Supreme Court opens courthouse doors for troops to sue military contractors over combat injuries
The Supreme Court ruled this week that American service members may sue military contractors whose negligence gets them hurt or killed in combat zones, a 6-3 decision that strips away a legal shield defense firms have used for years to dodge accountability. The case at the center of the ruling belon...
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Marine veteran shot and killed outside Wichita apartment; husband charged with premeditated murder
A 25-year-old Marine veteran who served her country for four years died three days after being shot outside her northeast Wichita apartment, and her estranged husband now faces a premeditated first-degree murder charge in what authorities are investigating as a domestic violence homicide. Ivy Unruh ...
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Coachella music festival sees more than 200 arrests across two weekends in the California desert
The Indio Police Department arrested 203 people over the two weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, with drug possession, fake IDs, public intoxication, and a wave of fraudulent disability-parking violations topping the charge sheet, the Mercury News reported. The second weekend a...
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Winnsboro mayor faces six fraud counts after Louisiana attorney general orders arrest over alleged Medicaid scheme
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced that Winnsboro Mayor Alice Wallace was arrested on April 21 and charged with six counts of government benefits fraud, accusing the small-town mayor of illegally collecting roughly $75,000 in Medicaid benefits over a five-year span while drawing a sala...
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Two CIA officers dead in Mexico crash after cartel lab raid as sovereignty dispute erupts
Two Americans killed in a vehicle crash in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua were working for the CIA, Fox News confirmed through a U.S. official, raising hard questions about the scope of covert American involvement in Mexico's drug war and who in Mexico City knew about it. The crash also kil...
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Hegseth ends mandatory flu vaccine for U.S. troops, citing medical autonomy
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military will no longer require all service members to receive the annual flu vaccine, a move he framed as restoring personal choice and religious liberty to the men and women in uniform. The directive takes effect immediately. Under the...
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Former Capitol Police officer sues Blaze Media over false Jan. 5 pipe bomb accusation
A former Capitol Police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Blaze Media and two of its reporters, alleging they fabricated a claim that she planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both major political parties the night before the br...
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FBI takes over DNA testing in Nancy Guthrie disappearance as Pima County investigation drags on
Pima County authorities have handed DNA samples recovered from Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home to the FBI for advanced testing, a move that marks the most significant forensic development in the 84-year-old woman's disappearance since she vanished on February 1. The transfer puts the federal government'...
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L.A. woman arrested at LAX for allegedly trafficking Iranian weapons to Sudan
Federal agents arrested a Woodland Hills, California, woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night as she prepared to board a flight to Turkey, and the charges filed against her read like a plot from a spy thriller. Shamim Mafi, 44, an Iranian national and lawful permanent U.S. resid...
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Supreme Court sides with D.C. officer, rebukes lower court's piecemeal approach to Fourth Amendment stops
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in favor of a Washington, D.C., police officer who arrested a minor during a 2 a.m. vehicle stop, rejecting a lower court's decision to throw out the evidence by picking apart the officer's reasons for suspicion one at a time instead of weighing them together. The ...
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