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(WASHINGTON) -- A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his stepsister during a family cruise vacation, the Department of Justice announced Monday.Anna Kepner, 18, died on the Carnival Cruise ship Horizon in November while the ship was in international waters and heading to Miami, prosecutors said.The DOJ alleged the stepbrother "sexually assaulted and intentionally killed" Kepner. The Florida high school senior died from […]

(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge on Monday threw out President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal after Trump sued the paper last July for its reporting on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book.In his order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles concluded that Trump failed to prove that the Wall Street Journal knowingly published false information in the paper's July article […]

(NEW YORK) -- At least one person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting inside a Chick-fil-A restaurant on Saturday night in Union Township, New Jersey, according to authorities.As of Sunday afternoon, no arrests had been made as the investigation continued in the shooting at a Chick-fil-A on Route 22 in Union Township, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement."I have been briefed on the […]

People walk through Grand Central Terminal on November 4, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Police shot and killed a knife-wielding man on a subway platform at Grand Central Station in New York City on Saturday after he stabbed at least two people, according to the NYPD.Officers were called to the scene shortly after 9:30 this morning.Police said the man had been acting […]

The Artemis II crew floats in the Pacific Ocean of the coast of San Diego after splashing down, April 10, 2026. (NASA) (NEW YORK) -- NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off on April 1 at 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The four-person crew completed a 695,081-mile, 10-day journey around the moon, also known as a lunar fly-by.A "textbook" splashdown took place at 8:07 p.m. ET on Friday, April […]

The Artemis II crew floats in the Pacific Ocean of the coast of San Diego after splashing down, April 10, 2026. (NASA) (NEW YORK) -- NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off on April 1 at 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The four-person crew completed a 695,081 -mile, 10-day journey around the moon, also known as a lunar fly-by.A "textbook" splashdown took place at 8:07 p.m. ET on Friday, […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026, in Washington, DC. The global investment management company held the summit consisting of leaders from government, business, and labor to address expanding U.S. infrastructure. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) -- A man has been arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Across three hours of oral arguments on Friday, a panel of judges appeared skeptical of a legal challenge to the 10% global tariff imposed by President Donald Trump after the Supreme Court struck down his first round of tariffs earlier this year. The lengthy hearing centered on whether a 1974 law gives President Trump the power to impose the tariffs for 150 days without approval from Congress, based on the United States' trade deficit. The suit […]

In this screen grab from a video, a Kimberly-Clark warehouse burns in Ontario, Calif., April 7, 2026. (KABC) (ONTARIO, Calif.) -- A man is facing federal charges for allegedly purposely setting the fire that destroyed a massive warehouse in Southern California, prosecutors said.Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, is charged with arson of a building used in interstate and foreign commerce and used in activities affecting interstate and foreign commerce, the Department of […]