The man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk has made his first in-person court appearance, marking a new phase in one of the most politically charged criminal cases in…
A high-profile case in Stillwater, Oklahoma has ignited nationwide debate about how the U.S. juvenile and criminal justice systems handle violent sex crimes when the defendant is a minor. Jesse…
In the last year, a series of stories about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gone viral: a pregnant woman forced to labor under a non-removable tracking watch; a…
The Stephentown Memorial Library budget vote—initially reported as a landslide defeat, only to be overturned by a full county recount—has become far more than a small-town election story. What unfolded…
Key Points Health officials in **South Carolina report a rapidly accelerating **measles outbreak in the Upstate region, centered around Spartanburg and Greenville counties. As of this week, at least 111…
Eileen Higgins, a Democrat and former Miami-Dade County commissioner, won the Miami mayoral runoff on Tuesday in what observers are calling one of the most significant political upsets in Florida…
PepsiCo announced Monday that it will cut prices, streamline its product portfolio, and shift toward simpler, more functional ingredients as part of a sweeping operational overhaul negotiated with Elliott Investment…
A major scientific report released Wednesday warns that four families of synthetic chemicals widely used in the global food system—phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides, and PFAS “forever chemicals”—are driving rising rates of…
A federal judge in Manhattan has granted the U.S. Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts and related materials from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking case, acting under a newly enacted…
A newly published Amnesty International report alleges severe and systemic mistreatment of migrants at Florida’s state-run Everglades detention facility—nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”—as well as at the privately operated Krome North immigration…