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(Headline USA) The intelligence services of the Russian Federation are plotting to carry out targeted killings in the U.S. and in European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities said Tuesday in announcing they'd thwarted a plot to kill a prominent Russian dissident believed to be living in Washington, D.C. Five people...

(Headline USA) The House Oversight Committee voted Tuesday to recommend that billionaire Leon Black be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena for testimony in the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans and Democrats joined unanimously in the bipartisan vote after Black refused to appear this month...

(Headline USA) A news helicopter crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday and burst into flames, killing at least three people while reporters were covering the collision of an SUV and a city bus, officials and the news outlet said. Colleen Williams, an NBC4 Los Angeles anchor, confirmed during live...

(Headline USA) Charlie Kirk’s family blamed Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative activist’s assassination at a state university, in a wrongful death notice announced Wednesday that presages a possible lawsuit. Attorneys for the family said Kirk's death resulted from a string of “reckless decisions” by officials at Utah Valley...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom has long been viewed as a potential contender for the Democratic nomination in 2028, but in a recent interview, he revealed one condition that would keep him out of the race: Kamala Harris entering the field. Newsom made the declaration during an awkward...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A former Muleshoe High School teacher could spend 10 years to life in federal prison after a grand jury charged her with enticing a minor, according to Texas Scorecard. Allegra Fey Mora, 28, remains presumed innocent unless prosecutors prove the allegation beyond a reasonable doubt. The...

(David Beasley, The Center Square) A Cleveland man and former U.S. Department of Agriculture program director were sentenced to six months in federal prison for conspiring to bill the federal government about $400,000 for work never performed. “Jamarea Grant conspired with his uncle to line their pockets with hundreds of...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) The world's “richest man” is pumping money into Maine's congressional races as part of broader efforts to keep control of Congress in Republican hands.  Tesla CEO Elon Musk's America PAC has begun spending money to back GOP candidates in key battleground states ahead of November's...

(Headline USA) Mississippi police said Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing. Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and...

(Headline USA) Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they're calling the "New Battlefield Project,” intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to interfere at polling places in case armed federal officers show up. Liberal activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries...

Every Sunday morning on the Wind River Reservation, congregants gather at Foundations for Nations Church to pray while protesters outside do the same. The two rituals have unfolded in parallel since the Christian church's pastor, Sarah Lucas, preached a sermon condemning Arapaho ceremonial ways. The Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Tribes...

(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, a candidate for Wisconsin governor, wiped away tears and laughed while sharing how thankful he was Sunday to survive a harrowing late-night emergency landing into a lake of the small plane he was riding in. The pilot “said we are going down,” Tiffany, a Republican,...