flávio Dino asked the court to revisit.
Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, is an American citizen who also leads the Catholic Church and Vatican City as a foreign head of state. Legal experts said the U.S. government could “actively review” the citizenship status of Americans who serve in those roles, but federal law and the practical facts of renunciation make termination unlikely.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration an increasing number of emergency docket appeals in part because the conservative justices view blocking executive actions as legally unfixable harm. Speaking Thursday at the University of Alabama School of Law, Sotomayor said the court’s emergency docket approach has shifted the “paradigm” for whether justices grant quick relief.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Pentagon is violating an order meant to restore access for reporters, siding again with The New York Times. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team tried to evade his March 20 ruling by adopting new credential rules that require reporters to be escorted and could bar them from the building. The Defense Department said it complied with court orders and plans to appeal.
A federal judge in Arizona rejected Kalshi’s bid to halt the state’s criminal prosecution of the prediction market operator on wagering charges, saying it was too early in the case to rule on whether federal law overrides state gambling rules. The Arizona attorney general has charged Kalshi with 20 misdemeanor counts of wagering, alleging it accepted bets tied to political outcomes, college sports results and individual player performance.
A New York City man was charged after prosecutors said he set fire to a residential building in Queens last month, killing four people, including a 3-year-old. Prosecutors said the man acted in what he described as a “fit of rage” after losing his job.
New York City — Closing arguments wrapped up Thursday in a Manhattan federal antitrust trial brought by 34 states accusing Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster unit of monopolizing the live concert and raising prices, with jurors set to begin deliberations Friday. In the last presentations, an attorney for the states argued Live Nation violated antitrust laws, while Live Nation’s lawyer said the case failed to prove monopoly conduct and that competition remains strong.
An attorney for a man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an arrest in Patterson, California, says the man denies being a gang member as he recovers after multiple surgeries. Attorney Patrick Kolasinski said federal prosecutors told him Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez is not under arrest, raising questions about why ICE targeted him.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday that state investigators uncovered a hospice fraud scheme involving stolen identities, charging 21 people and arresting 5 so far. Bonta said the scheme used personal information obtained from the dark web to enroll non-California residents in Medi-Cal and then buy hospice companies, billing about $267 million. The announcement came as the Trump administration highlighted anti-fraud enforcement in California and federal officials expanded efforts targeting improper spending in federal benefit programs.
Maryland reached a settlement in principle with the owner and operator of the M/V Dali after the ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024, Attorney General Anthony Brown said. The agreement resolves a portion of the state’s claims, Brown said, and the companies said they also reached a separate settlement agreement with ACE American Insurance Company.
An American man arrested in the Bahamas after his wife vanished while the couple traveled by motorboat denies any wrongdoing, his attorney said. The U.S. Coast Guard has opened a criminal investigation into the case, while Bahamian police said search efforts remain active.
A federal judge in Phoenix rejected a plea agreement for Preston Henry Tolth, who admitted beating a Navajo elder and leaving her for dead, finding the deal would not proceed. Tolth, 26, will now face trial on charges including carjacking and assault tied to the 2021 disappearance of Ella Mae Begay. The case has drawn national attention amid broader concerns about Indigenous people who go missing or are killed.
Weeks after federal agents searched their homes, New York City Council member Farah Louis and her sister Debbie Louis, an aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, appeared Thursday at a rally organized by supporters who said the probe is baseless. The sisters have declined to publicly respond to a federal investigation that is examining whether they accepted bribes to steer city funds to a Brooklyn shelter provider.
The Army ROTC cadets at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, described in an online video how they subdued Mohamed Bailor Jalloh after he entered a classroom and fired at Lt. Col. Brandon Shah during an attack March 12. Shah, who was shot and later died, lunged at Jalloh to shield the class, cadets said, while others rushed in with knives and then shifted to first aid for a wounded instructor.
The California Supreme Court has ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to pause his investigation into election fraud allegations involving ballots from a November 2025 special election while the court reviews the legal challenge to the probe. The order came after state Attorney General Rob Bonta asked the justices to intervene, saying the sheriff lacked authority over election materials.
A Long Island man identified as Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty this week to murder charges in the Gilgo Beach killings, resolving a case that began with a killing more than 30 years ago. The AP said Heuermann entered pleas to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional murder involving seven women, and also admitted to killing an eighth woman.
HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu jury convicted anesthesiologist Gerhardt Konig, 47, of attempted manslaughter in the case accusing him of trying to kill his wife during a scenic hike with ocean views in March 2025. The jury rejected the attempted-murder charge and found Konig was acting under an extreme mental or emotional disturbance, his attorney said he plans to appeal.
Long Island architect Rex Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering seven women and admitting he killed an eighth in the Gilgo Beach serial killings case, prosecutors said. He is scheduled to be sentenced in June to life in prison without parole.
A federal trade court in New York heard oral arguments Friday in a new legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s temporary global tariffs. The case asks the U.S. Court of International Trade to overturn the 10% tariffs that Trump announced after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier, broader tariff plan.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon appeals court sided with PacifiCorp on Wednesday in a ruling that could jeopardize more than $1 billion in damages sought by victims of the state’s devastating 2020 wildfires. The Oregon Court of Appeals sent the class-action case back to a lower trial court after finding the 2023 jury was given an instruction that improperly allowed jurors to apply evidence from multiple fires to all class members.
Hackers backing Tehran said a shaky U.S.-Israel-Iran ceasefire will not stop their retaliatory cyberattacks, warning that U.S. and Israeli targets should take the threat seriously. A group known as Handala said it would temporarily pause attacks on America but continue targeting Israel, and experts warned the pause could shift cyber activity toward U.S. organizations involved in the conflict. The warning came as U.S. authorities issued an advisory about Iran-aligned hackers targeting internet-connected industrial control systems.
More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed globally in the past three years, nearly tripling the death toll from the previous three-year period, the United Nations said April 8. UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the UN Security Council that the surge reflects the “collapse of protection” amid ongoing wars and restrictions on aid.
The U.S. Department of Justice indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear for a House deposition scheduled next week as part of a congressional investigation into how the government handled the Jeffrey Epstein case files. A House Oversight Committee spokeswoman said the panel will contact Bondi’s personal counsel about scheduling a next step after Bondi was ousted from the Justice Department leadership role.
A group of new Polymarket accounts made time-sensitive bets Tuesday on whether the United States and Iran would reach a ceasefire shortly after Donald Trump issued threats over the Strait of Hormuz. An analysis of publicly available blockchain data shows at least 50 newly funded wallets placed substantial “Yes” bets before Trump announced the ceasefire.
A Pakistani man pleaded guilty in federal court to a terrorism charge in connection with a plot targeting a Jewish religious center in Brooklyn, prosecutors said. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan entered the plea in Manhattan on Wednesday, about 18 months after he was arrested in Canada in or near Ormstown, according to the U.S. government.
President Donald Trump’s administration acknowledged this week that it used incorrect figures in support of a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program. The error centered on how many Medicaid enrollees received personal care services, a figure that had been cited by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz in a social media video and in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul.
U.S. abortion opponents are pressing President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration to move faster on restrictions for mifepristone, a drug they say is undermining state abortion bans. A judge in a lawsuit brought by Louisiana’s attorney general opened the door to limiting telehealth prescriptions while declining to block them immediately. The dispute has also highlighted tensions within the broader strategy to counter the availability of medication abortion through online providers.
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic in a dispute over how its Claude chatbot could be used in fully autonomous weapons and surveillance. The ruling differed from a separate decision earlier won by Anthropic in a San Francisco case, where a judge ordered the Trump administration to remove a label branding the company a national security risk.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state Senate Republicans are moving to eliminate an elected Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court post that Calvin Duncan, an exonerated man, won in November. Duncan’s swearing-in was scheduled for May 4 after he won 68% of the vote, but lawmakers voted to scrap the job. He says officials are retaliating against him for seeking to clear his name and for accurately describing his exoneration.
Prosecutors in Florida are seeking subpoenas for Tiger Woods’ prescription drug records from a Palm Beach pharmacy, according to court-docket filings. The request comes a week after Woods’ vehicle crash and his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, and prosecutors say any objections must be filed within 10 days.
Texas cannabis businesses and hemp-industry groups sued Texas state agencies in Travis County to block new rules that they say effectively eliminate smokeable hemp products and raise licensing fees. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, seeks a temporary restraining order against the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a plan to transform warehouses across the U.S. into immigration detention facilities for tens of thousands of immigrants, an Associated Press review of documents and local responses shows. Since Markwayne Mullin was sworn in, the department has paused purchases of additional warehouses and is scrutinizing contracts signed by his predecessor, Kristi Noem.
A Wyoming judge sentenced Cody Roberts, 44, to 18 months of probation for hitting a wolf with a snowmobile, taping the wounded animal’s mouth shut, bringing it into a rural bar and then killing it, according to court proceedings. District Judge Richard Lavery imposed a $1,000 fine and ordered Roberts not drink alcohol, enter a bar or liquor store, or hunt or fish while on probation.
A subsidiary of a Hong Kong conglomerate has started arbitration against Maersk, accusing the Danish shipping and ports group of aligning with Panama in a scheme over the takeover of port operations on the Panama Canal. The claim was filed after Panama seized control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports following a Supreme Court ruling that found a concession allowing the Hong Kong operator unconstitutional, and after the government later moved to have Maersk and MSC take over the operations.
A special prosecutor said a Wisconsin mayor who removed an absentee ballot drop box before the 2024 election will not face charges. Wausau Mayor Doug Diny had moved the box from outside City Hall in September 2024, before voters began receiving absentee ballots, according to the city’s elections clerk. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, acting as special prosecutor, said the evidence would not support a case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bahamas police said late Wednesday they have arrested Brian Hooker, the husband of U.S. citizen Lynette Hooker, after Lynette vanished from a small boat near the Abaco archipelago. The Coast Guard said it opened a criminal investigation, and Bahamian police said search and investigative efforts remain active.
The three former employees of the Psychiatric Institute of Washington have been charged in the death of a patient in 2020, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said. Prosecutors allege the employees failed to provide adequate medical care before the patient died nearly six years ago, and that the neglect lasted at least 21 minutes.
A Brooklyn activist pleaded guilty Wednesday to setting fire to 11 empty NYPD vehicles last summer, according to the U.S. attorney’s office and court filings cited by prosecutors. Prosecutors said Jakhi McCray, 22, admitted to a June 12 arson spree in which police said the fire caused $800,000 in damage to department vehicles, and he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years.
RALEIGH, N.C., (AP) — An Army veteran has been charged with sharing classified information about an elite commando unit with a journalist, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina, is accused of violating federal law and nondisclosure agreements tied to her work at Fort Bragg.
A lawyer for Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez said Mendoza did not try to drive into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest Tuesday in Patterson, California. The Department of Homeland Security said ICE agents fired defensive shots after Mendoza attempted to drive into them. The attorney also disputed federal claims that Mendoza has an arrest warrant in El Salvador.
Paramount confirmed Wednesday that longtime media executive Jeff Shell has “elected to transition” out of his roles as president and board member, while the company faces ongoing litigation related to Shell. The exit comes as Paramount continues efforts to take over Hollywood rival Warner Bros. Discovery, after Skydance’s acquisition closed last August.
A Guatemalan man pleaded guilty in federal court in Laredo, Texas, acknowledging his role in an attempt to smuggle migrants to the United States that ended in a crash in Mexico in 2021. Daniel Zavala Ramos, 42, entered the plea to a federal felony conspiracy charge, the U.S. Department of Justice said, and sentencing is scheduled for July 7.
A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife’s deportation after federal immigration agents detained her inside a Louisiana military base, according to a report this week by The Associated Press. The case has drawn concern from military family advocates who say the detention is demoralizing and could disrupt troops’ readiness during wartime.
Rex Heuermann, the architect accused of the Gilgo Beach killings, pleaded guilty in a New York court to murder charges involving seven women, prosecutors said. He also admitted killing an eighth woman, bringing finality to a case that began more than three decades ago. He is expected to be sentenced in June to life in prison without parole.
Two men charged with bringing homemade bombs to a New York City protest outside the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani were recorded on dashcam audio and video discussing a plan prosecutors say involved killing up to 60 people, according to an indictment released Tuesday.
President Donald Trump’s statements about his administration’s plans for Iran — including threats to target bridges and power infrastructure — have prompted international-law questions about whether such actions could violate laws of armed conflict. Lawyers and U.N. officials said any attack on infrastructure would depend on whether it is a legitimate military target and whether the expected civilian harm is excessive.
Pope Leo XIV said U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to “destroy Iranian civilization” was “truly unacceptable” and warned that attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law. Speaking Tuesday as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo, the pope urged Americans and other people of good will to contact political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and seek peace.
Hawaiʻi lawmakers are considering changes to the state’s criminal code that would shorten probation for some non-violent felonies and reduce penalties for possession of small amounts of drugs. The proposals are part of Senate Bill 2721 and come after research and a penal-code review process raised concerns that long probation terms can lead to unnecessary incarceration for minor violations.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling, has spent much of the past year in and out of detention as courts and the Trump administration fight over where he can be removed. The Associated Press compiled a timeline of key events in his legal battle, including a U.S. Supreme Court order in April 2025 and later challenges to planned “third country” removals to multiple African nations.
A federal judge in Louisiana declined on Tuesday to halt the ability to fill prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone through the mail across the U.S. for now, setting aside Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s bid to pause FDA rules while the state challenges them in court.
American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson was released Tuesday after being kidnapped from a Baghdad street corner last week, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The release followed a statement by Kataib Hezbollah, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed early Wednesday that she was freed and that the United States was working on her safe departure.
President Donald Trump said Monday he could target Iran’s power plants and bridges in a bid to force it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, an approach that legal experts say could violate laws of armed conflict. A United Nations spokesman warned that attacking such infrastructure is banned under international law, while a U.S. defense law expert said the threat did not account for civilian harm. Democrats in Congress and others criticized the broad rhetoric as unlawful, as shipping in the strait remained heavily disrupted.
Arizona lawmakers are considering a new package of bills aimed at mobile home residents, including measures that would limit what park owners can pass through for utility costs and add training requirements for park managers, according to stakeholders and bill summaries provided by the Associated Press. The proposals also include changes to rules on abandoned mobile homes, rental terms and administrative fees as the legislative session proceeds.
Anti-abortion groups are pressing the Trump administration’s FDA to move faster on restricting mifepristone, arguing that online telehealth prescribing undermines state abortion bans. A mixed ruling in a lawsuit brought by Louisiana’s attorney general drew attention to the dispute as the FDA reviews the drug’s safety and the timeline for possible rule changes.
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty April 8, 2026, in the deaths of seven women and acknowledged in court that he killed an eighth, according to the Associated Press. The case began in 2010 when police searching for a missing woman found human remains in scrub along Ocean Parkway on Long Island. Over the next decades, investigators used DNA analysis and other evidence to identify victims and connect remains found years apart.
Texas cannabis businesses and hemp industry groups sued Texas state health agencies to block new smokeable hemp regulations that they say effectively eliminate natural smokeable hemp products and raise licensing fees. The plaintiffs asked a Travis County district court for a temporary restraining order, arguing the agencies rewrote statutory definitions of hemp set by the Legislature in 2019.
Offset, the former member of the hip-hop trio Migos, was shot Monday outside a Florida casino, and police in Hollywood, just north of Miami, detained two people as they investigated who may have fired. The rapper was in stable condition at a hospital Tuesday, authorities said. Here’s a look at his career, his relationship with Cardi B, and past violence tied to the group.
Communities across the United States are pushing back on federal plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants, as the new Homeland Security secretary reviews contracts signed by his predecessor. The Department of Homeland Security has also paused new warehouse purchases while it scrutinizes those agreements, according to the Associated Press.
Prosecutors in Florida said they plan to subpoena Tiger Woods’ prescription drug records from Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Beach, seeking documentation tied to a DUI arrest after a crash on Jupiter Island. Woods pleaded not guilty in the case last week, and prosecutors said the subpoena would cover medication records from the start of the year through the end of last month.
A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department over the fatal 2021 shooting of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta is set to begin trial Wednesday, according to court filings described by The Associated Press. The family alleges the officer’s use of force—and LAPD training and supervision—failed to prevent her death during an attack in a North Hollywood Burlington store. The suit seeks damages from the city and the department, while a civilian oversight board previously found only the first of the officer’s shots was within policy.
WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general elevated to acting attorney general after Pam Bondi was replaced last week, told reporters Tuesday that “nobody” except President Donald Trump knows why she left the post. Asked whether Bondi was removed because prosecutors failed to bring cases against the president’s perceived adversaries, Blanche said he did not know and pointed to Trump’s role in the change.
Parents of a 1½-year-old boy who was hurt at ZooAmerica in Hersheypark after entering a restricted area near a wolf exhibit have been charged with endangering the welfare of children, Pennsylvania police said. The case stems from an incident Saturday shortly before noon, when the toddler slipped through a fence barrier and reached a chain-link enclosure, police said.
A U.S. judge ruled that a customs officer improperly canceled the visa of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos into the country. In a written ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss said Customs and Border Protection lacked authority to cancel visas based on suspected biological-sample smuggling.
The rapper Offset was shot outside a Florida casino and was in stable condition Monday night, a spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday. Police said the injuries were not life-threatening after a shooting that followed a fight at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, just north of Miami.
Ron Gibson, an Indianapolis councilman, said someone fired 13 shots at his home and left a note reading “No Data Centers” on his doorstep. Gibson said he and his 8-year-old son were awakened early Monday but were not injured. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police said officers found evidence of gunshots at a home on East 41st Street after 9 a.m. and that no injuries were reported.
A man was shot and wounded during an ICE immigration arrest in central California on Tuesday, federal authorities said. The Department of Homeland Security said agents fired defensive shots after the suspect tried to run over an officer with his car, and he was later taken to a hospital.
Erick Valencia Salazar, a California man who co-founded the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Washington to a conspiracy charge tied to cocaine distribution for U.S. importation. Prosecutors said he helped run the cartel and coordinated activities including recruitment and gathering information about rivals.
Detained aid worker Joseph Figueira Martin, held in the Central African Republic for nearly two years, was freed Tuesday, his family told The Associated Press. His brother said he could be in Lisbon within hours. The Central African Republic prosecutor’s office had said Martin was arrested in May 2024 on allegations including spying and contact with armed groups to plot a coup.
A North Carolina judge ordered Nigel Max Edge, a Marine veteran facing a murder case from a waterfront bar shooting last year, to undergo psychiatric treatment because prosecutors say he currently cannot understand the legal proceedings. The case had been set for a Brunswick County hearing where prosecutors planned to say whether they seek the death penalty.
A federal immigration judge in 2005 ordered a Honduran-born woman released, and she was later released Tuesday from detention where she had been held nearly a week after being taken into custody on a Louisiana military base, the woman and officials said. Annie Ramos, the wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant preparing to deploy, was released with a GPS monitor while she faces further removal proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security said.
An Army sergeant accused of shooting and wounding five co-workers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, last summer will face a court-martial June 15 after pleading guilty to some charges, according to reporting. The sergeant, Sgt. Quornelius Radford, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and domestic violence, and the judge scheduled him for trial this summer on remaining charges of attempted murder.
The former FedEx driver Tanner Horner pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand after making a delivery at her Texas home, telling authorities he accidentally struck her and then strangled her, according to court proceedings in Wise County. Prosecutors said Horner’s account was false and that jurors would review video and audio from the day Athena was killed before deciding whether he gets the death penalty or life in prison.
A New York judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals over the health of French bulldogs and other brachycephalic or long-backed dog breeds associated with the American Kennel Club. The judge said a New York law cited by PETA was misapplied because PETA is not subject to the AKC’s authority. The American Kennel Club said it prioritizes canine health, while PETA said its lawyers were assessing legal options.
A high school principal in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, was shot in the leg Tuesday after confronting a man who entered the school with a gun, authorities said. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said the suspect, a 20-year-old former student, was taken into custody. Officials said no students were injured in the shooting and the principal was in stable condition.
The U.S. government told a federal judge it still intends to deport Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite a new agreement with Costa Rica to accept some deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries. In court in Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis scheduled further briefing and a new hearing for April 28.
Steve Bannon won a Supreme Court order on Monday expected to clear the way for a lower court to dismiss his criminal contempt conviction over refusing to testify before a House committee. The justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding the conviction, allowing a trial judge to consider a request tied to “the interests of justice,” according to court actions reported by the Associated Press.
Environmental groups asked a federal appeals court panel Tuesday to lift a temporary halt on an order requiring Florida officials to close the state’s Everglades detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The request comes as judges at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned when federal law applies to the state-run facility, which opened last summer to support President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Savannah Guthrie returned to the anchor desk on NBC’s “Today” show on Monday for the first time in more than two months since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared from her Arizona home. Guthrie said as the program opened, “Here we go, ready or not,” and thanked viewers for starting the week with the show.
The two men charged in an alleged March 7 bomb attempt at a New York City protest outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home were recorded discussing a plan prosecutors described as inspired by the Islamic State, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday. Prosecutors said the men traveled from Pennsylvania to Manhattan with homemade explosive devices that they threw during the demonstration, and prosecutors said dashcam footage and other materials show they discussed killing civilians. Both men were detained quickly and are being held without bail.
Chris Taylor, a Democratic-backed candidate and Wisconsin Appeals Court judge, won election to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, defeating Republican-backed Maria Lazar. The win expands the court’s liberal majority as Wisconsin braces for future fights over congressional redistricting, union rights and abortion policy, with a November election and other high-stakes contests looming.
Wisconsin voters will vote Tuesday in a spring election that includes a contest for a new justice on the state Supreme Court and Waukesha’s first open-seat mayoral race in 20 years. The races will be decided in addition to other nonpartisan offices, outside the November elections. Polls close at 8 p.m. local time, and the AP will declare results only when there is no scenario that could allow a trailing candidate to close the gap.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Florida measure Monday that would let state officials designate groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations and remove some students who support them, a plan criticized by free-speech advocates.
Offset, a former member of the hip-hop trio Migos, was shot outside a Florida casino in Hollywood, just north of Miami, and police were investigating who may have shot him, law enforcement said Tuesday. Police detained two people and said the shooting followed a fight at the Seminole Hard Rock casino. Offset was in stable condition at a hospital, officials said.
The wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department over an officer’s fatal shooting of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta is set to go to trial on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. The lawsuit alleges the shooting in a North Hollywood Burlington store began after officers responded to calls about an attack in the building.
Jurors are deciding whether an anesthesiologist tried to kill his wife during a cliffside hike near a popular scenic lookout on Oahu in March 2025. Prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that the doctor struck her with a rock and later tried to stab her with a syringe filled with an unknown substance.
At least 26 people were killed in three separate Easter attacks in northern Nigeria, the Nigerian military and local officials said. The attacks included an assault on the Mbalom community in Benue State, a gunfight involving police in Borno State, and an attack on an Easter service in Kaduna State.
Iowa’s Republican-backed law restricting discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in kindergarten through sixth grade and banning some books in schools will be enforced for now after an appeals court decision on Monday. The ruling from a three-judge panel vacated a lower court’s temporary blocks on portions of the law, according to the Associated Press. Iowa’s attorneys had asked the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn earlier decisions by a federal judge, which had partially limited the state’s enforcement.
A Connecticut judge declared a mistrial in the 1986 murder case of sixth-grader Kathleen Flynn after prosecutors said a retired Norwalk police lieutenant reported receiving information that the girl’s body had been placed in a used body bag at the time. Marc Karun, now 60, is facing murder and kidnapping charges tied to Flynn’s killing in Norwalk.
A federal judge granted $1 million bond to Karl Jordan Jr., who was acquitted of fatally shooting Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, and could be released within days if prosecutors do not appeal. U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall said there is “a real chance” Jordan could be freed soon and warned him he must comply with bond conditions.
Oklahoma City Police Department placed officers on administrative leave after an April Fools’ Day 911 call prank led to a pursuit that was later determined to be false. Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said an internal investigation is ongoing and that officers involved were aware of “a reported pursuit” that included “serious claims” later deemed untrue.
A Spotlight PA review found that five Pennsylvania counties earned more than $21 million in recent years by billing the federal government for detaining immigrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in local jails. The agreements predate the second Trump administration but are drawing new attention as the administration’s mass deportation effort relies on local partners. The payments and cooperation arrangements have sparked pushback at the local level, including changes to one county’s contract with the U.S. Marshals Service.
Savannah Guthrie returned to co-hosting NBC’s “Today” show on Monday, more than two months after her mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared from her Arizona home. Despite a months-long effort involving thousands of law enforcement officers and volunteers, authorities said there has been no sign of the 84-year-old mother of three since she was reported missing Feb. 1.
Minneapolis released a city-owned security video on April 6 showing a Jan. 14 chase and scuffle involving federal immigration officers that ended in a nonfatal shooting. The footage drew scrutiny after the U.S. Justice Department dropped criminal charges against two immigrants in February, prompting a federal probe into whether officers lied under oath. Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement that the video shows the federal government’s account does not match the facts.
A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's effort to collect data from colleges and universities to ensure they are not considering race in admissions. The order follows a lawsuit from 17 Democratic state attorneys general.
Wisconsin voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose a new Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in a race that could keep or shift the court’s liberal majority, and they will also elect Waukesha’s next mayor. The contest includes state Appeals Court judges Chris Taylor and Maria Lazar vying to replace retiring Justice Rebecca Bradley, and a Waukesha mayoral open-seat race after Mayor Shawn Reilly announced he will not seek a fourth term.
The Trump administration has revoked the green cards or U.S. visas of at least four Iranian nationals connected to the current or former Iranian government, the State Department said. Among those affected are relatives of Qassem Soleimani that the government said were arrested by immigration agents and placed in ICE custody.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a $656 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 2019 law allowing victims’ lawsuits to proceed. The appeals judges said the reinstatement followed the “plain import” of the Supreme Court’s decision, reversing a prior ruling that had tossed out the verdicts.
Democratic-backed Chris Taylor won election to Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, expanding the liberal majority on the court as the battleground state faces future legal fights over issues including congressional redistricting and union rights. Taylor defeated Republican-backed Maria Lazar after focusing her campaign heavily on abortion rights, while Lazar warned she would bring a right-wing agenda to the bench.
The Trump administration urged a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order that temporarily halted White House ballroom construction, arguing the shutdown poses national-security risks for President Donald Trump and his family. In a filing, National Park Service lawyers said materials planned for the project would create a “heavily fortified” facility that is safer than current conditions at the open construction site.
Police pursuits have led to at least eight deaths across the United States in less than a week, the Associated Press reported, as some law enforcement experts urged agencies to curb risky, high-speed chases. The incidents include a fatal crash on a rural Alabama road during a state trooper pursuit and multiple deadly crashes during police pursuits in Texas and California.
HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii jury began deliberations Tuesday after prosecutors told jurors that an anesthesiologist tried to kill his wife during a cliffside hike near a popular scenic lookout, including by striking her with a rock and attempting to stab her with a syringe. The doctor’s defense said he acted in self-defense and denied any plans to harm his wife.
The family of a 3-year-old immigrant girl says she suffered alleged sexual abuse while she was in federal custody after U.S. officials separated her from her mother following their border crossing. Her father, a legal permanent resident, said he waited months for release and only learned of the alleged abuse when attorneys began court action.
A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's attempt to collect data from colleges and universities to prove they are not considering race in admissions. The preliminary injunction was granted following a lawsuit by 17 Democratic state attorneys general.
The Trump administration has revoked green cards or U.S. visas for at least four Iranian nationals connected to Iran’s current or former government, Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided this week, the State Department said. The latest actions include the arrest of Qassem Soleimani’s niece and her daughter, who are now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to the department.
The Trump administration urged a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order that temporarily halted construction of a new $400 million White House ballroom, arguing the stoppage creates national-security risks. In a motion filed Friday, National Park Service lawyers said the project—including provisions described as bomb shelters and other security and medical facilities—must continue without interruption as the administration appeals.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on April 5 reinstated a $656 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, reviving a lawsuit brought by Americans killed or wounded in attacks in Israel. The decision followed a June Supreme Court ruling that upheld a 2019 law allowing the victims’ claims to proceed in U.S. court, according to the appeals court’s opinion.
Wisconsin voters will choose a new state Supreme Court justice and cast ballots in Waukesha’s first open-seat mayoral race in 20 years on Tuesday. State Appeals Court judges Chris Taylor and Maria Lazar are running to replace retiring Justice Rebecca Bradley, while Waukesha Common Council President Alicia Halvensleben and state Rep. Scott Allen seek to succeed Mayor Shawn Reilly.
Police pursuits have led to at least eight deaths around the United States in less than a week, according to the Associated Press. In Alabama, four people were killed after a car pursued by a state trooper left a rural road and hit a tree, and in Texas and California, other pursuits ended in fatal crashes.
A 3-year-old immigrant who crossed the border near El Paso last year suffered alleged sexual abuse while in federal custody and placed in foster care, according to a lawsuit described by her legal team and her father. The father learned of the allegations only after turning to the courts. He later reunited with his daughter after attorneys filed a habeas corpus petition.
President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general, a move that capped a contentious run over the Justice Department’s handling of the “Epstein files,” the records sought by victims and political allies alike. The files controversy, with its shifting promises and document releases, became a recurring flashpoint during Bondi’s tenure.
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order that halted construction of a new White House ballroom valued at $400 million, arguing the stop would create national-security risks. The request asks the appeals court to act by Friday and to extend a temporary 14-day pause while the case moves through higher courts.
Georgia lawmakers passed a bill that would let property owners sue local governments if they believe policies banning people from sleeping outside and limiting “sanctuary” cooperation with federal immigration authorities were not enforced. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Houston Gaines, would allow claimants to seek compensation tied to alleged lost property value or costs, if Gov. Brian Kemp signs it.
Appeals court judges on March 30 reinstated a $656 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last June that let U.S. victims pursue lawsuits under a 2019 law. The case was brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act by Americans who said they were killed or wounded in attacks in Israel, according to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A former Utah death row inmate, Douglas Stewart Carter, asked a judge Friday in Provo to dismiss his aggravated murder case ahead of a retrial ordered by the Utah Supreme Court. Carter’s defense argues misconduct by investigators led to constitutional violations and says prosecutors have yet another evidentiary problem, including allegedly suppressed material pointing to other suspects. The judge scheduled a bond hearing for June, and prosecutors have not yet filed a response to the new motion.
A federal judge in Nevada ruled this week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot detain everyone facing deportation under the Trump administration’s “mandatory detention” policy. The decision, issued by U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II, applies to a class of people held by ICE in Nevada and could allow dozens each week to seek release while their cases proceed.
Pam Bondi has been removed as U.S. attorney general after prosecutors failed to secure criminal cases against President Donald Trump’s political enemies. The Justice Department has run into obstacles from judges, grand jurors, and even within its own workforce, and the next attorney general will likely confront the same evidentiary and legal hurdles.
Police pursuits have resulted in at least eight deaths across the United States in less than a week, according to Associated Press reporting that tied the incidents to separate crashes during police chases. In Alabama, four people died in a pursuit crash involving the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, while Texas and California reported additional fatal crashes during police pursuits. The incidents renewed attention on calls from some policing experts to limit high-speed chases unless suspects pose an imminent threat.
A father whose 3-year-old daughter was placed in federal custody after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said her release after months in foster care came only after his case reached the courts. He alleges she suffered sexual abuse while in the foster placement, and his daughter’s lawyer said the abuse was reported to local law enforcement and that a forensic exam and interview took place.
A federal judge in New York gave preliminary approval to a $72.5 million settlement fund that lawyers say could benefit up to 75 women who were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff set a final approval hearing for Aug. 27 and ordered attorneys to submit by Friday a broader list of publications to notify potential Epstein settlement claimants.
A 12-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a classmate who was hit in the head with a metal water bottle during an alleged bullying incident at a Los Angeles school, authorities said April 3. Los Angeles Police Officer Charles Miller said the juvenile was arrested Thursday and that the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office will handle filing charges.
A federal judge in California ruled that Border Patrol agents continued making illegal stops and arrests after she ordered them to stop. In a decision unsealed April 3, Judge Jennifer Thurston said agents “again detained people without reasonable suspicion” in the Central Valley after she issued a preliminary injunction barring them from detaining people without documenting specific facts for the stops.
A former guitarist for the Grammy-winning Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile has been charged with attempted murder after Montgomery County authorities said he chased down and struck a former bandmate’s father with his car in Silver Spring, Maryland. Court records say officers responding to a Sunday report found William Yates, 79, injured in a front yard. Prosecutors allege the attack caused serious injuries, while the defendant’s attorney argues the judge should not keep him detained without bond.
More than a decade of federal oversight of special education in New Orleans charter schools ended after a U.S. district judge terminated a sweeping consent judgment. The decision on March 31 by Judge Jay Zainey ended a court order that had been in place since early 2015, reached in a class-action lawsuit by parents alleging discrimination and inadequate services for students with disabilities.
A second suspect has been arrested in the stray-bullet killing of a 7-month-old girl in Brooklyn, New York, the NYPD said Friday. Police said Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was taken into custody in Pennsylvania by NYPD detectives working with U.S. Marshals, two days after a moped drive-by shooting that authorities said killed the infant.
A Pennsylvania judge cleared the way Thursday for the possible release of an Indian citizen taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after his murder conviction was overturned following four decades in prison. U.S. Immigration Judge Adam Panopoulos said the man, identified as Subramanyam Vedam, showed he was genuinely rehabilitated and would not pose a danger. A federal agency said vacating a single conviction would not stop immigration enforcement as it weighs an appeal.
Kentucky lawmakers overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto to enact a state law aimed at limiting failure-to-warn lawsuits tied to the weedkiller Roundup, which plaintiffs say can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday threw out longstanding litigation over education funding, siding with Republicans who argued judges overstepped. In a 4-3 decision, the justices set aside a 2022 ruling that had let a lower court order taxpayer money to address education inequities.
Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed at least 43 people in eastern Congo in an attack late Wednesday, officials said April 2. The civilians were killed in Bafwakoa village, where fighters linked to the Allied Democratic Forces set homes on fire, according to a civil society member and Congo military officials. Congo’s military said 43 people were killed, while local officials put the toll at least 56 and said several people were missing and at least two were taken hostage.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday he will allow service members to bring privately owned firearms onto military installations. He said he is signing a memo directing base commanders to allow requests “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection,” and that any denial must be explained in detail and in writing.
A man was arrested in Germany after threatening an attack on a high-speed train, police said. Firecrackers set off during the incident led to several people sustaining superficial injuries, according to police reports cited by German media.
The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order that blocked the Pentagon from taking punitive measures against artificial intelligence company Anthropic over a dispute about military use of AI. Department of Justice attorneys filed a notice of appeal in San Francisco federal court, and the Ninth Circuit set an April 30 deadline for the government to file its arguments.
Mississippi lawmakers have sent a bill to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves that would criminalize the distribution of abortion-inducing medication in the state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The legislation adds restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs to a broader drug trafficking bill after lawmakers approved the changes in House and Senate votes Tuesday.
Belarus’s parliament passed a bill on April 2 that would introduce penalties for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, echoing Russia’s restrictions. The bill, approved by the upper house after passage in the lower house, will go to President Alexander Lukashenko for his expected signature. The legislation would punish what it describes as “propaganda of homosexual relations, gender charge, refusal to have children and pedophilia” with fines, community labor and up to 15 days in arrest.
President Donald Trump on Thursday elevated defense attorney Todd Blanche to acting U.S. attorney general, placing a former federal prosecutor who previously represented Trump at the center of the Justice Department’s leadership.
Worcester Superior Court heard pleas of not guilty from a supervisor and two instructors in the Massachusetts State Police tactical unit tied to the death of recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia, who suffered a concussion during sparring and then later died after blunt-force injuries. The supervisor and the two instructors were charged by an investigator appointed by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, and a fourth trooper is set for arraignment in mid-April.
Federal officials arrested eight people they said were involved in health care fraud schemes totaling $50 million in and around Los Angeles, including alleged hospice-center billings to Medicare for patients who were not terminally ill. Prosecutors said some cases involved alleged referrals and payment arrangements tied to hospice enrollment, as well as at least one case involving forged immigration medical documents.
Federal inspectors found dozens of violations of national detention standards at Camp East Montana, ICE’s largest immigration detention facility in Texas, according to a report released after a three-day inspection in February. The report by ICE’s Office of Detention Oversight, mandated by Congress, documented 49 deficiencies involving issues including the use of force and restraints, security, and medical care.
A former Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement officer pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southern Montana, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the officer raped an intoxicated teen and then tried to cover it up after investigators sought video evidence from his patrol car.
The Associated Press released body camera footage Thursday showing Tiger Woods’ arrest on a DUI charge after a crash last week in Florida, including a roadside sobriety test where a deputy told him his “normal faculties are impaired.” In the video, Woods is seen being handcuffed after failing the sobriety test and appearing to yawn and nod off during a ride to the sheriff’s office.
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Stephen Bowen has been charged with premeditated murder in the death of his wife, Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, according to a police affidavit cited by authorities. Police said her death was being investigated as domestic violence after she was found dead at their home when officers were asked to check on her well-being.
Lawyers for deportation defendant Mahmoud Khalil asked Judge Emil Bove to step aside from a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit panel reviewing an earlier decision that moved the Trump administration closer to detaining and potentially deporting the pro-Palestinian activist.
A man killed four children in a machete attack inside a nursery school in Kampala, Uganda, police said Thursday. The suspect gained access to the Gaba Early Childhood Development Program by disguising himself as a parent, police said. Parents gathered outside the school after hearing the attack, and police fired in the air to disperse an angry crowd, according to police.
Governors in Florida and Mississippi signed laws requiring officials to verify voters’ citizenship, drawing immediate court challenges in Florida. The Florida measure requires proof such as a birth certificate, passport or naturalization certificate if a voter’s eligibility is challenged. The Mississippi law takes effect July 1 and adds citizenship checks tied to driver’s license information and annual comparisons with an ICE database, as civil rights advocates warn it could burden eligible voters.
The federal government sued Connecticut, Arizona and Illinois, challenging those states’ efforts to rein in prediction market operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket, the Associated Press reported Thursday. State regulators have issued cease-and-desist orders and, in Arizona, prosecutors filed criminal charges, while federal regulators argue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive oversight.
A three-judge panel assessing a United Nations sexual misconduct investigation into International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan said the prosecutor could potentially resume his duties. The panel rejected the U.N. probe as not conclusive enough, and the final decision now rests with the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared poised to reject President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship, as justices questioned whether his order violates the Constitution and federal law. The dispute centers on whether children born in the United States to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. A decision is expected by early summer.
A federal judge on Thursday ruled against the planned deportation of a 64-year-old Indian citizen in Pennsylvania after his 1980s murder conviction was overturned following decades in prison. The judge said Subramanyam Vedam, known as Subu, proved he was rehabilitated and did not pose a danger to the public.
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump is not immune from civil claims alleging his Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” remarks incited the Capitol attack. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said the Ellipse rally speech “plausibly” falls outside presidential immunity protection under the First Amendment.
BAGHDAD — American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson, 49, was kidnapped in Baghdad after being forced into a car by two men, according to AP. Friends and colleagues said she had received a warning about a militia threat and was seeking routes to reach assignments despite having no work at the time. Her mother said Kittleson had sent photos by email as recently as Monday.
Pennsylvania’s first two years of state investment in indigent defense have led county offices to hire new attorneys and support staff and adopt case management systems, according to reports released earlier this year. The funding also supported statewide standards through a new Indigent Defense Advisory Committee, which has submitted those standards to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for approval. Still, the reports found staffing gaps, turnover and workload pressures that have left the system short of what is needed for adult criminal cases.
President Donald Trump took a front-row seat in the public seating area at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to watch oral arguments over an executive order challenging birthright citizenship, according to the Associated Press. He sat silently with hands in his lap as the justices questioned his administration’s lawyer, and he left during the opposing party’s arguments.
Democrats sued President Donald Trump to block his latest executive order restricting who can vote by mail, arguing the Constitution gives that power to states and Congress. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, is led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic National Committee.
A federal judge in Tyler dismissed a lawsuit brought by Texas churches and national Christian groups that sought to allow churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status. The plaintiffs argued the limits of the Johnson Amendment violated their First Amendment rights, but District Judge Cam Barker said he lacked authority to approve a proposed settlement that would halt the law’s enforcement before taxes were at issue.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office persuaded a securities firm to refund $6.7 million to investors who lost money in an alleged $156 million Ponzi scheme tied to First Liberty Building & Loan.
The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that former county clerk Tina Peters, convicted in an election fraud scheme, must be resentenced because a judge improperly punished protected statements. The court upheld her conviction but said the sentencing judge should not have considered her continued promotion of election fraud conspiracies when he imposed her 2024 prison term.
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that DNA testing has linked Ted Bundy to an unsolved Utah teen’s 1974 death, updating the list of confirmed victims tied to the serial killer. The sheriff’s office said the breakthrough came as investigators built Bundy’s full DNA profile.
In federal court in Miami, lobbyist Brian Ballard testified about what he says were his decisions to cut ties with former Rep. David Rivera after learning in 2020 that Venezuela’s government awarded Rivera a $50 million contract. Ballard, described by prosecutors as a key witness, is testifying in a trial over allegations that Rivera secretly lobbied for Maduro’s government without registering as a foreign agent.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New DNA testing has confirmed that serial killer Ted Bundy was responsible for the 1974 killing of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, a Utah girl who disappeared after leaving a party alone on Halloween night, the local sheriff’s office said. Investigators said Aime was found dead about a month after her abduction in American Fork Canyon, bound and beaten and without clothing.
LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — A judge ordered a quadruple amputee professional cornhole player held without bail as he faces murder charges after his attorney said the shooting of a passenger in his Tesla was self-defense, according to court testimony. Dayton James Webber, 27, appeared Wednesday by videoconference for a bail review in Charles County District Court, after prosecutors said he was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the March 22 death of Bradrick Michael Wells.
A Queens jury convicted Guy Rivera of aggravated manslaughter for the 2024 shooting death of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop, but acquitted him of murder. Rivera, 36, was convicted after roughly three weeks of trial that ended with about eight hours of jury deliberations, according to the Associated Press.
A 7-month-old baby in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet after a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Authorities said a man on a moped shot at a group of adults and children gathered at a street corner around 1:20 p.m., and the child was hit while the suspects fled.
Luigi Mangione’s state and federal trials in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson were both postponed, with the state case pushed to September and the federal case set to begin in late October. New York State Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro rescheduled the state trial from June 8 to Sept. 8, while federal Judge Margaret Garnett moved jury selection to Oct. 5 and said opening statements and testimony in the federal case will begin on Oct. 26.
California officials say a grenade explosion last year that killed three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies involved “willful” safety violations, including failure to provide effective training and leaving explosives unattended. The state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued eight citations and about $350,000 in fines in January, and the department is appealing, according to the state.
A lawyer who sued an upstate New York airport after it rejected her small ad for a sexual-harassment law firm said the message is now displayed at Syracuse Hancock International Airport in a much larger format. Megan Thomas, who argued the refusal violated her First Amendment rights, said a federal judge ruled against the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority and the parties later reached a confidential settlement.
The first foreign troop tied to a new UN-backed gang-suppression force has arrived in Haiti, according to a statement posted by the force. A team from Chad and the force’s special representative, Jack Christofides, entered Port-au-Prince as officials discussed the partnership with Haiti’s prime minister.
A man who helped stage a cross burning that prosecutors said was meant to discourage Colorado Springs’ first Black mayor from running was sentenced in federal court to nearly four years in prison. U.S. District Judge Regina Rodriguez said the cross burning and racial slur on a campaign sign harmed Mayor Yemi Mobolade and his family and affected the city’s election.
Authorities said reports of loud booms in a suburban New York neighborhood this week led to a search of an apartment in White Plains, where prosecutors allege a man was storing more than two dozen improvised explosive devices.
Authorities in Erie County, New York, ruled that the death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar is a homicide, saying it was caused by complications from a perforated duodenal ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. The decision comes nearly a week after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop in February, according to records and advocates.
A California woman who had lived in the U.S. for 27 years was reunited with her daughter this week after a judge ordered her return following deportation to Mexico in February. Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez, a 42-year-old DACA recipient, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after appearing for an immigration hearing and deported the next day.
A jury in Utica, N.Y., convicted former corrections officer Jonah Levi of manslaughter in the fatal beating of inmate Messiah Nantwi on March 1, 2025, Associated Press reported April 1. The jury also found Levi guilty of gang assault and conspiracy, and acquitted him of second-degree murder.
A federal judge dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by the parents of Manuel Paez Terán, known as “Tortuguita,” who was killed in January 2023 during a raid of a tent camp near an Atlanta police training center site. U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg said the officers’ use of force was “objectively reasonable” after Paez Terán fired at troopers and ignored orders.
Prosecutors in Galveston County, Texas, have indicted a man they allege was involved in the “Texas Killing Fields” deaths of Laura Miller, 16, and Audrey Cook, 30, whose bodies were found near Houston in the 1980s. The Galveston County district attorney said the case had been pursued as part of a long-running investigation into the deaths of dozens of women and girls found beginning in the 1970s.
A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from implementing a directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, citing First Amendment protections. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the order is unlawful and unenforceable and said the government cannot target speech it disfavors.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to suspend construction of a $400 million ballroom at the White House after the administration demolished the East Wing to make space for it. The order, issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, bars work from proceeding without congressional approval.
Democrats sued President Donald Trump to block his latest executive order restricting who can vote by mail, arguing that the Constitution gives that authority to states and Congress, not the president. The lawsuit was filed by Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic National Committee and other Democratic organizations, with Trump and senior administration officials named as defendants.
President Donald Trump said he plans to attend Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship. The White House schedule sent to reporters included a stop at the court, where justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down an executive order restricting citizenship for some children born in the U.S.
A three-judge panel in Wisconsin dismissed a lawsuit filed by Democratic voters seeking to redraw the state’s congressional district lines ahead of the November midterm election. The panel said it had “no basis” to find the current congressional map invalid and ruled that only the Wisconsin Supreme Court can decide whether redistricting should be ordered.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in an appeal by Terry Pitchford, a Black man on Mississippi’s death row who says racial bias tainted the jury that convicted him. Justices questioned whether his lawyers objected adequately during jury selection and whether the Mississippi Supreme Court reasonably handled his claims. The case bears similarities to Curtis Flowers, whose death sentence was overturned by the high court in 2019.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a Colorado law that banned “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ minors, saying the measure violates free-speech protections. Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said the law “censors speech based on viewpoint” and sent the case back to determine whether the statute meets a legal standard that few laws pass.
A federal judge in Nevada rejected a bid by conservation groups to block the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron mine, ruling that regulators had properly approved the project and sufficiently examined impacts to an endangered wildflower. The case centered on Tiehm’s buckwheat, whose entire population is confined to a small area within the project site in Esmeralda County.
Israeli police prevented Catholic leaders from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate a private Palm Sunday Mass, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. The police said they approved a “limited prayer framework” for the church, but the Latin Patriarchate said the move was disproportionate and a barrier to freedom of worship. The incident drew criticism from U.S., French and Italian officials.
A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically change the criteria for federal homeless funding is unlawful. Judge Mary McElroy said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new Notice of Funding Opportunity violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling orders HUD to scrap the new policy.
Iraqi security forces are pursuing the captors of American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad, according to Iraqi officials and a U.S. State Department statement. Iraqi authorities said they launched an operation that involved crashes and a vehicle seizure, while the U.S. said it had warned her about threats.
A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday suspended a judge’s order directing the Trump administration to return Voice of America employees from paid leave, court records and filings show. The stay was granted while the government appeals a March 17 ruling, leaving more than 1,000 employees on administrative leave as the case proceeds.
New DNA testing helped tie serial killer Ted Bundy to an unsolved Utah death from 1974, a Utah sheriff said April 1. The confirmation adds to a growing list of victims attributed to Bundy as forensic methods advance, long after Bundy was executed.
Joseph Duggar, the reality TV star from TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” posted a $600,000 bond in Florida and was released to fly back to Arkansas, his attorney said, after an initial court appearance in Panama City on child-molestation charges involving a child under 12.
Jurors in Akron, Ohio, failed to reach a verdict Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged in connection with an alleged $60 million bribery scheme. The deadlock came after more than eight days of deliberations in the six-week trial of former CEO Chuck Jones and former senior vice president Michael Dowling.
A jury is expected to begin deliberating Wednesday in the trial of Guy Rivera, charged in the 2024 shooting death of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller in Queens. Prosecutors said Rivera intentionally shot Diller during a March 25, 2024, traffic stop, while defense attorneys argued the prosecution did not prove the shooting was intentional. The case briefly became a focal point during Donald Trump’s 2024 White House campaign, when the former president attended Diller’s wake and criticized the city’s crime record.
La presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum dijo el lunes que el gobierno venezolano debería poder usar fondos para pagar los honorarios de los abogados del ex presidente Nicolás Maduro en un juicio por narcotráfico en Estados Unidos. Sus comentarios surgen después de que autoridades estadounidenses se negaran a permitir ese pago con recursos del gobierno venezolano.
The Transportation Security Administration detained a U.S. Marine at Palm Springs International Airport in California after TSA personnel found a live 25 mm explosive round in the Marine’s checked baggage, police said. Palm Springs police said the explosive ordnance disposal team confirmed the round was live with X-ray technology and destroyed it in a desert area near Interstate 10.
Three FBI agents fired after participating in an investigation related to President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat have sued to try to get their jobs back, according to a class action filed in federal court in Washington. The agents, Michelle Ball, Jamie Garman and Blaire Toleman, said they were illegally punished for their work and were removed without due process, adding to a broader personnel purge they say has followed the same pattern. The lawsuit names FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi as defendants.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether New York City Council member Farah Louis and her sister Debbie Louis, an aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, accepted bribes tied to city funds for a migrant shelter provider, according to a search-warrant copy obtained by The Associated Press. The warrant, signed March 19, also names Edu Hermelyn, the husband of state Assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who chairs the Brooklyn Democratic Party.
A federal judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to turn over records about Jewish employees to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in an investigation into antisemitic discrimination. The ruling allows employees to refuse participation but says the agency needs the chance to talk directly to potential witnesses. The judge set a May 1 deadline for compliance and limited what Penn must disclose, including not requiring specific employees’ affiliation with a particular Jewish-related organization.
A federal appeals court has rejected a request from dozens of families to reopen a criminal case against Boeing tied to two fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019, court records show. The families had argued the U.S. Department of Justice violated their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act when prosecutors reached a deal that led a lower court to dismiss a criminal conspiracy charge.
The former chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board, Dr. Brian Hyatt, was indicted on federal charges alleging he drugged and abducted patients at a psychiatric facility to increase health care reimbursements, an indictment released Monday said. Federal prosecutors said Hyatt gave patients strong sedatives to keep them at the facility without medical justification.
A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit challenging Colorado and Denver “sanctuary” laws. The judge said the federal government cannot require states or local governments to use their resources to carry out federal immigration enforcement.
Eric Swalwell’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to FBI Director Kash Patel demanding he immediately stop any plan to release records from a decade-old FBI investigation involving the California congressman and a suspected Chinese intelligence operative. The attorneys warned Patel that proceeding would violate federal law and Justice Department policy, and asked for a response within three days.
A woman who escaped from a handcuffed position inside a Muskegon Heights police cruiser by climbing out of a half-open rear window was arrested Tuesday, authorities said. A bystander recorded cellphone video Saturday as the woman squeezed through the window and ran away. Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson identified the suspect as Kendra Aney, 38.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is hearing arguments over whether President Donald Trump’s executive order can restrict birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to people the order says are in the country illegally or temporarily. The case, which comes from New Hampshire, asks the justices to interpret the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and an 86-year-old federal law that has long been read to grant citizenship to most U.S.-born children. For an Argentine immigrant mother in Florida, the dispute is personal: she obtained a passport for her son after his birth, but her lawyers helped her speak anonymously about what the order could mean for his status.
Israel’s parliament passed a law Monday approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure condemned by international officials and rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane. The Knesset vote capped a far-right push to escalate punishment for nationalistic offenses, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the chamber to cast the measure’s most visible support.
A Yemeni lawmaker sued in federal court in San Diego alleging that U.S. military veterans working for a private security firm were hired to assassinate him in 2015 on behalf of the United Arab Emirates. The lawsuit, filed by Anssaf Ali Mayo and unsealed last week, names former veterans and the founder and CEO of Spear Operations Group, a private military contracting firm.
Gov. Greg Gianforte on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 437, a Montana measure that defines sex as male or female based on a person’s reproductive system and updates the state’s legal definitions of “male,” “female,” “sex” and “gender.” The bill, signed nearly a year after it passed the Legislature, follows earlier versions that were struck down in court.
DETROIT — The FBI said Monday that a man who crashed his pickup truck into a major Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was inspired by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, and wanted to harm as many Jewish people as possible.
The Israeli military suspended the Netzah Yehuda battalion after soldiers assaulted a CNN crew in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last week, the army announced March 30. The move came after footage of the incident went viral, including a chokehold of CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond’s team. In a statement, the military said the battalion would resume service after a process aimed at reinforcing its professional and ethical foundations.
A small explosive device was found near an apartment building door in White Plains, New York, after residents reported hearing booms early Monday, police said. City and county police, FBI agents and federal explosive experts spent hours at the scene, and authorities later said there was no threat to public safety.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a ruling blocking an executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily. Federal courts have repeatedly blocked the order, and the hearing centers on how to read the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment.
President Donald Trump plans to attend Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship, the White House schedule shows. The case asks the court to revive an executive order that said children born to parents in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not citizens.
WASHINGTON — The New York Times urged a federal judge on Monday to compel the Pentagon to follow an order that blocked a policy limiting reporters’ access to the Defense Department’s headquarters. The Times said the Pentagon implemented a revised “interim” press policy that works around U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman’s March 20 ruling, which the judge said applies to “all regulated parties.” The Pentagon and Justice Department attorneys told the judge that the Defense Department has complied “in good faith” with the order.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Robert Morris, the founder of Texas’ Gateway Church who pleaded guilty last year to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s, was released early Tuesday after serving six months in an Oklahoma jail. Morris, 64, must register as a sex offender and will be supervised under an interstate compact between Texas authorities and Oklahoma.
Federal court opened a two-week bench trial in Austin on whether Texas prison officials provided insufficient air conditioning, with plaintiffs alleging heat contributed to five inmate deaths. The case follows a March 2025 ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman calling the lack of air conditioning “plainly unconstitutional” in sweltering conditions, according to court filings.
A federal judge dismissed the remaining claim in a lawsuit against Fox News filed by fired journalist Jason Donner, who alleged he was targeted over sick-leave requests and political views. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled the sick-leave dispute was not protected under Washington, D.C.'s sick leave law.
Four men tied to nonprofit BHRAGS Home Care Corp. were arrested Tuesday in a federal public‑corruption investigation targeting city‑funded homeless‑shelter contracts, while a City Council member and a governor’s aide were named in a related search warrant, officials said.
Supporters of César Chavez on Tuesday wrestled with how to honor his legacy after allegations that he groomed and sexually abused women and young girls surfaced in reporting this month. As states and local governments marked what had long been “César Chavez Day,” some officials moved to rename the holiday or cancel celebrations, while others grappled with whether monuments and public recognition can coexist with the claims.
The defense for Tyler Robinson, accused in the Sept. 10 shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, asked a judge to delay a preliminary hearing scheduled for May, saying more time is needed to review evidence and a forensic bullet analysis that could affect the case. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and are working toward presenting enough evidence to proceed to trial.
Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that would require DNA swabs from some immigrants in custody for misdemeanor and felony charges if U.S. immigration authorities issue a detainer. The proposal would apply when Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not pick up the person within 48 hours.
Reality TV star Joseph Duggar posted a $600,000 bond Tuesday in Florida and was set to fly back to Arkansas after his first court appearance in the case, his attorney said. Duggar, 31, is charged in Florida with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and with lewd and lascivious contact.
A jury in Ohio failed to reach a verdict Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged in a $60 million bribery scheme tied to a proposed $1 billion nuclear bailout, court officials said. The judge declared an impasse after more than eight days of deliberations in the Akron case. Prosecutors have said the bribery included payments connected to the state Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, including the chair-to-be, Sam Randazzo.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said his office has paused the probe into election fraud allegations after legal challenges from California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the UCLA Voting Rights Project. Bianco previously said a Riverside County judge approved the seizure of more than 650,000 ballots from the Nov. 2025 election.
The Justice Department sued Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League on Monday, arguing the state violates Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports and by requiring girls to face biological males. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the administration is challenging “flawed state policies” that undermine girls, and Minnesota’s Democratic attorney general said the case is a bid for attention.
A 15-year-old student shot a teacher at a Texas high school and then fatally shot himself Monday morning, authorities said. No other injuries were reported at Hill Country College Preparatory High School in Bulverde, near San Antonio, as investigators sought to understand what led to the attack and how the student obtained the firearm.
Suriname’s former President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, who led an investigation into the 1982 “December killings,” has died at 67, according to AP. Suriname President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons confirmed his death in a social media statement, while international leaders and regional partners including the Caribbean Community and Guyana’s president also mourned him.
Spain’s Catholic bishops and the Spanish government signed paperwork Monday for a new state-involved system to compensate victims of clergy sexual abuse, including cases where offenders have died or crimes are too old to be prosecuted. The deal, effective April 15, creates a one-year window for claims and puts the ombudsman in a final decision role. Archbishop Luis Argüello said the text will not set out compensation amounts in advance, while Justice Minister Félix Bolaños said the process would evaluate cases individually.
OneTaste Inc. co-founder Nicole Daedone was sentenced to nine years in federal prison in Brooklyn on Monday in a forced-labor conspiracy case, prosecutors said. A judge said the sex-focused “orgasmic meditation” program exploited vulnerable women. Daedone was also ordered to forfeit $12 million, and seven victims were awarded about $890,000 in restitution, federal prosecutors said.
The U.S. Marine corporal Andrew Paul Amarillas, an ammunition specialist at Camp Pendleton, was charged in federal court with stealing and selling military weapons and ammunition, including a shoulder-fired missile system, authorities said. Amarillas pleaded not guilty in Phoenix and is accused of transporting the items to Arizona to sell to co-conspirators, according to court documents.
Tiger Woods faces DUI-related charges in Florida after a rollover crash in Jupiter Island, authorities said, including a count tied to his refusal of a urine test. A change to Florida law last year could allow prosecutors to pursue that refusal even without lab results, legal experts said.
President José Antonio Kast said his administration will tighten security at schools after a stabbing left one dead and four wounded, and after a student was detained trying to enter a school with a loaded firearm. Education Minister María Paz Arzola said her office is drafting a bill that would allow teachers to inspect students’ backpacks and that the government will work to expedite metal detectors at schools.
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital has dropped its lawsuit seeking to evict a woman from a room months after she was discharged, the hospital said. The hospital filed for an injunction earlier this month to compel her to leave room 373 and said a hearing scheduled for Monday was canceled after the notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice was filed.
Haiti’s National Police said officers backed by Kenyan police in a U.N.-supported mission helped rescue people after a renewed gang attack in the central town of Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite. Human rights activists and a local activist group said at least 30 people were killed and that dozens more were missing after the gang attacked the Jean-Denis neighborhood.
A federal judge in Washington ruled Friday that the Trump administration can hold a meeting next week to seek a national-security exemption from the Endangered Species Act for expanded Gulf of Mexico oil and gas drilling. District of Columbia Judge Rudolph Contreras rejected a request by the Center for Biological Diversity to pause the Interior Department’s meeting, which the administration says is authorized under a provision tied to national security.
Vermont defended its 2024 climate superfund law in federal court on Monday, as the Trump administration and industry-backed groups urged a judge to throw out lawsuits challenging the measure. The case centers on whether Vermont can require fossil fuel companies to pay for harms tied to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts in the state.
Dozens were arrested in Los Angeles after a “No Kings” rally protesting President Donald Trump’s actions and the war in Iran ended with a dispersal order, Los Angeles police said Sunday. Authorities deployed tear gas near a federal detention center and made arrests after some protesters did not comply, police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by a Black death row inmate from Mississippi, setting oral arguments for Tuesday. The case, involving Terry Pitchford’s 2004 conviction and death sentence, centers on claims that prosecutors dismissed Black jurors in a discriminatory way during jury selection.
Violence erupted early Sunday in Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, Haiti, when the Gran Grif gang fought with a vigilante group, regional officials confirmed to The Associated Press.
Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, charged with the Sept. 10 shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus, have asked a judge to delay a preliminary hearing scheduled for May. The defense says it needs more time to review a large volume of material and points to a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ballistics analysis they argue cannot conclusively match a bullet fragment to a rifle found near the scene, according to court filings.
Police in Derby, England, arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a car hit pedestrians in the city center, sending seven people to hospitals, the Derbyshire Constabulary said. The incident happened at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday on Friar Gate, a popular night spot.
A federal judge ruled Friday that Minnesota can keep offering in-state tuition and scholarships to some immigrants without legal status, rejecting a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. The decision by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez followed legal fights between the federal government and Minnesota officials over immigration enforcement.
PARIS — French police thwarted a suspected bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris, authorities said Saturday. One suspect was detained and another escaped, and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into alleged terrorism-related offenses.
A U.S. appeals court overturned a $16.1 billion judgment against Argentina connected to the 2012 nationalization of energy company YPF, a case that U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska had ordered to be compensated. Argentine President Javier Milei celebrated the ruling and said his government sent a bill to Congress to limit expropriations and adjust compensation.
A pledge master for a fraternity at Northern Arizona University was indicted Friday on a felony hazing charge in connection with the death of a student who died after a night of drinking at a rush event, according to court and university statements. The charge alleges Carter Eslick caused or forced the drinking that led to Colin Daniel Martinez’s death on Jan. 31.
A Moroccan court sentenced rapper Souhaib Qabli, known as L7assal, to eight months in prison for insulting what a judge described as a constitutional body, his attorney said. The case stems from songs critical of Morocco’s 2020 normalization of ties with Israel and of corruption and limits on speech, according to the court ruling and reporting.
A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida’s state-run immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” must provide detainees better access to their attorneys. U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell issued a preliminary injunction requiring officials to allow timely, free, confidential, unmonitored, and unrecorded outgoing calls, among other requirements.
Five men involved in a fatal shooting at a sweet 16 party in Alabama were sentenced Friday to five years in prison after taking plea deals, according to the Associated Press. The plea agreements drew criticism from some victims’ family members as details of the Aug. 2023 attack in Dadeville came through the case.
Four of seven law enforcement officers in Costilla County, Colorado, including Sheriff Danny Sanchez, were indicted by a grand jury on criminal misconduct charges, prosecutors said March 27. The charges include allegations involving the handling of human remains found in October 2024 and a separate case involving the use of a Taser during a February mental health crisis. District Attorney Anne Kelly said the office will pursue the cases regardless of who is accused.
Police in Nepal arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak early Saturday, days after a new government took office, over deaths during violent protests in September that toppled the previous administration.
Nestlé says about 12 tons—413,793 KitKat candy bars—were stolen after a shipment left the company’s production site in Italy and was headed for Poland. The Swiss company said the vehicle and its load were still missing as of Friday.
The FBI Director Kash Patel said a pro-Iranian hacking group claimed Friday it had hacked his personal account and posted what it said were years-old photos and documents. The group Handala said in a message that Patel would see his name among successfully hacked victims and offered downloadable emails and other records. The FBI said it was aware of malicious actors targeting Patel’s personal email information and that the information at issue is historical and involves no government information.
Tiger Woods was arrested Friday after a car crash in Florida in which he struck another vehicle and rolled his Land Rover near his home on Jupiter Island, authorities said. The arrest was tied to signs of impairment, his refusal to take a urine test and a Breathalyzer result that came back negative, officials said. He was charged with driving under the influence with property damage and with refusal to submit to a lawful test, both misdemeanors.
Idaho lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that would broaden the state’s criminal law covering sexual contact by prison and jail staff with inmates, making it easier for prosecutors to bring charges. The measure, House Bill 696, now awaits final approval from Gov. Brad Little.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the UCLA Voting Rights Project filed legal challenges this week seeking to stop a Republican sheriff’s seizure and recount of more than half a million 2025 election ballots in Riverside County. The dispute escalated as Bonta urged the court to act quickly, while Sheriff Chad Bianco said his office’s probe was approved by a judge and said it seized additional boxes of election materials.
California lawmakers voted to audit the operation of joint intelligence centers known as fusion centers, a move lawmakers and advocates say is aimed at limiting how state and local police share information with federal immigration authorities. The audit was approved Tuesday by the Joint Committee on Legislative Audit, with State Auditor Grant Parks selected to conduct the review.
Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam fired Officer Joseph Magnano after body-camera footage showed Magnano began shooting about 30 seconds after arriving at the scene of a Feb. 27 killing of Steven Jones, a Black man in a mental health crisis.
A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to protect former first lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning, authorities said. The agent was not in the area where Biden was, and Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the injury occurred during what he called a “negligent discharge” of the agent’s firearm.
A stabbing at a school in Calama, in Chile’s northern Antofagasta region, killed at least one person and injured four others on Friday, police said. Carabineros said a 12th-grade student attacked three students and two staff members, and police later subdued and detained the attacker.
A federal judge dismissed charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying parts of a warrant used to enter Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was shot to death, court papers show. U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson issued the dismissal after prosecutors asked the court to throw out the case. Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany had faced federal charges tied to allegedly false statements in the warrant.
Un hombre apuñaló a una mujer en una tienda de Pokémon en el centro de Tokio antes de suicidarse, según la policía japonesa. La agresión ocurrió en un popular centro comercial en el edificio Sunshine City, donde la tienda estaba rodeada de clientes. La policía investiga el ataque como un asesinato premeditado.
A musician who canceled a Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s influence over the venue has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit the performing arts institution filed. Chuck Redd’s lawyers said in a motion filed in D.C. Superior Court that he was not contractually obligated to perform because the Kennedy Center’s contract was never signed.
A man accused of planning to firebomb the home of Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani was arrested after a weekslong undercover operation led by the New York City Police Department, authorities said. The alleged plot targeted Kiswani, a longtime pro-Palestinian organizer in Brooklyn who leads protests against Israel and the war in Gaza through Within Our Lifetime.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a rule that automatically sent people convicted of second-degree murder to life without parole. The court said the mandatory penalty violates the state constitution’s ban on cruel punishment when it is imposed without closely examining a defendant’s specific role and culpability. In Derek Lee’s case, the decision orders resentencing and pauses the ruling for four months while the Legislature considers possible remedies.
A federal judge in North Carolina upheld the state’s photo voter identification requirement on Thursday, rejecting arguments from civil rights groups that Republicans enacted it with discriminatory intent. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs set aside the groups’ claims and ruled the law may continue to be enforced in upcoming elections.
A man who fled to China after leaving an explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been indicted with his sister on federal charges in Florida, according to a U.S. prosecutor. Prosecutors also said their mother was detained pending deportation after overstaying her visa.
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily halted the scheduled execution of former police officer James Aren Duckett, convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, according to court actions reported by the Associated Press. The stay came after the court ordered the state to address the status of Duckett’s pending DNA testing by Friday afternoon.
An appeals court has paused lower-court orders that restricted federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, the Associated Press reported. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump administration’s request for temporary administrative stays in two related cases.
The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that immigrants can be detained without bond while their deportation cases proceed, siding with the Trump administration’s position on bond hearings. The decision overturned a Minnesota ruling that had required a bond hearing for Joaquin Herrera Avila, a Mexican national arrested in Minneapolis for lacking documents.
Rex Heuermann, charged in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial killings, is expected to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing scheduled for April 8, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke to The Associated Press anonymously because the plea had not yet been entered. He is 62 and has been in custody since his arrest in July 2023.
Attorneys for Fulton County and the Trump administration argued in U.S. District Court in Atlanta on Friday over Fulton County’s demand that the FBI return seized 2020 election ballots and related materials. Fulton County’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, described the January seizure as “unusual” and said the search-warrant affidavit did not allege a specific crime. Federal prosecutors, including Justice Department criminal division assistant attorney general A. Tysen Duva, said the investigation has a basis and that the government already provided the county with digital copies.
Italian authorities have seized property, artworks and financial assets worth about 20 million euros ($23 million) in and around Florence that were allegedly bought with money stolen from Ursula Andress, Italy’s financial police said. The seizures follow an investigation launched after Andress reported to Swiss authorities that financial advisers swindled her out of assets, authorities said.
The New York City Police Department said an 83-year-old man who was shoved onto Manhattan subway tracks last weekend later died from his injuries. Police said Bairon Hernandez, 34, was arrested after the incident and has now faced upgraded charges, prosecutors said Thursday.
A federal judge in Minnesota extended a preliminary injunction requiring U.S. immigration authorities to ensure detained immigrants can contact lawyers quickly after arrest and before being transferred out of state. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel said the government had put “obstacle after obstacle” in the way of attorney access and private communication.
A video obtained by The Associated Press shows 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being escorted through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and flown on a Delta Air Lines commercial flight to Texas for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. The father, Adrian Conejo Arias, is seeking asylum from Ecuador, and the family’s lawyer said they plan to appeal after an immigration judge denied the asylum request.
A Minneapolis woman who confronted federal immigration officers alongside Alex Pretti in January told a news conference Thursday that she watched agents shoot and kill him and described her own alleged mistreatment afterward. Georgia Savageford, who introduced herself as Wynnie, said she was shoved, tackled, handcuffed, and held at an ICE facility for about 12 hours without being charged. Lawyers also said they have filed complaints seeking potential class-action litigation over allegations of excessive force during protests and monitoring of immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
A New York town highway superintendent was convicted of assault and firearms charges after shooting and wounding a lost DoorDash delivery driver, prosecutors said. John Reilly III, of Chester, is facing up to 25 years on the top charge, with sentencing set for May.
Phoenix-based authorities say Arizona’s Supreme Court has issued a warrant setting a May 20 execution date for Leroy Dean McGill, convicted in the 2002 death of Charles Perez. McGill’s attorneys asked the court to pause the warrant while they pursued legal claims, including that jurors received incorrect instructions during the sentencing phase.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the parent company of SeaWorld and Busch Gardens theme parks on Thursday, alleging the company’s ban on wheeled walkers with seats violates federal disability civil-rights law. The department asked a federal judge in Orlando to set a jury trial to determine whether United Parks & Resorts must change its policy and pay damages for visitors allegedly blocked since the ban began last November.
A Honolulu man who was wrongfully arrested and detained at a Hawai‘i state psychiatric hospital for years due to mistaken identity is set to receive a $975,000 settlement from the City and County of Honolulu, according to a lawsuit described by the Associated Press. Joshua Spriestersbach, who was arrested in 2017 for an outstanding warrant tied to another man named Thomas Castleberry, was later released on Jan. 17, 2020.
Un juez federal en Nueva York presionó el jueves al gobierno de Donald Trump sobre su argumento para impedir que el gobierno de Venezuela pague los honorarios legales del expresidente Nicolás Maduro y su esposa, Cilia Flores, en un juicio por narcotráfico. El juez Alvin Hellerstein cuestionó por qué ese fundamento seguía vigente tras una distensión parcial entre ambos países, y dijo que el derecho a la defensa es “el derecho constitucional” aplicable.
A judge on Thursday ruled that Antoine Watson, convicted in the 2021 death of Thai immigrant elder Vicha Ratanapakdee in San Francisco, can avoid prison time after receiving credit for time already served, with the remaining sentence suspended if he follows probation rules. Watson, 25, was sentenced to eight years for manslaughter in Ratanapakdee’s death.
San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez said her office lacks staff to investigate every allegation at detention facilities, after officials questioned a 2020 memorandum of understanding that appears to delegate sexual-assault investigations at the privately run Otay Mesa facility to CoreCivic. The questions follow a CalMatters and Associated Press investigation that reported at least seven reported sexual assaults at the center in 2025 were not investigated by the sheriff’s office.
More than seven months after an Aug. attack on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters left windows riddled with bullets, the federal government has not yet replaced the damaged “blast-resistant” windows, the agency’s acting chief said March 25. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told employees that replacement work is under way, with officials saying each window must be custom-made and installation depends on weather.
Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and pursued a prolonged court fight with her family, received life-ending medicine in Barcelona on Thursday, according to the Associated Press. Her case drew national attention in Spain, where the law on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide took effect in 2021. An appeal by her father and a subsequent bid to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights were unsuccessful.
Two landmark jury verdicts in New Mexico and California have found Meta and YouTube liable in lawsuits brought by officials and individuals who say popular social media and video platforms harm children’s mental health. The awards total $381 million, but both Meta and Google say they plan to appeal, and legal experts say it is unclear how much the rulings will change platform design.
The U.S. Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit brought by former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for about $1.2 million, court papers filed this week show. The settlement resolves Flynn’s 2023 suit in which he claimed the Russia case against him amounted to malicious prosecution.
Savannah Guthrie said her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, was likely kidnapped, describing in an interview on NBC’s “Today” how doors were propped open at the Arizona home where Nancy disappeared. Guthrie also recounted making sense of ransom notes, seeing surveillance video of a masked man at the front door, and how family members responded as investigators worked.
A quadruple amputee professional cornhole player accused of fatally shooting a man in Maryland waived his right to an extradition hearing while appearing by video from a Virginia jail, according to court coverage. Dayton James Webber, 27, said he was trying to return to Maryland as he was transferred to face charges there, where prosecutors have said he will be charged with first-degree murder.
Rep. Joyce Beatty is asking a federal judge to block efforts to attach President Donald Trump's name to the Kennedy Center. In a motion filed Wednesday, Beatty argues that Congress intended the Kennedy Center to be named solely for President John F. Kennedy.
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge pressed the Trump administration on Thursday about its legal basis for barring Venezuela from paying former President Nicolás Maduro’s court costs in a U.S. drug trafficking case in which he is jailed in Brooklyn. Judge Alvin Hellerstein questioned the government’s argument that allowing the funds would “undermine the sanctions,” after the U.S. and Venezuela have warmed relations.
The U.S. military said it carried out a strike Wednesday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people, as the Trump administration pushes a campaign against suspected traffickers in Latin America. The attack, carried out in coordination with targeting practices in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, came amid the administration’s ongoing operations tied to the war against Iran, according to the Pentagon and critics.
Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation in New Jersey on Wednesday limiting face coverings worn by law enforcement, including federal ICE agents, making the state the second this year to enact such a restriction. Sherrill said the measure is part of a package aimed at protecting privacy, rights, and trust between officers and communities, and it also requires officers to present identification before arresting or detaining someone.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland released a letter Wednesday that quotes a newly disclosed Justice Department memo describing what federal prosecutors said they found after a June 2022 flight from Washington to Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. Raskin, the top House Judiciary Committee Democrat, said the memo described a classified map prosecutors believed Trump may have shown passengers aboard. The White House disputed the letter’s claims, and Raskin said he is seeking additional information from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
A Colorado mother whose son died after buying fentanyl-laced pills through social media said this week’s jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube open the door for companies to be held responsible for harms to children. Kimberly Osterman said the verdicts support holding platforms accountable for how they are designed and marketed to young users.
Michigan’s Department of Corrections has launched a new “safe prisons initiative” aimed at reducing assaults in state prisons and improving conditions for inmates and officers, the department said Friday. The plan includes changes to prisoner programming, staff training and support, and review of segregation needs and housing classifications for violent inmates. Michigan prison officials also cited continuing increases in assaults against employees and prisoners last year.
A judge heard arguments Friday in a legal fight over whether the FBI should return seized 2020 election ballots and related materials to Georgia’s Fulton County. Fulton County lawyers argued the January seizure was “unusual” and not supported by probable cause, while federal prosecutors said the Justice Department still needs the physical records for its investigation.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has threatened to sue Helena after accusing the city of violating a state law that bars municipalities from giving refuge to undocumented immigrants. At a Feb. 11 press conference, Knudsen said Helena’s city council was “thumbing its nose” at the legislature for a January resolution that directs the city police not to assist federal immigration agents. A special meeting is scheduled for March 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Helena Civic Center, where Helena officials are set to discuss possible changes.
The man accused in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial killings is expected to change his plea to guilty at his next court appearance, according to two people familiar with the decision. Rex Heuermann, 62, is scheduled to be back in court on April 8, prosecutors say DNA evidence, cellphone data and other material connect him to seven victims.
Two teenage boys who used artificial intelligence to create fake nude images of classmates in Pennsylvania received probation on Wednesday after dozens of victims described the images’ impact on them. Authorities said the boys used school and social media photos from 2023 and 2024 and morphed them with images depicting nudity or sexual activity.
A jury in Racine County convicted Wisconsin resident Harry Wait of election fraud and identity theft after prosecutors said he requested ballots for state House Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent. Wait was found guilty of two misdemeanor election-fraud counts and one felony identity-theft count, and he was acquitted of a second identity-theft count.
U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments on Monday over whether states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, and election officials said a decision could force last-minute changes to November midterm plans. Nevada’s top elections officer described the need to educate voters well before the vote, while election administrators and advocates warned that tighter deadlines could disrupt already-prepared outreach.
A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and safety through its social media platforms, and concluded the company violated state law. The nearly seven-week trial ended with jurors awarding penalties that prosecutors said were far less than the amount they sought.
Law enforcement officials said they are taking steps to monitor and counter threats to Jewish and Muslim communities nationwide, citing a rise in hateful incidents and an attempted terror attack tied to the Israel-Hamas war. The efforts include security changes at places of worship and investigations into extremist activity after incidents involving a Michigan synagogue and violence elsewhere in the U.S.
A federal prosecutor conceded in a sealed hearing that prosecutors had “essentially zero evidence” to suspect Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of a crime, a transcript shows. Eight days later, Chief Judge James Boasberg quashed Justice Department subpoenas to the Federal Reserve as prosecutors’ basis was “thin and unsubstantiated.”
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump, a ruling that gives Republicans a better path to winning an additional U.S. House seat in the November midterms, according to the Associated Press. Opponents filed a referendum effort after the decision, and other lawsuits are still pending, leaving uncertainty about whether the new map will ultimately take effect.
The Senate confirmed Colin McDonald, a veteran federal prosecutor, to lead a new Justice Department division focused on prosecuting fraud nationwide. The vote was 52-47 on Tuesday, despite critics raising concerns about the White House’s influence over investigations and prosecutions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed whether the Trump administration can revive an immigration policy known as “metering,” which limits asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border. The dispute centers on whether the Immigration and Nationality Act’s requirement that asylum applicants “arrive in” the United States applies to migrants stopped on the Mexico side of the border. The court heard arguments from the Justice Department and from advocates including the American Immigration Council.
President Donald Trump showed a classified map to people aboard a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club, according to a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin to Attorney General Pam Bondi released Wednesday. Raskin said the allegations come from a January 2023 Department of Justice memo prosecutors wrote as they pursued a felony indictment in the special counsel’s classified documents investigation. The White House denied the claims, saying Raskin lacks credibility.
California sued the Trump administration Monday in federal court to block what state officials call an emergency order that would restart a long-shut offshore oil pipeline on the Santa Barbara coast. The state says the March 13 order by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright overreaches under the Defense Production Act, while the Trump administration has sought to force the restart of the system owned by Sable Offshore Corp.
Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, seeking court-ordered access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers, including the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and a separate shooting that left Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis wounded.
Federal judge Rita Lin questioned the Pentagon’s reasons for labeling Anthropic a security threat during a 90-minute hearing in San Francisco on Tuesday, as the company seeks emergency court relief to remove what it says is an unjustified stigma. Lin said she was troubled the government’s actions did not appear tailored to national security concerns, according to the Associated Press.
A jury in New Mexico found Meta platforms harmful to children’s mental health and imposed a $375 million penalty, the first verdict in this year’s wave of child safety lawsuits targeting social media companies. The decision came after a nearly seven-week trial over allegations that Meta violated state consumer protection law and engaged in misleading and “unconscionable” practices related to child sexual exploitation and mental health harms.
The NAACP has hired ex-Justice Department civil rights chief Kristen Clarke to lead its legal advocacy as general counsel, the organization announced March 25. Clarke will oversee the NAACP’s legal strategy and operations and lead litigation efforts on voter access, gerrymandering and the First Amendment, among other civil-rights and social-justice issues.
A California man serving life for his wife’s 1982 murder told the parole board he wants to be released later through the courts, not earlier through parole, as he contests his conviction tied in part to the death of his K-9 partner. Paul Kovacich, 76, argued that newly uncovered FBI misconduct should overturn his 2009 cold-case conviction, and his defense says suppressed evidence bears on how the dog, Fuzz, died.
Two 14-year-old boys in Pennsylvania were sentenced to probation after admitting they used artificial intelligence to create fake nude images of classmates, prosecutors said. Lancaster County Day School students and families described how having to identify their faces in the images affected them. Judge Leonard Brown ordered 60 hours of community service, no contact with the victims and restitution, with the case potentially expunged after two years if no further legal trouble arises.
A Georgia judge on Monday set a $1 bond for a murder charge faced by Alexia Moore, who is accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion. Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby said during the bond hearing the charge was “extremely problematic” and would be “a hard charge to convict upon.” Police arrested Moore earlier this month after an arrest warrant described a second-trimester pregnancy and a fetus that survived about an hour after delivery.
A new report by Everytown for Gun Safety says guns bought in southern states by “straw purchasers” are trafficked to cities and states with stricter firearms laws, sometimes through licensed retailers that advocates say ignored red flags. The report traces more than 250 guns bought over three years from nearly two dozen Academy Sports + Outdoors stores, and it cites court documents involving straw buyers. The group also points to federal ATF findings on interstate trafficking routes and urges sellers to prevent illegal sales when they have reasonable cause.
Savannah Guthrie appealed for help finding her 84-year-old mother after NBC aired a brief segment of her interview with Hoda Kotb on Wednesday’s “Today.” Guthrie, speaking in a tearful first interview since her mother was reported missing on Feb. 1, said “someone needs to do the right thing” and urged anyone with information to come forward.
Texas will require many people seeking professional licenses to prove they are in the country legally, after the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation approved a rule change on Tuesday. The move, set for implementation May 1, would affect licensing across multiple industries that require state authorization, while officials said noncitizens may still qualify under federal exceptions.
A jury trial began in upstate New York for former prison guard Jonah Levi, charged with murder in the death of inmate Messiah Nantwi after a beating at Mid-State Correctional Facility. Prosecutors said Levi repeatedly stomped on Nantwi’s head during a brutal assault by multiple guards on March 1, 2025, while a prosecutor described the death as resulting from massive head trauma. Levi’s attorney said the force used that day was justified and that Levi did not use force that led to Nantwi’s death.
Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday that it arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on a U.S. Park Police officer who was shot while driving in an unmarked vehicle. The officer was wounded Monday evening in a Washington neighborhood near its border with Maryland, and later was released from a local hospital, according to authorities.
A jury in Racine County, Wisconsin, convicted Harry Wait of election fraud and identity theft for requesting absentee ballots from Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Mayor Cory Mason without their consent. Jurors found Wait guilty of two misdemeanor election fraud charges and a felony identity theft charge after a two-day trial. A sentencing date has not been set, and his attorney did not respond to an inquiry about whether he plans to appeal.
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, several election officials and voting-rights advocates say shifting mail ballot deadlines could disrupt how November midterm elections are run. Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said his office is preparing for a potential change this June, including figuring out how to inform voters on short notice.
Georgia lawmakers advanced a bill that would require weapons-detection systems in public schools, with the goal of checking students every school day. The bill is aimed at preventing copycat gun violence after the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting that killed four people. Its amended version cleared a Georgia Senate committee, setting up votes in the final days of the 2026 legislative session.
London police said four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set on fire early Monday in the Golders Green neighborhood, and investigators are treating it as an antisemitic hate crime. The Metropolitan Police said counterterror officers are involved as detectives work to determine whether an online claim of responsibility by an Islamist group with alleged links to Iran is authentic.
The Pentagon will close the “Correspondents’ Corridor,” a long-used media area in the building, after a federal judge ordered it to reinstate press credentials for New York Times reporters, a department official said Monday. The changes will also remove Pentagon media offices, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said last week he found the credentialing policy sought to limit access to “disfavored journalists,” a ruling the department said it plans to appeal.
Law enforcement officials said they are taking steps to monitor and counter threats to Jewish and Muslim communities nationwide following a March 12 attack at a synagogue in Michigan and other hateful incidents since the start of the Middle East war. Federal and local agencies discussed strategies at a national security briefing organized by the Secure Community Network ahead of Passover.
A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and safety and violated state law, issuing a verdict that signals a widening willingness to pursue tech companies for harms to minors. The decision caps nearly seven weeks of trial, though a May phase will determine whether Meta’s platforms created a public nuisance and what programs the company would fund.
Armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in tactical gear were seen Monday at TSA security checkpoints at multiple major U.S. airports, after President Donald Trump ordered their deployment during a partial government shutdown that has disrupted air travel. The AP reported observations at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International, John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International, George Bush Intercontinental and Louis Armstrong International, while other airports confirmed ICE would be on-site.
A federal judge quashed subpoenas tied to a Justice Department investigation of a $2.5 billion Federal Reserve renovation, after a prosecutor privately conceded in a sealed hearing that he lacked evidence of a crime involving Chair Jerome Powell. Chief Judge James Boasberg said prosecutors had produced “essentially zero evidence” and their justification for the subpoenas was “thin and unsubstantiated.”
Travel disruptions worsened Tuesday as senators raced to salvage a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including airport workers who have been going without pay. Under the emerging plan discussed with the White House, lawmakers would fund most of the department but not the immigration enforcement and removal operations that have been central to the dispute. The talks intensified as long airport security lines stretched in cities including Houston, Atlanta and the Baltimore/Washington area, and the Transportation Security Administration faced large call-out rates.
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan on March 24, a decision that gives Republicans a better chance of winning an additional U.S. House seat in this year’s midterm elections. Opponents have filed more than 300,000 petition signatures seeking a statewide vote on the map, and the new districts could still face further court challenges.
The Senate confirmed Colin McDonald, a veteran federal prosecutor, to lead a new Justice Department division focused on prosecuting fraud nationwide, according to an Associated Press report. The vote was 52-47, with critics raising concerns about how the effort could be influenced by politics as the White House seeks a larger role in shaping the unit’s priorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Trump administration can revive a restrictive asylum policy known as “metering,” which has been used to turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Conservative justices appeared receptive to the Justice Department’s request to overturn a lower-court ruling against the practice, while others questioned how it would affect people who enter illegally versus those seeking legal entry.
A South Florida judge cleared three more police officers of wrongdoing in the 2019 shooting death of a UPS driver who was taken hostage during a robbery. Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled the officers could not be prosecuted because Florida’s “stand your ground” law justified the shooting. The Broward State Attorney’s Office said it will appeal the four rulings.
ICE officers have been deployed to select U.S. airports to help mitigate long security lines fueled by staffing shortfalls tied to a partial government shutdown, according to a report released by the Associated Press. The move comes as President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda places ICE at the center of enforcement, raising questions about how effectively ICE can assist with aviation-related screening and crowd control.
An explosion in Nigeria’s north-central Kwara state has killed at least one person and injured an unspecified number of people, police said Monday. The blast was believed to be an improvised explosive device in a village near Woro in the Kaiama district, where a commercial vehicle was traveling toward Niger state.
The Supreme Court sounded skeptical Monday of state laws that allow election officials to count some mail ballots arriving after Election Day, a target of President Donald Trump. The justices heard arguments in a case from Mississippi that asks whether federal law sets a single Election Day deadline that requires ballots to be both cast and received.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a lawsuit by Texas-based citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, known online as “La Gordiloca,” over her arrest in a case that drew national attention. The justices left in place a divided ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals holding that Villarreal could not sue police officers and other officials over her arrest for seeking and obtaining nonpublic police information.
A coalition of cultural and historic preservation groups sued President Donald Trump, the Kennedy Center and others in his administration on March 23, seeking to block further physical changes to the Kennedy Center ahead of a two-year closure. The lawsuit says Trump’s hinted, more substantial overhaul should instead go through the standard review process used for major projects in Washington.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin questioned why the Trump administration denounced Anthropic as a security threat in a legal fight over a “supply chain risk” label tied to Pentagon AI use. During a hearing Tuesday in San Francisco, Lin pressed both sides on whether the government’s actions matched its stated national-security concerns. She did not issue an emergency ruling, instead asking attorneys to file additional evidence by Wednesday and indicating she would decide before the end of the week.
A judge fined San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju $26,000 for contempt after he refused to stop declining new felony and misdemeanor cases ordered by the court. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harry Dorfman imposed $1,000 fines for each of 26 cases Raju rejected since an earlier January order, and set another hearing in April.
A U.S. Park Police officer was seriously wounded in a shooting Monday evening in Southeast Washington, D.C. According to Park Police Chief Scott Brecht, the officer was "ambushed" by two gunmen while working an investigation.
A former upstate New York prison guard, Jonah Levi, began a jury trial Tuesday on a murder charge tied to the March 1, 2025 death of inmate Messiah Nantwi during a beating by multiple guards at Mid-State Correctional Facility, prosecutors said. Prosecutors told jurors Levi repeatedly stomped Nantwi’s head, while defense attorneys argued the force was justified and that Levi did not cause the fatal injuries.
Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby set a $1 bond for the murder charge against Alexia Moore, a 31‑year‑old Georgia woman accused of using pills to induce an illegal abortion. The judge also ordered $1,000 bonds for two separate drug offenses and released Moore after she posted the total $2,001. District Attorney Keith Higgins did not contest the bond amount but noted police filed the charges without consulting his office, and a grand jury indictment will be needed to proceed on the murder count.
