A federal judge threw out Blake Lively’s sexual harassment, defamation, and conspiracy claims against her former co-star Justin Baldoni on Thursday, gutting the core of a lawsuit that dominated Hollywood headlines for months and stripping away 10 of the actress’s 13 original claims weeks before trial. U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman’s ruling leaves Lively […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, backed by every major Democratic campaign arm, sued President Donald Trump in federal court this week over his executive order overhauling how mail-in ballots are handled nationwide. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., asks a judge to block the order […]

A 68-year-old Georgia man now sits in the Ware County Jail, charged with rape and murder in a case that went cold for nearly 42 years. Freddie Lee Granger Jr. was taken into custody March 31 after DNA technology linked him to the 1984 killing of Sandra Kaye Davis, a 22-year-old woman found strangled next […]

Three men prosecutors call MS-13 gang members went on trial this week in Las Vegas federal court, facing a 34-count indictment tied to at least 11 killings that spanned California and Nevada during 2017 and 2018. Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanee Smith told jurors the defendants spent night after night prowling for victims, not over drug […]

A North Philadelphia storefront called Cumberland Coffee and Snacks sold something far harder than espresso. Authorities say its second floor served as a full-scale crack cocaine lab, and it operated that way for more than a decade before law enforcement finally shut it down. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the sweeping takedown, dubbed Operation […]

A federal judge ordered California on Monday to pay $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees to the parents and teachers who defeated the state’s policy of hiding students’ gender transitions from their families, a bill that landed on taxpayers after state officials fought the case at every turn and lost. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez issued […]

FBI officials notified members of Congress that a cyber breach tied to China had been classified as a “major incident”, a federal designation reserved for intrusions that could threaten national security. The disclosure, first detailed by Fox News Digital, landed just weeks before President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in […]

A federal judge has permanently barred Kentucky’s public universities from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants, ruling that the state’s policy violated federal law and the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove issued the order Wednesday, ending a months-long legal fight that pitted the Trump administration and Kentucky’s attorney general […]

Federal authorities arrested a 28-year-old Canadian fugitive wanted for murder at a residence in Tupelo, Mississippi, on March 23, and the Department of Homeland Security says he had entered the United States illegally and was armed when agents found him. Adrian Vincent Walker, described by DHS as one of Canada’s top 25 most-wanted international fugitives, […]

A 30-year-old Indiana mother lured the father of her children to a roadside meeting with a casual text asking to “hang out,” then shot him and drove to his parents’ home to kill them too, prosecutors allege in newly released court documents that lay out a chilling sequence of premeditated violence in suburban Illinois. Jenna […]