Washington — A top official at the Justice Department is attempting to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of cases, claiming comments they made to the New York Times about the Trump administration’s handling of immigration cases in the state call their impartiality into question. The motions, filed against Judges Patrick Schiltz and…
Body camera and surveillance footage from the fatal police shooting of a 1-year-old boy show the moments several police officers rush out of a Mississippi Walmart and open fire as a driver accused of shoplifting tries to pull out of the parking lot. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced this week that no charges would…
The Justice Department’s inspector general has declined to investigate allegations of misconduct against the prosecutors who brought an indictment against Olympian David Hearn that falsely accused him of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. In an Oct. 21 letter seen by CBS News, lawyers for Hearn revealed that DOJ’s Inspector General Don Berthiaume determined the allegations fell…
A woman linked to drug cartels and accused of torturing and murdering her daughter in Arizona in 1997 has been captured in Mexico nearly 30 years after the crime, officials said Wednesday. Anna Marlene Somoza was connected to a “major transnational drug trafficking network” along the Arizona border through the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S….
The online predictions market platform Polymarket has removed a contract that allowed users to bet on whether any of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting or exploiting a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime. More than $450,000 had been wagered on this question before it was taken off…
Stephen Hubbard, a U.S. citizen who was jailed in Russia for more than four years after being accused of fighting for Ukraine, has been released from custody, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed Wednesday during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Trump administration officials, including Witkoff, were in St. Petersburg Wednesday for talks…
Some Cornell faculty members say a letter purportedly from Jane Doe in which she said she “felt unsupported and disbelieved” by university president Michael Kotlikoff was not shared with them. One faculty member called that a “silencing of Jane Doe’s voice.”  Doe has filed a lawsuit alleging gang rape at a 2024 fraternity party….
A Texas man who was accused of killing his pregnant wife two years ago fled to Italy. Officials there have agreed to send him back to the U.S. to face charges on the condition that he faces a lesser charge, not capital murder. Skyler Henry reports. Source link
A new attack ad with unknown origins features the estranged mother of Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Amy Acton calling her a “liar” and defending her GOP opponent Vivek Ramaswamy. Acton’s campaign and her brother denounced the ad as a “despicable low.” Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, whose husband was accused of raping Acton when she…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview published Tuesday that if President Trump “cannot rein Putin in,” he should provide long-requested interceptor missiles so Ukraine can defend itself, as the war of words between the two leaders continues to escalate. “If you cannot rein Putin in, then give us interceptor missiles so I can…