A report released Tuesday by Everytown for Gun Safety describes how firearms bought legally through some U.S. retail chains end up in crime scenes after straw purchasers resell them on the black market. The report follows more than 250 guns bought over three years at nearly two dozen Academy Sports + Outdoors stores and then trafficked north to cities including Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York. It also outlines major interstate trafficking routes identified using federal gun-trace data.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta’s social media platforms violate state consumer protection law and imposed a $375 million penalty tied to harms alleged to children’s mental health. The decision is the first jury verdict in a set of U.S. child-safety lawsuits targeting social media companies, and it could shape how other trials argue issues such as accountability under consumer protection laws. Meta said it disagrees and plans to appeal.
Washington, D.C., police announced Tuesday that they arrested two suspects in connection with the shooting of a U.S. Park Police officer who was hurt while driving an unmarked vehicle in the District. The suspects, Darren Foster, 21, and Asheile Foster, 22, were charged with assault on a federal police officer, and the officer was released from the hospital Tuesday, police said.
A federal judge on Monday named Robert Frazer as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, ending a court fight over the Trump administration’s control of the post after previous appointees were disqualified. The appointment followed disqualifications of three Department of Justice officials who were sharing authority over the office, a move that fed a broader dispute between judges and the administration over whether judicially appointed prosecutors could be replaced.
Johannesburg-based inquiry proceedings heard testimony Monday from Eugene de Kock, a former South African apartheid-era police commander known as “Prime Evil,” as investigators revisit the 1985 killing of the Cradock Four activists. De Kock denied involvement in the case, but told the court that police at the time held photographs of thousands of anti-apartheid activists labeled as “known terrorists” and should have tracked them and killed them if arrests were not possible.
Thousands of works by incarcerated artists are on display at the University of Michigan’s Prison Creative Arts Project exhibit in Ann Arbor, running through March 31. Organizers say the 30th annual show is the largest and longest-running of its kind in the country, and they say the programs help participants rebuild identity through creative expression.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a former Philadelphia abortion clinic doctor serving a life sentence for killing three babies who were delivered alive, died March 1 at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said. Gosnell, 85, died while incarcerated and a cause of death was not disclosed.
Democrats criticized the federal arrest of a Guatemalan-bound family at San Francisco International Airport after video showed officers detaining a crying woman while her child watched. State Sen. Scott Wiener and other California Democrats said the incident fueled fear as ICE officers were being deployed to airports during a partial shutdown and funding impasse.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to a regular hospital room in Brasilia as he recovers from pneumonia, one of his doctors said Monday.
The two biggest U.S. prediction-market platforms, Kalshi and Polymarket, said Monday they have added new bans and surveillance tools aimed at insider trading after two senators introduced legislation that could sharply curtail the industry. Kalshi will bar political candidates from trading on their own campaigns, while Polymarket rewrote its rules to prohibit trading by people who may have confidential information or who could influence event outcomes.
Mexican authorities found 229 migrants packed in the back of a truck traveling through the eastern state of Veracruz, marking the first such encounter in months, officials said. The migrants were discovered after they began calling for help from inside a vehicle that had been taken to a police impound lot, according to the state official and a witness who spoke anonymously.
Nevada does not have state laws regulating license plate reader cameras, even as multiple counties and cities have placed large networks of automated cameras in recent years. The AP reports that at least five local governments in Nevada have agreements with Flock Safety, which collects vehicle data and connects it to a national database police can use to search for vehicles across jurisdictions. Lawmakers and residents interviewed by The Nevada Independent said the technology is outpacing governance and raising privacy concerns.
Students at the University of Alabama filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the suspension of two student-run magazines, alleging censorship and viewpoint-based discrimination by university officials. The lawsuit says the magazines—Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice—were stopped in December after administrators determined they had a “perceived target audience,” citing guidance related to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. University of Alabama spokesman Alex House said the school has no plans to comment on the pending litigation.
Iran threatened Sunday to “completely” close the Strait of Hormuz and to strike power plants across the region after President Donald Trump set a 48-hour deadline to open the strait. The threats came as the war in the Middle East entered its fourth week, with Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon and Iran’s retaliation against facilities tied to its nuclear program.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on whether ballots in federal elections must be received by Election Day, a dispute that Alaska officials and voting-rights lawyers say could affect thousands of rural voters in the state. Alaska counts ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received within 10 days, or 15 days for overseas voters. If the court limits the practice nationwide, Alaska’s geography and reliance on air service could make deadlines harder to meet.
In a new family statement posted Sunday, Savannah Guthrie renewed appeals to people in Tucson and southern Arizona to share any information that could help solve the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. The family said it believes someone in the area may “hold the key to finding the resolution in this case.”
President Donald Trump ordered U.S. immigration enforcement officers to assist the Transportation Security Administration at airports as a partial Homeland Security shutdown drags on, a plan that has drawn concern from senators and TSA employees about added friction for travelers and screening operations. The White House border czar, Tom Homan, said the priority is large airports where waits can last “three hours,” while DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis said “hundreds” of ICE officers would be deployed but would not name locations. Federal workers, including TSA, have gone without pay since Congress failed to renew DHS funding last month.
Trump said Saturday he would order ICE agents to intervene in airport security starting Monday unless Democrats agree to a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. His threat came as a partial government shutdown has lengthened airport lines and some TSA workers have continued working without pay.
Italy’s two-day referendum on judicial reform is drawing a close, high-stakes political fight for Premier Giorgia Meloni, with the “No” camp gaining late momentum. The ballot, which began Sunday, has become a broader judgment on her leadership at home and abroad. After 12 hours of voting on the first day, Italy’s Interior Ministry said turnout topped 38%—the highest such level recorded at the same point in any two-day referendum.
A federal judge ordered the Voice of America to resume operations after the Trump administration last year largely shut it down, directing hundreds of VOA employees placed on paid leave to return to work. The government filed notice Thursday to appeal the March 7 order by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who ruled that Kari Lake lacked authority to reduce VOA to a “skeleton.”
Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI director who led the agency after the Sept. 11 attacks and later served as special counsel investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, has died. He was 81. His family said he died Friday night, adding that they asked that their privacy be respected.
President Donald Trump said he will order federal immigration officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a role in airport security starting Monday unless Democrats agree to a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Trump made the announcement in social media posts on Saturday while a partial government shutdown has contributed to long lines at some major airports.
LONDON — Police in Scotland have charged an Iranian man and a Romanian woman after they tried to enter HM Naval Base Clyde, the Faslane site that is home to Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines, police said. The 34-year-old man and 31-year-old woman will appear at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Monday, after being detained Thursday, according to Police Scotland.
French Navy forces intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, the French government said, linking it to Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet shipping oil in violation of sanctions over Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
Iran hanged three young men in Qom this week, the Associated Press reported, prompting rights groups to fear a broader wave of executions after mass arrests during nationwide protests in January. The men were convicted on charges related to “moharabeh,” or “waging war against God,” after authorities accused them of killing two police officers during unrest.
Police video released by Sag Harbor, New York, shows Justin Timberlake struggling with field sobriety tests after a traffic stop in the Hamptons in 2024, according to video footage released March 21 by the village’s police department. In the footage, recorded during an encounter after police suspected driving while intoxicated, Timberlake tells officers that the tests are “really hard” and asks why he is being arrested.
El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro fue designado por la DEA de Estados Unidos como un “objetivo prioritario”, mientras fiscales federales en Nueva York investigan presuntos vínculos con narcotraficantes, según registros y personas familiarizadas con el asunto vistos por The Associated Press. Horas después de conocerse la noticia, Petro negó cualquier vínculo con narcotraficantes y dijo que su investigación electoral en Colombia no halló “ni un solo peso de narcotraficantes”.
Federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss charges against former Louisville Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany in the Breonna Taylor case, accusing them in federal filings of falsifying a warrant used in a raid the night Taylor was killed. A hearing is scheduled for April 3, and it was unclear when the judge would rule.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday revived a lawsuit by evangelical Christian Gabriel Olivier, who says Mississippi authorities violated his First Amendment rights when he was arrested for refusing to move his preaching. The unanimous ruling clears the way for Olivier to seek a future court order stopping enforcement of a Brandon, Mississippi, ordinance restricting him to a designated “protest zone,” even though he was convicted of violating the law.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a dispute over whether states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. A case challenging Mississippi’s five-day grace period has raised questions for 14 states that allow some post–Election Day deliveries to be received and counted. Election officials and voting-rights groups warn a ruling against the grace periods could force rapid changes ahead of the November midterm elections.
A Missouri state judge on Friday ordered a new description for a ballot proposal that would let voters consider a Trump-backed congressional redistricting plan. The judge acted after Missouri’s Republican secretary of state acknowledged that he crafted an “unfair summary” by describing the existing districts as “gerrymandered.”
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a Pentagon policy that would limit news reporters’ access to the Pentagon, ruling that parts of the rules are unlawful. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sided with The New York Times, which sued over the Pentagon credentialing policy and argued it violates journalists’ constitutional rights.
Joe Kent, a former counterterrorism director who resigned this week in protest of the Iran war, denied allegations that he improperly shared classified information. The FBI is investigating whether Kent leaked classified material, and the investigation preceded his resignation, according to a person familiar with the matter.
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court ruled Friday that Fulton County commissioners can reject Republican nominees for the county election board and request other choices. The ruling overturned a contempt finding tied to the county’s prior refusal to seat GOP picks Julie Adams and Jason Frazier.
A federal judge in Oregon ruled the federal government overreached when it issued a declaration warning that treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries are unsafe and ineffective for young people with gender dysphoria. The ruling said the Health secretary did not follow proper administrative procedures in issuing the declaration in December. The judge granted preliminary relief for health professionals who provide the treatments and denied the government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. The states filed the case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after the EPA finalized the rescission last month, which plaintiffs said could roll back greenhouse gas emissions rules for cars, trucks and power plants.
The Justice Department filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University in federal court in Massachusetts, alleging the school failed to address antisemitism and seeking to recover federal research funds and block future grant money. The suit also asks a judge to require Harvard to call police to arrest protesters who block campus areas and to appoint a government-approved independent monitor. Harvard said it has taken “substantive, proactive steps” to address antisemitism and emphasized protections for Jewish and Israeli community members.
Texas accepted several Islamic private schools into its statewide school voucher program after federal judges extended application deadlines and ordered the state to consider the schools’ requests. The decision came amid two consolidated lawsuits brought by Muslim parents and Islamic school operators over alleged religious discrimination in the program’s admissions process.
State and local law enforcement officials in Vermont defended officers’ conduct during clashes with protesters during a federal immigration operation last week in South Burlington, as lawmakers questioned whether the violence violated state police policy. At a Statehouse hearing Thursday, Col. Matthew Birmingham of the Vermont State Police and others said local officers acted professionally and were present to help keep everyone safe. Activists and lawmakers described competing accounts of how the operation escalated and who should be held responsible.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to records and people familiar with the matter. The designation comes as federal prosecutors in New York probe alleged ties between Petro’s representatives and drug traffickers, including allegations about bribery to block extraditions, the Associated Press reported.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A U.S. strike on a boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast left at least two people dead and one critically injured, Costa Rican authorities said Friday. Costa Rica’s National Coast Guard Operations Center reported it received a shipwreck alert and dispatched a response vessel, while the Costa Rican Judicial Investigation Agency said bodies were handed over to local authorities.
A federal jury in Mississippi found former professional wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr. not guilty of all charges tied to an alleged welfare-fraud and public corruption scheme, according to court proceedings reported by The Associated Press. The case was the only one involving the DiBiase family defendants to reach trial.
A federal judge in Minnesota granted an injunction allowing clergy to conduct in-person pastoral visits to detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Minneapolis. The ruling came after clergy groups including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United Church of Christ and a Catholic priest sued the Department of Homeland Security.
Four to eight days after five high school protesters were detained following a Feb. 20 scuffle in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, three of the teens’ juvenile court hearings were delayed Friday while a fourth entered a six-month probation program aimed at expunging the arrest if he completes it. A fifth teen’s lawyer asked a judge to drop assault charges tied to the incident involving police chief Scott McElree, according to court proceedings and attorneys.
The Chicago Transit Authority has filed a federal lawsuit seeking restoration of $2 billion in commuter rail expansion funding that President Donald Trump’s administration halted last fall. The agency says the pause was imposed arbitrarily to restrict race- and gender-based contracting, which it argues is unconstitutional.
Across the United States, institutions and cities are moving to remove or rename places honoring labor leader César Chavez after explosive sexual abuse allegations, according to officials. The changes followed actions by California State University, Fresno, where Chavez’s statue was covered and is expected to come down. Officials in places including Denver, Phoenix and San Francisco State University said they are reviewing names tied to Chavez as communities also consider shifting observances like César Chavez Day.
Breonna Taylor was killed in her Louisville, Kentucky, home during a March 2020 police raid, and the fallout has stretched across lawsuits, criminal charges, and federal investigations into policing practices. The Associated Press compiled a timeline of key developments from the night of the shooting through court decisions and settlements in subsequent years.
A U.S. military attack on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific killed two people and left one survivor, U.S. officials said Friday. The incident prompted U.S. Coast Guard search efforts after the strike, and the Coast Guard said it recovered two dead bodies and one survivor.
Boston transit police said a man wielding a butcher knife tried to slash bus tires and threatened to stab a bus driver at the Forest Hills station in Jamaica Plain on Friday before officers took him into custody. Richard Sullivan, superintendent of police for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said officers were called after the man was reported late Friday morning.
Joseph Duggar, a former reality TV star, waived his right to an extradition hearing in Arkansas, setting up his transfer to Florida to face a child molestation charge, according to an affidavit and law enforcement statements. He is accused of lewd and lascivious behavior involving a child under 12, and authorities say they filed related charges in Arkansas as well.
A jury in San Francisco found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors over his 2022 Twitter acquisition, saying two Musk statements misled shareholders as the deal unraveled. The same jury absolved him of some fraud allegations, including that he intentionally “schemed” to mislead investors and that a podcast statement constituted fraud.
A negligence and wrongful death lawsuit filed in Philadelphia federal court alleges that resort owners and others tied to the Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort in Costa Rica caused the carbon dioxide-related death of Brett M. Gardner’s 14-year-old son, Miller Gardner, in March 2025. The family says the resort’s machine room was not properly ventilated and that carbon monoxide from it killed Miller Gardner and sickened other relatives during a family vacation.
Three Tennessee teenagers sued Elon Musk’s xAI this week, alleging its image-generation tools were used to create sexually explicit images by morphing their real photos as minors. The teenagers, who are seeking to proceed under pseudonyms and ask for class-action status, filed suit in California.
Jurors in Santa Fe, New Mexico are weighing allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. violated the state’s consumer protection laws by allegedly failing to disclose risks its platforms pose for children, including mental health harms and sexual exploitation. The New Mexico case, filed by Attorney General Raúl Torrez, reached the sixth week and is set for closing arguments next week.
The two former FBI agents fired last year said in a federal lawsuit filed in Washington that they were terminated “solely” for doing work connected to the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” investigation into President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election results. The lawsuit also alleges the firings followed political disclosures about the probe and sought reinstatement and a court declaration that the terminations were unlawful.
A former attorney for Jeffrey Epstein told a House Oversight Committee deposition on Thursday that he had no knowledge of Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls at the time it was happening. Darren Indyke, who worked as Epstein’s attorney for about two decades, also said he would have quit if he had known.
West Virginia lawmakers on Friday passed a campaign finance bill that will, starting next year, remove donor employer information from public contribution reports. The measure will also redact donors’ residential street addresses, while keeping a street number and street address in the Secretary of State’s records. Supporters said the changes are meant to reduce online harassment and doxxing, while Democrats argued they will make it harder for voters to see who is funding campaigns and whether donors may benefit from government contracts.
A senior executive at Super Micro Computer and two associates were charged in federal court with conspiring to smuggle U.S.-assembled servers with advanced Nvidia chips to China. Prosecutors said the men used fabricated documents, staged equipment to pass audits and a pass-through company to conceal who the true customers were. The case highlights how U.S. export controls on high-end AI hardware remain central to tensions between the United States and China.
Albany, N.Y. — A New York man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to cyberstalking after harassing and threatening voicemail messages left for a relative of Brian Thompson, the late UnitedHealthcare CEO.
Spanish police said they found the body of James “Jimmy” Gracey, an Illinois college student who went missing in Barcelona while on spring break.
A Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee who said she was wrongly held in U.S. immigration detention for more than two weeks was released Thursday after posting a bond recently allowed by a judge, her attorneys said. Estefany Rodríguez Flórez, who was arrested March 4 during a traffic stop and held in Alabama and Louisiana, will continue fighting what her lawyers describe as a wrongful detention case.
Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino testified Thursday at a New York antitrust trial tied to the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, portraying the industry as intensely competitive. Rapino defended the company’s use of exclusive deals and disputed claims by attorneys for 33 states and the District of Columbia that Live Nation has locked out rivals and driven up prices for concertgoers.
Texas jails are failing to meet state processing deadlines for “pen packets” that counties must send to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, keeping some inmates locked up beyond their release dates, the Associated Press reports. One example is Jessica Jackson, who was held 49 days after a judge ruled she had no time left to serve in Dallas County, according to interviews and records cited in the report.
The 19-year-old Mexican migrant Royer Perez-Jimenez died at the Glades County Detention Center in Florida while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement held him, ICE said. ICE said an officer found him unconscious and unresponsive early Monday, and the agency said staff began cardiopulmonary resuscitation before fire rescue deputies initiated life-sustaining interventions. The official cause of death remains under investigation.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia have charged Alexia Moore, 31, with murder after she allegedly took pills to induce an illegal abortion, according to an arrest warrant. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to pursue the murder charge, but Moore remains jailed in coastal Camden County. Her case arrives amid Georgia’s 2019 law banning most abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected.
Nebraska is one of a handful of states that allows legal in-person sports betting but bars online gambling. A growing number of Nebraskans are now using prediction markets accessed through apps—where companies say users are “trading” rather than “betting”—to wager on sports and other outcomes.
Federal judges read profane death threats and described personal attacks during an unusual forum hosted by Speak up for Justice on Thursday, as the judges said threats against the judiciary have risen. Chief Justice John Roberts, at the event, warned that personal criticism of federal judges “it’s got to stop.”
An immigration judge denied the asylum claim for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old photographed in a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack when he was detained with his father in a Minneapolis-area crackdown earlier this year, a family lawyer said. The judge ordered the family deported to Ecuador, and the family is appealing the ruling. The arrests and national coverage unfolded as federal immigration officers carried out a surge of raids that prompted protests and two federal shootings of American citizens.
Rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit against seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies over viral music videos that mocked a 2022 raid of his home using home security footage. Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, shouted a victory message outside the courthouse after the verdict and later posted the clip to social media.
Jose Antonio Ramos, 82, died March 7 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, prosecutors said in court filings tied to Pedro Hernandez’s Etan Patz case. Ramos had been suspected for decades in the 1979 disappearance of Etan, one of the first missing children whose photo appeared on milk cartons.
Joseph Duggar, the former reality TV star from TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” was arrested and is facing a Florida charge accusing lewd and lascivious behavior involving a child under 12, according to an arrest affidavit. Police in Arkansas contacted Florida deputies after interviewing a 14-year-old girl who said Duggar molested her during a family trip to Panama City Beach when she was 9.
A jury in Alabama convicted Ibraheem Yazeed of murder in the 2019 death of college student Aniah Blanchard, whose disappearance drew national attention. Jurors found him guilty of murder and felony murder but spared him a possible death sentence.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a new Office of Community Safety on Thursday, framing it as an initial step toward reducing police involvement in mental-health emergencies. The office will launch with two staff members and rely, at first, on expanding an existing program called B-HEARD that dispatches mental health workers to 911 calls for people in emotional distress.
Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a Washington state law restricting law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings that obscure their identities during public interactions, following a court fight over a California ban for federal immigration agents. The move is part of a broader wave of state legislation that seeks to counter complaints that masked agents can operate with less accountability during immigration enforcement.
In the wake of allegations of sexual abuse involving César Chavez, celebrations planned for later this month have been canceled, while the leaders’ labor legacy for farmworkers remains in renewed focus. The Associated Press reported that both Chavez, who died in 1993, and Dolores Huerta are credited with pushing growers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions.
The Vatican’s appeals tribunal on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the Holy See’s major “trial of the century” against Cardinal Angelo Becciu and several others, setting a June 22 start date for a new trial. In a 16-page ruling, the court said procedural errors by both Pope Francis and Vatican prosecutors nullified the original indictment and required a retrial, according to the Associated Press.
The FBI is investigating whether former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent, who resigned this week in protest of the Iran war, improperly shared classified information, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The inquiry comes after Kent resigned Tuesday from his role as director of the U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Center, the person said. Kent later said in a post on X that he could not “in good conscience” support the war against Iran.
Lusaka, Zambia — As Zambia approaches its Aug. 13 national elections, politicians and women’s rights groups warned that some female candidates are being asked for sexual favors by senior male party officials in exchange for endorsements. The warning followed comments by the permanent secretary of Zambia’s Gender Division, Mainga Kabika, who said she received 10 complaints alleging sexual harassment from women seeking party backing.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is letting ousted interim federal prosecutor Brad Schimel continue overseeing cases in the Eastern District of Wisconsin under a new title, after federal judges declined to extend his 120-day interim term. The move comes as Democrats in the U.S. Senate delay confirmation votes on President Donald Trump’s appointees.
Nigerian soldiers backed by air support repelled a suspected Islamic militants’ attack on a military base in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, the army said. The attack on the Mallam Fatori base occurred at about 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, and the army said at least 80 assailants were killed.
A drone flew over the grounds of the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York after midnight and released a package containing knives, a cellphone, bandannas and hair clippers between dormitories, officials said. Prison staff recovered the package after it was detected at 1 a.m. Saturday, and investigators were trying to determine who was responsible. Marcy is about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northwest of New York City.
The Trump administration widened its Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida, urging state officials to share information on how they identify, prevent and address bad actors in the state’s program. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said Florida has been a “hotspot” for health care fraud and gave officials 30 days to answer detailed questions. The move follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump creating an anti-fraud task force across federal benefit programs led by Vice President JD Vance.
Idaho lawmakers have ordered an independent review of how the state handles allegations of staff sexual misconduct in women’s prisons after an InvestigateWest investigation, the Associated Press reported. In a meeting March 13, bipartisan members of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee directed the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluation to assess prevention, reporting, investigations and response—and to recommend improvements.
A New York City police officer who works security at Gracie Mansion was suspended without pay after the department said he shot a man in the head while off duty, police said Wednesday. The shooting happened around 9 p.m. Monday in the Bronx, and the victim, 30, was hospitalized in critical condition, police said. The officer has not been publicly named and has not been arrested or charged, police said.
A federal judge in Trenton, New Jersey, threw a Justice Department prosecutor out of a hearing and ordered senior officials who oversee the U.S. attorney’s office in the state to testify under oath, citing questions about the office’s management. The judge’s demands came during a tense hearing tied to a case involving child sexual abuse material in which the judge said an investigation was “sloppy” and that a plea deal had moved too quickly.
Rapper Mystikal, whose given name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Louisiana to third-degree rape in a case stemming from an alleged assault at his Prairieville home nearly four years ago, according to court records. Tyler, 55, pleaded guilty in an Ascension Parish courtroom and has been held without bond in the Ascension Parish Jail since 2022.
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers asked a federal judge to postpone his federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson until January 2027 and to seek a delay of his state murder trial until September. They argued that the current schedule, with a state trial in June and a federal trial in September, would force him to prepare simultaneously for “two complicated and serious trials.” Federal prosecutors oppose the request and said they will respond in a letter.
Multiple Latino leaders on Wednesday weighed new allegations that César Chavez sexually abused labor rights figure Dolores Huerta and others, prompting calls to rethink memorials and celebrations honoring the late union leader.
Shaquille O’Neal said he is offering to pay for the funeral of Jada West, a 12-year-old Georgia girl who died at a hospital after collapsing days earlier following a fight after school. O’Neal’s offer was announced in a joint news release by the sheriffs of Douglas County and Henry County, where the fight occurred and where O’Neal holds a role as community relations chief.
Providence, R.I., March 18, 2026 — Rhode Island’s Blackstone Valley Co-op won the Division 2 boys’ state championship 3-2 over Lincoln High School Wednesday after player Colin Dorgan and his teammates advanced through weeks of grief following a fatal ice rink shooting in Pawtucket. Police identified Robert Dorgan as the shooter, and authorities said the attack was targeted and that Dorgan later died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The shooting happened Tuesday evening at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, where a U.S. Air Force statement said one person was killed and another was injured. Military officials said the incident was the result of an isolated domestic dispute, and they did not identify either victim. The base was placed on lockdown for nearly three hours after reports of an active shooter.
A Florida hospital has sued to evict a patient who it says has refused to leave a room more than five months after she was discharged. Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare filed the lawsuit in Tallahassee seeking an injunction requiring the patient to vacate the hospital room and asking the county sheriff’s office to help if needed.
Closing arguments concluded Tuesday in a San Francisco civil trial accusing Elon Musk of misleading Twitter shareholders as he sought to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company in 2022. The case, a class action filed before Musk took control of Twitter—later renamed X—goes to eight jurors who will decide whether Musk is liable for securities fraud.
Pennsylvania regulators asked an administrative law judge to order UGI Utilities Inc.’s gas division to pay $2.6 million in civil penalties for a 2023 chocolate factory explosion that killed seven workers. The Public Utility Commission filed a formal complaint against the Denver, Pennsylvania-based utility, alleging violations of state and federal standards after gas ignited at the R.M. Palmer Company in West Reading.
Ecuadorian authorities and Colombian police said an Ecuadorian man wanted in Colombia and Ecuador for the 2023 killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was arrested in Mexico and transferred to Colombia. Colombian migration officials said the man, known as “Lobo Menor,” arrived at El Dorado Airport in Bogota and was intercepted by Colombia’s migration authorities on Wednesday.
Attorneys for John Connolly, a former FBI agent convicted in Florida of second-degree murder and racketeering, filed a motion seeking to vacate his conviction in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on Monday, citing what they call newly discovered evidence. The motion draws on a handwritten manuscript and FBI reports containing statements attributed to the late mob figure James “Whitey” Bulger.
A judge in suburban Detroit sentenced Shawn Wilmoth to at least four years in prison for an election petition scandal that blocked five Republican candidates from qualifying for Michigan’s 2022 gubernatorial primary ballot, according to the attorney general’s office. Wilmoth will be allowed to stay out of prison while he appeals his convictions for forgery and other crimes, the judge said. Perry Johnson, one of the candidates affected, said he is running again and plans to ask petition signers to confirm by text message.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed Tuesday to testify before a Republican-led House committee about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and the agency’s handling of millions of documents tied to Epstein files. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ordered Bondi to appear for a deposition April 14 after voting earlier this month, with five Republicans supporting the move.
Israel said it killed two senior Iranian security officials in overnight strikes, and Iran responded Wednesday with renewed missile and drone attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab neighbors as the wider conflict reshaped shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump’s sweeping clemency for people charged over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could also apply to a man facing federal charges for placing pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees, his attorneys argued in court. Brian J. Cole Jr., accused of planting the devices on the night before the riot, asked a federal judge on Monday to throw out his case before trial, saying the alleged conduct is “inextricably tethered” to what happened at the Capitol the next day.
Joe Kent, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, resigned Tuesday, according to a resignation letter and reporting by The Associated Press. Kent’s departure comes amid a clash with President Donald Trump over Iran, where Kent said Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation” and argued the war was driven by Israel and its U.S. supporters. Trump’s administration has said Trump reached a different conclusion about the threat posed by Iran.
Jurors in Akron, Ohio, began deliberating Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives accused of paying $4.3 million in alleged bribes tied to a bailout of two nuclear plants. The prosecution says the former leaders helped corrupt Ohio’s Public Utilities Commission chair-to-be, Sam Randazzo, ahead of legislation known as House Bill 6.
A Black pastor arrested in 2022 while watering a neighbor’s flowers had a charge dismissed, but a lawsuit over the stop-and-identify law continued. On March 17, 2026, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled police can demand to see identification during a stop if officers are dissatisfied with a person’s verbal answers. The ruling came in the case of Michael Jennings, whose police encounter began after a neighbor called 911.
Belgian court ordered the trial of 93-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon for his alleged role in the 1961 killing of Congo independence icon Patrice Lumumba, AP reported March 17, citing Belgian media. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office charged Davignon with “participation in war crimes,” alleging he was involved in Lumumba’s “unlawful detention and transfer.”
El Salvador’s Congress approved a constitutional amendment pushed by President Nayib Bukele on Tuesday that would allow life sentences for crimes including murder and rape, according to the Associated Press. The measure won support from 59 of 60 lawmakers and is set to be ratified next week.
A federal judge in Arkansas has struck down a state law requiring the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms and libraries. The ruling, issued Monday, targets the 2025 Arkansas mandate after a lawsuit by seven families challenged the requirement on constitutional grounds.
Israel said it killed Ali Larijani, a senior Iranian security official, and Gholam Reza Soleimani, head of Iran’s internal security force, in overnight strikes, and Iranian authorities later confirmed both deaths. The AP report also described Larijani’s conservative role in Iran’s theocracy and said Israel and the United States have targeted Iran’s leadership as the war widens. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were intended to weaken Iran’s government and give Iranians a chance to remove it.
Just over a year after the Trump administration began an immigration enforcement campaign tied to pro-Palestinian activism on U.S. college campuses, Leqaa Kordia was released on Monday after a judge’s repeated orders were not resisted further. Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman and daughter of a U.S. citizen, had been held in detention since her arrest on March 13, 2025, in New Jersey.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration wants to withdraw from representing former Mayor Eric Adams in a civil lawsuit accusing Adams of sexually assaulting a woman more than three decades ago, according to a court filing filed Tuesday. The city argues Adams was not acting within the scope of his employment when the alleged assault occurred in 1993, while Adams denies the allegations.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sued the Trump administration in federal court to restore nearly $60 million in withheld federal funding for extending the Second Avenue subway line in Manhattan, according to the complaint. The MTA said the U.S. Department of Transportation has withheld more than $58.6 million for the project and warned work could come to “a screeching halt” if the suspension continues.
Arizona became the first state to file criminal charges against prediction market company Kalshi, accusing it of operating an illegal gambling business within the state. The 20-count charging document alleges Kalshi accepted bets on political outcomes and college sporting and player performance, which Arizona says violates its gambling laws and election-betting ban.
Orlando city crews began demolishing the long-shuttered Pulse nightclub on Wednesday to make way for a permanent memorial honoring the 49 people killed in the club’s 2016 mass shooting. The city purchased the property in 2023 and plans to open a $12 million memorial in 2027. The demolition comes amid broader disputes over LGBTQ+ symbols in public space.
Gunmen killed at least 15 people in attacks on two villages in northwestern Nigeria, according to authorities. The villages of Falale and Kadobe in the Jibia area of Katsina State were attacked in the early afternoon Tuesday, the state’s commissioner for home affairs said.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said a man killed by Dallas police in a standoff last week had worked as her security team member under a fraudulent identity. The Dallas Police Department said the man, identified as 39-year-old Robinson, had posed as “Mike King” and was killed after a hours-long standoff in a hospital parking garage.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Karen Goodwin against the city of Bristol, Tennessee, and police officers and paramedics over the 2017 death of her son, Austin Hunter Turner, following a seizure. The judge ruled the case was filed after the statute of limitations expired. Goodwin’s attorney said the family will appeal.
Kouri Richins, a Utah real estate agent, was found guilty of aggravated murder in the March 2022 death of her husband, Eric Richins, after jurors concluded she slipped fentanyl into his cocktail. Prosecutors told jurors the death followed a pattern of alleged financial fraud and a prior attempt to poison him, including a fentanyl-laced sandwich. Sentencing is scheduled for May 13.
The Associated Press reports that a Chinese national and a Kenyan man were charged in Nairobi, Kenya, after authorities found them in possession of hundreds of live ants stored in specialized tubes. The men, identified as Zhang Kequn and Charles Mwangi, also face a conspiracy charge.
Bank of America reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit brought by Jeffrey Epstein victims alleging the bank ignored suspicious transactions while he sexually abused hundreds of girls and women. The proposed settlement was disclosed in filings in Manhattan federal court on Monday, but the terms were not made public, and the bank declined to comment.
A shooting at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, left one person dead and another wounded, according to military officials. The base went into lockdown after reports of an active shooter near a convenience store, and the wounded person was taken for medical treatment.
A shooting at a Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Jasper, Georgia, left a gunman dead and a Veterans Affairs employee hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Jasper police said officers confronted the suspect outside the clinic around 1:30 p.m., while the VA said the employee was taken by helicopter to a hospital.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop,” two days after President Donald Trump attacked a federal judge who ruled against the administration. Speaking at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, Roberts said criticism tied to legal rulings “comes with the territory” but hostility directed at judges personally is “dangerous.”
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander who became a visible face of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, told The Associated Press on March 17 that he plans to retire in the coming weeks. Bovino, 55, has led operations across multiple cities and later headed the agency’s El Centro, California, sector.
A Live Nation ticketing employee testified Tuesday at the company’s antitrust trial that private messages where he called some customers “so stupid” and joked about “robbing them blind” were “very immature and unacceptable.” The messages were introduced by state attorneys alleging Live Nation and Ticketmaster suppressed competition and drove up prices.
A federal judge ordered Texas to extend the application deadline for private school vouchers to March 31 after the state excluded Islamic schools from the program. The deadline extension came Tuesday in response to a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Muslim parents and Islamic private schools challenging the exclusion as discriminatory. The state’s voucher program is administered by Comptroller Kelly Hancock, who said Islamic schools were blocked over alleged ties to foreign terrorist organizations.
Suspected suicide bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria, killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others, police said. The explosions struck Monday night in crowded locations including the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and areas near a major market, prompting a heavy security response and fears about further attacks.
At least 23 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in suspected suicide bombings that targeted Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, police said. The attacks hit a hospital and two markets on March 16, an episode described by the Associated Press as among the deadliest in the city in recent history.
The U.N. human rights office warned that Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank could amount to “ethnic cleansing,” citing accelerating settlement activity and forced displacement of Palestinians. In a report covering a yearlong period through the end of October, the office said more than 36,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced. Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva rejected the findings as biased.
Haiti has a chance to curb escalating gang violence with a U.S.-initiated international force that is starting to deploy and with a prime minister who has pledged alternatives for young people, the United Nations’ human-rights expert on Haiti said Monday.
The state of Florida executed Michael Lee King on Tuesday evening for the 2008 killing of Denise Amber Lee, a North Port mother who called 911 from her attacker’s cellphone while tied up in his car. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.
Bombs exploded in at least three locations in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Monday night, killing and injuring scores of people, emergency services said. Officials said the blasts were heard in Maiduguri, including near the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and at two markets, and they were exploring possible suicide bombings.
The FBI said the attacker who drove a car into a Michigan synagogue this week died during the incident after security personnel confronted him inside the building. The synagogue, Temple Israel in Oakland County, had spent months preparing for threats, including hiring a former police lieutenant as head of armed security and running active-shooter training with an FBI official.
Federal judge Brian E. Murphy on March 16 temporarily blocked U.S. health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child and said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in reshaping the vaccine advisory panel. The order halted decisions by the reconstituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and postponed a meeting of the panel in Atlanta this week.
Bombs exploded in at least three locations in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state on Monday night, killing and injuring scores of people, emergency services said. The blasts were heard in Maiduguri, where they struck the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and two markets, the NEMA operations chief said. No group had claimed responsibility as of Monday, and authorities were considering possible suicide bombings.
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the U.S. health department from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for most children, pausing parts of a policy overhaul led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The ruling also put on hold a Kennedy-appointed advisory committee’s work, including a meeting in Atlanta that was scheduled for this week.
An armed man drove his car into a Michigan synagogue during an attack this week, and the attacker died after being shot by a private security guard, the FBI said. The FBI and local officials credited months of security upgrades at Temple Israel, including active-shooter training and an in-house security director.
A federal judge ruled that Rep. Joyce Beatty is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations. The judge ordered the board to provide her with documents about the closure and renovation plans ahead of Monday’s session but stopped short of requiring that she be allowed to vote.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, dealing a major blow to a criminal investigation targeting Fed Chair Jerome Powell. In the ruling, Judge James Boasberg said the government produced “essentially zero evidence” to suspect Powell of a crime and that the subpoenas were “thin and unsubstantiated.”
A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, dealing a blow to a criminal investigation involving Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The judge said prosecutors provided “essentially zero evidence” to suspect Powell of a crime and that the subpoenas’ rationale was “thin and unsubstantiated.”
Communities reeled from two separate violent attacks that unfolded less than two hours apart—one at Old Dominion University in Virginia and another at a synagogue outside Detroit in Michigan. Officials said residents and responders helped stop the Virginia attack from becoming worse, and federal investigators in Michigan said the synagogue assault was targeted at the Jewish community, though they have not yet said it was an act of terror.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in April over a Trump administration push to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for people from Haiti and Syria, the Supreme Court said. On Monday, the court declined to immediately lift the protections for hundreds of thousands of people, allowing them to live and work in the U.S. legally while the case proceeds.
Four teenagers arrested after an explosion outside a synagogue in Rotterdam are suspected of terror offenses, Dutch prosecutors said Monday. The blast early Friday caused a small fire but left no one injured, prosecutors said. They ordered the teens held for two more weeks as investigators continue.
Dutch authorities said they were seeking two people suspected of setting off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam on March 14. The mayor denounced the attack as aggression against the city’s Jewish community and said Jewish residents feel “fear and anger” and are increasingly targeted by antisemitism.
Federal authorities are investigating multiple recent attacks they say reflect an elevated terrorism threat as the U.S. deals with the backdrop of the Iran war and a reshaped counterterrorism workforce at the FBI and Justice Department. In the past week, incidents in New York, Michigan and Virginia have raised concerns about the government’s ability to identify and disrupt threats early, even as officials said there is no indication the attackers were motivated explicitly by the Iran war. The AP’s report traces those concerns to departures of experienced national security personnel and shifting resources inside the FBI and DOJ.
Ecuadorian officials said they deployed 75,000 soldiers and police to four crime-ridden provinces to enforce a nightly curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. The curfew began Sunday night in Guayas, El Oro, Los Ríos and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and is expected to last two weeks, officials said.
A 911 call to Dearborn Heights, Michigan, included a former wife telling police that Ayman Ghazali was “suicidal,” a TV station reported March 16. Federal authorities have said Ghazali drove a pickup truck into Temple Israel and exchanged gunfire with a guard, killing himself inside the vehicle.
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas convicted eight people of terrorism charges in connection with a shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center last summer, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors said the incident involved people they linked to antifa, a decentralized far-left movement that the Trump administration has sought to dismantle.
El Salvador has arbitrarily detained people it received after deporting them from the United States, and some have disappeared into the prison system, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Monday. The report says Salvadorans deported since January 2025 have been held without family contact or access to lawyers, including at the Central American country’s CECOT prison.
Trinidad and Tobago’s government has received House of Representatives approval to extend a state of emergency for three months over crime, according to an Associated Press report. The measure, approved late Friday in a 26-12 vote, allows additional powers including arrests and searches without warrants.
Communities reeled after two violent attacks in the U.S. unfolded less than two hours apart, with officials describing the Virginia incident as terrorism-linked and investigating the Michigan synagogue attack as targeting the Jewish community. In Virginia, a former Army National Guard member opened fire at Old Dominion University, killing one person and wounding two others, before ROTC students subdued him, authorities said.
Dutch authorities are hunting two people suspected of setting off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam, the police said. The blast occurred overnight and caused only limited damage to the outer wall of the school in the Buitenveldert district, according to a City Hall statement.
A 911 call to Dearborn Heights police described the man who drove a pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue as suicidal, according to a TV station report. The attack happened around the same time the call was placed on Thursday, when Ayman Ghazali attacked Temple Israel and its early childhood learning center in West Bloomfield Township.
A federal jury in Fort Worth convicted eight people on terrorism charges related to a July 2025 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center, prosecutors said, in a case tied to antifa. One defendant was also found guilty of attempted murder after prosecutors said he fired at a police officer during the incident.
The FBI and Justice Department face increased strain as recent violence in the United States has underscored heightened terrorism threats amid the U.S. war with Iran, according to an Associated Press report. The past week included attacks in New York City, Michigan and Virginia, which federal authorities tied to threats driven by violent extremist ideology or lone-actor dynamics.
The Hague, Netherlands — Four teens were arrested and are suspected of setting off an explosive outside a synagogue in Rotterdam, Dutch prosecutors said Monday. The explosion caused a small blaze around 3:40 a.m. Friday, and prosecutors said prosecutors alleged it was carried out with terrorist intent aimed at instilling serious fear in the Jewish community.
Hawaii lawmakers are advancing a bill that would allow police to pursue criminal trespassing charges against people who enter school grounds on weekends or holidays without first receiving a warning, according to testimony and bill language described by lawmakers. The proposal, Senate Bill 2611, would carry penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,000 in fines and is awaiting a House hearing after passing the Senate.
A federal judge ruled Saturday that Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Beatty should receive documents about the closure and renovation plans before Monday’s session so she can perform her role as a trustee.
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran accused of burning an American flag near the White House in August 2025, according to a court filing. Jay Carey, 55, of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested after setting fire to a flag in Lafayette Park, an area overseen by the National Park Service.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in April on the Trump administration’s effort to end temporary legal protections for migrants from Haiti and Syria, a case that could affect hundreds of thousands of people. The court also declined to immediately lift the protections on Monday, allowing recipients to continue living and working in the United States legally while the litigation proceeds.
Trinidad and Tobago’s government has secured House of Representatives approval to extend a state of emergency for three months, granting additional powers to address crime. The motions were approved in a 26-12 vote late Friday, with no abstentions.
A U.S. judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the termination of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Somalia, averting a planned end of the designation on Tuesday. The judge said letting the TPS status expire would have “weighty” consequences, after advocates sought an emergency order. The ruling keeps TPS recipients and people with pending TPS applications eligible for work authorization and protection against deportation and detention while the court reviews the emergency motion.
California election officials said they are investigating whether signature collectors in San Francisco illegally offered money to people to sign ballot petitions using false names. The probe follows a video posted on X that shows a sign offering “$5” for signatures and a worker instructing what name and address to use. The California secretary of state’s office said it was “aware of, and investigating, the matter.”
Minnesota lawmakers are considering bills that would largely outlaw reverse location warrants—sometimes called geofence warrants—that let law enforcement obtain data about devices present near a crime scene. The proposals come as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of similar warrants, which critics say can capture information about thousands of people beyond any suspect.
Minnesota lawmakers are considering legislation to prohibit “reverse location warrants,” also known as “geofence” or “dragnet” warrants, after a judge’s order lets police collect location and device data near a crime scene and then work backward to identify suspects. The proposal comes as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of similar warrants. During a Senate hearing on March 9, Sen. Erin Maye Quade said the bills aim to balance public safety with constitutional rights.
California election officials are investigating video evidence showing petition gatherers offering money for signatures in San Francisco. The video appears to show collectors paying people to sign petitions with false names, a practice illegal under state law.
Lawmakers in Hawaii are weighing a bill that would make it easier to charge people who enter school grounds on weekends or holidays without a prior warning, potentially affecting parents seeking after-hours access to playgrounds and fields. The measure, Senate Bill 2611, is awaiting a House hearing after passing the Senate, and supporters say it would improve safety and reduce harassment of school staff.
More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday in New York after talks this week failed to expand a tentative settlement reached with the U.S. Justice Department. Seven states—Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota—said they were joining that Justice Department deal, according to lawyers.
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema acknowledged in a court filing that she had a romantic relationship with a man she hired as part of her security detail, even as she seeks to dismiss a North Carolina lawsuit brought by his ex-wife. The lawsuit, filed under the state’s “alienation of affection” law, accuses Sinema of interfering in the couple’s marriage.
Families of two Haitian journalists kidnapped last week in Port-au-Prince asked Monday for information about their whereabouts, with some relatives fearing gangs had killed them. The two reporters, Junior Célestin of Radio Télévision Megastar and Osnel Espérance of Radio Uni FM, were taken while working in an area controlled by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition, according to Radio Uni FM.
A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. attorneys general sued OneMain Financial on Monday, alleging the company added unwanted products and hidden costs to loans, raising borrowers’ costs. The complaint, filed in New York, also accuses the company of steering borrowers into credit insurance and similar memberships while allegedly misrepresenting whether they were required and how they could be canceled. OneMain said the practices were reviewed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2023 and disputes the states’ claims.
A protest in central Cuba that partially destroyed a local communist party headquarters ended with five arrests, authorities said. The Cuban government linked the demonstration to the country’s severe energy crisis, including fuel shortages that have led to blackouts and reduced power generation.
An Afghan man who had worked with the U.S. military died at a Texas hospital after immigration authorities detained him, according to federal officials and a family statement. Dallas County Medical Examiner staff said the cause of death was still pending as investigators reviewed the case after the detention began last week.
Siblings Antonio and Maribel Espaillat, owners of the Jet Set nightclub, appeared in court in Santo Domingo on Monday for the first hearing in a case over the 2025 roof collapse that killed 236 people. Prosecutors accused them of involuntary manslaughter and involuntary assault and battery, and a judge postponed the hearing until April 6. Outside the courthouse, families and supporters shouted at the brothers as they left, while lawyers for the Espaillats did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Federal authorities in New York arrested and charged lobbyist Joshua Nass with attempted extortion, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors allege Nass sought $500,000 from a former client and tried to intimidate the client’s son using a confidential witness. Nass appeared Saturday before a magistrate judge in Brooklyn and was released on $5 million bond.
Kouri Richins was convicted Monday of aggravated murder in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband, Eric Richins, prosecutors said. The Utah woman, who self-published a children’s book about coping with grief, also was found guilty of attempted murder, forgery and insurance-related fraud, in a trial that ended after she waived her right to testify.
A Brooklyn judge freed Kenneth Windley, 61, on Monday after prosecutors agreed he did not commit a robbery for which he spent nearly 19 years in prison. The case began in 2005 after Windley bought a stove using a money order prosecutors later said was stolen, and Windley was convicted in 2007. Prosecutors said new evidence, including confessions from two other men, led them to seek the conviction’s dismissal.
Scammers are using robocalls, text messages and phishing emails more than in past tax seasons, and the Federal Trade Commission says artificial intelligence is likely increasing fraud attempts. The FTC and consumer advocates warn people to slow down, verify any message with the official IRS website, and be alert to fake claims that the IRS will call or text them.
A U.S. district judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the termination of Temporary Protected Status for some Somali immigrants, setting an administrative stay as both sides prepare for further court briefing. The decision means people with TPS status or pending TPS applications retain protections, including eligibility for work authorization and protection against deportation and detention, while the case proceeds.
Chilean President José Antonio Kast moved quickly after taking office, overseeing the first ground‑breakings for a new “Border Shield” barrier on March 16, 2026. The project, aimed at stopping illegal immigration, drug trafficking and organized crime, was announced from the desert frontier of Chacalluta in the country’s far north. Kast told reporters the construction marked “a milestone for all of Chile.”
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The siblings who own the Jet Set nightclub where a roof collapse killed more than 230 people appeared in court Monday for their first hearing, only to be met with shouts of “Damn you!” and accusations of murder from a furious crowd. Antonio and Maribel Espaillat, charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault, face a possible two‑year prison term if convicted, while the judge postponed the case until April 6.
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, a 41‑year‑old Afghan who served alongside U.S. special forces, died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on March 16, 2026 less than 24 hours after being taken into ICE custody. Federal officials said Paktyawal was arrested on fraud and theft charges, but his family and a local resettlement group disputed the government’s characterization and said the former baker was healthy when he arrived at the detention center. U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, who visited the Dallas ICE field office, called the death “unanswered” and questioned why Paktyawal was targeted.
A bipartisan group of 13 state attorneys general sued OneMain Financial on Monday, alleging the company placed unwanted additional products and other hidden costs on loans that raised borrowers’ overall costs. The lawsuit was filed in New York and says OneMain employees steered borrowers into purchasing credit insurance and other add-ons while making deceptive claims about whether the products were required and how they could be canceled.
More than 30 states plan to resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster unit on Monday in New York, after negotiations failed to bring many states into a Justice Department settlement. Seven states — Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota — joined the Justice Department in settling, according to lawyers in court.
El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos recortó aproximadamente 80% la tarifa que cobra a quienes desean renunciar formalmente a su ciudadanía, tras una batalla legal sobre el costo del proceso. La norma final publicada en el Federal Register reduce el precio de 2.350 a 450 dólares. El nuevo arancel entra en vigor el 13 de abril.
Ecuadorian officials said the government is deploying 75,000 soldiers and police to four crime-ridden provinces and imposing a nightly curfew intended to reduce drug-violence-related crime. The curfew, banning people from leaving home from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., began Sunday night in Guayas, El Oro, Los Rios and Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, March 16 (AP) — The families of two Haitian journalists who were reported kidnapped last week pleaded Monday for information about them, with many fearing gangs had killed them. The journalists, Junior Célestin of Radio Télévision Megastar and Osnel Espérance of Radio Uni FM, were taken in downtown Port-au-Prince on Friday, Radio Uni FM said.
Human Rights Watch said Salvadorans deported from the United States have been arbitrarily detained in El Salvador and have disappeared into the prison system, according to a report released Monday. The group said it interviewed relatives and lawyers of people deported between March and October 2025 who were immediately detained after arriving in El Salvador.
Tax scams are up this tax season, with robocalls, texts and phishing emails from scammers increasing compared with previous years, the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection bureau said. The FTC said artificial intelligence is likely increasing fraud attempts as scammers refine tactics such as voice mimicry and spoofed caller ID.
Kenneth Windley was freed Monday after prosecutors and his lawyers won his exoneration in a Brooklyn case alleging a robbery of a man who used money orders to pay rent and life insurance. Windley, 61, had spent nearly 19 years in prison after a 2007 conviction for the roughly $550 robbery.
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema acknowledged in a court filing that she had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail while she was a lawmaker, according to legal documents filed in a North Carolina federal case. She is fighting a lawsuit from the ex-wife of her former security guard that seeks damages for alleged “alienation of affection.”
A Utah jury convicted Kouri Richins of aggravated murder on Monday after prosecutors said she poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl in March 2022. The conviction came after a trial in which Richins waived her right to testify and her legal team rested without calling witnesses, her attorneys said.
California election officials opened an investigation on March 13 after a video posted on X showed signature collectors in San Francisco offering $5 to anyone who would sign ballot petitions using false names. The footage, which captured a folding‑table setup with a sign that read “Sign petition for $5,” prompted the secretary of state’s office to confirm it was “aware of, and investigating, the matter.” The probe focuses on whether the collectors violated state law that bans payment for ballot‑measure signatures.
Chilean President José Antonio Kast began overseeing preparations for a border barrier in Chacalluta on March 16, less than a week after his inauguration, vowing to block illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and organized crime. From Chile's northern frontier, where many immigrants have crossed from Peru, Kast called the move a milestone for national security.
Israel’s military said on Sunday that Ibrahim Ghazali, brother of the man who attacked a synagogue near Detroit, was a Hezbollah commander killed in an airstrike earlier this month. The FBI’s Detroit office declined to comment on the claim, citing the ongoing investigation.
The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University was released early from federal prison after completing a drug treatment program, even though he had been convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State group, according to U.S. Bureau of Prisons records. The Bureau says it has since closed the loophole that allowed inmates with certain terrorism-related convictions to receive time-credit reductions through the Residential Drug Abuse Program.
Israeli military officials said the man who attacked a Michigan synagogue in February was related to a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this month, AP reported Sunday. The FBI’s Detroit office said it would not comment on the Israeli claims while it investigates the synagogue attack. In its statement to AP, Hezbollah did not explicitly deny the allegation about the death.
The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed early release from federal prison, according to federal prison records, even though he was convicted in a terrorism case. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was released in December 2024, about 2½ years earlier than scheduled, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said.
A jury convicted former New York state trooper Christopher Baldner of manslaughter Friday at his second trial in a high-speed chase that led to the death of 11-year-old Monica Goods. Prosecutors said Baldner rammed the SUV after a traffic stop in December 2020 on the New York State Thruway. Baldner faces sentencing June 2 after jurors acquitted him last November of murder and reckless endangerment charges.
A jury convicted former New York state trooper Christopher Baldner of manslaughter on Friday in a case involving a high-speed chase in December 2020 that killed an 11-year-old girl. The verdict came at Baldner’s second trial, after jurors previously acquitted him of murder and reckless endangerment charges.
Jair Bolsonaro’s kidney function has improved, but doctors say the former Brazilian president will remain in intensive care because of pneumonia. The hospital in Brasilia said it has given him more antibiotics and that he remains hospitalized while serving a 27-year prison sentence.
In the hours after an attack at a nearby Temple Israel, staff at Soul Café in Michigan made pizza and kept serving food to help people affected by the chaos, including parents reuniting with children. Rabbi Benny Greenwald, director of a Friendship Circle recovery home, said the response was rooted in “goodness and kindness.” Federal investigators said the FBI is investigating the attack as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank city of Tammun, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said the shooting followed a car accelerating toward forces as they pursued suspects accused of “terrorist activity,” and said the incident is under investigation.
STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court ordered the detention of the Russian captain of a tanker suspected of sailing under a false flag in the Baltic Sea. The commander of the Sea Owl 1 was arrested Friday after the Swedish coast guard boarded the vessel off Trelleborg, and prosecutors said they suspect he used a false document.
In the aftermath of an attack at Temple Israel, staff at Soul Café in Michigan made pizza and cookies for people affected nearby, including children relocated from the synagogue’s early childhood center and first responders, the FBI said the incident is being investigated as. Rabbi Benny Greenwald and chef Zeb Versele described the food as a fast, practical way to help during lockdown and confusion.
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in Tammun in the northern occupied West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. Israel’s military said forces opened fire after a car accelerated toward them and that the incident was under investigation.
The U.S. Justice Department charged Kenya Chapman with making false statements during a firearm purchase and selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, the former Army National Guard member who shot and killed one person at Old Dominion University in Virginia, federal authorities said. The charges come a day after Jalloh, who had previously been sentenced in an Islamic State case, opened fire at a university classroom where ROTC students and active-duty servicemembers were present.
A Georgia prosecutor has decided to drop charges against a teenager police say was driving the truck that struck and killed a high school teacher when a prank turned deadly, the teen’s lawyer said. The decision came after the victim’s family urged authorities not to prosecute the teen and his friends.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is terminating the contractor running its largest detention facility in El Paso, Texas, and replacing it with Amentum Services, the agency said. The contractor switch at Camp East Montana comes amid scrutiny of detainees’ living conditions and allegations of overcrowding, medical neglect and other problems.
State senators in Atlanta grilled former special prosecutor Nathan Wade on March 13 about his work on Georgia’s racketeering case against President Donald Trump, focusing on communications his team had with federal investigators. The Republican-led inquiry into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her prosecution largely ran into Wade’s repeated claims that he could not recall details.
A federal judge in Alabama dismissed a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died after police used a Taser multiple times in Mobile in 2023. U.S. District Judge Kristi K. DuBose ordered the body-camera footage unsealed after the case was dismissed, according to court records. Lawyers for the family said they plan to appeal.
Gunmen ambushed security personnel on patrol in Nigeria’s Plateau state, according to the state government and a local group, killing an undetermined number of people. The attack happened on Friday around communities in the Kanam area, and no group has claimed responsibility.
Tommy Thompson, the deep-sea treasure hunter who found the sunken S.S. Central America off South Carolina in 1988, was released from prison last Wednesday, federal Bureau of Prisons records reviewed by The Associated Press show. Thompson spent more than a decade incarcerated after refusing to answer court questions about the whereabouts of 500 gold coins from the ship’s treasure.
A media-rating company, NewsGuard Technologies, sued the Federal Trade Commission and its chairman, Andrew Ferguson, in U.S. District Court in Washington, arguing the agency is using its power to censor speech. The FTC says the company’s accusations are “untethered from both law and fact,” according to court filings.
A Wisconsin lawmaker pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge tied to a dispute within her Assembly Democratic caucus over resolutions honoring Hispanics. The plea was entered during a Friday hearing in Milwaukee County, according to court records cited by The Associated Press.
Tommy Thompson, who helped discover the sunken S.S. Central America treasure, was released from prison last week after spending more than a decade behind bars for refusing to answer questions about the whereabouts of some of the missing gold coins, federal records show. Thompson, 73, was released Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Gunmen ambushed security personnel on patrol in communities in Nigeria’s Plateau state, according to the state government. The government did not specify the number of casualties, but a local group said 20 personnel, including two senior military officers and eight local security operatives, were killed.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday it is replacing the contractor that has run its largest detention facility at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, with a new prime contractor. The move comes after scrutiny of living conditions detainees described as inhumane since the camp’s hasty construction and opening last year.
The Justice Department charged Kenya Chapman with selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who killed one person and wounded two others at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, federal authorities said. The charges were filed Friday, one day after the Feb. 28 shooting, authorities said in court filings.
A media-rating company says the Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission is threatening its livelihood by investigating the company’s news-credibility ratings. NewsGuard Technologies filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, arguing the FTC is using its power to censor speech rather than address trade or commerce.
A Georgia prosecutor has dropped charges against a teenager police said was driving the truck that struck and killed a high school teacher during a prank that turned deadly, the teen’s lawyer said. The decision also included dropping misdemeanor charges against four other teens charged in the case.
A Wisconsin state lawmaker, Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge tied to a dispute with fellow Democrats over resolutions honoring Hispanics. Prosecutors charged her in February, and the plea was entered during a hearing in Milwaukee County on Friday, according to the Associated Press. Judge Paul Malloy ordered Ortiz-Velez to pay a $300 fine and submit a DNA sample.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's kidney function has improved but he will remain in an intensive care unit due to pneumonia, his doctors said Sunday. The 70-year-old right-wing leader has been hospitalized multiple times since a 2018 stabbing and is serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt.
MOBILE, Ala. — A federal judge dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday over the 2023 Taser death of Jawan Dallas, ruling police force was reasonable as bodycam footage was unsealed to the public.
Israel’s military said it has dropped charges against five soldiers accused of beating and sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an alleged assault at a wartime prison in 2024. The case, involving allegations that were partially captured on video and later leaked, prompted anger among far-right figures in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Human rights advocates criticized the decision as dismissing one of the gravest episodes of abuse in Israel’s network of detention facilities.
In a Thursday ambush at a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb, a man rammed a vehicle into the building and was fatally shot by security, intensifying worries among clergy and worshippers about the safety of religious sites. The Associated Press reviewed notable attacks on houses of worship over the past 15 years across multiple countries, illustrating how widely the threat has spread.
Pro-Iranian hackers have targeted sites across the Middle East and expanded their reach into the United States during the war that began Feb. 28, raising the risk of cyberattacks on U.S. defense contractors and critical infrastructure, experts said. Hackers supporting Iran claimed responsibility for a significant cyberattack Wednesday against medical device maker Stryker, while researchers also described attempted intrusions including into data centers, industrial facilities and cameras used for missile targeting.
Pro-Iranian hacking groups have escalated cyber operations against U.S. and Middle Eastern targets since the war began February 28, posing a growing threat to American critical infrastructure, the Associated Press has learned. The hackers, claiming responsibility for a significant cyberattack on medical device manufacturer Stryker, are focusing on data centers, industrial facilities, and utility providers in a campaign experts warn could expand if Tehran’s allies join the fray.
A new AP timeline lists dozens of recent attacks on churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship around the world. The catalog ranges from a vehicle‑ramming ambush at a Detroit suburb synagogue on March 12, 2026, to a suicide bombing inside a Greek‑Orthodox church near Damascus on June 22, 2025. While weekly worship remains statistically safe, the string of high‑profile incidents has intensified fear among clergy and congregants worldwide.
Israel’s military said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of beating and sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military prison, a case that has drawn intense scrutiny. The military said the decision came because a leaked video did not show abuse severe enough to support a criminal conviction and because the video had been improperly released to the media.
A March 12 attack on a Detroit synagogue — where a gunman rammed his vehicle into the building — is the latest in a series of violent incidents at religious sites worldwide, raising concerns about security at places of worship. The assault, which caused no injuries but damaged the structure, follows a pattern of attacks spanning multiple countries and targeting diverse faiths over the past 15 years.
A federal judge in Washington state rejected an emergency request that would have forced the state House to issue press credentials to three conservative media figures. The judge said the plaintiffs did not show they were likely to win on claims of denied free press rights or violations of due process. The dispute centers on whether the House should grant floor access to participants in political advocacy rather than independent journalists.
The armed man who rammed his vehicle into Temple Israel, a large Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, was identified as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, federal officials said. He was fatally shot by security officers after driving through the synagogue’s hallway on Thursday, authorities said. Investigators have not determined a motive.
ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued and killed a gunman after he opened fire in a campus classroom on Thursday, leaving one person dead and two wounded, federal authorities said. The FBI said the former Army National Guard member had spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State and was on supervised release when he carried out the attack.
In Sacramento, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state faces no imminent threat despite an FBI warning about a possible Iranian drone strike on the West Coast in retaliation for war. Newsom said officials are treating the information with preparedness for “worst-case scenarios.”
Guatemala’s newly selected Constitutional Court will need to regain public confidence in a justice system that many Guatemalans see as serving the interests of a few, experts said March 12. The court, whose decisions cannot be appealed, will be seated in April after President Bernardo Arévalo announced two of its magistrates on Wednesday.
Toronto police say a white Honda CR-V sought in an investigation into a shooting at the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto last week has been recovered. Police said the vehicle was stolen shortly before the Tuesday incident, in which two people fired a handgun at the consulate shortly before 4:30 a.m. No injuries were reported, authorities said.
Microsoft and a group of retired military leaders urged a federal judge in San Francisco to halt a Trump administration decision to exclude Anthropic from military work. The government said last week that Anthropic poses a risk to the military supply chain, and Microsoft challenged the move in a filing tied to a lawsuit Anthropic brought on Monday.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a bid for a temporary restraining order that would have forced Washington House lawmakers to grant press passes to three conservative media figures. The case stemmed from the House declining earlier this year to issue legislative press credentials to Ari Hoffman, Brandi Kruse and Jonathan Choe over a dispute about who qualifies as a journalist and whether the credentialing process was arbitrary.
The United States will intervene in a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice that South Africa filed, arguing the accusations are false and warning a ruling against Israel could undermine international law. In a filing obtained by The Associated Press, the U.S. says the allegations are part of a “broader campaign” against Israel and Jewish people “to justify or encourage terrorism against them.”
Toronto police said the white Honda CR‑V believed to have been used in a handgun attack on the United States consulate on Tuesday was recovered within hours after the incident. The vehicle, which police say was stolen shortly before the shooting, was found on Thursday, and authorities confirmed no one was injured in the attack that occurred around 4:30 a.m. near the downtown consulate.
A Jackson County Circuit Court judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s new U.S. House district map, a plan backed by former President Donald Trump that seeks to give Republicans an extra seat in the 2026 midterm elections. The ruling, issued by Judge Adam Caine, upheld the redistricting plan that reshapes Kansas City’s 5th District and stretches it into heavily Republican rural areas.
California Governor Gavin Newsom told a press briefing on March 12 that there is no imminent threat to the state despite an FBI bulletin warning of a possible Iranian drone strike on the West Coast. The warning, posted on the agency’s official X account, described the intelligence as “unverified,” and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed the governor’s assessment, saying no such threat exists.
A man who rammed his vehicle into Temple Israel, one of the largest Reform synagogues in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was identified as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, according to federal officials. He was fatally shot by security officers after driving through a hallway at the synagogue Thursday, authorities said.
Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, said a gunman opened fire in a business school classroom before Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students subdued him, authorities said. The FBI said one person was killed and two were wounded in the shooting on Thursday.
The United States will intervene in a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice that South Africa brought at the United Nations’ highest court, the U.S. said in a filing. The filing argues that South Africa’s accusations are false and warns that an adverse ruling could undermine international law.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday there is no imminent threat to the state despite an FBI warning about a possible Iran drone attack on the West Coast.
BOSTON — Seventeen Democratic state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Trump administration policy requiring higher education institutions to collect data on whether they consider race in admissions. The plaintiffs argued the data-collection effort is rushed, could produce unreliable results, and jeopardizes student privacy, while the Education Department defended the requirement as an expansion of a transparency tool.
President Donald Trump’s administration sued California on Thursday over state rules aimed at curbing air pollution from cars, a dispute that could reshape the timeline for electric-vehicle adoption. The lawsuit challenges California’s authority to enforce vehicle-emissions standards, even those that California says were already approved under less strict federal requirements.
The federal government filed a lawsuit on March 12 against California’s vehicle‑emission program, accusing the state of overstepping its authority to set stricter rules for cars. The suit targets standards that the California Air Resources Board says will stay in force despite the litigation. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s office blasted the action as an attack on the state’s efforts to lower gasoline prices and expand electric‑vehicle options.
Four Muslim parents and three private schools filed federal lawsuits seeking to stop Texas officials from excluding Islamic private schools from the state’s private school voucher program, arguing the state is discriminating on the basis of religion.
Live Nation and the U.S. Justice Department announced a tentative settlement that critics say does not separate Ticketmaster from its parent, leaving consumers with an uncertain path to lower concert-ticket costs. The deal would require court approval after a federal trial and would also create a $280 million settlement fund for states’ damages claims, if states sign on.
Microsoft and a coalition of 22 retired senior U.S. military officers filed a brief on March 11 in federal court in San Francisco asking a judge to block the Pentagon’s supply‑chain‑risk designation of artificial‑intelligence firm Anthropic. The designation, issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under the Trump administration, would bar Anthropic’s Claude model from military contracts and force contractors to follow vague supply‑chain guidelines that have never been applied to a U.S. company before. The brief argues the move threatens the rule of law, endangers service members and could have serious economic effects.
A Utah judge denied parts of an effort by defense attorneys for Tyler Robinson to limit public access to court documents in the killing case involving conservative activist Charlie Kirk, while leaving open the possibility of closing portions of an upcoming hearing. Judge Tony Graf said he would continue balancing the factors in deciding what can be closed as Robinson’s case heads toward an April hearing on whether cameras and recording devices should be allowed.
Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Bishop Emanuel Shaleta, a Chaldean Catholic leader in the San Diego area, who faces criminal charges accusing him of embezzling $270,000 from his parish. The Vatican said it accepted Shaleta’s resignation under canon law for Eastern Rite churches, and named a temporary administrator for the El Cajon congregation.
A man shot by Bridgeport police last year died after an ambulance delay, a newly released state investigation says. The inspector general found the shooting was justified but raised questions about what happened afterward, including that a first ambulance was redirected to transport an officer. The man’s family said the delay could have affected whether he survived.
René Redzepi, the founder and chef behind Denmark’s famed Noma, stepped down after abuse and assault allegations drew new attention online. In a Thursday Instagram post, he said Noma had taken steps to change its culture and that his resignation acknowledged that “an apology is not enough.”
Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark Los Angeles trial over whether Meta and YouTube should be liable for harms that a plaintiff says were caused by early social media use. After a month of testimony from addiction experts, therapists, engineers and executives including Mark Zuckerberg, a 12-person jury heard closing statements and is expected to begin deliberations Friday morning.
Incendiary internal messages in which a Live Nation employee mocked customers as “so stupid” and said the company was “robbing them blind, baby” were made public as 24-plus states and the U.S. government weigh whether to keep litigating their antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster. The messages, shared in a filing released in Manhattan federal court, were highlighted after a week of testimony and after federal authorities announced a settlement that could alter the trial’s future.
An Army sergeant accused of shooting and wounding five co-workers at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia last summer is seeking to plead guilty to reduced charges in a military court, Army prosecutors said March 12. The Army Office of Special Trial Counsel said the change is set to be considered by a military judge during a March 31 hearing.
Colin Dorgan, a senior hockey player for Blackstone Valley Co-op in Rhode Island, scored the game-winning goal in double overtime on March 11, 2026, to advance his team to the state championship game. The win came nearly a month after he lost three family members in a youth hockey rink shooting in Pawtucket. Dorgan wore a patch on his jersey honoring his mother, brother and grandfather as he returned to the ice.
Lawyers and advocates say Vermont’s Department of Corrections has made it harder for immigration detainees to meet with attorneys and receive interpretation help inside state prisons. They point to changes they say began after Jon Murad took over as interim commissioner, including limits on device access and reduced meeting access. Murad denied the characterization and said the department is enforcing policies and improving interpretation services.
Muslim parents and private schools filed lawsuits against Texas officials Wednesday, alleging religious discrimination in the state's new private school voucher program that excludes Islamic institutions. The legal actions argue the exclusion violates constitutional protections and deny Muslim families access to public funding for private education.
A Bridgeport, Connecticut man, Dyshan Best, died after state investigators found police used the first ambulance that arrived at the scene of his shooting to transport another officer. The inspector general’s report, released Tuesday, also found the shooting by Officer Yoon Heo was justified because Best had a handgun in his hand, according to video.
High school hockey player Colin Dorgan scored a game-winning goal in double overtime to advance the Blackstone Valley Co-op toward the Rhode Island state championship game, nearly a month after a shooting at a youth rink killed three of his family members. Dorgan, who wore a patch on his jersey honoring his mother, brother and grandfather, scored in a semifinal against Portsmouth High School on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at Schneider Arena on the campus of Providence College in Providence.
Live Nation and the U.S. Department of Justice announced a tentative agreement to settle DOJ claims that Live Nation runs a monopoly that squashes competition and drives up prices in live music ticketing. The deal, revealed Monday during a trial, would give some venues ticketing choices but would not separate Ticketmaster from Live Nation. Critics and many states say the changes do not go far enough for consumers.
U.S. government and state prosecutors on Thursday urged a federal judge to allow Slack messages from a Live Nation employee to be used in an ongoing antitrust trial over the company’s relationship with Ticketmaster. The messages, released in the public court record, include language prosecutors say mocks customers and brags about Live Nation profiting from fans. The judge, Arun Subramanian, encouraged negotiations among parties after the federal government announced a settlement this week.
Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Chaldean Catholic bishop Emanuel Shaleta, who faces criminal charges accusing him of embezzling $270,000 from a parish in El Cajon, California, the Vatican announced Tuesday. The announcement came after Shaleta pleaded not guilty to 16 felony counts earlier this week.
Celebrity chef René Redzepi resigned from Copenhagen’s Noma after allegations of abuse and assault, according to a report by The Associated Press on Thursday. Redzepi posted a tearful resignation video on Instagram in which he said Noma had taken steps to transform its culture and that he takes responsibility for his own actions.
Lawyers for a 20-year-old woman and social media giants Meta and YouTube made final appeals to a Los Angeles jury Thursday, arguing over whether platforms should be liable for harms to children. The bellwether trial could impact thousands of similar lawsuits.
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala's newly seated Constitutional Court must work to regain public trust after years of decisions that appeared to protect alleged criminals, experts said Thursday. The court, which returns four of its 10 magistrates, faces scrutiny over its independence and commitment to legal principles.
An Army sergeant accused of shooting five co-workers at Fort Stewart last summer is seeking to plead guilty to reduced charges, Army prosecutors said Thursday. Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, wants to admit to attempted murder and assault in the August attack that injured four soldiers and a civilian worker.
NEW YORK (MSI) — A Live Nation employee called customers "so stupid" and bragged about "robbing them blind" in internal Slack messages, states argued Wednesday in an antitrust trial against the entertainment giant.
The Justice Department and Live Nation announced a tentative settlement Monday to address monopoly allegations, but critics argue the deal fails to fundamentally change the concert ticketing landscape. The agreement, which still requires court approval, would allow venues more ticketing choices while leaving Ticketmaster under Live Nation's ownership.
House Oversight Committee lawmakers on Wednesday deposed Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accountant and an executor of his estate, as they sought details about Epstein’s financial portfolio and ties to wealthy figures. Kahn told lawmakers in a closed-door deposition that he had not personally seen evidence of Epstein’s sexual abuse, according to a summary provided by committee Republicans.
South Africa has deployed soldiers in Johannesburg to help police tackle gang violence and illegal mining, according to a notice from President Cyril Ramaphosa to Parliament. The initial deployment involves 550 troops in Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg, and is scheduled to last until the end of April. The government said the army will operate under police command while police and the defense department provided limited details on the operation.
The Associated Press reports that newly released surveillance video appears to show Emir Balat buying a fuse at a Phantom Fireworks store in Pennsylvania on March 2, days before prosecutors allege he and another man brought homemade bombs to a protest outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence. Prosecutors say Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi were arrested after police said they attempted to set off improvised explosives at a small anti-Muslim rally near Gracie Mansion.
California state lawmakers grilled Department of Motor Vehicles Director Steve Gordon at a Senate informational hearing Tuesday on road safety and DUI enforcement after an increase in road deaths. Lawmakers pressed Gordon on why the DMV has limited data on actions against dangerous drivers, and on how the agency investigates major crashes and repeat reckless driving offenders.
Microsoft and a group of retired U.S. military leaders have filed in federal court to block the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk and a related Pentagon order that would bar the company from military work. The filings argue Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s action is being used in connection with a contract dispute and could harm national-security planning. A hearing is set for March 24 in the case before U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco.
Texas executed Cedric Ricks, 51, on Wednesday evening for the 2013 fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Roxann Sanchez, and her 8-year-old son, Anthony Figueroa, at the state prison in Huntsville. Authorities said the couple’s older son, Marcus Figueroa, survived after being stabbed multiple times and watching the execution from outside the death chamber.
The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging misuse of tightly restricted Social Security Administration data by a former Department of Government Efficiency worker, according to a document reviewed by The Associated Press. The inspector general said it opened the probe after receiving an anonymous complaint, and Sen. Ron Wyden called the allegations, if true, “one of the largest known data breaches in American history.”
A 12-year-old girl in suburban Villa Rica, Georgia, died days after she collapsed in the street following a fistfight near a school bus stop, police said. The investigation is reviewing evidence including cellphone video, and prosecutors will decide later whether to bring charges.
PITTSBURGH — Police arrested the head priest and dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh on charges accusing him of stealing baseball cards from a Walmart, according to court records. The Very Rev. Aidan Smith was arrested Feb. 27 in Economy Borough, just outside Pittsburgh, after Walmart security reported theft and video captured him taking cards on multiple prior days.
Federal agents searched the home of Los Angeles Unified’s superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, and the district’s headquarters as he remained on paid leave during a federal investigation. On Wednesday, Carvalho denied wrongdoing and asked the school board to reinstate him as head of the district. Authorities have not publicly detailed the investigation or any alleged crimes.
Leavenworth, Kansas, approved a permit allowing CoreCivic to reopen a shuttered private prison to house immigrants detained after crossing into the U.S. without authorization. The City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday, approving a three-year permit with conditions including minimum staffing, a ban on housing minors and a city oversight committee.
Martine Moïse, the widow of Haiti’s former President Jovenel Moïse, described being shot and wounded during his 2021 assassination as she testified in a U.S. federal trial in Miami of four men charged with conspiracy. Her testimony came after opening statements and followed similar testimony she gave the day before in the case.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was warned that Peter Mandelson’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein posed “reputational risk” if he appointed Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, documents published Wednesday show. Starmer appointed Mandelson anyway, then fired him nine months into the job after more details about the relationship emerged. The newly released files come after U.S. Justice Department materials on Epstein and pressure on Britain to disclose records about the appointment.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, said it aims to shut down all of the country’s online scam centers by the end of next month, its top cybercrime official said Wednesday. Senior Minister Chhay Sinarith said the government has targeted 250 locations since July, shutting about 80%, and plans further enforcement after April to prevent the scams from reemerging.
Nathan Chasing Horse, the former actor known for “Dances With Wolves,” was convicted in Nevada of sexual assault of Indigenous women and girls, and a judge has delayed his sentencing by a week. Judge Jessica Peterson agreed on Wednesday to move the hearing to March 18, according to the Associated Press.
Ecuador will launch a major offensive against criminal organizations in three western provinces this weekend, with logistical support from the United States, Interior Minister John Reimberg said Wednesday. Reimberg also urged residents in the provinces of Guayas, Los Ríos and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to follow an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew from March 15-30, aimed at keeping roads clear for troop and equipment movement. The announcement came days after Ecuador and the U.S. began joint military operations against organized crime groups, and later Wednesday the two sides announced an agreement to establish an FBI office in Ecuador.
A former NFL player charged with murder in his girlfriend’s death in Tennessee asked a ChatGPT-style AI bot for advice before he called 911, prosecutors said in court. Darron Lee’s conversations began Feb. 4, a day before investigators found his girlfriend, Gabriella Perpetuo, unresponsive at a home outside Chattanooga, according to messages shown to the judge.
Stryker, a major U.S. medical equipment company, said a cyberattack disrupted its global networks on Wednesday. The company said it has no indication of ransomware or malware and believes the incident was contained, adding that its teams are working to determine the impact. In an SEC filing, Stryker said a timeline for full restoration and the full scope of the impact on its business were not yet known.
Senegal’s parliament has approved a bill that toughens punishments for homosexual acts, doubling prison terms from 1 to 5 years to 5 to 10 years. Introduced by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, the bill also raises fines and targets what it calls the “promotion” or “financing” of homosexuality. The changes still require presidential assent before becoming law.
Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified Wednesday that he was present at a 2018 dinner with then-Ohio Gov.-elect Mike DeWine and two former FirstEnergy executives who are accused of bribing a top utility regulator. Husted, who testified remotely, said he recalled little about what was discussed and said he was not aware the executives planned to meet DeWine’s eventual pick to lead the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Sam Randazzo.
Latvia’s State Security Service said two people set fire to a train and rail equipment in August 2025, and later filmed the attack for propaganda. The agency said the video was provided to the people who commissioned the arson. The case was described alongside a pattern of sabotage and cyberattacks officials in Europe and the United States say are linked to Russia.
A Moscow court on Thursday convicted 19 people connected to the March 22, 2024 shooting rampage at Crocus City Hall that killed 149 people and wounded more than 600, according to the Associated Press. All 19 defendants received prison terms, including 15 life sentences, following a closed-door trial held in a military court, the report said.
The International Criminal Court said prosecutors have dropped an investigation into whether U.S. sanctions on Venezuela amounted to crimes against humanity. Prosecutors said there was not enough evidence of the “necessary intent” to pursue criminal charges, though they said sanctions may have exacerbated an “existing dire humanitarian situation.”
Court scheduled for Wednesday in New Hampshire for Elijah Allman, the son of singer and actress Cher, was canceled after he appeared with an attorney, according to authorities and court reporting. Allman was arrested March 1 in Windham, New Hampshire, and faces charges including burglary and criminal mischief.
In Havana and other cities across Cuba, authorities say young people are increasingly using cheap synthetic drugs known as “químico,” or “papelitos,” as the country’s economic crisis and shortages worsen. An AP visit to a Havana psychiatric hospital described a 90-day detox and rehabilitation effort for patients in their 20s, alongside church-led recovery sessions in the community. Cuba’s Interior Ministry and mental-health officials cite rising emergency-room visits and say new synthetic formulations are increasingly detected by police laboratories.
Utah is moving toward a law that would expand the state’s gambling prohibition to cover certain wagers in sports, aiming to limit prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Gov. Spencer Cox said he will sign the legislation and warned it would place “a casino in the pocket of every single American,” a stance that has put Utah at odds with the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Kalshi has already sued to block enforcement.
A federal judge ordered a competency evaluation for Jack LaSota, the leader of a group sometimes referred to by outsiders as the “Zizians,” who faces a federal gun charge. The judge said LaSota would remain in federal custody while the exam is completed, after a lawyer argued there is reason to believe LaSota is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
New York authorities said two men accused of throwing homemade explosives during a far-right protest outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence claimed inspiration from the Islamic State extremist group, according to a court complaint filed after their arrests. Prosecutors said the homemade devices did not explode and that both men were held without bail after a Monday court appearance. The men, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, face charges including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and using a weapon of mass destruction.
Anthropic filed two lawsuits on Monday seeking to halt the Trump administration from enforcing a “supply chain risk” designation tied to the company’s refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology. The company also asked courts to unwind a federal directive ordering employees to stop using its Claude chatbot.
New Mexico prosecutors and state investigators have begun searching a secluded former Jeffrey Epstein property in New Mexico, the state Attorney General’s office said Tuesday. The search is tied to allegations and federal records that prosecutors say warrant further review. The office said it is proceeding with the cooperation of the current ranch owners.
Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed that President Richard Nixon’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room were bugged and that Nixon conversations were routinely recorded, has died. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press by his wife, Kim, and former White House counsel John Dean, who helped expose the Watergate scandal. Butterfield was 99.
The Justice Department said it reached a tentative settlement with Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster over an antitrust lawsuit targeting ticketing practices, a deal the judge overseeing the Manhattan case called “entirely unacceptable” because it was disclosed only late Sunday. The term sheet would allow venues to use ticketing rivals for some tickets, cap Ticketmaster service fees at certain amphitheaters, and set up a $280 million settlement fund, but more than two dozen states and some lawmakers said they would keep fighting.
A Baltimore police officer was shot in the leg Tuesday while responding to a burglary call, and the gunman was killed by a second officer in a confrontation that left two civilian women endangered, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said. The wounded officer was in stable condition at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Bishop Emanuel Shaleta of the Chaldean Catholic community in El Cajon, California, resigned from his post Tuesday after prosecutors charged him with allegedly taking more than $270,000 from his parish, and pleaded not guilty to 16 felony counts. Shaleta, 69, was arrested last week at San Diego International Airport while attempting to leave the country, the San Diego County Sheriff's Office said. Pope Leo XIV announced acceptance of the resignation Tuesday.
Voting technology firm Smartmatic filed a motion in Miami federal court Tuesday seeking to dismiss a criminal money laundering indictment, with attorneys arguing that President Donald Trump and his allies drove the prosecution as retaliation for the company's role in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Trump's media supporters.
The parents of a girl critically wounded in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company had specific knowledge the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan a mass-casualty attack. The suit was filed in British Columbia Supreme Court and follows OpenAI’s earlier statement that it considered alerting police but did not. OpenAI also said it later contacted police after the Feb. 10 killing of eight people and the shooter’s death.
PHOENIX — Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen said he complied “late last week” with a federal grand jury subpoena and that “The FBI has the records,” handing over materials tied to a contentious 2020 election audit in Maricopa County. The Arizona attorney general, Kris Mayes, criticized the move, saying prior reviews found no evidence of widespread fraud that could have affected the outcome.
The U.S. State Department designated Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention, accusing the Taliban of using “hostage diplomacy” in a bid to extract policy concessions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, raised the issue at a U.N. Security Council meeting.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a law Monday that bans most abortions after embryonic “cardiac activity” can be detected, generally at about six weeks’ gestation. In a letter to lawmakers, Gordon said he has misgivings about the measure because it does not include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
Iran has been firing cluster munitions toward Israel on a "nearly daily basis" throughout the ongoing war, Israeli military officials said Tuesday, deploying weapons that scatter dozens of bomblets across wide areas that Israel's air-defense networks are not built to stop. At least three people have been killed by the submunitions, including two workers at a construction site in central Israel.
A federal jury in Mississippi acquitted former engineer James Michael Fisher of making false statements and obstructing justice in the criminal investigation of a 2017 military plane crash that killed all 16 service members aboard, according to court testimony summarized by The Associated Press. Fisher was tried in Greenville, Mississippi, after an eight-day trial.
A man was taken into custody after driving a van into a security barrier outside the White House early Wednesday, authorities said. The U.S. Secret Service said the crash happened just before 6:30 a.m., and the man was arrested immediately. The Secret Service said criminal charges were pending and a bomb squad checked the vehicle and determined it was safe.
Washington's attorney-discipline office filed professional misconduct charges March 7 against Ed Martin, the Justice Department's pardon attorney, accusing him of violating the Constitution when, as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., he threatened Georgetown Law School's dean with a student hiring freeze if the school did not eliminate its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The charges were filed by Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton Fox with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which enforces ethics standards for D.C.-licensed attorneys. Fox is asking a D.C. Court of Appeals panel to determine whether discipline is warranted. Martin, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, has 20 days to formally respond in writing.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-year-old inmate who was scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas later that week, even though he had left the building before his accomplice fired the shot that killed a customer during a 1991 robbery. Ivey reduced Burton's sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole, marking only the second time the Republican governor has granted clemency to a death row inmate since taking office in 2017.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday, two days before he was scheduled to be executed for a 1991 robbery murder in which he did not fire the fatal shot. Burton had been convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of Doug Battle at a Talladega auto parts store; a co-defendant, Derrick DeBruce, fired the weapon. DeBruce's death sentence was later reduced to life on appeal, and he died in prison.
A court hearing scheduled for Wednesday for Cher’s son Elijah Allman on allegations he broke into a New Hampshire home was canceled, according to authorities. Allman, 49, had been arrested March 1 and was being held at the Rockingham County Department of Corrections. His attorney, Sarah Landres, took the case before the hearing, and officials said they were continuing the case to an undetermined date.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified Wednesday, remotely, that he attended a 2018 dinner with then-Ohio Gov.-elect Mike DeWine and two former FirstEnergy executives now on trial for alleged bribery of a utility regulator. Husted said he recalled little about what was discussed and denied knowing that the executives planned to meet DeWine’s eventual pick to lead the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio right after the dinner.
Paoli, Pa., officials said a Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed after he pulled over a driver in West Caln Township on Sunday night. The state’s acting police commissioner said the man who fired then killed himself with a pistol.
A jury was seated Monday in a U.S. federal trial of four men accused in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, with opening statements set for Tuesday in South Florida. Christian Sanon was not part of the trial after his case was separated for medical reasons, according to his attorney.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles renewed the license of a man prosecutors say killed a 23-month-old boy in a high-speed crash in 2022, even after the man was charged in the case, according to court records. When Placer County prosecutors subpoenaed DMV materials, the agency fought to keep them secret—then told the court it had no records of any investigation into the fatal crash.
A Georgia high school teacher died after what authorities described as a prank turned deadly, and prosecutors have charged a teen with vehicular homicide. Authorities said Jason Hughes, 40, was struck by a pickup truck after he tripped and fell as the students were leaving his home in Gainesville late Friday.
Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna’s gated home in the Beverly Hills area, authorities said. No injuries were reported, and police said it was not immediately clear whether the singer was home when the shooting happened Sunday afternoon.
A family from South Texas said Monday that two teen brothers in a nationally recognized mariachi program were released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after bipartisan criticism of how the family was detained. The brothers, Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, and Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar, 14, were detained Feb. 25 along with their parents and their 12-year-old brother, before Antonio was released separately Monday from a facility in Raymondville, Texas.
A federal judge in Oregon on Monday restricted federal officers from using tear gas and other chemical or projectile munitions during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. The order came after a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Oregon on behalf of protesters and freelance journalists, who said they were sprayed with OC spray and hit with other munitions.
A Missouri prosecutor dropped a murder charge against Dominic Miller, a man sentenced to two years in prison for a shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ 2024 Super Bowl win. Prosecutors said the case was complicated by Missouri’s self-defense laws and by what they said was insufficient evidence that Miller’s shot killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who died during the attack outside Union Station.
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys in Miami delivered opening statements Tuesday in the trial of four men accused of conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who was killed at his home near Port-au-Prince on July 7, 2021. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean McLaughlin told the jury the case was not complicated: the defendants wanted to seize power and get rich.
A federal judge in Manhattan urged more than two dozen states on Tuesday to negotiate a settlement in their antitrust case against Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster, a day after the Justice Department announced it had settled and dropped out of the trial. A lawyer for Live Nation told Judge Arun Subramanian the chance all states would agree to terms by Friday was "about zero."
Alameda County Chief Public Defender Brendon Woods refused to proceed with a misdemeanor trial Thursday after the jury pool in an Oakland courtroom contained no Black prospective jurors, triggering a confrontation with the presiding judge and a partial remedy that legal observers said still left the defendant with slim odds of a Black juror. The defendant, Eboni Route, is a Black Oakland woman facing misdemeanor charges of battery against a police officer and resisting arrest. Woods told Judge Pelayo Llamas that without any Black representation in the panel, Route could not receive a fair trial by her peers.
Ari Lauer, 61, outside counsel for the defunct California solar company DC Solar, was sentenced Monday to 11 years and five months in federal prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud scheme that deceived thousands of investors, federal prosecutors said. Lauer had pleaded guilty in October to 23 felony counts, including bank fraud and wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
A Georgia judge on Monday rejected a request for a new trial for Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national convicted of murdering nursing student Laken Riley, whose death became a focal point in the national debate over immigration policy.
A 16-foot Baby Jesus statue arrived Monday night in Tepito, a central Mexico City neighborhood known for its open-air markets and persistent crime, drawing dozens of residents to a street procession, Mass and shared cups of atole as the figure continued a peace tour across central Mexico. The visit was organized by a local musician who said he hoped it would demonstrate that good people live in Tepito.
Washington's attorney ethics office has filed professional misconduct charges against Ed Martin, the Justice Department's pardon attorney, for a letter he sent last year to Georgetown Law School's dean threatening to bar the school's students from federal prosecutor jobs unless the university eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed the charges on Friday, accusing Martin of violating his oath of office and the Constitution's protections for free speech and due process. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton Fox is asking a panel of D.C. Court of Appeals officials to determine whether discipline is warranted.
