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(José Niño, Headline USA) A New Jersey deputy attorney general has been charged in Pennsylvania after investigators alleged he used artificial intelligence to create and distribute child sexual abuse material online. A CBS Philadelphia report identified the defendant as Brian Richard Fitzgerald, 51, a Lower Makefield Township resident. The Bucks...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Trump administration's border security efforts are ongoing, including sending more National Guard troops to the southwest border. The most recent to be sent to Texas are from New York. Last week, 120 New York Army National Guard soldiers assigned to the 204th Engineer Battalion were sent...

(Headline USA)  At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company's popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. The company's chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging...

(Headline USA) Six Flags Over Georgia is set to open its gates Friday evening for the first time since a man fell to his death from one of the amusement park's towering roller coasters. Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old school employee from Atlanta, was thrown from the Goliath coaster...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration sued California election officials Thursday, asking a judge to bar the state from counting mail-in ballots for next month's midterm elections from people the federal government has identified as “likely” noncitizens until their status can be confirmed. The lawsuit comes after the Justice Department said...

(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) Ohio’s universal school choice plan took another hit in the courts Thursday. The 10th District Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that the state's EdChoice and EdChoice Expansion voucher programs are unconstitutional. Again, the court stayed the opinion, allowing the programs to continue while...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) FBI agents in north Texas have disrupted a North Korean espionage ring targeting U.S. companies. The scheme involves illegally obtaining information from U.S. companies to facilitate the country’s sanctioned weapons program, federal authorities allege. The case “is about far more than fraud,” U.S. Attorney Ryan...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former neo-Nazi in Tennessee was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to plotting to destroy a Tennessee energy facility in November 2024, days before the presidential election. The one-time neo-Nazi, Skyler Philippi, was sentenced after his lawyers pushed for...

(Headline USA) An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Justice Department has agreed not to prosecute a former CIA analyst who in 2024 was accused of serving as a secret agent for South Korea’s intelligence service, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said Sue Mi Terry had shared nonpublic government information, facilitated access...

(Headline USA) A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents and with whom she didn’t get along, then tried to flee the country after police questioned her. Aili Wang, 32, was arrested Oct. 6 at...

(Headline USA) The Social Security Administration projected Wednesday that the annual cost-of-living adjustment for older adults and people with disabilities will go up by 3.6% beginning in 2027, with some recipients complaining that is not enough to offset soaring prices. The adjustment translates to $75 extra per month for the...