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If a Georgia judge signs off on a bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and numerous co-defendants, it could delay any trial until well after the 2024 election — and possibly scuttle the charges altogether, legal experts told …

A Virginia firefighter was killed and others were injured after a house exploded Friday evening, officials said. Loudoun County Fire and Rescue responded to the home in Sterling around 7:40 p.m. for an investigation, and firefighters were inside when the home exploded, Fire and Rescue Assistant Chief of Operations James …

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After grueling months of fighting Russian forces, Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the battered town of Avdiivka, the armed forces commander said Saturday. The retreat expands Moscow’s control of Ukraine’s east and delivers a symbolic victory for President Vladimir Putin as he is about to be re-elected. Col. Gen. Oleksandr …

WASHINGTON — A former FBI special agent who once led a counterintelligence division in New York was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison in connection with lying to investigators about receiving thousands of dollars from a businessperson tied to the Albanian government. Charles McGonigal was sentenced to …

A baby gorilla was delivered early via an emergency cesarean section at the Forth Worth Zoo last month after her mother faced “life-threatening complications,” the zoo announced. The baby — named Jameela, which means “beautiful” in Swahili — weighed just 3 pounds and 1 ounce when she was born four-to-six …

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 10-year-old boy who was shot at the Kansas City Chiefs victory rally this week said a bullet missed his lungs by centimeters and it’s a “miracle” he’s alive. Samuel Arellano was celebrating the team’s Super Bowl win at the parade Wednesday with his grandfather, uncle and …

Snoop Dogg’s younger brother Bing Worthington is dead, the rapper said Friday on Instagram. The 44-year-old died Thursday, according to California’s Orange County Sheriff’s Department, which runs the area medical examiner’s office. “The cause of death will be pending the results of the toxicology and autopsy report,” Sgt. Frank Gonzalez …

The judge’s decision was stunning, but so were the allegations. After the 2014 murder trial of a New York man accused of killing his wife, the judge wrote that the defendant’s lawyer was so unprepared and inexperienced that he relied on Google for help with forensics and pulled questions directly …

N.Y. civil fraud ruling: Letitia James celebrates order as a ‘massive victory’ James celebrated Engoron’s order as “a massive victory for Americans who believes in that simple but fundamental pillar of our democracy: that the rule of law applies to all of us equally, fairly, and justly.” “The scope of …

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A new docuseries about the murder of Mexican American singer Selena Quintanilla Pérez is stirring controversy among fans and her family.  The two-part series, “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them,” which debuts on Oxygen on Saturday, features extensive interviews with the singer’s killer, Yolanda Saldívar from prison. Saldívar was …

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A pregnant woman who was found dead in 1992 in a northeastern Indiana basement has been identified through forensic genetic genealogy and DNA provided by her father, authorities said Thursday. The woman was identified as Tabetha Ann Murlin of Fort Wayne, who was about 26 weeks …

Most of the Spanish-language misinformation about immigration that Latinos see on social media or listen to on the radio seems to largely mirror the falsehoods spread by right-wing media outlets in English, according to two groups tracking misinformation in Spanish. Researchers monitoring Spanish-language misinformation found that anti-immigrant rhetoric and false …

A Seattle woman was robbed of her hijab at knifepoint near the University of Washington campus Monday morning. Officers responded to a report that a woman was approached from behind and placed in a “chokehold” by a man displaying a “small knife” in the University District around 9 a.m. The …

The announcement Friday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in prison coincided with the 17th anniversary of a speech President Vladimir Putin delivered in Munich — a lecture many Kremlin watchers see as a declaration of war on the West. Was Navalny’s death in a Siberian prison timed to coincide …

Officials have ordered that all children be removed from a North Carolina wilderness camp for troubled youths following the death of a 12-year-old in the camp’s care earlier this month. The boy was found dead at Trails Carolina in Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, on the morning of Feb. 3, less …

A Democratic group is accusing independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the main super PAC supporting him of illegally coordinating to get the him on the ballot. Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank that warns third-party candidates could spoil the November election for President Joe Biden, wrote …

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans put a defiant face on Friday after the revelation that an FBI informant — the man whose allegations were at the “heart” of their case against President Joe Biden, as one leading House Republican recently said — had been indicted for lying to the bureau about …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the murder trial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy because the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Jason Meade was charged with murder and reckless homicide in the December 2020 killing of Casey Goodson Jr. in Columbus. Meade, who is white, …