ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors are urging an Atlanta judge to again impose a seven-year prison sentence on former reality television star Julie Chrisley when she appears in court next week to be resentenced on bank fraud and tax evasion charges.

Chrisley, 51, is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service ahead of her Sept. 25 resentencing ...Read more

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says he’s prepared to do what is necessary to address the disastrous gang and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Haiti once there is agreement between the Haitian government and the U.N. Security Council on the next steps to take.

But he still doesn’t understand why there is no money to ...Read more

A body was found Wednesday afternoon in Laurel County, Kentucky, near where a man is accused of shooting at vehicles on I-75 and injuring five people this month, police said.

Authorities have not yet identified the body. It was found “in the vicinity” of exit 49, where Joseph Couch is accused of opening fire on vehicles Sept. 7.

The ...Read more

MIAMI — On Wednesday morning at the Miami-Dade Library branch downtown, dancers in rainbow dresses and red ribboned braids stomped their feet and twirled their skirts. Mexican gritos punctured the air, which hummed with the sounds of the Spanish, English and Creole-speaking crowd.

The folk dances were part of the county government’s Day of ...Read more

Can we say awkward?

Amid split rumors, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. are scheduled to co-host a political event this weekend.

A post on Guilfoyle’s Instagram includes the flier for the Patriot’s Day Freedom Fest, held at a farm in Morning View, Kentucky.

“You don’t want to miss the Eagles Tribute Band and a huge fireworks ...Read more

There was a time — a long time in fact — when music executive, media mogul, recording artist, fashion designer, liquor and reality show personality Sean “Diddy” Combs enjoyed an almost heroic status among a generation of young Black creatives.

Those times are no more. Combs was arrested Monday in New York after being indicted by a ...Read more

MIAMI — The first day of former Florida state Sen. Frank Artiles trial on charges of election campaign violations opened with testimony from the political operative who paid him. It ended with a lobbyist telling jurors she heard Artiles boasting how he helped a Republican candidate win a key South Florida Senate seat by the narrowest of ...Read more

MIAMI — Delays in the federal probe into what caused the deadly Champlain Towers South condo collapse in 2021 mean a draft report on the findings is now expected in 2026, a year later than previously estimated.

In a Sept. 12 update, an investigative team with the National Institute of Standards and Technology said a variety of challenges ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Of all the mysteries surrounding a sophisticated and startling attack against an avowed adversary of Israel, one question stands out: Why?

After hundreds of hand-held pagers used by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, including a child, and injuring several ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A U.S. district judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Madison Square Garden Chief Executive James L. Dolan and disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sex trafficking and sexual assault.

Judge Percy Anderson scrapped the complaint on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Central California.

The lawsuit, filed in January, ...Read more

Orange County prosecutors on Wednesday filed misdemeanor charges against 10 demonstrators who were among dozens arrested in May during a pro-Palestinian protest on the UC Irvine campus in May.

The charges are the first to stem from arrests at UCI in the spring. Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in a statement that the special ...Read more

An effort in one North Texas city to rename a public street after former President Donald Trump has so far hit roadblocks, but supporters aren’t giving up.

Some Republicans in Wise County have sought to change the name of Airport Drive in Decatur to “Trump Way.” The quarter-mile road leads to the Decatur Municipal Airport on the northern ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back on bashing of the Golden State, trumpeting the state's economy after some high-profile companies including SpaceX and Chevron announced plans to move their headquarters to Texas.

The governor's office this week touted the large number of California companies that Inc. magazine included in its recent ...Read more

NEW YORK — Embattled hip hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ was denied ball Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court on NY federal sex trafficking charges and will stay at the Brooklyn MDC lockup.

His attorneys returned to court in a bid to spring the embattled hip hop mogul from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, the notorious lockup ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read will face a new prosecutor when she is retried for murder in January.

Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey on Wednesday announced he had appointed Hank Brennan, who served for years as a defense attorney for notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, as a special prosecutor for the case.

“Attorney...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new sex crime charge on Wednesday, months after his 2020 conviction was thrown out by New York’s top court.

A frail Weinstein entered the Manhattan courtroom at 3:30 p.m. in a wheelchair, clutching a bible and wearing a suit and blue tie to face the new charges, after ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to pass a new, five-year strategic plan to address what the district calls “long-standing issues of equity” and “opportunity gaps” in the city’s public schools.

The 47-page document outlines the district’s priorities and investments through 2029.

It includes ...Read more

CHICAGO — The City Council Wednesday could again rebuke Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to rid Chicago of ShotSpotter, just days before the gunshot detection technology is set to go offline.

Aldermen are set to vote on a long-shot ordinance some say would compel police Superintendent Larry Snelling to continue using the tool. As Johnson sticks...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the five and a half years he spent imprisoned in Russia, Michigan's Paul Whelan relied on a sense of resiliency he learned from his parents, who grew up in England during World War II, he said.

"So when the Russians abducted me from my hotel room, I just put that same sort of resiliency into action, and I went toe to toe with...Read more

WASHINGTON — Standing in front of construction workers in neon vests and hard hats amid pallets of lumber on Wednesday, lawmakers hammered the first nails into the 2025 inauguration platform.

The quadrennial event kicks off the real work of preparing for about 1,600 official guests who will join the next president onstage as he or she takes ...Read more