The former president was originally scheduled to take the stand as the monthslong, $250 million civil fraud trial against him and his company enters its final week.
05:47 AM - Dec 11, 2023
Xylazine is now present in one out of every nine overdose deaths nationwide involving illicit fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
05:15 AM - Dec 11, 2023
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning travelers to Baja California, Mexico, about Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a potentially fatal bacterial disease that spreads through the bite of an infected brown dog tick, which can be carried by pets.
07:02 AM - Dec 09, 2023
A federal judge in California on Friday approved a court settlement that will prohibit federal U.S. border officials from reviving the Trump-era "zero tolerance" family separation policy for the next eight years.
07:01 AM - Dec 09, 2023
The treatment, called Casgevy, is the first approved medicine in the U.S. to use the groundbreaking gene-editing tool CRISPR to alter DNA.
06:44 AM - Dec 09, 2023
The actor was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 2001 and was later diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012. The cause of death is unclear.
06:39 AM - Dec 09, 2023
The ruling that “administratively stays” the lower court’s order is not the final say and is not on the merits, but it pauses the decision that cleared Kate Cox, 31, to have an abortion.
06:34 AM - Dec 09, 2023
Many of the people who fell ill reported eating pre-cut cantaloupe in clamshell packages and trays sold in stores. Consumers should not buy, eat or serve cantaloupe, if they don’t know the source, the CDC said.
04:38 AM - Dec 08, 2023
A former California police chief who called for the execution of Donald Trump's political enemies, joined the U.S. Capitol attack and then spread conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison Thursday.
04:35 AM - Dec 08, 2023
The attorney general went on to dispatch letters to three Houston-area hospitals where the doctor who was to perform Cox’s abortion has admitting privileges, threatening them with civil and criminal penalties if the abortion were to take place.
04:14 AM - Dec 08, 2023
The 56-page filing laid out a series of charges, including allegations that the president’s son failed to pay taxes, failed to file, evaded an assessment and filed a fraudulent form.
04:04 AM - Dec 08, 2023
"Meta has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey," the lawsuit alleges.
06:13 AM - Dec 07, 2023
"The American people deserve to understand the role that PE [private equity] firms play — and any potential resulting negative financial or patient care impacts — in the delivery of their health care," wrote the senators, who lead the Senate Budget Committee.
06:10 AM - Dec 07, 2023
Police declined to publicly identify the assailant, going so far as to avoid any mention of the suspect's gender, nor did they give any information about the four victims struck by gunfire - three fatally - or their connection to the university.
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Las Vegas campus shooting leaves 4 dead, including suspect | Reuters
A lone shooter opened fire on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding a fourth before the suspect was shot dead by police, authorities said at a news briefing hours afterward.
06:01 AM - Dec 07, 2023
The fake electors — involved in the state GOP or Clark County GOP — have been charged with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument. Those two categories of felonies have penalties that range from one year up to either four or five years in prison.
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6 Republicans who falsely certified that Trump won Nevada in 2020 indicted - CBS News
A Nevada grand jury has indicted six Republicans who submitted certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election, making the Western swing state the third to seek charges against so-called "fake electors.".
05:55 AM - Dec 07, 2023
The head of the Army's new independent office responsible for prosecuting major crimes, including sexual assault, was removed on Friday, Dec. 1, after a 2013 email surfaced in which he said, "the sexual assault ridiculousness continues."
05:54 AM - Dec 07, 2023
Whoopsie doodle!
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02:26 AM - Dec 07, 2023
A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
06:36 AM - Dec 06, 2023
A study conducted in Japan suggests there's more to sushi than just a healthy dose of fish and seaweed. Researchers at Tohoku University found that wasabi, that spicy green condiment traditionally dabbed on the raw fish dish, improves both short- and long-term memory.
06:24 AM - Dec 06, 2023
For most people, consuming some caffeine is harmless — but too much can be dangerous. Recent news coverage has raised questions about the amount of caffeine in some popular drinks and what consumers should know about the potential effect on health.
06:21 AM - Dec 06, 2023
A 58-year-old man was arrested by FBI agents in Arizona over online posts to those behind last year's "Christian extremist" ambush, authorities said Wednesday.
06:16 AM - Dec 06, 2023
The Senate confirmed promotions for hundreds of military officers Tuesday after Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville dropped his hold that had delayed their nominations for months.
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06:10 AM - Dec 06, 2023
In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
06:05 AM - Dec 06, 2023
Wray said the number of threats is at a "whole other level" since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, adding, "I've never seen a time where all the threats, or so many of the threats, are all elevated all at exactly the same time."
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06:03 AM - Dec 06, 2023
The Virginia man whose house in suburban Washington, D.C., blew up had a history of making unsubstantiated complaints that he had been defrauded, and just days before the explosion he claimed on social media that his neighbors were spies.
05:52 AM - Dec 06, 2023
The Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments Tuesday in a closely watched case that some warn could have sweeping implications for the U.S. tax system and derail proposals from some Democrats to create a wealth tax.
05:14 AM - Dec 05, 2023
"This GAO report shows that a shocking proportion of the subsidies intended to support the cost of writing crop insurance policies for all farmers are being eaten up by companies and agents," said U.S. Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat, who requested the GAO report.
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US crop insurance provides billions in profit for insurers -gov't agency | Reuters
Roughly one-third of U.S. government spending to insure the nation's crops since 2011 has gone to insurance companies that derive more than $1 billion in profit from the program each year, according to a government watchdog's report released on Monday.
05:12 AM - Dec 05, 2023
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman trolled embattled Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey Monday with a little help from former GOP Rep. George Santos, who was just removed from Congress Friday.
05:01 AM - Dec 05, 2023
At least four gold bars found in the FBI search of Sen. Bob Menendez’s home had been directly linked to a New Jersey businessman now accused of bribing Menendez, the state’s senior senator, Bergen County prosecutor’s records from a 2013 robbery case show.
04:59 AM - Dec 05, 2023
The Labor Department says that a Los Angeles-based poultry processor hired children as young as 14 to debone chicken with sharp knives and hid minors in closets when investigators showed up to ask questions, according to court documents and a new consent decree with the company announced Monday.
04:47 AM - Dec 05, 2023
