A U.S. judge has ordered a psychiatric examination for Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, after his arrest for alleged possession of images of child sexual abuse. Thomas Markle, 82, is charged with one count of “possession of child pornography” and made an initial court appearance in Tampa in Florida…
An Indiana man who admitted killing his girlfriend’s two children was executed early Thursday in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S. Jeffrey Weisheit killed the children, ages 8 and 5, by setting fire to his girlfriend’s house in the Evansville area in 2010. Weisheit died at the…
Former FBI Director James Comey will be back in a federal courtroom on Friday, as his legal team prepares to argue in favor of dismissing the Justice Department’s latest attempt to bring criminal charges against the Trump foe for allegedly leaking classified information. Prosecutors are seeking to charge Comey for a third time, alleging he…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said federal agents executed multiple search warrants on the same day they searched Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home. While appearing on a podcast Friday, Mullin described the ongoing investigation as a “strong case” while suggesting cases of coordinated immigration fraud could be prosecuted under federal racketeering laws. In an…
Russia’s commitment to boost global diesel supply, as announced by President Trump on Oct. 9, may do little to ease prices in the U.S. in the short term, according to energy experts. “If we get diesel from Russia, basically it means that their existing customers are not going to get it and they’ll have to go…
Businessman Eric Deters said he has “no doubt it was pay to play,” claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of Guilfoyle’s Senate confirmation hearing. …
Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are now facing an additional charge of conspiracy to commit torture as federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment in the Southern District of New York on Thursday. “As alleged in the indictment, the Maduro regime subjected over a dozen American citizens to torture while held…
A notorious cybercriminal group claims it breached the FBI on Monday and stole data about personnel and job applicants. The group, which calls itself ShinyHunters, claimed in communications posted on the dark web and exchanges with multiple media outlets that it stole 2 to 3 terabytes of data related to FBI and Justice Department workers….
Wyoming ranchers already contending with drought, rising costs and scarce land have faced uncertainty following President Trump’s 90-day waiver of higher tariffs on some ground beef imports. “This announcement came out, we had a 10% drop in the value of cattle overnight,” Mark Eisele, who raises nearly 1,500 head of cattle outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming,…
A Florida company that was established in May won an unusual and potentially lucrative deal to be the only business permitted to stock the commissaries of the Bureau of Prisons’ 118 institutions with flavored nicotine pouches. Undated photo of mindSHFT nicotine pouches Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News The brand of 6-mg pouches being sold…
