Mexican authorities arrested an official allegedly linked to the killing of a mayor who was vocal about drug violence, prosecutors reported on Thursday. Assassins killed Carlos Manzo in the city of Uruapan last November during Day of the Dead celebrations, in a case that ignited fury across Mexico last year. Uruapan’s welfare secretary Rosa Alejandra…
An Australian appeals court on Friday ordered triple-murderer Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the “shocking criminality” involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. The three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal dismissed Patterson’s appeal of her convictions and upheld prosecutors’ challenge to…
21m ago Why Pennsylvania could be one of last states to count ballots this Election Day Why Pennsylvania could be one of last states to count ballots this Election Day With four days until Election Day, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and city commissioners are urging people to vote. Officials on Thursday escorted the media…
Washington — The raid of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home. The indictment of a prominent Virginia state senator for drug and bribery offenses. The charging of two ex-FBI officials with lying about their roles in the investigation of Hunter Biden. The overt investigative steps that the Justice Department took on these three criminal cases just…
Juneau, Alaska — Democratic Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola told supporters Thursday she is “not interested in tricking voters,” after two days of intense questions about how a man with the same first and last name as her Republican opponent ended up on the ballot. The state’s toss-up Senate contest has drawn nationwide scrutiny since…
Washington — A candidate bearing nearly the same name as sitting Sen. Dan Sullivan has drawn scrutiny in Alaska’s Senate race, as Republicans and the Trump administration raise the alarm bells over the possibility of confusing voters. And although the Democrat in the race, Mary Peltola, has denied any involvement, new reporting from The New…
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a Pentagon official told CBS News late Wednesday. Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia is the latest in a series of generals to be ousted. The firing comes even as President Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war. Sylvia…
Alvin Hellerstein, a federal judge who for decades oversaw some of the country’s most high-profile cases, counting among his defendants presidents and CEOs, has died, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York confirmed Wednesday. He was 92. At the time of his death, he was presiding over the criminal case of one former…
Jury selection begins today in Los Angeles for a trial against Meta and Snap brought by two plaintiffs who claim the companies’ platforms were designed to be addictive — the latest in a wave of cases focusing on social media’s impact on young people’s mental health. The plaintiffs sued in 2023, alleging that endless scrolling,…
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…
