A U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty to stealing mail from a Johnson County post office location, federal court records show.

David Alan Boutte, 60, of Olathe, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of theft or receipt of stolen mail, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.

According to court ...Read more

With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems – a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in Ukraine when a doctored video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his soldiers to lay ...Read more

Most Americans know that in all criminal cases – those filed by the government against an accused individual – the defendant has a constitutional right to a lawyer. The Supreme Court established this right in 1963 in the landmark case Gideon v. Wainright.

What many people may not know is that no such right exists in civil cases. ...Read more

At least a quarter of Americans suffer from high levels of cholesterol or fatty acids in their bloodstream, a condition called dyslipidemia. Uncontrolled cholesterol levels increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD: a group of diseases that result from the buildup of plaque in the blood vessels, preventing blood ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administraton's most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

But the showdown is far from over. Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were still denied access to the...Read more

MIAMI — The man arrested at Miami-International Airport after chaotic reports of an active shooter Wednesday afternoon was firing rounds toward the crowded terminal before he was detained by deputies, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Deputies found three bullet holes in a trash can and one through the windshield of ...Read more

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to maintain a trade truce until early 2027, with neither ready to upend relations between the world’s biggest economies even as tensions persist over rare earths, technology curbs and Taiwan.

Just as Xi landed in the U.S. on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that an agreement struck by ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administraton's most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said in his ruling that the administration's ban is likely unconstitutiona...Read more

Oil surged as Iran threatened to expand the war in the Middle East, worsening the outlook for a deal to reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.

Brent futures jumped more than 3% to trade above $106 a barrel, after a top Iranian military official said Tehran may broaden the war to the Indian Ocean if attacked. Prices pared some gains later in the ...Read more

Prior to his capture this year, Sebastian Marset was reputed to be one of the world's most prolific drug traffickers, allegedly sending mountains of cocaine — 10 tons or more per shipment — from South America to Europe.

A native of Uruguay, where authorities say he proclaimed himself "King of the South" and led a criminal network dubbed "...Read more

DENVER — Metro Denver and the northern Front Range this summer documented one of the worst ozone pollution seasons of the past 30 years, jeopardizing the region’s standing under federal air quality standards and possibly placing a higher financial burden on businesses.

The nine-county region logged 66 days during which ozone pollution ...Read more

After a federal judge said last week that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner may have committed federal crimes, questions quickly emerged about the prosecutor’s political future.

Krasner, an outspoken Democrat and one of the nation’s most well-known progressive prosecutors, has recently entertained entreaties to run for higher ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health insurance.

When the Durhams began their practice at the end of 2023 — he as a primary care physician and she as a pharmacist who handles the billing — the couple bought coverage for themselves and their two ...Read more

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”

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Paul Nestadt is about as steeped in suicide prevention as a person can be.

He treats suicidal patients as a psychiatrist, has co-authored scores of research papers on how and why people kill ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Six Flags Magic Mountain has long considered itself “The Thrill Capital of the World,” a competitive title in a world of extreme amusement parks vying to be the biggest, baddest and most intense.

And the X2 ride has for years been the Valencia park’s crown jewel, the first roller coaster in the world that spun riders 360 ...Read more

President Donald Trump denounced reporting by MS NOW that administration officials have floated attaching his name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where an assassin killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

“The story that the White House, or me, want to affix my name to Ford’s Theater, in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was ...Read more