A federal jury in Missouri awarded $667,000 in damages Monday to a group of Muslim men who alleged they were pepper-sprayed by correctional officers while praying. The verdict was reached in a lawsuit filed in eastern Missouri U.S. District Court that also alleged the men were denied religious rights, placed in solitary confinement after praying, and then denied access to basic hygiene while being sprayed.
Police in Norway said they were investigating an explosion early Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, the capital. Officials said no injuries were reported, and they were searching for those responsible and their motive.
The U.S. military killed six men Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Southern Command said, the latest operation in the Trump administration's maritime campaign against alleged narcotics traffickers. The attack brought the death toll from the campaign to at least 157 people since the military began targeting alleged traffickers in small vessels in early September 2025.
Three brothers — twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 38, and Tal Alexander, 39, once celebrated as two of the nation's most successful luxury real estate brokers — were convicted of sex trafficking Monday in Manhattan federal court following a five-week trial in which 11 women testified they had been sexually assaulted by one or more of the men. The jury foreperson said "guilty" 19 straight times. Judge Valerie E. Caproni set sentencing for Aug. 6 on convictions that could keep the brothers behind bars for the rest of their lives.
A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have legal authority to take actions that largely dismantled the Voice of America. U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Lake could not serve as a principal officer because she did not meet the requirements in law or the Constitution, and he wrote that only the Appointments Clause or the Vacancies Act’s structure can authorize such service.
Federal judges in Milwaukee decided Tuesday not to extend interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel’s appointment for Wisconsin beyond next week. The interim term runs for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, headquartered in Milwaukee, and is set to expire March 17.
In a federal courtroom lecture, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sparred over the Supreme Court’s emergency orders that allow President Donald Trump to move forward with parts of his agenda while legal challenges proceed. Jackson criticized what she called a “real unfortunate problem” in the court’s approach to the emergency docket, while Kavanaugh said administrations often have to “push the envelope in regulations” as Congress becomes harder to navigate.
Sweden is investigating a cargo ship in the Baltic Sea that officials say may have transported stolen Ukrainian grain, with crew members described as predominantly Russian. Swedish Coast Guard investigators boarded the ship on Friday in Swedish territorial waters to register it and interview people onboard, and the vessel’s name and nationality profile are drawing scrutiny as Ukraine-linked sanctions come into play.
A bombing at the Dali nightclub in Peru’s Trujillo region injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The blast happened in the pre-dawn hours at the venue along the northern coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center.
A roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle killed four people, including two officers, and wounded about two dozen others in Wana in northwestern Pakistan, a police official said. The explosion struck the city of Wana in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border, he said.
The FBI said Tuesday it found explosive residue in a Pennsylvania storage unit in its investigation into two men charged with bringing homemade bombs to a protest near Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Prosecutors and law enforcement say Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were arrested after officers recovered devices during the incident in Manhattan on Saturday.
A federal judge on March 9 disqualified three Justice Department officials from overseeing federal prosecutions in New Jersey, saying they were appointed as part of an illegal power grab by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann ruled that the Trump administration’s structure violated the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which requires Senate confirmation for U.S. attorneys.
Authorities in Peru arrested three people after a bombing at a nightclub in Trujillo injured 33 people, including minors, and the number of injured rose to 44, according to health officials. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours Saturday at the Dalí nightclub in La Libertad, local emergency officials said.
Jihadist groups including Boko Haram and an ISWAP faction have carried out a series of attacks on Nigeria’s military bases in the northeast, killing officers and soldiers and taking away weapons, according to security analysts and military officials. The attacks took place over the last week, with at least six raids reported across Borno and Yobe states and the wider Lake Chad region, the Associated Press reported March 10.
Nigeria’s military killed 45 militants in clashes in Katsina state’s Danmusa area, the Katsina state government said Saturday. The state commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Nasir Mua’zu, said the fighting followed a failed attempt by gunmen to steal cattle earlier this week.
Stockholm-based officials are investigating the cargo ship Caffa after Swedish authorities boarded it in their territorial waters while searching it and interviewing its crew. The Swedish Coast Guard said the crew is predominantly Russian and that the ship is on Ukraine’s sanctions list. Officials also said the vessel is suspected of transporting stolen grain.
A federal court sentenced former Missouri Republican House Speaker John Diehl to 21 months in prison Monday after he admitted using federal COVID-19 relief loans for personal expenses, including country club dues, swimming pool maintenance, home mortgage payments, and vehicle costs. Diehl received approximately $380,000 in Small Business Administration loans for his law firm between 2020 and 2022 through a pandemic relief program designed to help businesses cover operating expenses.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania will decide whether the University of Pennsylvania must produce records sought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in an investigation into whether antisemitism created a hostile work environment for Jewish employees and faculty. The EEOC asked U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert to enforce an administrative subpoena filed against Penn’s board of trustees, according to court filings described at a Tuesday hearing. Penn argues the dispute is limited to the EEOC’s request that it build lists that could reveal employees’ Jewish faith or ancestry and other personal details, including home addresses and contact information.
Two former New York City police officers accused by prosecutors of stealing a brothel key and robbing a sex worker face federal charges after a state case was dismissed on speedy-trial grounds, according to federal prosecutors.
A Michigan jury convicted Dale Warner of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence for the death of his wife, Dee Warner, whose body was found inside an empty farm tank in 2024. Dee Warner disappeared in April 2021, and prosecutors said evidence at trial showed Warner strangled her and took steps to prevent her from breathing. Jurors heard that prosecutors and investigators relied on the remains and related evidence after years when Warner was charged without locating her body.
Lebanese officials and the family of a retired security officer who vanished in December say Israel covertly abducted him to extract information about the fate of an Israeli airman missing for four decades. The retired officer, Ahmed Shukr, a former captain with Lebanon's General Security Directorate, was last seen on Dec. 17, 2025, entering a stranger's vehicle in the eastern Lebanese city of Zahle. Days before the Associated Press reported the disappearance, Israeli commandos carried out a raid in the Bekaa Valley village of Nabi Chit, digging in a family cemetery in what the Israeli military said was a search for evidence about the fate of navigator Ron Arad, who parachuted from his jet over Lebanon in 1986 and was never seen in Israel again. Lebanon's Health Ministry said the raid and subsequent airstrikes killed 41 people and wounded dozens. No Israeli casualties were reported.
A counterprotester hurled an improvised explosive device into a crowd at an anti-Islam rally outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence on Saturday, the city's police commissioner said. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force joined the investigation on Sunday as police identified a second suspicious device in a parked vehicle, prompting street closures and limited building evacuations in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
New York City police are investigating after a counterprotester lit and threw a device packed with nuts, bolts and screws at an anti-Islam demonstration near Gracie Mansion on Saturday, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. A second device was handed to the same individual moments later; he dropped it. Three people were arrested in connection with the confrontation, Tisch said, and no injuries were reported.
Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to mark the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the March 7, 1965, attack on civil rights marchers that helped spur passage of the Voting Rights Act. The commemoration drew Democratic governors, civil rights leaders, and survivors of the original march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on a case that could limit a core provision of the landmark law.
The Kansas City International Airport terminal reopened Sunday afternoon, hours after authorities evacuated roughly 2,000 passengers while the FBI investigated a potential threat. FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau reviewed the threat and determined it "not to be credible."
President Donald Trump dismissed reports Saturday that Russia has provided Iran with targeting information to strike U.S. military personnel in the Middle East, calling the intelligence sharing inconsequential one week into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. Trump spoke aboard Air Force One after attending the dignified transfer for six Army reservists killed in a drone strike in Kuwait — the day after the U.S. and Israel launched the war.
Tens of thousands of women marched across Europe, Latin America and Asia on Sunday to mark International Women's Day, calling for equal pay, an end to gender-based violence, and expanded rights for women around the world, the Associated Press reported. In Berlin, an estimated 20,000 people attended the march — double the number police had anticipated — while demonstrations drew large crowds in Santiago, São Paulo, Madrid and dozens of other cities. The 2026 commemorations carried particular urgency in Chile, where marchers rallied days before the scheduled inauguration of far-right president-elect José Antonio Kast, and in Brazil, where outrage over an alleged gang rape in Rio de Janeiro galvanized demonstrators.
Brazilians marched in at least 15 cities on International Women's Day, Sunday, demanding an end to femicide and sexual violence as five suspects faced charges in the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana neighborhood. The case, which occurred in January, gained national attention this week after four suspects surrendered to authorities; a fifth, a minor, turned himself in Friday to face an equivalent charge under juvenile law. Organizers called the demonstrations a direct response to surging violence against women across the country.
Families and supporters of six Americans detained in Iran warned Friday that their loved ones face escalating danger from the intensifying military conflict, including the risk of becoming unintended casualties of Israeli and American airstrikes or victims of retaliation by Iranian authorities. At least two of the detainees are held at Evin Prison, the high-security Tehran facility that houses many of Iran's political prisoners and that Israel's military has warned nearby residents to evacuate amid continuing strikes.
A Russian cruise missile struck a five-story residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, on Saturday, killing at least 10 people — including two children — and wounding 16 others, Ukrainian officials said. The attack was part of a broader overnight barrage in which Russia fired 29 missiles and 480 drones across the country.
At least 25 people died after overnight flash floods inundated Nairobi on Friday and Saturday, drowning motorists and electrocuting residents as waters submerged vehicles and residential areas across Kenya's capital. George Seda, the Nairobi police chief, said some victims drowned while others were electrocuted, and warned the death toll may rise as search and rescue operations continue. Kenya Airways diverted flights to the coastal city of Mombasa, and the Kenyan military was deployed overnight to assist emergency services.
Body camera footage released Friday calls into question the Department of Homeland Security's account that Ruben Ray Martinez intentionally rammed a federal agent with his car before he was shot and killed. The videos — made public following public records requests by The Associated Press and other news organizations — show Martinez's car moving slowly through a South Padre Island, Texas, intersection in the seconds before HSI Supervisory Special Agent Jack Stevens fired three shots through the driver's side window on March 15, 2025. Martinez, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen from San Antonio, died of his wounds.
South Dakota and Utah gave final legislative approval this week to proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration, while Florida, Michigan, and Missouri advanced similar measures, as Republican-controlled states pressed ahead without waiting for a deadlocked U.S. Senate. The federal Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — backed by President Donald Trump and passed by the Republican-led House on a mostly party-line vote last month — has stalled in the Senate under a Democratic filibuster threat. Federal law already bars noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections; current registration requires applicants to affirm citizenship under penalty of perjury.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday against the Trump administration's effort to revoke Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, dealing a setback to the administration's mass deportation campaign. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the decision 2-1, upholding a lower court's ruling that had blocked the revocation.
Israel renewed its assault on southern Lebanon early Sunday, targeting commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, a day after striking a Tehran oil storage facility in what appeared to be the first attack on a civil industrial site in the conflict. Missiles and drones struck Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain as the war expanded across the Gulf.
Workers installed a plaque at the U.S. Capitol overnight Saturday honoring police officers who defended the building on Jan. 6, 2021, completing an installation required by law more than two years after its legal deadline had passed. The plaque — the first official marker of the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol — was placed on the Senate side after years of delay blocked by House Speaker Mike Johnson, with two injured officers saying their lawsuit over the installation's compliance with federal law will continue.
An Israeli reservist soldier killed Amir Muhammad Shanaran, 28, in the south Hebron Hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, making him the third Palestinian to die in the territory in a single week. His brother Khaled was critically injured in the same incident, according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
An Israeli special force landed overnight in the eastern Lebanese town of Nabi Chit, searching for information about Ron Arad, a navigator who has been missing since 1986. Lebanon's Health Ministry said at least 41 people were killed and 40 wounded in the fighting. The Israeli military said Saturday that the force found neither Arad's remains nor any evidence of his fate.
Ukraine has developed low-cost interceptor drones — priced at roughly $1,000 to $2,000 — capable of shooting down Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones, and is now offering that technology to the United States and Gulf states in exchange for Patriot missile systems, according to Ukrainian officials and defense analysts. The United States recently requested "specific support" against Iranian-designed Shaheds in the Middle East, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to order the deployment of Ukrainian equipment and experts, though details remain classified. Gulf states have been using Patriot missiles, which cost millions of dollars per interceptor, to shoot down Shahed drones that cost roughly $30,000 apiece.
China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday demanded absolute political loyalty in the military and called for pressing forward the fight against corruption, as Beijing's annual legislative sessions were marked by the dismissal of a dozen senior officers from state bodies. Xi spoke at a plenary meeting of the People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police Force delegation during the annual "two sessions" gatherings of China's top legislature and top political advisory body. His remarks came after the National People's Congress dismissed nine military officers last week and three generals were removed from the advisory body this week.
Tunisian authorities detained three members of the Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee Friday as the country's National Guard financial crimes unit opened an inquiry into suspected money laundering, fraud, and the alleged misuse of donation funds, organizers said. The arrested activists — Wael Naouar, Jawaher Channa, and Nabil Channoufi — are members of both the flotilla's international steering committee and its Tunisian organizing body.
Roberto Álvarez Ávila died March 4 from injuries sustained in a Feb. 26 clash between Cuban soldiers and a Florida-flagged speedboat whose passengers allegedly opened fire on troops off Cuba's north coast, the island's interior ministry announced Thursday, raising the death toll from the incident to five.
A private jet that crashed in Bangor, Maine on Jan. 25, killing all six people aboard, remained on the ground 8 minutes longer than Federal Aviation Administration guidelines allow after receiving a deicing treatment, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday in a preliminary report on the crash. The Bombardier Challenger 600, owned by a Texas law firm and bound for France from Houston, lost control at liftoff during a snowstorm, came down upside down on the runway and burst into flames.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, vanished from her home in the Tucson, Ariz., area on Feb. 1, and the case remained unsolved more than a month later, the Associated Press reported. Her daughter, NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, has made repeated public appeals and offered a $1 million reward for information. The disappearance has drawn attention to what researchers call ambiguous loss — a form of psychological suffering caused by an unresolved absence that leaves families neither able to mourn nor to stop hoping.
The FBI flew a Bangladeshi man to Anchorage on Thursday to face federal charges that he used social media to coerce hundreds of teenage girls into sending him sexually explicit images, threatening to distribute the material to their families and friends if they refused or tried to stop contact. Zobaidul Amin, 28, pleaded not guilty before a federal magistrate, who ordered him held in custody while the case proceeds.
U.S. District Judge Amy Baggio on Friday restricted federal agents from deploying chemical munitions in quantities likely to reach Gray's Landing, an affordable housing complex adjacent to Portland's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, after the complex's property manager and tenants sued the federal government over months of involuntary tear-gas exposure during protests at the building. The ruling is the second time a federal judge in Oregon has imposed limits on tear-gas use at the Portland ICE facility; a separate court had previously issued a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Oregon on behalf of protesters and freelance journalists.
Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama on March 12 for the 1991 killing of Doug Battle — a death caused not by Burton but by a co-conspirator who fired the fatal shot after the robbery. The man who pulled the trigger, Derrick DeBruce, had his death sentence vacated by a federal court, was resentenced to life imprisonment, and died in prison. Burton, held at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility, was convicted of capital murder under the state's felony-murder statute and has maintained for more than 30 years that he was not inside the store when the shooting occurred and did not know anyone had been hurt until the group had left the scene.
Faith leaders from Catholic, Muslim, and Sikh communities are suing the federal government and pressing immigration authorities for greater access to detained migrants during the overlapping holy seasons of Lent and Ramadan. The number of people held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has grown to as many as 75,000 from about 40,000 since President Donald Trump began his second term, spread across more than 225 sites nationwide, according to the Associated Press. A federal judge's order allowed clergy to hold an Ash Wednesday service at an Illinois facility, and a Muslim chaplain gained entry to a Texas detention center at the start of Ramadan — but clergy from multiple faiths say access remains inconsistent and, in some cases, has been entirely cut off.
Women across South Africa are enrolling in firearms training and martial arts classes, seeking protection in a country where gender-based violence rates are so severe that the government declared them a national disaster in November. At a shooting range in Bronkhorstspruit, near Pretoria, girls and women ranging from 13 to 65 practice firing 9 mm pistols under a female instructor. In Johannesburg, women attend jiujitsu classes to learn how to escape chokeholds and evade attacks.
Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker convicted of murdering two 10-year-old girls in one of Britain's most disturbing crimes, died Saturday in a maximum-security prison, days after a fellow inmate struck him repeatedly over the head with a metal bar, the U.K. Ministry of Justice confirmed. Huntley, 52, had been on life support since the Feb. 26 attack in a workshop at Frankland prison in northeast England.
A Cleveland judge set bail at $2 million Friday for Aliyah Henderson, 28, charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of her two young daughters, whose bodies were recovered from shallow graves after a dog walker alerted police to one of two suitcases buried near the city earlier in the week. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victims as Mila Chatman, who would have been 8, and her half-sister Amor Wilson, who would have been 10, with DNA relationship testing used to confirm their identities.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Estefany Rodriguez Florez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee, during a traffic stop Wednesday, according to court documents filed in federal court in Nashville. Her attorney said she was not shown any arrest warrant at the time of her detention. ICE has asked a federal judge to deny her attorney's request for her immediate release.
Emergency calls to 911 from Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas documented repeated suicide attempts, two detainee deaths, seizures, and untreated injuries at the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility at a rate of nearly one call per day for five months, according to records obtained by the Associated Press. The AP reviewed 130 calls placed between mid-August 2025 and Jan. 20, 2026, along with interviews with former detainees and court filings. The records described a facility housing an average of approximately 3,000 people per day in tent quarters where diseases spread and medical care was difficult to obtain. ICE data showed 80 percent of detainees at the camp had no criminal record.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday it is developing a streamlined process to refund approximately $166 billion in tariffs paid by more than 330,000 importers, with the new system expected to be operational within 45 days. Brandon Lord, executive director of CBP's trade policy and programs directorate, described the plan in a filing with the U.S. Court of International Trade, where Judge Richard Eaton must approve the process before any refunds proceed.
Satellite imagery, expert analysis and a statement from a U.S. official point to a United States airstrike as the cause of a Feb. 28 explosion that killed more than 165 people, most of them girls, at a primary school in southern Iran, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The explosion at Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab — a city in Hormozgan province roughly 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) southeast of Tehran — produced the highest civilian death toll of the ongoing U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran, according to Iranian state media. Neither the United States nor Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack. Iran has blamed both countries.
A Brooklyn jury convicted Pakistani business owner Asif Merchant on Friday on terrorism and murder-for-hire charges, following a weeklong trial in which Merchant himself testified that Iran's Revolutionary Guard directed him to arrange the killings of American political figures during the 2024 presidential campaign. Merchant, 47, faces up to life in prison.
The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit challenging the state's authority to close Boca Chica Beach for SpaceX rocket launches, with justices pressing both sides on where constitutional limits on public beach access begin and end. Environmental and indigenous groups sued the Texas General Land Office and Cameron County over a 2013 state law permitting some counties to temporarily bar the public from Gulf Coast beaches during space flight activities. The case tests the scope of the Texas Constitution's Open Beaches Amendment, which grants the public an "unrestricted right" to use public beaches.
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida has assembled a multiagency working group to build criminal cases against Cuban government officials, people familiar with the effort told the Associated Press. The move comes as President Donald Trump has publicly floated a "friendly takeover" of Cuba following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
A U.S. submarine's torpedo attack that killed at least 87 people aboard the Iranian warship IRIS Dena did not violate international or American military law, legal experts said. The strike took place in international waters in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka, as part of the broader U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran, and hit a lawful military target, experts said — though what happened in the attack's immediate aftermath raises a separate and still-unresolved legal question.
A federal judge heard arguments Friday in Washington on whether to block a Pentagon policy that stripped press credentials from journalists who refused to sign new access agreements last October. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman expressed skepticism of the government's defense at the first hearing in the New York Times' lawsuit against the Defense Department and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and said he would issue a ruling "as prompt a decision as I can."
Satellite imagery, expert analysis, a U.S. official and information released by the American and Israeli militaries indicate a Feb. 28 blast that killed more than 165 people at an Iranian elementary school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes, the Associated Press reported Friday. Most of those killed at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab — a city in Hormozgan Province about 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) southeast of Tehran — were children. The strike had the highest reported civilian death toll since the war with Iran began.
Hawaii's gun violence protective order law has been used only 13 times since taking effect in 2020, even as more than 430 people were killed by firearms in the state between 2018 and 2024, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Honolulu Police Department has never filed a red flag petition, and a state House bill would direct roughly $500,000 over two years to public awareness campaigns and court-processing support for the orders.
Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance Thursday at NBC’s “Today” show studios to thank colleagues for their support since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, went missing from an Arizona home a month ago. NBC said Guthrie will return to the air at some point but is focused on supporting her family and helping bring Nancy home.
A 22-year-old man accused of killing three women in rural Utah had been released without bail on Iowa burglary, theft, and other charges about two months before the slayings, court documents show. Ivan Miller was freed Jan. 13 on a promise to appear in court — a court date he missed because he was already in custody in Colorado, where authorities had tracked him in a vehicle he allegedly stole from one of his victims.
Sophia Negroponte, 33, the adopted daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte, was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old friend after a drunken argument at a Maryland home. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Terrence McGann imposed the sentence in Rockville, concluding a legal proceeding that stretched across three years and two trials.
President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday after two days of congressional hearings in which Republican lawmakers criticized a $220 million DHS advertising campaign that featured Noem prominently, including in a video filmed near Mount Rushmore. An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the deliberations, cited the campaign and "many unfortunate leadership failures" — including fallout from a federal immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota and mismanagement of her staff — as reasons for her dismissal after 13 months in office.
Two men attacked a pair of police officers serving as bodyguards for San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Thursday evening in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood, officials said Friday. Lurie was unharmed. Both officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were treated by paramedics at the scene.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Peru to pay approximately $340,000 in reparations to the family of Celia Ramos, a 34-year-old mother of three who died in 1997 after being coerced into a sterilization procedure at a state health center. The ruling, issued in Lima, is the first by Latin America's highest human rights tribunal to address Peru's forced sterilization program, which the court found had systematically targeted impoverished and Indigenous women under the government of the late Alberto Fujimori.
More than two dozen U.S. states and Democratic governors sued Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s planned global tariffs, arguing he exceeded his authority with new 15% import taxes. The lawsuit targets tariffs imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, days after Trump lost a Supreme Court fight over earlier tariff powers.
President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, announcing via social media that Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin would be nominated to lead the department. Noem, the former South Dakota governor who oversaw Trump's immigration enforcement agenda, became the first Cabinet secretary to leave during the president's second term. Her departure followed a two-day congressional hearing in which Republican and Democratic lawmakers subjected her to sustained criticism over her department's spending, operations, and handling of immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department on Thursday released additional Jeffrey Epstein files that had been inadvertently withheld, including records of FBI interviews with a woman who made uncorroborated accusations against President Donald Trump. The department said the files were incorrectly coded as duplicative during an earlier review, resulting in their omission from a larger tranche of Epstein-related documents made public earlier.
U.S. and Israeli forces have struck more than 2,000 targets across Iran in less than a week, U.S. Central Command said, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a string of senior military and security officials in what conflict monitors describe as the most intensive American bombing campaign in the Middle East in more than a decade. An Iranian government agency says at least 1,230 people have been killed. More than 165 died when a school in southeastern Iran was struck, most of them children, according to Iranian state media.
Elon Musk took the stand Wednesday in a class-action shareholder trial in San Francisco, defending himself against accusations that he misled investors as he tried to back out of his $44 billion bid for Twitter.
LONDON — London police said four men were arrested in London on suspicion of aiding Iran by spying on the Jewish community, after searches were carried out at addresses in and around north London shortly after 1 a.m. The Metropolitan Police said one of the suspects is Iranian and the other three are dual British-Iranian nationals, and that they are suspected of assisting a foreign intelligence service.
The Associated Press reported that 911 calls, interviews and court filings point to repeated medical and mental-health emergencies at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s largest detention camp, Camp East Montana, in El Paso, Texas. The reporting describes overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition, and distress, including repeated suicide attempts. The Department of Homeland Security rejected the claims, saying detainees receive food, water and medical care at a routinely cleaned facility.
An Iowa man was charged Thursday with aggravated murder in the deaths of three Utah women after investigators say he killed them to steal their cars and credit cards for a trip back to Iowa. Ivan Miller, 22, of Blakesburg, Iowa, was arrested in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, following a multi-state manhunt that began when two hikers' husbands found their wives shot and stabbed at a rural Wayne County trailhead. Authorities subsequently found a third victim dead in her home in the small farming town of Lyman.
The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions about the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation. Five Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the subpoena proposed by Rep. Nancy Mace, escalating long-running disputes over the department’s document review and release process. The Justice Department said it had no immediate comment.
The Senate on Thursday failed to advance legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security, with a procedural vote of 51-45 falling well short of the 60 votes needed to proceed, as Republicans invoked the war in Iran and the risk of retaliatory terrorist attacks and Democrats held firm on demands for changes to immigration enforcement operations. The DHS shutdown, which began Feb. 14, has left thousands of federal workers beginning to miss portions of their paychecks and prompted cancellations of cybersecurity assessments and first-responder training.
Ballots cast during extended polling hours in two Texas counties, Dallas and Williamson, face an uncertain future after intervention by the Texas Supreme Court. The court's decision puts a stay on a lower court's ruling to extend polling hours due to voter confusion.
A Pakistani man on trial in federal court in New York testified that an alleged assassination plot he was involved in included Donald Trump and Joe Biden as possible targets. Asif Merchant told jurors he acted because he feared for loved ones in Iran and anticipated being arrested before anyone was hurt.
Islamic militants attacked a town in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Friday and abducted more than 300 people, including women and children, local officials said. The attack in the town of Ngoshe came as Nigeria continues to fight multiple armed groups in a widening security crisis.
The U.S. Department of Justice disclosed additional files related to financier Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, saying some records were mistakenly withheld or coded incorrectly during an earlier review. The released material includes uncorroborated claims from a woman against President Donald Trump, which the DOJ said were not part of the prior batch.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday his office is reopening a long-dormant state-level criminal investigation into former Cuban leader Raul Castro’s alleged role in the February 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes. The probe had been shut down by the Biden administration, Uthmeier said, and Florida is now reactivating the files.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and how the department spends billions of dollars during two days of testimony before congressional committees that followed the Minneapolis deaths of two protesters. Lawmakers pressed her on whether officers used excessive force and on questions ranging from a departmental spending campaign to an inspector general letter alleging obstruction.
A North Carolina man was arrested Wednesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill after he stood up and shouted anti-war slogans, then violently resisted officers who tried to remove him from the room, Capitol Police said. Brian C. McGinnis faces three counts of assaulting a police officer, three counts of resisting arrest, and one count of unlawful demonstration. Three Capitol Police officers and McGinnis were all treated for injuries following the confrontation.
President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday and announced plans to nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, as her replacement, Trump said March 5, 2026. Noem had faced mounting criticism over her leadership of the department. Trump posted on Truth Social that "Markwayne will make a spectacular Secretary of Homeland Security."
Austin police released body camera footage Thursday showing bargoers and pedestrians ducking for cover as a gunman opened fire outside a Sixth Street bar early Sunday, killing three people and wounding 16 others in what the FBI is investigating as a potential act of terrorism. Officers arrived within 56 seconds of the first 911 call and shot and killed the gunman after he fired at police, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said. Nineteen people in total were hit by gunfire, including the three who died, and one person remained in critical condition as of Thursday.
The West Virginia Senate passed legislation on March 5, 2026, to loosen inspection requirements for certain aboveground storage tanks used by the oil and gas industry, a move that environmental advocates said could increase risks to the state's drinking water supplies.
Sen. John Cornyn's campaign released a six-minute attack video Thursday targeting Attorney General Ken Paxton, opening a second round of campaigning in their Republican Senate runoff contest even as President Donald Trump has yet to announce whom he will back in the May 26 race. The video revisits Paxton's impeachment trial on corruption charges, which ended in an acquittal but exposed an extramarital affair, and a state securities fraud indictment that Paxton resolved through a plea deal without admitting guilt. Cornyn's team said it is spending tens of thousands of dollars to keep the ad in front of voters, a modest initial outlay in a race that had already exceeded $110 million in spending before Tuesday's primary.
A Wisconsin teenager received two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole Thursday for killing his mother and stepfather to fund a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump with explosives dropped from a drone. Nikita Casap, 18, was sentenced in Waukesha County Circuit Court after pleading guilty in January to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Judge Ralph Ramirez called the crimes "horrific" and "inexplicable" and declined to set any date for parole eligibility.
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Thursday to bringing more than 100 homemade explosive devices to a Washington, D.C., church that was preparing for the annual Red Mass, a Catholic ceremony marking the start of the Supreme Court's term. Louis Geri, of Vineland, N.J., admitted to two felony counts in federal court and remains jailed pending sentencing scheduled for July.
The Greek government has acquired the first verified photographs documenting the May 1, 1944 Nazi mass execution of 200 prisoners at the Kaisariani firing range in Athens, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni announced Thursday, after purchasing the archive from a Belgian private collector for 100,000 euros ($115,700). The 262-image collection, taken by German Wehrmacht lieutenant Hermann Heuer during his 1943–44 posting in occupied Greece, includes scenes of prisoners transported from the Haidari prison camp outside Athens to the firing range east of the city center, where they were shot in groups of 20 in reprisal for a resistance ambush that killed a German military commander in southern Greece.
A Texas judge ordered Camp Mystic to preserve flood-damaged cabins and other areas of the summer camp after last year’s deadly floods that killed 25 girls and two counselors. The ruling followed a lawsuit from the family of 8-year-old Cile Steward, whose body was not recovered after she was swept away during the July 4 disaster, and it requires the camp to stop demolishing or altering certain areas.
Defense attorneys for Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man charged with sparking the deadly Palisades Fire, called Thursday for his release from federal custody and asked U.S. prosecutors to dismiss the case against him, citing deposition testimony they say shows the Los Angeles Fire Department failed to extinguish an earlier blaze that grew into a wildfire that killed 12 people. Rinderknecht, 29, has been held in jail since October, when he was charged in connection with one of the most destructive wildfires in California history.
A report released this week by Rhode Island’s attorney general detailing decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the Diocese of Providence is giving survivors a sense of vindication while renewing demands for accountability and support. In interviews and statements, survivors described long-delayed recognition of harm and said the case also underscores barriers they faced when they tried to be believed.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signaled Tuesday he is open to granting clemency to former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence for a scheme that copied election computer system data in search of evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The governor's remarks drew immediate backlash from the state's attorney general, secretary of state, and county election officials, who warned the move could signal tolerance for election interference ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera visit Thursday to NBC’s “Today” show studios, her first since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, went missing from her Arizona home about a month ago. A “Today” spokesperson said Guthrie plans to return to the air at some point but is focused on supporting her family and helping bring Nancy home.
A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, his brother said. Emmanuel Damas, 56, told medical staff at the Florence Correctional Center in mid-February that he had a toothache, but he was not sent to a dentist, his brother said. A county medical examiner listed Damas’ cause of death as “pending” as of Wednesday, while ICE officials announced another custody death earlier Wednesday.
Aaron Spencer, an Arkansas man accused of killing a man prosecutors say abused his then-13-year-old daughter, won the Republican nomination for Lonoke County sheriff in Tuesday’s primary, according to unofficial results. Spencer is out on bond and has pleaded not guilty as he awaits trial, which has been delayed after a judge was removed from the case.
Beau, a 12-week-old bloodhound puppy, has joined the North Dakota Highway Patrol as a newest recruit for difficult searches across the upper Midwest, the agency said. The patrol’s troopers use bloodhounds to trail missing people, including those with dementia, and to help in locating criminal suspects, including cases that can span multiple states.
The Rhode Island attorney general released a new investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Providence that estimates 75 priests abused more than 300 children since 1950. The report said the diocese often transferred accused clergy and relied on treatment centers rather than promptly involving law enforcement. Diocese leaders said the findings do not reflect an ongoing problem and disputed parts of the report.
Florida Bar officials have walked back an earlier statement indicating they were investigating former Trump aide Lindsey Halligan, saying on Friday that there is no pending Florida Bar investigation into her. A bar representative previously told a watchdog group and The Associated Press that there was an “investigation pending” or an “open file” tied to the matter.
Hong Kong pro-democracy ex-publisher Jimmy Lai will not appeal his national security conviction or his 20-year prison sentence, his legal team said on March 6. His lawyers said they have “clear and definitive instructions not to lodge an appeal against conviction or sentence.” The decision follows his December conviction for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and for publishing seditious articles.
Out-of-state law enforcement agencies accessed data from Silicon Valley automated license plate reader cameras without local permission, according to records reviewed by San José Spotlight and distributed by The Associated Press. Santa Clara County supervisors voted Feb. 24 to end contracts with Flock Safety, joining Los Altos Hills and Mountain View, after concerns that the company enabled unlawful data-sharing between California agencies and out-of-state police.
Tucson’s “Safe City” initiative uses monthly deployments that pair outreach organizations with law enforcement, but the process still relies on arrests. During a deployment on Feb. 25, officers arrested five people on charges including trespassing and drug paraphernalia possession, leading to video court appearances and possible community court. The initiative was described by city officials as a way to connect people to help, while outside researchers and advocates questioned the use of coercive enforcement.
A Florida handyman convicted in the 2021 Capitol riot and later pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children in Florida, according to prosecutors.
Britney Spears was arrested near her Southern California home on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, authorities said Wednesday. The California Highway Patrol said she was taken to a Ventura County jail and booked early Thursday, and that chemical test results are pending. A statement from Spears’ representative called the arrest “inexcusable,” adding that she plans to comply with the law.
Cleveland police said Wednesday they were working to identify two young half-sisters whose bodies were found buried inside suitcases on the city’s east side. The bodies were recovered Monday in the Collinwood neighborhood after a tip from a dog walker, police said.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said a second Japanese national has been detained in Iran and demanded the early release of both people, adding that it believes the detainee is safe and in good health.
A new lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court alleges Google’s Gemini AI chatbot helped guide a Florida man to stage a “catastrophic accident” near Miami International Airport and later kill himself. The suit, brought by his father, names Google and argues the chatbot amplified delusions that deteriorated into suicide and involved plans for mass casualty harm, according to the complaint.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The mother of two girls whose remains were found in shallow graves inside suitcases in Cleveland was charged with aggravated murder, police said on Thursday. Aliyah Henderson, 28, is accused of killing Mila Chatman and Amor Wilson, authorities said, after the girls’ bodies were recovered following a dog walker’s discovery four days earlier.
NEW YORK (AP) — Beast Industries, the company behind YouTube star MrBeast, fired a video editor after prediction-market operator Kalshi accused the worker of insider trading. Kalshi said the editor, who traded about $4,000 on streaming markets tied to MrBeast videos, likely had access to material non-public information, and Kalshi suspended him for two years, fined him $20,000 and alerted federal regulators.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questions in New Mexico’s civil trial about what the company learned from internal research and how it responded to concerns about young users’ experiences on Facebook and Instagram. Prosecutors played deposition material recorded last year as they alleged Meta violated state consumer protection laws by failing to disclose risks related to addiction and child sexual exploitation.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum visited the western state of Jalisco on Friday, a senior security briefing held after a wave of violence that authorities linked to the killing of a top cartel boss. The visit came with fewer than 100 days before the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with Guadalajara among the host cities.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened an internal investigation Wednesday into Gregory Bovino, once the public face of the Trump administration's city-by-city immigration sweeps, after reports that he made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith of Daniel N. Rosen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota. The inquiry was opened following a congressional letter about anonymous allegations, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said. DHS said the probe "does NOT indicate any confirmation of wrongdoing."
Two years after Hawaiʻi launched a $7 million effort to equip public school campuses with panic buttons, only one school in the state has the technology installed — and it is not using it. The company contracted to provide monitoring services for the program, SaferWatch, is under federal scrutiny after its former chief executive was charged with bribing a New York Police Department officer to pressure local officials to spend millions of dollars on school panic button systems.
The Idaho House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee voted unanimously on Feb. 27 to advance legislation that would expand the state's "sexual contact with a prisoner" law, sending House Bill 696 to the full House for a vote expected this week. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Marco Erickson, R-Idaho Falls, would broaden the law's definition of prohibited contact beyond genital touching to cover any willful physical contact made with sexual intent — a change lawmakers said is needed to hold correctional officers accountable for a range of abusive conduct the current statute does not reach.
Unions representing California Highway Patrol officers and Cal Fire firefighters are backing legislation that would allow late-career public safety workers to accumulate a lump-sum payout on top of their existing pensions — a benefit proponents call a retention tool but critics warn could compound the costs of pension systems that already consume a substantial share of state payroll spending. The bill, carried by Assemblymember Mike Gipson, a Democrat from Gardena, would create a deferred retirement option plan, known as a DROP, administered by the California Public Employees' Retirement System. As of early March 2026, the measure was advancing through the California Assembly with bipartisan support; Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a San Diego Republican, was the only lawmaker to vote against it.
A Wyoming man who hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut, and displayed the wounded animal in a rural bar before killing it pleaded guilty Thursday to felony animal cruelty, with the sentencing judge saying he would review the plea agreement before deciding whether to accept it. Cody Roberts, 44, appeared in Pinedale before District Judge Richard Lavery and told the court, "I sincerely regret my actions and apologize to the community and my family."
Elon Musk took the witness stand for a second day in a San Francisco federal courtroom Thursday, defending his assertions about fake accounts on Twitter as a civil trial advances over allegations that his public statements drove down the company's stock price and cost shareholders millions of dollars.
A 20-year-old Wisconsin man was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for setting fire to Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman's district office in Fond du Lac, after telling police he acted because the federal government was shutting down TikTok in violation of his constitutional rights, according to court records. Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Tricia Walker also sentenced Caiden Stachowicz, of Menasha, to seven years of extended supervision.
The FBI said it is investigating suspicious cyber activity on an internal, unclassified system that stores sensitive law enforcement information, including returns from court-authorized surveillance operations and personally identifiable information on subjects of FBI investigations, according to a congressional notification obtained by the Associated Press.
A Manhattan federal jury began deliberating Thursday in the sex trafficking case against brothers Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander, who face the possibility of life in prison if convicted. Federal prosecutors allege the three men drugged and sexually assaulted multiple women over more than a decade; defense lawyers argued the brothers were aggressive womanizers whose pursuits hurt women but did not constitute the crimes charged.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause tariff refunds tied to the Supreme Court’s Feb. 20 ruling that struck down the administration’s tariffs as illegal. The appeals court sent the next step in the refund process to a lower court, setting up further proceedings at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court last month are entitled to refunds, handing the Trump administration a legal defeat in the continuing fallout from a ruling that invalidated the president's sweeping import taxes. Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade wrote that "all importers of record" were "entitled to benefit" from the Supreme Court's Feb. 20 decision, which struck down double-digit import taxes President Donald Trump imposed under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The court found the president lacked authority to unilaterally set and change tariffs, ruling that taxation power belongs to Congress.
The fight over whether Congress can curb President Donald Trump’s military authority in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is headed to the House, after the Senate rejected a Democratic effort to place limits on him. The debate revives a recurring constitutional struggle over war powers as lawmakers spar with Trump’s claims of broad discretion as commander in chief.
Texas voters were turned away in Dallas and Williamson counties on Tuesday after local Republicans changed primary voting rules, prompting court fights and threats of more legal action. In Dallas, a judge ordered polling places to stay open past the 7 p.m. deadline, then the Texas Supreme Court stayed both decisions and directed that ballots tied to voters who missed the deadline be separated. The dispute raised concerns in a tight Democratic U.S. Senate race about whether some voters could be disenfranchised.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily cleared the way for California schools to notify parents if their children identify as transgender, without getting the student’s approval, in a dispute that has been tied to free-exercise claims. The court blocked for now a state law that would allow automatic parental notification requirements when students change their pronouns or gender expression at school.
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from reversing New York’s congestion toll for most vehicles entering Manhattan south of Central Park. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ruled the U.S. Department of Transportation lacked authority to unilaterally rescind federal approval of the $9 toll that began Jan. 5, 2025, according to court documents and statements. Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had moved to end the program, calling it harmful to working-class residents and small businesses.
A Pakistani businessman on trial in Brooklyn testified that an alleged assassination plot on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could have targeted Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Nikki Haley. Asif Merchant told jurors he did it because he feared for loved ones in Iran and expected to be caught before any killing occurred.
The Texas Supreme Court stayed a ruling that would have counted late ballots in Dallas and Williamson counties, leaving county election officials uncertain whether to include them in vote totals. As of Wednesday afternoon, the AP reported, officials were still awaiting direction after the high court ordered that ballots cast after a 7 p.m. closing time be separated.
A federal judge temporarily suspended a Trump administration policy requiring members of Congress to give seven days’ notice before visiting immigration detention facilities. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said Monday that Democratic lawmakers are likely to show the requirement is illegal and exceeds statutory authority.
A federal criminal trial in New York is exploring claims that a Pakistani man, Asif Merchant, tried to hire hit men connected to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to kill a U.S. political figure. The prosecution has introduced evidence that Merchant searched online for rally locations for Donald Trump and that his laptop contained photos of Trump and President Joe Biden when the two were rivals for the presidency.
The Trump administration reversed course on Tuesday after backing out of a court fight over executive orders targeting major law firms, according to filings in Washington. In a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Justice Department said it withdrew an earlier motion to dismiss but then filed a new position after judges rejected challenges brought by firms including Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, Susman Godfrey and WilmerHale.
Virginia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a statewide referendum on a Democratic-led congressional redistricting plan can proceed as scheduled on April 21, overturning a temporary restraining order issued by a Tazewell County judge and allowing early voting to begin as soon as Friday. The court said it has not yet ruled on whether the mid-decade redistricting effort is constitutional, meaning the April vote could be rendered moot if the justices ultimately uphold the lower court's decision blocking the effort.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison defended their fraud-fighting record before the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, arguing that the Trump administration's mass immigration enforcement operation in their state has drained the prosecutorial resources needed to pursue Medicaid and other government fraud cases. Republicans on the panel accused the pair of stalling investigations, shielding wrongdoers to avoid disrupting a politically favored community, and failing taxpayers.
IRS CEO Frank Bisignano declined to answer lawmakers' questions Wednesday about the agency's unlawful sharing of confidential taxpayer data with immigration authorities, telling the House Ways and Means Committee the disclosures occurred before his tenure began. A federal judge found last month that the IRS illegally shared taxpayer information approximately 42,695 times with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bisignano confirmed that no IRS employee has been fired or disciplined in connection with the disclosures.
Connecticut's education commissioner said Tuesday that a proposed state law requiring school districts to alert the child welfare agency when families withdraw children to homeschool them would violate federal privacy law and put millions of dollars in federal education funding at risk. Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker, in written testimony to a legislative committee, said the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prevents her department from disclosing student information without parental consent except for narrow research purposes. The measure is part of Senate Bill 6, an omnibus child welfare package drafted in part after two Connecticut cases in which parents allegedly used homeschooling to conceal prolonged abuse.
An Iranian drone struck a U.S. military operations hub inside a working civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday, killing six American soldiers in a facility that a family member described as a shipping container-style building with no defenses, according to the Associated Press. The hub was located in Port Shuaiba, an industrial seaport south of Kuwait City, more than 10 miles from Camp Arifjan, the main U.S. Army installation in Kuwait, a U.S. official and satellite imagery confirmed to the AP.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her department’s immigration enforcement tactics before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, pushing back on Democrats’ criticism that she wrongly disparaged two protesters killed by federal officers in Minneapolis earlier this year. She said her remarks were based on reports from agents at the scene and argued officers faced “a serious and escalating threat” from what she called mischaracterizations of their work.
Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency Tuesday, about a month after the previous one ended, as authorities cited persistent violent crime. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the National Security Council identified attacks planned against law enforcement, a move she said would allow additional powers including arrests and searches without warrants.
The Trump administration launched a Medicaid fraud investigation in New York on Tuesday, directing state officials to provide details on fraud, waste and abuse within 30 days or face deferred payments — the latest in a series of actions targeting health programs in Democratic-led states.
Aaron Spencer, an Arkansas man accused of killing his daughter’s alleged abuser, won the Republican nomination for sheriff in Lonoke County, according to unofficial results posted by the state. Spencer, who is out on bond while awaiting trial, will face Democrat Brian Mitchell Sr. in the November election.
A Washington state Senate bill that would have created an independent statewide jail oversight body failed after a watered-down version stalled in the Ways and Means Committee, lawmakers and oversight experts said. The proposal, Senate Bill 5005, was scaled back from requiring regular jail inspections and broader “oversight” language to a plan centered on a “jail council” intended to study issues.
A Georgia jury convicted Colin Gray after prosecutors said he gave his teenage son access to a gun and ammunition despite knowing the boy’s mental health had deteriorated. The case is the latest in a growing line of prosecutions that seek to hold parents criminally responsible when children are accused of gun violence.
Two men arrested in connection with a weekend shooting that wounded nine people inside a Cincinnati nightclub face federal charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the southern district of Ohio said Tuesday.
Meta executives faced questions in New Mexico on March 3 as prosecutors played video depositions of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri, seeking to bolster accusations that Meta failed to disclose risks to children. The trial centers on claims under New Mexico consumer protection laws tied to Instagram and Meta’s other platforms.
ST. PAUL, Minn., March 3, 2026—A federal judge clashed with the top U.S. prosecutor in Minnesota during a contempt hearing tied to immigration cases in which judges ordered the government to return personal property to people after they were detained and then freed. The judge said the case would be a “historic low point” for the U.S. attorney’s office if he held anyone in contempt and later acknowledged the two sides had become “a little testy and frosty.” The judge said he would decide whether U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen and others should be held in contempt for failing to follow orders, but he did not give a timeline for a ruling.
A jury in Georgia convicted Colin Gray, the father of a teenage suspect accused in the Sept. 2024 killings at Apalachee High School, of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, according to a verdict read March 3.
Colombian police said they captured 121 people charged with kidnapping and extortion in a multi-city operation called “Operation Jade.” The arrests included suspects linked, police said, to groups such as the Gulf Clan, the National Liberation Army and Tren de Aragua, with raids carried out in cities including Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena. Police said the effort targeted regions where traffickers and rebel groups have expanded territory.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday urged jurors to convict three wealthy brothers accused of sex trafficking, saying their alleged abuse followed a recurring pattern recorded in messages, documents and videos shared by the defendants. In closing arguments in the brothers’ federal trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Jones described allegations from 11 women and girls and said the accounts were corroborated by the number of accusers and the similarities in the alleged conduct.
A man in prison for more than 25 years was freed after prosecutors acknowledged his 1999 confession to a Detroit murder was coerced by a rogue police officer. George Calicut Jr. was released Tuesday from a life sentence in Coldwater, Michigan, following a judge’s dismissal of the case at the request of lawyers on both sides.
The trial of four former high-ranking Argentine navy officers began Tuesday in a court in Santa Cruz province over their alleged responsibility for the 2017 sinking of the submarine ARA San Juan, which killed all 44 crew members. Prosecutors say the officers faced charges including dereliction of duty and aggravated negligent destruction, and the defendants maintain their innocence.
The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday opened a high-stakes antitrust trial accusing Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster of illegally maintaining power over the concert ticket market. A case in Manhattan federal court, led by Judge Arun Subramanian, could result in remedies including a breakup of Live Nation, the parent company.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A multiyear investigation by Rhode Island's attorney general found that at least 75 Catholic clergy in the Diocese of Providence sexually abused more than 300 children since 1950, with church leaders shielding accused priests from accountability rather than protecting victims, according to a report released Wednesday. Attorney General Peter Neronha said the true scope of abuse is likely far greater than what records document. "If you're the Diocese of Providence and you're listening, this is a scandal you need to own and you need to fix," Neronha told reporters. "We can't slow walk solutions, and we can't slow walk justice."
An armed suspect opened the door of an ambulance in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday and fatally shot a man medics were treating for a prior gunshot wound, police said. The victim was a 62-year-old man who had been released from prison in January after serving 25 years on rape convictions. The medics were not injured but were treated for shock, according to police.
A gunman opened fire at a crowded bar on Austin’s Sixth Street early Sunday and was later fatally shot by police, Austin police and the FBI said. Police said the early shooting left three people dead and wounded more than a dozen others, and that investigators were looking into whether the attack was a possible act of terrorism.
Minnesota’s Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced an investigation Monday that could bring charges against federal immigration officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for alleged misconduct during a crackdown in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Moriarty’s office is examining 17 cases and will focus on incidents in Hennepin County as well as the deaths of two people killed during the operation.
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 signaled skepticism of a federal law that bars people who use marijuana from owning guns, as justices questioned how the government links the drug use to dangerousness. The case centers on whether Congress may impose a lifetime firearms ban on a Texas man after prosecutors said he used marijuana while possessing a handgun.
New Orleans will keep 120 Louisiana National Guard troops through August, the state Guard said on March 2, extending a deployment that began in late December. The Louisiana National Guard said the troops would serve as a visible presence to deter criminal activity as the city moves into the spring events season.
The House Oversight Committee released videos Monday showing depositions of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. In the closed-door sessions held last week, lawmakers also questioned the Clintons about the pizzagate conspiracy theory and about what the government has said regarding UFOs, while Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton disputed or described their knowledge of Epstein. The videos were released as the committee faces renewed scrutiny over Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while facing sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls.
The gunman who opened fire outside a crowded Austin, Texas, bar killed three people and wounded more than a dozen early Sunday, and federal and local investigators said Monday they had not known of him before the attack. The FBI is investigating the shooting as a potential act of terrorism, officials said, after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran.
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 declined to review an appeals court ruling that Alabama prosecutors violated Michael Sockwell’s rights by intentionally rejecting potential Black jurors. The decision clears the way for the Alabama inmate, on death row since 1990, to seek a new trial.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked a New York judge’s order that the state redraw the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City for the 2026 elections, over a ruling that the district diluted Black and Hispanic voters’ influence. The decision preserved the district represented by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, covering Staten Island and a small portion of Brooklyn.
Early Sunday, a gunman wearing clothing with an Iranian flag design and the words “Property of Allah” killed two people and wounded 14 outside a bar in downtown Austin, Texas, authorities said. The FBI is investigating the attack as a potential terrorist act, an FBI official said. Police shot and killed the gunman, police said, and identified him as Ndiaga Diagne.
Karachi and other Pakistani cities saw clashes on Sunday as demonstrators angered by the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tried to reach U.S. diplomatic missions, leaving at least 22 people dead and more than 120 wounded, according to authorities and hospital officials.
Minnesota sued the Trump administration to block federal officials from “immediately withholding” $243 million in Medicaid spending, a move the state said could force cuts to health care for low-income families. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis names the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and also names CMS administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in their official capacities.
Federal and local authorities joined the search for a suspect after a shooting at Riverfront Live in Cincinnati left nine people wounded early Sunday, according to police and the FBI. Federal investigators offered a $5,000 reward for information identifying a suspect, and authorities said the victims’ injuries were not life-threatening.
Florida executed Billy Leon Kearse on Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison near Starke after a three-drug lethal injection, becoming the third person put to death by the state this year. Kearse, 53, was convicted for the 1991 killing of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish during a traffic stop.
NEW YORK — Dan Sohail, 36, pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges accusing him of intentionally damaging religious property after he repeatedly drove his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in New York City. Prosecutors said the Jan. 28 incident damaged an entrance to the Hasidic Jewish site, without injuries, and that the government charge includes a potential maximum penalty of three years if damage exceeds $5,000.
A Georgia jury will deliberate the fate of Colin Gray, whose son, Colt Gray, is accused of bringing a Christmas rifle to Apalachee High School and killing four people in September 2024. In closing arguments in Barrow County, a prosecutor said the father had enough warning to prevent the attack, while the defense said the shooting was not foreseeable.
New York City paid more than $117 million last year to settle police misconduct lawsuits, covering cases that ranged from violent arrests of protesters in 2020 to allegations of wrongful convictions in the 1980s, according to an analysis of city data released this week. The payouts add to a total of nearly $800 million since 2019, The Legal Aid Society said.
Savannah Guthrie, her sister Annie Guthrie and brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni visited Nancy Guthrie’s home outside Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, their first sighting at the property since the 84-year-old went missing. The trio returned with flowers and a memorial at the edge of the property as authorities continue to investigate what happened to Nancy Guthrie.
Justin Timberlake has sued the village of Sag Harbor and its police department to block the release of police body-camera footage from his 2024 drunken-driving arrest in the Hamptons, according to court filings. His lawyers argued that releasing the video would reveal intimate, highly personal details and cause severe reputational harm.
Gunmen attacked three communities in north-central Nigeria on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, Amnesty International said. The group said the assaults hit villages in the Borgu area of Niger state.
A shooting early Sunday at a crowded Cincinnati nightclub and concert venue wounded nine people, police said. Interim police chief Adam Hennie said the victims were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Mexican authorities returned the body of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” to his family after the Mexican army killed him last week, officials said. The Attorney General’s Office said it completed “all the necessary procedural protocols,” including genetic testing to confirm the family’s blood ties. Violence that followed the killing killed more than 70 people across about 20 states, authorities and analysts said.
The United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, condemned U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran as the conflict was discussed at an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Saturday. U.S. ambassador Mike Waltz and Israel’s U.N. ambassador Danny Danon defended the strikes, while Iran’s ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said they killed and injured hundreds of Iranian civilians. The meeting also included sharply worded exchanges between the U.S. and Iran, as several countries urged a halt to hostilities and a return to diplomacy to prevent further regional escalation.
South Sudan has detained a series of former government figures in a wave of arrests that analysts say reflects strains inside President Salva Kiir’s administration amid an armed rebellion. The latest detention involves Bak Barnaba Chol, a former finance minister, who was taken into custody while trying to cross into Uganda, the Associated Press reported.
Police released a body-camera video showing the chaotic aftermath of a deadly shooting at a Rhode Island youth hockey rink last week, including confusion over who the shooter was and efforts by officers and bystanders to help victims. The video, released by the Pawtucket Police Department, shows an officer rushing into the arena and repeatedly asking where the gunman was as people try to stabilize those who were shot.
Cher’s son Elijah Allman was arrested after Concord police responded to reports that he was disturbing people at St. Paul’s School, a private high school in New Hampshire, police said. Allman, 49 and the son of the late Gregg Allman, was charged with several misdemeanors including two counts of simple assault, criminal trespass and criminal threatening, police said.
A federal grand jury has indicted two men on firearm charges tied to a Jan. 7 shooting outside an LDS church in Salt Lake City that left two people dead and six others injured. The indictment unsealed Friday charges Ryan Toutai, 32, with unlawful disposition of a firearm and Fineeva Maka, 26, with felon in possession of a firearm, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced an army deployment to high-crime areas to fight gang violence and illegal mining. The first major deployment began in Johannesburg on Wednesday, after Ramaphosa said last month the move was aimed at organized crime and was “the most immediate threat” to the country’s democracy and economic development.
A federal judge in Minnesota extended an order blocking the arrest and deportation of refugees in the state who are lawfully in the U.S., as the case challenges a Trump administration policy announced this month. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim granted advocates’ request to turn a temporary restraining order issued in January into a preliminary injunction while the legal fight continues.
Several retail customers have filed proposed class-action lawsuits in federal court seeking tariff-related refunds from FedEx and EssilorLuxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the tariffs. The lawsuits aim to ensure consumers receive refunds if the companies recover money through government refund channels. The cases were filed as more than 1,000 companies also moved to preserve their own right to reimbursements through the U.S. Court of International Trade.
The lawyer for deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asked a judge in Manhattan federal court on Thursday to throw out the indictment against him, arguing U.S. sanctions have blocked access to funds needed to pay his legal team. Attorney Barry Pollack said the U.S. government has violated Maduro’s due process rights by preventing Venezuelan funds from being used for his defense.
Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday passed an emergency bill aimed at curbing fraudulent bottle and can redemptions from out of state, escalating fines and tightening oversight of redemption centers. The measure, Senate Bill 299, increases the deposit value to 10 cents and is set to go to Gov. Ned Lamont after winning passage in both chambers.
Iran and the United States concluded hours of indirect nuclear negotiations in Geneva without a deal, deepening fears of another Middle East war as the United States has deployed a large fleet of aircraft and warships in the region. Oman’s foreign minister said there was “significant progress,” while Iranian state television reported Tehran would continue enriching uranium and sought sanctions relief instead of agreeing to U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands.
In a congressional deposition held in Chappaqua, New York, former President Bill Clinton told lawmakers he “did nothing wrong” regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton said he saw “nothing” indicating Epstein’s sexual abuse and said he had long stopped associating with the financier by the time Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008. The closed-door testimony followed a deposition of Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the day before.
Federal Judge Patrick Schiltz warned Thursday that Minnesota’s top U.S. prosecutor and Immigration and Customs Enforcement must comply with court orders or face criminal contempt charges, after saying the government has repeatedly failed to follow directives. The warning followed a Feb. 9 email from U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen disputing Schiltz’s account of ICE noncompliance.
Hawaii lawmakers are advancing multiple bills aimed at limiting state and local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities as the 2026 legislative session reaches midterm. Advocates and lawmakers said increased federal enforcement elsewhere—including Minnesota—has shifted lawmakers toward a more aggressive approach to protect immigrants and preserve civil liberties. Bills include proposals to restrict police involvement in immigration detention and to require agencies to advise people of their rights before interviews by federal immigration agents.
A South Carolina man who authorities said was high on methamphetamine and had not slept for days was sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty to killing five people in a home in Spartanburg County, prosecutors said. James Douglas Drayton, 28, admitted the October 2022 killings, with prosecutors not seeking the death penalty, according to Solicitor Barry Barnette.
Federal prosecutors said they will not appeal a judge’s ruling that bars them from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Deputy U.S. Attorney Sean Buckley told Judge Margaret Garnett the government won’t ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse her decision, clearing the way for a federal trial scheduled to begin in September.
A federal judge said the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information “approximately 42,695 times” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is based on an IRS declaration filed earlier this month and concerns a data-sharing agreement between the IRS and DHS. The government is appealing, and the transfers have faced additional court blocks.
The U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced federal charges against 30 additional people accused of civil rights violations linked to a protest inside Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January. Bondi said 25 of the defendants were taken into custody and that more arrests are expected.
Two independent journalists in Belarus were convicted on high treason charges and sentenced to long prison terms as the government continues a crackdown on free speech, media groups said. The court in Brest convicted Uladzimir Yanukevich and Andrei Pakalenka, according to Belarusian media rights advocates. The proceedings were held behind closed doors, and state television reported alleged links to the German Embassy.
La familia de Francesca Albanese, relatora especial de la ONU para Cisjordania y Gaza, demandó al gobierno del presidente Donald Trump por las sanciones de Estados Unidos impuestas el año pasado, según su demanda presentada en un tribunal federal de Washington. En el escrito, el esposo y una hija menor de Albanese argumentan que las penalizaciones violan la Primera Enmienda al sancionar sus opiniones. La Casa Blanca no respondió a solicitudes de comentarios y un portavoz del Departamento de Estado declinó opinar sobre un litigio en curso.
A federal deadline nears for the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Babson College freshman mistakenly deported to Honduras, setting up renewed legal pressure on immigration officials. Her lawyers say federal agents wanted her to board a flight that could have led to detention in Texas, while the government said she failed to appear for a prearranged flight.
Families in Guadalajara, Jalisco, are hanging thousands of fliers with photos of people who were forcibly disappeared, saying authorities are trying to make it easier to remove the signs ahead of the FIFA World Cup. The conflict follows violence after the killing of the cartel leader known as “El Mencho,” and some search groups say they have had to suspend investigations.
A family grieving Renee Good said she was “slow to anger, quick to love” after the 37-year-old was fatally shot Jan. 7 in Minneapolis during a federal crackdown involving immigration agents, according to an Associated Press report. Her parents and brothers spoke in Colorado about her life and their grief, as protests followed her death and another U.S. citizen was killed weeks later.
Former MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2021 shooting of his wife’s parents during a burglary at their Lake Tahoe-area home, Placer County authorities said.
New York police responded to a 911 call at Columbia University about two “suspicious” men on Feb. 26, only to find U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting an operation that Columbia said relied on posing as police. Immigration officials have said Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan, was arrested after her visa was overstayed.
A shooting erupted after a stolen boat with 10 people and weapons left the Florida Keys heading to Cuba, leaving four dead, according to the Cuban and U.S. accounts. The episode has drawn attention in South Florida to long-running anti-Cuban exile political groups, some of which have backed paramilitary action in the past.
A judge in Madison, Wisconsin, sentenced Demetric DeShawn Scott to 16½ years in prison after a Milwaukee County jury convicted him of forging threats against President Donald Trump. Prosecutors said Scott used the forged letters as part of a scheme to have the intended victim, Ramon Morales Reyes, deported.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sherry Xue Li, a New York businesswoman, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to money laundering and to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government by obstructing the Federal Election Commission’s administration of campaign finance laws. Prosecutors said Li and her co-defendant, Lianbo Wang, duped more than $30 million from foreign investors and funneled some of the money into U.S. political campaigns, including a Trump fundraiser.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request by a preservationist group to temporarily halt President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project after demolition of the East Wing. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the group’s legal challenge was unlikely to succeed and urged the National Trust for Historic Preservation to amend its lawsuit.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes and said she did not recall encountering Epstein. The closed-door deposition, held in the Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, New York, concluded after more than six hours of questions, starting off a two-day round of testimony that also includes former President Bill Clinton.
Federal immigration authorities arrested a Columbia University student early Thursday, triggering protests on campus, but she was later released the same day after President Donald Trump agreed to free her, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. Mamdani said he raised concerns about Ellie Aghayeva’s arrest during a separate meeting with Trump, and DHS/ICE permitted her to walk free shortly afterward.
The Justice Department has filed a complaint to legally take ownership of the sanctioned oil tanker Skipper and nearly 2 million barrels of oil seized off Venezuela in December, marking the first step in a U.S. court process to permanently control the vessel and cargo. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the case is part of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle operations tied to illicit oil shipments involving Iran and Venezuela.
A federal judge heard testimony Thursday in a human smuggling case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man prosecutors say should have faced charges based on evidence from a 2022 traffic stop. Abrego Garcia, who has said a 2019 order blocks deportation to El Salvador, is asking the court to dismiss the prosecution as vindictive and tied to the Trump administration’s efforts after the Supreme Court ordered officials to bring him back.
Texas’ drag ban will take effect March 18 after a federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs’ request for rehearing and reissued its ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas said Wednesday. The court said most of the plaintiffs failed to show they intended to conduct a “sexually oriented performance” under Senate Bill 12, which would restrict certain public drag acts.
Irán y Estados Unidos concluyeron este jueves en Ginebra varias horas de conversaciones indirectas sobre el programa nuclear iraní sin llegar a un acuerdo, mientras crecen los temores de un choque militar en Oriente Medio. El ministro de Exteriores de Omán, Badr al-Busaidi, dijo que hubo “avances significativos” en la negociación, aunque la televisión estatal iraní informó que Teherán rechazó propuestas clave y seguirá enriqueciendo uranio. En paralelo, el enviado especial estadounidense para Oriente Medio, Steve Witkoff, y autoridades iraníes indicaron que la presión y el calendario siguen abiertos a nuevas rondas técnicas.
Congolese authorities and a civil society group said they found two mass grave sites in areas of Uvira in eastern Congo that M23 rebels have withdrawn from. South-Kivu Governor Jean-Jacques Purusi said the graves contain at least 171 dead bodies in the Kiromoni and Kavimvira neighborhoods.
The family of UN human rights investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the Trump administration in U.S. federal court, arguing that U.S. sanctions imposed on her for criticizing Israel’s conduct during the Israel-Hamas war violate the First Amendment, according to a lawsuit filed Feb. 26. The U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza says the sanctions have harmed the family’s ability to live and work in the United States, while the State Department has dismissed the case as baseless “lawfare.”
Maduro’s lawyer told a Manhattan federal judge that the U.S. Treasury blocked authorization for Venezuela to pay Nicolas Maduro’s defense costs, raising a dispute tied to the drug case in New York and alleged constitutional concerns over the right to counsel.
An Oregon jury ordered PacifiCorp to pay $305 million to 16 wildfire victims in the latest verdict in a class-action lawsuit tied to the state’s 2020 Labor Day weekend fires, court records show. The award follows a 2023 trial in which a jury found the utility liable for negligently failing to cut power during a windstorm despite warnings from top fire officials.
The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it will pay up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of brothers Rene Arzate Garcia, 42, and Alfonso Arzate Garcia, 52, who are alleged to control the Sinaloa cartel’s key trafficking hub at Tijuana. The reward—$5 million for each brother—targets a critical node that the department says gives the cartel a tactical advantage at the busiest border crossing in the Western Hemisphere. A superseding indictment was also filed against Rene Arzate Garcia on charges that include conspiracy, narcoterrorism and material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
ATLANTA — Colin Gray, the father of accused Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, took the stand Friday and testified in his own defense that he gave his son a rifle as a Christmas present and hoped to bond with him through hunting and trips to a gun range. Gray said he struggled with the accusation that his son could carry out a school shooting and told the court he knew of no “red flags” that would have led him to believe his son was capable. Prosecutors, in testimony earlier in the trial, have argued that Colt Gray faced alleged threats and warning signs before the Sept. 4, 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School.
Walmart will pay $100 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it misled delivery drivers in its Spark gig delivery program about base pay and tips, and misled customers about where tips go, the FTC said Thursday.
A woman convicted of stowing away on an international flight was arrested again Thursday after allegedly sneaking onto a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Milan, Italy, according to law enforcement officials. Svetlana Dali, who was on supervised release for the prior case, was taken into custody at Milan’s Malpensa Airport, FBI spokesperson Emily Molinari said.
A man was arrested in New York City after police said he pelted officers with snow and ice during a large snowball fight at Washington Square Park earlier this week. Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was charged with obstructing governmental administration and harassment, and appeared in handcuffs in Manhattan criminal court on Thursday.
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education will meet in a closed session Thursday to discuss Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, a day after the FBI searched his home and district headquarters, the district said. The FBI served search warrants at Carvalho’s home and also searched a third location near Miami where he previously led Florida’s public schools, federal authorities have not detailed the investigation.
Ghana’s navy and air force rescued 71 fishermen whose boats were attacked off the coast of Ghana by unidentified gunmen, a local official said Thursday. The attackers robbed the fishermen late Wednesday, stealing outboard motors and leaving them stranded at sea, before the military recovered them the next morning.
Vermont’s towns are asking state lawmakers to adjust how the state handles public-records requests, after officials say a growing share of requests come from out-of-state companies that sell public information. Colchester deputy town manager Renae Marshall said the volume is straining towns’ limited time to respond under the Vermont Public Records Act.
Greenpeace is fighting a North Dakota court order requiring it to pay an expected $345 million to Energy Transfer after a jury found three Greenpeace entities liable over protests tied to the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Nashville officials and metro council members reached an agreed order in a lawsuit challenging a Tennessee law that threatened local elected officials with felony charges for supporting “sanctuary” immigration policies. Nashville Chancellor Russell Perkins signed the order on Wednesday after Tennessee’s attorney general declined to defend the provision.
Pawtucket police said Gerald Dorgan has died from wounds suffered in a deadly shooting during a youth hockey game at an ice rink in Rhode Island last week. Authorities said the attack also killed Dorgan’s daughter and grandson and left others wounded.
The FBI searched the home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and served search warrants at district headquarters and a location in Florida, according to an Associated Press report. Authorities did not provide details about what the federal investigation is focused on. The superintendent has previously led large school systems and has been outspoken on immigration enforcement near schools.
The FBI has fired additional agents who worked on an investigation into President Donald Trump, including employees who participated in the probe into his retention of classified documents, people familiar with the matter said Feb. 25. The firings are described as part of personnel changes under FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump appointee, and come amid similar DOJ-wide dismissals of prosecutors since Trump took office.
The FBI served search warrants Wednesday at Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters and at the home of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, federal officials said. The FBI declined to provide details of the investigation, saying the affidavits supporting the warrants are under seal.
The Justice Department said it is reviewing whether it improperly withheld documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein, after news reports and lawmakers said some FBI interview summaries involving an allegation against President Donald Trump were missing from released records. In a post on X, the department said it will publish any responsive documents found to be withheld, consistent with a law requiring release.
Residents in Escondido, California, have packed City Council meetings for weeks to protest a contract that allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to train at a city police gun range, which they say they only recently learned about.
A federal jury convicted Supreme Court litigator Thomas Goldstein of tax evasion and related charges on Wednesday, finding him guilty on 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial in Greenbelt, Maryland. Prosecutors said the convictions stemmed from his secretive lifestyle as an ultra-high-stakes poker player and alleged he diverted money from his law firm to cover gambling debts while making false tax-related statements.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against GEO Group, a private prison company, in a lawsuit brought by immigration detainees who alleged forced labor in Colorado. The justices declined to let GEO Group pursue a quick appeal of a lower-court decision, which the company had sought on the grounds it is immune from such suits as a government contractor, according to the Associated Press.
A Pakistani man accused of trying to orchestrate the killing of a U.S. politician, possibly President Donald Trump, went on trial in New York this week on federal terrorism and related charges, according to prosecutors. They said the defendant paid $5,000 to people he believed were hit men, who were actually undercover FBI agents.
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it end temporary legal protections for Syrian migrants, as lawsuits challenge the move. The government wants the court to lift a New York judge’s order pausing the Department of Homeland Security decision while the cases proceed, and also seek a broader ruling affecting similar immigration cases.
Harvey Weinstein has hired lawyers for Luigi Mangione and Sean “Diddy” Combs to represent him at his third New York rape trial, reshaping his legal team as the retrial approaches. The lawyers, Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, confirmed the move in court papers filed Tuesday.
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four commanders of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces accused of atrocities in Darfur, including actions that U.N. experts said showed “hallmarks of genocide.” The designations follow a U.N.-backed report on mass killings and other abuses in El Fasher after an 18-month siege, when the RSF took over the North Darfur capital.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Americans cannot sue the Postal Service over missing or undelivered mail, even if employees intentionally refuse to deliver it. The 5-4 decision upheld a federal shield for the agency from a lawsuit brought by a Texas landlord who alleged her mail was deliberately withheld for years.
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled the Trump administration’s policy of deporting migrants to “third countries” where they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy suspended the ruling for 15 days so the government can appeal, and said migrants must receive “meaningful notice” and an opportunity to object before removal. The case had already reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year paused a prior order involving a flight of migrants to war-torn South Sudan.
South African police questioned 11 men who allegedly were lured into fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine after the group arrived at Durban’s King Shaka International Airport. The men were taken to a police station for questioning about how they ended up on the front lines, with one reportedly taken off the aircraft in a wheelchair. President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday that one man remained in hospital in Russia and another would travel once travel documents were finalized.
A federal judge in Texas ruled that ExxonMobil may pursue a defamation lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta over remarks about the company’s plastic recycling efforts. U.S. District Judge Michael J. Truncale said Bonta cannot claim official immunity for several statements, including a campaign email sent to Texas residents. Bonta has filed a notice of appeal.
Cuba said late Wednesday that a speedboat that entered Cuban waters and opened fire on its soldiers killed four people and wounded six, and that the boat’s 10 passengers were armed Cubans living in the United States trying to infiltrate the island. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States is gathering its own information to determine whether the victims were American citizens or permanent residents and to verify the accounts provided by Cuba.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are scheduled to testify Thursday and Friday in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, as a Republican-led panel seeks to avoid a contempt fight that could be triggered if they refuse to cooperate. The subpoenas came after the Oversight Committee issued them last summer, and the case gained traction in December when the first batch of Epstein files was made public.
People in Mexico fled to online information during unrest after Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was killed, but social media posts depicting a country in chaos spread faster than verified reporting. Mexican officials and a private university said many of the viral claims involved misleading content and images generated by artificial intelligence, including false messages that gunmen had seized an airport and that the president was hiding on a naval vessel.
President Donald Trump’s administration imposed a new tranche of U.S. sanctions targeting people and companies accused of enabling Iran’s ballistic missile program, drone production and illicit oil sales. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said the sanctions against 30 people, companies and ships were announced ahead of talks scheduled for Thursday in Geneva between U.S. officials and Iranian negotiators through Oman.
As spring break approaches, security and travel-risk experts urged travelers to assess Mexico destinations carefully after cartel-related violence flared in parts of the country last weekend.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appealing a judge’s order blocking the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly for participating in a video that urged troops to resist unlawful orders, according to a court filing. U.S. Justice Department officials asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the Feb. 12 ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon.
Cody Roberts, accused of hitting a wolf with a snowmobile, taping the animal’s mouth shut, displaying it in a rural Wyoming bar and later killing it, has agreed to a plea deal that would spare him a trial. Prosecutors in Sublette County reached the deal last week and filed it in court Wednesday. Under the agreement, Roberts would pay a $1,000 fine and serve 18 months of probation.
Tommy Schaefer, a Chicago man convicted in Indonesia for the 2014 Bali “suitcase murder” of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, pleaded not guilty in U.S. federal court on Thursday to charges tied to the case. Schaefer, who was released from prison in Indonesia this week, faces allegations that he conspired to kill and tampered with a victim.
Lawyers for Quakertown high‑school protesters say the 72‑year‑old police chief who joined a scuffle with students in Pennsylvania choked a 15‑year‑old girl, and that the teens acted in self‑defense. The attorneys contend the chief, Scott McElree, entered the confrontation without identifying himself, leading to aggravated‑assault charges that they plan to contest.
A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who disappeared after U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop was found dead five days later, prompting a police investigation and renewed scrutiny of how federal agents handle vulnerable people, according to authorities and advocates. Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan said the incident showed a “dereliction of duty,” while U.S. Customs and Border Protection defended the actions. Police said the county medical examiner ruled the death “health related,” a characterization the Erie County Department of Health later disputed.
A New York state judge convicted Brooklyn resident Skiboky Stora of hate crime-related charges for a March 2024 assault on a woman in Manhattan and for other attacks prosecutors described as anti-female, anti-white and antisemitic. Stora, 42, represented himself during a weekslong trial, and his sentencing is scheduled for April 14.
A Department of Homeland Security official told state election administrators that immigration agents will not be stationed at polling places during November’s midterm elections, according to statements relayed to the Associated Press. The pledge was delivered in a call organized for federal agencies’ coordination and aimed at addressing Democrats’ concerns about possible election interference.
Prosecutors have charged Wisconsin state Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez with disorderly conduct in connection with a feud over who helped draft resolutions honoring Hispanics last year, according to court filings. The charge is a misdemeanor that could bring up to 90 days in jail if she is convicted in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
A West Virginia woman was sentenced to up to life in prison Wednesday for the April 2024 death of her teenage daughter, whose severely emaciated body was found at their home and whose case drew scrutiny of the state’s child welfare system. Prosecutors said the 14-year-old daughter had an eating disorder and that her mother, Julie Miller, did not seek medical care for at least four years.
Police bodycam and dashcam videos released to the media show former WWE executive Vince McMahon driving a 2024 Bentley Continental GT at more than 100 mph on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut last July before crashing into the rear of another car. State police said McMahon was cited for reckless driving and following too closely, and a judge later allowed him to enter a pretrial probation program that could erase the charges if he completes it.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he does not believe criminal charges are warranted after New York Police Department officers were hit with snowballs during a post-blizzard snowball fight in Washington Square Park. Police department leadership, including Commissioner Jessica Tisch, denounced the incident as “disgraceful” and “criminal,” and the department has circulated images while searching for four people it says hurt officers. The dispute has widened as the mayor and the NYPD take opposing views on how the incident should be handled.
Prominent Russian scholar of North Korea Andrei Lankov said he was expelled from Latvia after being detained in Riga while giving a lecture, then turned over to immigration authorities and taken toward the Estonia border. Kookmin University in South Korea, where he teaches, said it confirmed he had been released and was headed to Estonia.
A Montana judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s TikTok ban, saying the case became moot after the law’s ownership trigger was met. The ban, which began as the first statewide attempt to bar TikTok in the U.S., was paused in 2023 and later blocked again by the same judge before it could take effect.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday grilled the Trump administration and nonprofits chosen to run a $20 billion “green bank” program over the termination of their contracts, questioning whether officials invented reasons to block the program and whether the nonprofits were demanding control of money that was not theirs. The case is before the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after a three-judge panel last September agreed the administration had broad power to cancel the contracts.
Defense lawyers said China’s government intervened to help get charges dropped against three Chinese scientists at the University of Michigan who were accused of helping a colleague smuggle biological materials into the United States. A federal judge dismissed the case on Feb. 5 at the Justice Department’s request, lawyers said.
A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in a head-on crash in rural West Texas that killed Laura Lynch, a founding member of the country group now known as The Chicks, prosecutors said. The crash occurred Dec. 22, 2023, in Hudspeth County, and prosecutors said Domenick Chavez was driving on a suspended license and at highway speeds.
Defensores legales presentaron una moción para frenar una política de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) que, según dicen, presiona a menores migrantes no acompañados a regresar voluntariamente a sus países. La solicitud fue presentada el martes en el sur de Texas, y busca impedir que la CBP aplique la práctica a niños guatemaltecos y ampliar la protección a otros países, con excepción de México y Canadá.
Bill Gates addressed his connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at a town hall meeting of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday, the foundation said. A spokesperson said Gates “spoke candidly” and “took responsibility for his actions,” as new attention focused on Justice Department documents released last month that include emails, calendars and photos.
A Massachusetts couple reached a settlement in their lawsuit against eBay after they said former company employees carried out a harassment campaign against them that included bizarre anonymous deliveries and threats. Boston U.S. District Judge Patti Saris dismissed the case after the parties settled, according to court proceedings referenced in the lawsuit.
A former Pennsylvania police officer accused of child rape was killed early Wednesday in a gunfire exchange with police in Bala Cynwyd, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. Francis Connell Collier, 38, had been charged in Delaware County with sexually assaulting two girls more than two decades ago, and Morton police said he resigned after being placed on unpaid administrative leave.
Indonesia freed and deported American Tommy Schaefer after he served 11 years in a Bali prison for the 2014 premeditated murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, prosecutors said. U.S. federal charges tied to the case are still pending after Schaefer was transported to Illinois, where a court appearance was scheduled.
A North Dakota judge said he will order Greenpeace entities to pay damages expected to total $345 million in a lawsuit tied to protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline more than a decade ago. The ruling, issued in court filings Tuesday, is expected to trigger appeals in the North Dakota Supreme Court by both sides.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer Valve in state court, alleging “loot boxes” in Counter-Strike and other titles illegally promote gambling. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, asks the court to order Valve to stop the practice and to pay restitution and damages to users, along with a fine tied to its profits from the features.
A Texas grand jury declined to hand up indictments after a case involving the March 15, 2025, fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez by a federal immigration agent during a traffic encounter, prosecutors said. The shooting was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security until The Associated Press and other outlets reported it last week.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a new Justice Department fraud division said he would pursue prosecutions “without fear or favor,” as questions surfaced about how the unit will operate amid a White House-declared “war on fraud.” The proposed National Fraud Enforcement Division would create another channel to investigate fraud, even though the department already handles fraud cases through its Criminal Division.
A Texas appeals court ruled on Feb. 25 that Harris County can continue funding legal aid for undocumented immigrants, rejecting Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to shut down the program. The 15th Court of Appeals said Paxton did not provide evidence that the county’s grants harmed residents and said the state failed to explain why providing counsel to indigent people facing deportation is unconstitutional.
The FBI has fired additional agents who worked on investigations involving President Donald Trump, AP reported, including personnel who participated in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe. The firings come amid a wider personnel overhaul under FBI Director Kash Patel, and people familiar with the matter told AP that 10 or more employees were terminated. An agents’ association condemned the move as unlawful and said it would endanger national security.
The FBI searched Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home Wednesday as part of a federal investigation, according to the Associated Press. Agents also served search warrants at LAUSD headquarters and at a location near Miami where Carvalho previously served as superintendent, AP reported.
A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island has claimed a third victim, Pawtucket police said Wednesday. Gerald Dorgan died of wounds suffered in the Feb. 2026 attack that also killed his daughter, Rhonda Dorgan, and grandson, Aidan Dorgan.
Laurence des Cars resigned Tuesday as director of the Louvre Museum, the Associated Press reported, citing months of pressure after October’s theft of the French crown jewels and a suspected ticket fraud scheme linked to the museum. French President Emmanuel Macron accepted her resignation, calling it “an act of responsibility” as the museum faces scrutiny over security and day-to-day operations.
The Justice Department on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a New York judge’s order and allow the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for about 6,100 Syrian migrants living in the United States. The request follows a decision by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to revoke the protections, arguing that the conflict in Syria no longer meets the criteria for TPS. A response to the administration’s emergency appeal is due March 4.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against private prison company GEO Group in a procedural dispute over a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees in Colorado were forced to work and paid about $1 a day. The ruling means the case can proceed only after other steps in the lower court process, not via the quick appeal GEO sought.
Federal prosecutors opened a trial in Texas on Tuesday, telling jurors that a shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas last July was carried out by members of antifa. Nine people have pleaded not guilty, eight of whom face charges of providing material support to terrorists, prosecutors said.
A Pakistani man went on trial this week in New York on federal charges that he tried to orchestrate the killing of a U.S. politician, potentially President Donald Trump as he campaigned in 2024, according to prosecutors. As the trial began Wednesday, prosecutors said the defendant, Asif Merchant, met with and paid $5,000 to people he believed were hit men who turned out to be undercover FBI agents.
A federal jury in Maryland found Supreme Court litigator Thomas Goldstein guilty of tax evasion and related charges tied to millions of dollars in high-stakes poker income, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors said Goldstein diverted money from his law firm to cover gambling debts and failed to report the full scope of his gambling activity. Goldstein, who also co-founded SCOTUSblog, denied wrongdoing.
A coalition of Wisconsin school districts, teachers’ unions and parents filed a lawsuit against the GOP-led state Legislature, arguing the Legislature is failing to fund public schools adequately. The case was filed Monday in Eau Claire County Circuit Court and asks the court to adopt a new school finance system unless lawmakers and Gov. Tony Evers enact one first.
The former Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging Mayor Karen Bass’s firing of her in 2025 was aimed at smearing her after the Palisades Fire. Crowley’s suit, filed last week, argues Bass spread misinformation to protect Bass’s political reputation following the Jan. 7, 2025 wildfire. The mayor’s office said the lawsuit has no merit.
The U.S. Justice Department sued the University of California, Los Angeles, alleging it failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment during pro-Palestinian protests in 2023 and 2024. The federal complaint, filed in California, focuses on allegations that UCLA did not discipline people involved in protests that included an encampment and arrests in 2024.
The Trump administration sued New Jersey in federal court in Trenton on Monday, challenging a state order that bars federal immigration agents from making arrests in certain nonpublic areas of state property. The Justice Department lawsuit targets Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s Feb. 11 executive order, and New Jersey’s acting attorney general said the state will fight the case.
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rejected a bid by an immigrant rights group to pause a tax-data sharing agreement between the IRS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The court declined to block the IRS from sharing certain names and addresses that could help identify people in the country illegally.
Legal advocates filed a motion on Tuesday seeking to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from urging some unaccompanied immigrant children—entering the country without parents—to voluntarily deport themselves under a policy introduced last year. The advocates said the approach, which they say began in September 2025, would undercut access to immigration procedures and expand detention threats, legal advocates wrote in court filings in McAllen, Texas.
A New York state court judge on Wednesday convicted Brooklyn resident Skiboky Stora of hate crime charges tied to a random punch on a woman walking in Manhattan in March 2024, and to other attacks and harassment. Prosecutors said Stora, who represented himself during the trial, committed a series of assaults and targeted incidents between 2023 and 2024. Stora was remanded into custody and sentencing is scheduled for April 14, according to court proceedings reported by The Associated Press.
A Department of Homeland Security official told state election administrators that federal immigration agents will not be stationed at polling locations during the November midterm elections. Deputy assistant secretary Heather Honey made the pledge during a coordination call that included other federal agencies, according to statements shared by officials in Arizona, Oregon and Kentucky.
In San Antonio, the passenger in a car during a fatal 2025 shooting by a federal immigration agent in Texas died Saturday in a crash, according to a lawyer for the slain man’s family. Joshua Orta had given a statement to attorneys earlier that disputed the government’s account of how Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot.
A man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state on Tuesday morning as sheriff’s deputies were driving to serve him with a domestic violence restraining order, authorities said. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy shot the suspect after the man began stabbing people outside a home on the Key Peninsula.
New York City police are investigating after multiple officers were hit with snowballs during a snowball fight at Washington Square Park in Manhattan. The department said Tuesday that multiple uniformed officers were struck in the face and were removed by EMS to a nearby hospital in stable condition.
Savannah Guthrie said her family is now offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who went missing from her Arizona home more than three weeks ago. Guthrie said she and her family still hope her mother will be found alive but acknowledged they also realize it might be too late.
Mexican forces killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” in an operation in Jalisco that Mexico’s Defense Ministry said was supported by U.S. intelligence. The death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) was followed by arson, looting and road blockades across 20 Mexican states, according to authorities.
PHILADELPHIA—Residents in the Philadelphia-area community of Quakertown are calling for the police chief’s resignation after a scuffle with high school students protesting immigration enforcement policies, including footage showing the police chief grabbing a teenage girl’s neck. Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan said his office is investigating the incident.
Boise prosecutors charged Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, with malicious destruction of federal property after FBI allegations say she stole an ambulance and drove it into a building housing U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices, then poured accelerant in the lobby. She was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boise.
Former San Francisco homeless services charity CEO Gwendolyn Westbrook will be arraigned Tuesday on nine felony charges accusing her of stealing more than $1.2 million in public funds meant to help keep people off the streets, prosecutors said.
Gunfire and explosions in Jalisco, Mexico, on Feb. 24 amplified local worries about whether Guadalajara can host FIFA World Cup matches as the country’s drug war churns. President Claudia Sheinbaum and Jalisco Gov. Jesús Pablo Lemus said there is “no risk” for fans and that World Cup venues will not change, after Mexico’s military killed cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”
Mexican authorities said Monday they killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader, during a special forces operation in Jalisco on Sunday. The Mexican Defense Secretary, Gen. Ricardo Trevilla, said the effort followed surveillance of a romantic partner and included U.S. intelligence information.
A Texas grand jury declined to indict former NBA player Patrick Beverley in an assault case, court records show. Beverley, who was arrested in Fort Bend County in November, had been accused by his sister of grabbing her by the neck, slamming her against a wall and punching her.
A sanitation worker in Huber Heights, Ohio, surprised police by finding a man hiding inside a trash can and drawing officers to the scene, according to police. Officers later chased the suspect on foot after he fled a traffic stop earlier Monday, and police said he was taken into custody without injury.
A SWAT standoff in Ypsilanti, Michigan, lasting more than 30 hours and involving multiple agencies drew backlash over how law enforcement handles psychiatric crises. Ruben Peeler, 53, was subdued after barricading himself in an apartment bedroom while armed with a katana sword, police said, and has been charged with multiple felonies including assault with a dangerous weapon.
Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit with the estate of Isaac Hayes that accused the president of using the 1966 hit “Hold On, I’m Coming” in campaign videos and events without permission, the Hayes family said Feb. 24. Hayes’ son Isaac Hayes III announced the settlement on X, and the parties did not disclose the terms.
California voters in November could weigh a Uber-backed ballot measure that would cap personal injury lawyers’ contingency fees and limit medical damages for many vehicle crashes, not just Uber rides. The proposal has triggered a multimillion-dollar showdown among Uber, lawyers, and doctors, each pursuing competing initiatives to alter the measure or broaden liability.
The Louvre Museum's director, Laurence des Cars, resigned Tuesday in the wake of the October theft of French crown jewels valued at €88 million, a brazen daylight robbery that exposed severe security gaps at the Paris institution. President Emmanuel Macron accepted her resignation "as an act of responsibility," according to his office, citing the need for "calm" and major security upgrades as the museum grapples with a suspected ticket fraud scheme and deep operational challenges.
Opening statements began Monday in Park City, Utah, in the trial of Kouri Richins, a 35-year-old children's book author accused of killing her husband Eric with fentanyl in March 2022. Prosecutors allege she slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail to inherit his estate and resolve $4.5 million in debt; her defense team presented an alternative narrative of addiction and accidental overdose.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs means the administration cannot impose new import taxes under the emergency law it relied on “on a whim,” attorneys and trade analysts said. But the decision is unlikely to end the uncertainty that has disrupted business planning, as Trump has already moved to other legal authorities and the refund process for duties collected remains unclear.
The U.S. military boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The Pentagon said U.S. forces boarded the tanker Bertha overnight, calling it a maritime interdiction and boarding operation under a quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.
Nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger as worsening drought, conflict, and global aid cuts intensify the country's humanitarian crisis, the Somali federal government and United Nations agencies said Tuesday. New data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report shows that 6.5 million people are projected to face crisis or worse levels of food insecurity by the end of March.
Brazil's Supreme Court opened trial Tuesday of five suspects charged in the 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco, who died along with her driver Anderson Gomes in a drive-by shooting. Franco, a Black and bisexual politician who was 38 at the time, had defended the human rights of Brazil's marginalized communities and became a global symbol of resistance to violence against vulnerable populations.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick urged the state to block Camp Mystic's summer reopening Monday, saying it would be "naive" to allow the troubled youth camp to resume normal operations before a full investigation into last July's flood deaths. Twenty-eight people died in the disaster — 25 campers, two counselors, and the camp's executive director — according to lawsuits filed the same day. "It would be naive to allow Camp Mystic to return to normal operations before all of the facts are known," Patrick wrote in a letter to Department of State Health Services Commissioner Jennifer Shuford. "Camp Mystic should have decided on their own to suspend operations this coming summer, but it appears they are planning for camp in 2026."
