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(WASHINGTON) -- Three million pages from the Justice Department's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being released to the public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press briefing Friday.Blanche said the release will include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images related to the Epstein case.Blanche said in total there were 6 million documents, but due to the presence of child sexual abuse material and victim rights obligations, […]

(NEW YORK) -- A massive snowstorm is headed to the Southeast this weekend, with blizzard conditions possible for millions.Here's the latest forecast:The storm begins Friday night, bringing snow to eastern Tennessee, southern Virginia, northern South Carolina, northeastern Georgia and nearly all of North Carolina.The brunt of the storm will hit on Saturday.Six to 12 inches of snow is expected in Appalachia along the Tennessee-North Carolina border and in western Virginia.Norfolk, […]

(NEW YORK) -- A massive snowstorm is headed to the Southeast this weekend, with blizzard conditions possible for millions.Here's the latest forecast:The storm begins Friday night, bringing snow to eastern Tennessee, southern Virginia, northern South Carolina, northeastern Georgia and nearly all of North Carolina.The brunt of the storm will hit on Saturday.Six to 12 inches of snow is expected in Appalachia along the Tennessee-North Carolina border and in western Virginia.Norfolk, […]

(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in New York on Friday dismissed the death-eligible counts from Luigi Mangione's indictment, clearing the way for his federal trial to begin in October."Tortured and strange" though she said her conclusion may be, U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett ruled stalking is not a crime of violence and, therefore, not a predicate to make the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a capital crime."No one […]

Don Lemon attends the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights' 2025 Ripple of Hope Gala at New York Hilton on December 09, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for RFK Ripple Of Hope) (NEW YORK) -- Former CNN journalist Don Lemon was arrested early Friday morning in connection with an incident in which anti-ICE protesters disrupted a service at a Minnesota church, according to Attorney General Pam […]

Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court, December 18, 2025 in New York City. (Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- The judge overseeing Luigi Mangione's federal case may decide on Friday if the death penalty will remain a sentencing option if he's convicted.Mangione, who is accused of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown […]

A car crashed into the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening. (WABC) (BROOKLYN) -- A New Jersey man is facing attempted assault as a hate crime and other charges after police said he repeatedly drove his car into the back of Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn.Police were already assigned to a detail at the Chabad in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood when they heard a commotion in the building's […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The man who was arrested after charging at Rep. Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis has been charged by the Justice Department with assaulting a federal representative, a complaint shows.Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, has been charged with "forcibly assaulted, opposed, impeded, intimidated and officer and employee of the United States," according to the federal complaint.He allegedly had a syringe filled with apple cider vinegar when he charged […]

(WASHINGTON) -- In the hours after FBI agents seized 2020 election ballots from an elections facility in Georgia on Wednesday, President Donald Trump posted a series of thoroughly discredited conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election -- and the 2016 election too.Fulton County officials said Wednesday that the FBI seized original 2020 voting records while serving a search warrant at the county's Elections Hub and Operations Center. The FBI said […]