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A sign featuring the Department of Justice building is seen on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The federal judge who presided over the 2019 criminal case against convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein has became the third judge to grant a Justice Department motion to unseal grand jury materials and other undisclosed evidence from the government's investigative files.U.S. District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District […]

Powerball lottery ticket forms at Bluebird Liquor on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025 in Hawthorne, CA. Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The Powerball jackpot prize has grown to $930 million, a cash value of $429 million, for Wednesday night's drawing.This is the game's seventh largest prize ever, according to Powerball. The largest prize ever was $2.04 billion, won on Nov. 7, 2022.The Powerball jackpot […]

Heavy rain fall (Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- An atmospheric river event has been slamming the Pacific Northwest with rain, and the flood threat is far from over.In the last two days, 2 to 4 inches of rain fell at lower elevations and 4 to 10 inches was recorded at higher elevations across western Washington and Oregon.On Wednesday, the rain will focus on hard-hit Washington, inundating the […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) --One student is dead and another critically injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, according to police.A suspect in the shooting, who is not a student at the university, is in custody, police said in a press release, identifying him as Jacob Lee Bard, 48, of Evansville, Indiana.He has been booked into jail on charges of murder and first-degree assault.Preliminary information indicates the shooting […]

(DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif.) -- An ancient lake that once existed at Death Valley National Park has reemerged after record rainfall in the region.Several inches of water have formed in Badwater Basin, which lies at 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America, according to a press release from the National Park Service.During the Ice Ages, the basin -- colloquially known as Lake Manly -- was […]

(LOUISIANA) -- Officials are raising concerns about the conditions in a Louisiana jail as investigators continue to search for a man who authorities said escaped the facility with two others last week by scaling down a wall.St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz released new photos and a video Monday of the Dec. 2 escape, when authorities said three detainees, Johnathan Jevon Joseph, Keith Eli and Joseph Allen Harrington, allegedly used […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Multiple people were injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, according to the university and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.A suspect is in custody, according to Beshear and local police.The Frankfort Police Department said it responded to an incident on the school's campus Tuesday afternoon "regarding an active aggressor.""At this time, we are aware of some injuries," Beshear said on X. "Let's pray for […]

Jubilant Sykes sings with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" at Carnegie Hall, October 24, 2008. Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images (SANTA MONICA, Calif.) -- A Grammy-nominated opera singer was stabbed to death inside a California residence, and the 71-year-old's son has been arrested in connection with the killing, police said.Jubilant Sykes was killed in a home in Santa Monica on Monday, police said. Officers responded to the residence after […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's motion to release grand jury materials and other nonpublic evidence from the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in order to comply with Congress' directive to publicly release materials from the government's files on the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019.U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer determined in his 24-page […]