A man with a long criminal history fatally shot a Missouri sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop south of Highlandville on Monday and later killed a second deputy in a gunbattle hours afterward, authorities said. Two other deputies were wounded, and the suspect, Richard Dean Bird, was also killed, Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole said Tuesday.
Federal authorities are barred from conducting an “unsupervised, wholesale search” of devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home in Virginia during a classified-leaks investigation, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled Tuesday. Magistrate Judge William Porter said he will personally review the contents of Natanson’s devices rather than allowing a Justice Department “filter team” search.
Melvin Trotter, 65, was executed Tuesday for the June 1986 stabbing and strangling death of Virgie Langford, a 70-year-old grocery store owner in Palmetto near Tampa Bay. The execution at Florida State Prison near Starke marks the state's second execution in 2026 and continues Florida's acceleration of capital punishment, which carried out 19 executions last year—more than any other state and the most in a single year since Florida reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Volunteers scoured the desert near Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, defying an explicit request from the Pima County Sheriff's Department to stop. Guthrie, 84, has been missing since Jan. 31, and authorities believe she was kidnapped from her home.
Federal workplace safety regulators announced proposed penalties totaling $246,609 on Tuesday against a Colorado dairy and two contractors over their failure to protect six workers who died from hydrogen sulfide gas exposure in August 2025. The deaths occurred after a manure pipe disconnected in an enclosed space at Prospect Ranch in Keenesburg, about 35 miles northeast of Denver, shocking rural communities in the region.
Chicago voters selected "Abolish ICE" as the winning name in the city's annual snowplow-naming contest, turning a municipal tradition into a political statement about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement. The name carries a double meaning: both a reference to removing snow and a protest slogan against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An explosion near the Savyolovsky railway station in Moscow killed a police officer early Tuesday, according to Russian authorities. The attacker also died in the blast, which injured two other officers who were hospitalized.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel joined the U.S. men's hockey team in their locker room Sunday after they won the Olympic gold medal in Milan, videos of the moment show. In footage circulating online, Patel drank from a bottle of beer and sprayed beer around the locker room while the athletes celebrated. After one player draped his gold medal around Patel's neck, he jumped up and down with the team. The celebration drew swift criticism from those questioning whether Patel's use of a government plane to travel to Milan represents an appropriate use of federal resources.
Britain's Queen Camilla met Monday with Gisèle Pelicot, a French rape survivor and author whose memoir has drawn international attention during a tour of the United Kingdom. The two women spoke for about 30 minutes over tea at Clarence House in London. Camilla, who has long campaigned against domestic violence and sexual abuse, told Pelicot she had read her newly published memoir in just two days. "I couldn't put it down," the queen said. "I've met so many survivors of rape and sexual abuse I never thought I could be shocked by anything any more, but I was shocked at your case. It left me speechless."
Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko introduced legislation in parliament Tuesday that would increase the minimum prison sentence for homosexuality to five years, up from the current one-year minimum. The bill also seeks to broaden the legal definition of "unnatural acts" under a law that has criminalized homosexuality since Senegal's independence from France in 1960.
A Utah judge on Tuesday rejected a defense motion to disqualify prosecutors in the case of Tyler Robinson, 22, accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The defense had argued that Deputy Utah County Attorney Chad Grunander posed a conflict of interest because his adult daughter was in the audience when Kirk was shot at an outdoor rally on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem on September 10.
A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation into President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, blocking public scrutiny of a prosecution that once stood as the most perilous of four criminal cases against the Republican. Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, granted the president's request to keep the report sealed. Smith's investigations produced indictments that were abandoned after Trump's 2024 election victory, citing Justice Department legal opinions prohibiting prosecution of sitting presidents.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling against President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs removes the administration’s ability to create new import taxes under the emergency-powers law at issue, but trade lawyers say uncertainty is likely to persist for importers and trade partners. Businesses face open questions about what legal authorities could replace the struck-down tariff regime, how refunds will work, and whether Trump’s leverage-based trade deals will survive the fallout.
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's sweeping tariffs on Friday, but financial markets greeted the decision with restraint as the Trump administration moved swiftly to impose a new 15% global import tax under alternative legal authority. The ruling cast doubt on whether the administration's recently negotiated trade deals would survive the shift to new legal grounds, leaving trading partners including China and South Korea uncertain about the stability of commerce with the United States.
The Trump administration has ordered an American woman adopted from Iran as a toddler to appear for removal proceedings, according to a Department of Homeland Security letter described by the Associated Press. The woman says the government’s action could mean a death sentence because she is a Christian and Iran is dangerous for Christians.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case brought by Boulder, Colorado, accusing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil of deceiving the public about fossil fuels' role in climate change. The ruling marks the court's first major engagement with lawsuits seeking to hold the energy industry financially liable for climate-related damage including wildfires, rising sea levels and severe storms.
A federal court on Monday rejected a Republican effort to block a new congressional map that improves Democrats' chances of winning a U.S. House seat in Utah. The three-judge federal panel denied a preliminary injunction request and ruled the new districts can be used in this year's election, marking the second recent setback for Republicans who currently hold all four of Utah's House seats.
Criminal investigators seeking suspects in difficult cases are asking Google to reveal who searched for specific information online, a practice known as reverse keyword warrants that Pennsylvania's highest court upheld in late 2025 in a rape investigation. The technique identifies internet addresses where searches were made for particular terms—such as a street address where a crime occurred or phrases like "pipe bomb"—in a specific time window, then works backward to find suspects. While law enforcement has used the method to investigate bombings in Texas, the assassination of a Brazilian politician, and a fatal arson in Colorado, privacy advocates warn it turns innocent people into suspects by exposing their personal search histories.
Armed men disguised as soldiers killed at least seven people when they stormed a rural property in Ecuador's Manabi province early Monday morning, police said. The attackers fired bullets at the victims, including three adult brothers, according to authorities. The assault marks the latest in a wave of drug-related violence that has pushed Ecuador's homicide rate to historic levels.
Mexican soldiers killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, in a shootout Sunday in the town of Tapalpa. His death triggered a surge in violence across Mexico, with cartel gunmen blocking more than 250 roads across 20 states and setting fire to vehicles. More than 70 people died in the operation and its aftermath, authorities said Monday.
Families of nine Camp Mystic flood victims filed a federal lawsuit against six Texas Department of State Health Services officials Monday, seeking damages for what they allege was a failure to enforce state law requiring youth camps to have evacuation plans. The state licensed Camp Mystic knowing it lacked an adequate evacuation plan, the suit alleges. The camp's emergency instructions directed children to stay in their cabins during floods, contrary to Texas regulations requiring youth camps to develop disaster evacuation procedures. Twenty-seven Camp Mystic staff members and campers died when heavy rain sent the Guadalupe River flooding into the historic Hill Country camp on July 4, 2025.
The sculptures are made from items found around any home: bread, Q-Tips, thread, soap, dental floss, floor wax, coffee. With pencils, pastels, glue and other supplies, incarcerated artists across Connecticut have fashioned these household materials into sculptures of the devil, the grim reaper, a castle and Garfield the cat. The artworks are on display at Eastern Connecticut State University's art gallery as part of the Prison Arts Program's annual exhibition, running through Feb. 28.
A person was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the New Hampshire-Canada border early Sunday in an exchange of gunfire, federal authorities said. The incident occurred around 1 a.m. in Pittsburg, a town of about 800 people in northern New Hampshire, according to the FBI.
A white family suing Kamehameha Schools over its Native Hawaiian admissions policy is seeking to keep their identities hidden throughout the lawsuit, citing online death threats and fears that public identification could damage their careers and educational prospects. The request comes as the case has generated intense backlash, with threats of violence directed at the lead attorney and the nonprofit organization backing the suit.
Hundreds of citizen journalists are scouring the Justice Department's release of millions of pages related to Jeffrey Epstein's networks, working alongside professional newsrooms to identify connections the sheer volume has made difficult to process alone. The documents, released on January 30, have generated major news stories and prompted some resignations, but the magnitude of the cache has drawn amateur researchers seeking to spot patterns and details that larger institutions may miss.
Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and then released on bail, according to Metropolitan Police. The 72-year-old is suspected of passing sensitive government information to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago. Mandelson does not face allegations of sexual misconduct.
OpenAI's top safety representatives have been summoned to Ottawa after the company revealed it identified suspicious activity on the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar, who killed eight people in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia this month. The company said it considered but did not alert Canadian police at the time.
A notorious camp in Syria that housed tens of thousands of women and children with alleged links to the Islamic State group has been emptied, with its final residents transferred over recent weeks, according to Syrian officials. Fadi al-Qassem, the Syrian Foreign Ministry representative for the al-Hol camp administration, said the final convoy departed the remote facility in northeastern Syria on Sunday morning.
Kouri Richins, a Utah mother who authored a children's book about grief after her husband's death, is set to stand trial on charges that she murdered him. Prosecutors allege she fatally poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl for financial gain.
The Supreme Court's decision striking down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs has created new uncertainty in U.S.-China trade relations. Both countries are navigating shifting ground ahead of Trump's scheduled March 31 through April 2 visit to Beijing, where he is set to meet with President Xi Jinping. Analysts say the ruling strengthens China's negotiating hand, but predict Beijing will be cautious in exploiting the advantage, knowing that Trump has other legal authorities for imposing tariffs. Both countries want to maintain a fragile trade truce and stabilize ties ahead of the summit.
An armed man breached the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago early Sunday morning and was shot and killed by Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy, according to federal authorities. President Donald Trump was not at the resort when the incident occurred around 1:30 a.m.
A 21-year-old gay woman from Morocco was deported to Cameroon in February 2026 despite an explicit protection order from a U.S. immigration judge. Farah, identified by first name only for her safety, said she was handcuffed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents three days before a scheduled hearing on her release and flown to a country where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison.
Former Prince Andrew was arrested Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office and held in custody for nearly 11 hours, according to police. Police are investigating whether he shared confidential trade information with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during his time as a U.K. trade envoy, allegations that stem from the Justice Department's recent release of documents related to Epstein's case.
The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel on Sunday after an operation to capture him in Jalisco state, the Defense Department said. Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," was wounded during the military operation in Tapalpa on February 22 and died while being transported to Mexico City, authorities said. The operation marked a major victory for the Trump administration's push to crack down on drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States. The White House said it provided intelligence support for the operation.
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's tariffs Friday, ruling 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not give the president authority to impose import taxes — a power that belongs to Congress. Within hours, Trump announced plans to impose a 10% tariff on all imports for 150 days and said he would explore other legal mechanisms to restore the duties. The ruling left businesses across industries facing what they described as a prolonged period of uncertainty.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he intends to raise global tariffs to 15%, escalating his trade policy following a Supreme Court decision Friday that struck down his emergency-powers tariff authority in a 6-3 ruling. Trump said he would implement the new tariffs using an alternative legal authority through an executive order that bypasses Congress. The Supreme Court ruled that the president lacked constitutional authority to unilaterally impose tariffs because the power to tax rests exclusively with Congress. Trump's original announcement of a 10% tariff rate is set to take effect Tuesday, the same day as his State of the Union address.
The U.S. military carried out another deadly strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing three people, according to U.S. Southern Command. The strike was the latest in a sustained campaign of aerial attacks on boats the military says are engaged in narcotics trafficking.
A Utah mother of three, Kouri Richins, is scheduled to go on trial in a monthlong case accusing her of killing her husband, Eric Richins, in March 2022. The Associated Press reported she self-published a children’s book in 2023 that prosecutors have pointed to as evidence, after which she was charged with murder. Jury selection is complete and a 12-person jury will decide her fate in the trial beginning Monday in the area outside Park City, Utah.
Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell filed papers Friday in Manhattan federal court seeking to block the release of more than 90,000 pages of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The lawyers argue that a new law mandating the disclosure violates the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine.
The Department of Homeland Security has secretly purchased at least seven warehouses across Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas for immigration detention centers, spending $122.8 million on a single 826,000-square-foot facility in Socorro, Texas. Local officials say they learned about the purchases only after deed filings or news reports — with no federal notification before the deals closed.
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs in a 6-3 decision that invalidated $133 billion in import taxes already collected. But the justices left the government and importers facing a far more complicated challenge: determining how to return the money now deemed unlawfully taken. The Court ruled that Trump's invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) did not authorize the tariffs. The law grants no authority to tax imports, the justices said — that power belongs to Congress. Two justices appointed by Trump, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Congress, not the president, holds the power to levy taxes on imports, striking down a significant portion of President Donald Trump's global tariff regime. But by Saturday morning, Trump announced a new 15% global import tax under a law that has never been invoked in this manner before.
Governments and companies worldwide scrambled Saturday to navigate a Supreme Court ruling that struck down some of President Trump's sweeping global tariffs — only to face an immediate complication: Trump announced he would reimpose them at higher rates. The ruling struck down tariffs Trump had imposed since taking office 13 months ago using emergency powers. Trump signed an executive order Friday imposing a 10% tariff on certain goods and announced Saturday morning he would raise that rate to 15%. The whiplash has sent officials and business leaders from Seoul to São Paulo into an urgent reassessment of their tariff exposure and trade strategy.
The Islamic State group released an audio message late Saturday calling Syria's interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa a "puppet without a soul" controlled by Western countries and urging followers to attack Jewish and Western targets. The message, attributed to ISIS spokesman Abu Huzaifa al-Ansari, marks the group's first audio released in months. The statement reflects the deepening rift between the extremist organization and Syria's new government, which took power after rebel forces led by al-Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham removed longtime president Bashar Assad in December 2024.
Pakistan's military struck targets along the Afghan border on Sunday, claiming it killed at least 70 militants in what officials described as retaliation for recent terrorist attacks inside Pakistan. Afghanistan denied the casualty figures and said the strikes hit civilian areas, including a religious school and homes, in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika. The strikes threatened a ceasefire brokered by Qatar last October and escalated tensions between the two countries.
A suicide bomber struck a security convoy in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing two soldiers including a lieutenant colonel, the Pakistani military said. The attack occurred in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan, where security forces have battled militants for years. The military said Pakistan would not "exercise any restraint" in operations against those responsible, language that appeared to signal rising tensions between Islamabad and Kabul.
PacifiCorp has agreed to pay $575 million to resolve the federal government's claims for damages stemming from six wildfires in Oregon and California in 2020 and 2022, federal officials announced Friday. The settlement concludes allegations that PacifiCorp's electrical lines negligently started four fires in Oregon in 2020 and two fires in California.
JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time in writing that it closed President Donald Trump's bank accounts in February 2021, according to a court filing submitted this week in his ongoing lawsuit against the bank and its leader, Jamie Dimon. Trump is seeking $5 billion, alleging the closures were motivated by political retaliation for his role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
Students in Linda Davis’ kindergarten and first-grade classes in Savannah, Georgia, mourned Thursday after the teacher was killed Monday in a crash involving a driver fleeing a traffic stop by U.S. immigration officers, authorities said. Local officials questioned whether the pursuit was necessary, and federal immigration officials said the driver was illegally in the country.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A ransomware attack forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all of its roughly three dozen clinics across the state and cancel elective procedures for a second day, officials said. University leaders said the shutdown could last days as they assess the scope of the breach and restore network systems they took down as a precaution.
The U.S. Justice Department fired James Hundley on Friday after judges had unanimously chosen him to replace Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to the Justice Department and the court-driven appointment process described in a report. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Hundley was fired in a post on X shortly after the judge selection.
British police again searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Friday, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct involving confidential trade information. The investigation is separate from allegations related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse, and prosecutors will decide whether to bring charges.
Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in a shooting that erupted around 2:45 a.m. Saturday in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom entertainment district, Police Chief Rick Edwards said. The shooting occurred during an apparent street fight involving at least two shooters, Edwards said.
A 23-year-old Texas man was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent during a traffic control operation on South Padre Island in March 2025, according to documents released Friday by the Department of Homeland Security. The shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez had been reported by local media at the time, but the involvement of a federal Homeland Security Investigations agent was not disclosed until The Associated Press reported on the newly released records.
Caleb Flynn, 39, a former contestant on the singing competition "American Idol," pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of murder, assault and tampering with evidence in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37. She was found dead Monday at their home in Tipp City, Ohio, after officers received a report of a burglary and shooting. Judge Samuel Huffman set his bond at $2 million.
A U.S. appeals court Friday cleared the way for Louisiana to require poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, voting 12-6 to lift a lower court's 2024 block on the law. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it did not have enough factual information about how schools would implement the requirement to determine constitutional issues before allowing it to take effect. The court noted that details remained unclear, including how prominently schools would display the religious text, whether teachers would reference it during lessons, or whether other historical documents would accompany it.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased warehouses in more than 20 towns across the United States as part of a $45 billion expansion of detention capacity. In many cases, local officials were not notified until after deals were completed. Some warehouse owners have refused to finalize sales after learning of ICE's intended use.
Venezuelan authorities said Saturday that at least 1,557 people detained for political reasons have submitted applications under an amnesty law signed this week, with hundreds already being released. The amnesty marks a reversal for Venezuelan authorities, who have long denied holding any political prisoners. The measure follows the January capture of then-President Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military raid.
OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of Jesse Van Rootselaar, a teenager who months later committed one of Canada's worst school shootings, killing eight people in British Columbia. The San Francisco company identified Van Rootselaar's account in June 2025 through abuse detection efforts but determined the account activity did not meet its threshold for law enforcement referral. OpenAI banned the account that month for violating its usage policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump's global tariff authority Friday in a 6-3 decision, marking a rare institutional check on a president who has wielded tariff power aggressively throughout his second term. Trump immediately vowed to impose new import taxes through alternative legal means, saying the ruling would bring "great certainty" to the economy even as it raised urgent questions about the future of his tariff strategy.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the Supreme Court's rejection of his global tariff authority does not constrain his ability to impose import duties on foreign goods. Trump announced he will immediately pursue a 10% global tariff under a trade law allowing duties for 150 days and directed his administration to initiate investigations under other statutes that could permit substantial tariffs with fewer procedural constraints.
Thousands of people in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, learned of a shooting at a youth hockey arena after a gunman opened fire during an event Monday and was later killed, according to Pawtucket police and witnesses. Michael Black, who was in the stands, said he realized the sounds were gunfire and lunged toward the shooter’s handgun to help stop the attack.
Kouri Richins, a Utah mother who previously promoted a children’s book about coping with a parent’s death, will face a jury in a monthlong trial starting Monday after prosecutors charged her in her husband’s fentanyl-linked death. Richins, 35, has pleaded not guilty to nearly three dozen counts, including aggravated murder, attempted murder and multiple fraud charges.
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Friday, removing a policy that had sent investors scrambling last year. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 230 points or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.9%, closing at 22,886.07. Analysts said many investors had already anticipated the ruling, leading to a muted response across financial markets.
President Donald Trump attacked six Supreme Court justices Friday after they struck down his global tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law. Trump directed particular criticism at Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, both appointed by him, saying their votes represented "an embarrassment to their families."
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's sweeping tariffs Friday in a 6-3 ruling that dealt a significant defeat to a cornerstone of his economic agenda. The court found that Trump's attempt to invoke the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify the levies exceeded his constitutional authority, with the justices noting that Congress, not the president, holds the power to impose tariffs.
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs on Friday in a 6-3 decision, finding that the president violated the Constitution by unilaterally imposing duties without Congressional authority. The ruling prompted Trump to attack the justices he appointed as "disloyal" and to pledge new tariffs under a different law.
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's most sweeping tariffs on Friday, ruling 6-3 that he overstepped his authority when using an emergency powers law to justify new taxes on goods from nearly every country in the world.
Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 19 to stop New York’s redistricting commission from redrawing the boundaries of the only U.S. House seat in New York City held by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis. The request follows a Thursday decision by a New York appeals court that cleared the way for new maps after a state judge tossed out the previous district boundaries. Malliotakis said the Supreme Court has been “unequivocal” that “race-based redistricting violates the U.S. Constitution.”
A federal judge on Wednesday sharply criticized the Trump administration’s approach to immigrant detention and deportations, saying the government is violating the law and due process. In a ruling by Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California, the judge ordered the Homeland Security Department to notify many detained immigrants they may be eligible for bond and to give them access to a phone to call an attorney within an hour.
Las Vegas police are investigating a car that rammed into a power substation in Boulder City on Thursday as a "terrorism-related event," Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Friday. The driver, 23-year-old Dawson Maloney of Albany, New York, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police received the emergency call at 10 a.m. Thursday reporting a vehicle crash through a secured gate at the substation, located approximately 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
Primary elections have already taken place in Texas and North Carolina for newly redrawn House districts, yet a nationwide redistricting battle continues to reshape congressional boundaries in multiple states even as full midterm campaigns are underway. Final district boundaries remain uncertain in Missouri and Virginia, where court decisions and legal challenges could alter voting districts before the November elections. The redistricting efforts were triggered last summer when President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to redraw House districts to give the Republican Party an advantage in the midterm elections. California's Democratic leaders responded with their own redistricting effort, setting off a tit-for-tat clash that has spread across the country. Republicans believe they could gain as many as nine additional House seats from their redistricting efforts, while Democrats anticipate they could gain six seats in other states. Democrats need to gain only a few seats to win control of the House, which currently has a Republican majority. However, partisan projections carry uncertainty. Trump faces negative approval ratings in polls, and the party in power historically loses seats in midterm elections—factors that could affect voting patterns in November.
Four years into Russia's invasion, life in the roughly 20% of Ukraine now under Russian military control is defined by housing shortages, crumbling infrastructure, systematic detention, and forced cultural integration into Russian society, according to escapees and human rights organizations. Residents of the occupied territories are required to adopt Russian citizenship to receive vital services, subjected to widespread arrest, and—in documented cases—tortured, while Moscow encourages its own citizens to relocate with financial incentives.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to halt work on a slavery exhibit at Philadelphia's President's House on Independence Mall, blocking implementation of a lower court order to restore it. The decision pauses a disputed effort to display information about slavery during the founding era as the city prepares for the nation's 250th anniversary.
The body of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu has remained in a South African funeral home for more than eight months after his June 5, 2025, death, as a dispute over funeral plans pits his family against the longtime rival who succeeded him, President Hakainde Hichilema. Zambia’s authorities and courts have repeatedly sided with the government’s position in a case tied to Lungu’s reported last wishes, the Associated Press reported Feb. 20.
A federal judge dismissed a racketeering lawsuit filed by Thomas Donlon, the former interim NYPD commissioner, that accused Mayor Eric Adams and his top deputies of running the police department as a “criminal enterprise.” Judge Denise Cote said the complaint did not describe the defendants acting with “a common purpose.” City Law Department spokespersons said the dismissal left “no legal basis” for the case to continue.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office has reopened an investigation into allegations tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch, saying the decision followed a review of information recently released by the U.S. Justice Department. The state’s initial case was closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York, but state prosecutors said “revelations outlined in the previously sealed FBI files” now warrant renewed examination.
Authorities in Idaho were searching for a suspect who stole an ambulance outside a hospital and drove it into a nearby building that houses U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices. Police said the suspect poured an accelerant on the ambulance and that office entrance doors were shattered.
Detroit police said they found the bodies of three men inside a home while searching for a missing person. The men, ages 65, 66 and 72, were found after investigators said they were bludgeoned and stabbed late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Police were seeking tips and searching for a suspect as authorities worked to determine a motive.
Minnesota federal prosecutors have dismissed or dropped cases as the office in charge of U.S. criminal prosecutions in the state has been depleted by resignations and retirements amid disputes over Justice Department directives. The upheaval contributed to Cory Allen McKay, convicted 12 times, being released after his meth trafficking case was dropped following a prosecutor’s retirement. Local officials and defense lawyers say the churn is forcing delays and reducing the office’s ability to pursue some serious drug, violent and sexual offense cases.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge in Philadelphia set a Friday deadline for the Trump administration to restore an exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall. Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe issued the deadline Wednesday while the Justice Department appealed her earlier order to reinstate the display.
A South Carolina jury found police officer Cassandra Dollard not guilty Friday of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Robert Junior Langley, an unarmed man who was attempting to exit his wrecked car after a high-speed chase in February 2022. Dollard faced two to 30 years in prison if convicted. Dashboard camera footage captured the moments before the shooting as Langley's head and chest emerged from the damaged vehicle.
Nevada's prison system paid more than $18 million in overtime from July through September 2025, the highest quarterly amount in at least two years, according to data presented to state lawmakers Thursday. The payout represented a $7 million increase from the prior three months and continued a spending pattern that created a $53 million agency deficit the previous year. Correctional officers union leaders attributed the surge to severe understaffing across state facilities.
Karl Jacobson, 56, the former police chief in New Haven, Connecticut, was arrested Friday on larceny charges following allegations he stole $85,000 from two department accounts. Jacobson, who abruptly retired in January, turned himself in on an arrest warrant and was later released on a court-set bond of $150,000, according to the state prosecutor's office. He faces two counts of larceny related to defrauding a public community.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington of Michigan was charged with drunken driving following his arrest on October 3, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.27, well above the legal limit of 0.08.
A federal judge signaled Friday he intends to order the government to return electronic devices seized from a Washington Post reporter's Virginia home during an investigation into a leaked classified documents case.
Daniel Blank posted $15,000 bail and was released from a Maryland jail Friday, according to court documents. Blank is a member of a group known as the Zizians that law enforcement has linked to six deaths across California, Pennsylvania and Vermont. His release comes with conditions that he must live alone and submit to GPS tracking.
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez signed an amnesty law on Thursday, marking a major policy shift following last month's U.S. military raid that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro. The law is expected to free hundreds of political activists and human rights defenders detained during the government's 27-year tenure. But the measure drew a muted reception from opposition members, prisoners' rights groups, and families of those still detained, who said the amnesty falls short of demands and excludes some of those most in need of release. Military members are notably excluded from the measure.
Texas congressman Tony Gonzales on Thursday denied being "blackmailed" following a report that he allegedly had an affair with a former staffer who died after setting herself on fire in 2025. The married Republican, running for reelection in the state's March 3 primary, claimed on social media that the deceased woman's husband was seeking money through a potential lawsuit.
A federal immigration agent fatally shot a U.S. citizen on South Padre Island, Texas on March 15, 2025, newly released documents show. The Department of Homeland Security did not publicly disclose the death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, until this week. DHS said the driver intentionally struck the agent, but a state investigator indicated video evidence contradicted that account.
Trials are now underway against Meta, YouTube and other social media platforms over allegations that they deliberately designed addictive features and failed to protect children from sexual predators and harmful content. The lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles, New Mexico and other jurisdictions, represent the largest legal reckoning yet with the tech industry over its effects on minors' mental health — a comparison plaintiffs draw to tobacco and opioid litigation. Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg testified in the Los Angeles trial on Wednesday.
Arizona authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie said they are considering DNA “investigative genetic genealogy” options after DNA collected so far has not produced matches in CODIS. The missing woman is the mother of NBC “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie.
Michael Black, a 58‑year‑old retired printing‑company owner, jammed the handgun of shooter Robert Dorgan and helped subdue him as dozens fled a youth hockey game at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on Feb. 19, authorities said.
A Texas judge on Thursday declared four men wrongfully accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders innocent, following an investigation that identified a previously unknown killer who later died. Prosecutors apologized in court and said they were wrong about Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, while the order also addressed the cases of Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce.
Paris prosecutors opened two new investigations into potential sex abuse crimes and financial wrongdoing linked to Jeffrey Epstein and urged possible victims to come forward, AP reported. Prosecutor Laurence Beccuau said investigators will rely on U.S. government files released about Epstein as well as media reporting and new complaints. The probes involve specialized magistrates and follow the U.S. Justice Department’s release of more than 3 million pages of documents, along with thousands of videos and photos tied to Epstein.
The Diocese of Camden in New Jersey agreed to a $180 million settlement to resolve allegations of clergy sexual abuse, the bishop of the diocese announced in a letter. Bishop Joseph Williams said the deal was “long overdue” for survivors in South Jersey, and the diocese said the agreement still requires approval by a bankruptcy court.
A New York jury convicted Randy Santos of first-degree murder in the 2019 killings of four men sleeping on Chinatown sidewalks, rejecting his insanity defense. Prosecutors said Santos knowingly and purposefully attacked the victims with a metal bar, while his lawyers argued schizophrenia drove delusions that prevented criminal responsibility. Sentencing is set for April 16.
A federal judge on Wednesday issued a scathing decision criticizing the Trump administration’s approach to immigration detention and deportations, saying it illegally denied detained people a path to bond and violated a prior order. U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California ordered the Department of Homeland Security to notify certain immigrants about potential eligibility for bond and to provide them phone access to contact attorneys within an hour.
As a Maryland trial neared its end, prosecutors told jurors that Thomas Goldstein was a willful tax cheat, as the government prepares to lay out its case against the Supreme Court lawyer and co-founder of SCOTUSblog. Defense attorneys argued the government rushed to judgment, characterizing prosecutors’ evidence about Goldstein’s gambling as “made-up.”
In an interview with the House Oversight and Reform Committee, billionaire Les Wexner said he was “duped by a world-class con man” and described Jeffrey Epstein as a close adviser who conned him. Wexner, 88, denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes or participating in his abuse of girls and young women, and said he believed he did nothing wrong.
A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the agency’s decision to rescind a 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and welfare. The groups filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after the EPA finalized the repeal last week. The dispute centers on whether the Obama-era determination can be undone and what that could mean for Clean Air Act regulations governing greenhouse gases.
Members of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged that a Gaza ceasefire deal become permanent and criticized Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank, warning the moves could undermine prospects for a two-state solution. The comments came ahead of President Donald Trump’s first “Board of Peace” meeting, a Trump initiative that some countries fear could complicate or rival the U.N.’s role.
A Virginia court on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order blocking Democrats' planned April voter referendum to redraw the state's congressional maps, effectively halting a Democratic effort to gain four U.S. House seats in the national mid-decade redistricting battle. Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. granted the order at the request of the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Republican U.S. Representatives Ben Cline and Morgan Griffith, who argued the referendum's timing and phrasing violate state law. Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones vowed to appeal.
A federal judge in Philadelphia set a Friday deadline for the Trump administration to restore an exhibit on nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall. Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe issued the deadline Wednesday while the Justice Department appealed her order restoring the exhibit.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office has reopened an investigation into alleged illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch. The decision followed a review of information recently released by the U.S. Justice Department, the state said Thursday. New Mexico previously closed its case in 2019 at federal prosecutors’ request in New York.
A federal judge has thrown out a racketeering lawsuit filed by former interim NYPD commissioner Thomas Donlon that accused Mayor Eric Adams and his top aides of running the police department as a “criminal enterprise.” The ruling was issued on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan. The city’s Law Department said it was “pleased the court agreed there was no legal basis for this case to continue,” and Donlon’s attorney John Scola indicated the decision will be appealed.
A federal prosecutor’s office in Minnesota has been left understaffed after a wave of career officials resigned or retired, according to an Associated Press report. The personnel turmoil contributed to the dismissal of a meth trafficking case against Cory Allen McKay, a defendant described as a longtime violent offender, who walked free on Jan. 31.
California’s parole board uses drug-test results from the state’s medication-assisted treatment program in decisions on whether to release incarcerated people, a group of prison physicians and state-appointed attorneys say. They warn the tests can produce false positives and that those errors are undermining participation in life-saving addiction treatment and contributing to more denials of parole. The concerns come as California tries to reverse a rise in fatal overdoses among the people it serves.
Police in Detroit found the bodies of three men in a home after they were searching for a missing person, authorities said. The men, ages 65, 66 and 72, were bludgeoned and stabbed, Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald said.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Students in kindergarten and first grade classes at Herman W. Hesse K-8 School mourned the teacher who was killed Monday when a pickup truck crashed into her car during a pursuit by U.S. immigration officers, local and federal authorities said. Linda Davis, 52, was killed less than a half mile (0.8 kilometers) from the school where she worked with special needs students.
Authorities in Meridian, Idaho, said a suspect stole an ambulance from St. Luke’s hospital, poured an accelerant on it, and drove it into a nearby office building that houses U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices. Police said the incident occurred at about 11:10 p.m. Wednesday and that a suspect remains at large as investigators work with federal agencies.
Ghana has launched an investigation into a man believed to be Russian accused of secretly recording sexual encounters with women and publishing the videos online without their consent, authorities said Feb. 18.
California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri is taking a leave of absence after he was arrested earlier this month on allegations of domestic violence in the Sacramento area, the authority said Tuesday. Prosecutors said they are not pressing charges, citing a lack of evidence. The arrest adds to scrutiny of the state’s long-delayed, costlier high-speed rail project.
A Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor, Meliton Cordero, has been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes to expedite visa applications at the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. government abruptly closed the DEA office in the Dominican Republic following the arrest.
A Delta flight returned to Houston shortly after takeoff early Wednesday because of an unruly passenger, authorities said. The flight later departed again and arrived in Atlanta about 90 minutes behind schedule, Delta said.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said a spring fraud trial for Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz accused of colluding with sports bettors to rig bets will likely be postponed until October. The men pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court to a rewritten indictment. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto left a May 4 trial date in place for now but indicated she would likely move it to the fall.
The Camden, N.J., Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $180 million in a clergy sexual abuse settlement, with the deal requiring approval by a bankruptcy court, the Associated Press reported. AP said the diocese had fought for years against a state grand jury investigation before relenting last year, and that it filed for bankruptcy after a wave of lawsuits that followed the relaxation of the statute of limitations. The AP also compiled examples of other large Catholic clergy abuse settlements reached in the U.S.
Un panel de expertos de la ONU dijo el lunes que está alarmado por información que vincula a la fiscal general de Guatemala, María Consuelo Porras, con presuntas adopciones ilegales cuando ella era directora de una casa hogar durante el conflicto armado del país. Los expertos emitieron el comunicado cuando Porras se acerca al final de su gestión como fiscal general y postulaba para otro cargo público. En su comunicado, pidieron que no se preseleccione ni se nombre a personas con alegaciones “creíbles” de violaciones de derechos humanos hasta que haya una investigación independiente y exhaustiva.
The Fulton County District Attorney's office acknowledged "grave and clear" prosecutorial misconduct Wednesday in the 2002 murder conviction of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a onetime Black Panther leader, while standing by the conviction based on DNA evidence and ballistic testing. The filing accuses the original lead prosecutor, now a superior court judge, of conduct that "crossed the line from aggressive advocacy into misconduct that undermined the core principles of justice." Al-Amin died in prison in November; his family is seeking a public hearing to clear his name.
A person opened fire Monday during a youth hockey game at an ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, police said, targeting family members and killing an ex-wife and a son. Pawtucket Chief of Police Tina Goncalves said the shooter also killed three other people’s relatives and injured others before dying from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
Federal and local investigators said Tuesday that DNA from gloves found near Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home did not produce any matches in a national DNA database as her disappearance entered its 17th day.
New Mexico lawmakers launched a “truth commission” investigation Tuesday into past activity at Jeffrey Epstein’s secluded Zorro Ranch, including allegations that the ranch facilitated sexual abuse and sex trafficking. The bipartisan, four-member panel of state House representatives will also examine why Epstein was not registered as a sex offender in New Mexico after his 2008 guilty plea involving an underage girl.
President Donald Trump’s administration has nominated George Kelesis, a longtime Nevada defense lawyer and chair of the Nevada Tax Commission, to serve as Nevada’s next U.S. attorney, a post that has been filled on an interim basis. Kelesis, 70, would oversee federal prosecutions in Nevada if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, according to the nomination. Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto said they are reviewing the choice after a federal judge ruled last year that Trump’s administration had appointed former interim U.S. attorney Sigal Chattah to the acting role illegally.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran deportee and long-running legal fight involving U.S. immigration authorities, is no longer being held in immigration detention, a Maryland federal judge ruled Feb. 17, 2026. The decision blocks Immigration and Customs Enforcement from re-detaining him after an earlier Maryland order requiring his immediate release.
Australia’s prime minister said the government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged links to the Islamic State, after Syrian authorities turned them back to the Roj detention camp. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government is providing “absolutely no support” and is not repatriating the group, while opposition leader Angus Taylor urged the use of temporary exclusion orders to prevent returns.
Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement on Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits accusing the company of failing to warn that Roundup could cause cancer. The deal would require court approval and is not expected to affect a separate case now set for the U.S. Supreme Court.
A U.S. immigration judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian legal permanent resident who led protests at Columbia University against the war in Gaza. The judge, Nina Froes, said the case was terminated because government attorneys failed to properly certify an official document they planned to use as evidence.
The Trump administration has selected Las Vegas attorney George Kelesis to replace Sigal Chattah as Nevada’s top federal prosecutor after an appeals court review raised questions about Chattah’s eligibility to serve. Chattah was appointed in March, and her continued role has been tied up in court as the Ninth Circuit heard arguments last week.
U.S. Capitol Police in Washington arrested an 18-year-old man after he ran several hundred yards toward the west side of the Capitol building holding a shotgun, the department said. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan said the man had tactical gear in his vehicle and that the shotgun was loaded.
The State Law Enforcement Division said a man has been charged with murder after a marijuana deal inside a dorm room at South Carolina State University led to a shooting that killed two people and hurt another, officials said. The suspect, identified as 18-year-old Khamanti Lytrel Kennedy, was arraigned in Orangeburg County and denied bond, according to court records. The university said it has tightened security measures and is seeking additional funding for upgrades.
Shia LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans after police said he was accused of hitting two men early Tuesday during Mardi Gras celebrations, and he now faces two counts of simple battery. Officers were called to a business in the French Quarter at about 12:45 a.m. after police said he was “causing a disturbance and becoming increasingly aggressive.” After being taken to a hospital for injuries that were described as unknown, LaBeouf was released and later arrested by police.
A Guatemalan driver accused of fleeing a Georgia traffic stop by federal immigration officers crashed outside Savannah on Monday, killing Linda Davis, a special education teacher headed to work, authorities and school officials said. The driver, Oscar Vasquez Lopez, remained jailed Tuesday on charges including vehicular homicide, reckless driving and driving without a valid license.
Hyatt executive chairman Thomas Pritzker said he will step down from the hotel company’s board, saying he “deeply regrets” his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. In a prepared statement, Pritzker said he condemned the actions and “harm caused” by Epstein and Maxwell and apologized for what he called “terrible judgment” in maintaining contact. The move follows revelations in documents tied to a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Epstein’s links to powerful people.
The U.S. military said it carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters, killing 11 people. The strikes carried out Monday brought the death toll from the administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers using small vessels to at least 145 since it began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September, the military said.
Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating an allegation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beat a Mexican citizen during an arrest in St. Paul last month, leaving him with eight skull fractures and hospitalization in an intensive care unit. The case has prompted renewed scrutiny of whether surveillance footage from the arrest site captured what happened. ICE has said the man injured himself while handcuffed, but hospital staff told The Associated Press that the injuries were not consistent with a fall.
Georgia high school students testified in court about the moments they were shot during an algebra class during the Sept. 4, 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. The trial of Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray, is examining whether parents should be held criminally responsible for providing a weapon to a child accused of fatal violence.
The Justice Department has issued new subpoenas in a Florida-based investigation tied to allegations involving political opponents of President Donald Trump and the government’s response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The subpoenas seek documents covering the years since the Obama administration’s intelligence assessment was published, the people said, speaking anonymously because the requests are not public.
Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed a law this week that bars state and local law enforcement agencies from entering cooperative agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of the federal 287(g) program, according to the Associated Press. The change is expected to affect multiple Maryland sheriffs and counties that have been turning detainees over to ICE under deputization-style arrangements.
Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom in an unprecedented social media trial questioning whether Meta's Instagram deliberately addicts and harms children. The Meta CEO said the company moved away from using time-spent metrics to measure platform success, but internal documents the plaintiff's attorney presented appeared to contradict his earlier congressional testimony that employees had not been given explicit goals to boost engagement.
SYDNEY — Naveed Akram, accused in the Dec. 14 mass shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, appeared in court Monday for the first time since being released from the hospital. The 24-year-old was taken via video link from the maximum security Goulburn Correctional Center.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore an exhibit about nine enslaved people at George and Martha Washington’s former home in Philadelphia after the National Park Service removed exhibit panels last month. U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe said the materials must be returned to their original condition while a legal challenge to the removal plays out.
Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, are consulting with Walmart management after identifying a suspect’s backpack sold exclusively at the stores, the Pima County sheriff said. The disappearance was reported after Nancy Guthrie was last seen Jan. 31 at her Arizona home and authorities later found her blood on the front porch.
Opening statements began Monday in the trial of Colin Gray’s father, Colin Gray, who prosecutors said should be held responsible for providing a firearm despite warnings about alleged threats his son made. Colin Gray faces 29 counts tied to the September 2024 Apalachee High School shooting in Winder, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Strikes on a market in Sudan’s Kordofan region killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens on Sunday, a rights group said. The group said drones hit a market in Sudri locality in North Kordofan province during busy hours as the war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces nears its three-year mark.
Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old man they say planned to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in August 2024, prosecutors said. Authorities canceled three Swift shows after what they described as foiling the threat, and Austrian officials said the U.S. shared intelligence that helped enable the disruption.
Motorcycle-bomb attackers struck a police station in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing at least two people including a child and wounding several others, police said Monday. Later, a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle attacked a security checkpoint in Bajaur district, where troops returned fire and police said they killed at least eight fighters. Pakistani officials said a girl was killed when a nearby house roof collapsed and rescuers were working to clear rubble at the checkpoint.
Israeli prosecutors said Monday they plan to charge a settler in the July killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a confrontation captured on video. The move would open a rare prosecution of violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, where rights groups say accountability is uncommon.
Greece said Monday it will try to obtain photos that appear to show the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad in Athens during World War II after the previously unknown images appeared on an online sale site. Greece’s Culture Ministry said experts will visit a collector in Ghent, Belgium to examine the authenticity and legality of the photos’ origin.
Lawyers for some deported migrants told The Associated Press that a second deportation flight from the United States to Cameroon arrived in Yaounde on Monday, days after a report said nine people were sent secretly last month to a country where they have no ties.
WILMINGTON, Del. — William Stevenson, a Delaware man who was married to former first lady Jill Biden in the 1970s, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he killed his wife, Linda Stevenson, in Wilmington. A state grand jury this month charged Stevenson with murder; he remains in custody and has not been able to post the $2 million bail.
A Pennsylvania man whose murder conviction was overturned after 43 years in prison is being held by federal immigration authorities while he fights deportation. Immigration Judge Tamar Wilson denied bail during a Tuesday hearing in New Jersey, according to court records and a lawyer. Subramanyam Vedam will remain in custody while he appeals a 1999 deportation order.
A Thai court cleared an Australian writer of a defamation charge tied to Malaysia after Malaysia’s telecom regulator formally withdrew the case following mediation, his lawyer said. The mediation agreement was confidential, but the man said he apologized and retracted about 10 online articles and that the criminal case was withdrawn without costs or penalties.
A prosecutor in northern Sweden told The Associated Press that a man in his 60s is suspected of exploiting his wife and selling sex with her to at least 120 men. Prosecutors said the man has been in custody since October after the woman reported the incidents to police, and they are preparing charges of aggravated procurement.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered Imran Khan be examined in prison after supporters raised concerns about his eyesight, and a video message from his physician on Monday said a reported “improvement” cannot be verified without access to the imprisoned former prime minister. Dr. Aasim Yusuf said prison doctors told him by phone about what they said Khan received and about “improvement,” but he could neither confirm nor deny the assessment. The case has renewed pressure from Khan’s allies for him to be transferred to a hospital in Islamabad.
In coastal mountain towns in Sinaloa, Mexico, residents and families searched for answers after 10 employees were abducted from a Canadian-owned silver and gold mine in late January. The bodies of five were found nearby, and authorities had not identified the remaining five as of the AP report, as fighting between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel continues to drive fear and displacement.
The NAACP and allied civil-rights groups asked a federal judge on Monday to limit the government’s use of personal voter information seized by FBI agents from an elections warehouse outside Atlanta. In a motion filed late Sunday, the groups said the seizure of ballots and other records from Fulton County’s elections hub “breached” privacy protections and interfered with the right to vote, and they urged the judge to restrict use of the data to the criminal investigation cited in a search warrant affidavit.
For nearly two weeks after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her affluent neighborhood in Arizona, hundreds of federal and local agents have searched for the missing woman, with investigators also processing thousands of public tips. As the search expands, other families of abducted people say they see how elusive answers can be—and how difficult it can be to obtain sustained help when a case is not high-profile.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island police said a shooting during a youth hockey game at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena left three people dead, including the shooter, and three other people hospitalized in critical condition on Monday night.
U.S. military forces boarded the sanctioned oil tanker Veronica III in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Feb. 15. The Pentagon said the boarding was carried out as part of maritime interdiction tied to U.S. sanctions on oil connected to Venezuela.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is traveling from Tehran to Geneva for a second round of indirect nuclear talks with the United States, Iranian state media reported Sunday. The talks follow an initial indirect round in Oman and will be mediated by Oman, with Araghchi’s delegation also set to meet regional and international counterparts in Geneva.
Iran and the United States will hold a second round of indirect talks over Tehran’s nuclear program next week in Geneva, Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Oman hosted the first round of indirect talks Feb. 6, and it will be followed by a new Geneva round without days specified, the ministry said.
Law enforcement in Tucson, Arizona, is continuing its search for clues in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, 84, now in its third week after she was reported missing following her Jan. 31 disappearance from her home. The investigation has included FBI surveillance video, DNA collection and lab analysis, a high volume of tips, and additional searches and road closures, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department said.
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said more than 1,000 immigration agents have left the Twin Cities area and that additional agents will depart in the coming days as the Trump administration draws down its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Homan told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that a “small” security force will remain for a short period to protect remaining agents, while officers will keep investigating fraud allegations and responding to protests.
Kathy Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’s general counsel, said she plans to resign after emails and correspondence reviewed by The Associated Press depict close ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ruemmler, 54, announced the resignation plan on Thursday, after previously characterizing her relationship with Epstein as strictly professional.
The U.S. State Department has ordered some nonprofit public libraries nationwide to stop processing passport applications, disrupting a service that librarians say communities have relied on for years. The agency said the change took effect Friday for libraries no longer authorized under the Passport Acceptance Facility program, while it said the affected libraries are less than 1% of the overall network.
A federal judge in San Francisco said Friday she will rule that the U.S. government cannot force states to provide detailed data on people who apply for or receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney’s tentative ruling follows last year’s lawsuit by states seeking to block the Department of Agriculture from requiring the records, including information tied to immigration status.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Sunday he would accept a proposal from the ELN to allow an independent commission to investigate the rebels’ alleged links to drug trafficking. The proposal came from ELN leader Antonio Garcia in a video posted Jan. 20.
Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government to stop the Trump administration from overhauling East Potomac Golf Course, a more-than-100-year-old public course in East Potomac Park that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The suit, filed against the Department of the Interior, alleges the administration would violate the 1897 law that created the park and the National Environmental Policy Act. It also comes amid a series of legal fights over Trump efforts to change prominent public spaces in Washington.
The FBI said it recovered DNA from a glove found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home that appears to match a glove worn by a masked suspect outside her front door the night she vanished. The agency said it received preliminary DNA results Saturday and was awaiting official confirmation as the search for Guthrie, 84, entered its third week.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired Saturday, starting a new, narrowly confined government shutdown as White House and Democrats miss a deal. Democrats are linking future DHS money to limits on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda after fatal shootings in Minneapolis last month.
Rio de Janeiro police say officers dressed as characters from “Money Heist” and “Friday the 13th” to blend into Carnival crowds and catch cellphone thieves during festivities. The civil police said the undercover officers in Santa Teresa followed suspects after seeing a cellphone snatched and arrested two people with five phones.
Apple’s Lockdown Mode—an “optional, extreme” iPhone security setting—kept federal agents from extracting data from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s iPhone, according to a court filing. Agents seized the reporter’s iPhone, two MacBooks and other devices last month during an investigation involving a Pentagon contractor accused of illegally handling classified information.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine, a toxin found in poison dart frogs, European foreign ministries said Feb. 14. The U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said lab analysis “conclusively confirmed” the presence of the substance in samples taken from Navalny’s body and reported Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
The FBI said Sunday it has sent DNA from a glove found about 2 miles from the Arizona home of missing Nancy Guthrie for testing after preliminary results suggested it may match gloves worn by a masked person seen near the house the night she disappeared. The development comes as the search for Guthrie, 84, enters its third week.
Federal authorities launched an investigation into two immigration officers after video evidence raised questions about whether they made untruthful statements under oath about a Minneapolis shooting. The probe came hours after a federal judge dismissed felony assault charges in a separate case after prosecutors said new video contradicted allegations in the criminal complaint.
A Zambian woman, Violet Zulu, says she was turned away from legal abortion care and later sentenced to seven years in maximum-security prison after she admitted procuring her own abortion. Rights groups helped her file an appeal, and she was freed last month, according to The Associated Press. In an interview with AP, Zulu, 26, described delivering the pregnancy in a toilet and placing the fetus in a sack after what she said was desperation and barriers to legal services.
The U.S. military said it carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing three people, according to a post by U.S. Southern Command. The strike adds to a death toll that the Trump administration says has risen through repeated attacks on alleged drug boats since early September.
Investigators are analyzing publicly released video from Nancy Guthrie’s porch in Arizona that shows a masked man before she was reported missing, with the FBI saying it can narrow tips by identifying details such as a backpack. Former law enforcement officials who reviewed the footage said digital enhancements can reveal maker details and other clues that may help build a physical and behavioral profile.
Federal authorities opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director said this week. All charges were dropped earlier Friday against two Venezuelan men accused of assaulting an ICE officer during the Jan. 14 incident.
An au pair from Brazil who pleaded guilty in the 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan received a 10-year prison sentence in Fairfax, Virginia, after a judge ruled she instead should serve the maximum. Prosecutors had sought that she walk free after she testified against IRS agent-turned-lover Brendan Banfield, who was convicted earlier this month in the deaths of Ryan and his wife, Christine.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI received more than 4,000 calls within 24 hours after releasing videos of a masked person on Nancy Guthrie’s porch, officials said Thursday. With the disappearance reported in late January, investigators said they are continuing to gather evidence, including gloves and DNA, while fielding tips through a 24-hour review operation.
A man from India pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to hire a hitman to assassinate Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a U.S. citizen who lives in New York City, the Justice Department and prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Nikhil Gupta coordinated the plot with an Indian government employee. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton warned foreign actors to avoid plotting killings in the United States.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has resumed intelligence coordination with Bolivia, a senior Bolivian official said, restarting a sensitive relationship nearly 20 years after former President Evo Morales expelled DEA anti-drug agents. The move comes as President Rodrigo Paz, who took office last November, restores full diplomatic ties with Washington and Bolivian officials negotiate the terms of the DEA’s renewed presence.
Four people were indicted on federal charges tied to clashes with federal officers in Minneapolis, including a woman accused of biting off an immigration officer’s fingertip, the Justice Department said. Another three defendants were charged in connection with threats and communications sent to FBI agents after the agents’ personal information was stolen and posted online, according to court filings.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it found incomplete, outdated or inadequate procedures and practices at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh after an August blast that killed two workers. OSHA fined U.S. Steel $118,214 and issued 10 citations, saying the shortcomings “exposed” employees to an explosion or explosion hazard when a gas valve ruptured.
A judge in Santa Clara County declared a mistrial Friday in the case of five current and former Stanford University students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024 that involved barricading themselves inside the university president and provost executive offices. The jury convicted the defendants on vandalism and conspiracy to trespass charges before falling into a deadlock after five days of deliberations.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he filed to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a Texas Medical Board reprimand of Houston doctor Mary Talley Bowden over her prescribing ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient at a Fort Worth hospital.
A Slovak fugitive on the run for 16 years was arrested in Milan after arriving for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics to support his national ice hockey team, police said Friday. The 44-year-old man, who was not named, was wanted by Italian authorities for thefts committed in 2010.
A grand jury indicted Terrell Storey on murder charges tied to a fatal Arizona state helicopter crash during a police shootout, authorities said Feb. 13. Prosecutors brought two counts of first-degree felony murder and dozens of additional charges after the Feb. 4 confrontation in Flagstaff. Storey is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 23, and officials said the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
Donald Trump’s Justice Department is suing Harvard University, days after Trump attacked a New York Times story about his fight with the school and threatened comedian Trevor Noah over comments tying Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. The move follows a long pattern of using lawsuits and public threats—against people and institutions, including media outlets—to challenge critics and try to shape outcomes, court and otherwise.
A judge dismissed criminal charges against three current and former New Haven police officers accused of mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022. Judge David Zagaja dismissed the cases after the officers entered a probation program that can erase the charges from their records, and the prosecution said Cox and prosecutors did not object.
A federal judge in Boston ordered the U.S. government to return a Babson College student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving, granting the government two weeks to retrieve her. The judge said he hoped the Trump administration would find a solution after acknowledging a mistaken deportation.
A former high-ranking New York Police Department official has been charged with accepting $35,000 in cash and other perks in a bribery scheme tied to a Florida company seeking to sell “panic button” devices to the city’s public schools and police, federal prosecutors said. Kevin Taylor, who commanded the NYPD’s School Safety Division, is accused of trying to steer an $11 million contract to the company, SaferWatch, prosecutors said.
Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty Friday to federal civil rights charges tied to a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor. Four other people also entered not-guilty pleas, and one civil rights attorney representing the defendants said they plan to seek transcripts from a normally secret grand jury.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said he regrets his yearslong friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and apologized to people “who feel deeply uncomfortable” after new documents released in the U.S. detailed their contact. In an interview on Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday, Barak said he never observed or took part in inappropriate behavior and faces no accusations of wrongdoing related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.
A Monmouth County jury convicted Paul Caneiro of killing four relatives in 2018, part of a plot prosecutors said involved murder and arson meant to conceal the killings. The jury returned its guilty verdict Friday after about five hours of deliberations, and Caneiro faces sentencing May 12.
Paris police fatally shot a knife- and scissors-wielding man after he tried to attack an officer during a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe on Friday, officials said. The French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said it opened an investigation for attempted murder linked to a terrorist enterprise.
A federal judge in Illinois temporarily blocked Trump administration officials from rescinding $600 million in public health grants allocated to four Democratic-led states, halting the cuts for 14 days. The states—California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota—argued the decision violates the Constitution by imposing retroactive conditions on funding Congress had already awarded, according to the lawsuit.
Investigators in Arizona are asking residents near Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson to share surveillance footage of any suspicious cars or people from the month before she disappeared, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. The department said the alert went out across a 2-mile radius in nearby neighborhoods, as federal and local officers continue searching and analyzing evidence.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre held hands as they attended a vigil in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, for victims of the shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. At the event outside town hall, Indigenous leader sang a prayer and Carney and Poilievre spoke as hundreds gathered.
Families in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, mourned eight people killed in a school shooting this week, as authorities said an 18-year-old woman allegedly carried out the attack and then died by suicide. Authorities said the victims included five children and an assistant teacher, and that 25 others were injured.
Homeland Security shutdown appears likely as negotiations between the White House and Senate and House Democrats stall over demands for limits on immigration enforcement. Lawmakers were preparing to leave Washington for a 10-day break, setting up a potential funding lapse, Democrats said. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the latest White House offer did not include sufficient curbs on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after two protesters were fatally shot last month.
In a fresh dispute over how federal prosecutors are selected, the Justice Department dismissed Donald Kinsella less than a day after judges appointed him to serve as U.S. attorney for northern New York, the Associated Press reported Feb. 12. Todd Blanche, deputy attorney general, announced the firing, saying the president—not judges—picks U.S. attorneys. Judges said they acted within their legal authority in making the appointment.
Oklahoma executed Kendrick Simpson on Thursday, carrying out the state’s first death sentence of 2026 for a 2006 drive-by shooting that prosecutors said killed two men. Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CST after a three-drug lethal-injection protocol at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home despite a U.S. government plan to reunite her with relatives in Afghanistan. The decision is likely to end a yearslong legal fight over whether the adoption orders were void.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Justice Department should not be tracking the search histories of lawmakers reviewing Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. His comments came after Democrats accused Attorney General Pam Bondi and DOJ of coming to a House Judiciary hearing with information that appeared to show lawmakers’ searches. The Justice Department said it logs searches on its systems to protect against releasing victim information.
Two teenagers were charged as adults in Indiana and Mississippi for allegedly plotting to stage a school shooting at a central Indiana high school, including an alleged plan involving a video of the school’s layout sent over social media. Authorities said one defendant is from Shelbyville’s Morristown High School and the other is from Corinth, Mississippi, and that the case was built from online communications and a probable cause affidavit.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly for participating in a video urging troops to resist unlawful orders, ruling the action would violate Kelly’s First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the Pentagon also “threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees,” while Kelly seeks to stop a Jan. 5 censure by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements for some Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador to return to the United States at the government’s expense, and to allow them to challenge their removals. In Thursday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg criticized the government’s responses to an earlier order that sought a process for the men to contest deportation decisions.
Israel asked a court on Thursday to revoke citizenship for two Palestinian men convicted of terrorism offenses, in what the government said would be a first test of a 2023 law. The request ties the cases to alleged payments connected to the Palestinian Authority, and would allow expulsion to the West Bank or Gaza, court documents show.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said his government will send troops into communities in two provinces to help police fight illegal mining and gang violence. Speaking in Parliament during his annual State of the Nation address, Ramaphosa said organized crime is the “most immediate threat” to the country’s democracy, citing risks to public safety and economic stability, especially in Gauteng and the Western Cape.
The U.S. military said it carried out a series of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, describing the strikes as retaliation for an ambush in December that killed two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter. U.S. Central Command said American aircraft conducted 10 strikes between Feb. 3 and Thursday, hitting weapons storage facilities and other infrastructure.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a civil rights investigation into whether delayed evacuation notices during the Eaton Fire disproportionately harmed west Altadena, a historically Black community. Bonta said the investigation will focus on the Los Angeles County Fire Department and whether emergency response procedures contributed to delayed warnings and any race, disability or age disparities.
The Trump administration has announced the end of a major immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota after about two and a half months, a reported 4,000 arrests and two fatal shootings by immigration officers in the Twin Cities, the Associated Press reported. The crackdown, dubbed Operation Metro Surge, drew daily protests and clashes in Minneapolis-St. Paul and included arrests tied to a separate, Minnesota housing services fraud case, according to the timeline.
Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González signed a bill on Feb. 12 that amends the territory’s penal code to recognize a fetus as a human being, drawing warnings from doctors and civil-rights groups about criminal-law and health-care repercussions. The law, Senate Bill 923, was approved without public hearings, according to opponents who said it could affect how doctors treat pregnant and potentially pregnant patients.
Canadian pension fund La Caisse and Britain’s development finance agency British International Investment said they have paused new investments with DP World after emails tied to Jeffrey Epstein resurfaced in recently released Justice Department documents. The emails include references in which DP World CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and Epstein exchanged messages about sex and other topics.
Justice Department-released documents shed new light on how Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit extended into academia, with professors exchanging emails and seeking donations as his wealth grew more valuable amid research funding competition. The documents show that some academics said Epstein offered a shortcut to funding, while institutions reviewed or removed faculty after new scrutiny of their correspondence.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to give immigrants detained in Minnesota prompt access to attorneys after they are taken into custody and before they are transferred out of state. The judge said detainees at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building faced barriers to contacting legal counsel, citing logistical problems and limits that she found interfered with constitutional rights.
Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she will step down effective June 30, 2026, after emails released in the Jeffrey Epstein case showed close ties and downplayed his alleged sex crimes. Ruemmler, a former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, announced her resignation Thursday.
Palestinian immigration detainee Leqaa Kordia said she suffered a seizure after fainting and hitting her head while being held for nearly a year in a privately run immigration detention facility in Texas. Kordia, 33, said she was hospitalized for three days after the episode and returned to the Prairieland Detention Facility. The Department of Homeland Security said she was not being mistreated and was receiving proper medical care.
A shooting at a South Carolina State University residence complex killed two people and wounded a third late Thursday, prompting an eight-hour lockdown that ended Friday morning, authorities said. The university canceled classes through Monday, postponed its men’s basketball game, and made counselors available.
Jury selection was set to begin this week in Maryland for three members of the Zizians group accused in a case tied to the violent deaths of six people in the past year, according to court filings and pretrial testimony. The trial was delayed until June after one defendant fired her lawyer and later replaced counsel, while the other members’ prosecutions remain spread across California, Pennsylvania and Vermont. The seven members are awaiting trial in three states, after authorities linked them to multiple incidents involving firearms.
Four Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration to block planned cuts to about $600 million in public health grants, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. The Department of Health and Human Services told Congress it planned to withhold the funding allocated to California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota, starting as soon as Thursday in some cases, the suit and state officials said.
PORT ORANGE, Fla., (AP) — A dispute over a rule during a pickleball game at a central Florida country club led to a brawl in which one player hit his opponent in the face with a paddle and then punched him on the ground, authorities said. A 63-year-old man was charged with two counts of felony battery on a person 65 or older, and his 51-year-old wife was charged with a felony count for the same alleged offense. Court documents say the argument began over where players were allowed to take shots on the court.
Law enforcement in Tucson, Arizona, is building additional evidence as the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, enters its third week. Authorities say Guthrie, 84, was last seen Jan. 31 at her home, and that her porch blood was found after she was reported missing. The FBI has released surveillance videos of a masked person it called a suspect, while investigators are also testing DNA and reviewing tips and leads.
Law enforcement investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Arizona sealed off a road near her home late Friday night, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said. Authorities set the roadblock about 2 miles from the house as sheriff’s and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, moved through the area. A federal, court-ordered search warrant was executed at the home, and no arrests were reported.
Minneapolis-area and other Minnesota communities will see the end of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge,” border czar Tom Homan said Thursday. The drawdown follows thousands of arrests, mass protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens during the crackdown, which began in December, Homan said. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz urged continued vigilance as lawmakers debate whether to impose restraints on immigration officers tied to DHS funding.
Minneapolis is leaving in place two makeshift memorials for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens killed by federal agents last month, as officials consider how to manage the sites as grieving continues. City leaders said the locations will remain accessible in the short term while Minneapolis “actively [works] on next steps” through community engagement, and a mayor’s spokesperson said it is “too early” to decide whether the memorials will be made permanent.
Some U.S. school districts have canceled or altered plans for school class pictures after social media posts linked student-photo company Lifetouch to billionaire investor Leon Black and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Lifetouch, which says it photographs millions of students each year, called the claims “completely false” and said it has no relationship with Epstein and does not share student images with outside parties such as Apollo Global Management.
In a tense Senate hearing on Feb. 12, Sen. Rand Paul questioned federal immigration officers’ tactics after Alex Pretti was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Paul told the immigration chiefs to watch a video of Pretti’s death moment by moment, while the acting ICE director and CBP chief disputed Paul’s characterization and said investigations into excessive force are under way.
Police in France detained nine people as part of an investigation into a suspected decade-long Louvre ticket fraud scheme, Paris prosecutors said. The arrests were carried out Tuesday as part of a judicial probe opened after the museum filed a complaint in December 2024, prosecutors said.
Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly highlighted personal ties to Thorbjørn Jagland, former head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, in messages and emails to global elites, according to documents released by the U.S. Justice Department. The papers surfaced during Norway’s investigation that has led to Jagland being charged with “aggravated corruption,” after police said information prompted by the Epstein files fed the probe.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected the BBC’s bid to delay proceedings in President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit, setting a provisional Feb. 15, 2027 start date for a two-week trial. The case stems from Trump’s complaint over how the BBC edited a Jan. 6, 2021 speech in a documentary that aired days before the 2024 election.
Amazon ended its planned partnership with Flock Safety, the smart-doorbell company announced, after a Ring Super Bowl ad backlash that raised privacy fears. Ring said the planned integration “never launched,” and that no Ring customer videos were sent to Flock Safety.
BYU said Parker Kingston, a standout wide receiver, is no longer enrolled at the school after he was arrested this week on a first-degree felony rape charge. Kingston, 21, made an initial court appearance in St. George on Friday, where prosecutors said a woman told officers he assaulted her at her home last February.
At least 32 people were killed in simultaneous attacks on three communities in Niger state, Nigeria, police and a resident said Saturday. The attacks hit Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso and Pissa in the Borgu area, according to the Niger state police spokesman and residents.
U.S. Justice Department antitrust chief Gail Slater is leaving her post after about a year, according to a post on social media Thursday. Slater’s departure follows disputes over whether to greenlight major mergers, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s deal to buy Juniper Networks.
An immigration judge dismissed a deportation case against Narciso Barranco, a Mexican landscaper arrested in Southern California, clearing the way for him to pursue legal status in the U.S. Judge Kristin S. Piepmeier ordered the case terminated in an order dated Jan. 28, saying Barranco had provided evidence he is the father of three U.S.-born sons serving in the military. The Department of Homeland Security said it would appeal.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, filed a $250,000 negligence lawsuit in New York after saying she tripped and fell while out walking in Rye. She said the fall happened on Aug. 28 when she encountered a large wooden block protruding from a steel plate in the roadway.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A judge ordered Thursday that jailed Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora be returned to house arrest while awaiting trial after nearly a year in jail in his latest incarceration, according to a court order described by The Associated Press. Zamora, the founder of El Periodico, had previously been granted house arrest in October 2024 before prosecutors appealed and won rulings that sent him back to jail in March 2025.
Attorneys for detainees at a state-run immigration facility in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” said Thursday they still face obstacles reaching clients as a federal judge weighs their request for broader lawyer access. The attorneys told a U.S. district court in Fort Myers that detainees could not call them using staff cellphones and that the attorneys could not make unannounced visits, despite state claims the barriers have been removed.
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office in the Dominican Republic has been shuttered by the U.S. ambassador, after a DEA supervisor was arrested in an investigation tied to alleged abuse of a U.S. visa program for confidential informants, according to two U.S. officials. The case also prompted Homeland Security to lead an investigation in which the supervisor, identified as Melitón Cordero, was taken into custody, the officials said on Thursday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday during a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the Justice Department’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein files, as she defended President Donald Trump and accused critics of distracting from the administration’s record.
Authorities in British Columbia said the suspect in a school shooting in Canada was 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who was found dead after the attack killed eight people in the remote community of Tumbler Ridge. Royal Canadian Mounted Police deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald said investigators believe Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking a nearby school.
A shooting at a school in remote northern British Columbia killed seven people, and police said two more were found dead at a nearby home, bringing the death toll to 10, including the suspect.
The IRS erroneously shared taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a court filing made public Feb. 11. The filing says the disclosure happened under a data-sharing agreement aimed at helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement identify and deport people in the U.S. illegally.
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates with commuted sentences to ADX Florence, the nation’s most secure federal prison. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said the government could not use a “sham” process to decide where the prisoners would be held for life. The ruling preserves life sentences for the plaintiffs while their lawsuit proceeds.
Nebraska’s Republican secretary of state said the state will turn over sensitive information on every registered voter to the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday after the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected a bid to block the move. Secretary of State Bob Evnen said the court denied the injunction Wednesday, after Common Cause and a state judge had tried to stop the release, including dates of birth, addresses and partial Social Security numbers.
Democrats took to the Senate floor Wednesday to denounce the Justice Department’s effort to indict lawmakers over a 90-second video in which they urged military members to resist “illegal orders.” The senators spoke after a Washington grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly.
The United States plans to send troops to Nigeria to help train the Nigerian military to fight extremism, Nigerian authorities said on Feb. 11. Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters said the U.S. personnel would not have a combat role and that Nigerian forces would retain command authority.
Airspace over El Paso, Texas, was temporarily closed on Wednesday, prompting concern along the U.S.-Mexico border and focusing attention on how Mexican drug cartels use drones. The Associated Press reported that U.S. officials and Mexican government data say the unmanned aircraft help cartels smuggle fentanyl, surveil territory, and carry out attacks.
Syria’s president Ahmad al-Sharaa and two top ministers were the targets of five foiled assassination attempts last year, the U.N. chief said in a report on threats posed by Islamic State militants released to the U.N. Security Council. The report said al-Sharaa was targeted in Aleppo and in the southern province of Daraa by a group assessed to be a front for the Islamic State.
Iowa’s top election official and a group of naturalized citizens settled a federal lawsuit on Feb. 11 that would bar the state from relying exclusively on driver’s license records for citizenship data in the three months before an election. The case stemmed from election workers challenging ballots in 2024 after the state flagged about 2,000 registered voters as potential noncitizens.
A Washington grand jury declined Tuesday to indict Democratic lawmakers tied to a video in which they urged U.S. service members to resist “illegal orders,” according to a person familiar with the matter. The Justice Department had opened an investigation into the lawmakers’ statements, including Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin.
A federal judge in Washington on Thursday declined to pause her ruling blocking the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for Haitians in the U.S. During the hearing, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes read out death threats and profane messages she said she received after the decision. Reyes said she would not be intimidated as a lawsuit challenging the administration’s effort moves forward.
Seattle reached a $29 million settlement with the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student from India who was struck and killed by a speeding police officer in 2023. The agreement was filed in King County Superior Court, the city said, in a case that drew national attention after recordings surfaced of officers making disparaging remarks about Kandula’s death. City Attorney Erika Evans said the settlement was intended to bring “some sense of closure.”
Phoenix-area authorities leading the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie have released new surveillance video this week, while local critics have raised questions about how Sheriff Chris Nanos is managing the case. Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was last seen Jan. 31 at her home outside Tucson. Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, is scheduled for increased scrutiny as the search enters its second week.
Valeria Chomsky, the wife of linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, said in a statement she shared with The Associated Press that she and her husband made “serious errors in judgment” over their ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. She said the couple never witnessed any inappropriate behavior and expressed solidarity with Epstein’s victims as newly released Justice Department documents prompted scrutiny.
Yale University said a prominent computer science professor will not teach while it reviews conduct after newly released U.S. Justice Department documents showed he emailed Jeffrey Epstein recommending an undergraduate using appearance-based language. The university said the professor’s conduct is under review and will not teach his class until the review is completed.
A Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration crackdown last year is suing the federal government after attorneys released records they say contradict the government’s account of the case and its investigation. Attorneys said videos showed an agent steering his vehicle into Marimar Martinez’s car, and they released emails and other materials they say show the Department of Homeland Security spread misinformation. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said use-of-force incidents are thoroughly investigated and the agent involved, Charles Exum, was placed on administrative leave.
A judge in Tennessee kept former New York Jets linebacker Darron Lee jailed without bond as he faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of his girlfriend, court testimony showed. Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Tori Smith made the decision during a Wednesday hearing, after prosecutors argued Lee’s explanation to investigators did not make sense. Lee also faces a charge of tampering with or fabricating evidence, and is set to return to court for a preliminary hearing on March 9.
Canada’s government has renewed restrictions on firearms that include a ban on assault-style weapons and a national freeze on the sale, purchase and transfer of most handguns, while requiring owners of prohibited guns to dispose of or permanently deactivate them by Oct. 30. The measures include a compensation program for businesses that turned in certain weapons between November 2024 and April 2025 and a parallel program for individuals, which opened last month, to compensate gun owners who voluntarily surrender banned firearms.
Actor Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni met at a Manhattan federal courthouse Wednesday to discuss settlement in Lively’s lawsuit alleging sexual harassment on the set of the 2024 romantic drama “It Ends With Us” ahead of a May trial. Lawyers for the sides met for about six hours and did not reach a settlement, according to Baldoni’s attorney.
In Tucson, Arizona, the FBI and Pima County authorities searched homes and desert terrain for clues in the Feb. 1 disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC’s “Today” host Savannah Guthrie. Authorities said they had detained a man near the U.S.-Mexico border for questioning, then released him after hours, leaving investigators with fewer leads than a prior surge of activity had suggested.
A double homicide discovered during a well-being check in Fort Lauderdale was later linked by Florida investigators to a shooting rampage in a gated community in Sarasota that left five more people dead, including the suspected shooter, officials said. The sheriff’s office said the suspect’s motivation for targeting the Sarasota victims was unknown.
Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie in the foothills outside Tucson, Arizona, said Wednesday that 11 days after the 84-year-old went missing they still had not identified a suspect or even a person of interest. The lack of progress has drawn pressure as authorities released surveillance video of a masked man at Guthrie’s doorstep and later detained a person for questioning, only to release him hours afterward, an Associated Press review found.
Former federal prosecutor Joe Thompson has been hired to represent Don Lemon, who faces federal civil-rights charges tied to an alleged disruption of a Minnesota church service where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official was a pastor, according to a court filing. Lemon, a former CNN host, is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 13 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said he is investigating Helena for possible violations of the state’s sanctuary city ban after the city passed a resolution discouraging cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Knudsen said Helena could face a fine of up to $10,000 for every five days it is found to be in violation of a 2021 state law requiring local cooperation with federal immigration agents.
Investigators and experts cited by The Associated Press said several Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been arrested on charges including physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other abuses of authority. The AP review found that at least two dozen ICE personnel and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020. The report comes as Congress approved last year a $75 billion increase to expand ICE staffing and detention capacity.
BANGKOK — Thousands of people have poured out of scam compounds in Cambodia after a government crackdown and mass releases, but many say they are finding little help once they escape. The Caritas shelter that supports victims who leave the compounds has been overwhelmed and has had to turn away more than 300 people, according to Mark Taylor, who works on human trafficking issues in Cambodia.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A 16-year-old boy under investigation in the death of his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, appeared in federal court in South Florida late last week, but the case details were largely closed because of the defendant’s age. Authorities have not publicly said whether the teenager has been charged, and juvenile cases in federal court are rare. Kepner’s death was ruled a homicide, according to the investigation described in court materials and reporting.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday that Georgia-based Mean Arms will pay $1.75 million to survivors and victims’ families in the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting and will stop selling the gun accessory in New York. James said the company’s product—designed to lock a rifle magazine—could be removed by the attacker, with instructions provided on the packaging.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged during a Senate hearing Tuesday that he met Jeffrey Epstein twice after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, reversing Lutnick’s earlier statements that he had cut ties with Epstein after 2005. Lutnick also told lawmakers he and his family had lunch with Epstein on Epstein’s private island in 2012 and had another engagement at Epstein’s home in 2011, while responding to questions after “Epstein files” case material and Democrats’ scrutiny.
Todd Lyons, the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, faced sharp questions in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. Lyons and other agency leaders declined to answer some questions about two shooting deaths in Minneapolis, saying investigations were ongoing, and he also rejected calls to require officers to remove masks.
Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on recent conversations with top Trump administration officials. Walz said he spoke Monday with border czar Tom Homan and Tuesday morning with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and he urged the administration to conclude the operation quickly.
Opening statements in a landmark trial began Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, where jurors are weighing claims that Meta and Google’s YouTube deliberately addict children and harm their mental health. The case is part of a broader wave of litigation seeking accountability for youth harms linked to social media use.
The FBI relied on years-old claims about the 2020 presidential election when it sought a warrant to seize ballots and election records from Fulton County, Georgia, an affidavit unsealed this week shows. The case began after a referral from Kurt Olsen, who the affidavit says advised President Donald Trump and now oversees his election “security and integrity” efforts. Fulton County officials said the accusations have been debunked and vowed to fight the matter in court.
Jurors in Los Angeles got their first look Tuesday at dueling arguments in a landmark social media case aimed at holding Meta and YouTube responsible for alleged addiction-related harms to children. In opening statements, plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier compared the platforms to “addicting the brains of children,” while Meta and YouTube lawyers pushed back on the addiction claims and argued KGM’s watch time on YouTube Shorts was limited.
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers urged the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn his two murder convictions and life prison sentence, arguing the trial judge blocked evidence they said was unfair and biased jurors. Murdaugh, who remains incarcerated, continued to deny killing his wife and younger son as the justices heard arguments in Columbia, South Carolina.
An immigration court blocked the deportation of Turkish Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, her attorneys said. The court determined on Jan. 29 that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had not proved Öztürk should be removed, according to court documents filed as the case is reviewed by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Nevada will pay $447,000 in court-ordered fines for continued delays in transferring criminal defendants deemed unfit for trial to mental health treatment in Clark County, according to court and state actions described by the Associated Press. The fines stem from sanctions imposed after a Clark County judge found the state failed to meet a seven-day transfer deadline.
Republican lawmakers questioned telecommunications officials at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about what they said were invasive tactics in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump. Lawmakers pressed representatives from Verizon and other companies about how prosecutors obtained phone records for certain sitting members of Congress.
Todd Lyons, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended agency tactics before Congress Tuesday, saying officers conducting immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s agenda “will not be intimidated” even after the deaths of two Americans in shootings involving federal officers.
A federal judge blocked a California law that would have barred federal immigration enforcement agents from wearing face masks while on duty, but ruled the agents must wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number. The ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder, takes effect immediately and allows the state to require visible identification.
Ecuador’s attorney general’s office said Tuesday that Guayaquil’s mayor, Aquiles Álvarez, was detained on money laundering and tax evasion charges. The case also led prosecutors to detain 10 additional people, including Álvarez’s brother Xavier, according to the office.
The Colombian Attorney General’s Office said it will file corruption charges against Ricardo Roa, the president of state-run oil company Ecopetrol, over conduct prosecutors say dates to his role as campaign manager for President Gustavo Petro. Prosecutors also said Roa will face an influence-peddling case tied to Ecopetrol contracts.
Immigrant rights groups asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway that seeks to prevent the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people in the country illegally during the 2030 census. The groups, represented by multiple ACLU Foundation chapters, said the bid would violate the law and force a costly recount using 2020 census figures.
Video showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep has raised new questions about how long it took investigators to release footage and what the episode means for privacy, after the FBI said it recovered the video days later from “residual data located in backend systems.” The footage was reportedly connected to a Nest camera and emerged after local and federal officials initially said the camera was disconnected and that the homeowner did not have an active subscription.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 in a pattern that includes physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other alleged misuses of authority, an Associated Press review found. The AP said such misconduct could become more common as ICE expands its enforcement workforce, following a congressional move last year to fund the agency’s growth.
A Dutch court ordered a formal investigation into chipmaker Nexperia and upheld an order suspending its Chinese CEO, citing doubts about the company’s policies and conduct, according to the written decision released Wednesday. The move adds to a dispute that drew rare government intervention last year amid concerns that governance problems could disrupt technology used in European industry.
SEATTLE reached a $29 million settlement with the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student from India who was struck and killed by a speeding police officer as she crossed a street in 2023, according to city and court records. The city said the agreement is meant to provide “some sense of closure” to the family.
Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close ally of opposition leader María Corina Machado, was placed under house arrest after his family said he was released from prison two days earlier. His son, Ramón Guanipa, said armed men intercepted him and other opposition figures hours after a Sunday release that came as Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez faced international and domestic pressure to free political detainees.
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Rio Rico, Arizona, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said. The detention came as the FBI released the first surveillance images from the night Guthrie vanished, showing a masked person outside her front door.
The family of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has posted a series of videos on Instagram since she disappeared in Arizona, starting with pleas for contact and moving to increasingly urgent appeals for help as the FBI released surveillance images. On Feb. 10, Savannah Guthrie posted an FBI video and images of a masked person authorities say tampered with a camera on Guthrie’s front porch the night she went missing, and she urged anyone who recognizes the person to contact law enforcement.
Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned Alex Saab, a close ally of Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department is once again investigating the businessman, according to two former law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Federal prosecutors have been examining Saab’s alleged role in a bribery conspiracy involving Venezuelan government contracts tied to imports of food staples under Maduro’s CLAP program.
California lawmakers and environmental researchers are warning that illegal cannabis grows on public land are leaving hazardous trash, pesticides and fertilizers that can linger for years, even after raids. The Associated Press reports that ecologist Greta Wengert and colleagues have cataloged nearly 7,000 abandoned sites on California public lands, and that only a fraction—587—have been cleaned at least partly.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking detailed access to Michigan’s voter rolls, an additional rejection in the administration’s efforts to obtain state voter data. In an opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou said the federal laws cited by the Justice Department do not require Michigan to disclose the records sought.
King Charles III said Buckingham Palace is ready to cooperate if Thames Valley Police investigates allegations involving Prince Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein. The palace said the king has “unprecedented” concern about allegations that have continued to surface as U.S. Justice Department files are released.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yaoning “Mike” Sun, a California man, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government while working as a campaign adviser for a local politician. Sun pleaded guilty last year under an agreement with prosecutors, according to court records.
Nearly two years after U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson was fatally shot by a Florida deputy responding to a disturbance call at his apartment, his mother said she still wants answers and accountability. At a news conference in Florida on Tuesday, her family’s lawyer, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, said silence, delay and distance have a human cost as the case proceeds in federal court.
Colony Ridge, a Houston-area developer accused by Texas and federal authorities of running a predatory lending and land-sale scheme, has reached a $68 million legal settlement with the state and the U.S. Department of Justice. The agreement, announced Tuesday, would require changes to Colony Ridge’s buyer documentation, advertising and marketing practices, and residential plat approval process, alongside spending on infrastructure and law enforcement.
Florida Statewide Prosecutor James Uthmeier has subpoenaed the city of Jacksonville as part of a criminal investigation into allegations that Mayor Donna Deegan’s administration interfered with state immigration-enforcement efforts through a Hispanic outreach coordinator.
Six former players on the University of Pittsburgh women’s basketball team sued coach Tory Verdi and the school, alleging abusive coaching and retaliation-like threats tied to scholarships and academics. The lawsuit was filed Friday and detailed examples including what their lawyers said were degrading remarks and efforts to push players into the transfer portal, according to an Associated Press report. Pitt said in a Tuesday statement that the allegations are without merit and will be defended.
A federal civil jury on Monday cleared three Richmond police officers of liability in the 2021 in-custody death of Ivan Gutzalenko, a 47-year-old man from Concord, after he was restrained and forcibly sedated. The jury returned its verdict in less than two hours after closing arguments in a trial that began Feb. 2 in San Francisco.
Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing over an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track in October, saying federal and state agencies used unconstitutional tactics and detained people for hours. They allege officers detained people based on whether they appeared Latino, kept adults and some children in zip ties for hours without access to food, water or bathrooms, and searched individuals without reasonable suspicion. The lawsuit seeks class-action status, a declaration of civil-rights violations and damages.
Federal immigration officers’ use of face masks has become a flashpoint in Congress as lawmakers weigh Homeland Security funding ahead of a partial shutdown deadline. Democrats are demanding “masks off” federal officers taking part in ICE operations, and are also pressing for body cameras, while ICE says officers wear masks to prevent doxing and that they identify themselves when required.
Federal immigration authorities have denied they tried to expedite the end of asylum proceedings for a Minneapolis family that includes a 5-year-old boy, Liam Conejo Ramos. The denials came after images of the child in a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack were shared during a detention that drew outrage in the area.
Prolonged immigration detention has become more common during President Donald Trump’s second term, with detainees and lawyers describing extended waits for immigration judges and worsening conditions in facilities in Florida, Texas and California. In one case, Nicaraguan asylum-seeker Felipe Hernandez Espinosa spent more than six months in custody before receiving a hearing date of Feb. 26, according to the Associated Press.
Congressional leaders said Tuesday a deal could still be reached with the White House on funding for the Department of Homeland Security before it expires this weekend, but Democrats and Republicans remained far apart. Democrats said they have rejected a White House counteroffer and are seeking new restrictions tied to how ICE and other federal officers conduct operations. With a shutdown threatening to start Saturday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries laid out demands including judicial warrants, officer identification, and changes to use-of-force rules.
Alex Murdaugh, serving two murder convictions and a life sentence in South Carolina, again denied killing his wife and son as his attorneys argued before the state Supreme Court. His lawyers asked the justices to overturn the convictions, citing alleged trial errors including evidence of past theft and claims about comments by the court clerk who later pleaded guilty to obstruction and perjury.
U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil quarantine aimed at pressuring Venezuela, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. The boarded vessel, the Pentagon said, was operating in defiance of President Donald Trump’s quarantine of sanctioned tankers in the Caribbean.
In a letter Monday, the general counsel for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned an attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard’s handling of classified material with members of Congress. The dispute centers on allegations that Gabbard withheld top-secret information for political reasons, which two intelligence community inspectors general reviewed and said did not appear credible, according to a memo to lawmakers.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers during a video deposition Monday, invoking her Fifth Amendment right to silence. She said that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she would be willing to testify about what she described as wrongdoing involving Trump and Bill Clinton in their connections to Epstein.
Islamabad said President Asif Ali Zardari warned that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has created conditions “similar to or worse than” before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, after a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad killed 31 worshippers.
Two men were convicted Monday in a Michigan election petition scandal tied to bogus signatures that derailed Republican candidates’ bids for the 2022 governor’s race. The Michigan Attorney General’s office said the scheme used forged signatures to keep candidates off the GOP primary ballot, and it said the fraud denied voters a choice in that election.
Mexico’s attorney general’s office said Monday that five of 10 workers missing from a mine operated by Canadian firm Vizsla Silver Corp. in Sinaloa have been identified among 10 bodies found in clandestine graves. The company said families informed it that its colleagues taken from the Concordia project site were found deceased, while authorities said the remaining bodies were awaiting identification.
Seven months after the collapse of an alleged $140 million Ponzi scheme involving First Liberty Building & Loan, investors in Georgia say they are impatient to recover their money. On Monday, some told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that the losses have upended plans for retirement and religious missions, as state and federal officials pursue fraud-related actions.
A review by The Associated Press found that at least two dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020, including alleged physical and sexual abuse and misuse of authority. The AP said ICE’s rapid expansion after Congress last year approved $75 billion for the agency could increase the risk of further abuses as more officers join and carry out enforcement. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said wrongdoing is not widespread and that ICE takes allegations seriously.
Hong Kong’s former Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison under a Beijing-imposed national security law, a move former staff and readers described as a deep blow to the city’s press freedom. Lai, 78, and six other former Apple Daily journalists received prison terms ranging from six years and nine months to 10 years.
In the kidnapping case of Nancy Guthrie, investigators released video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Guthrie’s doorstep on the night she was abducted, but details about how the footage resurfaced have raised questions about privacy and technology. The FBI said investigators worked for days to pull the videos from “residual data located in backend systems,” after earlier accounts said the camera was disconnected and that Guthrie had no subscription to the camera company.
A 16-year-old student was shot inside Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday, and police said another 16-year-old student was in custody. Rockville City Police said officers responded after reports of shots fired at about 2:15 p.m. and said the injured student was in stable condition.
Venezuela’s top prosecutor ordered the arrest of opposition leader María Corina Machado’s ally Juan Pablo Guanipa hours after he was released from detention, according to authorities and relatives. The attorney general’s office said it asked a court to revoke the precautionary measure that had governed Guanipa’s release and sought house arrest. Juan Pablo Guanipa’s son, Ramón Guanipa, said armed men intercepted his father after their release from a Caracas facility late Sunday.
Federal judges say they are scrambling to manage an influx of habeas corpus lawsuits from immigrants detained under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, with some warning of a growing “administrative judicial emergency.” In multiple districts, judges have issued orders aimed at securing bond hearings or temporary limits on removals after ruling that the administration’s mandatory detention policy conflicts with the law.
A federal judge in North Carolina rejected requests to open early voting sites at three public universities ahead of the state’s March 3 primary, turning away a bid by Democratic Party-linked plaintiffs. U.S. District Judge William Osteen denied a request for a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order sought by the College Democrats of North Carolina and students.
Varias docenas de manifestantes fueron arrestados el sábado frente al Edificio Federal Bishop Henry Whipple en Minneapolis, después de que la policía disolviera una protesta por el primer mes del fallecimiento de Renee Good a manos de un agente de inmigración. El incidente ocurrió cuando la multitud lanzó botellas y hielo contra las fuerzas de seguridad, según autoridades locales.
Malian authorities arrested Youssouf Sissoko, editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper L’Alternance, after he questioned accusations by Niger’s military ruler, Human Rights Watch said. HRW said Sissoko was arrested at his home in Bamako on Feb. 5 and was charged and ordered held in pretrial custody, in a case that rights groups say reflects shrinking civic space amid the security crisis in West Africa.
In a review of Justice Department internal records, the FBI said it found scant evidence that Jeffrey Epstein ran a sex-trafficking ring serving powerful men, even as agents compiled evidence that he sexually abused underage girls. The Associated Press reports investigators examined bank records, emails, and seized videos and photos from Epstein’s homes and considered leads involving associates and other prominent figures.
Two inmates facing charges including murder escaped from the Sumter County Jail in Americus, Georgia, around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said. Sheriff Eric Bryant said the suspects appeared to have escaped through a maintenance door on the ceiling that was not properly locked, then used ductwork to get outside.
Two of the last civil lawsuits against Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson brought by women who accused him of sexual misconduct during massage appointments were dismissed, according to court records. The dismissals clear Watson of legal cases he had faced since 2021, when nearly 30 women sued him in Texas civil court over allegations including unwanted kissing and touching.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a lawsuit against two websites that distribute instructions for 3D-printed “ghost guns,” alleging the sites provide access to illegal, untraceable firearms. The suit names Gatalog Foundation Inc. and CTRLPEW LLC and was filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
Providence, Rhode Island, released new video footage from the day of a fatal Brown University shooting on Monday, after officials said they had withheld other public records and redacted the most graphic images. Mayor Brett Smiley said the city balanced transparency requests with what he called the potential downside effects of releasing certain footage.
Federal judges dismissed lawsuits accusing author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children’s nanny in New Zealand, according to court decisions. The rulings followed filings in multiple U.S. states and included the dismissal of a Wisconsin case and the tossing of parallel claims in New York and Massachusetts.
