BOSTON — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial indefinitely impounded the list of jurors who sat for the weeks-long proceedings, citing the potential harm releasing it could cause.

“There is a risk of immediate and irreparable injury should the list be made available to the public at this time,” Judge William Sullivan wrote ...Read more

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel refused to say whether agents would be present at the polls during the midterm elections in a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing Tuesday.

The comments came as members from both parties questioned Patel over issues ranging from elections to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and...Read more

Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in the murder trial of Nick Reiner when it gets underway next year.

The 33-year-old son of Emmy Award-winning performer Rob Reiner and his photographer wife, Michele Singer Reiner, is charged with fatally stabbing the show business royals in the couple’s Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. He pleaded not ...Read more

CHICAGO — Authorities have charged a school bus aide with reckless conduct and carrying a gun in a public place near a school after a 12-year-old boy found the weapon in a bag and fired it from the bus window Monday afternoon outside Bridgeport’s Minnie Minoso Academy.

Steven Dixon, 22, also faces three misdemeanor counts of child ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two of Florida’s best-known conservative sheriffs blasted the proposed Amendment 3 Tuesday, calling the property tax rollback a “train wreck,” “draconian,” and an “emergency” as campaigns on both sides of the contentious issue ramp up ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Alongside about two dozen sheriffs and ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — An employment attorney who has successfully sued the Michigan State Police several times over its hiring decisions sent a 17-page letter last week to the U.S. Department of Justice, asking for an investigation into "DEI hiring and promotion practices" at the Michigan State Police.

The goal of the the department's diversity, ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Are Nav Gurm’s age and heritage issues in a Fresno City Council race? A recent survey wants to know.

Voters in District 7 — east-central Fresno — received a Survey Monkey poll in the first week of September, conducted by Political Opinion Research. Among the 18 questions asked, the survey wanted to know “does a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania health officials on Tuesday confirmed two more deaths associated with measles involving a resident of Jefferson County and a resident of Mifflin County.

The state has now reported four measles-related deaths amid a growing outbreak that has sickened nearly 700 people this year. The deaths mark the state’s first ...Read more

The war in Iran is costing the United States up to $3 billion per month and has tallied more than $38 billion in direct costs to the government since it began more than six months ago and became a flashpoint in voters’ frustrations over rising prices, according to a new and nonpartisan analysis requested by U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle (D., Phila.)...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners faced a persistent problem long after the devastating wildfires in January 2025: While their homes were left standing, they had been infiltrated by heavy, toxic smoke and ash, and remained unsafe.

Residents were forced into lengthy battles with their insurance companies to prove contamination ...Read more

Federal lawmakers from California are leading a bipartisan push, backed by nearly a third of Congress, to stop the Trump administration from moving forward with a proposal to transfer public land in Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

In a letter sent Tuesday morning to the U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the ...Read more

It takes a lot to knock football out of the headlines in Pittsburgh. But reports of measles cases, exposure alerts and calls for residents to double-check their vaccination status have dominated local news since August 2026.

My office at Allegheny College, where I am an epidemiologist, is within a few steps of a classroom dedicated to...Read more

Donald Trump is a Republican and self-avowed nationalist. That, apparently, is true in an Irish sense, too – even if those terms have very different meanings across the Atlantic.

On Sept. 12, 2026, while seated next to taoiseach, the Irish title for prime minister, Micheál Martin, the U.S. president stated that he would “love to ...Read more

MIAMI — Alex Saab, the longtime business partner and alleged financial front man for Nicolás Maduro, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal money-laundering conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities, potentially giving prosecutors a powerful witness with intimate knowledge of the former Venezuelan ruler’s financial operations.

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The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to immediately close the performing arts venue’s main building, a few hours after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s name could not be restored to its facade, according to sources familiar with the situation. It remains unclear when the venue might actually close since U.S. ...Read more

Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in the murder trial of Nick Reiner.

The 33-year-old son of Emmy Award winning performer Nick Reiner and his photographer wife, Michele Singer Reiner, is charged with fatally stabbing the show business royals in the couple’s Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. He pleaded not guilty and has a pretrial hearing...Read more

DETROIT — A Dearborn teenager has emerged in federal court records and courtroom testimony as the ringleader of a terrorist plot to attack an LGBTQ+ dance club in Ferndale who first appeared on the FBI's radar in 2024 when prosecutors say he participated in a pro-ISIS chat room focused on attacking the Chicago Pride Parade with a backpack bomb...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House Democrats are planning to spend about $700,000 in an effort to unseat GOP House Speaker Matt Hall.

Buoyed by recent internal polling, the Michigan House Democratic Fund, the caucus' campaign arm, believes it has a chance of unseating the four-term Kalamazoo County Republican in the 42nd House District.

Hall ...Read more