A Georgia Superior Court judge heard opening statements from attorneys on Friday in an ongoing bench trial over an illegal immigrant alleged to have killed Athens, Georgia, nursing student Laken Riley. Suspect Jose Ibarra, from Venezuela, was 26 when he entered the country 18 months before the February 2024 killing of the 22-year-old at Augusta […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report Nov. 14 alleging that conditions within Georgia’s Fulton County jail system violate its inmates’ constitutional and statutory rights. The DOJ opened its investigation in July 2023 after four inmates died in their cells in the mental health unit, the DOJ said in its report. Fulton County didn’t […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) congratulated President-elect Donald Trump and told Democrats to learn from their mistakes in his response to the 2024 presidential election results on the Senate floor on Tuesday. “It was not the result many of us wanted, but we live in a democracy where the will of the people is […]

A federal judge has blocked a recently passed Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms by Jan. 1, 2025. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles, in granting a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, wrote in his order that state House Bill 71 is “unconstitutional in every application.” He said the plaintiffs could win […]

A California judge has sentenced the man who was convicted of attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with a hammer in 2022 to life in prison without parole. In June, a San Francisco jury found David DePape guilty of aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary, and false imprisonment of an elder. DePape pleaded […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation has levied a $50 million fine against American Airlines in a settlement over the Texas-based company’s alleged violations of disability laws that took place between 2019 and 2023. The department said the landmark penalty sets a precedent being “25 times larger” than its former record settlement. “The era of tolerating […]

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has turned off the power for up to 13,000 Northern Californians to prevent wildfires from dry conditions brought on by the “diablo wind.” A PG&E spokesperson told The Epoch Times that the utility has been monitoring high winds in its service area since Thursday afternoon. The winds are expected to exit […]

A federal health agency has invoked a wartime act to facilitate the cleanup of North Carolina’s Baxter International medical facility, the largest manufacturer of certain intravenous (IV) solutions in the United States, after it was damaged by Hurricane Helene. Baxter International Inc. said in September that it closed its North Cove facility in Marion, North […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday that he has accepted the resignation of Philip Banks, the deputy mayor for public safety. Banks is the latest New York City public official to resign amid a federal probe into Adams’s alleged illegal campaign activity. Banks was appointed in 2022 and had previously served as […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a statement warning of potential violence on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorist group. The anniversary of the attack that ignited the ongoing Israel–Hamas conflict could be a “motivating factor” for […]

Louisiana law enforcement officials have charged a TikTok personality in the homicide of a therapist found wrapped in a tarp along a highway about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. On Thursday, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office announced that it had charged 20-year-old Terryon Thomas, who goes by “Mr. Prada” on his TikTok channel, […]

Officials have warned electric vehicle (EV) owners in the path of Hurricane Helene that their EVs are at risk of catching fire if flooded with saltwater and to take necessary precautions. This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told owners to park their EVs where they won’t become submerged to avoid the risk of fire, incidents […]

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, said that if elected, she would push for a cap on working families’ child care costs at 7 percent of their income. “It is sadly the state of affairs in our country that working people often have to decide to either be able to work or […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has green-lit AstraZeneca’s nasal flu vaccine that can be self-administered without a health care provider. On Friday, the FDA announced that it approved FluMist for the prevention of influenza subtypes A and B in individuals aged 2 to 49 years old. FluMist is a nasal spray and has […]

Microsoft has entered a 20-year power purchase agreement to reopen Pennsylvania’s closed Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant. Constellation Energy, the owner of the plant, announced the agreement on Friday, stating that it will restore the TMI Unit 1, adding approximately 835 megawatts to the electrical grid while creating 3,400 direct and indirect jobs […]

The NFL has kicked off football season with a record-breaking average audience of 21 million viewers per game in its opening week, making it the most-watched premiere week in the league’s history. NFL Media posted that both games in that first week saw a 12 percent increase in viewership from 2023. NFL Media wrote on […]

Boeing’s new space capsule landed back on Earth on Friday night after leaving the International Space Station on Friday (ISS) without the two NASA test pilots as originally planned due to technical problems. Six hours after departing the ISS, the spacecraft parachuted into New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range in the desert on autopilot. The […]

The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) has rejected We the People Party’s request to remove the name of its nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from the state general election ballot. The NCSBE said it would be impractical to reprint ballots by the state’s absentee voting deadline in eight days, given that approximately 2 […]

Two Delta Air Lines employees were killed and another injured early Tuesday morning at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia. Delta said it was working with authorities to investigate what happened at the wheel and brake shop facility. “The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of two team members and the injury of […]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has reported that BMW is recalling more than 700,000 vehicles in the United States due to a potential electrical short in a water pump connector that could spark a fire. Several models, such as the 2012–2015 X1 station wagon, the 2012–2016 two-door Z4, the 2016–2018 X5 SUV, and […]