COLUMBIA, S.C. — Debra McCaslin, the judge in Alex Murdaugh double murder case, has given prosecutors a deadline to reply to most defense lawyers’ concerns.

Prosecutors in the State Attorney General’s office must reply to issues raised by the Murdaugh’s defense lawyers by noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, according to an email by Judge ...Read more

BOSTON — A Boston-bound medical plane carrying six people suffered a terrifying “one-two punch” as it lost contact with air traffic control before vanishing off the coast of Nantucket, a leading aviation expert told The Boston Herald.

Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, said flight tracking ...Read more

BOSTON — Attorneys general from every New England state have joined most of their colleagues in calling for full funding of the U.S. Supreme Court’s security needs in next fiscal year’s budget amid higher reported rates of security incidents against judges.

“As the chief legal officers of our respective states, we have witnessed an ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul gathered with other local pols at Rev. Al Sharpton’s weekly rally in Harlem Saturday morning to celebrate the civil rights leader’s 72nd birthday.

Also in attendance at the National Action Network’s headquarters on Hancock Place near 124th Street, were Manhattan District Attorney ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders are calling for a special General Assembly session to “provide relief from high gas and diesel prices.”

Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger and House Speaker Destin Hall said in a post on the social media website X Saturday afternoon that they would call legislators back ...Read more

Kyiv’s latest battlefield success has frustrated Vladimir Putin’s hopes of quickly seizing all of Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, a goal for the Russian president since he launched the full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.

The local counteroffensive, dubbed Vivaldi and first disclosed on Sept. 15, has already helped Ukraine regain 125 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a city that was built on oil and remains home to over 2,000 active wells, zoning officials are considering a first: shutting down an oil production site.

Residents of the Jefferson Park neighborhood just south of the 10 Freeway have been fighting for more than decade to close the 32 closely-packed oil and gas wells at the ...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro remain locked in a tight race as Brazil prepares to vote in Sunday’s election, according to a pair of new polls.

Lula would receive 45% to Bolsonaro’s 42% of valid votes, excluding blank and invalid ballots, in a first round scenario, a Datafolha survey ...Read more

The co-pilot who assaulted the commanding captain on the FlyDubai flight en route to Tel Aviv from Dubai previously flew aircraft for Oman Air before he was dismissed for engaging with what were considered radical views, according to people familiar with the situation.

Hamam al-Hammami, 29, had initially been identified by the Israeli ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Looking out at the green Tepper Quad on Carnegie Mellon University’s Oakland campus, Benjamin McHale pondered what might be next for the elite institution after the announcement of a $3 billion gift.

It’s a number that broke records nationwide.

Citadel CEO and billionaire Ken Griffin’s gift to the university is the largest...Read more

BALTIMORE — President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point on Tuesday to deliver remarks at an event hosted by defense technology company Anduril Industries, bringing the president to one of the largest industrial redevelopment projects in the Baltimore region, a White House spokesperson confirmed to The ...Read more

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ party was on course to win the largest share of votes in an election on Saturday amid growing security threats from Russia, putting him in a strong position ahead of coalition talks to form the next government.

The United List secured 35.6% of the vote, according to an exit poll released by LTV public ...Read more

Nicolás Maduro is not entitled to immunity from criminal charges, U.S. prosecutors said, countering the former Venezuelan president’s bid to toss the U.S.’s narco-terrorism case against him.

Maduro and Cilia Flores — Maduro’s wife who also faces charges — are “former rogue officials of a formerly rogue state with no entitlement to ...Read more

Hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside his bedroom in the hills above Port-au-Prince, one of the Haitian Americans involved in the plot to oust him from power was desperate.

“I’m in real danger, very bad,” James Solages, a Broward county handyman who had accompanied a group of Colombian former military ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — All three victims of the deadly medical helicopter crash off Catalina Island have been publicly identified.

Killed in the crash were Steven "Steve" Robinson, the pilot, and Jessica deVries, who worked as a nurse, according to REACH Air Medical Services, the company that owned the craft.

According to records from the Los Angeles...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Catalina Romero arrived at Catalina Island’s tiny emergency room this week with a severe allergic reaction, officials decided she needed medical attention on the mainland.

So they called a medical evacuation helicopter out of Oceanside. For residents of Avalon and the other Catalina communities, helicopters are part of ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized prominent artificial intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.

“I believe that we have to be prepared for every occasion, but on the other side, this alarmism ...Read more