The U.S. launched a new wave of strikes against Iran that targeted its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in response to attacks on American military bases in the Middle East, escalating a conflict that has spread across the region.

The U.S. struck dozens of IRGC targets “including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, ...Read more

Gov. Greg Abbott said the Texas Legislature will hold hearings this week to discuss data centers.

Abbott said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Fort Worth that those discussions will include the financing of data centers. He said they will be working on eliminating the exemption on sales taxes that data centers have, something ...Read more

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has halted construction at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam complex, a state-federal project in Joliet, Illinois, meant to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the stop work order," Army Corps Public Affairs Officer Gene Pawlik said Wednesday. "The project is ...Read more

St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her said Wednesday she has no intentions to leave office amid an investigation of claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward Police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees, but acknowledged that what she intended as a joke was misguided.

“As Mayor, I take my responsibility to treat every employee ...Read more

Three months after a federal appeals court upheld the sweeping corruption conviction of Michael Madigan, the ex-House speaker is now taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Madigan, through his lawyers, petitioned the high court on Wednesday to review the long-running corruption case.

Last year, after a trial that stretched nearly four ...Read more

The U.S. launched a new wave of strikes against Iran in response to attacks on military bases in the Middle East, escalating a conflict that has spread across the region.

“U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. ET today,” U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. “The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday’s ...Read more

Hoover Dam remained closed to visitors Wednesday after federal officials first confirmed the closure Monday evening.

Federal officials have not announced a reopening date for the popular tourist site, and a spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation declined to say when the dam may reopen. A post on the Hoover Dam Facebook page said the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Eugene "Big U" Henley, a Los Angeles Crips leader turned gang interventionist, allegedly solicited fellow jail inmates to kill or harm a federal witness to prevent them from testifying at trial against him and his associates, according to a new indictment returned Wednesday.

The second superseding indictment against Henley, ...Read more

The Senate Judiciary Committee will punt its vote on Todd Blanche’s bid to permanently head the Justice Department, after GOP holdouts on the panel said they weren’t satisfied.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wants to nail down changes to a controversial settlement that created a $1.8 billion “weaponization” compensation fund before moving ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his failed lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others of conspiring to tarnish his 2016 campaign with bogus claims of collusion with Russia.

In a Supreme Court filing made public Tuesday, the president requested an ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sprung from New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix a month ahead of schedule, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The 56-year-old music mogul is slated to be set free on Jan. 24, 2028, according to the bureau’s inmate locator. An earlier listing stated he’d be held until Feb. 23, 2028.

Before that, prison ...Read more

The dismissal of Prince Harry’s lawsuit against U.K. news outlets could leave him and several other British celebs collectively on the hook for as much as $45 million in their opponents’ legal fees, according to reports.

The Duke of Sussex wasn’t the only one accusing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), which publishes the Daily Mail and...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday evening took another step closer to advancing a bill that would impose long-stalled sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine and extend for five more years sanctions on Iran.

The Senate voted 84-12 in favor of a motion to proceed to consideration of the legislative vehicle for the measure, which would ...Read more

NEW YORK — A mentally ill man who rammed his car into Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn was sentenced to time served Wednesday — after a federal judge ripped the Department of Justice for asking for a longer sentence to appease the public’s misconception that he had committed a hate crime.

Before he sentenced Dan Sohail, 36, to the ...Read more

The beleaguered town of Hartman is no more.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday that it had approved a resident’s petition for abandonment — effectively transferring all town business and assets to Prowers County.

Hartman, a tiny community of 30 people in southeast Colorado, had been stuck in a legal limbo with no ...Read more

A Washington, D.C., woman has accused two Idaho National Guard members of injuring and unnecessarily detaining her in a tort claim filed against the federal government.

Tort claims are formal notices to government bodies alleging damages caused by government entities or employees. They are required predecessors to lawsuits against the ...Read more

NEW YORK — An electrical issue in Central Park has caused authorities to cut power to an area including the fountain at Cherry Hill and a café overlooking Sheep Meadow. While the extent of the problem is not yet clear, the union representing the park’s carriage horse drivers is suggesting electrical problems could be behind what made a ...Read more