Massachusetts State Police officials were indicted in connection with the death of a recruit after a boxing match during training, an independent investigator appointed by the state attorney general said Monday. The officials were charged with involuntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily injury, and the unit supervisor was also charged with perjury.
King Charles III said Monday he is ready to “support” UK police assessing allegations involving the former Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The statement came after Thames Valley Police said it was “assessing” reports that Andrew, who is no longer a working royal, sent sensitive trade-related information to Epstein in 2010.
Minnesota residents and local advocates say federal immigration officers have impersonated construction workers, delivery drivers and others amid an immigration crackdown, including an encounter in the suburbs where a restaurant worker confronted two men he believed were pretending to be utility workers. A Homeland Security and ICE spokesperson did not respond to questions about whether the men were federal agents. Legal observers say the reports—some not verified—are increasing distrust and confusion about law enforcement activity.
Savannah Guthrie pleaded for her mother Nancy Guthrie’s return Tuesday as the FBI said it is not aware of any ongoing communication between the family and suspected kidnappers more than a week after Nancy Guthrie went missing near Tucson, Arizona. The FBI said it has not identified suspects or persons of interest and is running a 24-hour command post while asking the public for information.
The Justice Department plans to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, as federal investigators seek information she may have about crimes committed against Epstein’s victims. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on social media that federal agents and prosecutors will hear what Maxwell has to say, “if Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims.” Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her conviction in the Epstein case.
In the days since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, law enforcement has received messages that appear connected to the case. Two emails shown to be linked to the situation demanded money and included details such as her Apple Watch and floodlights, but officials have not confirmed the ransom note’s authenticity or named a suspect.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can detain some immigrants without bond hearings, a decision that preserves a key element of the administration’s immigration enforcement agenda. In a 2-1 ruling, judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the Department of Homeland Security properly interpreted federal immigration law to bar bond for “unadmitted aliens” arrested anywhere in the United States.
A federal judge in San Diego ordered the Trump administration to return three families deported to Honduras after the government said they had left the United States voluntarily, according to a court order. The judge said the deportations were based on “lies, deception and coercion,” and required the government to pay for the families’ return travel costs.
“West Wing” and “Field of Dreams” actor Timothy Busfield was indicted by a New Mexico grand jury on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child under age 13, a prosecutor announced Friday. Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the allegations stem from Busfield’s work directing the TV series “The Cleaning Lady” from 2022 to 2024.
Newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents from the U.S. Justice Department have sent political shock waves across Europe, toppling senior figures in multiple countries, while fallout in the United States has been more limited so far. In Britain, Peter Mandelson was fired and faces a possible investigation into misconduct, adding pressure for Prime Minister Keir Starmer as police examine allegations around the ambassador appointment.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said he was frustrated the video systems at Nancy Guthrie’s home did not capture images of anyone the day the 84-year-old was reported missing. Investigators say a doorbell camera was disconnected early Sunday, and the home’s software data later recorded movement minutes afterward, but the footage could not be recovered because Nancy Guthrie did not have an active subscription.
A federal judge’s decision to grant adoption of an Afghan war orphan to U.S. Marine Joshua Mast and his wife became a diplomatic fight, and recently released court and government records show U.S. officials helped move the case forward even as the U.S. government later argued it was unlawful. The records, disclosed after The Associated Press sought access for years, describe how prosecutors, military and State Department officials worked to connect the child with Americans while U.S. officials simultaneously tried to reunite her with Afghan relatives.
Gunmen attacked a Catholic priest’s residence in the Kauru local government area of Kaduna state in northwest Nigeria early Saturday, killing three villagers and abducting 11 people, church officials said. The abducted group included a Catholic priest, and the diocese described the assault as “an act of invasion by a group of terrorists.” Authorities did not immediately provide details on motives or any rescue efforts.
Pakistani security forces raided multiple locations and arrested four suspects, including an alleged mastermind, after a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad killed 31 people, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said Saturday. The minister said the bombing was planned and the attacker trained in Afghanistan, and he alleged financial backing from India, without providing evidence. A statement by a regional Islamic State affiliate said the attacker opened fire on security guards before detonating his explosive vest after entering the mosque.
Social media users are sharing timelines, photos, and theories as authorities continue searching for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, who police believe was taken from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, about a week ago. As the search draws national attention, law enforcement officials and experts warn that online speculation can also spread misinformation and harm investigations.
A federal judge in Manhattan ordered the Trump administration to restore $16 billion in funding for a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey, as construction was set to shut down. The ruling followed a funding freeze announced in the wake of a government shutdown and was sought by New York and New Jersey to keep money flowing while their lawsuit proceeds.
Mexican authorities said they found bodies and remains in Sinaloa in an area where a search is under way for 10 workers reported missing from a Canadian gold and silver mine. The Attorney General’s Office said one of the bodies had “characteristics of one of the people reported as missing,” and it reported arrests of four people believed to be tied to the disappearances.
Nevada lawmakers questioned state regulators on Tuesday about alleged workplace safety and environmental violations tied to Elon Musk’s Boring Company and its “Vegas Loop,” a tunnel network that ferries passengers around the Las Vegas Convention Center. The lawmakers spent hours grilling safety officials over violations the company has faced, while company representatives submitted written answers defending the project.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Colin Gray, the father of a teenager accused of killing two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in September 2024. Prosecutors say Gray gave his son access to a gun and ammunition after warnings about the boy’s threat to others. Prosecutors allege the shootings were carefully planned, and Gray’s trial is expected to begin after several weeks of jury selection.
A North Carolina district attorney turned over criminal cases involving a secretive religious group to a special prosecutor, according to court filings discussed by the Associated Press. The move followed a petition to remove District Attorney Ted Bell from the retrial of Brooke Covington, a former leader of the Word of Faith Fellowship accused of abuse in 2013.
An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while the vice president was visiting his home state last month, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors also charged Shannon Mathre with possessing digital files depicting child sexual abuse discovered during the investigation.
Law enforcement and the FBI are continuing to search for Nancy Guthrie, a Tucson-area mother whose family says she was abducted and whose blood was found on the front porch of her home. On Feb. 7, authorities released a man detained for questioning, while investigators said new images of an armed, masked person at Guthrie’s door could help solve her apparent kidnapping.
Savannah Guthrie urged potential kidnappers of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, to return her, saying the family is “prepared to pay” for the 84-year-old Arizona resident’s safe return. The plea came in a video posted Saturday as investigators search for Nancy Guthrie, who vanished from her home outside Tucson last weekend.
Greece detained 313 people in a raid on the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki campus after riot police were attacked by a mob hurling more than 100 Molotov cocktails, authorities said.
Several dozen protesters were arrested Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis while marking the one-month anniversary of Renee Good, a Minnesota woman who was killed by an immigration officer in January, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office. Protesters threw bottles and sex toys, and later threw chunks of ice, prompting police to declare the gathering unlawful and order people to leave, the sheriff’s office said. Organizers also held a separate memorial event in a Minneapolis park.
Savannah Guthrie told the kidnapper who took her 84-year-old mother that the family wants “proof of life” — a demand complicated by the growing ability to create realistic AI-altered images and video, federal officials said. At an FBI news conference in Phoenix, FBI chief in Phoenix Heith Janke said investigators can’t simply trust video as evidence because of advances in AI.
Meta is on trial in New Mexico over allegations that it failed to protect children from sexual exploitation on social media, and that it prioritized growth and engagement over youth safety. Prosecutors said the company misrepresented what it knew about risks to children as the trial opened Monday in Santa Fe.
Fotos de desnudos, nombres y otros datos personales de víctimas de abuso sexual relacionados con Jeffrey Epstein siguieron visibles en archivos del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos publicados bajo una ley de divulgación, según una revisión realizada por The Associated Press y otras organizaciones periodísticas.
The case centers on Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, 31, who told the Associated Press he was badly beaten by U.S. immigration officers during an arrest in Minnesota on Jan. 8, suffering eight skull fractures and multiple life-threatening brain hemorrhages. ICE personnel told nurses he “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” but a CT scan showed injuries doctors said were inconsistent with a fall, according to court filings and medical records described by AP. The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to repeated requests for comment, and Minnesota elected officials and local prosecutors have urged further action.
The U.S. Department of Justice will let members of Congress review unredacted versions of Jeffrey Epstein-related files it released under a transparency law, starting Monday, according to a letter to lawmakers. Access will require 24 hours’ notice and will be limited to reviewing the documents on Justice Department computers, with lawmakers allowed to take notes but not make electronic copies.
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration must keep flowing child care subsidies and other social service money to five Democratic-controlled states at least for now. U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick in New York granted the states a preliminary injunction and a stay after the states sued over the administration’s decision to withhold funds tied to programs that support low-income families.
Phoenix-area Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como ruled Friday that Arizona must stop enforcing older abortion restrictions that predate and conflict with a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. Como ordered the state to halt enforcement of provisions that he said create unnecessary obstacles for patients and restrict how medication abortions can be provided.
Russian authorities said a man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia, and that they identified alleged accomplices. The deputy, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, was hospitalized after being shot several times Friday at an apartment building in northwestern Moscow, investigators said.
Federal attorneys face a deadline next week to reach an agreement with human-rights lawyers over access to legal counsel for people detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota, a judge said. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel set the deadline after hearing arguments Friday from both sides, including conflicting claims about whether detainees can meet with lawyers and make calls without ICE monitoring.
A federal jury found former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to federal officials investigating an illegal gambling operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. The verdict followed a multiweek trial that included testimony from Major League Baseball officials and a Hawaii baseball coach identified in court as a middleman for the bets.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said a man whom he described as allegedly tied to the killing of soccer player Andrés Escobar was shot dead in Mexico.
France’s former culture minister Jack Lang resigned as head of a Paris cultural center after he was summoned by the French Foreign Ministry over an Epstein-linked tax fraud investigation. His lawyer said Lang denied the allegations. Financial prosecutors said they opened an investigation into Lang and his daughter over alleged “aggravated tax fraud laundering,” after U.S. Justice Department files about Jeffrey Epstein were released Jan. 30.
The FBI collected “ample proof” that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found “scant evidence” that the financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, according to an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records. Investigators said photos and videos seized from his homes did not depict victims being abused or implicate anyone else, and financial records showed no connection to criminal activity.
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and founder of Apple Daily, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday in a China-imposed national security case, court proceedings showed. The 78-year-old was convicted of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and of publishing seditious articles. U.S., U.K. and rights advocates criticized the sentence as politically motivated or tantamount to a life term.
Prosecutors in Centre County, Pennsylvania, dropped the most serious assault charge against Penn State hockey player Gavin McKenna after reviewing evidence from the altercation that led to his arrest last weekend. District Attorney Bernie Cantorna said the aggravated assault case would have required proof McKenna intended to cause serious injury or acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life.
Truckee police said a 49-year-old man drove into pedestrians at the entrance of a Safeway grocery store in the mountain town of Truckee, Calif., injuring four people, including children, on Saturday afternoon. Town officials said the man, from Coalinga in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was booked on charges including assault with a deadly weapon and felony vandalism.
The investigation into the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, continued Sunday in the Tucson, Arizona area, a week after she was reported missing, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said. Savannah Guthrie released a social media video Saturday that addressed the potential kidnappers, saying the family had received their message and would pay for her safe return.
Jimmy Lai, the founder of Apple Daily, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on Monday after prosecutors convicted him of conspiring to commit sedition and colluding with foreign forces. Lai, a long outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party, has been in custody since December 2020, following the government’s 2020 national security crackdown.
The U.S. Justice Department is targeting money brokers it says help Mexico’s violent drug cartels move drug proceeds, increasingly using cryptocurrency, prosecutors said in cases filed in Kentucky federal court. The defendants, transferred from Mexico to the United States for prosecution, face money laundering conspiracy charges, and Justice Department officials said the strategy aims to cut off the cartels’ funding.
Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp resigned after the U.S. Department of Justice released emails that describe his exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein. In a statement, Karp said recent reporting has “created a distraction” and that he would remain at the firm where he has worked for decades.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a lawsuit that challenges whether he has authority to call a special legislative session in April to redraw the state’s congressional map mid-decade, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the Florida Supreme Court. The plaintiffs, backed by the National Redistricting Foundation, argue the governor’s proclamation violates the Florida constitution’s separation of powers.
Alabama approved legislation Thursday adding rape and sexual torture of a child under 12 to the narrow list of crimes that could draw a death sentence, joining other Republican-led states seeking to revive capital punishment for child rape. The state’s lawmakers cited the need to protect children and set up a potential court challenge, even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that such penalties would violate the Constitution.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that writings left by the person who killed six people in the 2023 Covenant school shooting in Nashville can be made available to the public. The court overturned much of a 2024 decision that had sided with Covenant parents seeking to keep the journals, suicide note and memoir out of public view.
Iran and the United States are holding indirect nuclear negotiations in Geneva, with talks hanging in the balance after Israel’s June war on Iran and a subsequent crackdown on nationwide protests, according to the Associated Press. U.S. President Donald Trump has kept up pressure on Tehran, moving additional military assets to the Middle East and warning of possible strikes, while Iran has insisted discussions focus only on its nuclear program.
MOSCOW — Russia said it regretted the expiration of its last nuclear arms treaty with the United States on Thursday, while President Donald Trump said he does not want to keep the existing limits and wants a new deal. The end of the New START pact eliminated caps on the two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time in more than half a century, according to the report.
La fiscal general de Nueva York, Letitia James, anunció planes para desplegar observadores legales que supervisen las medidas federales de control migratorio en el estado, con el objetivo de reunir información que pueda servir de base para futuras acciones legales. Los observadores llevarán chalecos morados y se enviarán a zonas donde se reporte actividad migratoria, dijo James. La iniciativa llega en medio de una escalada de tensiones por la campaña migratoria del presidente Donald Trump, tras la muerte a tiros de dos ciudadanos estadounidenses en Minnesota.
A Minneapolis man was arrested after federal prosecutors said he made online threats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and against a person who supported ICE during a federal crackdown in Minnesota, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. Prosecutors said the man used an Instagram account to dox a “pro-ICE individual” by publishing personal details, and then posted messages urging followers to confront and assault federal officers, the complaint says.
The detention of Turkish owners of a kebab restaurant in New Jersey sparked a local campaign to keep the couple in the United States, even as deportation remains a possibility. Celal and Emine Emanet were arrested in February after federal officers said their visas had expired.
A Houston doctor, Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr., has been indicted on federal charges that he falsified medical records for five patients in a way that made them ineligible for liver transplant consideration, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors announced the indictment Thursday. Prosecutors said three of the patients died while two others later received liver transplants at different hospitals.
Steven Tendo, a Ugandan minister and nursing assistant who came to Vermont while seeking asylum, was detained Wednesday morning in Shelburne by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a union representing his workplace and the advocacy group Migrant Justice. ICE transferred him to a facility in Manchester, New Hampshire, and as of Wednesday evening he was held at the Strafford County Jail in Dover, New Hampshire, the sources said.
Jurors in federal court in Wichita on Wednesday awarded $8.3 million to the family of a Kansas foster teen who died in 2021 after officers held him facedown for nearly 40 minutes during a mental-health crisis at a juvenile intake center. The teen, Cedric “C.J.” Lofton, died two days after staff placed him on his stomach on the floor after a WRAP restraint was removed, according to the lawsuit record described at trial.
A federal judge has ruled that a 2021 Texas law restricting state investment in some companies that the state says boycott fossil fuels is unconstitutional. In a summary judgment issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright said the law’s definition of “boycotting” was “facially overbroad” and raised concerns under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Alabama has scheduled a March execution for Charles “Sonny” Burton, a 75-year-old man sentenced to death for a fatal 1991 shooting during a robbery at an auto parts store in Talladega, according to Gov. Kay Ivey and court records. Ivey set the execution for March 12 using nitrogen gas, despite clemency requests from Burton’s supporters and his attorney, who said he did not shoot the victim.
Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie outside Tucson have identified her from DNA found on blood on the front porch, and the FBI has increased its reward for information. The search began after Guthrie was last seen Jan. 31 and reported missing the next day, with investigators working through doorbell-camera failures, door-to-door canvassing, and multiple messages tied to the case.
Authorities in Tucson, Arizona, are searching for missing Nancy Guthrie, with police saying they have not identified suspects or persons of interest in the five-day case. The search comes as investigators take seriously ransom notes sent to multiple media outlets, and federal and local officials have asked the public to stay alert for information. The unfolding drama has also revived comparisons to other high-profile abduction cases from U.S. history.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized to victims of Jeffrey Epstein, saying he regretted appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador after revelations about Mandelson’s ties to Epstein. Starmer said Mandelson had “repeatedly lied” and portrayed Epstein as someone Mandelson barely knew.
Three-dozen families that lost relatives in two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes asked a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Thursday to revive a criminal case against Boeing. The families argued federal prosecutors violated their rights when they agreed to dismiss the charge after a deal with Boeing. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it would issue a decision at a later date.
Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is refusing to voluntarily comply with a Justice Department investigation seeking an interview about a video she helped organize that urged U.S. service members to resist “illegal orders,” according to letters obtained by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, will be issued body-worn cameras. Noem said the program will expand nationwide as funding becomes available, citing a need for quicker acquisition and deployment after recent shootings of two U.S. citizens during immigration enforcement activity in the city.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new, voter-approved congressional district map for this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch appeal by state Republicans and the Trump administration. The justices denied the request on the court’s emergency docket without explanation, leaving in place districts designed to flip seats currently held by Republicans.
The Justice Department’s release of records including emails linked Jeffrey Epstein to a White House visit in 2015 by filmmaker Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn. The documents show Epstein sought help from former White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler so Epstein’s friends could tour the White House while President Barack Obama was away in Hawaii.
A federal judge on Tuesday questioned the Pentagon’s legal justification for censuring Sen. Mark Kelly after he joined a video urging troops to resist unlawful orders from the Trump administration. During a hearing, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said he was not aware of Supreme Court precedent that would support the Defense Department’s actions against a sitting senator.
Nearly 200 decomposing bodies were found in a Colorado funeral home in October, and newly unsealed court documents describe earlier complaints by a county coroner that did not lead to action. The documents say refrigeration concerns were reported to a state regulator in 2020, but the state received no response and had limited authority to inspect funeral homes at the time.
The U.S. Department of Justice released a large batch of investigative materials about Jeffrey Epstein on Friday after a law required it to open files for public review. But an Associated Press review found multiple examples where sensitive information about alleged sexual abuse victims—names, faces and nude images—was not properly redacted, despite promises of privacy protections.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Zubayar Al-Bakoush, an alleged participant in the 2012 Benghazi attack, has been taken into U.S. custody and will face prosecution. The Justice Department said Al-Bakoush arrived at a Virginia airfield after what FBI Director Kash Patel described as a “transfer of custody” and was to be charged in Washington, including murder, attempted murder and arson.
Fulton County officials asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other 2020 Georgia election documents seized last week, escalating a dispute that comes as President Donald Trump talks about taking over elections. County Chairman Robb Pitts said the case is about election integrity statewide and cited the FBI search warrant’s list of sought items, including ballots, ballot images and tabulator tapes.
LONDON — The former Prince Andrew, who was stripped of royal titles by King Charles III last year, has moved out of his longtime home on crown-owned land near Windsor Castle and into the king’s private Sandringham estate, earlier than expected. The move follows the latest release of U.S. Jeffrey Epstein investigation documents that renewed questions about Andrew’s friendship with the convicted sex offender, according to British media and Thames Valley Police.
A federal judge in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Wednesday sentenced Ryan Routh to life in prison after jurors found him guilty in 2024 of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at a golf course. The judge also imposed a consecutive seven-year gun sentence, and ordered his other federal sentences to run concurrently. Prosecutors said Routh’s attempt was unacceptable “in this country or anywhere.”
Vermont lawmakers confirmed Michael Drescher to the state Supreme Court after Republican Lt. Gov. John Rodgers cast a rare tie-breaking vote, following a heated debate over Drescher’s record as a top federal prosecutor. Lawmakers also confirmed Christina Nolan earlier Tuesday with little debate, voting 23-7.
Indiana lawmakers are debating a bill that would make it illegal to sleep or camp on public land in Indianapolis for certain residents experiencing homelessness, a proposal advocates say could disrupt a local housing program. The measure, considered in the Senate in January, would give people a warning and then 48 hours to move a specified distance or face a criminal penalty. Supporters say the change would help address homelessness, while opponents argue it could add legal and practical barriers to getting people into housing. The bill’s next step is assignment to the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee.
Hezbollah has replaced Wafiq Safa, the group’s longtime security liaison and coordination official, after he told its leadership he wanted to step down, two Hezbollah officials said Feb. 6. The officials said Safa was replaced by Hussein Abdullah, whose role was not publicly detailed, and that Hezbollah is reshuffling powers among departments amid the aftermath of the Israel-Hezbollah war.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up Friday while a security force tried to arrest him in western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing himself and injuring two security members, an Iraqi security official said.
Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Muscat, Oman, on Friday focused on Tehran’s nuclear program, with U.S. President Donald Trump saying the talks were “very good” and warning that consequences would be “very steep” if no deal is reached. For the first time, U.S. military’s top commander for the Middle East, Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, joined U.S. representatives at the talks, as the U.S. military continued a visible show of force in the region. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said diplomats would return to their capitals after the session and urged that dialogue proceed without threats or pressure.
White House border czar Tom Homan said the administration is unifying enforcement in Minnesota under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after months of internal grumbling between ICE and the Border Patrol over tactics. Homan said operations in the Twin Cities are being consolidated under ICE’s enforcement and removal unit to establish a “unified chain of command.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic,” warning the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if Democrats and Republicans do not negotiate a DHS spending bill with the White House. Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, say they will not support the measure when funding runs out unless there are “dramatic changes” at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after fatal shootings of two protesters in Minneapolis last month.
Authorities in Cyprus said a body found last month on a beach along the island’s southern coastline has been identified as Vladislav Baumgertner, a former CEO of Uralkali who had been detained in Belarus in 2013. Police on a British military base in Cyprus said DNA analysis confirmed the identification, and an investigation into the circumstances and cause of death is ongoing.
Israel’s justice ministry charged a dozen people, including Israeli soldiers, with systematically smuggling goods into Gaza, according to the country’s prosecutor. The indictment alleges the defendants helped Hamas during wartime and were aware the items could reach the militant group’s operatives.
Iran and the United States will hold nuclear talks on Friday in Oman, Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday, as tensions remain high after Tehran’s crackdown on nationwide protests last month. U.S. President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ahead of the talks, according to an interview published Wednesday.
Ukraine accused Russia of illegally targeting the country’s energy infrastructure in recent weeks, plunging areas into darkness amid freezing winter weather. Russian officials say their attacks target facilities linked to the Ukrainian military. The conflict is now also raising fresh legal questions about what international law allows during war and how civilian harm factors in.
NBC “Today” host Savannah Guthrie posted a recorded video message to the person authorities believe kidnapped her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, asking for proof her mother is alive. Guthrie said her family is ready to talk but wants verification as law enforcement investigates, with no suspect identified.
A deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency, known as the GRU, was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday, state and Russian officials said. The attack came as Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators wrapped talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
Honolulu authorities say the Department of Law Enforcement wants to use drones as first responders in Waikīkī, potentially as soon as March, while community members and watchdog groups raise concerns about privacy and oversight.
The U.S. government asked a federal judge to dismiss a negligence lawsuit filed by survivors and relatives of victims of the Oct. 2023 Lewiston mass shooting, arguing the court lacks authority and that the legal claims cannot proceed. The families allege Army officials failed to intervene despite warning signs about the shooter, Robert Card, an Army reservist who died by suicide two days after the shootings.
Guan Heng, a Chinese national who exposed alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, was released from federal immigration detention Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. An immigration judge granted him asylum after ruling he faced a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to China, the report said.
A New York man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Thursday to threatening Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, according to court records and a law enforcement report. Christopher P. Moynihan, 35, pleaded guilty in town court in Clinton, New York, to a misdemeanor harassment charge and agreed to three years of probation, with sentencing set for April 2.
A federal judge in Oregon ruled U.S. immigration agents must not arrest people without warrants unless authorities can show a likelihood of escape, issuing a preliminary injunction on Wednesday. The order stems from a proposed class-action lawsuit challenging arrests during immigration enforcement operations. The judge said actions by agents in Oregon were “violent and brutal,” and he warned that the government has been undermining due process.
Pope Francis’ role is back at the center of appeals in the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” as defense lawyers argue secret decrees issued during the investigation violated defendants’ right to a fair trial. The appeals hearings resumed Tuesday in Vatican City after a three-month break, with tribunal president Archbishop Alejandro Arellano Cedillo urging lawyers to avoid citing the pope by name.
A federal jury in Arizona found Uber legally responsible in a 2023 sexual assault case involving a rideshare trip, ordering the company to pay $8.5 million to the woman who sued. The verdict, reached Thursday, hinges on a finding that the driver was Uber’s “apparent agent,” according to attorneys. Uber said it plans to appeal and argued the jury did not find it negligent or that its safety systems were defective.
Savannah Guthrie’s brother recorded a new video appeal on Thursday for his mother’s kidnapper to contact the family, hours after a sheriff said investigators lack proof Nancy Guthrie is alive but believe she is “still out there.” The 84-year-old was taken from her Tucson-area home over the weekend, authorities said, and investigators have not identified suspects or persons of interest.
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit faced renewed scrutiny after a release of Jeffrey Epstein documents as her eldest son, Marius Borg Høiby, returned to court for a second day of a seven-week trial. Høiby, 29, pleaded not guilty to charges including rape, according to reporting. The trial and the new revelations have intensified focus on Norway’s royal family and its popularity with the public.
New Orleans police said they did not violate federal immigration law after a recruit, Larry Temah, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said ICE arrested Temah, who has a final removal order, while he was in the police academy.
A government lawyer assigned to handle immigration cases in Minnesota was removed from her Justice Department post after comments in court in which she told a federal judge, “This job sucks.” The remarks came during a Tuesday hearing in St. Paul for several immigration cases amid a surge in immigration enforcement in the state.
Two Colville women died in the Okanogan County jail in 2023 after they were booked there while awaiting trial, according to lawsuits filed by their families. The suits allege jail staff failed to provide appropriate care for opioid withdrawal and insufficient suicide prevention, and they challenge a jail “protocol” that relied on non–FDA-approved medications.
Michigan’s corrections officers union says violent assaults on prison staff have risen, arguing the state is placing dangerous inmates in lower-security housing units, and it is asking Gov. or the Michigan Department of Corrections to address the problem.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday she is not concerned that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, could taint an FBI investigation tied to a search of a Georgia elections office. Bondi’s comments came as Gabbard’s role in the FBI operation remained a point of scrutiny from congressional Democrats.
Denver authorities said Wednesday that the parents of a 16-year-old boy who opened fire at Evergreen High School in Colorado and later died by suicide will not face gun charges. Investigators said they looked into whether the parents could be charged for allowing access to a Smith & Wesson .38 Special revolver kept in a locked gun safe, but found insufficient evidence. The sheriff’s office also said it could not collect DNA evidence linking the parents to the gun after investigators obtained a court order to collect samples.
An Argentine judge has requested the extradition of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from the United States over alleged crimes against humanity tied to a crackdown during his presidency, according to a warrant signed this week. The U.S. is also pursuing federal criminal charges against Maduro in Brooklyn, where he is awaiting trial alongside his wife, Cilia Flores, after the U.S. captured him last month.
Arizona law enforcement officers mourned a U.S. Marine pilot and a trooper paramedic after a law enforcement helicopter crash during a police shootout with a domestic-violence suspect in Flagstaff, authorities said. Police identified the suspect as Terrell Storey, 50, who was hospitalized with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and faces murder and assault charges on law enforcement. The cause of the crash remained under investigation Friday, with federal aviation safety investigators involved.
A 76-year-old retired British veterinarian was sentenced Friday to 23 years and 10 months in prison after the court heard he laced candy given to boys at a summer camp in England with sedatives. Prosecutors said the retiree drugged the children to enable sexual abuse, and the judge said he showed “deliberate disregard for the welfare of victims.”
A Colorado judge sentenced funeral home owner Jon Hallford to 40 years in state prison for stashing 189 decomposing bodies in a building and giving some grieving families fake ashes, the Associated Press reported. Judge Eric Bentley said Hallford caused “unspeakable and incomprehensible” harm during Friday’s sentencing hearing in Colorado Springs.
In Colorado Springs, Derrick Johnson said the FBI contacted him after investigators found 189 decaying bodies stashed at a funeral home that had provided him cremation remains he later learned were not his mother’s. Johnson, whose mother’s name was Ellen Marie Shriver-Lopes, spoke to The Associated Press ahead of Jon Hallford’s sentencing.
Luigi Mangione said in court Friday that scheduling his New York state murder trial for June would force him into “the same trial twice,” warning of “double jeopardy” concerns. A judge set the state trial to begin June 8, three months before jury selection in his federal case, while also leaving open a delay to Sept. 8 if an appeal affects the federal timeline.
Patrick “Pat” Mahomes Sr., the father of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was arrested in Texas after authorities said he violated his DWI probation. Authorities said the arrest happened Tuesday during a meeting with his probation officer after a warrant was obtained for the violation. He remained in Smith County jail in Tyler on Wednesday.
A great-granddaughter of Sidney Dearing, described as among Piedmont’s first Black residents, has filed a lawsuit against the city alleging the city used a condemnation action to force the family out because they were Black. Jordana Ackerman filed the case Feb. 2 in Alameda County Superior Court, and her complaint cites state equal-protection claims and alleges fraud in the city’s stated purpose for the taking.
Hawaiʻi lawmakers are poised to approve a $600,000 settlement for Alvin Jardine, who spent more than 20 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, but died Dec. 27 before any payment arrived. State Sen. Karl Rhoads, a sponsor of the 2016 wrongful-conviction compensation law, said the state’s delay was “a horrible human tragedy.”
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s “border czar,” said Wednesday that about 700 federal immigration officers are being withdrawn immediately from Minnesota. Homan said the administration will keep carrying out an immigration enforcement operation in the state, which has drawn weeks of tensions and deadly confrontations, while citing new cooperation from state and local officials.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he has expanded local planning to consider the possibility of federal officials targeting Denver, after President Donald Trump deployed federal forces to some U.S. cities over objections from local leaders. Over the past week, mayors and governors from both parties described a more hostile dynamic with Washington, hardened in part after federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis last month.
Mississippi lawmakers killed five bills this week that would have created a public, searchable registry of people convicted of repeat domestic violence offenses, according to the Associated Press. The proposals died when they missed a Tuesday deadline to move out of committee, and advocates said the registry could help people assess risk and hold offenders accountable.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced plans to deploy legal observers in areas where federal immigration agents carry out enforcement actions in the state. The observers would collect information that could inform future legal action, and would not interfere with enforcement. Gov. Kathy Hochul also said she will pursue legislation this year that would allow people to sue federal officers who act outside the scope of their duties and proposals to limit immigration agents’ presence at certain locations without warrants.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway apologized again for her past links to Jeffrey Epstein, saying Friday that some messages between them do not reflect who she wants to be. The fresh regret came after a new release of Epstein-related files that Norwegian media said contained several hundred mentions of her, less than a week after her first apology.
A Nigerian court ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds (about $27 million) to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 during British colonial rule in Enugu. The ruling, issued by Justice Anthony Onovo in Enugu High Court, also said the British colonial administration should issue formal apologies and cited the killings as violations of the right to life.
A New York City police officer was convicted Friday of second-degree manslaughter after he tossed a cooler filled with drinks at a fleeing suspect, leading the man to fatally crash his motorized scooter, prosecutors said. Judge Guy Mitchell delivered the guilty verdict in Bronx criminal court in the 2023 death of Eric Duprey.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida seeks $10 billion after what Trump describes as a leak of confidential tax information. Legal experts said the case raises questions about whether it is appropriate for Trump, who leads the executive branch, to sue the government he directs.
The search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, continued in the Tucson area after authorities said the 84-year-old was apparently kidnapped. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told The Associated Press on Friday that he remains concerned about her health because she “requires medication,” as days pass without proof she is alive.
British police have opened a criminal investigation into former Labour minister Peter Mandelson over alleged misconduct in public office tied to his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to London’s Metropolitan Police. The government said newly released Epstein files suggest Mandelson may have shared market-sensitive information, leading to his resignation from the House of Lords.
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and former heir apparent of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in Libya’s Zintan, according to Libyan officials and the country’s chief prosecutor’s office. The chief prosecutor’s office said an initial investigation found he was shot to death, and his death was later confirmed in a statement posted by his lawyer on Facebook.
A judge in Manhattan canceled a Wednesday hearing after lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein victims’ families and the Justice Department reached an agreement to protect the identities of nearly 100 women whose information was included in newly released court documents, according to a lawyer. The agreement came after attorneys complained that the government failed to redact names and other personal identifying information in thousands of instances when it released millions of records.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah U.S. Reps. Celeste Maloy and Burgess Owens filed a federal lawsuit late Monday seeking to block a court-ordered congressional map that they say would shift new U.S. House districts toward Democrats. The complaint argues a state judge violated the U.S. Constitution by rejecting districts drawn by the Republican-led state Legislature and instead imposing an alternative map submitted by groups including the League of Women Voters of Utah.
California lawmakers from both parties announced a package of bills meant to curb dangerous driving, including proposals that would require ignition interlock devices for some offenders and tighten licensing consequences for repeat DUI cases. The Assembly Public Safety Committee chair, Democrat Nick Schultz of Burbank, said the effort aims to make communities safer after years of rising traffic deaths.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed with House Republicans to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, after the committee advanced possible contempt-of-Congress resolutions. Hillary Clinton will testify Feb. 26 before the House Oversight Committee, and Bill Clinton will appear Feb. 27. The agreement marks the first time lawmakers have compelled a former president to testify, the Associated Press reported.
Two years after a former UCLA gynecologist was convicted of sex abuse and sentenced to 11 years in prison, a California appeals court overturned the conviction over a jury-management error that judges said violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The panel said a note from the jury’s foreperson raised concerns about the English proficiency of an alternate juror, but the trial judge did not share that information with prosecutors or defense attorneys.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has authorized an execution date for Charles “Sonny” Burton, a 75-year-old man convicted in a 1991 robbery in which another participant, Derrick DeBruce, shot and killed a store customer, Doug Battle, the Associated Press reported. Alabama’s Supreme Court approved the use of nitrogen gas. Burton’s lawyers and the victim’s daughter and some jurors from the 1992 trial are urging clemency, saying Burton did not pull the trigger.
Investigators have found signs of forced entry at the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The 84-year-old was reported missing after last being seen Saturday night in the Tucson area, and investigators believe she was taken against her will.
Former first lady Jill Biden’s first husband, William Stevenson, has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December, Delaware authorities announced. Stevenson, 77, was arrested Monday and remains in jail after failing to post $500,000 bail, according to the state. Jill Biden declined to comment through a spokesperson, and authorities said police found a woman unresponsive after being called to the home for a reported domestic dispute after 11 p.m.
A federal judge in Oregon on Tuesday temporarily restricted federal officers from using tear gas at protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. The judge, Michael Simon, issued a 14-day order following a lawsuit by the ACLU of Oregon on behalf of protesters and freelance journalists.
A migrant speedboat collided with a Greek coast guard patrol vessel off the eastern Aegean island of Chios, leaving at least 15 people dead, Greece’s coast guard said. The coast guard said 14 bodies were recovered, and it rescued 25 migrants, including about 11 children, transporting injured people and two injured coast guard officers to a hospital on Chios.
French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X in Paris and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a preliminary investigation that includes allegations tied to child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. The case also intersects with separate scrutiny by Britain’s data watchdog and regulators over how Grok, the AI chatbot available through X, handled personal data.
Don Lemon told ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him last week, even though his attorney had said he would surrender to face federal civil rights charges. Lemon said he asked to see a warrant during the arrest and was told agents did not have it.
MIAMI (AP) — Florida U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges accusing her of conspiring to steal $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds, nearly three months after her indictment. Her attorney, William Barzee, entered the plea in federal court in Miami while she was in Washington, D.C.
The family of Cody Whiterock, a Shoshone-Paiute man shot and killed by Bureau of Indian Affairs police in March 2024 after a prolonged chase in southwestern Idaho, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses two unnamed BIA officers of chasing him outside their jurisdiction, shooting him multiple times, and “falsified or withheld evidence to escape accountability,” according to the filing. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has not identified the officers involved and declined to comment, the Associated Press reported.
The criminal case against Nevada’s six so-called “fake electors” resumed Monday in Clark County after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled the venue was proper. At a hearing before Judge Mary Kay Holthus, defense lawyers challenged the legality of two charges by arguing prosecutors must prove an “intent to defraud,” which the judge suggested could be “impossible” for the state to establish. The next hearing is scheduled for April 10.
Savannah Guthrie asked for prayers for her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, after authorities said they believe she was taken against her will over the weekend from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Authorities in Arizona said they were seeking public tips but offered few new details about evidence at the home or about when they believe Nancy Guthrie was abducted.
Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s killing on a Utah college campus have gone viral, prompting defense attorneys in the Tyler Robinson murder case to object to showing the footage in court and seek restrictions on cameras and stills. Legal experts say media exposure can “bias” potential jurors. A judge is set to rule on a defense request to disqualify prosecutors later this month.
A federal judge in Washington on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status protections for Haitians, granting a pause while a lawsuit challenging the termination proceeds. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said the plaintiffs were likely to prevail and that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not have the discretion to end Haitian TPS without consulting other agencies and considering conditions in Haiti.
The Justice Department said it withdrew several thousand Epstein-related documents and “media” from public access after lawyers told a New York judge that sloppy redactions may have exposed information about nearly 100 victims, including nude photos and identifying details. In a letter to the judge, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said the department revised protocols for handling “flagging documents” and aims to post revised redacted versions within 24 to 36 hours.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told lawmakers that President Donald Trump asked for her to be present during an FBI search of Georgia’s Fulton County election center last week, according to a letter sent to top House and Senate intelligence committee Democrats on Monday. In the letter, Gabbard said she “facilitated” a brief phone call between Trump and FBI agents who conducted the search, and she said neither she nor Trump issued directives to agents.
A federal judge in Manhattan appeared skeptical during arguments on Wednesday about whether President Donald Trump can move and then overturn his New York hush-money conviction in federal court on presidential-immunity grounds. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said Trump’s team waited too long after a U.S. Supreme Court decision changed the legal landscape and called the effort “two bites at the apple.”
Pakistani security forces in Balochistan carried out multiple raids overnight that killed about two dozen militants, raising the insurgents’ death toll to 177 in the previous 48 hours, officials said Feb. 2. The announcement came after coordinated militant attacks over the weekend that killed 50 people, mostly civilians, including women and children.
Israel’s police detained local officials and businesspeople suspected of siphoning off wartime aid donated after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, Israeli authorities said Monday. Investigators said they tracked the suspects’ alleged diversion of millions of dollars and announced a fraud inquiry involving donations that poured in after the attack.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has withheld for eight months a complaint alleging misconduct by her from members of Congress, an attorney for the complainant said Monday. The attorney said the complaint—reviewed by the intelligence community inspector general—has not been referred to the House or Senate intelligence committees as allowed under federal law. Gabbard’s office disputed the allegations and said an inspector general determination that the complaint was not credible was made during the Biden administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed late Monday to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though Rep. James Comer said the terms were not yet finalized. Comer, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, continued pressing for criminal contempt of Congress charges as a negotiating window opened over how and when the depositions would occur.
Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested activists who were trailing their vehicles in Minneapolis on Tuesday, while school leaders described rising fear among students and families in Minnesota amid federal immigration sweeps, according to Associated Press reports.
Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was taken against her will and are urging her safe return, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Monday. Nancy Guthrie was last seen around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at her Tucson-area home, where she lived alone, before her family reported her missing Sunday, sheriff officials said.
Brothers of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman who was killed in January by a federal immigration officer, asked Congress on Tuesday to rein in what they described as violence tied to immigration enforcement. Luke and Brett Ganger spoke during a congressional hearing convened by Senate Democrats to spotlight use-of-force complaints involving Homeland Security officers.
A California appeals court overturned the sex abuse conviction of former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps and ordered a retrial, citing a fair-trial problem involving an undisclosed note about a juror’s limited English. A three-judge panel said the trial judge failed to share the court foreman’s note with Heaps’ defense before jurors began deliberating, undermining Heaps’ constitutional right to counsel.
Michigan communities are weighing whether to buy or expand automated license plate readers, as privacy advocates warn the technology can enable broad surveillance and data sharing beyond local control. In recent months, some cities have backed out of contracts, while other agencies say the cameras help locate missing people and solve serious crimes.
Warsaw’s prime minister said Poland will analyze more than 3 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents, videos and photos released by the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether there were victims in Poland. Donald Tusk said a team led by the justice minister and the minister responsible for secret services will review the material and, if warranted, launch a formal investigation. He also said he wants to examine whether Epstein had any links to Russian secret services.
The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess, Marius Borg Høiby, was arrested over new allegations and was being held ahead of his trial on rape and other charges, police said. A court on Monday ordered that he remain in detention for up to four weeks, citing a risk of reoffending.
A Delaware man who was once married to former first lady Jill Biden remains jailed without bail after being charged with first-degree murder in his wife’s death, authorities said. William Stevenson, 77, was charged Monday in a grand jury indictment in the death of Linda Stevenson, 64, whose body was found unresponsive in their home on Dec. 28.
A British politician at the center of new allegations tied to Jeffrey Epstein is facing pressure to leave the House of Lords, after Peter Mandelson resigned from the Labour Party. Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Mandelson to quit politics and testify in the United States about what he knew, while the Metropolitan Police said it had received reports relating to alleged misconduct in a public office. The allegations draw on documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice that span more than 3 million pages.
Conservative activist Ed Martin has been removed as head of a Justice Department working group tasked with scrutinizing federal prosecutions tied to President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. The group was created when Attorney General Pam Bondi took office last year, and Martin is said to no longer be based at Justice Department headquarters.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic said they found the bodies of at least four decapitated women near their border with Haiti and are investigating the deaths. Police spokesman Diego Pesqueira said the victims were Haitian and that Dominican authorities are investigating only one case because just one body was found on the Dominican side of the border. He said investigators believe the women were killed and then thrown into a river that carried the bodies across where they were later discovered.
A man filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing a California doctor of violating the state’s anti-abortion law by providing abortion medication. The case tests a Texas legal model that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for mailing the pills, according to a legal group defending the doctor.
The Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating the death of a Northern Arizona University student found unresponsive at a fraternity house after an initiation event, according to court documents released Monday. Police said three 20-year-old fraternity leaders were arrested on criminal hazing charges. The university said it temporarily suspended the chapter while it conducts its own investigation.
Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, was found guilty in Virginia on Monday of killing his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan in a case prosecutors described as an “au pair affair” ruse. Prosecutors said Banfield and Juliana Magalhães impersonated Christine Banfield on a fetish website to lure Ryan to the house and stage his death. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said the verdict brings closure for the families of the two victims, whose deaths drew attention in Brazil, the U.S. and elsewhere.
The father of a 5-year-old boy detained by U.S. immigration officers in Texas denied government assertions Monday that he abandoned his son while being pursued by authorities, according to statements to ABC News reported by The Associated Press. Adrian Conejo Arias said his son, Liam, became sick while in federal custody and that he was denied medicine. Homeland Security’s assistant secretary said the facts have not changed and reiterated that Arias fled on foot before he was arrested.
A Hungarian court on Wednesday sentenced a German anti-fascist activist to eight years in prison for taking part in assaults against participants of a far-right rally in Budapest in February 2023, prosecutors said. The defendant, identified only as Maja T., was extradited from Germany to Hungary in December 2024 after Germany’s top constitutional court ruled the transfer was unlawful.
Planned Parenthood has moved to voluntarily drop its legal challenge to Trump administration Medicaid cuts that it said would end funding for abortion providers across the U.S. The organization said it took the step after a federal appeals court ruling in December allowed the administration to keep withholding the Medicaid payments, and as a separate challenge by mostly Democratic states continues.
LAS VEGAS officials said a SWAT team served a search warrant at a home on Saturday after a tip led investigators to a suspected biolaboratory. Authorities took into custody the property manager and said investigators found evidence that included refrigerators containing vials with unknown liquids. The police and sheriff said the Las Vegas home is owned by a man already arrested in 2023 in connection with an unauthorized California biolab.
President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in federal court in Florida over a leak of his and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax information. Legal experts said the case raises questions about how the president, as head of the executive branch, pursues litigation against an agency he oversees.
Vermont is considering whether to create a locked facility for defendants found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity who do not meet clinical criteria for psychiatric hospitalization. Advocates and lawmakers say the current system leaves some accused people without a durable case resolution, while critics question whether the proposed approach could turn competency-restoration into prolonged incarceration.
Russian drones struck a bus carrying mineworkers in Ukraine’s Dnipro, killing at least a dozen people, according to Ukrainian authorities on Feb. 1, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the next round of Russia-Ukraine talks would take place Feb. 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi. Zelenskyy’s announcement came after the Kremlin confirmed it would hold off striking Kyiv until Sunday, though officials have provided few details.
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, returned to Minnesota on Sunday after a judge ordered their release from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas, the congressman who helped retrieve them said. Representative Joaquin Castro said Castro picked the pair up from Dilley, Texas, on Saturday night and escorted them home the following day.
A U.S. federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for Haitians in the United States as a lawsuit proceeds. The ruling came a day before the scheduled end of TPS protections for Haitians, according to the Associated Press.
Pakistan’s government says police and military killed 145 militants in counterterrorism operations in Balochistan over the past two days, after coordinated suicide and gun attacks that killed 33 people, mostly civilians. The government said the raids began early Saturday at multiple locations across the restive province, and that the dead included civilians as well as security personnel, with some bodies in custody described as Afghan nationals.
Opening statements began Tuesday in Akron, Ohio, in the state trial of ex-FirstEnergy executives charged in a bribery scheme tied to the state’s utility regulator. Prosecutors say a $4.3 million payment to veteran lawyer and lobbyist Sam Randazzo in 2019 was paid in exchange for regulatory and legislative favors later delivered to FirstEnergy. Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling pleaded not guilty to felony corruption charges.
Mexico’s nationwide ban on selling electronic cigarettes has forced legal vape shops to close while organized crime and unregulated products move in, researchers and shop owners say. The ban took effect Jan. 16, and lawyers say a lack of clear implementation rules has created opportunities for extortion and uncertainty for consumers. In the U.S., vaping remains legal and regulated, even as regulators and scientists continue debating risks and benefits.
The Nigerian army said it killed a top Boko Haram commander, Abu Khalid, and 10 militants in a night raid in the northeast state of Borno, according to a statement by the army’s spokesman Sunday. The raid followed Boko Haram attacks earlier in the week that killed dozens of people at a construction site and on a military base, the army said.
A New York City police sergeant charged in the death of a man after he hurled a plastic cooler testified at his manslaughter trial that he was trying to keep fellow officers from getting hurt. Prosecutors said Erik Duran threw the cooler of ice, water and sodas at a driver fleeing on a motorized scooter in August 2023, a crash they say killed Eric Duprey.
The Justice Department has said it does not see the “horrible photographs” and troubling emails in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein records as a basis for prosecuting anyone, a top Justice Department official said Sunday. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the existence of such material “does not ‘allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody.’”
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave Portland after federal agents used tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets against demonstrators outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest. Witnesses said the crowd included young children, and paramedics were sent to treat people at the scene.
Jury selection begins Monday for New Mexico’s first stand-alone trial against Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, a case built around a state undercover investigation involving proxy social media accounts. Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed the civil complaint in 2023, alleging Meta created conditions that predators could exploit children and failed to disclose what it knew about harmful effects.
The Justice Department released a large trove of documents connected to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein, names spanning tech leaders, Wall Street figures and foreign dignitaries. Many of the people mentioned denied any involvement in Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls and young women, and none have been charged with crimes tied to the investigations.
Denmark on Friday unveiled a legal reform aimed at making it easier to deport some foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes, including aggravated assault and rape. The plan would apply to foreigners sentenced to at least one year of unconditional imprisonment, but Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said it could conflict with European human rights rules. Denmark also said it would tighten controls on foreigners without legal residence, introduce an anklet monitor, reopen an embassy in Syria and strengthen cooperation with authorities in Afghanistan.
A 6-year-old and four other people were wounded when gunfire erupted during a small-town parade in Clinton, Louisiana, authorities said. The East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office said the shooting occurred shortly after the midday start of the Mardi Gras in the Country Parade on Saturday.
A Nevada jury convicted actor Nathan Chasing Horse of sexual assault involving Indigenous women and girls, finding him guilty of 13 of 21 charges, according to prosecutors. The jury’s verdict came in Las Vegas, where victims and supporters cried and hugged in the hallway as the decision was read. Chasing Horse, 49, faces a minimum prison term of 25 years and is scheduled to be sentenced March 11.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emiliano Garduno Galvez was sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive device and civil disorder for throwing a Molotov cocktail at Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies during protests last spring against immigration raids.
The newly disclosed U.S. government documents involving Jeffrey Epstein prompted the resignation of a top Slovak official and revived calls in Britain for Prince Andrew to cooperate with U.S. investigators. The documents include emails and photos tied to Epstein’s links to well-known figures, following the Justice Department’s disclosure of more than 3 million pages of materials and tens of thousands of videos and images under a law aimed at releasing investigative records.
A federal appeals court judge dismissed a misconduct complaint filed by the Justice Department against U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, the judge who blocked deportation flights to an El Salvador prison. The complaint alleged Boasberg made comments at a closed-door judicial conference in March 2025 that the Trump administration would trigger a constitutional crisis by disregarding federal court rulings.
Authorities in Louisiana said they arrested two teenagers in the weekend shootings at a small-town parade that left a 6-year-old child and four others wounded. The arrests were announced Sunday by the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new wave of departures has hit the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota, AP sources said Tuesday, as additional federal prosecutors leave amid frustration over the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and the Justice Department’s response to fatal shootings by federal agents. The most recent exits come after multiple attorneys left last month over disagreements about the Justice Department’s handling of the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer.
A screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated Iranian drama “It Was Just an Accident” has been arrested in Tehran, according to representatives for the film. The arrest of Mehdi Mahmoudian came days after he and 16 others signed a statement condemning Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the government’s violent crackdown on demonstrators.
Palestinian citizens in Israel have pressed authorities for more security as police say recent killings were driven by gang violence and, in at least one case, confusion of identity. Demonstrations in towns and cities across Israel have intensified after multiple shootings, including the killing of a 15-year-old in Kafr Yasif.
In Kafr Yasif, Israel, Palestinian citizens protested gang and family-feud violence after a motorcycle gunman killed 15-year-old Nabil Safiya in a shooting police later said was mistaken identity. The shooting, which residents and activists say highlights an escalating security crisis for Arab communities, comes as demonstrations swept Israel, including thousands marching in Tel Aviv.
Police say a man being questioned at a hotel near suburban Atlanta shot two officers Sunday morning, killing one and seriously wounding the other. The incident happened near Stone Mountain, about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta, and investigators said the officers were invited into the suspect’s room. The suspect was shot by an officer and was expected to survive.
A federal judge in Minnesota refused to block a new immigration enforcement push in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities while a lawsuit filed by state and local officials proceeds. Judge Katherine M. Menendez denied a preliminary injunction sought by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul after the state argued the operation violated constitutional limits on federal power.
A federal judge ordered the release by Tuesday of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after they were detained in Minnesota and sent to a Texas facility. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, in a ruling issued Saturday, criticized the Trump administration’s enforcement approach and cited the case’s effect on children.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill Saturday expanding the Utah Supreme Court from five justices to seven, a move supporters said would improve efficiency as a redistricting appeal plays out. The court was not asking for more justices, and legal experts and Democrats warned the timing could set a precedent amid tension between the judiciary and the legislature.
In federal custody in Minnesota, a Mexican immigrant was taken to hospitals after suffering skull and brain injuries, with court records and lawyers alleging mistreatment. Immigration and Customs Enforcement initially said he “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” but Hennepin County Medical Center staff told The Associated Press the account could not explain the injuries. The episode has highlighted tensions between immigration enforcement and health care workers, federal detention officials and the hospital said.
Federal prosecutors have charged Georgia state Rep. Dexter Sharper with allegedly making false statements to collect $13,825 in unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, AP reports. Sharper is a Valdosta Democrat who, prosecutors say, certified he was not earning money and was looking for work while he was working multiple jobs. Sharper declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation.
The Justice Department disclosed more than 3 million pages of newly released Jeffrey Epstein records Friday, along with thousands of videos and photos, as required by a federal law. By Friday evening, more than 600,000 documents had been posted online, with millions more still withheld, prompting criticism from Democrats.
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday resumed disclosures under the Epstein Files Transparency Act by posting more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The department said the latest release brings the total to more than 3 million pages of documents, along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
Jurors in Virginia began deliberating Friday on whether Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, conspired with his family’s Brazilian au pair, Juliana Magalhães, to kill his wife, Christine Banfield, and pin the killings on another man. Prosecutors said Banfield and Magalhães shot Joe Ryan and staged the scene to make it look like Ryan attacked Christine Banfield with a knife, while Banfield denied any plot. The case will decide whether Banfield faces life in prison if convicted of the double murders.
A federal judge has blocked certain agencies from assessing citizenship status when distributing federal voter registration forms, a setback to President Donald Trump’s election executive order. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled the Constitution’s separation of powers limits what the president can change about election procedures.
Brussels says foreign ministers agreed Thursday to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, a largely symbolic step that adds sanctions pressure amid protests Tehran says are being put down. The EU also sanctioned 15 senior Iranian officials and six organizations, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said.
The European Union agreed to list Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, the bloc’s top diplomat said Thursday, a largely symbolic move that adds pressure on Tehran amid ongoing tensions over protests. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said foreign ministers in the 27-nation bloc unanimously approved the designation. The EU’s decision comes as activists say Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests has killed at least 6,479 people.
Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, said Thursday the Trump administration could reduce the number of federal immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota, but only if state and local officials cooperate and protests stop interfering with federal operations. His comments came in Minneapolis after last weekend’s fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti.
A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had dialed 911 to report a possible prowler outside her Springfield home, the Associated Press reported. Sean Grayson, who was convicted in October of second-degree murder, received the maximum possible sentence after being convicted in a police brutality case that drew protests and a U.S. Justice Department inquiry.
New videos show Alex Pretti scuffling with federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 13—11 days before he was shot and killed by Border Patrol officers, according to the Associated Press. The videos rekindled debate over the circumstances of Pretti’s death, including claims shared online by Donald Trump Jr.
The Army general tapped to lead the National Security Agency told the Senate Intelligence Committee that, if confirmed, he would follow the Constitution and the law governing the agency’s surveillance powers. Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the NSA and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, faced skepticism from lawmakers including Sen. Ron Wyden over whether the administration would seek to use foreign-intelligence surveillance authorities against Americans for political reasons.
EU officials are moving to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, as the group’s role in Iran’s recent protest crackdown and its overseas activities come under renewed scrutiny. The Associated Press said the Guard oversees Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and commands operations abroad through its Quds Force, while also running businesses at home. The designation comes as Iran faces pressure from the wider Israel-Hamas war and related regional conflicts.
A federal appeals court on Jan. 28 ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended Temporary Protected Status protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, according to a report published Thursday. The Ninth Circuit said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exceeded her authority when she terminated the TPS designation. The decision does not take immediate practical effect because, in October, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the administration’s action to remain in effect while the case proceeds.
A federal judge in Philadelphia warned Justice Department lawyers that statements they made about the Trump administration deciding what parts of American history to display at National Park Service sites were “dangerous” and “horrifying.” The comments came during a hearing over the abrupt removal of an outdoor slavery-history exhibit at the former home of President Donald Trump’s predecessors on Independence Mall.
A federal judge ruled that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton failed to show a Latino-focused voting-rights nonprofit, Jolt Initiative, violated the law, blocking Paxton from shutting the group down in a state-court proceeding. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Paxton offered “any plausible proof” and appeared to be acting in bad faith. The ruling follows earlier litigation between the two sides over Jolt’s voter registration efforts.
A federal judge overturned Karl Jordan Jr.’s murder conviction in the death of Jam Master Jay, and Jordan’s lawyers are now seeking his release on a $1 million bond while prosecutors appeal. The filing, made in Brooklyn federal court, says the decision created “seismic changes in circumstances” that warrant Jordan’s release with electronic monitoring.
Don Lemon and another reporter face federal civil rights charges tied to a protest that interrupted a worship service at a Minnesota church earlier this month, according to an indictment unsealed after a grand jury in Minnesota. The charges center on allegations involving the First Amendment rights of worshippers and federal laws that can carry prison time.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that operations on Mexican soil are carried out by Mexican forces, after U.S. officials described a joint operation that led to the detention of former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. Sheinbaum made the comments at a daily press conference following a phone call with President Donald Trump in which, she said, the two did not discuss Wedding’s arrest.
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has rejected for now Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s bid to gain more spending power in the state’s race for governor, upholding campaign finance rules that some Republicans argue give certain candidates an unfair advantage. Raffensperger asked a court to waive limits on the spending power of his political committee during the ongoing GOP contest.
Thousands of protesters and volunteer networks have continued to follow U.S. immigration enforcement activity through Minneapolis as federal agents arrest people across immigrant neighborhoods, according to reports from the Associated Press. The protests come as activists deploy whistles, encrypted messaging and on-the-ground legal and support efforts even after the White House took a more conciliatory tone following the killing of Alex Pretti.
In Minnesota, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz described U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as failing to comply with nearly 100 court orders issued since Jan. 1 in cases tied to “Operation Metro Surge.” Schiltz, a conservative-leaning judge, said ICE “must follow” court orders unless they are overturned or vacated and ordered an appearance by ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons, to address potential contempt.
A man impersonating an FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione released from a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night, authorities said. The man was arrested and charged with impersonating a federal officer after he allegedly showed officers paperwork authorizing Mangione’s release and claimed to have weapons.
MIAMI — Detainees were pepper-sprayed on Christmas Eve at a Florida immigration detention center officials have dubbed the “Deportation Depot,” according to the state. The Florida Division of Emergency Management said detainees refused orders to return to their bunks, advanced on staff and that chemical agents were released to restore safety to detainees and guards.
Patrick James, the former CEO of bankrupt auto parts supplier First Brands Group, and his brother Edward were indicted on federal fraud charges and arrested Thursday in Ohio, according to the U.S. government. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out a yearslong scheme that allegedly bilked banks and investors out of billions of dollars using fake documents and false financial reports.
China executed 11 people it said it found guilty in connection with killings of Chinese citizens and large-scale scam and gambling operations, the Wenzhou city Intermediate People’s Court said. The executions were carried out after the court rejected an appeal, and the detentions began in November 2023 as China pressed border-area authorities to crack down on scams.
NEW YORK — Police said Thursday that Dan Sohail, 36, was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime after he drove his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, damaging doors but injuring no one. Officials said Sohail had tried to connect with the Hasidic community and that video showed him dancing with congregants during a prior visit. City leaders announced stepped-up security around houses of worship after the crash on Wednesday night.
A deadly gas explosion in a Bronx high-rise last weekend was traced by prosecutors to an intruder who disconnected a stove to steal and sell it, according to a criminal court complaint. Samuel Calderon, 55, was charged with murder along with burglary and other counts and was held without bail after an arraignment, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The blast killed Ronald McAllister, 60, and injured more than a dozen other people, officials said.
A husband on trial in Virginia for killing his wife and another man testified that prosecutors’ account was incorrect, saying he shot Joseph Ryan instead of stabbing his wife. Brendan Banfield, who is accused in the 2023 deaths of Christine Banfield and Ryan, told the court he tried to de-escalate and did not want to shoot Ryan.
FBI agents seized hundreds of ballot boxes and other election records this week at Fulton County’s elections hub outside Atlanta, an action tied to the agency’s efforts to pursue President Donald Trump’s long-running claims about the 2020 election in Georgia. Federal authorities have not publicly explained the purpose of Wednesday’s search and seizure, and the warrant was under seal.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged Anthony Kazmierczak after he allegedly sprayed Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar with a liquid of water and apple cider vinegar at a Minneapolis event, according to federal court papers. Prosecutors said Kazmierczak faces a federal charge of forcibly assaulting and intimidating Omar and was ordered held in custody by a U.S. magistrate judge.
Pope Leo XIV told the Vatican’s doctrine office to uphold “truth, justice and charity” when deciding clergy sex abuse cases, during an audience Thursday with cardinals and bishops in the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith. The Pope said the matter requires careful attention to justice, while his remarks also came with renewed emphasis on ensuring victims are listened to and not left unheard.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — TikTok agreed to settle a landmark lawsuit over allegations that social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children just before trial was set to begin, plaintiff attorneys confirmed. Jury selection starts this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube, with executives including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify.
A Wisconsin jury on Thursday found Demetric Scott guilty of felony identity theft and witness intimidation for forging letters that threatened President Donald Trump at a rally, court records show. Prosecutors said Scott posed as the victim in a robbery case and tried to get the victim deported, after investigators determined the victim could not have written the letters.
China executed 11 people it said were convicted for killing 14 Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said. The Wenzhou city Intermediate People’s Court announced the executions in a statement on Thursday.
Former First Brands Group CEO Patrick James and his brother, Edward James, were indicted on federal fraud charges and arrested Thursday in Ohio, the U.S. government said.
A man who drove his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime, New York police said Thursday. Police said investigators were still working to determine what prompted the crash Wednesday night. They said the man, Dan Sohail, had recently been trying to connect with the Hasidic community.
A husband on trial in northern Virginia testified Thursday that prosecutors misunderstood what happened when his wife was killed in 2023, telling the court he did not stab her. Brendan Banfield instead said he shot Joseph Ryan, who he testified was holding a knife over his wife, and that his romantic partner and the couple’s au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, also shot Ryan.
Senate Democrats laid out demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, seeking changes to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct immigration arrests and an enforceable code of conduct. The demands set up a standoff over a set of Homeland Security and other funding bills that Republicans have said they do not want altered, with funding for the agencies at risk of expiring Saturday.
The FBI searched the Fulton County elections office in Union City, Georgia, seeking records related to the 2020 election, according to an Associated Press report. Agents sealed off an area at the county’s main election facility and removed boxes that an FBI spokesperson said contained ballots. The search came about a week after President Donald Trump predicted prosecutions over the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court is still considering a decision in President Donald Trump’s tariffs case months after it granted unusually quick arguments, with the justices not scheduled to meet in public for more than three weeks, according to a report Thursday by the Associated Press. Lawyers had urged speed, citing warnings about the risk of economic disruption from delay.
A federal judge on Thursday refused to order the pretrial release of Brian J. Cole Jr., who is charged with placing two pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled Cole must remain in jail while awaiting trial, overturning arguments from defense attorneys for home detention with electronic monitoring.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Billy Leon Kearse, setting him to die by lethal injection March 3 at Florida State Prison, the state’s third execution date of 2026. The order keeps Florida on pace to match or exceed last year’s record 19 executions, according to an Associated Press report.
Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a federal judge ruled Friday, after she dismissed a murder charge that enabled capital punishment. Judge Margaret Garnett also dismissed a gun charge but left stalking charges in place that carry up to life in prison.
A federal judge in New York sentenced Carlisle Rivera to the maximum 15 years in prison for a plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist and human rights advocate Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn in 2024. Judge Lewis J. Liman said Rivera’s conduct caused “great harm” to Alinejad and her husband, after prosecutors described surveillance efforts and planned steps toward killing her.
A man sprayed an unknown substance on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday and was tackled by attendees, police said. Omar continued speaking for about 25 minutes after the man was removed and later said she was OK. The man, identified by police as 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak, was booked for third-degree assault after officers said he used a syringe to spray an unknown liquid at her.
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump for threats to her safety after a man accosted her at an event in Minneapolis and squirted liquid on her. Omar made the remarks during a press conference on Wednesday, a day after the Tuesday attack, and said fear and intimidation do not work on her.
A man charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo woman Ella Mae Begay pleaded guilty Thursday to robbery in federal court in Phoenix, according to court proceedings. Preston Henry Tolth, who has been in custody since 2023, admitted to assaulting Begay, leaving her on the side of the road, and selling her pickup truck. Begay has never been found, and her family said the plea deal should not end efforts to recover her remains.
In Minneapolis, Native Americans say they are carrying tribal identification cards after fears of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The cards, which many nations are making easier and faster to obtain, are intended to help prove U.S. citizenship if federal agents stop or question them.
The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis resident who was killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday. The Department of Homeland Security said the FBI will lead the probe, shifting federal oversight from Homeland Security Investigations.
In Athens, Georgia, a judge heard testimony Friday from a DNA expert retained by Jose Ibarra’s attorneys as Ibarra seeks a new trial after his conviction in the killing of nursing student Laken Riley. Ruth Ballard testified that she could not rule out the possibility that Ibarra’s DNA was transferred to evidence, and she acknowledged she had not finished a complete review of the case. Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard did not rule immediately, giving attorneys another month to file legal arguments.
Federal immigration officials have ceased “enhanced operations” in Maine, where hundreds of arrests followed a weekslong enforcement surge, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said Thursday after speaking with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Collins said there were “no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations” in the state, while adding that ICE and Border Patrol would continue “normal operations” ongoing for years. The announcement came amid political pressure on immigration enforcement tactics after a second deadly shooting in Minneapolis involving federal immigration agents.
A King County jury has ordered the city of Seattle to pay more than $30 million to the family of Antonio Mays Jr., 16, after finding the city negligent in its emergency response to his fatal shooting in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in June 2020. The verdict included $4 million for Mays’ estate and $26 million for his father, Antonio Mays Sr., according to a report by The Seattle Times and the Associated Press.
President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court seeking $10 billion from the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, accusing the agencies of failing to prevent leaks of his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed Thursday, names Trump, his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and the Trump Organization as plaintiffs.
Mayors meeting in Washington warned that aggressive federal immigration enforcement could erode residents’ trust in law enforcement. Their remarks came as the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by two federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday renewed debate over the Trump administration’s tactics.
San Diego has sued federal agencies over razor wire fencing built on city land near the Mexican border, alleging the barrier damaged sensitive habitat and trespassed on municipal property. The complaint, filed in federal court on Jan. 5, names the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, as well as top officials including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Rwanda says it has filed proceedings at the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration seeking payments from the United Kingdom tied to a failed migrant deal. The deal, which entered into force April 25, 2024, was scrapped after a 2023 UK Supreme Court ruling, and the UK later said it would not make further payments.
Leticia Gallarzo was sentenced Tuesday to more than six years in federal prison for stealing identities to work in health care, including as a nurse or physician’s assistant. Prosecutors said she used the credentials and identity of other people in multiple states, including work in Michigan and later in the Chicago area, before being caught again near Los Angeles. Her defense said Gallarzo has a history of mental health struggles.
Protesters were arrested Tuesday after they occupied the lobby of a Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan, demanding the hotel bar federal immigration agents, according to The Associated Press. The demonstration drew criticism amid an ongoing large-scale immigration operation carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration, the report said.
The family of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis intensive care nurse who was shot while filming Border Patrol officers during an immigration enforcement operation, has retained a former federal prosecutor to represent them in the aftermath of his death, an attorney said Tuesday.
LONDON (AP) — Matvei Rumiantsev, a 22-year-old London receptionist, was convicted Wednesday of assault after Barron Trump called police in London during a video call he said he witnessed, court and police records described by the case show. The conviction followed police action at an address in London on Jan. 18, and prosecutors previously said Trump’s call played a role in the investigation.
Manhattan prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to set a July trial date in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing the state would be unfairly prejudiced by waiting until after a federal death-penalty case. The defense called the request “unrealistic,” saying it needs time to prepare for the federal proceedings.
FROID, Mont. — Border Patrol arrested longtime Froid mechanic Roberto Orozco-Ramirez on Sunday, the U.S. government charged him in federal court in Great Falls, and a judge set a preliminary hearing for Feb. 5. Residents and supporters from across the community packed Wednesday’s hearing, challenging the government’s characterization of him as dangerous.
Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump for what she said were threats to her safety after a man accosted her at a Minneapolis event and squirted a substance, according to a Wednesday news conference. Omar said the president’s “hateful rhetoric” has led to her “death threats” increasing, and she said, “Fear and intimidation doesn’t work on me.”
Alabama’s prison system moved three inmate activists featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution” to solitary confinement at Kilby Correctional Facility, attorneys said. The men—Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole—were transferred about two weeks earlier and are now held with limited or no contact with other prisoners, family members and attorneys, their lawyers said. The Alabama Department of Corrections said the transfers were based on intelligence about activity the agency said was detrimental to safety and security.
A man on Wednesday testified in a Fairfax County, Virginia, courtroom that he did not plot the killing of his wife and another man, even as the case centers on his affair with the couple’s former au pair. Brendan Banfield testified he wanted to continue his marriage with Christine Banfield and called prosecutors’ questioning about a plan “absurd.” The trial is weighing his testimony as jurors consider charges including aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife and Joe Ryan.
The Hague District Court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change. The court also ruled the government discriminated against Bonaire’s 20,000 residents by failing to take “timely and appropriate measures” before impacts became irreversible.
A Nicaraguan man who died at a Texas immigration detention camp was initially reported as a suicide days after he was detained by federal immigration agents in Minnesota, according to a 911 call and records released this week. The Associated Press reported that Victor Manuel Diaz was found on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso after he had tried to die by suicide, and ICE later said his death was a “presumed suicide.”
California Democratic senators advanced legislation Tuesday designed to make it easier for people to sue federal agents over civil rights violations, reflecting concerns about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement practices. The measure, known as the 'No Kings Act,' came to a vote days after federal agents killed U.S. citizen and intensive-care nurse Alex Pretti during an enforcement action in Minnesota. The Senate passed the bill 30-10 along party lines and sent it to the Assembly.
The FBI on Wednesday executed a search warrant at Fulton County's main election office in Union City, Georgia, seeking records from the 2020 election. The search came one week after the Trump administration predicted prosecutions related to the contest, even as courts and federal officials have repeatedly found no evidence of widespread fraud that would have altered the outcome.
A man was arrested after repeatedly crashing a car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, while people were gathered for prayer, officials said. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said no one was injured, and the incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the crash “intentional.”
A man was wounded Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico border, after authorities said he fired at a Border Patrol helicopter. The shooting happened during a traffic stop attempt near Arivaca, Arizona, and the man was identified as Patrick Gary Schlegel.
California's Democratic-controlled Senate advanced a civil rights measure Tuesday that would make it easier for people to sue federal agents over rights violations. The bill, called the "No Kings Act," passed 30 to 10 along party lines after more than 90 minutes of floor debate. The legislation was shaped by Democratic concerns about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement escalation, underscored by the shooting death of Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen and ICU nurse, by federal agents in Minnesota last weekend.
A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended temporary legal protections that let hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans live and work in the United States. The 9th Circuit upheld a lower-court ruling saying Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exceeded her authority when she ended Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans.
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed eliminating federal oversight of interstate air pollution by approving eight states to regulate ozone emissions as they determine appropriate, the Environmental Protection Agency said. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described the action as "cooperative federalism," replacing what he called a "heavy-handed, one-size-fits-all, federal mandate." The affected states are Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico and Tennessee, which the EPA under the Biden administration had found had not sufficiently controlled emissions traveling across state lines. Environmental groups said the proposal would harm downwind states by allowing industrial pollution to travel without federal constraint. "Letting states off the hook while their pollution continues harming air quality in neighboring states is dangerous," said Zachary Fabish, a Sierra Club lawyer.
FBI agents served a search warrant at the election headquarters of Fulton County, Georgia, seeking 2020 voting records, in a move that highlights Donald Trump’s long-running false claims that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud. The raid comes as Trump again occupies the White House and pressures the federal government to pursue those allegations, according to Associated Press reporting.
Organic whole milk powder linked to the ByHeart baby formula outbreak—which has sickened 51 infants in 19 states—tested positive for the bacteria that causes botulism, according to the Associated Press. The contaminated powder was supplied by Organic West Milk Inc., a California company, and processed at a Dairy Farmers of America facility in Fallon, Nevada, though officials said the source of the contamination remains unknown.
The Alabama prison system has transferred three prominent inmate activists to solitary confinement at Kilby Correctional Facility, with family members and attorneys saying the men are being held in severe isolation. Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole were moved from their existing prisons two weeks ago and are now in isolated cells with severely restricted contact with family and other inmates, according to their lawyers.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a new partnership with the Municipality of Anchorage aimed at addressing public safety concerns in the state’s largest city. During the governor’s final State of the State address, he pointed to Anchorage’s share of murders, sexual assaults, car thefts and robberies statewide.
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander who has led large-scale immigration enforcement in multiple U.S. cities, is leaving Minneapolis after federal agents fatally shot two people in less than three weeks, the Associated Press reported. The agency’s enforcement efforts in the city have drawn criticism from activists and residents and have become part of a broader Trump administration crackdown, the AP said.
A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary order blocking the removal or transfer of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father, who were detained last week in Minnesota in a case that has inflamed U.S. immigration disputes. Judge Fred Biery ordered the pause while a court case proceeds, according to court records and reporting by The Associated Press.
President Donald Trump shifted toward a more conciliatory approach with Minnesota's Democratic leaders on Monday, a sudden reversal that followed a federal agent's fatal shooting of a nurse during immigration enforcement operations. The Saturday death of Alex Pretti, a nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, sparked outcry from across the political spectrum, including from some Republicans questioning the administration's aggressive tactics.
Two federal officers fired shots during an encounter with Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, over the weekend in Minneapolis, a Customs and Border Protection official told Congress this week. Pretti died in the encounter. The disclosure came amid scrutiny of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota, where this is the second fatal shooting by immigration law enforcement this month. Separately, Ecuador filed a diplomatic protest after federal immigration agents attempted to enter the country's consulate in Minneapolis without authorization.
A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was executed Wednesday, becoming the first person put to death in the United States in 2026. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, received a lethal injection at a state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST.
Families of two Trinidadian fishermen killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October sued the federal government on Tuesday, calling the attack a war crime and part of an "unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign." The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, is the first wrongful death case challenging the legality of strikes the administration has launched on boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since September. The Trump administration has defended the strikes as necessary to stem drug trafficking into the United States.
A Virginia judge on Tuesday ruled illegal a proposed constitutional amendment that would have let Democrats redraw the state's congressional districts, dealing a setback to the party's efforts to gain House seats. The decision came as Democrats advanced a new congressional map in neighboring Maryland that could flip the state's only Republican House seat, illustrating different strategies in the national battle over mid-decade redistricting.
Honolulu Fire Department and police citations for fireworks violations rose in the second half of 2025 after Hawaii took new steps to curb illegal fireworks, newly released state data show. From July 4, 2025 through Jan. 1, 47 citations were issued on Oʻahu, including 29 issued on New Year’s Eve.
The shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens during deportation operations in Minneapolis have reshaped immigration politics in Congress and raised the risk of another government shutdown, according to Associated Press reporting. Democrats are seeking changes to Department of Homeland Security’s military-style immigration enforcement while Republicans signal they want hearings and an investigation related to the deaths. Congress is now wrestling with how to handle a six-bill funding package that is expected to cover more than 70% of federal operations.
A Minneapolis nurse has been fatally shot by a Border Patrol officer in an incident that has prompted three federal investigations while raising questions about the independence and structure of the probes. Alex Pretti, 37, an intensive care nurse, was killed over the weekend during a federal immigration enforcement operation in the city, marking the second death at the hands of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis since the Trump administration began large-scale operations there in late December. The Trump administration has characterized Pretti as an armed instigator, but videos from the scene and local officials contradict that account. The investigation's details, including the names of the officers involved and the specific evidence being examined, remain unclear even as tensions mount in the city over how the shooting will be investigated.
A Chicago carpenter acquitted of murder-for-hire charges against a Border Patrol commander has been taken into federal immigration custody and faces deportation, according to his attorneys. Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, was cleared of the charges late last week. Within 24 hours, federal immigration agents picked him up, defense attorneys Jonathan Bedi and Dena Singer confirmed Tuesday.
The Trump administration's account of Alex Jeffrey Pretti's death at the hands of a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis has been challenged by video evidence, raising questions about the credibility of federal immigration enforcement agencies. Videos showed Pretti being pushed by an officer before agents descended on him, contradicting claims by administration officials that he "approached" officers with a gun and acted violently.
A federal judge has issued a temporary order barring the removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father who were detained last week in Minnesota in an incident that has inflamed immigration policy debates under the Trump administration. U.S. Judge Fred Biery ruled Monday that removal of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, is on hold while their court case proceeds. The two are detained at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio.
Gregory Bovino, the commander of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown operations nationwide, is leaving Minneapolis after federal agents fatally shot two people in less than three weeks. Bovino had served as the chief architect and public face of the administration's city-by-city immigration sweeps since arriving in Minnesota in December for what the Department of Homeland Security called its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation. His departure comes amid mounting criticism over his use of aggressive, norm-breaking tactics.
Prominent gun-rights advocates and Republican figures pushed back this week against federal officials' initial characterization of Alex Pretti's death in Minneapolis, forcing the White House to walk back statements that blamed Pretti for his own death. Pretti, a legally armed man, was killed by a federal agent on Saturday during what authorities initially described as an encounter involving violent resistance. Video evidence released since the incident contradicted those initial federal statements about Pretti's conduct.
Two former immigration detainees at a state-run detention center in Florida’s Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” testified that staff punished them for trying to seek legal help, including by cutting monitored calls when they discussed lawyers. The detainees spoke by video during a two-day hearing in federal court in Fort Myers, asking a judge to issue a temporary injunction to ensure access to attorneys that they say is comparable to federally run facilities.
France’s finance minister, Roland Lescure, urged lawmakers late Tuesday to press French tech company Capgemini to be “fully transparent” about a contract it signed with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The contract, awarded in December through Capgemini’s subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, is drawing new scrutiny as calls grow to examine the agency’s role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Dozens of protesters were arrested Tuesday after they occupied the lobby of a Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan, accusing the hotel of housing federal immigration officers, the Associated Press reported. Police ordered the crowd to leave before arresting those who remained, and a hotel press contact did not respond to requests for comment.
A 77-pound mountain lion that wandered into San Francisco's affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood was captured Tuesday, ending a daylong search that began when the animal was first spotted Monday morning. Officials tranquilized the male cougar in a garden between two apartment buildings and safely transported it for examination and testing before eventual release to the wild.
Seven Massachusetts police officers will not face criminal charges in the death of Francis Gigliotti, a 43-year-old man who became unresponsive during police restraint in Haverhill, a Boston suburb. Essex District Attorney Paul Tucker announced Tuesday that charges were not legally supportable.
Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin pardoned ex-Sgt. Wesley Gonzalez Shifflett on Jan. 15 in the fatal 2023 shooting of an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses at a mall. The pardon, issued days before Youngkin's term ended, comes amid a nationwide debate over legal protections for law enforcement and when use of deadly force is justified.
Randy Santos, 31, is on trial in Manhattan for bludgeoning four men to death with a metal bar as they slept on New York City streets in 2019. His legal team is asserting an insanity defense, arguing that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and is not criminally responsible because mental illness left him prone to violence.
A Utah woman who believed in apocalyptic "end times" has been arrested in Croatia for taking her four young children overseas in violation of a custody order, authorities said Tuesday. Elleshia Seymour, 35, was arrested Jan. 16 after fleeing the U.S. in late November with her children despite not having custody entitlement. Salt Lake County charged her in December with four counts of custodial interference.
Federal officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, an armed Minneapolis man, on Saturday, and the White House initially characterized him as responsible for his own death because he lawfully carried a concealed weapon. Within days, prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates mounted swift criticism of those statements, and the administration retreated from its account, illustrating a deeper inconsistency in party positions on the Second Amendment.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that Homeland Security Investigations, a unit within Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will assist with security at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games starting Feb. 6. The deployment has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where officials and residents expressed outrage at the inclusion of any ICE unit, given the agency's role in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations, which have intensified in Minneapolis in recent weeks.
Authorities say motorcycle gang and street gang members targeted Judge Steven Meyer of Lafayette, Indiana for assassination. Meyer and his wife Kim were shot at their home on January 18; both survived their injuries. Five people were arrested in connection with the attack—four in Indiana and one in Lexington, Kentucky.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a new state-city partnership to address public safety concerns in Anchorage during his final State of the State address. Dunleavy said the city accounted for 55% of Alaska's murders, 51% of sexual assaults, 67% of car thefts, and more than 78% of robberies in 2024. Police Chief Sean Case welcomed the state's assistance but disputed the governor's framing, arguing that larger cities naturally experience higher crime rates than smaller jurisdictions.
The U.S. Justice Department agreed to withdraw subpoenas seeking patient and medical records from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles tied to gender-affirming care for minors, according to a settlement filed in federal court Thursday. The agreement ends the Justice Department’s effort to obtain information identifying patients and their families through 2029.
Los Angeles homeless services charity CEO Alexander Soofer was arrested Friday and faces federal wire fraud and state felony charges, prosecutors said. Authorities alleged the nonprofit received more than $23 million in taxpayer-related homelessness housing funding that Soofer used for a luxury lifestyle instead of shelter and meals for homeless residents.
Mexico is investigating a soccer field attack in Salamanca, Guanajuato, in which gunmen killed at least 11 people and injured 12 others during a gathering after an amateur match, according to authorities. The attack took place Monday, a day after the killings, and sparked an ongoing probe, state and federal security moves, and appeals for federal help.
An outside legal review ordered by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has found that former revenue commissioner Adam Crum deviated from state policy when investing Alaska savings in private equity, failing to perform required due diligence before committing millions, according to the report. The review also said Crum engaged outside lawyers to represent the state in the investment without obtaining approval of the attorney general. It found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing or self-dealing.
The fatal shooting over the weekend in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti, 37, has prompted multiple federal investigations and calls from Minnesota officials for an independent inquiry, with many details still unclear. Federal officials have said the FBI is supporting the probe by processing physical evidence, while state authorities say federal officers blocked their access to the scene.
After U.S. Border Patrol shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in late January, more than 60 Minnesota-based corporate executives—including the heads of Target, Best Buy, and UnitedHealth—quickly signed an open letter calling for "an immediate deescalation of tensions." Yet the letter carefully avoided naming immigration enforcement directly or acknowledging the widely-circulated videos showing federal agents detaining two Target employees in the same state just days earlier. The tension reflected a broader dilemma: American businesses are increasingly both targeted by immigration enforcement operations and pressured publicly to take stronger stances against those same operations.
The Helena Police Department has withdrawn from a regional drug task force after the agency decided to collaborate with U.S. Border Patrol agents. Police Chief Brett Petty announced the temporary exit from the Missouri River Drug Task Force during a city commissioners meeting Wednesday, citing concerns that the partnership could shift the department's focus from drug enforcement to immigration enforcement.
A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder pleaded not guilty Monday to running a billion-dollar cocaine trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings, making his first U.S. court appearance since his arrest in Mexico last week. Ryan Wedding, who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, was ordered held in custody by U.S. Magistrate John D. Early following the hearing in federal court in Santa Ana, California.
Chief Brett Petty of the Helena Police Department told commissioners Wednesday he is temporarily withdrawing from a regional drug task force following the addition of federal Border Patrol agents to the operation. Petty said he wanted to ensure the Helena department's focus remained on local drug crimes rather than immigration enforcement.
Nasry Asfura, a Trump-backed businessman, was sworn in Tuesday as president of Honduras, pledging to lead the country "with the full commitment required to deliver real solutions to every corner of our beloved Honduras." The 67-year-old took office at Congress in an austere ceremony without foreign dignitaries, though diplomatic representatives attended.
Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, was shot and killed by Border Patrol officers on Saturday in a confrontation the Trump administration characterized as a "domestic terrorist" attack. His family and colleagues disputed that account, describing the 37-year-old as a compassionate caregiver whose only documented offense was protesting the administration's immigration crackdown.
Minnesota officials launched a state website aimed at countering what they called federal “misinformation” after immigration agents fatally shot two residents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to officials and experts. The state also sued in federal court to preserve evidence collected by federal authorities after the Saturday killing of Alex Pretti, a federal judge granted a motion blocking the Trump administration from destroying or altering that evidence.
Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, triggering street protests and the activation of the Minnesota National Guard to help local police, the Associated Press reported. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said information about what led to the shooting was limited. The incident comes weeks after another fatal shooting in the city drew widespread demonstrations.
Protesters interrupted a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, in an anti-ICE demonstration that prosecutors said led to arrests on federal charges. The protesters were taken into custody Thursday, after one pastor at the Southern Baptist congregation works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen has called for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying he believes she attempted to “mislead the American public” about a fatal shooting of a 37-year-old protester in Minneapolis. The call comes as Democrats have escalated their criticism of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warned they would block Homeland Security funding unless Congress takes action.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to be limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to remove a Federal Reserve governor, signaling a different standard for the central bank than for other independent agencies. During oral arguments in a case involving Gov. Lisa Cook, justices discussed whether Trump could keep her in office while litigation continues over his attempt to remove her.
Two deaths during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis have upended congressional politics around deportations, pushing lawmakers toward a government shutdown. Democrats are withholding funds for the Department of Homeland Security unless restrictions are placed on ICE operations, while some Republicans are signaling second thoughts about the administration's approach. The shift marks a reversal from just a year ago, when Congress easily passed legislation tightening immigration enforcement with bipartisan support.
At least 25 people were killed in an early Sunday attack by a militant group linked to the Islamic State in eastern Congo, a rights group based in Ituri province said. The attack occurred around 4 a.m. in the village area of Apakulu in Irumu territory, the group said. Christophe Munyanderu, president of the Convention for the Respect of Human Rights, called it “a true massacre.”
The death toll from U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats has reached 126 people, the U.S. military confirmed Monday. The figure includes 116 people killed in at least 36 attacks since early September in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, plus 10 others presumed dead after searches did not locate them, U.S. Southern Command said.
A federal judge in Oregon dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking the state’s unredacted voter rolls on Monday, saying the Justice Department did not meet the legal standard for obtaining the records. U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai scheduled the hearing after letters from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that also urged state support for federal immigration enforcement.
Border czar Tom Homan will visit Minneapolis this week following the fatal shooting of an ICU nurse, as videos and eyewitness accounts challenge the Trump administration's account of the incident and calls mount for investigation into immigration enforcement tactics.
From family-run cafes to retail giants, U.S. businesses are increasingly caught between public pressure to respond to immigration enforcement and becoming the sites of federal arrests themselves. The pressure on businesses intensified on Sunday in Minneapolis after federal agents shot and killed a man; more than 60 Minnesota CEOs—including Target, Best Buy, and UnitedHealth—signed a letter calling for de-escalation of tensions. The letter, however, stopped short of directly naming immigration enforcement or the arrests already occurring at businesses, according to the Associated Press.
NEW YORK — A woman who testified under a pseudonym told jurors Tuesday that a night of celebrations at actor Zac Efron’s New York apartment ended in repeated rape by Alon Alexander, who she said overpowered her after she tried to resist. Prosecutors say three brothers — Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — used connections to wealthy and famous people to drug and rape women and girls. Defense attorneys for the brothers said the sexual encounters were consensual and urged jurors to reject what they called prosecutors’ “monstrous story.”
Alexander Soofer, the 42-year-old CEO of Abundant Blessings, a Los Angeles nonprofit contracted to house and feed homeless residents, was arrested Friday at his $7 million home on federal and state fraud charges. Prosecutors allege he diverted approximately $23 million in public funds intended for more than 600 homeless residents to finance a luxury lifestyle including a $125,000 Range Rover, a $2,450 Hermès jacket, and vacations to Greece and Hawaii.
The U.S. Treasury Department has ended its contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, citing the defense contractor's failure to safeguard confidential tax information. The decision follows the 2024 conviction of Charles Edward Littlejohn, a former Booz Allen employee who worked as an IRS contractor and was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking tax data about thousands of wealthy Americans, including President Donald Trump.
A Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate dropped out of the 2026 race Monday, calling the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in his state an "unmitigated disaster." Chris Madel, a 59-year-old attorney and political newcomer, announced his decision in a video posted to X hours after a federal agent fatally shot Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti in an immigration sweep. Madel said the enforcement operation has driven U.S. citizens—particularly those of color—to carry papers to prove their citizenship, a practice he called fundamentally wrong.
Republicans appealed a judge's decision Monday that voided New York City's only GOP-controlled House district, setting the stage for a legal battle with national implications for Congress. The appeal came days after a judge ruled that Rep. Nicole Malliotakis' Staten Island and Brooklyn district was drawn to dilute the voting power of Black and Hispanic residents. The judge ordered the state's Independent Redistricting Commission to redraw the district by February 6, according to the Associated Press.
A New York police officer who fatally shot a raccoon at Rockaway Beach on Thursday has been placed on modified duty pending review, the police department said Monday. The shooting followed a 911 call reporting a vicious animal at the beach. However, bodycam footage published by the Daily News shows a markedly different sequence: the raccoon walking slowly across the sand with no visible group of people present before an officer fired multiple shots.
Azruddin Mohamed, a Guyanese businessman indicted in Florida on gold smuggling and money laundering charges, was elected opposition leader of Guyana on Monday. The election came as a magistrate's court continues hearing arguments for his extradition to the United States.
