Washington — Following the news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired another Army general this week, a statement shared to media outlets from a Pentagon official said the high-ranking officer had failed polygraph examinations amid an ongoing investigation into alleged leaks of classified information to journalists. The revelation is unusual and raises questions about whether…
Washington — Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center are asking a judge to allow them to subpoena a former informant who has provided material to the Justice Department, saying that investigators are treating the witness like he is “part of the prosecutorial team itself.” Defense attorneys for the civil rights nonprofit accused the government…
The Alexander brothers were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking, after the trio was convicted of drugging and raping dozens of women over more than a decade. Federal prosecutors had accused Alon and Oren Alexander, 39, and their brother, Tal, 40, of exploiting their wealth, power and social status to…
The Justice Department took steps to charge James Comey with leaking information earlier this month, court records show, in its third attempt to bring criminal charges against the former FBI director and Trump foe. Prosecutors are seeking to charge Comey with two counts of violating the Espionage Act by transmitting national defense information to a…
Elon Musk said in a social media post Monday that he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to each child in the U.S., writing that the gift “will be the first of many.” Musk didn’t specify how the shares would be distributed or other details of how the pledge might be fulfilled. The offer arrived…
The remains of a man who was shot in the head and stuffed into a rusted barrel found on the shore of Lake Mead after the water level dropped were identified Thursday as an Arkansas man whose decades-old killing remains unsolved. Edward Lelburian Jackson was in his mid- to late 50s when he died, Clark…
Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who was the target of a foiled 2023 assassination plot allegedly directed by an ex-Indian intelligence official, is facing new threats to his life that are being investigated by the FBI, Pannun told CBS News on Thursday. Pannun, a vocal critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that FBI…
Berlin — German police have seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl in an indecent manner and made sexually suggestive gestures toward her. Investigators were trying to determine Wednesday whether the robot’s actions were deliberately controlled by two young men who apparently livestreamed the incident in the western city of Cologne on…
Leaders of the Cockroach Janata Party, an Indian youth movement, were released Sunday, a day after they were detained ahead of protests against a contentious revision of voter lists. The movement is demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. The three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on…
President Trump campaigned in 2024 on promises to lower Americans’ cost of living, vowing to push gasoline prices below $2 a gallon and to deliver 2% mortgage rates. Two years later, consumers face sharply higher costs for many of the necessities he pledged to make more affordable. Less than a month before the midterm elections,…
