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A retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel photographed carrying zip-tie handcuffs inside the Capitol during last week’s riot planned to take hostages, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. In wielding the restraints, Larry Brock “means to take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute members of the U.S. government,” […]

The Archdiocese of New York may have been motivated to start its own compensation program for victims of child sex abuse as a way to keep lawmakers from passing the Child Victims Act, a report claimed Thursday. New York Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan had apparently hoped that the payments to victims would remain in-house —...

The defendants -- including former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who was first charged the day before -- were released on bail after pleading not guilty at their arraignments Thursday morning, the Detroit Free Press reported.

MLB broadcaster Casey Stern claims he was sidelined at work as he dealt with saving his kids from alleged abuse and because he asked for accommodations during the pandemic, a new discrimination charge alleges. Stern, 42, has worked for Turner Sports, Inc. and parent company WarnerMedia, LLC since 2014 anchoring coverage including the MLB […]

A quick-thinking waitress saved a boy from being abused after a couple denied him food at a Florida restaurant, authorities said. Flaviane Carvalho, who works at Mrs. Potato Restaurant in Orlando, was serving a table of four on New Year’s Day when she noticed food hadn’t been ordered for the 11-year-old boy, Orlando police said...

A US Navy SEAL on Thursday pleaded guilty to the 2017 strangulation death of an Army Green Beret staff sergeant, according to a report. Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator Tony DeDolph admitted that he killed Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar in Mali during a drunken attack on the Green Beret, Army Times reported. DeDolph, the third...

A white Maryland man was sentenced to life prison on Thursday in the brutal 2017 slaying of a black Army lieutenant — a case prosecutors said was motivated by racism, and which sparked national outcry and changes to the state’s hate crime law. Sean Urbanski, 25, was convicted in December 2019 of first-degree murder for...

President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a whopping $1.9 trillion economic recovery plan for digging out of the coronavirus-fueled economic downturn that he’ll pitch to Congress as one of his first acts as commander in chief. The big-spending bailout, which he’s calling the American Rescue Plan, proposes $1,400 checks for most Americans, […]

FBI investigators are tracking a significant volume of “concerning” internet buzz surrounding the Jan. 20 inauguration of Joe Biden, the agency’s director said Thursday. The troubling statement, made during a televised briefing chaired by Vice President Mike Pence, comes as the FBI is simultaneously tasked with heading off threats to the […]

An international team of scientists arrived Thursday in Wuhan, China, the original epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate the origins of the virus — but two members of the group were forced to stay behind after testing positive for coronavirus antibodies, officials said. The group was sent to the Chinese city by the World...