Honolulu issued 47 citations for fireworks violations in the second half of 2025, double the number issued in either of the previous two years, as newly enacted laws gave law enforcement expanded tools to crack down on illegal fireworks. Twenty-nine of the citations were issued on New Year's Eve alone. The enforcement surge reflects new laws signed by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green before July 4, 2025, which streamlined the process for issuing civil fines and authorized the use of unmanned drones for surveillance.
A federal judge in Georgia dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking voter information from the state, ruling the government filed the case in the wrong city. U.S. District Judge Ashley Royal ruled the Justice Department should have sued Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Atlanta rather than in a separate federal judicial district in Macon.
The British government said Sunday it will unveil plans this week to create a new national police force, dubbed the “British FBI,” to handle complex investigations. The new National Police Service would take on cases including counterterrorism, fraud, online child abuse and criminal gangs.
President Donald Trump blamed Democratic officials for "chaos" following the fatal shooting of a protester by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, according to posts on his Truth Social network and comments to The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. The shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti marked the second killing by immigration officers in the city in recent weeks and prompted some Republicans to question the administration's enforcement approach even as Trump refused to back away from his immigration crackdown.
Three anti-immigration enforcement protesters were arrested on federal charges for disrupting a Sunday worship service at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in St. Paul, Minnesota, where pastor David Easterwood works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Federal and state officials offered starkly different accounts Sunday of a shooting death the day before in Minneapolis, with the Trump administration and Minnesota's governor each claiming the moral authority to respond to the incident and its aftermath. Governor Tim Walz asked the public to choose a side: "Which side do you want to be on?" he said. "The side of an all-powerful federal government that could kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government?" Federal Border Patrol official Greg Bovino offered a different characterization. "When someone makes the choice to come into an active law enforcement scene, interfere, obstruct, delay or assault law enforcement officer and — and they bring a weapon to do that. That is a choice that that individual made," he told reporters.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it detained some of the “worst of the worst” during a Maine enforcement operation this past week, but federal court records show a broader set of cases, the Associated Press reported. ICE said it detained more than 100 people statewide in what it called “Operation Catch of the Day.” Court filings reviewed by AP and comments from attorneys and local officials raised questions about how ICE described detainees and what happened after removal orders.
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada called for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that Noem is attempting to mislead the public about a fatal shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis. The call came as Democratic anger intensified over the incident and a second fatal shooting by immigration agents this month. Rosen said Noem's conduct was "deeply shameful" and she "must be impeached and removed from office immediately." The senator made the call in a statement after Noem swiftly defended the shooting without awaiting a full investigation.
Senate Democrats vowed to oppose a Department of Homeland Security funding bill following a fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, escalating the risk of a partial government shutdown by week's end. Alex Pretti, 37, an intensive care nurse, was shot and killed; federal officials defended the agent's actions as justified, while Democrats said video evidence contradicted that account and demanded policy changes to the agency.
A man was arrested Friday night at the Sundance Film Festival for assaulting U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat, after allegedly telling the congressman he would be deported by President Donald Trump. Christian Joel Young, 28, faces charges of aggravated burglary, assaulting an elected official, and assault following the incident at a private party hosted by talent agency CAA at High West Distillery in Park City, Utah.
A growing number of Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at a VA hospital. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino sought testimony from immigration agencies, while Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska also pressed for more information. The calls for scrutiny suggest the Trump administration's accounting of the incident may face bipartisan review.
Bystander videos of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on January 25 contradict the federal government's account of what occurred, according to use-of-force experts who reviewed the footage. The videos show Pretti holding a cellphone in his hands as an officer opened fire, experts said, challenging federal claims that Pretti approached officers with a firearm and posed an imminent threat.
A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man on Minneapolis's Eat Street early Saturday, marking the second such fatal federal shooting in the city in less than three weeks. The victim, identified as Alex Pretti, 37, was killed shortly before 9 a.m. during an immigration enforcement operation. The shooting sparked immediate large-scale protests and hours of street confrontations.
More than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies signed an open letter posted Sunday on the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce website calling for state, local and federal cooperation in response to an immigration enforcement operation that has fractured state politics. Signatories included leaders from Target, Best Buy, UnitedHealth, General Mills and 3M.
A judge in Albany ordered new congressional district lines for New York, scrapping the boundaries of the state’s only Republican-held House seat in New York City. The decision, issued Wednesday by Judge Jeffrey Pearlman, gives the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission until Feb. 6 to complete a new map, with candidate petitioning expected to start at the end of February. For Democrats, the ruling creates an opportunity in the national redistricting fight even as Republicans have promised an appeal and the new lines could be delayed or changed.
MINNEAPOLIS — A 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy detained by U.S. immigration officers in Minnesota has become a flashpoint, with school officials, neighbors and the boy’s family attorney disputing the federal account of how the child was handled. The Department of Homeland Security rejected claims that officers used the child as “bait,” and said the father fled on foot and left the boy in a running vehicle in the family’s driveway.
Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who secretly filmed detention sites in Xinjiang, is in U.S. custody and is asking a judge to block his removal. A judge on Monday is set to consider his appeal to remain in the United States after he was swept up in an immigration enforcement operation in August.
A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced human rights lawyers Zainab Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha to 17 years in prison each over social media posts authorities said were hostile to the state and its security institutions. The verdict was announced by Judge Afzal Majoka a day after the couple were arrested in Islamabad, according to court documents.
A ferry with more than 350 people on board sank off the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 18 people, according to coast guard officials. The M/V Trisha Kerstin 3 was sailing from the port city of Zamboanga to southern Jolo island in Sulu province with 332 passengers and 27 crew members when it apparently encountered technical problems and sank shortly after midnight.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed last week that its enforcement surge in Maine targeted some of the state's most dangerous criminals, including "child abusers and hostage takers." But court records paint a more complicated picture of the more than 100 people detained statewide in what ICE called "Operation Catch of the Day." While some detainees had serious felony convictions, others faced far less serious charges — including a learner's permit violation that was dismissed. Many had no criminal convictions at all, according to court records and immigration attorneys.
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Smith said his inquiry showed Trump “sought to prey” on his supporters and “looked for ways to stay in power,” which he said culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among wedding guests in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 25, police said. The attack occurred at the home of Noor Alam Mehsud, a pro-government community leader in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police chief Adnan Khan.
A Chilean court on Friday ordered the pretrial detention of a 39-year-old man accused of starting the Trinitarias wildfire, which has killed at least 20 people amid wildfires burning across the country’s central and southern regions. The Guarantee Court of Concepción in Biobío accepted a request from prosecutors to extend detention as investigations continue. Prosecutors said the fire was sparked by the suspect’s wood-burning stove and spread through embers.
A U.S. Border Patrol officer shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis on Saturday during the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown. Pretti was an intensive-care nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital and a U.S. citizen born in Illinois. He had participated in protests following the January 7 killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the same city.
A New York judge on Friday voided the boundaries of New York City's only Republican-held House district, ruling that its composition unconstitutionally dilutes the votes of Black and Hispanic residents. Justice Jeffrey Pearlman's decision forces the state's Independent Redistricting Commission to draw new lines by February 6—just 16 days before candidate petitioning begins—upending political calculations in a race both parties are fighting to control.
A car crashed through the entrance of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Friday evening, striking a ticket counter and injuring six people, according to airport officials. The driver was taken into custody, though the cause of the crash was not yet known.
Minneapolis residents are sheltering immigrant children separated from parents and sought by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration's enforcement surge in the Twin Cities. A 41-year-old Indigenous Ecuadorian office cleaner was detained in early January after entering the country illegally, prompting her oldest children to move their seven younger siblings to a safe house in south Minneapolis with help from church volunteers including Feliza Martinez. "The immigration agents were knocking on our door very late at night, and that's when I became afraid," said the family's 20-year-old son, speaking on condition of anonymity. "I'm afraid that I'll be taken and my brothers and sisters will be in the hands of the government."
The detention of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy by federal immigration agents outside his Minnesota home has produced sharply conflicting accounts. School officials say ICE officers used the child as "bait," instructing him to knock on the door while his mother was inside and his father was present. The Department of Homeland Security denies this, saying the father fled on foot and left the boy in a running vehicle in their driveway. The boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, are now detained together at a family facility in Dilley, Texas.
Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who documented detention facilities in Xinjiang, faces a court hearing Monday to determine whether he will remain in the United States or be deported. The 38-year-old has been held in Broome County Correctional Facility in New York since August 2025, when immigration agents detained him during an enforcement operation.
Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and Republican Sen. Susan Collins offered sharply different reactions on Friday to a surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the state. Mills challenged ICE to provide judicial warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained, while Collins said people in the country legally should not be targeted and urged protesters to avoid interfering with arrests.
The Associated Press reported that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo directs officers to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, raising concerns about the Fourth Amendment and about risks to residents. The story was published Jan. 23, 2026, and includes accounts of ICE tactics in multiple states.
A private security guard called 911 to report an emergency involving an ICE detainee at a Texas detention facility, and a county medical examiner later ruled the man’s death a homicide, according to a recording of the call obtained by The Associated Press. The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, stopped breathing during a struggle after staff restrained him in handcuffs following a reported suicide attempt at Camp East Montana in El Paso on Jan. 3.
In January 2026, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant scheduling Melvin Trotter, 65, for execution by lethal injection on February 24, 2026. Trotter was convicted of killing Virgie Langford, a grocery store owner, during a robbery in Palmetto in 1986. The execution made Trotter Florida's second death-row inmate scheduled for execution in 2026.
Vice President JD Vance spoke Friday at the annual March for Life rally in Washington, urging anti-abortion activists to "take heart" in the Trump administration's efforts to restrict abortion access. Vance detailed the administration's expansion of restrictions on U.S. foreign aid to abortion-supporting groups and praised the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, calling it "the most important Supreme Court decision of my lifetime."
Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was arrested in Mexico on Friday after turning himself in at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, officials said. Wedding, 44, is accused of leading a multinational drug trafficking operation that moved approximately 60 tons of cocaine from Latin America into the United States annually and orchestrating several killings. Wedding, who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, had been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since March 2025. The agency had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
The Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to carve out a distinct exception for the Federal Reserve from President Trump's expanded authority to fire heads of independent agencies. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said allowing Trump to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook would "weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve." The justices' signals suggest they see the Fed differently than other government agencies where they have already permitted Trump to dismiss officials for any reason.
San Diego imposed its first-ever parking fees at Balboa Park this month to secure dedicated funding for the century-old cultural site and help close a city budget gap, but the policy prompted immediate backlash that has already reshaped how residents and tourists engage with the park. Museum visitation dropped 20 percent in the opening days, vandals defaced parking meters, and two city council members who voted for the program now call for suspending the fees.
Firefighters and security forces battling deadly wildfires in central Chile have faced attempted attacks, unauthorized drone flights and arson, as the death toll rose to 21. The National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) said the fires have destroyed 45,700 hectares (176 square miles) of woodland and a handful of towns, according to its latest report released Thursday.
An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by the Associated Press authorizes immigration officers to forcibly enter people's homes using administrative warrants, marking a shift from decades of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. The memo, disclosed as immigration arrests soar under President Trump's mass deportation campaign, permits officers to enter private homes without warrants signed by judges — a practice long prohibited by constitutional law.
Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong released video of her arrest Friday, contradicting a manipulated image the White House posted on X the previous day. The White House image showed Armstrong crying with her hands behind her back, with a caption identifying her as an 'Arrested far-left agitator' who had 'orchestrated church riots in Minnesota.' Armstrong's unedited seven-minute video, shot by her husband, presents a starkly different account of her Thursday arrest during an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a Minneapolis church.
Maine's Democratic governor and Republican senator offered divergent responses Friday to an immigration sweep that has detained dozens of people across the state this week. Gov. Janet Mills demanded that federal immigration officials provide judicial warrants and real-time arrest data, while Sen. Susan Collins said the protests being organized should avoid interfering with law enforcement operations. The divergence reflects the high-stakes nature of the race between them — Mills is challenging Collins' Senate seat — as well as fundamental disagreement over how immigration enforcement should operate. Mills, termed out as governor, must first win a Democratic primary against oyster farmer Graham Platner, whose campaign is endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon contractor, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, was indicted Thursday on charges stemming from alleged sharing of classified national defense information with a journalist, in a case linked to a federal search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home. Prosecutors said Perez-Lugones, 61, was charged with five counts of unlawfully transmitting classified information and one count of unlawfully retaining it.
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified Thursday that President Donald Trump caused the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election results, according to his five-hour appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Smith said Trump "sought to prey" on his supporters and "looked for ways to stay in power," culminating in the assault on the Capitol. "Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence," Smith testified.
After jurors found Adrian Gonzales not guilty in the first Texas trial over law enforcement’s hesitant response to the May 24, 2022, Robb Elementary mass shooting, attention has turned to the remaining case against former Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo. The acquittal, delivered after seven hours of deliberations, leaves prosecutors deciding whether and how to proceed in Arredondo’s trial, which accuses him of failing to enforce the district’s active-shooter plan as officers waited more than an hour to enter the classroom.
The U.S. military carried out a deadly strike Friday on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean accused of drug trafficking, the first known attack since a raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. The strike killed two people and left one survivor, according to U.S. Southern Command. The Coast Guard launched search and rescue operations for the survivor.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation confirmed Friday that journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 2005 death was a suicide, following an independent review requested by his widow, Anita Thompson.
A federal judge in Georgia dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking voter information from the state Friday, ruling the government had sued in the wrong judicial district. U.S. District Judge Ashley Royal found the Justice Department should have sued Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Atlanta rather than Macon, where the secretary of state maintains an office. The dismissal was issued without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department can refile the lawsuit. The dispute marks the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to collect detailed voter data from states.
The Justice Department moved Friday to permanently seal a classified-documents report produced by former Special Counsel Jack Smith, calling it the "illicit product of an unlawful investigation and prosecution" that belongs in the "dustbin of history." The filing escalates a legal battle over whether Smith's report on his investigation into President Donald Trump's handling of sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate should be made public.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday he was optimistic about a White House meeting with President Trump scheduled for Feb. 3, marking a significant diplomatic shift after months of hostility. The optimism comes after the United States revoked Petro's visa and imposed sanctions on him and his family in September over what he characterized as unproven drug-trafficking allegations.
Philadelphia sued the Trump administration Thursday to reverse the removal of an exhibit documenting slavery at Independence National Historical Park, challenging an executive order directing federal agencies to review historical interpretations for "accuracy, honesty, and alignment with shared national values." The National Park Service removed the display detailing nine enslaved people who lived at the President's House when George and Martha Washington occupied the residence during Philadelphia's tenure as the nation's capital.
Nearly 70 years after his execution, Tommy Lee Walker was declared innocent on Wednesday by Dallas County officials in a case that prosecutors now say was riddled with racial bias, false evidence, and coercive interrogation by a police officer who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Walker, a Black man, was executed in May 1956 for the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a 31-year-old store clerk killed on Sept. 30, 1953. Dallas County commissioners unanimously passed a resolution declaring his conviction and execution a "profound miscarriage of justice."
A federal judge in Boston ruled Thursday that academics targeted for deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism can seek legal protection if the Trump administration retaliates against them for participating in a lawsuit challenging the government's enforcement policy. U.S. District Judge William Young, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, said noncitizen members of two academic associations can challenge any changes to their immigration status made in reprisal for their free-speech activities.
Montana State Auditor James Brown announced Tuesday that his office identified a health care fraud scheme targeting Native Americans on state reservations. At least 80 Native Americans were victimized in the scam, which exploited systemic gaps in federal health insurance enrollment and billing procedures. Brown's office said it clawed back more than $23.3 million from fraudulent insurance claims and identified 207 potentially fraudulent enrollments representing an estimated $54.7 million in unjustified billing.
Mississippi lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a public registry for people convicted of multiple domestic violence offenses, a measure aimed at alerting potential victims to their abusers' histories. The bills are supported by domestic violence advocates and a survivor whose experience prompted the effort.
Meta Platforms announced Friday it is halting teens' access to artificial intelligence characters on Instagram and WhatsApp, according to a blog post from the company. The pause, set to begin in coming weeks, applies to anyone who gave Meta a birthday indicating they are a minor, as well as people the company suspects are teenagers based on its age-prediction technology. The move comes as Meta, along with YouTube and TikTok, prepares to face trial in Los Angeles over allegations that their platforms cause harm to children.
A county medical examiner ruled the death of a Cuban immigrant in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody a homicide on Jan. 22, after the man attempted suicide and was restrained by guards at a detention center in El Paso, Texas. Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died Jan. 3 at Camp East Montana, a detention facility built on an Army base to house thousands of immigrants. The examiner determined he died from asphyxia caused by compression to his neck and torso. The homicide ruling came after a 911 call obtained by The Associated Press revealed that a private security contractor at the facility called for emergency help during the struggle. A witness who observed the incident described at least five guards holding Campos down, with one applying pressure around his neck until he lost consciousness.
Melvin Trotter, 65, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 24 at Florida State Prison, according to a death warrant signed Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trotter was convicted of killing Virgie Langford, a grocery store owner, during a robbery in Palmetto, Florida, in 1986. He was initially convicted of first-degree murder in 1987 and resentenced to death in 1993 after the Florida Supreme Court found errors in the trial court's handling of aggravating factors in his case.
The family of Cornelius Taylor, a 46-year-old man who died when a bulldozer crushed his tent in an Atlanta encampment, filed a lawsuit Friday against two nonprofits it says are partly responsible for his death. The lawsuit names Partners for HOME and SafeHouse Outreach, alleging their employees failed to check whether Taylor was in his tent before the bulldozer was deployed during a January 2025 encampment sweep near Ebenezer Baptist Church. The city had requested the clearance ahead of celebrations for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
New York City sued Jordan McGraw and his production company this week for breach of contract over an unfinished documentary series about the New York Police Department, obtaining a court order that blocks them from releasing or selling footage from the show, tentatively titled "Behind the Badge."
About 100 clergy members were arrested Friday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and thousands of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite temperatures of minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit to protest the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations. The clergy were arrested after exceeding the reach of their permit and disrupting airline operations, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The demonstrations drew labor unions, progressive organizations, and faith leaders calling for an end to what the Department of Homeland Security described as its "largest-ever immigration enforcement operation."
New York City sued Jordan McGraw and his production company this week over the unaired NYPD reality series “Behind the Badge,” and obtained a court order blocking them, at least temporarily, from selling or disseminating footage from the show. The lawsuit seeks to enforce a contract clause giving the city control over what can be released, including restrictions tied to sensitive operations and the identities of undercover officers and crime victims.
A woman wounded in a shooting by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration stop in Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to illegally entering the United States and was sentenced to one year of probation. Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras appeared by video from an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive.
An avalanche killed nine members of a single family in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, while heavy snowfall in neighboring Afghanistan killed 11 people across six provinces on Thursday. The winter weather also stranded thousands of tourists near Pakistan's capital and isolated entire towns across Afghanistan, disrupting supply routes and emergency response efforts.
Bottom trawling and scallop dredging — industrial fishing methods that rake the seabed — continue in about 95% of Scotland's coastal waters, including within designated marine protected areas, according to marine conservation groups. The practice persists despite the Scottish government's designation of 37% of the country's waters as marine protected areas, with only a small fraction of those areas having management measures in place to enforce protection.
A Swiss court released Jacques Moretti, co-owner of Le Constellation bar, on bail Friday with strict conditions. The court set bail at 200,000 Swiss francs and required Moretti to remain in Switzerland, deposit his identity documents with prosecutors, and report to police daily. The bar fire on Jan. 1 in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana killed 40 people and injured more than 100.
An Illinois doctor charged in the December shootings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in Columbus, Ohio, pleaded not guilty in court Friday, according to authorities and court filings. Michael David McKee, 39, appeared remotely from jail in Franklin County, where he faces four aggravated murder counts and an aggravated burglary charge.
An autopsy has ruled the January 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos a homicide, according to the El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office. The 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, held in solitary confinement at Camp East Montana near El Paso, died from asphyxia caused by neck and torso compression during an altercation with guards. A witness told The Associated Press that Lunas Campos was handcuffed as at least five guards held him down, with one guard applying pressure around his neck until he lost consciousness. The medical examiner's report documented abrasions on his chest and knees, hemorrhages on his neck, and petechial hemorrhages in his eyelids — tiny blood spots consistent with asphyxia from pressure on the body.
Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong and at least two other people were arrested Thursday in connection with a protest that disrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church in St. Paul, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor, according to Trump administration officials. The arrests came as a federal magistrate judge rejected charges against journalist Don Lemon related to the same event. Vice President JD Vance, speaking in Minneapolis, urged state and local law enforcement to collaborate with federal immigration officials.
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee to defend his investigations into President Donald Trump, insisting he had acted without political motive. "No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that he be held to account," Smith said of Trump. The hourslong hearing split immediately along partisan lines, with Republican lawmakers seeking to undermine Smith while Democrats sought to elicit evidence of Trump's conduct.
President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion on Thursday, alleging the bank closed his accounts in February 2021 for political reasons. The lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade County court in Florida, claims JPMorgan terminated multiple accounts with just 60 days notice and no explanation, and placed Trump and his businesses on a "reputational blacklist" used to prevent future banking relationships.
The House passed approximately $1.2 trillion in spending bills in January 2026, narrowly approving Homeland Security funding on a 220-207 vote as Democratic leaders objected to provisions that would fund President Trump's mass deportation efforts. The broader spending package passed 341-88, funding a 3.8% military pay raise while keeping non-defense spending at current levels.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp suspended state Rep. Sharon Henderson from office Thursday following her indictment on federal unemployment fraud charges. A state review commission found that the charges against the Democratic legislator hurt her ability to perform her duties, and Kemp accepted that determination.
A House Oversight Committee advanced Wednesday resolutions to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over subpoenas in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, a step that could lead to votes on the House floor. The committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, said no witness should willfully defy a congressional subpoena without consequences.
Karen Bennett, a former Georgia House member first elected in 2012, pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying on applications for federal pandemic unemployment assistance. The 70-year-old admitted in U.S. District Court that she falsely claimed to be prevented by quarantine from working at Metro Therapy Providers, a company she owned. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross set sentencing for April 15, with prosecutors agreeing to seek no prison time or supervised release.
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on five Costa Ricans and five Costa Rican entities for allegedly helping to transport tons of cocaine from Colombia, storing the drugs in Costa Rica, and shipping them to the United States and Europe. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in announcing the action that "the entire drug trafficking supply chain — from shipping facilitators to money launderers — bears responsibility for American addictions and deaths."
Congressional cosponsors of an Epstein records transparency law can sue for enforcement of the Justice Department’s disclosure obligations, but they cannot intervene in Ghislaine Maxwell’s federal sex trafficking case, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer blocked Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie from seeking a court-appointed neutral monitor to oversee compliance.
Nevada voters will decide in November on 31% of the state’s District Court judges, after the other two-thirds were retained without opposition, according to filing results from this week’s candidate deadline. The filing period closed Friday, with candidates filing statewide for judicial seats across District Court, two Nevada Supreme Court seats, and several justices of the peace and municipal judgeships.
A federal judge extended a temporary order blocking the Trump administration from withholding child care and other social service funds from five Democratic-controlled states. The order keeps federal money moving for at least two more weeks as the court weighs challenges to the government’s fraud concerns.
A federal appeals court heard arguments Thursday on whether President Donald Trump can invoke a law written in 1798 to deport members of a Venezuelan criminal gang. All 17 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans examined whether the Alien Enemies Act — a wartime statute never before used against a criminal organization — applies to Tren de Aragua.
The White House shared a manipulated photograph of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong during her arrest at a Minnesota church, according to an Associated Press fact-check. The altered image showed her in tears; the original photograph, posted by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, showed her with a neutral expression. Levy Armstrong was arrested for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at the church.
A federal agent fatally shot Renee Good, 37, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota earlier this month, forcing Democrats into an immediate political crisis as the party scrambles to devise a unified response to the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown on immigration. The killing has upended Democratic midterm strategy. The party had planned to campaign on affordability and health care—two issues where President Trump faces voter dissatisfaction—but the violent scenes from Minnesota have intensified pressure on Democrats to take immediate action on immigration enforcement practices.
Nevada Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony faces an ethics complaint alleging he used his office's social media account to promote his book for personal financial gain, in violation of state law. The complaint, filed by political consultant Lindsey Harmon, a former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Votes, contends the conduct may constitute both an ethics violation and a category E felony under Nevada state law.
Florida's attorney general released an opinion Monday questioning the constitutionality of roughly 80 state laws that support minority contracting and promote diverse hiring, drawing swift condemnation from Black lawmakers Thursday. James Uthmeier claimed the laws violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because "they mandate discrimination based on race," and said he would no longer enforce what he called their "discriminatory" provisions. The timing—on Martin Luther King Jr. Day—drew particular criticism from Democratic legislators, who characterized the move as a political stunt and a threat to decades of civil rights protections.
The Missouri House of Representatives voted Thursday to reprimand Democratic state Rep. Jeremy Dean for sending a sexually vulgar text message to Republican colleague Cecelie Williams during a September redistricting protest. The penalties include barring him from House committees, requiring him to stay at least 50 feet away from Williams, and undergoing additional sexual harassment training.
Maine's Democratic governor challenged federal immigration officials Thursday to provide warrants and arrest information from a sweeping enforcement operation in her state, saying residents have been left largely in the dark as fear spreads through immigrant communities. Gov. Janet Mills said President Donald Trump's office has not returned her calls regarding the operation.
Prosecutors said members of a motorcycle club and a street gang tried to kill Tippecanoe County Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer and his wife at their home in Lafayette, Indiana. Court documents unsealed Friday describe a plot they say was intended to derail a domestic abuse case against Thomas Gregory Moss, a defendant facing trial in front of Meyer.
Luigi Mangione’s federal murder trial in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will begin with jury selection on Sept. 8, a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said the rest of the schedule depends on whether she allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty.
Missouri's gaming commission rejected an NCAA request Thursday to restrict bets on individual college athlete performance, saying the state needs more data about how its newly approved sports betting market operates. The rejection came about one week after federal authorities indicted more than two dozen people in what the NCAA describes as a college basketball gambling scheme involving payments to athletes to rig games.
Virginia's newly inaugurated Attorney General Jay Jones filed a motion Wednesday to withdraw from an agreement his predecessor made with the U.S. Department of Justice to invalidate the state's Dream Act, which allows undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition rates at Virginia colleges and universities. Jones took office this month as a Democrat, replacing Republican Jason Miyares, who had joined the federal government's legal challenge to the 2020 law.
Clothing retailer Under Armour is investigating a data breach that exposed 72 million customer email addresses and personal information, the Baltimore-based company said. The breach, believed to have occurred in late 2025, included customer names, genders, birthdates and ZIP codes, but no passwords or financial information, according to company officials and cybersecurity experts.
Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis on Thursday to address mounting tensions over the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign, blaming "far-left people" and state and local officials for the chaos that has unfolded. Vance said Minnesota leaders should "meet us halfway" and insisted he was working to lower tensions, even as his visit coincided with a planned day of statewide protests by faith leaders, labor unions, and hundreds of businesses. The visit came weeks into an aggressive federal immigration enforcement operation that has drawn sharp rebukes from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz, who have accused federal agents of racial profiling and terrorizing immigrant communities.
From January 2020 through November 2025, Omaha has granted mayoral pardons to more than 60 residents convicted of municipal violations. Lincoln has pardoned two. The disparity reflects fundamentally different thresholds and philosophies in how Nebraska's two largest cities offer formal forgiveness for past mistakes and a path forward for residents whose criminal histories have limited employment and housing opportunities.
A federal jury acquitted Juan Espinoza Martinez on Thursday of murder-for-hire charges related to a $10,000 bounty he allegedly offered on Snapchat for the life of a top Border Patrol official. Jurors deliberated less than four hours before finding the 37-year-old not guilty of the single count that carried a potential 10-year prison sentence.
Washington state Rep. Tarra Simmons faces an ethics complaint alleging she improperly used $30,000 in surplus campaign funds by directing donations to a Nevada-based nonprofit with no active platform and no federal filings since 2021. The complaint, filed Jan. 12 with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission, links the nonprofit to Jovan Jackson, another first-time formerly incarcerated legislator now serving in the Nevada Legislature.
Federal immigration agents detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian from their Columbia Heights, Minnesota home Tuesday, school officials said, marking the fourth child from their school district to be detained in recent weeks.
Homicide rates in 35 American cities declined 21% from 2024 to 2025, translating to approximately 922 fewer deaths, according to a new report from the Council on Criminal Justice released Thursday. The nonpartisan criminal-justice think tank also found drops in 11 of 13 crime categories tracked, though drug crimes increased modestly and sexual assaults remained flat.
Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar Jr. was indicted Thursday on five felony fraud charges for allegedly operating a private disinfecting business using county resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. The indictment comes four days after President Trump pardoned his brother, Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, in a separate federal bribery case. The sheriff appeared in federal court in Texas and was released on bond. He has pleaded not guilty.
Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez said Tuesday she will investigate a 2022 bribery case involving a Hawaiʻi lawmaker recorded accepting $35,000 in a paper bag. The announcement follows a federal decision announced last week to share evidence with state officials. The investigation will be handled by the attorney general’s special investigation and prosecution division.
Minneapolis businesses say a surge in federal immigration enforcement has disrupted staffing, consumer traffic and hotel reservations, as protests roil parts of the Twin Cities. The effects are showing up amid plans for a general strike Friday to demand an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, according to organizers. The economic fallout comes as Minnesota and the Twin Cities seek court relief to halt the operations.
A Chicago man accused of soliciting the murder of a Border Patrol commander unknowingly sent Snapchat messages to a government informant, federal prosecutors said as his trial opened Wednesday. Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, is facing one count of murder-for-hire in the first criminal trial tied to an immigration crackdown in and around the Chicago area that began last year.
President Donald Trump is creating a “Board of Peace” meant to help broker ceasefires and other conflicts, an ambition that United Nations officials and U.N. Security Council members said Wednesday is unlikely to replace the world body’s decadeslong role. The Associated Press reported the effort as the latest U.S. challenge to the Security Council and to the relevance of the United Nations, including amid ongoing reforms and funding disputes.
The former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal charges that he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen and illegally possessed firearms, according to a plea agreement released Wednesday. Ian Roberts, who led the district of roughly 30,000 students before his arrest in late September, had more than two decades of experience as an educator and school administrator before becoming superintendent.
The Washington Post asked a federal court Wednesday for an order requiring the government to return electronic devices seized from reporter Hannah Natanson's Virginia home. A magistrate judge in Alexandria temporarily blocked the government from reviewing material from the seized devices and scheduled a February 6 hearing on the newspaper's request. The seizure was part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of handling classified documents.
A federal appeals court suspended a ruling that prohibited federal officers from using tear gas and pepper spray against protesters in Minnesota on Wednesday, clearing the way for more aggressive enforcement tactics. The decision came as immigration agents expanded operations to Maine and served state and local officials with subpoenas seeking records about their opposition to the enforcement campaign. Immigration enforcement officers said they have arrested more than 10,000 undocumented immigrants in Minnesota over the past year.
NASA and families of fallen astronauts gathered at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. All seven crew members aboard were killed when the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations of President Donald Trump at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, saying “No one should be above the law.” Smith testified publicly after previously appearing behind closed doors and described the evidence he said prosecutors assembled in separate cases tied to Trump’s 2020 election loss and documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday, the U.S. Southern Command said, part of the Trump administration’s effort to take control of the South American country’s oil. The Command said forces apprehended the Liberian-flagged Motor Vessel Sagitta “without incident,” and said the tanker was operating in defiance of President Donald Trump’s “established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched an enforcement operation in Maine on Tuesday called Operation "Catch of the Day," an apparent reference to the state's seafood industry. The agency had identified approximately 1,400 targets in Maine and made 50 arrests on the first day, according to Patricia Hyde, the ICE deputy assistant director. The operation marked the Trump administration's expansion of mass deportation efforts to Maine, a state with a relatively small undocumented population but significant communities of African refugees. Portland and Lewiston are home to thousands of residents of African descent, with Maine having one of the nation's highest Somali populations following accelerated immigration in the early 2000s.
A Canadian man prosecutors say posed as a working airline pilot pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Hawaii to wire fraud charges, after allegedly obtaining hundreds of free tickets from three U.S. carriers over four years by presenting fraudulent crew credentials. Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arraigned following his extradition to the United States. He had been arrested in Panama after a federal grand jury in Hawaii indicted him last October. His federal public defender declined to discuss the case.
A Canadian man was arrested in Panama and pleaded not guilty after being extradited to the United States on federal wire fraud charges, U.S. authorities say. Federal prosecutors allege the man posed as a pilot and worked airline employee to obtain hundreds of free tickets from three U.S. airlines over four years.
Federal officials said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney, was arrested after a disruption by anti-immigration enforcement protesters at a Minnesota church where an ICE official serves as a pastor, even as a judge rejected related charges against journalist Don Lemon. Vice President JD Vance urged state and local law enforcement to work with federal immigration officers and said protesters must stop getting in their way.
President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion, alleging the bank stopped providing banking services to him and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in January 2021. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Miami-Dade County court in Florida, according to the complaint described by The Associated Press.
The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to advance contempt of Congress charges against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over their refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. In a bipartisan vote, all Republicans and nine Democrats on the committee supported the contempt charges against Bill Clinton. Three progressive Democrats — Reps. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — also voted to advance contempt charges against Hillary Clinton.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments on whether President Donald Trump can force Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her post over mortgage fraud allegations she denies, with at least six justices expressing skepticism about the effort. No president has ever fired a sitting Federal Reserve governor in the institution's 112-year history.
Karen Bennett, a former Georgia House member, pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to collect federal pandemic unemployment benefits. The 70-year-old physical therapist fraudulently obtained $13,940 in federal assistance designed for those harmed by COVID-19. Bennett will repay the funds and faces sentencing in April.
The House approved the final batch of federal spending bills for the current fiscal year on Thursday, sending the package to the Senate as lawmakers try to avert another funding lapse. The four bills total about $1.2 trillion and need final Senate action next week before a Jan. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared inclined to keep Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook in her post as it weighs President Donald Trump’s effort to remove her. The justices heard arguments over Trump’s attempt to fire Cook based on mortgage-fraud allegations she denies.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments over President Donald Trump’s request to immediately remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook while her legal challenge to her firing proceeds. The court is considering the emergency appeal in a politically charged dispute tied to the Federal Reserve’s independence.
President Donald Trump held a more-than-100-minute news conference at the White House on Tuesday to recap his first year in office. The president displayed photographs of immigrants he said his administration had arrested, showed a stack labeled "Accomplishments," and described both at length before tossing them on the floor. The conference occurred at a moment of international alarm and domestic tension: Trump's weekend threats of tariffs on Europe in pursuit of Greenland had shaken the NATO alliance, and his administration had ordered 1,500 active-duty soldiers to be ready for possible deployment to the streets of Minneapolis under the Insurrection Act.
A federal judge has upheld West Texas A&M's ban on a drag show by a student group, ruling Saturday that the university did not violate the First Amendment by blocking the event. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk found that Spectrum WT, the student organization, failed to demonstrate the 2023 drag show conveyed a specific message protected by the Constitution. The ruling effectively terminated a legal challenge set for appellate review later this week.
A New York judge voided the boundaries of the state's only Republican-held House district Wednesday, finding they unconstitutionally dilute the votes of Black and Hispanic residents. Justice Jeffrey Pearlman ordered New York's Independent Redistricting Commission to redraw the lines of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis's district, which includes Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, by Feb. 6.
Colombia’s Inspector General said Tuesday that former FARC rebels are failing to comply with a 2016 peace deal by not fully relinquishing assets promised to fund reparations for victims.
BAGHDAD and Washington said the transfer of Islamic State detainees from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq began after Baghdad requested the move. The transfer started after Syrian government forces seized parts of the al-Hol area and pushed into areas where Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces held prisoners, the AP reported Thursday. U.S. officials confirmed Iraq “offered proactively” to take the prisoners.
A federal judge in Washington on Monday refused to temporarily block a Trump administration policy requiring members of Congress to give a week’s notice before visiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. The judge said Democratic members’ attorneys challenged the change using the wrong procedural path, and that the Jan. 8 policy is a new agency action not covered by an earlier order.
Gunmen who abducted more than 150 church worshippers in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state are demanding 17 motorcycles as ransom from families of the hostages, residents told The Associated Press on Thursday. The kidnappers raided three churches in Kajuru council area on Sunday, seizing 177 people before 11 managed to escape.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to strike down Hawaii’s restrictions on carrying guns into places such as stores and hotels, in a case testing how far states may limit Second Amendment rights. Justices questioned whether Hawaii could enforce the rules without undermining speech rights on private property, and the Trump administration backed the challenge.
The U.S. military has started transferring many Islamic State group detainees held in northeast Syria to secure locations in Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said. The transfer began Wednesday amid fighting in the area between Syrian government forces and Kurdish-led fighters, which brought government troops close to several detention facilities and camps.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on five Costa Ricans and five Costa Rican entities for allegedly helping transport tons of cocaine from Colombia, storing the drugs in Costa Rica, and shipping them to the United States and Europe, the Treasury Department said Thursday. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control alleged the network was led by Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba, alongside his brother.
The Federal Trade Commission said it will appeal a federal judge's November ruling that found Meta Platforms Inc. does not hold a monopoly in social networking, according to a statement Tuesday. The FTC continues to contend that Meta "illegally maintained a monopoly" through "anticompetitive conduct" including its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The appeal represents the FTC's effort to overturn a significant loss in its antitrust challenge against the social media giant.
An 18-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and other charges for a 2022 mass shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina, that killed five people, including his older brother and a police officer. Austin David Thompson was 15 years old when he carried out the October 13, 2022, attack. Thompson pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of assault of an officer with a gun.
California has reported a significant decline in electronic benefits card theft, with Gov. Gavin Newsom crediting the state's rollout of anti-fraud technology. The announcement comes as the Trump administration intensifies pressure on Democratic-led states over benefits fraud.
Hawaii plans to deploy state sheriff’s deputies for expanded traffic enforcement statewide, state officials said this month, as traffic deaths increased again last year. The effort will add deputy teams to help Honolulu and neighbor island police, with overtime funded through $2 million in federal highway safety money, according to the state’s transportation director. The move comes after statewide traffic deaths rose to 129 last year, the highest fatalities on Hawaii roadways since 2007.
Federal immigration authorities let a man accused in a $100 million jewelry heist deport himself to South America in December, according to court filings reviewed by the Associated Press. Prosecutors said they were preparing to try the case but were stunned when the suspect left the country before trial. The suspect is Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, one of seven people charged in the 2022 Brink’s armored-truck theft.
Former Iowa superintendent Ian Roberts pleaded guilty Thursday to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship on a federal employment form and to illegally possessing firearms, according to court proceedings in Des Moines. The plea, entered before U.S. Magistrate Judge Helen C. Adams, could affect his immigration case and he acknowledged he could face deportation after serving a sentence.
A Chicago man went on trial Wednesday for allegedly soliciting a $10,000 bounty on Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino using Snapchat messages, in the first criminal trial stemming from the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the nation's third-largest city.
Democrats are grappling with a political challenge that threatens to reshape their midterm strategy: how to respond aggressively to immigration enforcement operations they find alarming without appearing soft on immigration to voters who have historically trusted Republicans more on the issue. The challenge emerged sharply after an immigration crackdown in Minnesota that included the fatal shooting of Renee Good during a confrontation with federal agents.
A federal judge sentenced Joseph Bongiovanni, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who spent nearly two decades in law enforcement, to five years in prison Wednesday for using his position to shield childhood friends who ran a drug trafficking network in western New York.
A financial adviser pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 2,000 people of $380 million. Todd Burkhalter, 54, of St. Petersburg, Florida, founded Drive Planning LLC and marketed fraudulent investment schemes promising quarterly returns of 10 percent. Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of more than 17 years in prison.
A former Uvalde schools police officer was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he failed in his duty to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary during the initial moments of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Adrian Gonzales, 52, faced 29 counts of child abandonment and endangerment — each count representing the 19 students killed and 10 others injured in the 2022 attack. Jurors deliberated for more than seven hours before returning a not-guilty verdict.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has authorized officers to forcibly enter people's homes based solely on administrative warrants, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. The directive, issued in May 2025, marks a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. The move comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration enforcement nationwide, with thousands of officers deployed in cities including Minneapolis, where recent arrests have raised questions about agency tactics.
Nebraska state leaders plan to move all boys from a youth treatment center in Kearney to a currently underutilized facility in Omaha, following multiple allegations of sexual abuse at the Kearney site. The boys would be relocated to what is now a youth prison operated by the state Department of Correctional Services, as part of a broader reshuffling of the state's in-custody juvenile population. State officials say the plan will improve living conditions and save approximately $4 million annually, but the Douglas County public defender and state employee union have raised questions about implementation readiness and impacts on youth programming.
The 1776 Project Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Los Angeles schools policy intended to address segregation, alleging that the policy discriminates against white students. The challenge comes as Trump administration officials push to overturn decades-old desegregation court orders.
Ian Roberts, the former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, is expected to plead guilty in federal court to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday. Roberts, a native of Guyana, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and potential deportation after serving his sentence.
Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez reversed course Tuesday, announcing that the state will investigate a 2022 case in which an unnamed state legislator accepted $35,000 in a paper bag from a bribery subject. Governor Josh Green and Lopez jointly determined that a state investigation is warranted in the public interest. The reversal follows weeks of mounting public pressure, including a citizen petition signed by more than 1,000 people and calls from lawmakers for disclosure of the legislator's identity.
Facing Foster Care in Alaska filed a lawsuit against the state's Office of Children's Services on January 6, alleging that foster youth placed in shelters and college dormitories are not receiving enough money for food and basic necessities. The advocacy organization, led by director Amanda Metivier, says youth in these settings receive far less support than the more than $1,000 monthly stipend provided to foster families for the same needs. The suit challenges what Metivier calls a disparity in how the state cares for older youth transitioning toward adulthood.
Nevada voters will decide on 31 percent of the state's District Court judges when they head to the polls in November, with a total of 155 candidates filing for election to the judiciary, according to reporting from the Associated Press. The remaining two-thirds of judges retained their seats after no opponents filed during the judicial candidate filing period that closed Friday.
A federal judge in Buffalo, New York sentenced former Drug Enforcement Administration agent Joseph Bongiovanni to five years in prison Wednesday for using his law enforcement position to protect childhood friends who ran a drug trafficking network. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo imposed the sentence after a jury convicted Bongiovanni, 61, in 2024 on counts of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and making false statements to law enforcement. Prosecutors had sought 15 years.
Prosecutors in New Jersey said they will not pursue a child abuse trial against Atlantic City Schools Superintendent La’Quetta Small, whose case had been tied to a separate prosecution of her husband, Mayor Marty Small Sr. The couple had both pleaded not guilty to charges alleging they harmed their teenage daughter.
Mexican authorities said they arrested an alleged organized crime figure known as “El Botox” in connection with the killing of an outspoken leader of the state’s lime growers. The arrest was announced by Mexico City-based Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch on Thursday, according to AP.
Sagamu, Nigeria — The driver in a deadly car crash that injured British heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed two of his friends in Nigeria was arraigned on Tuesday on four counts, including dangerous driving causing death. Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, appeared in Ogun state court following the December accident near Lagos on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, officials said.
AP videographer Pierre-Richard Luxama described filming a tactical police patrol in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 20 when gang members attacked, setting an armored vehicle’s roof ablaze with Molotov cocktails. Luxama said the smoke filled the vehicle and spread quickly, and officers returned fire as civilians and police rushed to extinguish the flames.
Attorneys for Austin Thompson said Tuesday that the 18-year-old plans to plead guilty to a 2022 mass shooting in North Carolina that prosecutors said killed five people, including his older brother. The filing in Wake County court would allow Thompson to avoid a trial scheduled to begin Feb. 2, lawyers said.
Elizabeth Hurley testified in London’s High Court that the Daily Mail publisher unlawfully hacked her privacy, saying it involved phone tapping, microphones outside her windows and the stealing of her medical records. She described the alleged intrusions during testimony in a privacy invasion lawsuit that also includes Prince Harry and Elton John, along with four other co-claimants.
Former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni was sentenced to five years in federal prison in Buffalo, New York, for using his badge to protect childhood friends who became drug traffickers. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo handed down the term on Wednesday, after two lengthy trials that ended in mixed verdicts.
Joseph Bongiovanni, exagente de la DEA, fue sentenciado a cinco años de prisión federal en Buffalo, Nueva York, por cargos de corrupción. El juez federal Lawrence J. Vilardo impuso la pena el miércoles tras dos juicios prolongados. La fiscalía había pedido 15 años, y un jurado lo absolvió de los cargos más graves, incluida una acusación de que se embolsó 250.000 dólares en sobornos vinculados a la mafia.
Federal agents detained a 5-year-old boy as he returned home from preschool in Minnesota and took his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said. The boy’s father had an active asylum case and had not been ordered removed, Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik said.
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal a November decision that ruled in favor of Meta in the FTC’s antitrust case over social networking. The FTC said it continues to allege that Meta “illegally maintained a monopoly” in social networking through anticompetitive conduct involving Instagram and WhatsApp.
Federal immigration officers are asserting authority to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press on Jan. 21, 2026. The memo, signed in May 2025 by acting ICE director Todd Lyons, would allow entry based on an administrative warrant to arrest a person with a final order of removal.
Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname arrested nearly 200 people in a joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday. The operation, carried out in December, was backed by Interpol and European Union support, authorities said.
Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted United Nations facilities in east Jerusalem tied to UNRWA, as crews bulldozed UNRWA offices in Sheikh Jarrah and fired tear gas at a vocational school in Qalandia, the Associated Press reported. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the destruction and called for the compound to be returned to U.N. control. More than 300 young refugees were receiving job training at the Qalandia school, Palestinian officials said.
Actor Timothy Busfield was released from jail Tuesday night in New Mexico while he faces charges of child sexual abuse, a judge said. The decision came after Busfield’s attorneys argued he was not a danger to the community and should remain free pending trial.
A federal judge in Miami rescheduled a Tuesday hearing for U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a congresswoman accused of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds, to allow her to finalize her legal team. Prosecutors did not object to the request for additional time, and the arraignment was moved to Feb. 3.
A federal jury in Chicago found Juan Espinoza Martinez not guilty of murder for hire after prosecutors alleged he circulated a $10,000 bounty on the life of a top Border Patrol official through Snapchat. The verdict came after jurors deliberated less than four hours on Thursday, according to court reporting.
A jury has been selected in the federal trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez, accused of offering a $10,000 bounty for the killing of a Border Patrol commander in the Chicago area. The trial was set to begin Wednesday after 12 jurors and two alternates were chosen in Chicago. Federal prosecutors say Martinez offered the reward in connection with an immigration crackdown known as Operation Midway Blitz last year.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills demanded federal immigration officials provide warrants, real-time arrest figures and information about who is detained as an enforcement operation in the state has spread fear through immigrant communities. Mills said Thursday that her office has not received responses from President Donald Trump’s administration and criticized what she called “secret arrests.”
Marine Le Pen reconoció “un error” durante una audiencia de apelación en París el miércoles, en un caso ligado a una condena por malversación de fondos del Parlamento de la Unión Europea. La líder de la ultraderecha francesa busca anular un fallo de marzo de 2025 que la declaró culpable de desviar dinero mediante la contratación de asistentes entre 2004 y 2016.
Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday that Mexico has sent another 37 people tied to drug cartels to the United States, as President Donald Trump pressures governments to crack down on trafficking networks. Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s security minister, said the transferred people were “high impact criminals” in a post on X. Mexico said the transfers are part of a broader effort that has sent 92 detained cartel members to the U.S. in total since the government began the program.
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 20 — Stephen Spencer Pittman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a federal arson charge connected to a fire that badly damaged the Beth Israel Congregation, a historic Mississippi synagogue that had been bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967.
Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska both offer mayoral pardons for some misdemeanor convictions under city law, but a comparison of records shows the programs operate at very different scales. From Jan. 1, 2020 to November 2025, Omaha pardoned more than 60 residents for misdemeanor convictions, while Lincoln approved two. Jasmine Harris said her 2017 mayoral pardon helped ease fears that her criminal record would block jobs and other opportunities.
Prosecutors opened the trial of Nathan Chasing Horse in Las Vegas on Tuesday, saying the former actor used his reputation as a Lakota medicine man to prey on Indigenous women and girls and sexually assault them. Chasing Horse, best known for portraying Smiles A Lot in “Dances With Wolves,” pleaded not guilty to 21 charges, including sexual assault and sexual assault of a minor.
A new report released Thursday found the homicide rate fell sharply in 35 U.S. cities from 2024 to 2025, with the overall rate dropping to its lowest level in decades. The Council on Criminal Justice said its data showed 11 of 13 tracked crime categories declined over the year. <a href='/articles/2026-01-22-ap-homicide-rate-decrease-cities-crime-b6fc'>MSI previously reported</a> that the study also tied some property-crime declines to the broader trend.
William D. DeFoor, 26, the person charged in connection with vandalism at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Cincinnati on Tuesday. Prosecutors allege DeFoor damaged historic window panes and assaulted federal officers after breaching the property line early on Jan. 5.
Testimony ended Tuesday in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing to stop a gunman during the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack. The case against Adrian Gonzales is set to go to the jury after closing arguments scheduled Wednesday in a courtroom in Corpus Christi, Texas.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A U.S. citizen says federal immigration agents detained him at gunpoint in his Minnesota home without a warrant and led him outside in only underwear in subfreezing weather, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press. The man, ChongLy “Scott” Thao, said agents broke down a door and later returned him to his house after determining he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record.
Vice President JD Vance told supporters in Minneapolis on Thursday that he had come to “lower the temperature” amid unrest tied to the White House’s aggressive deportation campaign, blaming “far-left people” and state and local law enforcement for chaos. He urged Minnesota leaders to “meet us halfway” and said the Justice Department is investigating top Democrats in the state, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over whether they obstruct immigration enforcement.
Venezuela’s interim authorities released Rafael Tudares Bracho, the son-in-law of opposition figure Edmundo González, after 380 days in detention, his wife said Thursday. Mariana González said he had returned home following more than a year of incommunicado detention, and she described the imprisonment as “unjust and arbitrary.”
Two organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square vigil entered not guilty pleas Thursday, while a third pleaded guilty in a trial that tests the limits of Hong Kong's national security law. Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were charged with inciting subversion for their work with the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the group that organized decades of annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Albert Ho, also a former leader of the alliance, entered a guilty plea before Judge Alex Lee.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on President Trump's unprecedented bid to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her post, a case that probes whether the central bank can remain independent from political pressure. Trump's lawyers contend Cook committed mortgage fraud, allegations she denies. If successful, the effort would mark the first time a president has fired a sitting Fed governor in the agency's 112-year history.
Utah’s chief justice warned lawmakers against “meddling with the judiciary” as Republicans sought to add justices to the state Supreme Court during the legislature’s 45-day session that began Tuesday.
President Donald Trump’s rapidly expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement force is being bankrolled by billions from a Republican tax and spending package, according to an Associated Press analysis. The money is tied to hiring bonuses of $50,000, growth plans that would lift ICE to about 22,000 officers, and new spending for operations and detention facilities.
Lindsey Halligan, appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, left her position Tuesday after federal judges declared her appointment unlawful and issued orders preventing her from continuing in the role.
Stephen Spencer Pittman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal arson charges related to a fire that damaged Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi. The 19-year-old defendant appeared in court with bandaged burn wounds on his hands and ankles. Magistrate Judge LaKeysha Greer Isaac denied bond, ordering him held in federal custody pending trial. The fire occurred January 10, shortly after 3 a.m., with no injuries reported.
An 18-year-old North Carolina man plans to plead guilty to a 2022 mass shooting in Raleigh that left five people dead, his attorneys said Tuesday. Austin Thompson, who was 15 when he shot and stabbed his 16-year-old brother and four neighbors on October 13, 2022, filed notice of his intended plea in Wake County court. A hearing ahead of his scheduled February 2 trial was set for Wednesday.
An Indiana state court judge and his wife were in stable condition Monday after they were shot at their Lafayette home the day before, authorities said. Police said the investigation remains active and involves local, state and federal agencies, while they continue to search for suspects. The mayor and the state’s chief justice urged residents to remain vigilant.
Testimony concluded Tuesday in the trial of Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde school police officer charged with failing to stop the gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers in the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting. The case now goes to a jury in Corpus Christi, Texas.
William D. DeFoor, 26, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Cincinnati to charges stemming from the January 5 vandalism of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home. Prosecutors charged DeFoor with damaging government property, physical violence against property in a restricted building or grounds, and assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers.
Federal prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas Tuesday to Minnesota's governor, attorney general, and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed federal immigration enforcement during a sweeping crackdown in the Twin Cities area. The subpoenas, which seek records, were directed to the offices of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, and officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties, according to a person familiar with the matter. The investigation is examining whether Minnesota officials' public statements constituted a conspiracy to impede law enforcement, according to two people familiar with the probe.
Atlantic County prosecutors announced Friday they will ask a state court to drop child abuse charges against La'Quetta Small, the superintendent of Atlantic City schools, after the couple's daughter — who turned 18 earlier this month — said she no longer wanted the prosecution to proceed. The announcement came weeks after a jury acquitted Small's husband, Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr., on related charges.
Prosecutors alleged that Nathan Chasing Horse, best known for his role in the 1990 film "Dances With Wolves," used his reputation as a Lakota medicine man to prey on Indigenous women and girls, while his defense attorney said the actor is being falsely accused in opening statements Tuesday at his trial in Las Vegas.
State Transportation Director Ed Sniffen said Hawaii will deploy deputy sheriffs statewide for traffic enforcement, using $2 million in federal highway safety funding for overtime. The effort comes after traffic deaths on Hawaiian roads surged to 129 last year, a 20% increase from 2024 and the highest number of fatalities since 2007.
Actor Timothy Busfield was released from jail Tuesday night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, pending trial on charges of criminal sexual contact of a minor and child abuse. Busfield, known for roles in "The West Wing," "Field of Dreams" and "Thirtysomething," is accused of misconduct on the set of the TV series "The Cleaning Lady."
Federal immigration agents detained a U.S. citizen at his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant and led him outside in freezing weather wearing only underwear, according to his account, family members and videos reviewed by The Associated Press. ChongLy "Scott" Thao said agents bashed open his St. Paul home on Sunday and immediately pointed guns at his family. When he was later detained, agents prevented him from retrieving his identification documents and led him outside in subfreezing conditions wearing only underwear, sandals and a blanket. The detention occurred as federal immigration agents conduct a massive operation in the Twin Cities, which has drawn backlash from residents and local leaders over warrantless arrests, aggressive clashes with protesters, and a fatal shooting.
A federal judge in Miami rescheduled the arraignment of U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to Feb. 3 on Tuesday, granting the Florida Democrat two more weeks to finalize legal representation in her federal fraud case. Cherfilus-McCormick is charged with conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds. Judge Enjoliqué A. Lett granted the delay at the request of the defense; prosecutors did not object.
A jury was selected Tuesday in Chicago in the trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez, a 37-year-old accused of offering a $10,000 bounty for the killing of a Border Patrol commander who led an immigration crackdown in the city. Prosecutors allege Martinez sent a message offering the reward to eliminate Gregory Bovino, who oversaw the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, California, North Carolina and Minnesota. Martinez has pleaded not guilty.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell plans to attend the Supreme Court's oral argument Wednesday in the case over President Donald Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The appearance would mark a more public show of support for Cook than Powell has previously offered, as the Fed chair moves toward open confrontation with the White House over central bank independence.
Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, a Nicaraguan immigrant detained during a Jan. 6 federal immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, was found dead Jan. 14 at a tent detention facility on the grounds of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. ICE said Diaz appeared to have killed himself. His death came at the same facility where a fellow detainee died earlier this month in circumstances the El Paso County Medical Examiner has since classified as a likely homicide.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a challenge to Hawaii's rule that firearms may not be carried on privately owned, publicly accessible property — including stores, hotels, beaches, and bars — unless the owner explicitly permits it. Three Maui residents who sued the state in 2023 argue the default prohibition violates their Second Amendment right to carry firearms for self-defense. The case is the first significant gun-carry dispute before the high court since its 2022 ruling that sharply expanded public carry rights nationwide.
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Friday to repeatedly hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s filing system, according to court records. Nicholas Moore, 24, of Springfield, Tennessee, admitted he accessed the system more than two dozen times using stolen credentials in 2023.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that his landslide victory in the country’s election shows the dominance of his party, the National Resistance Movement. Museveni, 81, made the remarks a day after officials declared him the winner, following a vote he said was marked by low turnout. His main challenger, musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine, rejected the official result as fake and has said he may take the matter to court.
Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza told The Associated Press she was mistakenly deported to Honduras even after a Massachusetts judge ordered her not to leave the United States. Lopez Belloza said she was detained at Boston’s airport on Nov. 20 while preparing to fly to Texas for Thanksgiving and was deported two days later.
A car rammed into the front of the Shrewsbury Police Department on Monday afternoon, ending up entirely inside the lobby of the red brick building, police said. The driver of the 2022 BMW SUV was taken into custody and transported to a nearby hospital with injuries from the crash. No officers, staff or members of the public were injured.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters who disrupted services at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where a man identified in court filings as the acting director of the local ICE field office also serves as a pastor. A livestreamed video posted on the Black Lives Matter Minnesota Facebook page shows protesters interrupting the service by chanting 'ICE out' and 'Justice for Renee Good' — a 37-year-old mother of three fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month amid a surge in federal immigration enforcement.
About three dozen anti-immigration-enforcement protesters entered Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during Sunday services on Jan. 18, with some walking toward the pulpit and others chanting "ICE out" and "Renee Good" — the name of a woman an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. The service was forced to end prematurely, according to the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention. The U.S. Department of Justice said it has opened a civil rights investigation into potential violations of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo declared a 30-day state of siege after gang violence killed seven police officers in Guatemala City, his office said Sunday. The declaration follows prison riots in which inmates took hostages, and a subsequent government operation to retake three maximum-security prisons. Arévalo said the state of siege still needs congressional approval but can take effect before lawmakers vote.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral argument on Wednesday in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, the Associated Press reported. The high court is considering whether Trump can fire Cook, who has sued to keep her job.
A Minnesota judge ruled Friday that federal officers participating in an immigration enforcement operation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area cannot detain or use tear gas on peaceful protesters who are not obstructing authorities. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed in December by six Minnesota activists, according to court documents described by the Associated Press.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal by Bayer aimed at blocking thousands of state lawsuits alleging Roundup failed to warn that the weedkiller could cause cancer. The justices will consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Roundup without a cancer warning should bar the state court claims. The case comes from Missouri, where a jury awarded $1.25 million to a man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after spraying Roundup near St. Louis.
The Justice Department lost more than 6,400 lawyers, agents and other employees over the past year through firings and voluntary departures, as the Trump administration removed career staff it viewed as insufficiently loyal or tied to prior Democratic administrations, according to The Associated Press, which interviewed more than a half-dozen fired employees and a network of department alumni. Among those fired were counterterrorism prosecutors, Jan. 6 investigators, civil rights enforcers, immigration judges, an ethics officer and attorneys who defend administration policies in court. Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first year on the job with the terminations as a defining feature of her tenure.
The U.S. carried out another retaliatory strike in Syria, the military said Saturday, killing an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader in northwest Syria. Officials said the target, Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, had a direct link to the Islamic State member tied to a Dec. 13 ambush that killed three Americans.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday called a potential military deployment to enforce immigration law in the city "ridiculous and unconstitutional," urging protesters to remain peaceful as the Pentagon placed about 1,500 active-duty soldiers based in Alaska on standby for a possible deployment. President Donald Trump has since stepped back from the threat, at least for now, according to defense officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans. The standby order covers two infantry battalions of the Army's 11th Airborne Division, soldiers who specialize in arctic operations, the officials said. The troops would deploy only if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th-century law that would authorize sending federal military forces into Minnesota over the objections of its governor.
The Trump administration’s firings and departures of career lawyers at the Justice Department have left many prosecutors and judges describing fear and uncertainty about whether they could be removed for doing their jobs, according to interviews and details from firings described by The Associated Press. The upheaval has continued into Pam Bondi’s early tenure as attorney general, including the dismissal of veteran prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary after he was leading a case tied to the Kabul airport bombing. The AP reported Friday that some of those leaving or being discharged described cases being pulled back, staff shortages and backlogs, and a broader erosion of institutional experience.
A Nicaraguan immigrant was found dead at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas last week, federal officials said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Victor Manuel Diaz appeared to have killed himself on Wednesday at the tent complex at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss base in El Paso.
A shooting at the Chribska town hall in the northern Czech Republic left one person dead and six others wounded, police said on Monday. The wounded included three police officers and the town’s mayor.
Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield turned himself in to face child sex abuse charges in New Mexico, and his lawyers asked a judge Friday to release him while the case proceeds. They argued that an independent investigation undermined the state’s allegations, that the boys’ parents have a history of fraud, and that Busfield passed a polygraph test.
Colombia’s ELN released five police officers it had kidnapped in the Catatumbo region, the Associated Press reported Monday, as the rebel group urged a “national accord.” The officers were taken hostage on Jan. 6 while off duty and traveling in a bus in northeastern Catatumbo, according to the report.
Gunmen abducted more than 150 worshippers in simultaneous attacks on three churches in northwest Nigeria on Sunday, a state lawmaker told The Associated Press. The attacks took place in Kurmin Wali, in the Kajuru area of Kaduna state, during services and a Mass.
Hawaii’s gun laws are set to face U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny Tuesday, as the court considers a narrow question about carrying firearms on private property open to the public. The case centers on whether Hawaii can prohibit guns on locations such as stores and hotels unless the owner explicitly allows it. The challenge was brought by Maui residents, and the state has argued for enforcing the restrictions.
Several dozen Guatemalan prison guards were being held hostage by inmates in three prisons Saturday after disturbances that authorities said appeared coordinated, the Interior Ministry said. Interior Minister Marco Antonio Villeda said he was willing to talk with inmates but would not agree to their demands in seeking the release of 46 guards. National Police were deployed around the affected prisons, and authorities said there were no reports of injuries or deaths.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide the constitutionality of “geofence” search warrants that collect cellphone location history, a tool used to identify people near crime scenes. The case grew out of a Virginia robbery investigation in which police obtained location data from Google to help arrest Okello Chatrie.
Donald Trump has threatened to use the 19th-century Insurrection Act, a U.S. law that allows the president to deploy federal troops inside the country, to address protests in Minnesota. The Associated Press examined how presidents have used the law before and what constitutional and historical parallels legal experts say apply to the Minneapolis situation.
Southern California Edison filed cross-complaints in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, accusing Los Angeles County, seven water agencies and the Southern California Gas Company of a series of failures the utility says made last year's Eaton Fire more deadly. The filings shift blame to other parties even as investigators continue to examine evidence suggesting that one of Edison's own idled power lines may have ignited the blaze.
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo declared a 30-day state of emergency after suspected gang attacks on police killed at least 10 people, according to authorities and the government gazette. The violence began Saturday when inmates seized control of three prisons and took 43 guards hostage, then spread Sunday into police assaults across Guatemala City.
CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday aired correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi's report on U.S. deportees held in El Salvador's CECOT prison — a story that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss had pulled from the Dec. 21 episode, setting off an internal dispute that Alfonsi described to colleagues as "not an editorial decision" but "a political one." Weiss, who founded the Free Press website and had no previous television news experience before her appointment to the top CBS News editorial role, had argued the story did not sufficiently reflect the administration's viewpoint and did not advance reporting that other news organizations had already published, according to the Associated Press.
The Trump administration’s posts tied to its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis have drawn criticism, with critics saying some of the messaging borrows imagery and phrases popular with far-right and white supremacist groups. An Associated Press review of posts from the Department of Homeland Security and other administration entities found references that users on social media compared to Nazi slogans and far-right memes.
The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to be ready for possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a large-scale immigration enforcement operation, two defense officials said Sunday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans. They said the Army's 11th Airborne Division — an Alaska-based unit that specializes in arctic conditions — has received prepare-to-deploy orders for two infantry battalions.
Three weeks after the Trump administration launched "Operation Metro Surge," vendors at Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis sat alone in empty storefronts on a recent afternoon, waiting for customers who were not coming. Businesses at the sprawling complex of more than 100 shops — a commercial and community anchor for the city's Somali community — have lost foot traffic sharply since federal immigration enforcement intensified across the region, owners and workers said.
Donald Trump’s announcement of Nicolás Maduro’s capture as a first step toward drug-trafficking charges in the United States cast Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, as a potential partner. But the Associated Press reported that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration records show Rodríguez has been on the agency’s radar for years, including being labeled a “priority target” in 2022. AP said the files date to at least 2018 and include allegations and named associates that U.S. authorities have not publicly charged Rodríguez over.
The Associated Press reported that U.S. drug enforcement records dating back at least to 2018 show Delcy Rodríguez, a Venezuelan interim president and former vice president, has been under scrutiny by the Drug Enforcement Administration for years. The report said the DEA labeled her a “priority target” in 2022 and that the agency has tracked allegations that range from drug trafficking to gold smuggling.
The Pentagon ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to be ready in case the U.S. sends them to Minnesota amid a federal immigration enforcement operation, two defense officials said Sunday. The soldiers would be deployed if President Donald Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th-century law that can authorize active-duty troops for law enforcement, the officials said. In an emailed statement, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the military is prepared to carry out orders from the commander in chief if called upon.
Dhaka-based journalists, editors and media owners in Bangladesh demanded protection from authorities on Saturday after mobs attacked two leading national dailies in December, prompting fears for press freedom ahead of elections next month. The Editors Council and the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh held a joint conference where participants called for authorities to uphold the free press as tensions rise.
Norwegian Cruise Lines began charging passengers Hawaii’s transient accommodations tax and related “green fee” for port stays despite a New Year’s Eve court injunction barring collection by state officials, according to the Associated Press and a passenger’s account. The cruise line said it would refund customers if the industry prevails in court.
The U.S. Department of Justice said it is investigating protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church in St. Paul where a local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official reportedly serves as a pastor. DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the conduct interfered with worship and could violate federal criminal and civil laws.
Four gunmen who crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan were killed in a skirmish with Tajik border guards overnight, Tajikistan’s National Security Committee said. The incident occurred near a village close to the border with Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, officials said on Monday.
The world’s first legally binding treaty to protect marine life in international waters took effect Saturday, setting a framework for marine protected areas on the high seas. The agreement, decades in the making, governs vast ocean areas beyond any country’s control and aims to counter destructive fishing, shipping impacts, plastic pollution and overfishing, along with threats from potential deep sea mining and climate change.
Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias denied allegations that he sexually assaulted two former employees, calling the accusations “absolutely untrue.”
A Minneapolis couple says an immigration officer rolled a tear gas canister under their SUV, flooding the vehicle with toxic fumes after the family became caught between protesters and federal officers during an immigration operation this week. The Jackson family said the incident left both parents and several of their six children, including an infant, needing hospital treatment. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said officers were responding to crowds of “rioters and agitators” and did not target the family or “their innocent children.”
A trial is set to begin in Peru on Tuesday for five men accused in the killing of Kichwa Indigenous leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado, prosecutors said in a case advocates describe as rare for environmental defenders in the Amazon. The 2023 killing has been closely watched by Indigenous groups and international observers as a test of whether Peru can curb violence tied to illegal logging and drug trafficking.
Hundreds of counterprotesters confronted a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Saturday, as Minnesota’s governor’s office announced the National Guard was mobilized and ready to assist. The confrontation followed days of protests in the Twin Cities over a Department of Homeland Security operation that brought more than 2,000 federal officers to Minneapolis and St. Paul.
An American, Chuck Zimmerman, was sentenced to five years in prison by a Russian court on charges of illegally transporting weapons, according to court officials. The sentence was issued in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi after Russian authorities found a firearm during an inspection of the yacht in June, the Krasnodar regional courts’ press service said.
Shoppers this holiday season are being warned about online ads that present fake “family-run” businesses and crafted backstories, including sweater retailers that appear to be legitimate but are not. The Associated Press reported that two such sites used similar photos and product images and that their domains were registered in China shortly before the holiday shopping rush. Experts said scammers increasingly use AI-generated imagery and “advertorial” style pages to make ads look authentic.
Taiwan’s prosecutors say a television reporter was detained after an order to hold him over allegations that he bribed active and retired military officers to provide information to people in mainland China. The journalist, identified by a court filing as “Lin” and by CTi TV as Lin Chen-you, was detained along with five officers, prosecutors said.
An explosion at a restaurant in downtown Kabul on Monday killed at least seven people and wounded about a dozen more, police and an Italian charity said. The blast happened in the Shahr-e-Naw district, and the cause was under investigation, Afghan authorities said.
A U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria on Friday killed an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant leader whom military officials said was directly connected to the December ambush that killed two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter, U.S. Central Command announced. The strike marked the third round of American retaliatory operations since the Dec. 13 attack.
A federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday that immigration officers conducting enforcement operations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area may not detain or use tear gas against peaceful observers who are not obstructing their activities. U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez issued the ruling in a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. The ruling came as federal agents and demonstrators have repeatedly clashed since the Trump administration launched what officials have described as its largest recent immigration enforcement operation in the area.
Attorneys for Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield argued in an Albuquerque court Friday that he should be released from pretrial detention on child sex abuse charges, saying a Warner Bros. investigation found the allegations against him unfounded and that he passed a polygraph test.
A Davidson County chancellor ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must allow journalists to observe lethal injection executions from the moment condemned inmates are restrained on a gurney through the official pronouncement of death, granting a temporary injunction sought by a coalition of news organizations that argued the state's restrictive viewing protocols violated constitutional press-access rights.
MINNEAPOLIS — More than 2,000 federal officers are carrying out Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration's largest immigration enforcement action yet, in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul, producing daily confrontations between agents and protesters that have become routine since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American citizen and mother of three, on Jan. 7. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said his city — with roughly 600 police officers — has been overwhelmed by the federal deployment. "We don't use the word 'invasion' lightly," Frey told reporters. "What we are seeing is thousands — plural, thousands — of federal agents coming into our city." The surge has shuttered businesses in immigrant neighborhoods, kept children home from school, and produced nightly scenes of tear gas and flash grenades as federal officers disperse crowds gathered outside a compound near Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport that houses an immigration court and government offices.
An Ohio grand jury has indicted Michael David McKee in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband, who were killed in their Columbus home in December, court records show. McKee was charged on Jan. 16 with aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and use of a firearm suppressor, according to the Franklin County grand jury records cited by authorities. He was arrested in Rockford, Illinois, last weekend and is being held in Illinois after waiving an extradition hearing.
Sen. Thom Tillis said he is "sick of stupid" on the Senate floor as the North Carolina Republican used the opening weeks of 2026 to rebuke senior White House aides over Greenland military threats, European tariffs, a Justice Department probe of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and pardons for Jan. 6 defendants who attacked police. The two-term senator, who is not seeking reelection, directed his criticism at aides rather than at President Donald Trump himself.
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez was labeled a "priority target" by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 2022 — a designation the DEA reserves for suspects believed to have a "significant impact" on the drug trade — according to records obtained by The Associated Press and more than a half-dozen current and former U.S. law enforcement officials. The DEA has maintained an intelligence file on Rodríguez dating to at least 2018, cataloging alleged associates and allegations ranging from drug trafficking to gold smuggling, the records show. The U.S. government has never publicly accused Rodríguez of criminal wrongdoing, and she is not among the Venezuelan officials charged with drug trafficking alongside ousted President Nicolás Maduro.
Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor urged a judge to reject a request by two members of Congress to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell case documents. In a letter, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton told U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer that the judge lacks authority to grant that request and that the lawmakers do not have standing in the criminal case. The lawmakers, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, said the slow release violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act and called for an independent monitor.
National Guard troops will remain on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of 2026, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said “the conditions of the mission” warranted extending the deployment past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to restore law and order.”
Pakistani security forces thwarted an attempted hostage-taking after assailants attacked a police station in Kharan district in Balochistan on Friday, the military said. The attack began a day earlier, when the attackers targeted two banks, looted millions of rupees and then tried to seize hostages at the police station. Security forces killed at least 12 militants in the subsequent gunfight, the military said.
A Minneapolis couple says a federal officer rolled a tear gas canister under their family's SUV on Wednesday as they tried to leave a confrontation between protesters and immigration enforcement officers in north Minneapolis, flooding the vehicle with fumes that sent a 6-month-old infant and two other children to the hospital. The family said they were not demonstrating against the federal operation — they had been driving home from a basketball game when they were caught between the two sides.
President Donald Trump issued 13 pardons and eight commutations Thursday, including one for a woman convicted of fraud in two separate federal schemes — the first under a sentence Trump himself had commuted in 2021 — and another for a former Puerto Rico governor whose case involves a Venezuelan banker whose daughter donated $3.5 million to Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC. A 14th pardon was announced Friday for a health care executive sentenced to 42 months in prison for insider trading.
The U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office, Office for Civil Rights, has opened far fewer sexual-violence investigations since staff cuts that began last year, according to internal data obtained by The Associated Press. The office’s workload backlog has left schools and students with fewer options short of lawsuits, advocates and lawyers said. The department’s spokesperson disputed that picture, saying the office is working through its caseload.
Hundreds of counterprotesters in Minneapolis drove off a small pro-ICE rally on Saturday organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang, who had announced on social media plans to burn a Quran on City Hall steps, according to the Associated Press. Lang appeared to have sustained bruises and scrapes to his head as he left the scene; it was not clear whether he carried out his stated plan.
The Drug Enforcement Administration labeled Delcy Rodríguez, now Venezuela's acting president, a "priority target" in 2022 — a designation the agency reserves for suspects believed to have significant impact on drug trafficking — according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and statements from more than half a dozen current and former U.S. law enforcement officials. The disclosure comes as President Donald Trump has positioned Rodríguez as Washington's preferred partner for stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
A California protester says he was blinded in one eye by a projectile fired by a federal officer during a Jan. 9 demonstration outside a federal immigration building in Santa Ana. Kaden Rummler, 21, said he underwent six hours of surgery after the injury, which also left metal and a nickel-sized piece of plastic lodged in his skull.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Jan. 16. The investigation is focused on potential violations of a conspiracy statute, the people said.
Tyler Robinson, charged with the Sept. 10 killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, returned to court in Provo, Utah on Friday as his attorneys asked a judge to disqualify prosecutors. The defense said a conflict of interest exists because the daughter of a deputy county attorney involved in the case attended the rally where Kirk was shot.
A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene as other officers beat an inmate to death pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment on Friday after jurors said they were deadlocked on a more serious manslaughter charge. The case involves former guard Michael Fisher, one of 10 correctional officers charged after the death of Robert Brooks following his arrival at Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024. Fisher was set to be sentenced Jan. 30 to six months in county jail under a plea agreement.
Halena Herrera and the families of three other victims returned to Manhattan court on Friday as a judge sentenced Daniel Hyden to 24 years to life for a July 4 crash that killed four people at a holiday barbecue at Corlears Hook Park. The court said Hyden was drunk when his pickup struck a group in the park, killing Ana Morel, Lucille Pinkney, Lucille Pinkney’s son Herman Pinkney and Herrera’s best friend, Emily Ruiz.
A man who fatally shot a Delaware State Police trooper at a Department of Motor Vehicles office believed he was being monitored and harassed by law enforcement, investigators said. State police said the trooper, Cpl. Matthew Snook, was shot Dec. 23 at the New Castle DMV reception desk, where the man approached from behind and opened fire. In a final update, investigators said the shooter later told others he believed police were targeting him and posted about “gang stalking.”
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that Mexico’s efforts to crack down on cartels and reduce migration north are producing “compelling results,” as the Trump administration signals potential new steps against trafficking groups. The remarks came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente issued a joint statement following a phone call agreeing that “more must be done to confront shared threats.”
A mother of Elon Musk’s child, Ashley St. Clair, sued xAI in New York, saying the Grok chatbot on Musk’s social media platform X enabled users to generate sexual deepfake images that caused her humiliation and emotional distress. In the lawsuit filed Thursday, St. Clair alleged the images included a photo of her fully dressed at age 14 altered to show her in a bikini, and other images showing her in sexualized positions and wearing a bikini with swastikas. xAI’s lawyers later moved the case to federal court in Manhattan and also filed a separate lawsuit in Texas.
A New Jersey town is facing a state lawsuit that alleges its former mayor and police officials directed officers to keep minorities out of the community. The complaint, filed by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights, names former Clark Mayor Sal Bonaccorso, suspended police Chief Pedro Matos and police Director Patrick Grady as defendants, the Associated Press reported.
A San Francisco jury found Antoine Watson, 24, guilty of involuntary manslaughter and assault in the 2021 death of 84-year-old Thai man Vicha Ratanapakdee. The jury acquitted Watson of murder. The verdict was returned Thursday, the San Francisco district attorney said the case would move next to a Jan. 26 hearing on aggravating factors.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over his short-lived martial law decree in December 2024. The Seoul Central District Court also imposed the sentence in a case tied to allegations that he tried to prevent efforts to detain him and that he fabricated the martial law proclamation.
Cumberland, Md., Jan. 16, 2026 — A judge in Allegany County Circuit Court allowed three members of the Zizians group to work together on their defense ahead of their upcoming Maryland trial on trespassing, weapons and drug charges, according to court proceedings reported by the Associated Press. Jack LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank were arrested in February after a property owner said he found them living in box trucks on his land in Frostburg, Maryland.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal from Bayer, the global agrochemical manufacturer, seeking to block thousands of state court lawsuits that allege the company failed to warn users its Roundup weedkiller could cause cancer. The justices will consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of Roundup without a cancer warning should preempt those state-court claims.
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro moved from a federal police headquarters in Brasilia to a larger cell at the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, also in the capital, a court decision dated Thursday said. The order by Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the transfer was intended to provide “more favorable conditions” for a high-profile detainee.
A federal appeals panel reversed a lower-court decision that had released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, putting the Trump administration one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting him. The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a New Jersey federal judge lacked jurisdiction to decide Khalil’s challenge at this time.
A senior hard-line cleric in Iran called Friday for the death penalty for detained protesters and threatened U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as the wave of demonstrations that began Dec. 28 appeared to have receded. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts and Guardian Council, made the demand in a sermon carried live on Iranian state radio that drew chants of 'Armed hypocrites should be put to death!' from gathered worshippers.
A Franklin County, Ohio, grand jury on Jan. 16 indicted Michael David McKee, 39, a vascular surgeon who had been living in Chicago, on charges of aggravated murder and aggravated burglary in the shooting deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe, 39, and her husband, dentist Dr. Spencer Tepe, 37, according to court records. The couple was killed in their Columbus home on Dec. 30. McKee, who was apprehended in Rockford, Illinois, the weekend of Jan. 10–11, waived his right to an extradition hearing before the indictment was handed down.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok will be blocked from editing photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where it is illegal, X said late Wednesday. The change followed global backlash after users generated sexualized images of women and children using the chatbot’s “spicy mode.”
Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis during recent protests have used what experts described as aggressive crowd-control tactics, raising concerns about officer training and public safety after the deadly Jan. 15 shooting of a woman in her car. Protesters and civil liberties advocates have sought court intervention to restrict how federal agents operate during demonstrations, including limiting chemical agents, pointing firearms at non-threatening people and interfering with lawful video recording.
A Tennessee judge on Friday ordered prison officials to grant expanded access to members of the media who witness state-run executions. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of news organizations, including The Associated Press, challenging what the plaintiffs said were unconstitutional limits on how much of the executions reporters could observe.
President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell protests in Minneapolis tied to federal immigration enforcement. The threat came a day after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer following an attack with a shovel and a broom handle, officials said.
A Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has focused attention on a question with broad implications for U.S. monetary policy: whether Powell will remain on the Fed's board of governors after his chairmanship ends May 15, or step down as nearly all of his predecessors have done. Powell's choice will determine whether President Trump can achieve majority control of a central bank that has operated largely insulated from day-to-day presidential politics for decades.
Senate Republicans closed ranks this week behind Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, defending central bank independence as the Trump administration escalated its pressure campaign with Justice Department subpoenas and the threat of criminal charges. Powell, 72, went on the offensive, releasing a video statement accusing the administration of using "pretexts" to coerce the Fed into cutting interest rates. Even some of Trump's most reliable Senate allies broke with the White House, calling the investigation unfounded and vowing to block administration nominees to the central bank until the legal cloud over the Fed chair is resolved.
The Justice Department’s investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has revived a question that will play out at the central bank in coming months: whether Powell will leave the Fed when his chair term ends on May 15, or remain as a governor. Powell’s chair term ends in May, but his separate term on the Fed’s seven-member board lasts until Jan. 31, 2028, a timeline that could become a hinge for U.S. monetary policy.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of geofence warrants — broad search orders that compel technology companies to produce the location history of every cellphone user within a defined geographic area during a specific time period. The justices' decision to hear the case sets the stage for a ruling on the Fourth Amendment limits of a surveillance technique that law enforcement agencies have adopted as a routine investigative tool.
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Friday to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic filing system on 25 separate days in 2023, using stolen credentials to access and publicize personal records belonging to another user. Nicholas Moore, 24, of Springfield, Tennessee, admitted in federal court that he also breached computer systems at AmeriCorps and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Manhattan's top federal prosecutor told a federal judge Friday that he lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents from the sex trafficking investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, in a letter to Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, said the court must reject a request from two bipartisan House lawmakers who cited "urgent and grave concerns" about the pace of the document release. Clayton said the lawmakers lack legal standing to seek such relief because they are not parties to the criminal case.
A Gambian court opened the trial of Sanna Manjang, a former leader of a feared paramilitary unit known as the “Junglers” during the rule of Yahya Jammeh, on Thursday, prosecutors said. Manjang is accused of two counts of murder dating to 2006, and he denies the charges.
A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California seeking detailed voting records and personal data on its 23 million registered voters, saying the request was “unprecedented and illegal.” The judge said the Trump administration “may not unilaterally usurp the authority over elections” without Congress, and warned that consolidating election power would threaten “the right to vote.” California’s top elections official said the state would continue to challenge the lawsuit.
Washington state legislators are weighing a bill to restrict public access to data from license-plate reader cameras amid privacy and public-records concerns. The proposal comes as cities including Redmond have shut down their systems after a November court ruling said most images captured in Washington are public records. Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels said the cameras help investigations, while warning the technology could be misused if details are easily obtainable.
A federal judge in Minnesota ordered the release of a Liberian man arrested in Minneapolis by heavily armed immigration agents who entered his home with a battering ram. The judge said the agents violated the man’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.
Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing a lawsuit in North Carolina that alleges she interfered in a security guard’s marriage and contributed to its breakup. The complaint, filed in Moore County and later moved to federal court, seeks at least $75,000 in damages from Sinema. The suit alleges that Sinema pursued Matthew Ammel even after learning he was married and includes claims about communications, employment, and paid treatment.
A former New York prison guard pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment after jurors said they were deadlocked on the more serious manslaughter count against him in the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility. Michael Fisher, one of 10 correctional officers charged in connection with Brooks' death, accepted the plea midway through what had been a weeklong trial on second-degree manslaughter, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Tyler Robinson's defense attorneys asked a Utah judge Friday to remove the Utah County prosecutors pursuing a death-penalty case against their client, arguing that a deputy county attorney's family connection to the scene of Charlie Kirk's killing creates a conflict of interest the office cannot cure from within. Robinson, 22, is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 shooting of Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He has not yet entered a plea.
Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant held at a federal immigration detention facility near El Paso, Texas, died January 3 following a confrontation with guards, and the El Paso County Medical Examiner's office told his family that a preliminary autopsy report classified his death as homicide by compression asphyxia of the chest and neck, according to a recording of the call reviewed by the Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security offered a conflicting account, saying Thursday that Campos had violently resisted staff while simultaneously attempting to take his own life — an account the agency updated only after the AP sought comment.
Maleeka Boone, 8, was found dead Friday on Navajo Nation tribal lands in northern Arizona, one day after she was reported missing in the Coalmine Canyon area, authorities said. The FBI and Navajo Police Department are jointly investigating her death; an FBI spokesperson declined to provide details about the circumstances.
New Jersey's attorney general sued the town of Clark and three current and former officials on Friday, alleging that former Mayor Sal Bonaccorso directed police to systematically stop and harass Black and Hispanic motorists while working to keep minorities out of the New York suburb. The complaint names Bonaccorso, suspended Police Chief Pedro Matos, and current Police Director Patrick Grady as defendants.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College freshman, was detained by federal immigration agents at Boston's Logan Airport on November 20 and deported to Honduras two days later, despite a Massachusetts court order that she must not leave the United States, she told the Associated Press on Friday. The U.S. government has apologized in court, acknowledging that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer mistakenly kept her name on a deportation flight list. Her attorney filed a motion Friday asking a federal judge to set a two-week deadline for the Trump administration to arrange her return.
President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy federal military forces to Minnesota, seeking to suppress protests in Minneapolis that arose after federal immigration agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen, Renee Good. Constitutional and military law experts said the move would be an abuse of the 19th-century statute unlike any in American history.
Norwegian Cruise Line is collecting Hawaii's 14 percent transient accommodations tax from passengers on its current Hawaii voyages, even though a federal appellate court blocked state officials from collecting those taxes on cruise ships just hours before they were set to take effect on Jan. 1. Passengers aboard Norwegian's Pride of America discovered the charges mid-voyage this week. Don Yonce, a Dallas resident, said an invoice he received during the interisland voyage Sunday included a $1,035 charge in state and county transient accommodations tax, based on the weeklong cost of his family's cabin suite.
Federal auto safety regulators have granted Tesla a five-week extension to respond to a government investigation into its Full Self-Driving software, which has been linked to dozens of reported incidents involving vehicles running red lights, traveling the wrong way on roads and colliding with other vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set a new response deadline of Feb. 23, extending the original Jan. 19 date, according to the agency.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they made, two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the pending probe. The investigation focuses on a potential violation of a federal conspiracy statute, the people said. Neither official's office said it had received formal notice of the probe.
A New Jersey man convicted of murder for driving drunk through a holiday barbecue at a Manhattan park, killing four people, was sentenced Friday to 24 years to life in prison. Judge April A. Newbauer imposed the sentence against Daniel Hyden, 46, of Monmouth, New Jersey, in state court in Manhattan. Hyden had been convicted in November at a non-jury trial of murder, aggravated vehicular homicide and other charges in the deaths of four people at Corlears Hook Park on July 4, 2024.
A Maryland judge on Friday allowed three members of the Zizians, a cultlike group that authorities have linked to six deaths across the United States, to work together preparing their defense ahead of a Feb. 9 trial on trespassing, weapons, and drug charges. Allegany County Circuit Court Judge Michael Twigg granted the request from Jack LaSota, Michelle Zajko, and Daniel Blank at a hearing in Cumberland, overruling a prosecutor's concern that the three had already been communicating among themselves.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll signed a memo Wednesday extending the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., through the end of 2026, according to a copy reviewed by the Associated Press. The memo cited "the conditions of the mission" as justification for pushing the deployment well past its prior end date of late February, framing the extension as continued support for President Donald Trump's "ongoing efforts to restore law and order." About 2,600 National Guard troops are currently stationed in the capital — approximately 700 from D.C. itself and the remainder drawn from 11 states, including Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.
A jury found Antoine Watson, 24, guilty Thursday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, who was killed in a 2021 attack in San Francisco. The jury did not find Watson guilty of murder but also convicted him on assault charges. The killing helped spark a national movement against anti-Asian American violence. Ratanapakdee's family says the attack was motivated by race, though prosecutors declined to file hate crime charges. Jurors will reconvene January 26 to hear arguments on aggravating factors before sentencing is determined.
Delaware State Police Cpl. Matthew "Ty" Snook was shot and killed Dec. 23 at a New Castle Department of Motor Vehicles office by a man who believed law enforcement was monitoring and harassing him, according to a final investigative report state police released Friday. Rahman Rose, 44, of Wilmington, had told others he was the victim of "gang stalking" — a belief that government entities are surveilling and targeting an individual — and had posted about it on social media, investigators said. Rose had no prior interaction with Snook before the attack.
A Cuban immigrant died Jan. 3 at a Texas immigration detention facility on a U.S. Army base, and the El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office has told his family that a preliminary autopsy classified his death as a homicide resulting from asphyxia from chest and neck compression, according to a recording of that call reviewed by the Associated Press. The federal government provided a differing account, saying Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, had been attempting suicide and that staff tried to save him. A fellow detainee who said he witnessed the incident through his cell window told the AP that Lunas Campos was already handcuffed when at least five guards pinned him to the floor and at least one placed an arm around his neck. "The last thing he said was that he couldn't breathe," said Santos Jesús Flores, 47, of El Salvador, speaking in Spanish by telephone from the facility.
A U.S. citizen said she was dragged from her car by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Thursday while traveling to a medical appointment, then detained at a facility where she was denied medical care before losing consciousness in her cell. Aliya Rahman, who said she is disabled, released a statement after video of her removal — which appears to show agents smashing her passenger window, cutting her seatbelt, and carrying her to an ICE vehicle — drew millions of views on social media. The Department of Homeland Security disputed her account, calling her an agitator who had ignored commands to move her vehicle away from the scene.
Two men say federal agents blinded them in one eye with crowd-control projectiles during a Jan. 9 demonstration outside a federal immigration building in Orange County, California. The Department of Homeland Security has not answered questions about what type of weapon was used, while a DHS spokesperson called one of the men's injury claims "absurd."
