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(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 […]

(TENNESSEE) -- A Tennessee mother is facing a criminal charge and her two children were removed from her custody after investigators said they consumed her THC hemp gummies, leading to their hospitalization. The children, both under the age of 8, have been placed under the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services after their mother failed a drug test for methamphetamine, according to the district attorney general. Candice Hickson is being […]

Hiram Carrero, 18, accused of lighting a homeless man on fire aboard a northbound number 3 train, is taken from the New York Police Department 9th Precinct in New York, on Dec. 4, 2025. Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News via TNS via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A teenager is facing a federal arson charge for allegedly setting a sleeping homeless man on fire on a New York City subway […]

The family of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, who was reported dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Saturday, says they will remember her as a happy, bubbly, straight-A student with a bright future ahead. (Kepner family) (BREVARD COUNTY, Fla.) -- Weeks after 18-year-old Anna Kepner mysteriously died on a cruise ship and her stepbrother was named a "suspect" by his parents in a court filing, the stepbrother's mom appeared at a […]

(KERRVILLE, Texas) — Hundreds of 911 calls during the July 4 Texas flood that devastated the Hill Country have been released from hard-hit Kerr County.The Kerrville Police Department released the calls late Thursday following Freedom of Information Act requests from eight media outlets."We want to caution the public that what you will hear on these calls is distressing. Some callers did not survive," Kerrville Police Chief Chris McCall said in a […]

 Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 4, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Luigi Mangione returns to court Friday for a fourth day of an evidence suppression hearing in the state case charging him with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last […]

(Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- The coldest air of the season is invading the Midwest and Northeast as the Mid-Atlantic sees its first snow of the season.Record low temperatures were recorded across the Midwest and Northeast on Friday morning, including: 6 degrees in Scranton, Pennsylvania; minus 4 degrees in Plattsburgh, New York, zero degrees in Springfield, Illinois; and 3 degrees in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Wind chills -- what temperature it feels like -- will also be a factor across the Midwest and Northeast. In […]

Andrew Dykes is seen in this booking photo. (Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office) (TAMPA, Fla) -- Years after the bodies of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter were found on Long Island -- once associated with the Gilgo Beach serial murders -- the woman's suspected killer appeared before a Florida judge on Thursday facing murder charges.Andrew Dykes, 66, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder Wednesday near Tampa on […]

(SONOMA COUNTY, Calif.) -- An animal rights activist who stole four chickens from a Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse in California will have to serve jail time.Zoe Rosenberg, 23, was sentenced to 90 days in jail Wednesday, where she will serve 30 days before becoming eligible for alternatives for the last 60 days, per a press release from the Sonoma County District Attorney.Rosenberg was convicted in November of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors […]