Federal judge in Ohio rescinds retirement after Trump victory, with Biden yet to nominate a successor

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on capital punishment.

Family said Dariel Vasquez was “born into a family known for community service” and “embraced this legacy wholeheartedly"

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Teachers and a school district in Lancaster County have been at odds with each other since a contract expired earlier this year, but the two parties on Tuesday have come to a tentative agreement. A tentative agreement has been reached between the Hempfield School District and the Hempfield Education Association […]

President Sergio Mattarella told Elon Musk on Wednesday not to interfere in Italian affairs after the US billionaire said Rome judges blocking a government anti-immigration initiative should be sent packing.

A Telegraph journalist is facing a “Kafkaesque” investigation for allegedly stirring up racial hatred in a social media post last year.

STORY: :: Sri Lanka's first transgender candidate hopes to change attitudes even if she isn't elected:: Kegalle, Sri Lanka:: November 8, 2024:: Transgender people in Sri Lanka frequently face social rejection and a lack of legal protection:: Chanu Nimesha, Parliamentary election candidate“As human beings, what is important to us is humanity, not whether we are man or woman. We don’t have such a society. We are contesting elections to make a change in the society. This is just another step in that process."Nimesha is contesting from Kegalle, around 50 miles east of the capital Colombo, and says her message of social justice has been well received.The vote comes less than two months after Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake won September's presidential election.High debt, shortsighted economic policies and tourism revenue losses from the COVID-19 pandemic plunged Sri Lanka into its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades in 2022.Nimesha was one of thousands who marched in Colombo that year to occupy then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office and residence, forcing him to flee the country and later resign.Supported by a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund bailout, Sri Lanka has made a tentative recovery but a quarter of the population remains in poverty.Transgender people are estimated to make up about 1% of Sri Lanka's 22 million people, according to Equal Ground, a local civil society group.

Yvette Cooper has launched a crackdown on the ‘unacceptable use of social media and online marketplaces to market illegal weapons and glorify violence’

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said it arrested a man on Tuesday for a double shooting that left a teenage boy hurt in Southeast D.C. on Friday. Shortly after 11 a.m. on Nov. 8, MPD responded to the 600 block of Mellon Street SE for the report of a shooting. […]

Louisiana's GOP-dominated House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed individual and corporate tax cuts, along with a constitutional amendment — all key provisions in Gov. Jeff Landry's sweeping tax reform package, the centerpiece of the state's third special legislative session of the year. The House voted 87-12 to flatten individual income tax to 3%, while increasing the standard deduction to $12,500 for individual taxpayers. Pushback came entirely from Democratic lawmakers, some of whom have argued that they consider the reforms to provide only token relief to lower-income households while leading to a $1 billion annual revenue hole.

“As governor, I have vetoed numerous anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice bills, yet I still beat Mr. Trump’s handpicked candidate last fall,” Beshear said.

An expert panel on how we got here — and how we can survive the dark times and start to build anew

County-by-county voting shifts in Wisconsin this year were smaller than in any presidential race going back at least 60 years.

After bruising loss to Donald Trump, Democrats can take a lesson from one of North Carolina's most popular political figures.

The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur. The U.S. Department of Treasury said in a statement on Tuesday that Abdel Rahman Juma Barakallah led the Rapid Support Forces campaign in West Darfur, committing human rights abuses against civilians, including sexual violence and ethnically-motivated attacks.

John Reginald “Reg” Murphy, a former Baltimore Sun publisher who once survived a politically motivated kidnapping, died Nov. 9 at his St. Simons Island home in Georgia. The former Inner Harbor and Caves Valley resident was 90. “He had a 90-year-old body that just gave out,” said his wife, Diana Mather Murphy. Born in Hoschton, Georgia in 1934, and raised in Gainesville, he was the son of Mae ...

Shares of the integrated oil and gas firm have gained about 25% year-to-date.

"Hot Frosty" features three major crossovers with other Netflix Christmas films. This has been a tradition for the streamer since 2017.

Evansville fire officials determined that a "flammable liquid" ignited on Tuesday, causing an explosion and fire that hospitalized a man.

A New York volunteer firefighter is accused of intentionally setting a brush fire, as officials issued a statewide burn ban due to increased fire risk. Jonathan Quiles, 20, a volunteer firefighter with the Medford Fire Department in Suffolk County, was arrested on Tuesday, police said. Video linked Quiles to the fire, according to Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine.

We must urgently speak out, or risk having to forever hold our peace. Free speech, the foundation of our liberties and democracy, is under threat like never before – yet much of the public remains blissfully unaware of the enormity of what is being taken from us.

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D) Pennsylvania says he will continue to work with Republicans in area they can find common agreement and that would help the American people but fight them in areas where they strongly disagree. He also discusses Pennsylvania's vote in the US election, Trump tax cuts and fiscal deficit in an interview with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on "Balance of Power."

A significant number of pronghorns have died on eastern Colorado roadways as winter descends upon the region, according to state wildlife officials.

Wisconsin Republican Eric Hovde admitted Tuesday that he lost the U.S. Senate race to Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin, but refused to concede and instead repeated misleading claims about the election while he considers a recount. Hovde preleased a video saying he wanted to gather more information and assess whether to seek a recount. “I will definitely pick myself up and move on and fight for our wonderful country and state, which is why I got into this whole thing," Hovde said.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that Republican Donald Trump could fill after taking office on Jan. 20. With Republicans set to take control of the chamber on Jan. 3, the Senate on Tuesday held a confirmation vote on one of Biden's judicial nominees - former prosecutor April Perry - for the first time since Trump won the Nov. 5 presidential election.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man and woman, one of whom is an inmate, are facing charges after two corrections deputies were accused of bringing drugs into the jail, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Romarus Turner, 33, is charged with bribery of a public official, bringing contraband into a penal facility and possession of […]

A U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants to enter guilty pleas in exchange for life sentences despite Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to scuttle the plea agreements. The move Wednesday by Judge Matthew McCall, an Air Force colonel, in the government's long-running prosecution in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people signals a deepening battle over the independence of the military commission at the naval base at Guantanamo. McCall provisionally scheduled the plea hearings to take place over two weeks starting Jan. 6, with Mohammed — the defendant accused of coming up with using commercial jetliners for the attacks — expected to enter his plea first, if Austin's efforts to block it fails.

Investigators found the deputy in training had made discriminatory remarks about Hispanic and Muslim persons.

While I wait to meet up with Paul Mescal, eight men in short shorts walk past on the street. It may be a surprisingly sunny late September morning in London, but it’s cold — not the weather for exposed thighs — and these gentlemen don’t look like they’re out for a jog. “I have noticed …

It may signal a rebuff of “vile and offensive” text messages that Republicans sent to Spanish-speaking voters days before the election.

"I love working with him ... He's so talented and so passionate about what he does," the actress shares The post Zendaya Recalls ‘Spider-Man’ Meet-Cute With Tom Holland: ‘Literally at a Chemistry Read’ appeared first on TheWrap.

Elon Musk joined Trump on Capitol Hill for a meeting with Republicans—and the president-elect used the opportunity to ridicule the richest man in the world.

The former national security adviser warned that this single trait "won't serve the country well."

Video footage shared by Ukraine's 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade appears to show a devastating attack on a Russian convoy in Donetsk.

Elon Musk will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency and has already started crowdsourcing suggestions for cuts online.

Here are some of the most outrageous things Pete Hegseth has said.

‘God help us,’ Representative Maxwell Frost, a fellow Floridian, posted in response to the news

Donald Trump selected Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to identify areas for government-spending cuts. The US spends the most on Social Security.

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, is now refusing to stand by her previous push for Ukraine’s NATO membership — a stance she once framed as critical to regional stability.

Putin is already messing with his head.

"He will not have a huge economy if I have anything to say about it."

This is a national security disaster.

Rep. Matt Gaetz is resigning from Congress, effective immediately, just hours after President-elect Donald Trump named the Republican firebrand as his selection for attorney general. House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed the news to reporters Wednesday night, saying that he hopes to have a replacement for his seat by Jan. 3. “He issued his resignation letter effective immediately,” Johnson said. “That caught us by surprise a little bit.”

“Everyone laughed. They laughed that uncomfortable laugh,” noted the MSNBC anchor.

Here's what to know about Trump's youngest son Barron, who has reportedly been a key player in helping his dad secure a second presidential bid.

The CNN host's words of disbelief may haunt you if the Florida extremist is confirmed as the attorney general.