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(NEW YORK) -- The 2026 FIFA World Cup draw on Friday marked the beginning of the journey for teams across the globe hoping to hoist the coveted golden trophy — and giving the U.S. a grouping that could make victory easier next summer.At the drawing, the U.S. was placed into Group D with Australia, Paraguay, and the winner of playoff games between Kosovo, Romania, Turkey and Slovakia. American fans could […]

Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A suspect has been charged in the Friday stabbing on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to police.Oscar Solarzano, 33, has been charged with five counts including attempted first degree murder, assault with deadly weapon serious injury and carrying concealed weapon, according to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.The male victim was found with a stab wound just before 5 […]

A judge ruled on Tuesday that a judgement could not be entered against blogger Milagro Cooper for the defamation count in a lawsuit filed by hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in October 2024.Cooper was found liable for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and promotion of an altered sexual depiction by a Miami jury on Monday.However, Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga ruled that a media defendant "precludes judgement for […]

(NEW YORK) -- When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the president's sweeping attempt to gut the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship -- it effectively placed one of the Constitution's most settled commitments on the docket.The administration frames the dispute as a long-overdue "correction" to an overly generous citizenship regime, but the legal reality is far clearer: the […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The suspect accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic National Committees the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, made his initial appearance in court Friday.Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia was arrested by federal authorities Thursday following a massive probe that had stymied investigators for almost five years.Members of his […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The man who is accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee offices on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he was "disappointed" in the results of the 2020 election, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.Brian Cole Jr. also said that that he got rid of the unusual shoes that investigators were looking for, according Pirro."He told us that […]

(FLORIDA) -- A federal judge in Florida has granted the Trump administration's motion to unseal grand jury transcripts from the initial federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s. The order also grants the government's request to modify any protective orders in place that would inhibit public disclosure.U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith – a Trump appointee – determined that the language of the recently-enacted Epstein Transparency Act  "overrides" federal rules prohibiting the public disclosure of […]