Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor and action star of the ’90s, has been accused of having sex with trafficked women from Romania, according to multiple media reports.

Van Damme was named in a criminal complaint filed with the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, Romanian newspaper Libertatea reported. It said the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling has reversed a Wake County judge’s order allowing a transgender woman inmate to be transferred to a women’s prison.

The ruling was released Wednesday morning.

In 2023, a Wake County judge ordered that Ashlee Inscoe, a transgender woman, be transferred to a women’s prison.

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PHILADELPHIA — A Temple University student whose visa has been revoked has chosen to self-deport, the university said in a campus message Wednesday.

The university said the visa was “revoked at the discretion of the United States Secretary of State,” but did not release details about the student or the student’s home country, why the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Supreme Court justices appeared open Wednesday to allowing South Carolina to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood, during oral arguments in a dispute over the state disqualifying the health care provider from Medicaid for providing abortions.

But key justices also aired concerns that such a decision would leave no way...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs in a Rose Garden speech Wednesday that was closely watched by world leaders anticipating convulsions in global markets.

In an effort to bring manufacturing back to the United States, Trump said he would slap what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on countries that currently tax U...Read more

A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up to SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation.

United Launch Alliance is targeting a three-hour window that opens at noon Eastern time on April 9. It will send up 27 satellites on an Atlas V ...Read more

Virginia Giuffre, one of the women who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her as a teen, was ordered to appear in Australian court days after claiming a car accident left her so severely injured that she only had days to live.

Giuffre is due in Joondalup Magistrates Court on April 9 for allegedly violating a family ...Read more

The killing of a Kansas City, Missouri, reporter covering the Super Bowl in New Orleans was part of a running plot to drug and rob people, according to authorities.

Suspects Danette Colbert, 48, and Rickey White, 34, have been charged in the death of Adan Manzano on Feb. 5 in the suburb of Kenner, Louisiana. Manzano, 27, was in town to cover ...Read more

The four private space travelers flying around the Earth’s poles this week had a vomit-filled first day in space, according to the man paying for the trip.

“The first few hours in microgravity weren’t exactly comfortable,” Chun Wang, a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur said in a Fram2 mission update on X. “Space motion sickness...Read more

The U.S. military on Wednesday identified the fourth American soldier from Georgia’s Fort Stewart who was found dead after he went missing during a training mission in Lithuania.

He is Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, an artillery mechanic from Battle Creek, Michigan.

The military identified his three deceased comrades Tuesday: Jose Duenez Jr., ...Read more

Elon Musk is reportedly expected to step away from his role as President Donald Trump’s most prominent adviser in the coming months amid widespread questions about his political effectiveness.

Trump recently told members of his inner circle that he and Musk have agreed the world’s richest man will soon return to mostly running his companies...Read more

A teacher who was facing termination has been suspended after including a question with a racial slur in it on an English test at a school in Arkansas.

Robert Taylor, an 11th grade teacher at Northside High School in Fort Smith, was teaching lessons on the book “Warriors Don’t Cry,” a memoir written by one of the nine Black students who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld FDA actions to keep certain flavored e-cigarettes off the market, unanimously backing some of the agency’s approval process but sending an issue back to a lower court for further consideration.

FDA decisions have kept more than 1 million candy, fruit and other flavored e-cigarette products ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump and his 2024 election campaign can’t get out of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against them by the estate of legendary R&B singer Isaac Hayes, though there are “quite a few” problems with the case, a federal judge in Atlanta said Wednesday.

Lawyers for Trump and his campaign urged U.S. District...Read more

WASHINGTON — A man wants to plead guilty as soon as next week on a charge of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh following the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision, according to a court filing from his attorneys Wednesday.

Nicholas Roske “wishes to enter a plea of guilty” to one count of attempting to assassinate a...Read more

DETROIT — In northern Michigan, tens of thousands remain in the dark Wednesday without power and heat, still reeling from the effects of a weekend ice storm as more severe weather begins to batter the state.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a Wednesday interview with 9 & 10 News she has sent 125 National Guard members up north to help with ...Read more

The Trump administration has fired back at a federal judge in San Francisco who stopped it from revoking deportation protections this month for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in Florida and other states, saying the judge has no authority to block the decision and that it should be addressed on an emergency basis by a higher appeals court. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Senate gave final approval Tuesday evening to a bill to amend the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future — but not without addressing a controversial amendment regarding transgender children in sports.

“We want to protect the crucial role that women’s sports have played in the development of young women for a long time — ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has gutted the agency overseeing the World Trade Center Health Program, a move advocates say will wreak havoc on the program’s operations and bring critical operations to a standstill.

Tens of thousands of responders and survivors rely on the WTC Health Program to get treatment and medication and monitor ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed sweeping public corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams “with prejudice,” blasting the Trump administration’s bid to potentially bring them again while securing the mayor’s help in hardline immigration enforcement as a “disturbing” bargain.

Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho’s ...Read more