Ashley St. Clair, a 27-year-old writer and the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sued xAI in New York State Supreme Court on Thursday, alleging that Musk's artificial intelligence company allowed its Grok chatbot to generate sexually exploitative deepfake images of her without her consent. St. Clair, who describes herself as a political strategist and has more than 1 million followers on X, said in court documents that the images included a photograph of her taken at age 14 that was altered to show her in a bikini, adult images depicting her in sexualized positions, and an image showing her in a bikini bearing swastikas. St. Clair is Jewish.
A federal judge in Virginia on Friday granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, making it the third East Coast offshore wind project this week to win a court order blocking the Trump administration's 90-day lease suspension. The ruling followed similar orders earlier in the week that cleared Empire Wind off New York and Revolution Wind serving Rhode Island and Connecticut to restart work.
Social media posts have falsely identified Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former leader of the Proud Boys, as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer — a claim denied by both the agency and Tarrio himself, according to the Associated Press. The false claim circulated widely on multiple platforms this week as protests continued in Minneapolis over the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer.
TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — An 8-year-old girl who was reported missing on Navajo Nation land in northern Arizona was found dead Friday, authorities said. Navajo Nation officials said Maleeka Boone was last seen Thursday evening in the Coalmine Canyon area, about 240 miles (386 kilometers) north of Phoenix.
Ex-NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ newly launched cryptocurrency token, dubbed NYC Token, fell sharply after an account linked to the token’s creation withdrew $2.5 million in coins, according to a crypto-analytics firm. After surging to a nearly $600 million valuation minutes after the launch, the token lost nearly 75% of its value by that evening, Bubblemaps reported. Adams, now a private citizen, has denied that he or anyone connected to the project profited or moved investor funds.
Claims spreading online amid protests in Minneapolis after Renee Good was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer have falsely said Enrique Tarrio is now an ICE officer. An ICE and Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Tarrio is not employed by ICE, and Tarrio also denied the claim in posts on X.
Un inmigrante cubano murió este mes en un centro de detención de migrantes en Texas durante un altercado con guardias, y el médico forense local indicó que su fallecimiento probablemente se clasificará como homicidio, según una grabación revisada por The Associated Press. El gobierno de Estados Unidos dio una versión diferente inicialmente, al decir que el detenido intentó suicidarse, y luego ajustó su explicación después de preguntas de la AP.
A Greek court acquitted a group of rescue volunteers on Thursday, including Syrian competitive swimmer Sarah Mardini, ending a case tied to aid for migrants on the island of Lesbos. The 24 defendants were found not guilty of facilitating illegal entry and forming a criminal organization, according to the court ruling. The acquittal drew criticism from international human rights groups when the case began and was welcomed by their advocates after the decision.
Elon Musk’s Grok has faced a series of controversies involving political echoing, deepfake sexual images and antisemitic content, and governments are now stepping up scrutiny. The Associated Press reported that, over the past year and into early 2026, xAI tied some incidents to product changes and said it has adjusted how Grok handles images. The latest reports say more governments have condemned the platform and opened investigations.
Hunter Nadeau, 24, accused of opening fire at a New Hampshire country club in September, was indicted on murder, attempted murder and assault charges, authorities said Thursday. The allegations stem from a Sept. 20 shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club during a nearby wedding reception, authorities said.
Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the 19th-century Insurrection Act so he can send U.S. military forces to Minnesota, where protests have escalated amid federal law-enforcement activity. The Insurrection Act gives presidents authority to use the military domestically, but legal and constitutional experts told The Associated Press that the criteria for its use in Minneapolis are not clearly met.
Kaiser Permanente affiliates will pay $556 million to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged the health care provider committed Medicare fraud and pressured doctors to add incorrect diagnoses to medical records, federal prosecutors said. The settlement, announced Wednesday, comes more than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice filed the case in federal court in San Francisco.
A Liberian man arrested after heavily armed immigration agents used a battering ram to break into his Minneapolis home had been checking in regularly with federal immigration authorities for years, his lawyer said Tuesday. Marc Prokosch, an attorney for Garrison Gibson, said Gibson’s arrest over the weekend violated the U.S. Constitution because the agents had only an administrative warrant.
A prosecutor told a jury Thursday that a New York prison guard, Michael Fisher, should be convicted of manslaughter for allegedly failing to intervene while another group of guards beat inmate Robert Brooks to death. The case was the final trial for correctional officers whose pummeling of Brooks was captured on body-camera video at Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024.
Democrats across the United States have introduced or planned state proposals aimed at limiting federal immigration enforcement after the shooting death of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, according to Associated Press reporting. Tennessee Republicans, meanwhile, introduced a package of bills backed by the White House that would enlist state agencies in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The U.K. is moving to criminalize the creation or request of non-consensual AI-generated sexual images, with new provisions set to begin Feb. 6, officials said Thursday. The steps follow global backlash over images generated with Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot that critics said sexualized children or “undressed” people without consent.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. General Assembly that countries are brazenly violating international law and that development and humanitarian aid cuts are undermining global cooperation. In remarks at the start of his final year leading the United Nations, Guterres also criticized a concentration of power and wealth among the world’s richest 1%.
A 55-year-old woman was jailed after driving into the front entrance of a South Florida federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida, police said. The crash happened around 11 p.m. Wednesday, and authorities reported no injuries.
A Cuban immigrant died in an immigration detention facility in Texas during an altercation with guards earlier this month, and the local medical examiner has indicated the death will likely be classified as a homicide, the Associated Press reported. The death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, who was 55, became the subject of conflicting accounts from U.S. agencies and detainees. The federal government said he was attempting suicide, while a witness described him being pinned and choked after he was handcuffed.
Federal immigration officers in Minneapolis dragged Aliya Rahman out of her car and detained her, a statement released by Rahman said Thursday, after a video of the arrest drew millions of views online. Rahman, a U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment, said she was brought to a detention center where she was denied medical care and later lost consciousness. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security disputed her account and said she ignored commands to move her vehicle away.
A federal appeals panel on Thursday reversed the lower court decision that had freed Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention, moving the Trump administration one step closer to detaining and potentially deporting the former Columbia University graduate student. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a federal judge in New Jersey lacked jurisdiction to hear Khalil's constitutional challenge before his case had fully moved through the immigration court system. The panel left unresolved the central legal question of whether the administration's use of immigration law to remove Khalil over his campus activism is itself unconstitutional.
FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home in Virginia as part of a classified documents leak investigation, the Justice Department said. The search targeted reporter Hannah Natanson, while the Justice Department said the reporter and the newspaper were not targets of the probe, according to the Post.
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 federal law and deploy troops to Minneapolis, where federal immigration enforcement operations have triggered protests, a second officer-involved shooting, and school closures since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7. The threat came one day after an immigration officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man following a confrontation in which three people attacked the officer with a shovel and broom handle, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI said it has implemented geoblocking to prevent its Grok chatbot from editing photographs to portray real people in revealing clothing in jurisdictions where such manipulation is illegal — a step announced after a global wave of government actions against nonconsensual sexualized imagery the tool had been used to produce. The announcement, posted Wednesday on X, followed California's disclosure that it was investigating the proliferation of nonconsensual sexually explicit material generated with Grok, which state officials said was being used to harass women and girls.
Federal immigration agents deployed to the Twin Cities have pointed rifles at demonstrators, deployed chemical irritants at the outset of confrontations, broken vehicle windows and pulled occupants from cars during ongoing protests, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Criminologists and former law enforcement officials said the tactics deviate from accepted crowd-management standards and risk turning volatile demonstrations into deadly encounters. The Department of Homeland Security defended the conduct as necessary to protect officers from violent attacks. Experts said agents who normally conduct arrests, deportations and criminal investigations lack the specialized training that local police departments develop for managing large public demonstrations.
The Senate passed a three-bill government spending package 82-15 on Thursday, completing action on six of 12 annual appropriations bills as Congress works toward a Jan. 30 deadline. The package advances full-year funding for agencies including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Interior and Justice, and now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.
A state appeals court in Alaska is set to decide whether to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against a woman born in American Samoa, whose case has drawn attention to the territory’s unusual citizenship rules. The Alaska Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in the case against Tupe Smith, arrested after winning a regional school board election in 2023.
U.S. Coast Guard and military forces seized a sixth sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, boarding the vessel named Veronica in an operation conducted with troops launched from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced. The ship had previously passed through Venezuelan waters and was operating in defiance of a U.S.-imposed quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the region, Noem said.
The House Republican-led Select Committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack held its first hearing Wednesday in Washington, focused on the FBI's five-year investigation into pipe bombs planted outside Democratic and Republican party headquarters that day. Republicans on the panel challenged the established account of the attack, suggesting that Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol had been essentially misled into doing so, while portraying central militia groups as having been entrapped by the federal government. The top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, warned he and other Democrats would not remain silent.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the 193-member General Assembly on Thursday that the world faces "brazen violations of international law" and a "morally indefensible" concentration of wealth in the hands of the richest 1%, delivering a sweeping indictment of global power at the outset of his final year heading the organization. Guterres, whose second five-year term ends Dec. 31, said the organization's member nations are confronting "a world marked by self-defeating geopolitical divides, brazen violations of international law, and wholesale cuts in development and humanitarian aid."
The attorney for a Liberian man arrested Sunday in a Minneapolis immigration raid said Tuesday his client had been meeting regularly with federal immigration authorities for years and had checked in with agents only days before they used a battering ram to break down his front door. Attorney Marc Prokosch called the arrest of Garrison Gibson, 37, a "blatant constitutional violation," saying agents carried only an administrative warrant — which authorizes an arrest but does not permit forced entry into a private home. Forced entry requires a criminal warrant signed by a judge.
State legislatures across the country advanced competing proposals on immigration enforcement Thursday following the shooting death of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, with Democratic-led states moving to restrict ICE operations and Republicans in Tennessee introducing White House-backed bills to expand enforcement cooperation. New Jersey's Democrat-led Legislature passed three bills Monday that immigrant rights groups have sought for years, including a measure prohibiting state law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy had until Tuesday, his last day in office, to sign or veto them.
A federal judge on Thursday cleared New York's Empire Wind offshore wind project to resume construction, handing Norwegian energy company Equinor a victory and dealing the Trump administration its second federal court defeat this week in its effort to halt East Coast offshore wind development. District Judge Carl J. Nichols, a Trump appointee, ruled that construction could proceed while he considers the merits of the government's suspension order. Nichols faulted the administration for failing to respond to key points in Equinor's court filings, including the contention that the administration violated proper procedure when it issued the freeze.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he will block Louisiana’s attempt to extradite a Bay Area doctor accused of mailing abortion pills. Newsom said the move would violate an executive order he signed in 2022 barring California agencies from helping other states prosecute abortion providers.
Washington press freedom advocates raised alarm after federal agents searched Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson’s home in Virginia this week, saying the action could deter reporting that relies on government whistleblowers. The Washington Post said the search targeted Natanson’s phone, laptops and a Garmin watch, while the Justice Department obtained a warrant connected to an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified materials. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the search was done at the request of the Defense Department and that Natanson was obtaining and reporting classified, illegally leaked information.
An Ohio jury on Wednesday convicted an 83-year-old man of murder in the fatal shooting of an Uber driver he wrongly believed was working with scammers who had threatened him — a case in which the driver was herself an unwitting victim of the same scheme. William J. Brock, of South Charleston, shot and killed Lo-Letha Toland-Hall, 61, six times when she arrived at his home between Dayton and Columbus in March 2024. Toland-Hall, of Dublin, a Columbus suburb, had been sent to Brock's address by the same scammers who had called Brock demanding $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, investigators said.
Washington state lawmakers have introduced legislation to sharply limit public access to automatic license-plate reader data after a November court ruling found that nearly all images captured by the cameras in the state qualify as public records available to anyone who requests them — a decision that law enforcement officials say could allow stalkers and abusers to track victims through government databases. The bill, filed as the 2026 legislative session opened in Olympia, is co-sponsored by Sen. Yasmin Trudeau, D-Tacoma, and Sen. Jeff Holy, R-Cheney, a former Spokane Police Department detective. It would restrict Flock Safety cameras to sites near hospitals, schools, food banks and churches; prohibit their use for immigration enforcement or protest monitoring; cut the default image-retention period from 30 days to three; and limit public records requests for camera data to academic researchers only.
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe issued a revised memo Thursday walking back his earlier public claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested four tribal members in Minneapolis and that federal officials had demanded an immigration agreement from the tribe in exchange for information. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it could not verify that any of its officers had arrested or even encountered members of the tribe.
Kaiser Permanente affiliates will pay $556 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging the Oakland-based health care giant committed Medicare fraud by pressuring physicians to record more severe patient diagnoses than warranted in order to receive higher government reimbursements, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The settlement resolves a U.S. Department of Justice case filed in San Francisco more than four years ago that consolidated allegations from six whistleblower complaints. Kaiser said the deal includes no admission of wrongdoing or liability.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was blocking Louisiana's attempt to extradite a San Francisco Bay Area physician accused of mailing abortion pills, citing a 2022 executive order that bars state agencies under his administration from cooperating with other states' prosecutions of abortion providers. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, had sent extradition paperwork the day before seeking to bring the doctor "to justice." Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill identified the physician as Remy Coeytaux and said he faced a criminal charge of abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, with a potential sentence of up to 50 years in prison if convicted.
A New Hampshire man accused of opening fire at a country club during a September wedding reception has been indicted on first-degree murder and related charges, prosecutors announced Thursday. Hunter Nadeau, 24, of Nashua, faces charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, attempted murder, and assault in connection with a Sept. 20 shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club that killed one person and wounded two others.
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo said Thursday his country is focused on maintaining a "good" relationship with the United States while working to uphold international law and peaceful dispute resolution, an approach he described as increasingly urgent following the U.S. removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
A 55-year-old woman was jailed Thursday after intentionally driving her vehicle into a South Florida federal courthouse late Wednesday night, causing an estimated $200,000 in damage, West Palm Beach police said. No injuries were reported in the crash, which occurred after regular business hours at a downtown federal building.
UTICA, N.Y. — A New York prison guard who watched without intervening as fellow officers beat an inmate to death should be convicted of manslaughter, a prosecutor told a jury Thursday in the final criminal trial stemming from the death of Robert Brooks. Special prosecutor William Fitzpatrick delivered closing arguments in the second-degree manslaughter trial of former corrections officer Michael Fisher, 55, in state court in Utica. The jury began deliberating Thursday afternoon.
The San Jose City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from using 11 city-owned parking garages and lots and the parking areas of 75 community centers and libraries as staging areas or operational bases for immigration enforcement. The vote makes San Jose the latest city to restrict where federal immigration agents may operate on public property, following similar actions in Santa Clara County and Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order in October laying out comparable rules.
Eric Adams, the former mayor of New York City, stood in Times Square on Monday to announce his first post-mayoral initiative — a new cryptocurrency meme coin called NYC Token — only to watch its value plunge roughly 75% the same day after an account linked to the token's creation withdrew $2.5 million worth of coins shortly after launch, according to crypto analytics firm Bubblemaps. The coin had surged to a valuation of nearly $600 million within minutes of its debut before the sell-off collapsed investor confidence.
More than six months after Hawaiʻi's Legislature approved a 20% pay raise for state public defenders, 101 attorneys have gone through 12 consecutive pay periods without seeing the increase in their paychecks, according to records obtained by Honolulu Civil Beat. Staffing shortages at the state Department of Budget and Finance — the agency responsible for processing salary adjustments for the Office of the Public Defender and six other state agencies — have stalled implementation of the raises that took effect July 1.
President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy U.S. military forces to Minneapolis, where protests have grown since a federal officer shot and killed Renee Good. Constitutional law experts said the threatened move would be without historical precedent because the federal agents Trump himself sent to the city initiated the violence he now seeks to suppress.
Fake online storefronts are using AI-generated images and fabricated family histories to impersonate small businesses on social media and the web, deceiving shoppers into purchasing goods that consumer reviewers say arrive shoddy or not at all, an Associated Press investigation found. Two sweater retail sites — Melia & Co and Olivia Westwood Boutique — display many of the same Icelandic, Nordic and festive sweaters using identical stock images while presenting themselves as distinct family-run operations, operating under domains registered in China in November, ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Georgia lawmakers on Tuesday gave final passage to a bill aimed at voiding a Savannah ordinance that penalizes leaving guns in unlocked vehicles. The measure would prevent cities and counties from regulating how guns are stored and would let gun owners sue local governments over such rules. Senate Bill 204 now goes to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that Montana police acted lawfully when they entered a man's home without a warrant after a reported suicide threat, finding the officers' conduct 'objectively reasonable' under existing constitutional standards. The case stemmed from a 2021 incident in which William Case was shot and wounded after officers entered his home without a warrant and an officer fired when Case emerged from a closet holding an object that appeared to be a gun.
A federal three-judge panel ruled 2-1 on Wednesday that California may use its new voter-approved congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections, denying requests from state Republicans and the U.S. Justice Department to block the map on the grounds that it unconstitutionally favored Hispanic voters on racial lines.
Days before U.S. forces removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power on Jan. 3, Justice Department lawyers concluded the operation would not constitute a constitutional war requiring congressional approval and would serve important national interests, according to a heavily redacted legal opinion released this week. The 22-page opinion, dated Dec. 23, was prepared for the legal counsel of the White House National Security Council by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel — the body typically convened to resolve complex legal questions for the executive branch.
Iredell County sheriff's deputies are investigating an alleged break-in and theft at the North Carolina home of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, who died along with six others in a plane crash last month. The alleged burglary at Biffle's Mooresville home was reported Jan. 8, according to an incident report from the Iredell County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Darren Campbell said Wednesday that investigators believe someone entered a safe in the home.
The State Department announced Wednesday it will suspend immigrant visa processing for citizens of 75 countries — including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and Somalia — effective January 21, citing concerns that applicants are likely to require U.S. public assistance. The move is grounded in a November order that tightened standards for immigrants deemed potential "public charges," and is part of a continuing effort by the Trump administration to restrict legal pathways into the country. The department said the suspension will remain in place while it reevaluates immigration processing procedures to prevent the entry of foreign nationals expected to rely on public benefits.
The Trump administration has moved to freeze or withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to Minnesota, targeting programs that provide food assistance, health care, and child care to low-income families, while filing a civil lawsuit against the state over its government hiring practices, according to the Associated Press.
A federal immigration officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle during an arrest attempt, the Department of Homeland Security said — the second shooting involving federal agents in the city since an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good seven days earlier. Smoke filled the street near the scene as officers in gas masks fired tear gas and grenades at onlookers, who threw snowballs and chanted, "Our streets."
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had been told "on good authority" that plans to execute Iranian protesters had stopped, even as Iran's judiciary chief called the same day for rapid trials and executions of more than 18,000 detained demonstrators. Trump, speaking at the White House while signing executive orders, cited unnamed sources he described only as "very important sources on the other side" and acknowledged he was uncertain whether his claim was accurate.
A former Brazilian au pair testified Wednesday in Fairfax, Virginia, that her ex-lover had spent months planning to kill his wife and had enlisted her in a scheme designed to make the killing appear to be an act of self-defense. Juliana Peres Magalhães told the court she came forward because she "wanted the truth to come out," saying she could no longer keep to herself "the feeling of shame and guilt and sadness." Magalhães, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the 2023 killings, is now the prosecution's central witness against Brendan Banfield.
A federal grand jury indicted William D. DeFoor, 26, of Cincinnati on three counts Wednesday in connection with the early-January vandalism of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home, according to the Associated Press. The charges include damaging government property, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, and assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers. DeFoor faces up to 20 years in prison on the most serious count.
Luis David Nino-Moncada, the man shot and wounded by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration stop in Portland, Oregon, last week, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to aggravated assault on a federal employee and damaging federal property. His public defender entered the plea on his behalf during a hearing in U.S. District Court. He was indicted on the charges Tuesday and remains in custody, with a release hearing scheduled for next week.
A federal district judge appointed by President Donald Trump sharply questioned the administration's legal justification for pausing construction on a major offshore wind farm near New York on Wednesday, telling government attorneys their court briefs failed to address key procedural challenges raised by the project's developer. District Judge Carl J. Nichols said the government's filing did not even acknowledge the developer's argument that the administration acted arbitrarily, and said he planned to rule Thursday.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield was ordered held without bond Wednesday at his first court appearance, one day after turning himself in on charges he allegedly touched two minor children on the set of a television series he was directing in New Mexico. A judge said a detention hearing to determine whether Busfield remains in custody will be scheduled within five business days.
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe called Tuesday for the immediate release of three tribal citizens held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota, arguing that enrolled tribal members are U.S. citizens who fall categorically outside federal immigration jurisdiction. Frank Star Comes Out issued the demand after ICE agents arrested four tribe members at a Minneapolis homeless encampment last Friday. One of the four has since been released.
California's Board of Parole Hearings approved fewer than one in four incarcerated people who appeared before it in 2025, a sharp decline from a 39% approval rate in 2018, according to a CalMatters analysis distributed by the Associated Press on Wednesday. The drop came even as California expanded parole eligibility and increased annual hearings from 5,226 in 2018 to a peak of 9,017 in 2022, before settling at roughly 8,000 annually in 2023 and remaining there.
Firefighters at Sky Valley Fire in rural Snohomish County, Washington, used the opioid-overdose reversal drug naloxone to revive six puppies that officials believe ingested or inhaled fentanyl, Battalion Chief Brandon Vargas said Tuesday. The animals recovered and will be available for adoption within about a week — and some firefighters who treated them have expressed interest in giving them a permanent home.
A St. Johns County sheriff's deputy captured a runaway emu west of St. Augustine last Friday after the large flightless bird kicked at the officer with its talons and fled before being cornered, secured with a makeshift lasso, and returned to its owners unharmed, the sheriff's office said.
The Trump administration apologized in federal court Tuesday for a 'mistake' in the deportation of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College freshman who was removed to Honduras in November despite an emergency court order directing her to remain in the United States — but still argued the error should not affect her case or result in her return. Lopez Belloza had been detained at Boston's Logan Airport on Nov. 20 while trying to board a flight home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving.
Crime victim service organizations across Washington state are confronting a cascading funding crisis after federal Victims of Crime Act dollars fell 76% between 2018 and 2024 — from $74.7 million to $17.86 million — forcing layoffs of therapists and advocates, reductions in emergency financial assistance, and the closure of at least one children's advocacy center, according to a report by InvestigateWest distributed through the Associated Press. Gov. Bob Ferguson's proposed state budget allocates $12 million for crime victim services in the next fiscal year, roughly $9 million short of what state officials and providers say is the minimum needed to keep the statewide network intact.
Renee Good's family has hired the Chicago-based law firm Romanucci & Blandin — which represented George Floyd's family and helped secure a $27 million settlement — to investigate Good's death during a Minneapolis immigration enforcement operation, the firm announced Wednesday. Good, 37, a mother of three, was shot and killed by a federal deportation officer on Jan. 7. The firm said it intends to share findings "on a rolling basis" because it believes the community is not receiving adequate information elsewhere.
Columbus police said Wednesday they have gathered enough evidence to link Michael David McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon who had been living in Chicago, to the shooting deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe at their Columbus, Ohio, home last month. Police Chief Elaine Bryant said authorities believe McKee was captured on video near the scene, his vehicle was tracked near the couple's home the night of the killings, and a firearm recovered from his Illinois residence produced a preliminary ballistic match to evidence from the crime scene.
The executive director of a nonpartisan group that supports Georgia prosecutors filed a court document Wednesday arguing that the state law President Donald Trump and co-defendants in the dismissed Georgia election interference case are using to seek millions of dollars in attorney fees is likely unconstitutional. Pete Skandalakis, who heads the Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys' Council and took over the case before dismissing it in November, wrote that the law has "serious and potentially unconstitutional deficiencies" because it denies county governments any due process when defendants seek reimbursement. Trump is seeking more than $6.2 million; together, Trump and other defendants have requested nearly $17 million, Skandalakis noted.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Tuesday it does not believe there is currently a basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. In a statement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said “there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” while an FBI probe remains underway.
Former CEO Christopher L. Butler, 49, of Porter Ranch, California, has been charged with 15 felonies after prosecutors said he embezzled more than $5 million over seven years from The Painted Turtle, a nonprofit co-founded by Paul Newman for children with serious medical conditions. Butler is expected to be arraigned Thursday in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County district attorney said the alleged theft violated the law and “our deepest values.”
An official who worked in former New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s administration pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to bribery, kickback and fraud charges, the Associated Press reported. Tony Herbert, 61, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court after his arrest, AP said.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a suspect in the vandalism of Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home must remain in jail while awaiting trial. Chief Magistrate Judge Stephanie Bowman ordered that William D. DeFoor, 26, stay in the Hamilton County jail, according to the Associated Press.
Louisiana moved Tuesday to extradite a California physician accused of mailing abortion pills to a woman in the state, setting up what advocates say could be a test of shield laws for telehealth providers. The push came after Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced that Remy Coeytaux faces a criminal charge of abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement Tuesday with Betar US, a right-wing Jewish group she accused of intimidating pro-Palestinian protesters. The agreement requires the group to stop activities that threaten or intimidate Muslim, Jewish and Palestinian activists at protests and curb certain frequent social media posts, with a $50,000 penalty for violations.
“West Wing” actor Timothy Busfield turned himself in to authorities in New Mexico on Tuesday to face child sex abuse charges, according to police and court filings. Albuquerque issued a warrant for his arrest on Friday on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse, the Associated Press reported.
Connecticut’s Office of the Inspector General released a report Monday finding that “significant medical errors” occurred when methadone was prescribed to Ronald Johnson and Tyler Cole at Garner Correctional Institution. The report said the initial doses were too high and were increased too quickly, with attention lacking to other prescribed medications that can heighten methadone’s respiratory-suppression effects.
Colorado’s appeals court on Wednesday questioned whether a judge can factor a former Mesa County clerk’s election-conspiracy statements into a prison sentence for a data breach of election equipment. Prosecutors defended comments by District Court Judge Matthew Barrett during sentencing, while Peters’ lawyers argued sentencing errors and highlighted Trump’s pardon.
Democrats who appeared in a video urging troops to resist “illegal orders” said Wednesday that they have been contacted by prosecutors as part of an investigation led by the Trump administration. Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia reached out to ask to interview her, after President Donald Trump accused the lawmakers of sedition over the video.
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 14, 2026 — A synagogue congregant who was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed Beth Israel Congregation in 1967 watched the historic church burn again after an early Saturday fire. At 75, Beverly Geiger Bonnheim said it was “horrifying and disbelieving” to see the blaze, and she questioned what history would bring next.
A demonstrator was hit in the face by a projectile fired by a federal officer at close range during a protest outside a federal immigration building in Santa Ana, California, leaving him bloodied and seriously injured, according to video and accounts from fellow protesters and family. The protest was held in response to the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent, which has spurred protests nationwide.
French Olympic swimming champion Yannick Agnel will stand trial on charges of rape and sexual assault involving the 13-year-old daughter of his former coach, prosecutors in Colmar said. The Colmar appeals court ordered him to go on trial after determining that he was an adult at the time of the alleged acts, the prosecutor general’s office said Thursday.
A jury in Ohio convicted an 83-year-old man of murder for the 2024 shooting of an Uber driver he wrongly believed was part of a scam. William J. Brock fatally shot 61-year-old Lo-Letha Toland-Hall of Dublin, a Columbus suburb, after phone calls deceived both her and Brock, prosecutors said.
A federal grand jury indicted William D. DeFoor, 26, of Cincinnati on Wednesday on three federal charges in connection with the vandalism of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home. According to federal prosecutors, DeFoor breached the property on Jan. 5 after midnight, armed with a hammer, breaking 14 historic window panes and attempting to damage an unmarked Secret Service vehicle. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each of the first two charges—damaging government property and engaging in physical violence against property in a restricted building—and up to 20 years on a third charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers.
Georgia's state Senate gave final passage Tuesday to legislation that would void a Savannah ordinance requiring gun owners to secure firearms in locked vehicles, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto. The bill also adds the word storage to existing state law that bars cities and counties from regulating firearm possession and carry, closing a gap Savannah officials had used to justify the local rule.
The Trump administration on Tuesday designated the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on each in a move Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the opening of a "sustained effort" to counter the group's activities across the Middle East. The Treasury and State departments announced the joint action against the three chapters, which U.S. officials said pose a risk to the United States and American interests. The Lebanese branch received the most severe label — a foreign terrorist organization designation — making it a federal criminal offense to provide the group with material support.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants, directing approximately 705 affected individuals to leave the United States by March 17, when existing protections expire. The Department of Homeland Security said the move follows its determination that conditions in Somalia have sufficiently improved to no longer meet the legal threshold for the designation. The announcement adds to a pattern of TPS terminations the administration has pursued across multiple nationalities since President Donald Trump took office.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton said Tuesday they will refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena requiring them to testify in its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, calling the probe "legally invalid." Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said he will open contempt of Congress proceedings against them the following week after Bill Clinton did not appear for a scheduled deposition at House offices Tuesday.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared ready Tuesday to uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from competing on school athletic teams, signaling during more than three hours of oral arguments that such bans do not violate either the Constitution or Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education.
A federal jury in Albuquerque, New Mexico, convicted former Navy SEAL Gregory Vandenberg, 49, on Monday of transporting fireworks across state lines with plans to shoot explosives at police officers during last summer's "No Kings" demonstration in San Diego, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Vandenberg was ordered held in custody pending sentencing and faces up to 10 years in prison on two federal counts.
Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel who led two criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, is scheduled to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22, the panel's Republican chairman announced Monday. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio confirmed the hearing during a Fox News interview, and a spokesman for Smith said Tuesday that Smith would appear. The hearing follows a closed-door deposition Smith gave to the same committee last month, a transcript of which has since been released publicly.
A U.S. military aircraft used in the opening strike of a monthslong campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Venezuela was painted to resemble a civilian plane, two people familiar with the operation told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The plane, part of a secret U.S. surveillance fleet, also carried its munitions inside the fuselage rather than beneath the wings — an additional element of the apparent disguise. The details appear to conflict with Pentagon guidelines on the laws of war, which prohibit troops from feigning civilian status during combat — a practice legally known as "perfidy." The revelations come as the Senate prepares to vote this week on a war powers resolution that would bar further U.S. military action in Venezuela without congressional authorization.
The Justice Department declined Tuesday to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, as roughly a half-dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota announced their resignations. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement that "there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation." An FBI investigation into the killing remains ongoing.
Federal judges ruled Wednesday that California can use a new, voter-approved U.S. House district map for the 2026 election, rejecting efforts by state Republicans and the U.S. Justice Department to block it. In a 2-1 decision by a three-judge panel in Los Angeles, the court denied requests seeking to stop the map from being used in future elections.
The U.S. military plane used to strike a drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela last fall was painted to resemble a civilian aircraft, AP reported Monday, citing two people familiar with the situation. The plane was part of a secret U.S. fleet used for surveillance and carried munitions in the fuselage, AP said. The disclosure comes as the Trump administration faces growing scrutiny and as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this week on a war powers resolution limiting further military action in Venezuela.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that Montana police acted lawfully when they entered the home of William Case without a warrant during an emergency, before finding and shooting him in 2021. The justices rejected Case’s argument that police should have met a higher probable-cause standard before entering his home.
Lawyers for President Donald Trump told U.S. officials they had legal authority to order the military to help Venezuelan police remove President Nicolás Maduro before he faced criminal proceedings in the United States, according to a Justice Department legal opinion disclosed this week. The opinion, dated Dec. 23, was prepared for the White House National Security Council counsel ahead of a U.S. operation carried out at night on Jan. 3.
Los Angeles police arrested a 48-year-old man Sunday on suspicion of reckless driving after he steered a U-Haul box truck toward demonstrators gathered in the city's Westwood neighborhood in solidarity with Iran's protest movement, the department said. No one was struck by the truck, police confirmed, though two people declined treatment after paramedics evaluated them at the scene. The driver was released Monday without being formally charged.
Edilson Torres, a 51-year-old Venezuelan police officer held incommunicado since December on what his family described as politically motivated accusations, died of a heart attack Saturday in a Venezuelan prison, just as his family awaited the government's promised release of political detainees. He was buried Tuesday in the rural town of Guanare. Since the U.S. capture of then-President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, hundreds of Venezuelan families who had previously avoided advocacy groups out of fear have come forward to register their relatives as political prisoners with Foro Penal, a nongovernmental organization that tracks detainees, the group's director said.
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused a federal judge of abusing his power after he ordered a Trump-appointed prosecutor to explain why she continues to identify herself as a U.S. Attorney despite a ruling that her appointment was illegal. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Lindsey Halligan co-signed the department's response, calling the court's approach "a gross abuse of power and an affront to the separation of powers."
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in states that supported Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in 2024. The decision by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said the terminations violated the Constitution’s equal protection requirements.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday questioned whether his lieutenant governor's proposal to ban federal immigration enforcement near schools, hospitals and other sensitive locations was legally achievable — or politically wise. Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, a Democrat running in the state's open gubernatorial race, proposed barring civil Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions around courthouses, health clinics, daycares, schools, domestic violence shelters and houses of worship, with exceptions for judicial warrants or immediate public safety threats. Evers, who is not seeking a third term, said he was uncertain the state had the authority to act and warned that a hard prohibition could provoke a stronger federal response.
Michigan's list of banned personalized license plates surpassed 30,000 entries for the first time last year, with the state adding roughly 2,000 new rejections in 2025, according to records obtained by Bridge Michigan through a public records request under the state Freedom of Information Act. The disclosure shows how a quietly growing state screening operation — staffed by more than two dozen volunteers — has kept pace with drivers' increasingly creative attempts to sneak profanity and other prohibited content past reviewers.
Hawai'i's attorney general office completed the first year of a pilot program that automatically cleared 1,321 marijuana and low-level drug arrest records on the Big Island without requiring residents to file applications, according to a report submitted to the state Legislature in December. The records belonged to Hawai'i County residents who were charged with possessing less than one ounce of marijuana or a similarly classified drug but were never convicted. About 432,000 people statewide — roughly one-third of Hawai'i's population — have at least one arrest record eligible for expungement, state data show, yet fewer than 1,500 apply through the existing petition process each year, the attorney general's office reported.
Louisiana moved Tuesday to extradite a San Francisco Bay Area physician charged with mailing abortion pills to a state resident, the second time Louisiana has sought to prosecute a provider from a jurisdiction with laws shielding such doctors from out-of-state criminal charges. Dr. Remy Coeytaux faces a criminal charge of abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced. If convicted, Coeytaux could face up to 50 years in prison and fines, Murrill said.
Tony Herbert, 61, who served as City Hall's liaison to New York City's public housing residents under former Mayor Eric Adams, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges of bribery, kickbacks, and fraud in Manhattan federal court. He was released on $50,000 bail after his arrest, according to the Associated Press.
Two Minneapolis U.S. citizens who were monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities said they were detained without charge Sunday, held for several hours at a federal facility on the edge of the city, and pressed by a Department of Homeland Security investigator to identify protest organizers and neighbors living in the country without legal status, the Associated Press reported. Brandon Sigüenza and Patty O'Keefe said agents pepper-sprayed their car and smashed its windows before transporting them separately to the facility; both were released without charges that evening, then subjected to chemical agents again as they exited.
A New York City Council data analyst from Venezuela was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday at a scheduled asylum check-in on Long Island, triggering protests at the Manhattan federal building where he is being held and a sharply contested dispute over whether the detention was lawful. Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez was taken into custody at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum office in Bethpage while appearing for what Council Speaker Julie Menin described as a routine appointment that "quickly went awry." ICE confirmed the arrest and identified him by name; Menin had declined to name him publicly.
A federal judge in San Diego sentenced a former U.S. Navy sailor to more than 16 years in prison Monday for selling technical manuals and operational intelligence about military ships to a Chinese intelligence officer, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Jinchao Wei, 25, who served as an engineer aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, received a 200-month sentence after a federal jury convicted him in August of six crimes, including espionage.
A man held at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" agreed to be deported to Chile and filed a motion Monday to dismiss his federal lawsuit challenging the facility, his attorneys said Tuesday. The detainee, identified in court documents only as M.A., was one of three people with active federal suits against the facility built last year at a remote Everglades airstrip by the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Prosecutors told a Fairfax County, Virginia, jury Tuesday that Brendan Banfield used a fake online profile and a staged sexual scenario to lure a stranger to his home as part of a plan to kill his wife, while defense attorneys countered that the prosecution's star witness invented her account after more than a year of maintaining her innocence.
Jury selection began Tuesday in the Las Vegas trial of Nathan Chasing Horse, the former "Dances with Wolves" actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls over two decades. Prosecutors allege Chasing Horse used his reputation as a spiritual leader and healer to exploit his victims, and that he filmed himself abusing at least one of them. Chasing Horse, who was present in the courtroom, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges.
Licking County commissioners and state lawmakers honored Avery Russell, a 12-year-old dog-attack survivor from Blacklick, and Licking County Chief Dog Warden Larry Williams at a ceremony Jan. 8 in Newark, Ohio, marking the December passage of Avery's Law — a bipartisan measure Gov. Mike DeWine signed Dec. 19 that gives Ohio's county dog wardens significantly stronger tools to address dangerous animals. The law takes effect March 18 and imposes criminal penalties on owners whose dogs attack without provocation, grants wardens authority to seize an animal immediately after an attack, and mandates euthanization — following due process — when a dog kills or seriously injures a person.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration will halt federal payments to sanctuary cities and all states that contain them beginning Feb. 1, expanding a campaign to use financial pressure against jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Speaking at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan, Trump said he would cut off money to any state home to a local government that resists his administration's immigration policies. He did not specify which funding streams would be affected.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement Tuesday with Betar US, a right-wing Jewish group she accused of conducting an illegal pattern of harassment against pro-Palestinian activists in the New York City metropolitan area. The agreement requires the group to stop activities that threaten or intimidate Muslim, Jewish and Palestinian activists at protests and on social media, with a $50,000 penalty for any violation.
Federal immigration agents conducting arrests under the Trump administration's intensified enforcement campaign are relying primarily on administrative warrants that do not legally authorize them to force entry into private homes or businesses, legal experts said. Only criminal warrants signed by judges carry that authority — a distinction that came into sharp focus in Minneapolis, where documents reviewed by the Associated Press showed agents entered a private home with only an administrative warrant. DHS did not provide a legal justification for the entry when asked.
State Sen. Dan McKeon resigned from the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday just minutes before the full chamber was set to debate expelling him over accusations that he made a sexually charged comment to a legislative staffer and touched her inappropriately during a session-end party last May. McKeon, a Republican from rural south-central Nebraska who had served less than one year in office, delivered a tearful apology on the legislative floor before stepping down. "My words and actions were careless, regardless of the intent," McKeon said. "I accept my responsibility for the impact of my words and my actions."
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that William D. DeFoor, 26, of Cincinnati, must remain jailed while awaiting trial on charges that he attacked Vice President JD Vance's Cincinnati home with a hammer on Jan. 5. Chief Magistrate Judge Stephanie Bowman issued the detention order, keeping DeFoor in Hamilton County jail ahead of a preliminary hearing set for Jan. 20 in federal district court in Cincinnati.
Metro-North Railroad has agreed to pay more than $182 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of five passengers killed and roughly 30 others injured in a 2015 commuter train collision in Valhalla, New York, the Associated Press reported Monday. The settlement resolves more than a decade of litigation stemming from a February 3, 2015, evening rush-hour crash in which an SUV became trapped on the tracks at a grade crossing about 20 miles north of New York City. A 2024 jury found Metro-North bore 71 percent of the liability for the passengers' deaths and 63 percent for the death of the SUV driver.
Three high-profile Texas death row inmates face pivotal appellate hearings in 2026, including a January 21 en banc argument before all 17 judges of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, as Texas records a second consecutive year without leading the nation in annual executions. Robert Roberson, David Wood, and Brittany Holberg each secured stays or reversals in 2025 after their original convictions were called into question. Texas remains the national overall leader in executions, but the state's annual totals have declined gradually over the past decade.
SEOUL — An independent counsel demanded the death penalty Tuesday for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, asking the Seoul Central District Court to sentence him on rebellion charges tied to his short-lived martial law decree in December 2024. Independent Counsel Cho Eun-suk's team described the decree as "anti-state activities" and "a self-coup," alleging that Yoon plotted to eliminate his political rivals and monopolize power. Yoon, who was removed from office in April 2025 and remains in jail, faces eight separate criminal trials related to the martial law episode and other allegations from his tenure. He denies all charges.
Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield turned himself in to Albuquerque police on Tuesday to face charges of criminal sexual contact of a minor stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched two boys on the set of a television series he was directing in New Mexico. Albuquerque police spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos confirmed Busfield was booked on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse. Busfield, known for his roles in "The West Wing," "Field of Dreams," and "Thirtysomething" — which earned him an Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series in 1991 — denied the allegations. His attorney Stanton Stein said Busfield traveled voluntarily from across the country to face the charges.
The former chief executive of a California camp for children with chronic and life-threatening medical conditions faces 15 felony counts after prosecutors alleged he embezzled approximately $5.2 million from the nonprofit over seven years. Christopher L. Butler, 49, of Porter Ranch, California, was expected to be arraigned Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The Painted Turtle, based in Lake Hughes, California, is one of several camps for seriously ill children co-founded by the late actor Paul Newman.
Federal officers deployed tear gas and sprayed an orange eye irritant at activists in Minneapolis on Tuesday, the sixth day of confrontations following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an immigration agent. Students in suburban Brooklyn Park walked out of school to protest the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign. At least five prosecutors have resigned from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, including First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, who had been leading the state's prosecution of public fraud schemes, amid controversy over how the Justice Department is handling the investigation into Good's death, according to people familiar with the matter. A Justice Department official said Wednesday there is no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation; an FBI probe remains ongoing.
Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance in New Mexico on Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to face charges of child sex abuse. Prosecutors said the allegations involve inappropriate touching of a minor on the set of a TV series Busfield was directing in Albuquerque.
A Costa Rican activist and government critic accused of plotting to kill President Rodrigo Chaves denied the allegations as “ridiculous” and politically motivated. Stella Chinchilla, vice president of the human rights group Friends for Peace Center, said screenshots used in the case were fake. The accusations come as Chaves met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele during the groundbreaking for a new Costa Rican prison modeled on Bukele’s gang prison.
Barry Morphew, the husband of Suzanne Morphew, pleaded not guilty to murder for the second time in a Colorado court hearing in Alamosa on Monday. Morphew faces a prosecution in the rural judicial district where authorities say Suzanne Morphew’s remains were found in 2023.
British Columbia is ending its three-year pilot program that decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs, the province announced. Health Minister Josie Osborne said the province will not seek an extension of an agreement with Canada’s federal health agency that covered the pilot, which was set to end Jan. 31.
A nonpartisan group backing Georgia prosecutors says a state law being used in the dismissed Fulton County election interference case is likely unconstitutional. In a Wednesday filing, Pete Skandalakis of the Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council said the law has “serious and potentially unconstitutional deficiencies,” including limits it places on county governments’ ability to contest fee and cost requests.
Thousands of California prisoners appear before the state Board of Parole Hearings seeking release, but a decline in the rate at which commissioners find inmates suitable for parole has raised questions about what is driving the trend. The grant rate has fallen from 39% in 2018 to below 25% in 2025, according to CalMatters data reported through a partnership with The Associated Press. Officials and advocates cited factors ranging from the aging of parole-eligible prisoners to increased scrutiny of restitution issues and a growing “digital footprint” in custody records.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The FBI said it has found no surveillance or other video of a Border Patrol agent shooting and wounding two people in a pickup truck during an immigration enforcement operation in Portland last week. In a court document made public Monday, the FBI said agents reported that one of their colleagues fired after the driver repeatedly rammed a rental car and put the truck in reverse.
Federal officers in Minneapolis said a federal officer shot a man in the leg after being attacked with a shovel and a broom handle while trying to make an arrest. The incident happened Wednesday, after months of clashes tied to an immigration crackdown in Minnesota, where officials say protests and confrontations with federal agents have become more frequent.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jan. 14, 2026—A St. Johns County deputy captured a runaway emu after it escaped in a rural area west of St. Augustine and returned the bird to its owners unharmed, the sheriff’s office said. The deputy responded to reports of the emu’s escape last Friday, authorities said.
A former Brazilian au pair testified in a Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom that she helped turn against her former lover in a double homicide scheme involving his wife, saying she wanted “the truth to come out.” Brendan Banfield, who has pleaded not guilty, is on trial on aggravated murder charges tied to the 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan, a case prosecutors say was staged to make it look like Ryan was the attacker.
Federal immigration agents are facing renewed backlash as high-profile arrests, including in Minneapolis, have raised questions about when officers can enter private property to make an arrest. At the center of the debate is a distinction between administrative warrants issued by immigration authorities and judicial warrants signed by judges. When agents have only an administrative warrant, legal experts say federal officers generally cannot forcibly enter homes or other nonpublic spaces without consent.
The Justice Department has accused a federal judge of abusing his power by pressing a Trump appointee, Lindsey Halligan, to explain why she still identifies as a U.S. attorney for Virginia after a court ruled she was illegally appointed. The dispute has become a separation-of-powers fight over how federal courts should handle Halligan’s continued use of the title.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14, 2026 — Luis David Nino-Moncada, who was shot and wounded by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration stop in Portland, pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges of assault on a federal employee and damaging federal property. His public defender entered the plea on Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
A judge has sealed a more than $182 million settlement reached over a 2015 train-and-SUV collision at a suburban New York rail crossing that killed six people. Most of the settlement with Metro-North Railroad is set to go to the families of five passengers killed in the crash in Valhalla, about 20 miles (32 km) north of New York City, after an earlier jury found the railroad largely liable.
A Mississippi man accused of killing six people, including a 7-year-old girl, pleaded not guilty Monday to a set of charges that include capital murder in Clay County, according to court proceedings reported by WTVA-TV. Daricka M. Moore entered not guilty pleas to 11 charges after prosecutors said first-degree murder counts are expected to be upgraded to capital murder and death-penalty sought.
Dutch-based chipmaker Nexperia faced a corporate mismanagement case in Amsterdam on Wednesday, as lawyers urged judges not to open an investigation into alleged failures involving the company’s Chinese owners. The hearing at the enterprise chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal was convened to decide whether judges should order the probe, and no immediate decision was expected.
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe called Tuesday for the immediate release of three Oglala Sioux tribal citizens detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, after the tribe said they were transferred to an ICE facility at Fort Snelling. Frank Star Comes Out said in a statement that only one of the four tribal members arrested last week at a homeless encampment has been released.
Columbus police said they have gathered enough evidence to link Michael David McKee to the double homicide of his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, in their Columbus home last month. Police Chief Elaine Bryant said Wednesday that investigators identified McKee, 39, as the man seen walking down a dark alley near the home in video footage from the night of the murders.
Renee Good’s family hired the Chicago law firm Romanucci & Blandin to investigate her death in Minneapolis after an encounter with federal immigration officers, according to a statement from the family released Wednesday. The family said the firm will seek information and accountability, including answers about what officers were doing on Jan. 7 and what happened during and after the shooting.
Rio de Janeiro’s police on Wednesday killed four people after they attacked security forces during an operation in the Salgueiro complex of favelas, officials said. The civil police said the operation was aimed at containing the growth of the Red Command criminal gang.
Sheriff's deputies in North Carolina are investigating an alleged break-in and theft at the home of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, officials said. The Iredell County Sheriff's Office report says the alleged burglary and forcible entry was reported Jan. 8 in Mooresville.
Spanish prosecutors are studying allegations that Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias sexually assaulted two former employees at residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, according to Spain’s National Court. The prosecutors’ office said it received formal allegations against Iglesias on Jan. 5 from an unnamed party, after media reports earlier this week.
A grand jury indicted William D. DeFoor in connection with vandalism at Vice President JD Vance’s home in Ohio, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The three-count indictment filed in federal court accuses DeFoor of damaging government property and related offenses tied to an incident on Jan. 5.
President Donald Trump said at the White House on Wednesday that he has been told “the killing in Iran is stopping” and that “there’s no plan for executions” by Tehran. His remarks came as Iranian officials and U.S. officials warned of fast trials and executions tied to the nationwide crackdown on protesters.
The U.S. government apologized in federal court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained while trying to fly home for Thanksgiving, according to a government statement in the case. The government said the error did not have to affect the legal outcome even after acknowledging it violated a judge’s order.
Two U.S. citizens who said they were observing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis described being detained without charges for several hours at a highly restricted federal facility and pressured to provide information about protest organizers and people they said were in the country illegally. Brandon Sigüenza and Patty O’Keefe spoke with The Associated Press about what they said happened during Sunday stops by federal agents.
A teacher who survived the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, testified Monday that he saw a gunman walking inside the classroom and prayed after he was shot along with his students. His testimony came during the trial of former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales, who has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts alleging child abandonment or endangerment.
Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher who survived the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, told a jury Monday that the attack began when he looked at his classroom door and saw "a black shadow" holding a gun. Reyes was shot in the arm and back during the attack. None of the children in his classroom survived. His testimony came on the fifth day of the trial of Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde schools police officer charged with 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment for allegedly failing to act against the gunman in the first moments of the shooting.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows late-arriving mail ballots to be counted, in a dispute that has drawn attention from President Donald Trump. In a 7-2 decision, the majority said candidates can sue over election rules even without showing their votes changed the outcome. The court did not decide whether late-arriving mail-in ballots should be counted, and instead said it will hear another case on the broader question this spring.
Ron DeSantis named Adam Tanenbaum, a judge on Florida’s First District Court of Appeal, to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday. Tanenbaum, who spoke at Seminole High School in the St. Petersburg area, pledged to follow “originalism” and said judges should not fear correcting what he called an erroneous interpretation of text.
Democratic lawmakers who urged U.S. service members to resist “illegal orders” in a video message say they have been contacted by the Justice Department in an escalating probe. The lawmakers include Sen. Elissa Slotkin and House members Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander, who said prosecutors reached out for interviews in recent days.
A Colorado appeals panel on Wednesday appeared skeptical that a trial judge could use former county clerk Tina Peters’ public embrace of election conspiracy theories as part of the justification for sentencing her to nine years in prison for a data breach involving election equipment. The three-judge panel grilled state prosecutors over remarks made by District Court Judge Matthew Barrett during sentencing, including comments that the court said went beyond the crimes the jury convicted Peters of.
Three Democratic members of Congress were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Minneapolis on Saturday after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly reinstated a congressional access restriction one day after an ICE officer fatally shot U.S. citizen Renee Good in the city, attorneys for the lawmakers said. U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig were initially allowed to enter the ICE facility in the Minneapolis federal building before officials told them to leave roughly 10 minutes later, citing a newly imposed seven-day notice requirement for oversight visits. Attorneys for several congressional Democrats asked U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., on Monday to hold an emergency hearing on whether the reinstated policy violates a December court order. Cobb scheduled the hearing for Wednesday.
The Trump administration's Justice Department threatened Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with criminal indictment over testimony he gave about the central bank's headquarters renovation, escalating a months-long campaign to exert greater control over the institution and its interest-rate decisions, the Associated Press reported. Powell, in a departure from his previous responses to Trump administration pressure, called the criminal charge threat mere "pretexts" to undermine the Fed's independence on rate policy.
The Trump administration's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell drew swift condemnation Monday from Republican senators, three former Fed chairs, and a coalition of top economists, who called the Justice Department's subpoenas an unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial power to undermine the central bank's independence.
The Justice Department threatened Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with criminal indictment over his congressional testimony about the central bank's building renovation project, Powell said Sunday — a move he characterized as a "pretext" to undermine the Fed's independence in setting interest rates. The threat, disclosed as U.S. financial markets opened broadly lower Monday, represents the administration's most direct legal challenge yet to the institutional autonomy of the country's central bank.
The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve and threatened criminal indictments of Chair Jerome Powell after his Senate Banking Committee testimony defending the central bank's independence, Powell said Sunday in a video statement. Powell, whom President Donald Trump appointed as Fed chair in 2017, called the action a "pretext" to weaken the Fed's historic independence to set monetary policy without presidential influence. Trump told NBC News over the weekend that he knew nothing about the inquiry.
The Trump administration's Justice Department has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve and threatened Fed Chair Jerome Powell with criminal indictment, escalating the president's confrontation with the independent central bank over cost overruns in a $2.5 billion renovation of its Washington headquarters. Powell, abandoning an earlier posture of publicly ignoring Trump's criticism, said Sunday that the criminal-charges threat is a "pretext" for the administration to seize control of U.S. interest rate policy. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump did not direct the Justice Department to investigate Powell; Trump said on NBC News that he knew nothing about the investigation.
The Department of Justice has served the Federal Reserve with subpoenas and threatened Chair Jerome Powell with criminal indictment over his June testimony about the central bank's $2.5 billion office renovation, Powell announced Sunday. Powell called the threat a "pretext" to coerce the Fed into setting interest rates at the president's direction rather than based on economic evidence. The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump's sustained campaign against the independent monetary authority.
The U.S. Justice Department has threatened the Federal Reserve with a criminal accusation tied to testimony by Fed Chair Jerome Powell this summer, according to an Associated Press report published Jan. 12. The threat is described as part of an effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over the Fed’s independence.
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona sued the Pentagon on Monday, seeking to block a censure issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and halt proceedings that could strip the retired Navy captain of his military rank and cut his retirement pay. Kelly, a former U.S. Navy pilot, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., arguing that the Jan. 5 censure violated his First Amendment rights by punishing him for participating in a video that called on troops to refuse unlawful orders from the Trump administration. Kelly asked the court to declare the censure, any rank-reduction proceedings, and all related punishments "unlawful and unconstitutional." U.S. District Judge Leon, nominated by Republican President George W. Bush, scheduled a hearing for Thursday on Kelly's request for a temporary restraining order.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects exclusively in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found the terminations violated the Constitution's equal protection clause, saying the administration offered no legitimate basis for targeting recipients based on their states' electoral preferences. The decision was the second federal court ruling in a single day to halt the administration's rollback of clean energy programs.
President Donald Trump's motorcade took an alternate route to Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday after a suspicious object was discovered during pre-arrival security sweeps, the White House said. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said further investigation of the object prompted the route change.
JACKSON, Miss. — A 19-year-old man appeared in federal court Monday on charges he set fire to a historic Mississippi synagogue because it was a Jewish house of worship, the FBI said, after his own father alerted authorities upon discovering burn injuries on his son's face, hands, and ankles.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a House committee investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, even as Republican lawmakers prepare contempt proceedings. The Clintons said in a letter released on social media that the House Oversight probe is “legally invalid” and that Rep. James Comer is pursuing a process designed “literally” to imprison them.
Costa Rica’s intelligence and national security director said his agency received confidential information about a supposed plot to assassinate President Rodrigo Chaves ahead of Feb. 1 presidential and legislative elections. Jorge Torres said he planned to file a formal complaint with the public prosecutor’s office and told journalists he would not provide details beyond what was needed for the record.
A jury convicted former Navy SEAL Gregory Vandenberg of transporting explosives across state lines with plans to shoot at police during San Diego’s “No Kings” protest last year, federal prosecutors said. Vandenberg was convicted Monday in a five-day trial in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was ordered held in custody pending sentencing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is set to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee next week about his investigations into President Donald Trump, the panel’s Republican chairman said. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio told Fox News that Smith would appear on Jan. 22, and Smith’s spokesman confirmed the hearing.
Marine Le Pen appeared in a Paris court on Tuesday to appeal her embezzlement conviction, denying any wrongdoing as the far-right leader seeks to keep her 2027 presidential bid alive. She is asking the panel to overturn a March ruling that found her guilty of misusing European Parliament funds to hire aides between 2004 and 2016.
Mexican authorities announced Tuesday the arrests of six alleged Tren de Aragua gang members in Mexico City and four alleged associates of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in separate operations tied to drug trafficking, extortion and human trafficking. The announcements came a day after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed collaboration against drug cartels.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared Tuesday to be ready to uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school sports teams, in a fight tied to federal education civil-rights law. During more than three hours of arguments, justices from the court’s conservative majority signaled the bans likely do not violate the Constitution or Title IX.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday labeled three branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on the groups and their members. The Treasury and State departments announced the actions against the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters, saying they pose a risk to U.S. interests.
The Trump administration designated the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, a move that expands a long-running regional debate over the Sunni Islamist movement’s political and militant activities. The designation, announced Tuesday, comes as governments across the Middle East have cracked down on the Brotherhood while some others have supported its ideology.
QUITO, Ecuador — Five human heads were found hanging from ropes on a beach in southwestern Ecuador, police said Sunday, as the country faces violence linked to drug trafficking. Ecuadorian media published images of the bodies near Puerto López, a small fishing port on the country’s coast.
Minnesota, joined by Minneapolis and St. Paul, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration seeking to halt an immigration enforcement operation that has included mass arrests, repeated deployment of tear gas, and the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by a federal officer five days earlier. State Attorney General Keith Ellison filed the suit against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging violations of the First Amendment and other constitutional protections. The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to halt the enforcement action or limit the operation.
The Trump administration said it will end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Somalia, setting a March 17 deadline for people covered by the program to leave the United States. The decision applies to “hundreds of people,” a small subset of Somali migrants living in the country with TPS protections, the Department of Homeland Security said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the change puts “Americans first,” and that “Temporary means temporary.”
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics on Sunday, finding that the Health and Human Services Department likely acted with a "retaliatory motive" when it terminated funding to the pediatric group in December. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell of Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction siding with AAP, ruling that the group had shown it would likely suffer irreparable harm from the cuts and that the public interest favored allowing the programs to continue while the underlying lawsuit proceeds.
A film directed by Gus Van Sant depicting a 1977 Indianapolis kidnapping is set to premiere Jan. 16, drawing renewed attention to a case in which a failed real estate developer held a mortgage company executive at gunpoint for nearly 63 hours using a wire-triggered shotgun. "Dead Man's Wire," starring Bill Skarsgård and Dacre Montgomery, focuses on the three days in February 1977 when Anthony "Tony" Kiritsis kidnapped Richard Hall, president of Meridian Mortgage, and took him hostage in his west-side apartment after a loan dispute turned violent.
Video of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 has proven inconclusive on whether Good's vehicle struck Ross before he opened fire, according to independent analyses by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times — and media ethics scholars say that ambiguity, combined with the spread of AI-generated fake images and a more fragmented public, has allowed sharply divergent narratives to take hold where the 2020 footage of George Floyd's death left little room for dispute. The Trump administration moved quickly after the shooting to frame it in terms favorable to the officer, while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's characterization of Good as a domestic terrorist and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer accused the administration of lying.
A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project serving Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume construction, dealing the Trump administration a legal setback on the same day President Donald Trump declared the United States "will not approve any windmills." Senior Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the government failed to explain why it could not take action short of a complete construction halt on Revolution Wind while it considers national security concerns, and did not provide sufficient reasoning for its change in position.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday rejected one of three brothers' bid to use his engagement and marriage as evidence of withdrawal from an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy, ruling the argument legally insufficient and barring the evidence from trial. Jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin the following week.
Fighting at a medium-security Georgia state prison left three inmates dead and 14 others injured — including a corrections officer — over the weekend, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The agency said violence erupted in an outdoor area of Washington State Prison, located about 130 miles southeast of Atlanta, and described the episode as "gang-affiliated." Guards used non-lethal weapons to subdue the fighting, and the situation was under control within about 90 minutes, the agency said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted a 3½-minute bystander video Sunday showing what happened in the minutes before a federal immigration officer shot and killed Renee Good during an enforcement operation on a snowy Minneapolis street. The video, published on X, shows Good's red SUV partially blocking a road while she repeatedly pressed the horn, two vehicles eventually passing, and federal officers approaching her car — then going dark moments before previously released footage documents the fatal shooting.
Federal investigators said Monday they found no surveillance footage or body-camera recordings of a Border Patrol agent shooting two people in a Portland, Oregon, parking lot last Thursday during an immigration enforcement operation, as prosecutors charged the driver with aggravated assault and property damage. None of the six agents present was recording body-camera footage, and the FBI has uncovered no surveillance video from the scene, according to a court affidavit filed Monday. The driver, Luis David Nino-Moncada, appeared in federal court Monday afternoon and was ordered held in detention pending a preliminary hearing Wednesday.
Daricka M. Moore, 24, pleaded not guilty Monday in Clay County Circuit Court to 11 criminal charges — including capital murder — stemming from the killings of six people during a Friday night rampage through a rural stretch of northeastern Mississippi. The victims included Moore's father, brother, uncle, a 7-year-old cousin, a church pastor, and the pastor's brother, killed at three separate locations. Because Moore was charged with capital murder, he is ineligible for bail under Mississippi state law.
Barry Morphew entered a not guilty plea Monday to first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, through his attorney, David Beller, at a brief hearing in Alamosa, Colorado. It was the second time Morphew has entered such a plea in the case, which began when Suzanne Morphew, 49, was reported missing on Mother's Day 2020. Morphew has maintained his innocence.
Los Angeles police detained a man Sunday after he drove a U-Haul box truck through a crowd of marchers on Veteran Avenue in the Westwood neighborhood, where demonstrators had gathered to show solidarity with protesters inside Iran, police said. One person was struck by the truck, but nobody was seriously hurt, according to a police statement. Two people were evaluated by paramedics and both declined treatment, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Washington's inspector general announced Monday that his office has opened an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department's crime data reporting system, adding to two prior probes that found evidence of data misclassification but stopped short of recommending criminal charges. Inspector General Daniel Lucas said in a letter to interim police Chief Jeffery Carroll that his objective is to evaluate the design, implementation, and operation of MPD's internal controls for collecting, classifying, and reporting crime data.
A federal judge in New York said Monday she will hold a short hearing within two weeks to examine the police procedures that allowed officers to search Luigi Mangione's backpack when he was arrested in connection with the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said the hearing will call a single witness — an Altoona, Pennsylvania police officer — and will focus narrowly on what protocols were in place when Mangione was taken into custody.
The criminal trial of former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales enters its second week Monday, with prosecutors pressing their argument that Gonzales failed to act as a gunman approached Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, killing 19 students and two teachers in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Gonzales, 52, has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment.
Grammy Award-winning music producer Antonio "L.A." Reid settled a sexual assault lawsuit Monday with former record company executive Drew Dixon, who alleged he assaulted her twice in 2001 and undermined her career when she refused his continuing advances. The settlement was reached in New York on the day jury selection was scheduled to begin. Terms were not disclosed.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday rejected a former senior Justice Department official's attempt to insert himself into the legal defense of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ruling the attorney had no authority to do so without Maduro's direct approval. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found that attorney Bruce Fein had "no legal basis" to join Maduro's drug trafficking case, reversing an earlier approval after Maduro's retained lawyer produced a statement from the deposed leader himself denying any knowledge of Fein. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, remain held without bail at a federal jail in Brooklyn, where they await a March 17 court date on charges they have pleaded not guilty to.
Michael David McKee, 39, a Chicago physician charged with the premeditated shooting deaths of his former wife and her husband in their Columbus, Ohio home, waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday in Winnebago County, Illinois, where he has been jailed since his arrest Saturday. McKee appeared expressionless in a yellow jumpsuit and wrist shackles before Judge Donald Shriver, who did not set a return date but scheduled a Jan. 19 hearing to confirm the status of the transfer. The Winnebago County Sheriff's Office will coordinate his return to Franklin County, where the trial will take place, according to Tom Jakeway, trial court administrator for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois.
A Virginia man accused in the killings of his wife and another man opened his double murder trial with attorneys presenting competing stories, prosecutors said. Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the 2023 deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the couple’s home in northern Virginia.
A federal detainee at a remote Florida detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has agreed to be removed from the United States, ending one of three pending federal court challenges to the facility, attorneys said. The detainee, identified in court documents only as M.A., asked a U.S. federal court in Fort Myers to dismiss his case on Monday.
A federal judge in San Diego sentenced former U.S. Navy sailor Jinchao Wei to 200 months in prison after a jury convicted him of six crimes, including espionage, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Wei, a petty officer second class and engineer for the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, sold technical and operating manuals and other ship-related information to an intelligence officer working for China.
An independent counsel has asked a South Korean court to sentence former President Yoon Suk Yeol to death on rebellion charges tied to his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024. Yoon, who was removed from office last April and is in jail, faces eight trials over criminal allegations related to the martial law episode and other matters. The Seoul Central District Court is expected to deliver a verdict in February.
Malaysian authorities said they will take legal action against Elon Musk’s social media platform X and its artificial intelligence unit xAI, accusing them of failing to ensure the safety of users of the Grok chatbot. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission said it has identified misuse of Grok to generate and distribute harmful content, including sexually explicit and non-consensual manipulated images. The announcement came days after Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Grok over concerns that it was being misused to create sexual deepfakes.
Jury selection began Tuesday in Las Vegas for Nathan Chasing Horse, the former “Dances with Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls. Prosecutors say he used his reputation as a spiritual leader and healer to take advantage of victims over two decades, while Chasing Horse has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges.
Lebanon’s former central bank governor Riad Salameh’s corruption case has been transferred to the country’s highest court, judicial officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Salameh and two legal associates—Marwan Khoury and Michel Toueini—will be tried at the Court of Cassation, a copy of the notice obtained by AP showed.
A New York City Council employee was arrested Monday at a scheduled immigration check-in and held at a federal building in Manhattan, prompting protests and a court bid for his release. The employee, identified in a habeas corpus petition as Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, is described by his attorneys as a Venezuelan asylum-seeker. Immigration authorities said he overstayed a tourist visa and lacked legal right to remain and work in the United States.
Licking County Chief Dog Warden Larry Williams and Avery Russell, 12, of Blacklick, were honored in Newark, Ohio, for a new state law aimed at strengthening responses to dangerous and vicious dogs. Gov. Mike DeWine signed the measure in December, and it is set to take effect March 18.
Russian investigators have opened a criminal case into the deaths of nine babies at a maternity hospital in Novokuznetsk, Siberia, during the New Year holidays, the Investigative Committee said on Tuesday. The babies died at Maternity Hospital No. 1, officials said, and the case was opened on charges of causing death by negligence.
Several major death penalty cases in Texas face appellate steps in 2026 as the state carries out a historically low number of executions. The cases include stays that courts granted in 2025 for Robert Roberson and David Wood, and the March 2025 overturning of Brittany Holberg’s capital conviction, according to an Associated Press report.
A South Carolina police officer was shot and wounded while sitting in his patrol car Sunday in Greenville, city officials said. The officer was released after treatment at a hospital, and authorities said a suspect was killed in a later shootout.
Federal officers used tear gas and sprayed an eye irritant at activists during confrontations in Minneapolis on Tuesday, and students later walked out of a suburban school to protest the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, according to a report by the Associated Press. The demonstrations were part of an escalating standoff that began after a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, was shot by an immigration agent.
A new 3 1/2-minute video posted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on X shows minutes before a federal immigration officer shot and killed Renee Good during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The footage, filmed by a bystander, was posted Sunday and has added context to a national debate over whether the officer acted in self-defense or recklessly.
BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts said Friday she expects to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a parole program that offers temporary legal protections to more than 10,000 family members of U.S. citizens and green card holders. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said at a hearing that she planned to issue a temporary restraining order but did not say when it would be issued.
Railroads and federal regulators have failed to implement most recommendations from major rail accident investigations, according to an analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland. The analysis found the Federal Railroad Administration fully implemented only five of 81 National Transportation Safety Board recommendations from 2015 through 2024.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. Department of Justice served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about renovations to Fed buildings. In a video statement Sunday, Powell said the threat is aimed at undermining the Fed’s independence in setting interest rates rather than following political preferences.
President Donald Trump has escalated his confrontation with the Federal Reserve, with the Justice Department investigating and serving subpoenas to the independent central bank and threatening a criminal indictment, according to a statement from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The dispute is centered on Powell’s testimony to Congress in June about the cost of a renovation of Fed buildings in Washington.
The Justice Department has threatened to seek a criminal indictment against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over testimony he gave this summer about the Fed’s building renovations, Powell said over the weekend. The comments add to concerns that President Donald Trump has pushed for greater control over the independent central bank, after he repeatedly attacked Powell for cutting rates and questioned the Fed’s handling of a $2.5 billion renovation project.
Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps that a number of critics describe as retribution against officials who opposed the Republican president or did not comply with his preferences, according to an Associated Press review published Monday. The most recent focus is Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who said the Justice Department has subpoenaed the central bank and threatened criminal indictments. The review also describes cases involving former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and other former or current government officials.
A federal judge in Boston said Friday she expects to temporarily block the Trump administration’s effort to end Family Reunification Parole, a program that grants temporary legal protections to more than 10,000 family members of U.S. citizens and green card holders. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said at a hearing she planned to issue a temporary restraining order, and questioned whether the government gave affected people written notice when it ended the program.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in two cases testing whether state laws banning transgender girls and women from female sports competitions violate the Constitution or Title IX, the landmark federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education. The West Virginia case centers on Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old sophomore who competes in discus and shot put, while the Idaho case involves college student Lindsay Hecox. Decisions are expected by early summer.
Two federal lawsuits filed by allies of President Donald Trump could determine who gets counted in the 2030 census and what methods the Census Bureau may use — outcomes that would affect congressional representation and the distribution of $2.8 trillion in federal aid to the states, the Associated Press reported Saturday. The cases are pending in Florida and Louisiana, and the Census Bureau itself is pushing ahead with planning for the next decennial count regardless of the litigation.
A federal judge in Seattle blocked most of President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections from being enforced against the vote-by-mail states of Washington and Oregon, according to court filings and lawyers’ statements. The order, issued in March, would require people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and would require all mail ballots to be received by Election Day.
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly sued the Pentagon on Monday, saying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to punish him for warnings about “illegal orders” and that the action violates his free-speech rights. Kelly asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to block a censure letter and related proceedings that could affect his retired military rank and retirement pay.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the Trump administration on Friday in federal court in Washington over a decision to halt two major offshore wind projects off Long Island, expected to power more than 1 million homes in the state. James challenged a Dec. 22 order from the U.S. Department of the Interior suspending construction on the Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind projects, saying it was arbitrary and unwarranted.
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on Revolution Wind, a major offshore wind project for Rhode Island and Connecticut, can resume while courts consider challenges to a Trump administration order that paused multiple offshore wind farms over national security concerns. The decision came as developers including Orsted and Equinor sought to block the freeze in separate court proceedings.
President Donald Trump’s motorcade was rerouted as he departed Florida for Palm Beach International Airport after a “suspicious object” was discovered during security sweeps, the White House said. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a further investigation was warranted and the motorcade route was adjusted accordingly, as Trump left Mar-a-Lago for the roughly 10-minute drive.
A Minneapolis Lutheran church opened its doors Sunday for a special service called "Lament and Hope," drawing worshippers from its largely immigrant congregation days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman in the surrounding neighborhood. The Rev. Hierald Osorto, pastor of St. Paul's-San Pablo Lutheran Church, welcomed a crowd seated on wooden benches as immigration enforcement officers drove through the streets outside, detaining people while activists beat drums and blew whistles in response.
A northern Virginia man charged with killing his wife and another man in what prosecutors call an elaborate scheme to frame the second victim for his wife's murder goes to trial Monday on aggravated murder charges, with his co-defendant already having pleaded guilty to a reduced charge. Brendan Banfield faces two counts of aggravated murder in the February 24, 2023, deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields' home in Fairfax County. He has pleaded not guilty.
An anonymous trader collected more than $400,000 from prediction market platform Polymarket after wagering that former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro would fall from power, the Associated Press reported. The bulk of those bets were placed just hours before President Donald Trump announced a surprise nighttime U.S. military raid that resulted in Maduro's capture, AP reported, fueling online suspicions of potential insider trading. Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres on Friday introduced a bill aimed at restricting government employees from trading on politically related event contracts — the first legislative response to the episode, according to AP.
A Greenville, South Carolina police officer was shot and wounded while sitting in his patrol car early Sunday in what Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis described as an "ambush-style attack," authorities said. Deputies later shot and killed a suspect identified as David William Lane, 42, of Greenville, after a vehicle pursuit ended in an exchange of gunfire. The officer was treated at a hospital and released.
A person was arrested on suspicion of arson Sunday after a fire heavily damaged Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi — the state's largest synagogue and the only one in Jackson — which the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 for its congregation's role in the civil rights movement. The fire broke out shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday; no congregants or firefighters were injured, authorities said.
Federal immigration agents rammed the door of a Minneapolis home Sunday and forced their way inside after pepper-spraying protesters who had gathered outside, according to video recorded by The Associated Press. A man was handcuffed and led away within minutes, arrested using a document signed by an immigration officer — not a court-issued warrant — which does not authorize forced entry into a private residence under federal law.
In Minneapolis, video footage from two different police killings — George Floyd in 2020 and Renee Good in 2025 — continues to shape public arguments about law enforcement and immigration. Five years after the Floyd video helped spark a major protest movement, new images released in the Good case have intensified disputes over what the videos show and how they should be interpreted, according to experts interviewed by the Associated Press.
Lawyers for several Democratic members of Congress asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing after the Trump administration blocked lawmakers from visiting an ICE facility near Minneapolis. The request follows a Minneapolis-area shooting in which an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, lawyers said.
An Illinois judge scheduled a Jan. 19 hearing to confirm the transfer of Michael David McKee, 39, to Ohio, after the ex-husband of an Ohio woman charged in a weekend double killing waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday. Prosecutors have charged McKee with premeditated aggravated murder in the Dec. 30 shootings of Monique Tepe and her husband, dentist Dr. Spencer Tepe, in their Columbus home.
A suspect in an arson fire at a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, bombed by the Ku Klux Klan decades earlier, was charged and appeared in federal court after admitting he targeted the historic congregation because it is a Jewish house of worship, the FBI said. Stephen Pittman was charged Monday with maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or an explosive, after the FBI said he confessed in an interview with investigators.
A Hong Kong court heard arguments on Monday about the sentencing of democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, a former publisher of Apple Daily, whose conviction under the city’s national security law could carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. Lai, 78, and other co-defendants appeared for four days of hearings on mitigation, with sentencing to be decided later.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics as a lawsuit continues, according to a court decision. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a preliminary injunction late Sunday in Washington, D.C., directing the Health and Human Services Department to reinstate seven grants that were terminated in December.
Federal Judge Valerie E. Caproni rejected a motion to dismiss in the case of Alon Alexander, who argued his engagement and later marriage showed he withdrew from an alleged conspiracy with his two brothers to drug and sexually assault women. Caproni’s ruling came Monday as jury selection was set to begin next week in Manhattan. Alexander and his brothers, Oren and Tal Alexander, have pleaded not guilty and are jailed without bail.
A federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt by attorney Bruce Fein to join the defense team for ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s drug trafficking case. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said Fein had “no legal basis” to represent Maduro unless Maduro personally retained him.
A federal judge said Monday she will hold a limited hearing in the coming two weeks on procedures police said allowed them to seize and search Luigi Mangione’s backpack after his arrest in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said the hearing in the death penalty case will focus on standardized police procedures and will include testimony from an Altoona, Pennsylvania, officer.
London’s murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, police said, and Mayor Sadiq Khan said the figures contradict claims by U.S. President Donald Trump and others that crime in the city is out of control. Police recorded 97 homicides in London in 2025, down from 109 in 2024, and said the population-based rate of 1.1 homicides per 100,000 was the lowest since comparable records began in 1997.
Grammy-winning music executive Antonio “L.A.” Reid reached a settlement Monday with Drew Dixon, a former record company executive who sued him alleging sexual assault and retaliation that harmed her career. The terms of the settlement were not made public, and Reid’s attorney said it resolved the dispute without any admission of liability.
Minnesota and its two largest cities sued the Trump administration Monday, seeking court limits on an immigration enforcement surge they say followed the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by a federal officer. State Attorney General Keith Ellison said the enforcement action is unconstitutional and must stop, while the Department of Homeland Security said the effort is lawful and that it has a constitutional defense. The legal challenge comes as protests and tensions continued in Minneapolis days after the shooting.
A Swiss court in the Valais canton ordered three months of pretrial detention for the manager of a bar in Crans-Montana after a New Year’s Eve fire killed 40 people and injured 116. The court said the detention was justified by a possible flight risk raised by prosecutors.
Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant for director and actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sex abuse charge, according to a criminal complaint filed in support of the case. The complaint describes alleged abuse involving a child on the set of “The Cleaning Lady,” a TV series Busfield directed and acted in.
The trial of a Texas police officer charged over his response during the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary entered a second week Monday, with prosecutors continuing to argue that he did nothing in the early moments to stop the gunman. Adrian Gonzales, 52, a former Uvalde schools police officer, has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment. The May 24, 2022, shooting killed 19 students and two teachers.
Los Angeles police responded Sunday after a U-Haul box truck was driven down a street crowded with marchers supporting the Iranian people, sending protesters scrambling and then running after the speeding vehicle. Police said the driver was taken into custody and could face charges. The incident occurred as demonstrators gathered in Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood to protest Iran’s government, police said.
The United Kingdom agreed to pay a “substantial sum” to settle a lawsuit brought by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo detainee who said UK intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret U.S. interrogation sites, his lawyer said Monday. The settlement follows years of legal and parliamentary scrutiny of U.K. cooperation with the CIA’s post-Sept. 11 detention and interrogation program.
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Jacob Smith has spent two decades in prison, but a new program is giving him chances to “go” to places like Thailand and practice job interviews through virtual reality. The Los Angeles nonprofit Creative Acts is running the VR experience at Valley State Prison near Fresno and other California facilities using donated headsets.
Washington’s inspector general has started an investigation into how the Metropolitan Police Department collects, classifies and reports crime data, according to a letter announced Monday. The review comes amid scrutiny from congressional investigators and a U.S. attorney’s office after questions were raised about whether some reports were misclassified to show lower crime rates.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Treasury Department is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesota residents and businesses and Somalia as federal immigration enforcement ramps up in the state. He announced actions aimed at combating fraud, including investigations into businesses used to wire money abroad, during a Friday visit amid protests in Minneapolis.
Los Angeles police said a man accused of steering a U-Haul truck toward a demonstration supporting Iran’s protesters was arrested on suspicion of reckless driving after officers stopped the vehicle Sunday. Authorities said he was not formally charged and was released Monday.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars in annual funding for child care subsidies and social services in five Democratic-led states, finding that California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York had met the legal threshold to pause the policy while litigation proceeds. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, issued a temporary order after the five states argued that a funding freeze announced earlier in the week was causing immediate "operational chaos." The order holds for at least 14 days.
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs for five Democratic-led states for now. The states—California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York—said a Tuesday policy to freeze billions of dollars was causing immediate harm and “operational chaos.”
The United States and Jordanian militaries struck multiple Islamic State targets across Syria on Saturday in the latest wave of retaliatory action following a December ambush that killed two Iowa National Guard soldiers and an American civilian interpreter near Palmyra, according to the U.S. Central Command.
A federal judge in Seattle on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against Washington and Oregon, finding that requirements for documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and for all mail ballots to be received by Election Day exceeded the president's constitutional authority.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and at least one Republican senator called Saturday for investigations and policy changes following the shooting death of Renee Good, a Minnesota woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after she dropped off her 6-year-old child at school. Democratic leaders said the death was prompting what House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York described as "a strong and forceful and appropriate response."
Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer, as hundreds of similar demonstrations were held in cities and towns across the country. The nationwide protests followed the killing of Renee Good, 37, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday and the shooting of two people — who were not protesters — in Portland, Oregon. Minnesota's governor and mayor urged demonstrators to remain peaceful.
Brian J. Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Virginia, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the national headquarters of both major political parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Cole faces two counts of transporting and attempting to use explosives, which together carry up to 30 years in prison, including a five-year mandatory minimum on one count.
Congress is debating possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a Minnesota woman, Renee Good, was killed in a shooting involving an ICE officer, as Democrats and some Republicans call for an assertive response to the Trump administration’s deportation operations. Lawmakers are weighing actions that range from investigating Good’s death to changing how ICE conducts raids, and some Democrats have also raised impeachment or funding restrictions for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in two cases challenging state bans on transgender girls and women competing in school and college sports, including one case brought by a college student in Idaho. The rulings are expected by early summer. (AP)
The United States launched another round of retaliatory strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria on Saturday, after a deadly ambush last month killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter, the U.S. Central Command said. The strikes were carried out around 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT), the command said.
A Virginia man accused in a federal case involving two pipe bombs pleaded not guilty at a brief hearing in Washington, D.C. on Friday. Prosecutors said the bombs were placed outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocratic government reached their two-week mark Sunday, as the death toll rose to at least 116 people killed and more than 2,600 others detained, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Iran's attorney general simultaneously threatened death-penalty charges against demonstrators, while U.S. President Donald Trump expressed support for the protests and news outlets reported he had been presented with military options.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the Trump administration on Friday in federal court in Washington, asking a judge to reverse a Dec. 22 Interior Department order that suspended construction on two offshore wind projects off Long Island expected to power more than 1 million homes. James called the stop-work order — which the Interior Department justified on national security grounds — arbitrary and legally unsupported, noting that the projects had cleared more than a decade of federal, state and local safety and security reviews.
A Chicago man has been charged with the murders of his ex-wife and her husband after Columbus, Ohio, police found the couple dead in their home following a wellness check, authorities said Saturday. Michael McKee, 39, was booked over the weekend and is being held in Winnebago County, Illinois, according to the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office.
Adam Johnson, the Florida man whose photograph carrying then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium through the U.S. Capitol became a viral image of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, filed Tuesday to run as a Republican for an at-large seat on the Manatee County Commission. Johnson filed his candidacy on Jan. 6, 2026 — the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack — and told a local television station the timing was "not a coincidence."
Albuquerque police filed a criminal complaint and obtained a judge-signed arrest warrant Friday for actor and director Timothy Busfield on two counts of alleged criminal sexual contact of a minor, according to court documents. The charges allege Busfield touched a child inappropriately on the set of *The Cleaning Lady*, a Fox television series Busfield directed and acted in. The child's mother reported the alleged abuse to Child Protective Services as having occurred between November 2022 and spring 2024, the complaint said. Busfield's attorney and agent did not respond to emails seeking comment as of Friday evening.
A Los Angeles-based nonprofit is using virtual reality headsets to give California prison inmates brief escapes to far-flung destinations and practice for real-world challenges — from Bangkok street markets to simulated job interviews — in a program its founder calls a "hope machine." Creative Acts founder Sabra Williams said the program grew from earlier prison arts work that incorporated theater, music, poetry, dance and painting, and is designed to both broaden inmates' sense of the outside world and equip them with tools to reenter a society that has changed around them.
Venezuela's government freed 16 people imprisoned for political reasons over three days following its Thursday pledge to release a significant number of detainees in what officials described as a gesture to "seek peace," according to Foro Penal, a Venezuelan advocacy group for prisoners. Eight hundred and four political prisoners remained imprisoned as of Saturday night, Foro Penal said. Officials had not identified or given a number of prisoners being considered for release, leaving rights groups and families waiting outside prisons in Caracas and other communities with little information.
A 24-year-old Mississippi man killed six people — including a 7-year-old girl and a church pastor — during a Friday night rampage across three locations in rural Clay County, authorities said Saturday. Daricka M. Moore was arrested at a police roadblock just before midnight after dozens of local, state and federal officers flooded the northeast Mississippi area. He was being held without bail Saturday at the Clay County jail in West Point on murder charges.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Friday for Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, scheduling the man's lethal injection for Feb. 10 at Florida State Prison. Heath would be the state's first execution of 2026. DeSantis, a Republican, oversaw 19 executions in 2025 — more than any Florida governor in a single year since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to court records.
A Chicago man has been charged with killing his ex-wife and her husband in their Columbus, Ohio, home, according to court and county records. Michael McKee, 39, was booked Saturday and is being held in Illinois, where he has a next court date set for Monday.
The head of the FBI’s New York field office has been named co-deputy director of the bureau, replacing Dan Bongino after his departure, an FBI spokesperson said Friday. Christopher Raia, who leads the New York office after taking over in April, is expected to start the new job next week alongside Andrew Bailey.
In western Kenya, widows who lose their husbands also risk losing the land they live on, with relatives sometimes pushing eviction or forced remarriage. Rebecca Anyango, 70, said her late husband’s family threatened to remove her from a home she has called hers for 26 years, even as they filed a lawsuit this year. She and other women described cultural practices that they say violate Kenya’s constitutional protections for land ownership.
A person was arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire damaged the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. No congregants or firefighters were injured in the blaze, and the investigation involved local and federal law enforcement.
A 24-year-old man is in custody in Mississippi after authorities said he killed six people during a Friday night rampage, including a 7-year-old girl. The suspect, Daricka M. Moore, was arrested at a police roadblock just before midnight in Cedarbluff, authorities said.
A Virginia man, Brendan Banfield, will go on trial Monday on aggravated murder charges in the February 2023 killings of his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors say the killings were part of an elaborate scheme involving Banfield and his Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, who pleaded guilty in the case.
Florida has set an execution date for Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery. The state issued a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, making Heath the first person scheduled to be executed in 2026 in Florida.
A federal judge in Massachusetts said Friday she expects to temporarily block the Trump administration’s plan to end Family Reunification Parole, a program that has provided temporary legal protections to more than 10,000 relatives of U.S. citizens and green card holders. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she planned to issue a temporary restraining order after a hearing, but did not say when it would take effect.
A judge in upstate New York on Thursday ruled that a Trump administration prosecutor, John Sarcone, was unlawfully serving in the role of acting U.S. attorney, expanding a broader pattern of federal court decisions. The same judge also denied Sarcone’s request for a court order directing the IRS to disclose tax return information in a separate criminal investigation, saying Sarcone lacked the authority to seek the records.
A Wisconsin teen pleaded guilty to homicide in the killing of a prison guard during a fight at the state’s youth prison, court records show. Javarius Hurd, 17, entered guilty pleas to second-degree reckless homicide and battery by a prisoner, but he argues he should not be sentenced to prison because of mental illness and responsibility. A February trial will decide whether Hurd should be sent to prison or committed to a mental health institution.
Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he was alarmed after federal drug trafficking charges were filed against a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard. The bodyguard, Justin Salsburey, and his wife, Ruthann Rankin, were charged with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute narcotics through the U.S. mail, according to federal complaints summarized by The Associated Press.
The Trump administration has told five Democratic-led states that it is restricting some social safety net funds that cover services including child care subsidies, cash assistance and job training. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian on Friday halted the freeze for at least two weeks after the states challenged it in court, arguing it would disrupt services for families with children. Federal officials said the moves are aimed at rooting out fraud, but letters cited “reason to believe” the states were providing illegal aliens benefits.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited Minnesota on Friday and said the Treasury Department is taking a closer look at financial transactions between residents and businesses in the state and Somalia as the Trump administration increases immigration enforcement. Bessent said the department launched actions to combat fraud in Minnesota and launched investigations into four businesses people use to wire money abroad, while declining to identify them.
Columbus-area Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said a five-member use-of-force review board found Officer Connor Grubb did not violate department policy when he fatally shot 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young during an encounter outside a Kroger in 2023.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from Cisco Systems seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company's technology helped Chinese authorities identify, track, detain, and torture members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. The justices will hear arguments in the spring and are expected to issue a ruling by early summer. The Trump administration had urged the court to accept the case on Cisco's behalf.
Iran's supreme leader signaled an imminent crackdown on demonstrators Friday as protests across the Islamic Republic persisted into a third week, despite the government cutting internet access and severing international telephone lines. At least 65 people have been killed and more than 2,300 detained since demonstrations began in late December over the country's ailing economy, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
The federal agent who shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is Jonathan Ross, a 43-year-old Iraq War veteran with nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Federal officials declined to publicly name Ross, citing safety concerns for him and his family, but a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was referring to Ross when she said the agent had been dragged by a vehicle the previous June.
Christopher Raia, the head of the FBI's New York field office, was named co-deputy director of the bureau Friday, replacing Dan Bongino following Bongino's recent departure, an FBI spokesperson said. Raia is scheduled to start next week.
U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said Friday that Luigi Mangione's federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin as early as December, setting a tentative schedule while she weighs defense motions to strip the case of its capital designation and dismiss two of the four charges against him. If the death penalty remains on the table, Garnett said, trial could begin in December or possibly January 2027; if it is removed, trial could start in October. Either way, she said, jury selection is expected to begin around Sept. 8.
Federal immigration agents shot and wounded two people in a vehicle near Adventist Health hospital in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, authorities said, drawing hundreds of protesters to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building that evening and prompting Oregon's attorney general to open a formal investigation. The Department of Homeland Security said agents were conducting a "targeted vehicle stop" when the driver tried to run them over, and that an agent then fired a "defensive shot." There was no immediate independent corroboration of that account or of the agency's claims about the vehicle occupants' affiliations, the Associated Press reported. The shooting came a day after an ICE officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.
The wife of Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, issued her first public statement Friday, describing the couple as having stopped to support their neighbors on the day of the shooting and memorializing Renee Good as a woman of kindness. "We had whistles. They had guns," Becca Good wrote in a statement provided to Minnesota Public Radio. It was her first public comment since her wife's death Wednesday.
New York City police fatally shot a man wielding a sharp object who had barricaded himself inside a room at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Thursday, trapping an elderly patient and a hospital security worker inside with him, the New York City Police Department said. The man, who had been admitted as a patient the day before, was shot after two Taser deployments and an attempt to kick the door open both failed to subdue him, according to Assistant Chief Charles Minch. The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. on the eighth floor of the hospital, located in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood.
