Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi fired off a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday opposing any clemency for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a move that lands as Maxwell's own attorney publicly boasts that a presidential pardon is within reach.…
A 78-year-old woman from Redwood Valley, California, is dead after a venomous snake bit her three times while she walked through a rural area of Mendocino County on April 8. Her family rushed her to a hospital, but she was…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has reportedly walked away from his country's negotiating team in Islamabad, Pakistan, where Tehran and Washington have been locked in high-stakes talks aimed at ending the Iran war. The departure, attributed to interference by…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked California's "No Vigilantes Act" on Wednesday, ruling that the state likely violated the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by trying to dictate how federal immigration agents identify themselves during…
A federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 criminal counts Tuesday, charging the storied nonprofit with defrauding donors through a concealed program that funneled roughly $3 million to members of the Ku Klux Klan…
The Washington, D.C., metropolitan area shed roughly 103,900 jobs between January 2025 and January 2026, the largest year-over-year employment drop of any metro region in the country, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures released Tuesday show. The 3.1 percent decline dwarfs…
Former President George W. Bush sat down with Today to talk about an unlikely friendship, and a small gesture at a funeral that captured the country's attention. In a wide-ranging conversation, Bush described his bond with former First Lady Michelle…
A Virginia circuit court judge blocked certification of the state's redistricting referendum on Wednesday, ruling that both the vote and the underlying amendment process were unconstitutional, a decision that throws a major wrench into Democratic plans to redraw the commonwealth's…
A 50-year-old Chilean national living illegally in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for swiping then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's Gucci handbag, and for a broader string of thefts targeting women at Washington, D.C.…
President Donald Trump took aim at Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices Wednesday morning, accusing them of handing Democrats repeated victories and predicting the court will rule against his administration in the birthright citizenship case, a decision he warned would "cost America…
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