In a narrowly divided 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Alabama’s effort to reinstate the death sentence of Joseph Clifton Smith, after deciding not to settle a broader dispute over how IQ scores should be evaluated in death penalty cases. The 55-year-old inmate was sentenced to death for the 1997 killing of Durk Van […]

Federal officials announced charges Thursday against 15 people accused of orchestrating massive Medicaid fraud schemes in Minnesota, describing the investigation as one of the largest healthcare fraud crackdowns the state has ever seen. Officials did not publicly identify all defendants or detail every charge during the announcement, though they said one suspect, Muhammad Omar, remains […]

Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 attack have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration’s newly created $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” arguing the program could financially benefit rioters involved in the assault. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges filed the […]

Former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five others have been indicted in the United States over the 1996 downing of two civilian aircrafts operated by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue, an attack that killed four Cuban Americans. The charges, announced Wednesday by the Justice Department, accuse the 94-year-old former Cuban president and longtime […]