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Ilana Panich-linsman/Innocence Project/AFP via Getty Images (TEXAS) -- Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, has filed a request for a stay of execution and a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court.Roberson argues that his federal due process rights were violated when Texas' highest court refused to consider his bid to reopen the case based […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Federal Trade Commission finalized a rule Wednesday that seeks to make it easier for American households to cancel their subscriptions and memberships.The goal is to make it as simple for consumers to opt out of recurring payments -- including for gyms, retailers or other businesses -- as it is to sign up for them."Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription," […]

(GEORGIA) -- Former President Donald Trump sat down with Fox News' Harris Faulkner on Tuesday night in front of an all-female audience in Cummings, Georgia, where he addressed several issues aimed at appealing to women voters including the child tax credit, the economy and reproductive rights -- calling himself the "father of IVF."Speaking in front of a friendly audience of more than 100 women of all ages, Trump attempted to […]

(GEORGIA) -- When 14-year-old Colt Gray rode the bus to his Georgia high school on the morning of Sept. 4, he had a long gun hidden in a poster board that looked like a school project, surveillance video showed, a state agent said in court Wednesday.Colt Gray is accused of killing two students and two teachers, and injuring several others, at Apalachee High School that day.A George Bureau of Investigation […]

(NEW YORK) -- Robert Telles, the former Nevada politician convicted of murdering journalist Jeff German in September 2022, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 28 years.The former Clark County public administrator was found guilty in August of fatally stabbing German to death after the Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter reported on alleged corruption in his office, which ended his political career and his marriage. German's […]

(NEW YORK) -- A detective was shot and killed during a home invasion at her residence in New Jersey, authorities said.Detective Sgt. Monica Mosley, with the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey, was fatally shot at her home in Bridgeton on Tuesday night, according to police.Police responded to the home around 10:30 p.m. for a report of "several subjects kicking in a front door at a residence," the Bridgeton […]

James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images (SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office in New York lacks the resources to meet "ambitious" deadlines imposed by the judge overseeing the Gilgo Beach serial killing case, DA Ray Tierney said Wednesday.Tierney called on the Justice Department to release some money tied up in an ongoing investigation into the office to help defray the cost of a prosecution that he said presents "a singularly […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Special counsel Jack Smith is urging the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's federal election interference case to reject an effort by Trump's attorneys to throw out obstruction-related charges brought against him following a Supreme Court ruling this summer that narrowed the statute's use against Jan. 6 rioters.Trump's attorneys have argued that the obstruction of an official proceeding statute should no longer apply to Trump's alleged conduct […]

Florida Highway Patrol (TAMPA, FL) -- The former owner of a dog that was left tied to a post off a Florida highway in floodwaters ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall has been arrested for animal cruelty, officials announced Tuesday.The dog was found up to its chest in floodwaters off Interstate 75 in Tampa on Oct. 9, as many residents were evacuating due to Milton, according to the Florida Department of […]