A federal judge on Friday sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison, six months after a jury found him guilty of attempting to kidnap former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and using a hammer to bludgeon her husband in a bloody October 2022 assault.
Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits and political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all.
Former President Donald Trump made it to his youngest son’s graduation on Friday morning, after all, arriving at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach with just minutes to spare, the Daily Beast reports.
In earlier testimony, Michael Cohen said the purpose of an Oct. 24, 2016, phone call was to discuss with then-candidate Donald Trump the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ payment. But Trump’s lawyers presented evidence that Cohen texted and then called a Trump body guard about harassing phone calls.
New recruits and incoming officers into the military would not have to undergo mandatory cannabis testing under the House’s version of an annual must-pass defense policy bill.
An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported.
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that desegregated schools was about more than just race in education, President Joe Biden said Friday as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of the decision. It was about the promise of America, he said — that it is “big enough for everyone to succeed.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to use AI-assisted weapon detectors at several unidentified agency medical centers to scan patients, visitors and staff without having them stop, empty their pockets and pass through metal detectors, a House lawmaker revealed Thursday.
Scottie Scheffler was in handcuffs before dawn in the back of a police car. His warmup routine began in a jail cell. And some six hours later, Scheffler remarkably signed for a 5-under 66 and was right in the mix Friday at the PGA Championship.
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies.
Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson’s family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy.
Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area.
A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina. The bronze sculpture of Graham, an adviser to presidents and known as “America’s Pastor,” replaces one of an early 20th century governor. Graham died in 2018 at age 99.
A family member of the Army reservist who killed 18 people in Maine’s deadliest shooting said she and her husband told a deputy a month before the mass shooting that her brother-in-law still had access to weapons, despite his deteriorating mental health.
Navy leaders on Thursday said they are pushing for more access to high schools as the service faces another recruiting shortfall this year and recruiters across the military complain of limited admission to campuses.
Scorching temperatures set numerous records across South Florida on Wednesday, and historically hot conditions for mid-May will persist through the weekend.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday granted a full pardon to former Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted last year of killing an Air Force veteran during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College’s commencement. Last month’s announcement of the speech ignited calls for the university, a center of Black politics and culture, to cancel the event.
Dozens of measures to improve health care, job training and homeless programs offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs were introduced Thursday as a single legislative package that some lawmakers predicted will advance quickly through Congress.