LONDON — Keir Starmer said UK Foreign Office officials repeatedly let him down by not disclosing Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting before being installed as U.S. ambassador, as Britain’s embattled premier sought to limit the damage of the ongoing saga around the appointment.

“It beggars belief that throughout the whole ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Five once-powerful men — including Lt. Sam Machado, a former member of the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office — stood handcuffed behind glass in prison garb in a Woodland court Thursday, facing murder and other serious charges. Family members of the workers who died in last year’s Esparto warehouse explosion, some as ...Read more

Singer D4vd is facing the death penalty now that he’s officially been charged in the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenager whose dismembered remains were found decomposing in the trunk of his impounded Tesla this past September.

The Queens-born “Romantic Homicide” singer, 21, was charged Monday with first degree murder with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to provide federal funds for a wide range of energy projects, as his administration faces pressure to help curb rising oil and gas costs.

Trump on Monday signed five presidential determinations under the law, according to a White House official on condition of anonymity to...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Seven people were shot Monday morning at a city-owned park in Winston-Salem and two have died, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of investigation report.

It happened just before 10 a.m. in Leinbach Park near Jefferson Middle School, and the dead have been identified as 16-year-old Daniel Jimenez Millian and 17-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Patterson man who was shot seven times by immigration agents and then charged with trying to hit them with his car will remain in custody pending his trial, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled Monday.

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, faces a felony charge of assault of a federal officer with a deadly weapon — in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A trove of records released Monday shows law enforcement dispatching drones, helicopters and personnel throughout the Twin Cities suburbs in an attempt to find the suspect involved in a series of politically motivated shootings last summer.

Despite those efforts, the alleged shooter, Vance Boelter, evaded capture for 43 hours. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee appear poised to question Kevin Warsh, the nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, on the central bank’s independence — but from different angles — during a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Ranking member Elizabeth Warren is also expected to question ...Read more

The rising cost of living along with spikes in health insurance and retirement plan costs are blunting Nevada’s attempts to recruit and retain state troopers, a police union leader said.

Dan Gordon is president of the Nevada Police Union, which represents state troopers, parole and probation officers and others across Nevada.

He said that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — David Anthony Burke — the 21-year-old music star better known as D4vd — repeatedly sexually abused a teenage girl before murdering her and dismembering her body in order to protect his ascendant music career, prosecutors alleged Monday.

Burke was charged with murder, repeated sexual abuse of a minor and mutilation of human ...Read more

A U.S. State Department official urged Cuba to strike a deal soon and release political prisoners, following a recent visit of senior agency officials to Havana to lay out key U.S. demands, the first visit of its kind since the Obama administration.

In a meeting on April 10, the U.S. officials told their Cuban counterparts that they have “a ...Read more

Venezuelan authorities said Monday they have freed 51 people described by human-rights groups as political prisoners, as the interim government continues a broader push to ease political tensions following the January apprehension of former strongman Nicolás Maduro.

In a statement, the government said the Attorney General’s Office requested ...Read more

Singer D4vd is facing the death penalty now that he’s officially been charged in the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenager whose dismembered remains were found decomposing in the trunk of his impounded Tesla this past September.

The Queens-born “Romantic Homicide” singer, 21, was charged Monday with first degree murder with ...Read more

Temple University is retaining fewer students from freshman to sophomore year than it did a decade ago, and the rate at which students progress from fall to spring semester has declined, too.

The retention issue — a problem for many schools nationwide — comes as the North Philadelphia-based university faces increased budget pressures. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s not likely to extend the two-week ceasefire with Iran, increasing the urgency for negotiators to conclude a deal to end the war.

Trump said in a Monday phone interview that the truce, which he announced April 7, expires on “Wednesday evening Washington time” — possibly buying more ...Read more

NEW YORK — John Gotti’s grandson Carmine Agnello was sentenced to 15 months behind bars for a $1.1 million dollar COVID loan fraud, as court filings reveal his mother Victoria Gotti might not need him to donate a kidney to save her life after all.

Victoria Gotti submitted a lengthy letter to U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania arm of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit to obtain information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the agency’s efforts to unmask anonymous social media critics.

ICE has issued administrative subpoenas to tech companies to obtain information about accounts that track ...Read more

CHICAGO — Nearly seven months after federal troops were preparing to deploy to Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz, a federal judge on Monday granted a motion to dismiss the state’s lawsuit over the mobilization amid assurances that the presidential orders have been rescinded.

In making her ruling, U.S. District Judge April Perry said ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — David Anthony Burke — the 21-year-old music star better known as D4vd — repeatedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl before murdering her and dismembering her body in order to protect his ascendant music career, prosecutors alleged Monday.

Burke was charged with murder, repeated sexual abuse of a minor and mutilation of ...Read more

Once again, the Space Force is turning to SpaceX to get its national security hardware into space with a GPS satellite launch planned in the overnight hours early Tuesday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 is aiming to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a 15-minute window that opens at 2:53 a.m. Eastern time on ...Read more