Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie abduction are consulting with artificial intelligence experts to examine ransom notes to determine the validity and possible origins of the messages, sources told The Times on Monday.

As a second deadline given for the Guthries to pay $6 million in bitcoin at 5 p.m. Monday rapidly approaches, the family is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration-rights attorneys will get to see for themselves the conditions inside the Whipple Federal Building and visit clients on Monday, following a judge’s ruling granting them access to the facility.

U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel over the weekend ordered that attorneys be given full access to the detention ...Read more

King Charles III has broken his silence amid new allegations about his brother, the former Prince Andrew, and his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.

Buckingham Palace announced Monday that His Royal Majesty will “support” U.K. police investigating reports that the ex royal, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, gave confidential ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh will likely be the most talked-about person at Wednesday’s South Carolina Supreme Court hearing to appeal his 2023 double murder guilty convictions.

But Murdaugh won’t be there.

Nor will he be able to view the proceedings on livestream at the Supreme Court’s internet site. Although ...Read more

Cuban authorities have notified international airlines that they won’t be able to refuel at the island’s airports, as the country’s energy crisis deepens following President Donald Trump’s steps to cut the island’s oil supply in a push for negotiations.

The Federal Aviation Administration published notices Sunday alerting U.S. ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Eric Adams was fined $4,000 for a mayoral campaign trail stunt last summer during which he handed out whistles for female reporters he said might feel “unsafe” talking to then-political opponent Andrew Cuomo.

Adams broke rules guarding government resources by having staffers on the city’s dime distribute...Read more

President Donald Trump has repeatedly maintained that he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes.

But in July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration mounted a multipronged legal effort Monday to turn back an order to restore federal funding for the construction of the $16 billion Hudson River tunnel, getting the deadline to pay up pushed back by several days.

Attorneys for the federal Department of Transportation asked a judge to pause a temporary ...Read more

Roughly 1-in-5 Pennsylvania Obamacare plan enrollees dropped health coverage for 2026 due to "unprecedented cost increases," the state's online health insurance marketplace reported Monday.

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, also called Obamacare, totaled about 486,000 for 2026, with about 92,000 dropping their health...Read more

The city of Providence, Rhode Island, released body camera footage, incident reports, and emergency radio recordings from the December double-fatal shooting at Brown University, showing a swarm of officers responding.

The documents, at times heavily redacted, show the initial response to the mass casualty event that took the lives of two ...Read more

MIAMI — A 16-year-old Florida boy appeared Friday at a closed-door federal court hearing in Miami on charges related to the death of his teenage stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship in November.

But his case and the proceedings will remain sealed from public view because the defendant is a juvenile, unless prosecutors seek and obtain a judge�...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Moore College of Art & Design will consider opening its undergraduate programs to men for the first time in its 177-year history.

The Philadelphia school, which touts its role as “the first and only historically visual arts college for women in the nation,” cited the need to make arts programs more accessible in the region ...Read more

In the first weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a strange pattern emerged in Western media coverage. Headlines oscillated between confidence and confusion. Kyiv would fall within days, one story would claim, then another would argue that Ukraine was winning. Russian forces were described as incompetent, then as a terrifying ...Read more

The January 2026 release of additional files related to the Justice Department’s investigation of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has brought renewed attention to the late financier’s connections to the world’s rich and powerful.

However, the failure to redact identifying victim information and ...Read more

Cattle auctions aren’t often all-night affairs. But in Texas Lake Country in June 2022, ranchers facing dwindling water supplies and dried out pastures amid a worsening drought sold off more than 4,000 animals in an auction that lasted nearly 24 hours – about 200 cows an hour.

It was the height of a drought that has gripped the ...Read more

Americans love dogs.

Nearly half of U.S. households have one, and practically all owners see pets as part of the family – 51% say pets belong “as much as a human member.” The pet industry keeps generating more and more jobs, from vets to trainers, to influencers. Schools cannot keep up with the demand for veterinarians.

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Fifteen years ago, Egyptians from all walks of life took to the street to demand “bread, freedom, social justice.” They were protesting the oppressive 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt had been under martial law for 31 years. This meant that political opposition was silenced, and opponents were often imprisoned and tortured. ...Read more

With a stroke of a presidential pen, the lives of Izumi Taniguchi, Minoru Tajii, Homei Iseyama and Peggy Yorita irreparably changed on Feb. 19, 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which set in motion their wartime incarceration along with other people of Japanese ancestry who were forcibly removed ...Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying to a congressional committee Monday but offered to talk if President Donald Trump grants her clemency for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous sex trafficking ring.

Epstein’s convicted sidekick refused to answer any questions in a virtual appearance before the House ...Read more

Cuban authorities have notified international airlines that they won’t be able to refuel at the island’s airports, as the country’s energy crisis deepens following President Donald Trump’s steps to cut the island’s oil supply in a push for negotiations.

The Federal Aviation Administration published notices Sunday alerting U.S. ...Read more