Heidi Beirich, a former senior executive at the Southern Poverty Law Center, was arrested in California on Tuesday and charged with federal fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from her time overseeing the organization's intelligence-gathering operations, according to the Department of Justice and a CNN report that first disclosed the arrest.
Actor Hugh Laurie waded into the ongoing national debate over transgender athletes in women's sports this week, publicly voicing agreement with WNBA guard Sophie Cunningham, who has drawn national attention for arguing that men should not compete in women's athletic categories.
Two F-16 fighter jets scrambled Tuesday evening to intercept a civilian aircraft that had strayed into restricted airspace over northeast Ohio while President Donald Trump was on the ground attending a youth sporting event, according to defense and aviation officials.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to acquire thousands of specialized gloves capable of delivering an electrical stimulus during close-contact encounters. The proposed purchase, valued between $10 million and $20 million, would give ICE officers another less-lethal option for dealing with individuals who physically resist, while manufacturer guidelines place specific restrictions on when the technology should be used.
Federal food-safety officials say iceberg lettuce linked through epidemiological and traceback evidence to a major Cyclospora outbreak has been removed from the U.S. market.
California’s shrinking classrooms are becoming evidence of a much larger demographic problem. New state data show public school enrollment has fallen again, while projections indicate hundreds of thousands more students could disappear from the system over the next decade as births decline and residents continue moving elsewhere.
Kansas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Cindy Holscher is drawing renewed attention over a 2023 social media exchange concerning Jesus Christ, sexuality and gender identity. The old remarks are receiving fresh scrutiny as Holscher prepares to face Republican Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson in the November 3 general election, adding another cultural divide to the race for governor.
More than three dozen attacks against Christians have occurred throughout July across Europe, a new report from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) says.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other groups have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its actions against the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Political satire website The Babylon Bee has filed a lawsuit against New Mexico, challenging the state's law prohibiting the use of AI to create satires of political issues without incorporating a warning label.
