Closing statements Tuesday in Householder corruption trial
Closing statements are set before a jury Tuesday in the trial of ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges.
Oklahomans head to polls for one issue: legal marijuana
Oklahoma voters are going to the polls to decide whether to make the state one of the most conservative to approve recreational marijuana.
US citizen, Somali convicted in journalist’s hostage-taking
Federal prosecutors say two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years.
Slain man’s mother decries plan to expand Mississippi police
The mother of a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death by Mississippi Capitol Police last year is telling state lawmakers that she strongly opposes giving the state-run police department wider territory to patrol inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson.
Hope Hicks meets with NY prosecutors investigating Trump
Donald Trump’s former spokesperson Hope Hicks met with New York prosecutors investigating hush-money payments made on the ex-president’s behalf.
Powell to face Senate grilling on Fed rates and inflation
If measures of the U.S. economy keep coming in hot, as they did in January, the Federal Reserve will likely have to raise interest rates even higher than it has already signaled — and keep them there longer — Chair Jerome Powell will likely warn in testimony to Congress on Tuesday.
Man accused of trying to open jet’s door, attacking crew
Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts man tried to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight from Los Angeles to Boston and then tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon.
Father of Nashville Waffle House shooter gets 18 months
An Illinois man has received an 18-month prison sentence after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used in a 2018 shooting attack that killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee.
3 GOP states pull out of effort to thwart voter fraud
Election officials in Florida, Missouri and West Virginia say they are withdrawing from a bipartisan, multistate effort aimed at ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls that has found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theories fueled by Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Florida bill would force bloggers to register with state
A Republican lawmaker in Florida wants bloggers who write about elected officials to register with the state.