‘Now or never’: Migrants seek to beat the end of pandemic-related asylum restrictions
Migrants are rushing across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are to expire, fearing that policies will make it far more difficult to gain entry into the United States.
Ex-Kansas legislator who committed COVID relief fraud seeks to avoid prison sentence
A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief is trying to avoid spending any time in prison.
Idaho triple murder trial of slain kids’ mom drawing to end
Idaho prosecutors have spent the last four weeks presenting their case against a woman accused of killing her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a bizarre doomsday-focused plot.
Juror who listened to conservative podcaster Tim Pool joined verdict against Donald Trump
A juror who says he occasionally listens to conservative podcast host Tim Pool was on the jury that found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing a magazine columnist in 1996 at a luxury Manhattan department store.
‘Affront to democracy,’ Mississippi resident says of appointing judges where most are elected
Three residents of Mississippi’s capital city say their rights are undermined by a new state law that would create a court inside Jackson with judges who are appointed.
Prosecutors reveal link between terror defendant in Virginia and Islamic State ’empress’ from Kansas
Prosecutors say a northern Virginia man arrested last week on terrorism charges has a husband-wife relationship with another American who was dubbed by prosecutors as an “empress of ISIS” for her work to establish an all-female Islamic State battalion.
After Arlington National Cemetery horse deaths, Army makes changes to improve their care
The Army has announced changes to the way it will care for the gray and black horses that carry service members’ flag-draped caskets to their final resting places in Arlington National Cemetery.
Idaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence
An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was photographed dangling from the Senate balcony during the Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.
California’s Feinstein returns to Senate after monthslong absence
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has returned to the Senate after a two-and-a-half-month absence recovering from a case of shingles.
Indiana sheriff’s deputy killed in dog attack that left her son, 8, wounded
Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy died after being attacked in her Indianapolis home by a dog that also bit and wounded her 8-year-old son.