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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 was awarded Friday to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."Calling her a person "with exceptional courage and integrity" and somebody who "has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order," the Nobel Institute said that Pillay "has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.""Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles […]

The Trump administration has quietly organized a team of government attorneys to represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, according to a federal notice.The announcement, posted by the Department of Health and Human Services, says that HHS lawyers under a new agency division will "provide direct legal services to unaccompanied alien children."The development comes after the administration cut ties with a number of immigration advocacy groups that had previously provided […]

Last month was the warmest September on record for the contiguous United States, surpassing the previous record set in 1998, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).The Lower 48 recorded above-average temperatures for the 20th straight month, continuing a streak that began in February 2025. So far, four months this year have ranked as the warmest on record: March, July, August and September. NOAA’s […]

General view of Fred D Thompson Federal Building & Courthouse on June 27, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) Officers shot and killed a man inside a federal courthouse in Nashville on Thursday after he allegedly brandished a gun and then a knife in the court's lobby, investigators said.At around 9:30 am, an unidentified male in his 40s, who was from out of state, attempted to pass through the […]

The Aurora Borealis lights up the night sky over Monroe, Wisconsin, on Nov. 11, 2025. (Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images) It's been a busy week for the sun, and aurora watchers in some northern and upper Midwest states looking for a glimpse of the famed colorful sky could benefit from enhanced solar activity Thursday night into Friday morning, Oct. 9. On Tuesday, a coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive burst of […]

The former Cornell student who reported an alleged gang rape at a campus fraternity has faced a series of threats and doxxing attempts in the three weeks since filing her explosive lawsuit, her attorney told ABC News. Attorney Thomas Giuffra said Jane Doe is concerned about the threats but vowed to continue the case -- saying the national attention is bringing awareness to the issue, pushing lawmakers to reconsider laws surrounding […]

Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed new charges against ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro that accuse him of conspiring with his wife to torture individuals who were held in Venezuelan prisons.The new indictment, unsealed in Manhattan federal court, specifically accused his government of torturing Americans because Maduro "assigned blame to the United States for the instability in Venezuela."Federal prosecutors alleged Maduro "presided over this system of repression and […]

University of Maryland student Dilan Shaan Ashar, who had been missing since Oct. 2, was found "disoriented" and "dehydrated" in the woods on Wednesday by campus police six days after he went missing.University of Maryland Chief of Police David Mitchell said during a press conference on Thursday that the 22-year-old was located as they canvassed a wooded area in the surrounding College Park community at about 7:30 pm local time."Dilan […]

One of the men accused in a "gang rape" at Cornell University is pushing to have New York Attorney General Letitia James thrown off the case, arguing that she "demonstrated a bias and presumption of guilt" through a past social media post.An attorney for student Gillio Lopes asked an Albany court to void Gov. Kathy Hochul's appointment of James as special prosecutor in the case, as well as force the […]