The Minneapolis school district said Friday it will offer families the option of remote learning through Feb. 12, responding to fears among students and parents following a week of intensifying federal immigration enforcement in the city. The decision came after a federal agent fatally shot Renee Good, described by the Associated Press as a U.S. citizen and mother of three, on Wednesday, and immigration enforcement agents detained someone outside Roosevelt High School near dismissal time the same day. Minneapolis public schools, a district of nearly 30,000 students, closed Thursday and Friday.
A day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good, 37, in Minneapolis, federal authorities on Thursday blocked Minnesota state investigators from accessing evidence in the case and declared the state has no jurisdiction to investigate the killing. The FBI told Minnesota law enforcement officials they would not be allowed to participate in the investigation or review key evidence, according to the Associated Press. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz urged federal officials to reconsider, warning that public statements by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal leaders risked undermining confidence in the investigation's fairness.
A Nebraska woman charged with three felonies, including abuse of a vulnerable adult, remained the court-appointed guardian for at least 25 vulnerable Nebraskans more than a month after her November arrest, according to a Flatwater Free Press review of court filings in 42 cases. Becky Stamp, who operated a for-profit guardianship business spanning 18 counties, allegedly charged more than $21,000 at stores in York using an account belonging to a man deemed legally incapable of managing his own finances. Judges who appoint and oversee guardians in Nebraska responded unevenly: some moved quickly to suspend Stamp's powers, while others ordered only financial reviews or took no action.
A 47-second video recorded from the perspective of ICE officer Jonathan Ross emerged Friday, showing his approach to Renee Good's vehicle in the moments before he shot and killed her during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis — and prompting Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty to call on the public to submit any recordings and evidence to investigators. The footage showed Ross holding both a firearm and a cellphone simultaneously as he circled Good's SUV, a detail that policing experts said raised immediate questions about officer training.
Hackers broke into University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center servers in August and exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information belonging to participants in a cancer research study, according to a report the university submitted to the Hawaii Legislature in December. Four months after discovering the breach, the university had not yet notified the individuals whose data was stolen.
A dispute erupted in Manhattan federal court over who has authority to represent former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in his drug trafficking case, days after Maduro's arraignment on charges alleging he worked with drug cartels to facilitate the shipment of thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States. Defense attorney Barry Pollack, who sat with Maduro at his arraignment, filed a declaration Thursday with Manhattan federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein asking that lawyer Bruce Fein be removed from the court docket as Maduro's representative. Pollack said Maduro "does not know Mr. Fein and has not communicated with Mr. Fein, much less retained him, authorized him to enter an appearance, or otherwise hold himself out as representing Mr. Maduro."
An Indianapolis nonprofit sends anonymous text alerts to drug users when the local supply is disrupted — warning of bad batches, law enforcement seizures, and newly detected contaminants — in a real-time effort to prevent fatal overdoses. The CHARIOT program, run by Overdose Lifeline, had nearly 500 subscribers in Indianapolis as of early January 2026, the organization said. Marion County recorded 562 drug overdose deaths in 2025 and about 1,300 emergency room visits for overdose, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
A trial began Friday in California for five current and former Stanford University students charged with felony vandalism and conspiracy to trespass stemming from a pro-Palestinian protest in June 2024, when demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the university president's and provost's offices for several hours.
Federal immigration officers stationed in Louisiana are departing for Minneapolis, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press, in an abrupt pivot from a months-long enforcement sweep that drew protests around New Orleans and had targeted 5,000 arrests. Documents indicated that officers were continuing to leave Louisiana for Minneapolis late in the week ending Jan. 9. The shift appeared to signal a wind-down of the Louisiana deployment, known as "Catahoula Crunch," which began in December with more than 200 officers and had been expected to last into February.
A Brazilian court in Minas Gerais sentenced former Catholic priest Bernardino Batista dos Santos to 24 years and nine months in prison for the rape of an underage person, according to a court document obtained by The Associated Press on Jan. 9. The ruling was issued earlier this week, though the case remains sealed. The court also ordered dos Santos, 78, to pay 30,000 Brazilian reais in damages to the person.
Federal authorities blocked Minnesota investigators from accessing evidence after an ICE officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, escalating a dispute over whether the state has jurisdiction to investigate or prosecute the killing. The shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good occurred Wednesday, federal officials said, and by Thursday the FBI told Minnesota law enforcement they would not be allowed to participate in the investigation or review key evidence.
New York City police fatally shot a man wielding a sharp object who barricaded himself in a Brooklyn hospital room on Thursday, Assistant Chief Charles Minch said. The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in the Park Slope neighborhood.
The Trump administration has told California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York that it is restricting certain federal social-safety-net funds tied to child care, cash assistance and job training, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Democratic-led states sued, and a federal judge on Friday halted the freeze for at least two weeks while the legal fight continues. The administration says the steps target fraud, while state officials and outside experts warn delays could disrupt services for low-income families.
U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield ruled Thursday that a Trump administration prosecutor in upstate New York, John Sarcone, was unlawfully serving and that he lacked authority to seek tax return information in a criminal investigation.
A federal judge in Boston said Friday she expects to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end Family Reunification Parole, a program that has offered temporary legal protections to more than 10,000 family members of U.S. citizens and green card holders. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she planned to issue a temporary restraining order after a hearing, while scrutinizing whether the government gave adequate written notice to affected people.
A Wisconsin teen who pleaded guilty in the killing of a prison guard during a fistfight is asking a jury not to send him to prison, arguing he was mentally ill and not responsible for his actions. Javarius Hurd, 17, entered a guilty plea to second-degree reckless homicide and is slated for a February trial on whether he should be sentenced to prison or committed to a mental institution.
A use-of-force review board cleared an Ohio police officer who fatally shot 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother, during an encounter outside a Kroger in Columbus suburb Blendon Township, according to a statement from the police chief released this week.
The Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he was alarmed after federal drug-trafficking charges were filed against a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard, according to a campaign spokesperson. The man, Justin Salsburey, and his wife, Ruthann Rankin, face conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute narcotics charges tied to parcels mailed to their home in western Ohio, the Associated Press reported.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Treasury Department is taking a closer look at financial transactions involving Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia as the federal government ramps up its immigration crackdown in the state. Bessent made the remarks during a Friday visit amid protests in Minneapolis after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in a residential neighborhood on Wednesday.
The Senate voted Thursday without objection to display a plaque honoring police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, acting during the fifth-anniversary week of the siege and amid a White House campaign to reshape the historical record of that day. The bipartisan floor action came after senators learned that the plaque — mandated by Congress more than three years ago and required by law to be installed in 2023 — had never been displayed at the Capitol, with many House lawmakers instead hanging replicas outside their office doors.
A federal judge on Thursday disqualified the Trump administration's acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York from overseeing investigations into state Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that he had no lawful authority to hold the position. U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield blocked subpoenas that John Sarcone had sought seeking information about James' lawsuits against President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, finding that the Justice Department had circumvented the statutory process for appointing interim prosecutors after district judges declined to extend Sarcone's tenure.
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday strongly condemned the U.S. military seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic, warning the action would escalate military and political tensions in the Euro-Atlantic region. The seizure Wednesday of the vessel Bella 1 — which U.S. European Command said was taken for "violations of U.S. sanctions" — drew furious rhetoric from Moscow and criticism from Russian military commentators who accused the Kremlin of failing to respond quickly enough. Russian President Vladimir Putin had not publicly commented on the seizure as of Thursday.
A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the Trump administration from requiring Head Start grant applicants to strip out words associated with diversity, equity and inclusion, and barred the Department of Health and Human Services from laying off additional federal employees in its Office of Head Start. U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez issued the order Monday in a lawsuit brought by organizations representing Head Start providers and parents against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials. The suit accuses the administration of illegally dismantling the six-decade-old early childhood program.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords walked onto the House floor Thursday, 15 years to the day after a gunman shot her in the head at a constituent meeting in Tucson, Arizona, drawing a standing ovation from Democratic colleagues as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged gun control legislation as a top priority if Democrats reclaim the House majority in November's midterm elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up an appeal from Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit brought by Falun Gong members alleging the company’s technology was used in China to persecute the group. The justices said they will hear arguments in the spring, reviewing a ruling that would allow the case to proceed in U.S. courts.
President Donald Trump has filed a motion seeking $6,261,613.08 in attorney fees and costs from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office after an election-interference case against him was dismissed, according to a filing reported by The Associated Press. The case was dismissed after prosecutors involved in the Georgia racketeering prosecution were removed from it over an “appearance of impropriety” tied to a romantic relationship between Willis and a special prosecutor.
Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Officer Terry Bennett, 32, died Thursday from injuries he suffered on December 23 when a passing vehicle struck him as he helped a motorist who had run out of gas, the department announced. The driver remained at the scene. No charges have been filed, and the incident remains under investigation, a department spokesman said. Bennett is survived by his wife and son.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Federal and state officials concealed evidence from a federal appeals court showing that the Department of Homeland Security had agreed to reimburse Florida for building the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in the Everglades, environmental groups said Wednesday in court filings. Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity said the newly disclosed records — obtained through a public records request — should now be considered as judges decide the facility's permanent fate. The Everglades facility remains open and continues to hold detainees.
The United Nations asserted Thursday that the United States remains legally bound to pay its dues to U.N. agencies after President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending American support for 66 international groups, agencies and commissions, including 31 U.N.-related bodies. Secretary-General António Guterres said he regretted the decision. "Assessed contributions to the United Nations regular budget and peacekeeping budget, as approved by the General Assembly, are a legal obligation under the UN Charter for all Member States, including the United States," Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for Guterres, said in a statement.
The U.S. Transportation Department warned North Carolina on Thursday that the state could lose nearly $50 million in federal funding unless it revokes commercial driver's licenses issued to immigrants who are not qualified to hold them. A federal review of 50 such licenses found problems with more than half, and 924 unexpired licenses of this type remain active in the state.
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a Minneapolis woman's fatal shooting by a federal immigration officer on "a left-wing network," Democrats, the news media, and the woman herself, appearing at the White House briefing room as protests over her killing spread to cities across the country. Vance called the death of 37-year-old Renee Good — shot Wednesday while trying to drive away during an immigration enforcement operation on a snowy residential Minneapolis street — "a tragedy of her own making."
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Good, 37, during a protest against immigration raids in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the latest and most violent confrontation in a mounting conflict between the Trump administration and Minnesota. Good was killed just blocks from where a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020 — a geographic proximity that drew painful comparisons to the disorder that followed Floyd's death. The Trump administration had announced the previous day that it was sending more than 2,000 federal officers to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in what it claimed would be the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.
Dozens of protesters gathered Thursday outside a Minneapolis federal building being used as a base for the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation, a day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Good, 37, a U.S. citizen, in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis. Border Patrol officers responded with tear gas and pepper spray to push demonstrators back from the gate. Area schools were closed as a safety precaution.
Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with stealing more than 100 sets of human remains from Mount Moriah Cemetery, a historic burial ground on Philadelphia's outskirts, Delaware County authorities said. Officers stopped Gerlach as he walked back toward his car carrying a crowbar and a burlap bag that contained the mummified remains of two small children, three skulls and other bones, according to police.
Fabricated and misrepresented images spread widely on social media in the hours after Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Wednesday, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The wave of false content included AI-generated images purporting to show the masked officer's face, photographs of unrelated women falsely identified as Good, a tattoo image from a video posted two days before the shooting, and a misrepresented clip of Florida's governor.
Harvey Weinstein, 73, is considering a guilty plea to resolve a pending rape charge and avoid a third criminal trial in New York, his attorney and a Manhattan judge said Thursday, even as the disgraced Hollywood producer denied wrongdoing. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber asked defense lawyers to inform prosecutors within two weeks whether Weinstein intends to enter a plea. A retrial on the rape count remains scheduled for as early as March.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser amended a federal lawsuit Thursday, accusing the Trump administration of waging a "revenge campaign" against the state by cutting federal funds and ending programs after Colorado refused to release Tina Peters, a former Mesa County elections clerk serving a nine-year prison sentence for orchestrating a data breach scheme rooted in false claims about the 2020 election. Weiser linked a series of adverse federal actions directly to the administration's demands that Colorado free Peters and abandon its mail-in voting system.
An ICE agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman during an immigration enforcement operation Wednesday, reviving a debate over when law enforcement officers may legally use lethal force against someone in a moving vehicle. The woman, identified by family members as Renee Nicole Good, 37, died after being shot in a confrontation captured on cellphone video. The killing drew immediate and conflicting responses from federal authorities, who defended the agent's actions, and local officials, who questioned whether deadly force was justified.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Fifteen minutes before Brown University sent its first active-shooter alert on Dec. 13, students were already documenting the attack on Sidechat, an anonymous campus message board, according to an Associated Press analysis of nearly 8,000 posts from the 36 hours following the shooting. The attack, which killed two students at the Ivy League institution, unfolded during finals week inside Barus and Holley, an academic building on the Providence campus.
Marshon Lattimore, a cornerback for the Washington Commanders, was arrested Wednesday evening in Lakewood, Ohio, on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, Lakewood police said. Officers pulled over the vehicle Lattimore was riding in for expired license plates and other traffic violations. During the stop, Lattimore, 29, failed to disclose to the officer that a firearm was inside the vehicle when asked, according to police. He was briefly booked into jail and released without bond.
A dispute among people attending a funeral erupted into gunfire Wednesday night in the parking lot of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in northwest Salt Lake City, leaving two people dead and six others injured, police said. The two people killed were identified as Vaea Tulikihihifo, 46, and Sione Vatuvei, 38. Five of the six injured remained hospitalized under police protection as of Thursday evening, and no arrests had been made.
Hundreds of people marched through Minneapolis in freezing rain Thursday night, chanting "ICE out now" and demanding accountability after a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Good, 37, a mother of three, the day before. A second shooting by federal agents outside a Portland, Oregon, hospital wounded two people on the same day, escalating national attention on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations across the country. Good's death occurred on the second day of what the Department of Homeland Security described as the largest immigration enforcement operation in history, involving more than 2,000 officers deployed to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said officers had made more than 1,500 arrests. Minnesota state investigators said Thursday they had been shut out of the probe into Good's death after the FBI and the Justice Department declined to cooperate with the state, setting off a dispute over accountability that Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called unacceptable.
Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and U.S. citizen born in Colorado, was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Wednesday while seated in her vehicle on a Minneapolis street. On Thursday, family members, friends, and neighbors mourned a woman they described as gentle, kind, and devoted to her children, even as Trump administration officials continued to characterize Good as a domestic terrorist who had attempted to ram federal agents with her car. Good had dropped off her youngest child at an elementary school in Minneapolis that morning before the encounter. Bystander video posted to social media shows an ICE officer approaching her Honda Pilot, demanding she open the door and grabbing the handle; when she began to pull forward, a second officer standing in front of the vehicle fired at least two shots into the car at close range. The entire incident was over in less than 10 seconds.
An Indianapolis nonprofit said it has been sending anonymous text alerts about possible contamination in the local drug supply to help prevent overdoses. The messages are sent through CHARIOT, a service that shares information when Overdose Lifeline receives reports of disruptions, including seizures of meth, pressed pills and fentanyl in specific ZIP codes.
Days after former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arraigned on drug trafficking charges, a dispute has surfaced over which lawyer will represent him in Manhattan federal court. Defense attorney Barry J. Pollack accused Bruce Fein of seeking to join the case without authorization, while Fein told Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein that a judge asked him on Friday to help resolve the representation issue.
California will lose $160 million in federal transportation funding after federal officials said the state delayed revoking about 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses issued to some immigrants, the officials announced Wednesday. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he had already withheld $40 million and accused Gov. Gavin Newsom of failing to meet safety requirements.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The shift comes as the Trump administration surges federal officers to Minnesota for a large enforcement operation. The documents describe the change as an abrupt pivot from a deployment that triggered protests around New Orleans.
Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, outside a hospital on Thursday, authorities said. The shooting came a day after an officer in Minnesota fatally shot a woman, according to authorities cited by The Associated Press.
Google and Character Technologies, the company behind Character.AI, have agreed to settle a Florida lawsuit in which a mother alleged a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Attorneys for the companies also agreed to settle several other lawsuits filed in Colorado, New York and Texas that accused Character.AI chatbots of harming children. The companies did not disclose settlement terms, which still require approval by judges.
Hackers accessed computer systems holding patient data for a University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center study in August, but the university had not immediately notified participants, according to a report to the state Legislature. The university outlined the ransomware attack in a December legislative report that, the report says, did not fully meet requirements under state law.
Federal records reviewed by The Associated Press say the ICE officer who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis on Wednesday is a U.S. Army and law enforcement veteran who has worked for Border Patrol and ICE for nearly two decades. The officer, Jonathan Ross, was seriously injured last summer after being dragged by a vehicle as he led efforts to arrest a man in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Luigi Mangione’s federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin as early as December, a judge said during a hearing in Manhattan on Friday. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she expects jury selection to start around Sept. 8, depending on whether prosecutors pursue the death penalty. A separate state murder case has not yet had a trial date set, prosecutors said previously they expected it to come first.
A woman in Minneapolis was fatally shot by an immigration officer Wednesday, the Associated Press reported, in what the news agency said was at least the fifth death linked to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown launched last year. The Department of Homeland Security said the officer fired in self-defense as the 37-year-old tried to run down officers with her vehicle.
A Minnesota prosecutor asked the public on Friday to share any recordings and evidence related to the fatal shooting of Renee Good, as a new video circulated showing the incident from an immigration officer’s perspective. The video, released online by a Minnesota-based conservative news site and reposted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, depicts the final moments of Good’s encounter with ICE officer Jonathan Ross.
A trial began Friday for five current and former Stanford University students accused in 2024 of occupying the university president’s offices during a pro-Palestinian protest. Prosecutors said the demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the offices for several hours on June 5, 2024, and damaged property. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said the group’s actions went too far, while defense attorneys said the defendants are exercising their right to a jury trial.
Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, who was shot and killed in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent this week, said in a written statement that she and her husband had “stopped to support their neighbors” the day of the shooting. “We had whistles. They had guns,” Becca Good said. Video taken by bystanders shows an officer approaching Renee Good’s SUV and demanding the driver open the door before an ICE officer fires at close range, according to the Associated Press.
A Nebraska woman charged with theft remained the court-appointed guardian for dozens of vulnerable people more than a month after her arrest, according to a review of court records. Becky Stamp was arrested in early November and charged with three felonies, including abuse of a vulnerable adult, after documents alleged she took money from the accounts of people she was appointed to oversee.
Nebraska lawmakers opened the 2026 legislative session Wednesday with a motion to expel Sen. Dan McKeon, a Republican, over allegations that he made a sexually charged remark to a legislative staffer and touched her inappropriately at a session-end party last May. If the full Legislature votes to remove him next week, it will be the first expulsion in the body's history. McKeon, 59, said he has no plans to resign.
SALT LAKE CITY — Two people were killed and six others were injured in a shooting in a parking lot behind an LDS church Wednesday night while mourners attended a memorial service inside, police said. No suspect was in custody, and authorities said they did not believe the shooting was targeted at a religion. Police are reviewing license plate readers and nearby surveillance video as they search for a suspect.
Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration, seeking to stop a freeze on billions in social safety-net funding. The states argue the White House action improperly withholds money Congress already approved for programs that support low-income families, including child care, cash assistance and job training, and social services.
The Trump administration says it will depart 66 international organizations, nearly half of them affiliated with the United Nations, according to a White House list provided to The Associated Press. The list groups the departures into non-UN organizations and U.N. organizations covering a range of issues including climate, labor, migration and other topics the administration has criticized as “woke.” The Associated Press published the names of the 66 organizations.
The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order in DeSoto Parish, where a federal judge approved a joint motion to dismiss a 1967 lawsuit. The order had required the district, a northwest Louisiana system of about 5,000 students, to eliminate segregation and provide regular progress reports.
Federal officers in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Good after a Honda SUV moved toward an ICE agent, according to federal officials and videos captured by bystanders, but policing experts said the officer’s actions appear to run counter to widely taught use-of-force practices. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism,” while President Donald Trump said the officer acted in self-defense.
A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents to help fund a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump pleaded guilty in Waukesha County Circuit Court, agreeing to two mandatory life sentences. Nikita Casap, 18, entered the plea Thursday as prosecutors dropped seven other charges in a deal.
NEW YORK — A New York City judge ordered a mental health evaluation for a Massachusetts woman charged in the unprovoked stabbing of a tourist at Macy’s flagship store in midtown Manhattan, prosecutors said Wednesday. Kerri Aherne, 43, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, assault, endangering the welfare of a child and other charges in Manhattan court.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday criticized Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what they called “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Prosecutors said the defense wrongly claimed Bondi was continuing to receive income through the firm’s profit-sharing arrangement.
A federal judge indicated that a jury will be allowed to decide whether OpenAI hoodwinked Elon Musk as the company evolved from a nonprofit research lab into a for-profit business. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers told lawyers in a hearing in Oakland, California, that she intended to reject OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Musk’s fraud claims.
The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a proposed ballot initiative aimed at ending corporate spending in state political campaigns is unconstitutional, siding with Attorney General Austin Knudsen's earlier rejection of the measure. The initiative, backed by a group of former Montana public officeholders, would have prohibited corporations, nonprofits, and other incorporated entities from donating to campaigns and political committees — and would have closed a pathway through which individuals make anonymous political donations by routing money through corporate entities.
The Trump administration on Wednesday seized two more sanctioned oil tankers carrying Venezuelan petroleum and announced plans to selectively lift sanctions to oversee the global sale of Venezuela's oil — moves that administration officials said would give the United States control over proceeds from the world's largest proven crude reserves. The tankers, the Bella 1 seized in the North Atlantic and the M Sophia captured in the Caribbean Sea, join at least two others taken by U.S. forces last month.
Republican and Democratic officials in roughly one-third of U.S. states have considered revising their congressional districts since President Donald Trump began pressing for mid-decade remapping to help House Republicans maintain their slim majority ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to an Associated Press review. Six states have already adopted new maps through legislative action, court order, or commission vote. More are expected to weigh redistricting as legislative sessions open this year.
Aldrich Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran who admitted selling U.S. intelligence secrets to Moscow for $2.5 million and whose disclosures are blamed for the deaths of Western agents behind the Iron Curtain, died Monday in a Maryland prison. He was 84.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's military held a state funeral Wednesday in the capital for some of the dozens of soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro four days earlier. Military orchestral music accompanied families and uniformed officers as they marched behind flag-draped wooden caskets at a cemetery on the capital's south side, where the dead were honored with a gun salute.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he plans to call a special legislative session in April for the Republican-dominated Legislature to redraw the state's congressional districts, joining a multi-state redistricting push backed by President Donald Trump that could affect control of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterms. DeSantis, speaking at a news conference in Steinhatchee, Florida, said he wanted to wait for an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a key provision of the Voting Rights Act before proceeding with new maps.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the House floor Thursday, marking the 15th anniversary of the assassination attempt that left her severely disabled. She stood with her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries praised her congressional service and gun-control advocacy.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from purging diversity-related terms from Head Start grant applications, ordering Health and Human Services to stop the word changes and to halt further layoffs in the Office of Head Start. The order was issued by U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez in Seattle and was published Monday.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the U.S. seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic and said the move could further escalate military and political tensions in the Euro-Atlantic region. The ministry warned it could lower the “threshold for the use of force” against “peaceful shipping,” in a statement that also criticized U.S. threats to prosecute the crew.
The U.S. Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack after the plaque was found missing from the Capitol, according to an Associated Press report. The Senate’s action on Thursday rebuffed House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has said the memorial does not comply with the law.
The State Department said Wednesday it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia's federal government over allegations that Somali officials demolished an American-funded World Food Program warehouse at Mogadishu Port and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians.
Homeland Security on Tuesday said it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the department, with about 2,000 federal officers and agents expected to arrive in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The operation is tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents, and it has triggered protests and warnings of heightened political and community tensions in Minnesota.
President Donald Trump filed a motion Wednesday seeking $6,261,613.08 in attorney fees and costs from the Fulton County District Attorney's office, invoking a Georgia law that entitles defendants to recoup legal expenses when a prosecutor is disqualified for misconduct and the case is subsequently dismissed. The filing comes two months after the election interference case against Trump and 18 co-defendants was dismissed, following the court-ordered removal of District Attorney Fani Willis.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis woman Wednesday morning during a federal immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities, the Associated Press reported. Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was shot in the head in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis after 9:30 a.m. The shooting was recorded on video by bystanders, and it drew immediate conflicting accounts from federal and local officials.
Google and Character Technologies, the company behind the Character.AI chatbot, have agreed to settle a Florida lawsuit alleging the chatbot contributed to the February 2024 suicide of a 14-year-old boy, according to court documents filed this week in federal court. The companies have also agreed to settle similar suits filed in Colorado, New York, and Texas on behalf of families who alleged the chatbot harmed their children. Settlement terms were not disclosed in any of the filings; each agreement must still be approved by a judge.
An immigration officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, in Minneapolis on Wednesday in what the Department of Homeland Security described as a self-defense shooting — at least the fifth death linked to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations since last year, the Associated Press reported. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said video of the incident showed it was reckless and unnecessary.
Norwegian energy company Equinor and Danish company Orsted filed civil suits late Tuesday in federal court challenging the Trump administration's Dec. 22 order suspending leases on five East Coast offshore wind projects for at least 90 days. Connecticut and Rhode Island filed a separate request Monday for a preliminary injunction. Dominion Energy Virginia, first to sue, called the order 'arbitrary and capricious' and unconstitutional.
A former Uvalde schools police officer went on trial Tuesday in Corpus Christi, Texas, on child endangerment charges stemming from the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre, as relatives of victims wept in court while listening to frantic 911 recordings from the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers. Special prosecutor Bill Turner told jurors that former school officer Adrian Gonzales arrived outside the school just before the teenage gunman entered but did not move to stop him, even after a teacher pointed to where the gunman was firing in a parking lot. Gonzales went inside only "after the damage had been done," Turner said during opening statements.
Detroit ended 2025 with 165 criminal homicides, its lowest count since at least the early to mid-1960s and 38 fewer than the 203 recorded in 2024, Police Chief Todd Bettison announced Wednesday. The figure extends a steep four-year decline from 308 homicides in 2021 and mirrors a broad national retreat from the violent crime surge that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sued Connecticut and Arizona this week for refusing to provide detailed voter information, bringing to 23 the number of states the department has targeted in a broad effort to obtain voter registration data from states that have declined to comply. The department has also filed suit against the District of Columbia.
Federal transportation officials announced Wednesday that California will forfeit $160 million in highway funding after the state delayed the revocation of 17,000 commercial driver's licenses that federal auditors found were issued unlawfully to immigrants. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the state had promised to complete the revocations by Jan. 5 but instead postponed action until March after immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit.
Venezuela's opposition leaders find themselves largely in exile or prison days after the U.S. military operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro, with Vice President Delcy Rodríguez governing in his stead after the Trump administration declined to back the country's recognized opposition leadership. Maduro, removed from his home on a military base in Caracas on Saturday and transferred to New York on federal drug trafficking charges, has been succeeded not by opposition figures but by members of his own administration.
Pamela Smart, serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by a teenage student in 1990, has filed a habeas corpus petition seeking to overturn her conviction. The petition was filed Monday in New York, where Smart is held at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, and in New Hampshire, where the killing happened.
A woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, setting off clashes between federal and state officials over the investigation and whether the shooting was justified. The incident occurred after federal authorities had dispatched additional officers and agents to Minnesota as part of an immigration crackdown, the Associated Press reported.
Aldrich Ames, the former CIA officer who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in a Maryland prison. The Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Associated Press that Ames died Monday. He was 84.
Brown University students turned to Sidechat, an anonymous campus message board, during the Dec. 13 shooting at the Ivy League campus in Providence, Rhode Island, as they tried to figure out what was happening before official alerts arrived. An Associated Press analysis of nearly 8,000 Sidechat posts from the 36 hours after the attack describes how students documented the chaos in real time.
Colorado’s attorney general, Phil Weiser, sued the Trump administration, accusing it of a “revenge campaign” after federal actions that the state says penalized Colorado for refusing to free convicted elections clerk Tina Peters. The suit, amended Thursday, links other federal decisions affecting Colorado to Peters’ incarceration. President Donald Trump has sought Peters’ release and has also pushed for changes to Colorado’s mail-in voting system.
Washington Commanders cornerback Marshon Lattimore was arrested outside Cleveland, Ohio, after police pulled over a car in which he was a passenger, authorities said on Wednesday. Police in Lakewood, a suburb west of Cleveland, said he was arrested about 6:15 p.m. and was charged with carrying concealed weapons and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.
A Craigslist ad shared online as evidence of fraud involving Minnesota day care centers run by Somali residents was a prank, according to an Associated Press fact check. The ad, which has since been removed, said a Minneapolis center in the Ventura Village neighborhood was hiring 20 child actors for three days to pose as attendees while it was vetted by the state. The AP reported that the ad was bait for an online prank show rather than proof of wrongdoing.
A Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer who was struck by a car last month while helping a motorist who had run out of gas has died from his injuries, the department announced. Terry Bennett, 32, had been hospitalized since Dec. 23, when he was hit by a passing vehicle while assisting on the roadside.
Misrepresented and fabricated images spread online after a fatal Minneapolis shooting in which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer killed Renee Good, Associated Press reported. The images circulated with false claims about the officer’s identity, whether he had a Nazi tattoo, and whether other people shown in photos or videos were involved.
Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve a rape charge in New York and avoid a third trial, his lawyer and a judge said Thursday. Weinstein, speaking in court, insisted he “never assaulted anyone,” even as the judge asked defense lawyers to tell prosecutors within two weeks whether he planned to plead guilty.
A federal judge disqualified a Trump administration prosecutor from overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor was not lawfully serving as an acting U.S. attorney. U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield, in an order issued Thursday, blocked subpoenas requested by John Sarcone, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoed a bill Thursday that would have reduced the prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro for his failed 2023 coup attempt. Lula made the decision during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Brasilia, marking the third anniversary of riots led by Bolsonaro supporters that ransacked government buildings.
Nicolás Maduro’s first U.S. court hearing began a legal process that could keep the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife in custody for years, prosecutors and a judge said in court on Monday, Jan. 6. Maduro and Cilia Flores were arraigned in New York on drug trafficking charges days after U.S. forces seized them from their Caracas home, according to court proceedings described by The Associated Press.
Mexico’s government said homicides fell sharply in 2025, presenting the figures as evidence its security strategy is working. During President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily news conference, officials said the rate was 17.5 murders per 100,000 people last year, the lowest since 2016.
Hundreds of people protested in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, officials and federal agencies said. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other local leaders urged calm while calling for a federal investigation and rejecting claims that Good used her vehicle as a weapon.
A federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis after she was seen using her vehicle during an incident on Wednesday, reigniting scrutiny of when police may use lethal force against drivers in motion. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the officer followed training and acted in self defense and to protect fellow officers.
Delaware County prosecutors say investigators found more than 100 skulls and mummified body parts in a Pennsylvania home after a grave robbery investigation, culminating in the arrest of Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34. Prosecutors said the items were tied to break-ins at Mount Moriah Cemetery near Philadelphia’s western suburbs in a case that has led to 100 counts each of abuse of a corpse and receiving stolen property.
Salt Lake City police said a fatal shooting outside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church parking lot on Wednesday night killed two people and injured six others. Police said the shooting grew out of a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral.
The United Nations’ top official said Thursday that the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund UN agencies, days after the White House announced it is withdrawing support from more than 30 UN-related initiatives. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said the UN entities targeted by the U.S. decision will continue their work despite the announcement.
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Good was “a tragedy of her own making,” as protests spread to other cities. He made the comments in the White House briefing room and on social media, during a continuing investigation into the Wednesday incident.
Doctors Without Borders said it will suspend services at a clinic in Bel Air, a violent neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, because clashes continue between police and armed groups. The organization said the decision comes after violence trapped seven community volunteers at the clinic for several hours on Tuesday.
Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, was fatally shot behind the wheel of her vehicle by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, according to the Associated Press. Family members and neighbors are mourning her, while state and local officials and protesters have rejected the Trump administration’s characterization of the encounter. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said video recordings show the self-defense argument is “garbage.”
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine reported to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday to begin a three-month federal sentence, arriving by luxury van alongside internet personality Adin Ross and a camera crew that streamed his self-surrender live. The 29-year-old artist, whose legal name is Daniel Hernandez, joins Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and accused United Healthcare shooter Luigi Mangione at a federal jail that some judges have described as "hell on earth."
Nevada has formally written off more than $106 million in bad debt since the start of 2023, according to an analysis by the Nevada Independent, with the state's deputy controller acknowledging that the scale of uncollected funds demands attention. The write-offs — covering debts deemed impossible or impractical to collect — were approved by a board that includes the governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, and span accounts stretching back more than three decades.
A judge on Tuesday granted a request by Charles Williams, who was 15 when he opened fire with his father’s revolver at Santana High School in San Diego in 2001, allowing his case to be resentenced. The ruling sends the matter to juvenile court and could lead to his immediate release after 23 years in prison, though prosecutors said they will appeal.
One of New York City’s most notorious serial killers, Richard Cottingham, has confessed to the 1965 killing of nursing student Alys Eberhardt, New Jersey police said. Investigators say the confession was uncovered through years of interviews after they reopened the cold case in 2021.
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine reported Tuesday to a federal lockup in Brooklyn where President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Luigi Mangione are awaiting trial, according to the Associated Press. Hernandez, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, is serving a three-month stint in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Federal prosecutors on Monday charged former Georgia state House member Karen Bennett with one count of making false statements to collect $13,940 in federal pandemic unemployment benefits, making her the second Georgia Democratic legislator accused of defrauding a COVID-era aid program. Bennett, of Stone Mountain, waived indictment, pleaded not guilty and was released on $10,000 bail after a federal court appearance. She had resigned from the House the previous Thursday.
Wyoming's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that two state laws barring abortion violate the state constitution, striking down what would have been the country's only explicit ban on abortion pills and preserving legal access to abortion in one of the nation's most conservative states. The 4-1 decision, issued by justices all appointed by Republican governors, upheld every prior lower court ruling in the case.
U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, an Edinburg Republican, announced Monday she would seek a new federal visa category for construction workers after South Texas builders told her that immigration enforcement arrests had halted job sites and threatened the regional industry. De La Cruz said she plans to meet with the U.S. Department of Labor to explore a program modeled on the H-2A agricultural visa. "We'd like to see where the construction industry would fit," she said.
Ryan Thornton, 37, of Racine, Wisconsin, was sentenced to two years of probation after Dane County prosecutors dropped a felony stalking charge against him in exchange for guilty pleas on two misdemeanor counts, resolving a case in which he was accused of sending threatening emails to Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Jill Karofsky, according to court records.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Monday appointed two former federal prosecutors to the state's Supreme Court, naming Christina Nolan and Michael Drescher to fill two recent vacancies on the five-member court. Both appointments require confirmation by the Vermont Senate.
WASHINGTON — The fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol brought rival ceremonies to Washington on Tuesday but no shared memorial, as Republicans and Democrats diverged sharply in their accounts of the day that killed at least five people and reshaped American politics.
THE HAGUE — The U.S. military's capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at a military base in Caracas has drawn condemnation from governments across four continents, with critics warning Monday that the operation sets a dangerous precedent for the erosion of international law. Maduro appeared in a New York federal court on narco-terrorism conspiracy charges as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency session on the legality of the mission.
Federal prosecutors say four Los Angeles-area suspects planned to bomb several business locations in Southern California on New Year’s Eve, and three of them have now entered not-guilty pleas in federal court. Audrey Carroll, 30, and Zachary Page, 32, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday, and Tina Lai, 41, entered a plea earlier in the week. Prosecutors said the suspects were arrested in the Mojave Desert in December while they were rehearsing.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that he has censured Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over the former Navy pilot’s participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. Hegseth said the censure is a formal letter in a process that could lead to a demotion from Kelly’s retired rank and a reduction in his retirement pay.
Iran executed Ali Ardestani, a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, Iranian state media reported Wednesday. The official IRNA news agency said Ardestani relayed sensitive information to Mossad officers in return for financial rewards, including cryptocurrencies.
The Montana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a proposed constitutional ballot initiative to limit corporate and other “artificial” entities’ political spending is unconstitutional. The court upheld a finding by Attorney General Austin Knudsen that the initiative would violate a state constitutional rule requiring voters to weigh each amendment separately.
Pakistan and China issued a joint statement calling for more “visible and verifiable” steps to eliminate terrorist organizations based in Afghanistan and to prevent Afghan territory from being used for militancy against other countries. The statement came after talks in Beijing on Dec. 4 between Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi, and followed tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent weeks.
Pakistani counterterrorism police in Karachi raided militant hideouts, arresting three suspects and seizing about 2 tons of explosives that officials said were meant for planned attacks in the city. Officials said the bomb-making materials and detonators were intended to be used by members of the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed threats toward Greenland have raised alarm among NATO allies and NATO officials, according to the White House and European security analysts. The White House said Tuesday that Greenland is “a national security priority” and that the administration is weighing “options” that could include military action, as the leaders of multiple NATO countries issued a joint statement backing Greenland’s sovereignty.
New Orleans police reported Monday that violent crime in the city declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, releasing the figures less than a week after 350 National Guard troops arrived to patrol on President Donald Trump's orders. The timing produced competing claims over who or what deserves credit for the decline — and whether the federal deployment was warranted at all.
PHOENIX — A former Republican Arizona state lawmaker who publicly questioned the integrity of the state's elections was sentenced Tuesday to probation and a five-year ban on seeking public office after pleading guilty to using nominating petitions with forged signatures to qualify for a 2024 primary election. Austin Smith, 30, who had represented a Phoenix-area state House district for one term, was also fined $5,500.
A federal judge in Nashville reduced the prison sentence of former Tennessee Rep. Robin Smith to one year of probation in a public corruption case tied to a shadow company and taxpayer-funded mailings. U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson made the change Monday, according to court filings and statements cited by The Associated Press.
Nearly five years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the official plaque meant to honor officers who defended Congress is not on display and its whereabouts are not publicly known, according to an Associated Press report. The plaque was approved by Congress in 2022 but the Architect of the Capitol has said it cannot comment amid federal litigation. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office said the statute authorizing the plaque is “not implementable” and that proposed alternatives also do not comply, the report said.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 vice-presidential nominee, announced Monday that he will not seek a third term as governor, citing Republican attacks and the political fallout from a federal investigation into child care fraud in the state's Somali community. Walz made the announcement at the state capitol in St. Paul less than four months after launching his reelection campaign, saying the dual demands of governing and campaigning had become untenable. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is considering entering the race, according to a person close to her who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Deaths of on-duty law enforcement officers in the United States fell nearly 25% in 2025, according to an annual report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Total fatalities dropped from 148 in 2024 to 111 last year, with declines recorded across all major categories. The report was shared with the Associated Press ahead of its release Tuesday.
A Craigslist ad offering $1,500 a day for children to pose as day care attendees in Minneapolis spread across multiple social media platforms this week as purported evidence of fraud at Minnesota day care centers. The cohost of an online prank show told the Associated Press his team placed the ad as bait — not as documentation of any actual scheme.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that Claudio Neves Valente, the gunman who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in December, had been planning the attacks for years and left behind videos in which he confessed to the killings but provided no motive.
Pamela Smart, who has spent more than three decades imprisoned for orchestrating her husband's murder, filed a habeas corpus petition Monday arguing constitutional violations denied her a fair trial — including prosecutors' alleged use of inaccurate transcripts that attributed key words to recordings where those words were not audible.
Joseph E. McGettigan III, the Pennsylvania prosecutor who secured criminal convictions against Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and chemical heir John du Pont, died Dec. 31 at age 76, according to Boyd Horrox Givnish Life Celebration Home of East Norriton. McGettigan lived in Media, a Philadelphia suburb. No cause of death was reported.
Captain Brandon Fisher, the Alaska Airlines pilot praised by the heads of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Boeing executives for safely landing Flight 1282 after a door plug panel separated from the aircraft in January 2024, has sued Boeing in an Oregon court. Fisher's lawyers allege that Boeing, despite a federal finding that the blowout resulted from a manufacturing defect, attempted to shift blame onto him and the crew — leading some passengers to name Fisher in their own litigation against the manufacturer.
The Texas American Federation of Teachers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Texas Education Agency and its commissioner, alleging the state launched an unconstitutional campaign of retaliation against public school employees who posted social media comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his killing in September. The suit accuses Commissioner Mike Morath of directing school districts to document educators' online posts that the agency described as "vile content" — actions the union argues violated teachers' First Amendment rights.
Nicolás Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, appeared Monday in federal court in New York City and pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges carrying potential life sentences, days after U.S. forces seized them from their Caracas home in a nighttime raid. Maduro told the judge, in Spanish through an interpreter, that he remains Venezuela's president and that his capture was a kidnapping; he declared himself a prisoner of war. Their next court hearing before Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York is scheduled for March 17.
The criminal trial of a former Uvalde school police officer began Tuesday in Corpus Christi, Texas, with a special prosecutor telling jurors that Adrian Gonzales stood by without acting while the gunman who would kill 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School was still outside and reachable. Special prosecutor Bill Turner said Gonzales arrived at the scene before the shooter entered the building but did not attempt to distract or engage him, even after a teacher pointed out the shooter's direction. Gonzales went inside only "after the damage had been done," Turner said.
The city of Southfield, Michigan, has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Timesha Beauchamp, a 20-year-old woman with cerebral palsy who was declared dead by paramedics at her home in August 2020, only to be found gasping for air when a funeral home worker unzipped her body bag hours later. Beauchamp was rushed to a hospital but never recovered. She died two months after the incident.
William D. DeFoor, 26, appeared in separate state and federal courtrooms in Cincinnati on Tuesday, facing charges that he broke the windows of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home with a hammer during a late-night breach that Secret Service agents captured and interrupted before he could flee. Vance and his family were not home at the time.
Michael David McKee, 39, the former husband of one of the two victims, was charged Saturday with two counts of aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of Dr. Spencer Tepe, 37, and his wife Monique Tepe, 39, at their Columbus, Ohio home, Ohio prosecutors said. The arrest came nearly two weeks after the Dec. 30 killings drew national attention and police asked the public to help identify a surveillance-camera suspect. The couple's two young children were found unharmed in the home.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was granted a brief leave from prison on Wednesday to undergo medical tests after he fell from his bed, according to police and the Supreme Court. Bolsonaro, escorted to a hospital in the capital, had three brain tests after arriving at around midday, and later returned to prison, his wife said.
Cambodia arrested and extradited to China the tycoon Chen Zhi, the Cambodian Interior Ministry said, after Chinese authorities requested the handover. The ministry said Chen Zhi, who had previously held dual nationality, was arrested with two other Chinese citizens and sent on Tuesday.
Detroit recorded 165 homicides in 2025, marking a continued decline that Police Chief Todd Bettison said Wednesday is the city’s lowest total since at least the mid- to late-1960s. The city reported that 38 fewer homicides occurred last year than in 2024, when Detroit recorded 203.
BOSTON — The man identified by the Justice Department as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attacks for years and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders without providing a motive, officials said Tuesday. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after the Dec. 13 Brown attack.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state is awaiting federal approval to open a third immigration detention center in the Panhandle. He said DeSantis also was looking into a potential fourth facility in South Florida, adding to the state’s existing detention sites nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades and “Deportation Depot” in northeast Florida.
An Indonesian court on Monday opened the trial of Nadiem Anwar Makarim, a co-founder of the ride-hailing and payments company Gojek, who is accused of corruption in a government project to buy Google Chromebook laptops for schools. Makarim, 41, was a former education, culture, research and technology minister when he was arrested Sept. 7.
A federal judge cleared the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to resume sharing limited personal data of certain Medicaid enrollees with immigration enforcement officers starting Monday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco is a setback for 22 states that had sued the administration over privacy concerns.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown, AP reported. Federal officials said the shooting was an act of self-defense, while the city’s mayor called it reckless and unnecessary.
A Texas judge seated a jury Monday for the trial of a former Uvalde school police officer charged with failing to protect children during the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting, an AP report said. Adrian Gonzales, one of the first officers to respond, is accused of delaying or not confronting the teenage gunman as 19 students and two teachers were killed. The trial was moved about 200 miles southeast to Corpus Christi at the request of Gonzales’ attorneys.
The U.S. Justice Department has filed lawsuits against Connecticut and Arizona seeking detailed voter information, saying the states have failed to comply with its requests. The suits, announced this week by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, come as officials in both states defend their decisions to refuse the data.
Nicolás Maduro appeared in a U.S. federal court in Manhattan on Monday to plead not guilty to drug trafficking charges, his first court appearance since he and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized from their Caracas home last weekend. During the hearing, Maduro told the judge, in Spanish, “I was captured,” and later asked for a plea of “innocent” while a federal judge asked whether he was Nicolás Maduro Moros.
A man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home was detained early Monday, the U.S. Secret Service said. The Secret Service said the suspect, William D. DeFoor, was detained shortly after midnight by agents assigned to the vice president’s residence east of downtown Cincinnati.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has drawn global backlash over sexualized deepfake images of women and children, as governments in several countries moved to investigate or block access. The concerns escalated after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon would adopt Grok on “every unclassified and classified network” within the department.
Nathan Chasing Horse, the actor from “Dances with Wolves” accused of sexual abuse, was temporarily removed from a Las Vegas courtroom Monday after he disrupted proceedings and demanded he be allowed to replace his attorney a week before trial. Nevada Judge Jessica Peterson ordered that his jury trial proceed next week as scheduled, with the trial set to begin Monday.
Pipeline safety regulators have issued a record $9.6 million fine to Third Coast Midstream after an oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana in 2023, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said the spill involved 1.1 million gallons of oil and stemmed from safety failures including emergency procedures. The record penalty was assessed Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he plans to meet with Danish officials next week to discuss U.S. interest in Greenland, after the Trump administration renewed its intention to take over the Arctic island. Rubio said the president has been looking at acquiring Greenland since his first term and that diplomacy is the administration’s “first option,” though he said presidents retain a military option for national security threats.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum played down the risk of U.S. military action against drug cartels in Mexico, after President Donald Trump threatened such steps in the wake of a U.S. operation in Venezuela. Sheinbaum said Monday that there was coordination with the United States government and that she did not see “risks” of intervention. Analysts told AP that while unilateral action is considered unlikely, the threats could persist as a negotiation tactic.
Families of victims in the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre sobbed in court Tuesday as prosecutors played frantic 911 calls during the first day of testimony in the trial of a former school police officer accused of failing to protect children. The special prosecutor told jurors that Adrian Gonzales entered Robb Elementary only after the attack was already underway.
Four people injured in an explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home two weeks earlier filed a negligence lawsuit in Philadelphia on Monday, naming the facility and a natural gas utility. The suit seeks damages, alleging the defendants knew of a gas leak and failed to evacuate and protect residents and workers.
Violent crime in New Orleans declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, police officials said Monday as National Guard troops began patrolling the city on President Donald Trump’s orders. The announcement came about a week after armed troops arrived, and local officials have debated whether the deployment is necessary and whether Guard troops can perform policing roles.
A former school bus aide in suburban Denver pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting three nonverbal students with autism, entering pleas on 12 charges after bus surveillance video captured abuse the children could not report themselves.
A former school bus aide pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting three nonverbal students with autism in suburban Denver, prosecutors said. The case involves injuries that the families said were documented after the students went to school early, and was revealed in 2024 through bus surveillance video.
A Hampton Inn franchise in Lakeville, Minn., about 20 miles south of Minneapolis, canceled reservations for federal immigration agents and informed them they would not be permitted to stay at the property, according to screenshots posted on social media by the Department of Homeland Security. Hilton and the property's local operator, Everpeak Hospitality, each issued apologies within hours, saying the cancellation violated their policies.
Michael J. Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who built two distinct writing careers — one chronicling the lives of cultural figures from Allen Ginsberg to Eric Clapton, and another documenting the maritime disasters of the Great Lakes — died Dec. 29. He was 75. His daughter, Emily Joy Schumacher, confirmed his death Monday. No cause of death was provided.
President Donald Trump announced a “large scale strike” in Venezuela on Jan. 3, saying U.S. forces had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and would bring him to New York for court proceedings. Maduro later appeared in a U.S. courtroom and pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism charges, according to the Justice Department’s indictment.
New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson abruptly retired after allegations he stole money from a department account that compensates confidential informants, Mayor Justin Elicker said Monday. The mayor said Jacobson admitted taking the funds for personal use, after deputies confronted him over irregularities earlier that day. Interim Chief David Zannelli was named to lead the department.
A second former Georgia state lawmaker has been accused in federal court of lying to collect pandemic-era unemployment benefits, according to federal prosecutors. Karen Bennett of Stone Mountain was charged Monday with one count of making false statements tied to $13,940.
A bipartisan House spending package released Monday allocates $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through September 2027 — using the venue's original statutory name, not the "Trump Kennedy Center" branding the center's board adopted in December. The appropriation, released by House Speaker Mike Johnson, funds the center through Sept. 30, 2027 with no acknowledgment of the board's December rebranding vote, which added President Donald Trump's name alongside President John F. Kennedy's on the building's exterior and website.
The United Nations Security Council convened an emergency session Monday as countries ranging from traditional U.S. allies to long-standing rivals condemned the Jan. 3 American military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and transported him to New York to face federal narco-terrorism charges. Maduro declared his innocence during his first appearance in a Manhattan federal courthouse the same day.
Three of four people accused of plotting to bomb multiple Southern California business locations on New Year's Eve entered not-guilty pleas in federal court this week, the Associated Press reported. Audrey Carroll, 30, and Zachary Page, 32, appeared in federal court Monday; Tina Lai, 41, had entered her plea several days earlier. The fourth defendant, Dante Anthony-Gaffield, 24, is scheduled to enter his plea Jan. 20.
A federal judge ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services may resume sharing limited personal data from Medicaid enrollees with federal deportation officials as of Monday, setting strict boundaries on what information can be transferred. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled last week that after a temporary court order expired Jan. 5, HHS may hand over only "basic biographical, location and contact information" about immigrants residing in the United States illegally to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — but may not transfer detailed medical records or data about U.S. citizens and legal immigrants in the 22 states that brought suit.
As the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol arrived, the official plaque Congress ordered installed to honor the law enforcement officers who defended the building that day remained out of public view — its location not publicly known and believed to be in storage — and never formally unveiled by House Speaker Mike Johnson. The Trump administration's Justice Department, meanwhile, is seeking to dismiss a federal lawsuit by two officers demanding the marker be displayed as the 2022 law that created it requires.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that he censured Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, initiating proceedings that could result in a demotion from Kelly's retired rank of Navy captain and a reduction in his retirement pay. The censure, a formal letter that Hegseth described as "a necessary process step," follows Kelly's participation in a November video in which six Democratic lawmakers called on U.S. service members to uphold the Constitution and defy "illegal orders."
Cuba's government said Sunday that 32 Cuban military and police officers were killed in a U.S. military operation in Venezuela the previous day, providing the first official death count from American strikes in the South American nation. The officers were on a mission the Cuban military was carrying out at the request of Venezuela's government, according to a statement read on Cuban state television Sunday night.
A Wisconsin man accused of stalking the state Supreme Court’s chief justice has been sentenced to probation after prosecutors dropped a felony stalking charge in a plea deal, the Associated Press reported. Ryan Thornton, 37, of Racine, was initially charged in October in Dane County.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced two appointments to the Vermont Supreme Court on Jan. 6, naming Christina Nolan and Michael Drescher to fill vacancies on the state’s highest court. The appointments require confirmation by the Vermont Senate.
Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that abortion will remain legal in the state after striking down two abortion laws, including the first explicit ban on abortion pills in the country. The court, in a 4-1 decision, said the laws violated a Wyoming constitutional amendment allowing competent adults to make their own health care decisions.
The United States says it captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro through a legal, military action, a move that has drawn unease from U.N. officials and European and other leaders about the future of international rules. U.N. Undersecretary-General Rosemary A. DiCarlo told the Security Council that international peace depends on states’ continued commitment to the U.N. Charter, as Maduro faced charges after his removal from power.
A federal judge on Monday reduced former Republican state Rep. Robin Smith's prison sentence to one year of probation, sparing her incarceration after President Donald Trump had pardoned the two co-conspirators whose corruption convictions Smith's testimony helped secure.
A former Republican lawmaker in Arizona was sentenced Tuesday to probation and barred from running for public office for five years after pleading guilty to charges involving forged nominating petition signatures. Austin Smith, 30, entered the plea in mid-November, according to court proceedings described by the Associated Press.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a chemical used in rockets, fireworks, and other explosives — but only because a federal appeals court ordered it to act. The agency said it would seek public comment on limits of 20, 40, and 80 parts per billion and require roughly 66,000 water utilities to test for the chemical, while also arguing that the expected cost to utilities would outweigh the public health benefit.
Florida is awaiting approval from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to open a third immigration detention center in the state's Panhandle, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday, while the state also explores a potential fourth facility in South Florida. DeSantis made the announcement at a news conference outside the state's second immigration detention center — dubbed "Deportation Depot" — at the former Baker Correctional Institution in northeast Florida.
Nicolás Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal courtroom Monday and pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges, declaring himself a "kidnapped president" and demanding to be returned to Venezuela. The deposed leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized from their Caracas home in a middle-of-the-night military operation Saturday and flown to New York under heavy security. Their court appearance marks what federal prosecutors say is the most consequential U.S. prosecution of a foreign head of state in decades.
Nathan Chasing Horse, the former "Dances with Wolves" actor facing trial on sexual abuse charges, was removed from a Las Vegas courtroom Monday after he disrupted proceedings by demanding to replace his defense attorney days before trial. Judge Jessica Peterson ordered him out of court after he spoke over her, then confirmed the jury trial would proceed as scheduled beginning Jan. 12.
A Cincinnati man was detained by U.S. Secret Service agents early Monday after breaking windows at Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home and vandalizing a federal vehicle, authorities said. William D. DeFoor, 26, faces federal charges including damaging government property and assaulting federal officers, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Ohio's southern district. Vance and his family were not at the residence at the time, having returned to Washington the day before.
A four-month Bridge Michigan investigation documented at least 5,915 cases of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and care violations at the state's 420 nursing homes and identified nearly three dozen residents who died from suspected neglect or abuse over the past four years, according to a report distributed Monday by the Associated Press. Investigators reviewed more than 45,000 pages of state and federal inspection records, submitted dozens of public records requests, examined more than 30 death certificates, and spoke with nearly 100 family members, current and former staff, administrators, consumer advocates, researchers, and policymakers.
Four people hurt when a natural gas explosion killed two at a suburban Philadelphia nursing home filed a negligence lawsuit Monday in Philadelphia court, claiming the facility operator and a gas utility knew of a gas leak days before the Dec. 23 blast and failed to evacuate residents and workers.
A Texas judge seated a jury Monday in the trial of a former Uvalde school police officer charged with failing to protect children during the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 students and two teachers. Adrian Gonzales, one of the first officers to respond to the attack, faces 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment stemming from his role in a law enforcement response that took 77 minutes to confront the gunman.
Nicolás Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal courtroom Monday, pleading not guilty to narcotics trafficking charges and declaring "I was captured" as he protested what he called his illegal removal from Venezuela. The hearing marked his first public appearance since U.S. forces extracted him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their Caracas home in an overnight military operation Saturday. Both defendants appeared in leg shackles and prison clothing, using headsets to follow English-language proceedings translated into Spanish.
A Boeing 737 Max 9 door-plug panel blew out shortly after takeoff in January 2024, and an Alaska Airlines pilot who helped land the plane safely is now suing Boeing. Captain Brandon Fisher filed the lawsuit in Oregon, alleging Boeing tried to blame him and the rest of the crew despite findings by U.S. safety investigators.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Chicago dentist has been charged in the killings of his ex-wife and her husband in Ohio, nearly two weeks after police found the couple dead in their home, authorities said. Spencer Tepe, 37, and Monique Tepe, 39, were found with gunshot wounds on Dec. 30 in Columbus. Michael David McKee, 39, is facing two counts of aggravated murder, prosecutors said.
A Detroit-area suburb has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a young woman who had been declared dead at home but later gasped for air when her body bag was unzipped at a funeral home. Southfield, Michigan, reached the $3.25 million settlement in a case involving allegations of gross negligence by paramedics after a 911 call in 2020, the Associated Press reported.
Nicolás Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal court on Monday and told the judge, “Fui capturado,” as he pleaded not guilty to U.S. federal drug-trafficking charges tied to Venezuela. Maduro, who said he was seized illegally at his Caracas home, also identified himself in court as “el presidente constitucional de mi país,” according to a Spanish translation provided during the hearing.
U.S. deaths of on-duty law enforcement officers fell nearly 25% in 2025, according to a report shared with The Associated Press ahead of its release Tuesday. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said total on-duty fatalities dropped from 148 in 2024 to 111 last year.
An Ohio man accused of vandalizing Vice President JD Vance’s home was behind bars Tuesday and was awaiting action in separate state and federal cases, according to court filings. William D. DeFoor, 26, appeared in two courtrooms after being detained early Monday by Secret Service agents assigned to Vance’s Cincinnati-area residence, and the vice president and his family were not home.
Donald Trump’s government said the capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro was legal and tied it to fighting illegal drug cartels, prompting concern from other countries and UN officials about whether it respects the UN Charter. On Monday, the UN Security Council heard remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General Rosemary A. DiCarlo, who said international peace and security depend on states adhering to all UN Charter provisions. European and other officials warned the action could weaken the international legal order governing the use of force.
A prosecutor told a jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, that Adrian Gonzales, an officer accused in the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, stood by during the early minutes when the gunman was still outside Robb Elementary. Prosecutor Bill Turner said Gonzales did not try to distract or engage the teenage assailant and went inside only after the damage was done. Gonzales, who has pleaded not guilty, faces 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment.
Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, convicted of obstructing an arrest of an immigrant, sent her resignation letter to Gov. Tony Evers after Republicans threatened impeachment, according to Dugan and an Evers spokeswoman. The case stems from an April 18 encounter in Milwaukee when immigration officers tried to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz outside Dugan’s courtroom.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was brought before a Manhattan federal court Monday following a U.S. military operation that seized him in Caracas the previous day, as prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of running a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the United States with thousands of tons of cocaine. His wife, Cilia Flores, was captured alongside him and faces charges in the same case. Maduro was expected to be held at a federal jail in Brooklyn pending trial.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought Sunday to reassure critics that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day following the military seizure of former leader Nicolás Maduro, even as President Donald Trump insisted Washington was "in charge" of the oil-rich nation. Rubio said the U.S. would enforce an existing oil quarantine on sanctioned tankers and use that leverage to press policy changes in Caracas. Trump, speaking aboard Air Force One en route from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, said of Venezuela: "We're going to run it, fix it."
India’s Supreme Court on Monday denied bail to two Muslim student activists, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, who have spent about five years in detention without trial in a conspiracy case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots. The court said they played a “central role in the conspiracy” and that delays in their trial were not enough to grant bail, according to the verdict reported by a legal news outlet.
A Paris court found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality. The court said the comments included degrading allegations that she was born a male, and it ordered the defendants to attend cyberbullying awareness training. One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while others received suspended sentences and some saw their social media access suspended for six months.
Five years after the Jan. 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol, officers who defended the building say they are still dealing with physical injuries, psychological trauma, and a public narrative that has played down the violence they encountered. For several officers, President Donald Trump's pardons of approximately 1,500 people convicted for their roles in the attack compounded wounds that had not healed. On Jan. 20, 2025 — the day of Trump's second inauguration — former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell put his phone on silent and stepped away from the news. That evening, calls flooded in from federal prosecutors, FBI agents, and the federal Bureau of Prisons, all notifying him that Trump had just pardoned rioters who had injured him. "They told me that people I testified against were being released from prison," Gonell said. "And to be mindful."
The day after a U.S. military operation ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed calls for American control of Greenland, threatened military action against Colombia over the cocaine trade, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that Cuba's communist government is "in a lot of trouble." The statements, made as Trump flew back to Washington from Florida, signaled that the administration views its Venezuela operation as a beginning, not an end point, for an assertive U.S. posture across the Western Hemisphere.
President Donald Trump's military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and transport him to New York to face criminal charges drew initial Republican support Sunday, but exposed fractures within the party over whether the intervention abandons the 'America First' philosophy central to Trump's political rise. Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, said his supporters were behind the mission. "They said this is what we voted for," he told reporters.
A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that California's law barring open carry of firearms in counties with populations above 200,000 violates the Second Amendment, a decision that drew swift condemnation from state officials and renewed debate over how courts should apply a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded gun rights. The panel found the restriction amounts to a ban covering the areas where roughly 95 percent of California's residents live.
Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's deposed president, was scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge Monday to face U.S. drug trafficking charges, setting up a legal battle over sovereign immunity that experts said echoes — and will likely follow — the failed defense mounted by Panama's Manuel Noriega more than three decades ago. Maduro was captured Saturday, 36 years to the day after Noriega was taken into U.S. custody. His lawyers are expected to contest the legality of his arrest by arguing that he is immune from prosecution as a sovereign head of a foreign state. Legal experts said that argument is unlikely to succeed and was largely settled in Noriega's trial.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro arrived Saturday night at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York — a federal jail that some judges have refused to use due to documented violence, infrastructure failures, and chronic staffing problems, according to the Associated Press. A crowd of Venezuelan expatriates, many draped in their country's flag, gathered outside the facility to celebrate, cheering as the law enforcement motorcade believed to be carrying Maduro and his wife pulled in.
Minnesota officials said the state has until Jan. 9 to provide documents to the U.S. government as part of a child care fraud review tied to federal funds being frozen by the Trump administration. The state said inspectors recently found several centers accused in viral allegations were “operating as expected.”
A federal magistrate judge on Friday refused to order the pretrial release of Brian J. Cole Jr., who is charged with planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh ruled that no conditions of release could reasonably protect the public from the danger prosecutors say Cole poses. Cole’s attorneys asked for home detention with GPS monitoring, saying he does not pose a danger and has autism spectrum disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A federal judge dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the Justice Department withdrew its support earlier this year, according to a ruling reported by The Associated Press. The deal, spurred by the 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, would have required changes aimed at curbing alleged racial bias and excessive force.
Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, convicted last month of felony obstruction tied to an immigrant arrest, has sent a resignation letter to Gov. Tony Evers, according to Dugan’s letter and a spokesperson for the governor. Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly had threatened to impeach her, and her resignation shifts the focus to filling the vacancy.
The Trump administration seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in an overnight military operation Friday, transporting him and his wife aboard a U.S. warship to New York to face narco-terrorism conspiracy charges, the Associated Press reported. A surprise U.S. incursion rocked the Venezuelan capital with explosions before dawn, and the administration declared it would "run" the South American country — raising sharp legal questions about the scope of executive war powers and the absence of congressional authorization for what some scholars said now constitutes an undeclared war.
Britain and France carried out a joint airstrike in central Syria on an underground facility where Islamic State members are suspected to have stored weapons and explosives, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Saturday. The strike targeted access tunnels leading down to the structure in the mountains north of Palmyra, in Syria’s Homs province.
U.S. forces conducted what the Trump administration called a "large-scale strike" across Caracas on Jan. 3, 2026, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and placing them aboard a U.S. warship bound for New York to face criminal charges. Attorney General Pam Bondi said both had been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges related to a narco-terrorism conspiracy. The operation ended months of escalating U.S. military action that included more than 35 strikes against alleged drug-smuggling vessels in Caribbean and Pacific waters, killing at least 115 people, according to administration announcements.
Five years after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, former and current officers who said they defended the building are still dealing with injuries, injuries’ long-term effects and a narrative they say has been minimized. As President Donald Trump took office for a second term on Jan. 20, 2025, former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell received calls about federal pardons for roughly 1,500 people convicted for their actions that day.
U.S. military forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an overnight raid on his Caracas compound, President Donald Trump announced Saturday at his Florida home, describing a covert operation months in the making that removed a sitting head of state from office and delivered him to a U.S. warship. Trump said Maduro and Flores would face criminal charges in New York and declared that the United States would "run" Venezuela until a new leader can be chosen.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it was still searching the eastern Pacific Ocean for people who jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. military attacked the vessels days earlier, with harsh weather and the passage of time sharply diminishing the likelihood that anyone survived. The search began Tuesday afternoon after the military notified the Coast Guard that survivors were in the water roughly 400 miles southwest of the border between Mexico and Guatemala.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Jan. 5 in the first criminal trial stemming from the law enforcement response to the May 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas. Former schools police Officer Adrian Gonzales, 52, faces 29 counts of child endangerment for allegedly failing to act while a gunman killed 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers. Prosecutors allege Gonzales, among the first officers to arrive at the school, did not advance toward the shooter despite hearing gunfire and being told the gunman's location. The trial was moved to Corpus Christi, about 200 miles southeast of Uvalde, after defense attorneys argued their client could not receive a fair trial in the community where the shooting occurred.
A former Uvalde schools police officer faces trial Monday in Corpus Christi, Texas, charged with multiple counts of child abandonment and endangerment for allegedly failing to engage the gunman during the May 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers, according to the Associated Press. Former officer Adrian Gonzales is accused of ignoring active shooter training during the attack, in which 77 minutes passed before a tactical team breached the classroom and killed the shooter.
President Donald Trump made false claims about the lethal impact of drug-boat strikes and Washington, D.C., homicide rates at a Saturday news conference called to explain the U.S. military raid that extracted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to an Associated Press fact-check published January 3, 2026. Trump's assertions — that each intercepted vessel prevents 25,000 American deaths, and that the capital had seen no killings in six or seven months — contradict federal data and Metropolitan Police Department records.
A federal appeals panel ruled Friday that California’s law prohibiting open carry of firearms in more populated counties is unconstitutional. The decision was issued by two judges on a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento, California.
Gunmen raided Kasuwan-Daji village in Niger state in northern Nigeria, killing at least 30 villagers and abducting others, police said. The attack happened Saturday evening in the Borgu local government area, and survivors said some residents were still missing on Sunday.
Israeli police shot and killed a Bedouin Arab man during an overnight raid in his village in southern Israel, a local official confirmed and Israeli police said on Sunday. The victim was identified as 36-year-old Muhammed Hussein Tarabin, whose death could further strain relations between the Israeli government and the Bedouin minority. The raid was part of a weeklong police operation in the village of Tarabin.
Nicolás Maduro, deposed Venezuelan leader, is expected to appear in a New York courtroom on Monday to face U.S. drug charges, with his lawyers likely to argue he is immune from prosecution. The legal challenge is set to revive a debate over whether foreign leaders have immunity when the United States asserts jurisdiction after an arrest.
The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment charging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and others with drug-trafficking and weapons-related offenses, according to newly filed court documents. The indictment, unsealed Saturday, accuses Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” supported by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that brought thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, the government alleges.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the Bureau of Prisons said, according to an Associated Press report published Sunday. The AP described MDC Brooklyn as a facility some judges have refused to use, and said it currently holds about 1,300 inmates.
President Donald Trump said he is dropping for now his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that came after court rulings blocked parts of the plan. In a post on Wednesday, Trump said the federal troop presence was responsible for crime drops but that he would “come back” when crime rises again.
A federal magistrate judge refused to order the pretrial release of Brian J. Cole Jr., who is charged with planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh ruled that no conditions could reasonably protect the public from the danger prosecutors say Cole poses.
Minnesota has until Jan. 9 to provide documents to the Trump administration as part of a federal child-care fraud probe that could cost the state additional funding, the state agency said in an email shared with The Associated Press. The Department of Children, Youth and Families said recent spot checks found several centers accused of fraud by a right-wing influencer were “operating as expected.” Providers and families who rely on the frozen federal child-care program were told to continue routine licensing and certification requirements.
A federal judge in Kentucky dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the department withdrew support of the plan earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton ruled Dec. 31 that Louisville’s compliance obligations must remain with elected city representatives.
The FBI arrested an 18-year-old North Carolina man Wednesday on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, federal officials announced Friday, saying agents had disrupted a New Year's Eve plot to attack shoppers with knives and hammers at a Mint Hill grocery store and fast-food restaurant. Christian Sturdivant allegedly pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group and described his attack plans to an undercover FBI employee posing as a supportive confidant, according to prosecutors and court records.
A federal appeals court on New Year’s Eve blocked Hawaii from enforcing a cruise-ship passenger “climate change tourist tax” while an appeal proceeds. Cruise Lines International Association challenged the law, saying it violates the Constitution by taxing cruise ships for entering Hawaii ports.
Pakistan’s violence in 2025 was its deadliest year in more than a decade, an independent think tank reported, with combat-related deaths rising 74% from 2024. The Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies said 3,413 people died in violence across the country last year, including 2,138 militants killed. The report was released as Pakistan and Afghanistan kept their border crossings shut following clashes that erupted after Oct. 9 explosions in Kabul.
The Trump administration’s capture of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and its assertion that it will “run” the country are raising new questions about the legality of U.S. actions and how any future operations would be carried out, legal experts said. Maduro was transported with his wife on a U.S. warship to face narco-terrorism conspiracy charges in New York after a surprise incursion in Caracas, according to reporting.
The first criminal trial tied to the police response to the May 2022 Uvalde school shooting is set to begin in Corpus Christi, Texas, with jury selection scheduled to start Jan. 5. The defendant, former Uvalde schools police Officer Adrian Gonzales, is charged with 29 counts of child endangerment over allegations that he failed to act to stop the gunman. Prosecutors allege Gonzales delayed or did not confront the shooter despite hearing shots and being told the gunman’s location.
Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of a bar in Crans-Montana where a fire at a New Year’s party killed 40 people, the Valais region’s chief prosecutor said Saturday. Beatrice Pilloud said the investigation was opened on Friday night and would help “explore all the leads,” without naming the managers. The blaze broke out around 1:30 a.m. Thursday at Le Constellation bar in the Alpine resort town.
A trial is set to begin Monday for a former Uvalde school police officer, Adrian Gonzales, charged in connection with the delayed police response to the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting in Texas. Prosecutors say Gonzales ignored his training and failed to confront the teenage gunman as children and teachers were killed or wounded inside classrooms.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it is still searching for people who jumped from alleged drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific after a U.S. military attack days earlier, with the odds of finding survivors diminishing. The search began Tuesday afternoon for people reported to be in the water about 400 miles (650 kilometers) southwest of the Mexico-Guatemala border.
U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use end-to-end encryption after a sprawling hacking campaign exposed communications of an unknown number of Americans, AP reported. The campaign originated in China, and federal authorities released security recommendations for telecom companies that were targeted, including Verizon and AT&T.
U.S. forces carried out a “large-scale strike” on Venezuela on Saturday that captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and removed them from a military base. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and Flores were then taken aboard a U.S. warship bound for New York to face criminal charges.
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without former President Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told members of the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition released this week. Smith, in the Dec. 17 interview, characterized Trump as “the most culpable and most responsible person” in the criminal effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
The first New Year’s Eve since a deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street, in which 14 people were killed, will be marked with an expanded police and National Guard presence in New Orleans. National Guard members arrived Tuesday to help with safety measures as city officials continue work on long-term security changes, nearly a year after the attack.
In a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee, former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers that his investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn the 2020 election results. Smith also said his team accumulated “powerful evidence” that Trump unlawfully hoarded classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and obstructed efforts to retrieve them, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press.
Chief Justice John Roberts told U.S. judges in his annual letter that the Constitution remains “firm and unshaken,” writing, “True then; true now.” The message comes as the Supreme Court prepares for major cases in 2026 and as legal fights have followed President Donald Trump’s allies’ pushback against rulings affecting the administration.
The FBI said it disrupted a New Year’s Eve attack plan inspired by the Islamic State group in North Carolina, arresting an 18-year-old man. Federal officials said Christian Sturdivant was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization after he shared plans with an undercover FBI employee.
A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can continue withholding Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers while related lawsuits proceed. The ruling came as a coalition of Democratic-led states challenged the cuts in separate cases in Massachusetts and Maine.
2025 was a rough year for media workers, with the Committee to Protect Journalists saying the number of journalists killed worldwide by early December matched 2024’s total and that impunity remains a central obstacle to accountability. In the United States, the AP reported 170 reports of assaults on journalists in 2025, with 160 attributed to law enforcement, while PEN America’s Tim Richardson said the assault on the press has been among the most aggressive in modern times.
A federal appeals court blocked enforcement of Hawaii's first-in-the-nation climate change tourist tax on cruise ships on New Year's Eve, halting a levy that had been set to take effect Jan. 1, 2026. Two judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted injunctions pending appeal after Cruise Lines International Association challenged the law as an unconstitutional tax on vessels entering Hawaii ports.
Authorities in Finland and Estonia are investigating damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland early Wednesday, between the capitals of Finland and Estonia, the Associated Press reported. Finnish police opened an investigation into aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage and aggravated interference with telecommunications.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital in Brasilia on Thursday after double hernia surgery, a week after the operation, and returned to the federal police headquarters where he is serving a 27-year prison sentence. The hospital said he was released after additional minor medical procedures and that the surgery was completed without complications.
A prominent California farmer has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the shooting death of his estranged wife in eastern Arizona, according to court records cited by The Associated Press. Michael Abatti, 63, entered the plea Wednesday in Navajo County Superior Court after being extradited from El Centro, California. The state alleges he traveled to Pinetop on Nov. 20, killed his wife and returned to California early the next morning.
The U.S. Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million, according to a person briefed on a letter sent to U.S. attorneys. The department is also increasing the number of lawyers working to comply with a law Congress passed to require the release of the files.
Finnish authorities have arrested two members of a cargo ship’s crew in connection with damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland, police said Thursday. The damage was discovered early Wednesday in Estonia’s exclusive economic zone between the capitals of Finland and Estonia.
A Georgia judge on Tuesday tossed racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused in a yearslong conspiracy tied to a police and firefighter training facility critics call “Cop City,” according to a court order described in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said the state attorney general did not have authority to secure the 2023 indictments under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law without permission from Gov. Brian Kemp. Carr’s office said it plans to appeal.
Indonesia on Friday began enforcing its newly ratified penal code, known as the KUHP, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the country for more than 80 years. The 345-page code was passed in 2022 and comes into force after a three-year transition period, marking a major shift in Indonesia’s legal landscape.
Australia’s Northern Territory will consider legislation to legalize doctor-assisted dying for a second time, the territory’s attorney-general said Friday. The proposal comes as Australia’s federal parliament lifted the ban on territories passing such laws and states adopted similar reforms over the years, after the Northern Territory’s 1995 euthanasia framework was overturned. Lawmakers would be allowed to vote by conscience rather than follow party lines, Marie-Clare Boothby said.
Britain’s Queen Camilla said she was indecently assaulted by a man on a train in the 1960s, describing the incident publicly for the first time as she campaigns against domestic violence.
The U.S. military said it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days, killing eight people as others jumped overboard and may have survived. U.S. Southern Command, which oversees South America, said the attacks occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday, and it did not disclose where.
U.S. officials have not publicly acknowledged a drone strike at a Venezuelan docking area that President Donald Trump linked to drug trafficking, but two people familiar with the operation told The Associated Press that the CIA carried it out. The strike, reported as the first known direct U.S. operation on Venezuelan soil since the U.S. began strikes in September, is believed to target a site used by Venezuelan drug cartels, according to the AP report.
Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge to rule that Trump is protected by presidential immunity from civil claims tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta did not rule from the bench after arguments on Friday from Trump lawyers and from lawyers for Democratic members of Congress who brought the case.
The Trump administration said it plans to tighten federal rules for child care funding, including delaying payments to states and requiring additional verification. The changes come as it freezes child care funds for Minnesota and faces criticism from Gov. Tim Walz, who said the policy is being used for political purposes.
The Trump administration said it is freezing child care funds to Minnesota and demanding audits of some day care centers after allegations of fraud tied to federal programs. Deputy Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill said the move responds to “blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz disputed the rationale, saying the action is part of “Trump’s long game.”
President Donald Trump said he is dropping “for now” his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, after legal challenges blocked parts of the effort, according to a Wednesday social media post. Legal roadblocks previously prevented the Guard from operating on the streets in Portland and from being deployed in the Chicago area, while Los Angeles troops were removed earlier this year.
Oysters, crab and about $400,000 worth of lobster meat were stolen in separate incidents in New England within weeks of each other, authorities and industry figures said. The cases included 14 cages full of oysters taken from an aquaculture site in Falmouth, Maine, and a later lobster theft tied to a shipment arranged for Costco stores.
Patriots defensive lineman Christian Barmore faces a domestic assault and battery charge after a criminal complaint alleged he threw his girlfriend to the ground at his home outside Boston in August. Mansfield Police said the woman reported the incident to police on Aug. 25, and the complaint was filed Dec. 18.
The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million files and assigned more than 400 attorneys to the task, but does not expect to release additional material until Jan. 20 or 21 — more than a month past a Dec. 19 congressional deadline — according to a person briefed on a letter sent to U.S. Attorneys who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration may continue withholding Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers while states challenge the cuts in court, delivering a setback to a coalition seeking to restore payments at health centers serving millions of low-income Americans. The decision allows the restrictions to remain in effect as litigation in Massachusetts proceeds. Those cuts were enacted through legislation President Donald Trump signed in July that eliminated Medicaid reimbursement for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers that received more than $800,000 in 2023.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he has abandoned, at least for now, his effort to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland after courts blocked the initiative at nearly every stage. "We will be back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime spikes again," Trump wrote on social media. "Just a matter of time."
California announced Tuesday it would delay until March the revocation of roughly 17,000 commercial driver's licenses, giving eligible truckers and bus drivers more time to preserve their permits — one week after immigrant commercial drivers filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the revocation plan.
A federal judge blocked a White House effort to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling the agency should continue receiving money through the Federal Reserve even as a court fight over layoffs continues. The decision came days before the bureau’s funding would have likely run out, according to the court opinion.
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over alleged support for Iran’s drone and ballistic missile-related programs, according to the Treasury and State Departments. Treasury said the measures are intended to support the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program.
The U.S. military said nearly 25 Islamic State operatives were killed or captured in Syria this month following an ambush that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday. The command said it carried out 11 missions over the past 10 days, following initial strikes Dec. 19 on Islamic State weapons sites and infrastructure across central Syria. Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the command, said, “We will not relent,” as the U.S. pursues operations with regional partners.
Federal agents stepped up enforcement in Minnesota, focusing on new allegations of fraud by some Somali-run day care centers in Minneapolis. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel said the investigations target alleged large-scale fraud schemes involving federal programs. The action follows previous fraud cases in Minnesota, including a COVID-era Medicaid-linked scheme.
California will delay revoking 17,000 commercial drivers’ licenses until March, the state said Tuesday, after immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit challenging the process. The move comes after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he could withhold $160 million if California misses a Jan. 5 deadline tied to enforcing federal requirements.
Outside a Miami federal courthouse on Dec. 29, U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick reiterated that she is innocent as she faces federal charges accusing her of conspiring to steal $5 million in COVID-19 disaster funds. Her arraignment was scheduled, but her lawyer sought and received a rescheduled Jan. 20 hearing. Cherfilus-McCormick’s attorney said the case involves mistakes that do not amount to felonies and argued the prosecution is politically motivated.
U.S. immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a federal judge’s order barring it remains in effect, according to a court filing. The decision is part of the continuing legal fight after Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported and later returned to the United States, where the administration has accused him of human smuggling tied to a claim he has said is false.
A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked the Trump administration from starting deportations tied to a move to end Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese immigrants, while the court considers whether the change is unlawful. The decision keeps in place protections for about 300 people living in the U.S. under the program, or with pending applications, until a final ruling. The Department of Homeland Security criticized the order.
New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs faces a felony strangulation or suffocation charge and misdemeanor assault and battery tied to an incident involving his former private chef, police said. Diggs, through his attorney, denied the allegations in a statement ahead of an arraignment scheduled for Jan. 23.
NEW YORK — A federal district court judge blocked the White House from stopping funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that the CFPB should keep getting money from the Federal Reserve, so employees can keep getting paid. The decision came days before the bureau’s funds would have likely run out, according to the court.
A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s move to revoke Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese immigrants, preventing the government from starting deportations while the case is decided. The lawsuit, filed in late December, argued the change violates administrative procedure and the Constitution. Judge Angel Kelley wrote that the revocation could cause irreversible harm.
Miami-based federal prosecutors say Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick conspired to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds meant for pandemic vaccination work, but the Florida Democrat maintained her innocence on Dec. 29 outside a Miami federal courthouse. A hearing that was set for arraignment lasted less than five minutes after her attorney asked to reschedule it to Jan. 20 to finalize her legal team, with the judge agreeing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian J. Cole Jr., accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committees’ headquarters in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, told FBI agents he targeted the political parties because they were “in charge,” according to a Justice Department memo. Prosecutors said the man also expressed sympathy for claims that the 2020 election was stolen and told investigators someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed the vote was “tampered with.”
IDLIB, Syria — A bombing at the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities said. Syria’s Interior Ministry said preliminary investigations indicate explosives were planted inside the mosque, while a group calling itself Saraya Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility.
The U.S. military said it carried out multiple missions in Syria over the past 10 days, killing or capturing nearly 25 Islamic State operatives. The operations followed an ambush on Dec. 13 near Palmyra that killed two U.S. National Guard members and a civilian interpreter, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. said the missions followed initial strikes on Dec. 19 that hit 70 targets across central Syria.
The Oklahoma man accused of fatally shooting a neighbor with a stray bullet during target practice has been charged with first-degree manslaughter, authorities said. Cody Wayne Adams, 33, was charged Friday in Stephens County after deputies said a bullet left his yard and struck Sandra Phelps on her front porch while she was holding a child.
A federal judge dismissed a criminal case against a Los Angeles TikTok streamer who has documented police and immigration enforcement activity online, citing constitutional violations tied to his lawyers being denied access while he was held in immigration detention. U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin dismissed the indictment against Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, preventing the government from refiling the same charges.
A Utah judge has ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October that addressed whether a man charged with killing Charlie Kirk should be shackled during court proceedings, according to court filings and a transcript released Monday. State District Judge Tony Graf said the public release supports transparency in the judicial system.
Investigators in Arizona said they have not identified a motive in the shooting death of Kerri Ann Abatti, the estranged wife of California farmer Michael Abatti. Authorities said Abatti traveled from California to her vacation home in Pinetop, Arizona, on Nov. 20 and returned early the next morning, and they released details of the death based on an autopsy performed in Coconino County.
An Alabama judge ordered a new trial for a woman sentenced to 18 years in prison after a stillbirth, citing new evidence presented by her attorneys. Lee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Tickal vacated Brooke Shoemaker’s 2020 conviction, court records say, and said the outcome likely would have differed had jurors heard the evidence about an infection.
California will delay revoking about 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses until March after immigrant groups sued, state officials said Tuesday. The action comes amid pressure from U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who said the state could lose $160 million if it misses a Jan. 5 revocation deadline.
A Fulton County judge ordered a temporary pause of a planned Georgia execution for Stacey Humphreys, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before his Dec. 17 sentence can proceed. Humphreys’ lawyers argued that two parole board members have conflicts that could taint their role in deciding his clemency request.
The Trump administration said federal investigators are increasing operations in Minnesota, focusing on alleged fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel announced the surge after a right-wing influencer posted a video alleging up to $100 million in fraud. The move comes as prosecutors and regulators have pursued fraud cases in Minnesota involving state and federally funded programs for years.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said federal officials were conducting a fraud investigation in Minneapolis on Monday, as part of a broader push against alleged abuse of federal programs. The investigation follows earlier Minnesota cases tied to the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, and it comes amid heightened state-federal enforcement tensions during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
U.S. immigration officials said they do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning that action remains in place, according to a Tuesday court filing. The case has become a focal point in the administration’s immigration enforcement after Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and later ordered returned to the United States.
The president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday criticized musician Chuck Redd for canceling a Christmas Eve performance days after the White House announced President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the center. Richard Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages, writing that the withdrawal was “classic intolerance” and “very costly” to the nonprofit. Redd said he canceled after seeing the renaming on the Kennedy Center website and then on the building.
The Louisiana National Guard will begin a New Orleans security deployment Tuesday as celebrations get underway, about a year after a deadly New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street killed 14 people. Officials said the 350 Guard members will focus on visibility and patrols in the French Quarter and will not be involved in immigration enforcement. The city also plans to deploy more than 800 local, state and federal law enforcement officials to restrict vehicle access and search visitors.
New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs faces strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with an alleged dispute involving his former private chef, Massachusetts police said. Diggs’ lawyer, David Meier, said Diggs “categorically denies these allegations,” and an arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 23, according to court information.
President Donald Trump said the United States “hit” a dockside facility in Venezuela where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up,” escalating his pressure campaign on President Nicolás Maduro. Trump offered few specifics, including not confirming whether U.S. forces carried out the strike or where it occurred.
The U.S. military said it conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people, according to the Pentagon’s Southern Command. The latest attack brought the total number of known boat strikes to 30 and the number of people killed at least 107 since early September, the Trump administration said.
A federal district court judge ruled Tuesday that the White House cannot stop funding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through the Federal Reserve, a decision aimed at keeping the CFPB able to pay its employees. The ruling came as the administration argued the bureau would run out of money based on the Fed’s “combined earnings” for the agency.
President Donald Trump said the United States launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria after attacks targeted Christians. The strike was carried out with Nigeria, which said the cooperation included intelligence sharing and “strategic coordination.”
Mosque bombing in Syria’s city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an emergency request by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area, leaving in place a federal judge’s order blocking the plan for now. The justices declined to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had stopped the deployment tied to the administration’s immigration crackdown.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian J. Cole Jr., accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committees on Jan. 6, 2021, told FBI investigators he targeted U.S. political parties because they were “in charge,” according to a Justice Department memo prosecutors cited in seeking to keep him detained.
Dominion Energy Virginia has asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that paused construction of its offshore wind project and four others, saying the government acted without proper basis. The order from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management set a 90-day period to assess national security threats, while a hearing is set for 2 p.m. Monday on Dominion’s request for a temporary restraining order.
The U.S. military carried out another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people, the Pentagon said. President Donald Trump also said the U.S. “hit” a dock facility along Venezuela’s shore where, he said, alleged drug boats “load up,” speaking during meetings in Florida. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has insisted the U.S. operations are meant to pressure him to leave power.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. “hit” a dock facility along Venezuela’s shore where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up,” in remarks that offered few details about where or how the strike occurred. He said the facility was “the implementation area” and declined to confirm whether U.S. military or CIA forces carried out the action.
An Oklahoma man was charged with first-degree manslaughter after a stray bullet from his yard fatally struck his neighbor, Sandra Phelps, who was sitting on her front porch holding a child on Christmas Day. Cody Wayne Adams, 33, told deputies he had bought a .45‑caliber handgun as a Christmas present and was shooting at a can in his yard when the bullet travelled roughly half a mile and hit Phelps. He was booked, released on a $100,000 bond and ordered not to contact the victim’s family, with a court appearance set for Feb. 25.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick reiterated her innocence Monday outside a Miami federal courthouse, where she faced charges accusing her of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds. Her arraignment was rescheduled to Jan. 20 after her attorney asked for more time to finalize her legal team.
The Kennedy Center’s president, Richard Grenell, threatened a $1 million lawsuit on Friday after jazz musician Chuck Redd cancelled his annual Christmas‑Eve Jazz Jam in protest of the venue’s recent renaming that adds former President Donald Trump’s name to the building’s exterior.
A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October on whether the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk must appear in court shackled. State District Judge Tony Graf said public transparency is “foundational” to the judicial system before ordering the release of details from the Oct. 24 hearing.
A judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama woman sentenced to 18 years in prison after a stillbirth in 2017, after her attorneys presented new evidence that an infection caused the death rather than drug use. Lee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Tickal vacated Brooke Shoemaker’s 2020 conviction for chemical endangerment of a child resulting in death and said the outcome “probably would have been different” if the jury had heard the evidence.
Federal investigators increased operations in Minnesota after new allegations of fraud by Somali-run day care centers, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI said. The actions followed a video posted online by a right-wing influencer and came as state officials said regulators were reviewing the claims.
A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed a criminal case against a popular TikTok streamer held in immigration detention, saying prosecutors violated the defendant’s constitutional rights by repeatedly preventing his lawyers from visiting or speaking with him. U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin dismissed the indictment against Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, blocking the government from refiling the charges.
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution of Stacey Humphreys after finding that questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before the death sentence could be carried out. Humphreys had been scheduled for execution Dec. 17, but the procedure was already put on hold as the legal fight over his clemency hearing continued.
Federal Homeland Security officials said on Monday they are conducting a fraud investigation in Minneapolis, with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem describing the operation as targeting “childcare and other rampant fraud.” The probe follows years of investigations tied to the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, where prosecutors said defendants exploited a federally funded program intended to provide food for children.
Investigators in eastern Arizona say they have not disclosed a suspected motive in the shooting death of Kerri Ann Abatti, a prominent California farmer’s estranged wife, and they linked their inquiries to the couple’s prolonged divorce. Sheriff David Clouse of Navajo County said the case involves a divorce “in place,” while Abatti’s attorney said the man arrested last week in El Centro, California, remains innocent and has health issues.
New Orleans will begin a National Guard deployment Tuesday to add security for New Year’s celebrations, officials said Monday, a year after a deadly vehicle attack on Bourbon Street killed 14 people. The Guard’s presence is expected to focus on the French Quarter area and not include immigration enforcement, New Orleans police spokesperson Reese Harper said.
