JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two Missouri lawmakers want to repeal a ban on firearm silencers like the one allegedly used in the hitman-style murder of a health insurance executive earlier this month in New York.

State Rep.-elect Mike Costlow, R-Dardenne Prairie, and state Sen. Nick Schroer, R-Defiance, introduced legislation that would stop the ...Read more

The FBI says more than 5,000 drone sightings the bureau investigated in New Jersey ended up being small planes, hobbyist drones, helicopters, stars or law enforcement aircraft.

Multiple government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, released a joint statement Monday as recent surges in drone ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After pardoning his son Hunter, President Joe Biden, in the biggest one-day grant of clemency ever, granted pardons last week to another 39 individuals and commuted the sentences of 1,499 more, including Gregory J. Podlucky, former CEO of Latrobe beverage maker Le-Nature's Inc.

Clemency is an umbrella term that refers to the acts...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate suffering from “gender dysphoria,” who attempted self castration while struggling with daily thoughts of suicide, is asking a federal judge to force the South Carolina Department of Corrections to provide her with gender affirming-care.

Sofia Cano, 22, a transgender woman, says she’s been denied ...Read more

In a span of about 22 hours, SpaceX could manage three rocket launches and one landing of a Dragon spacecraft.

It flew a Department of Defense mission from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Monday night and on Tuesday knocked out a National Reconnaissance Office mission from California and the landing of the latest cargo Dragon spacecraft off the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 40-year-old tech consultant has been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco last year.

The verdict read Tuesday arrives more than a year after Lee was found bleeding to death in a downtown San Francisco street.

The jury listened to over six weeks of testimony about...Read more

A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday sentenced a Georgia man to five years in prison for assaulting police with a deadly weapon during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

The sentence, which also includes three years of probation, is the longest handed down to any Georgian charged during the riot.

The sentencing follows a two-day trial in...Read more

There were no death threats, no slate of fake electors, and no masks.

Pennsylvania’s electors met without issue on Tuesday in the state House chamber in Harrisburg for electors to complete their fundamental task of casting the state’s 19 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

The 2024 ...Read more

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 – the beginning of spring in Buenos Aires – during a spontaneous visit to the confessional, or what Catholics call the sacrament of reconciliation.

This spiritual turning point for the future Pope Francis ...Read more

DENVER — Aurora police detained 15 people early Tuesday morning and expected to take more into custody following a gang-related home invasion and kidnapping at the soon-to-close Edge of Lowry apartments, authorities said.

Officers responded to reports of an armed home invasion at the apartments in the 1200 block of Dallas Street just before ...Read more

The Federal Bureau of Prisons agreed pay $116 million to more than 100 former inmates at the scandal-plagued FCI Dublin women’s prison in California, which was recently permanently closed amid a pervasive culture of sexual abuse and retaliation by guards at the facility.

The prison system’s payout will go to 103 former inmates of the prison...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 40-year-old tech consultant has been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco last year.

The verdict read Tuesday arrives more than a year after Lee was found bleeding to death in a downtown San Francisco street.

The jury listened to over six weeks of testimony ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams has ordered Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to “go desk by desk” and find ways to move cops in units not directly involved in law enforcement back to patrol on the streets, noting cops are “masters at hiding out somewhere.”

Adams, speaking Monday evening at a town hall on the Upper West Side where ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two New York men have died after contracting a rare fungal infection from the bat feces they used to fertilize their marijuana plants.

The men, both of Rochester, were cultivating cannabis for personal use when their health started to deteriorate, according a case published in the journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

One of ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione on first-degree murder and terrorism-related crimes for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court filings show.

The Manhattan Supreme Court indictment charges Mangione, 26, with first-degree murder, second degree murder as a crime of terrorism, and nine other ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday denied Mayor Eric Adams’ motion to dismiss the bribery count in his public corruption case.

In a 30-page order, Manhattan federal court Judge Dale Ho rejected Adams’ arguments that the government’s allegations did not meet the legal standard for bribery and said dismissal of the most serious ...Read more

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at Justice Juan Merchan for upholding the guilty verdict in his Manhattan hush money case.

Trump, who was convicted by a jury of 34 felony counts, called Merchan’s ruling “illegal, psychotic” and said the jurist defied the Supreme Court, which granted him significant ...Read more

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised national prosperity and global peace, saying he would quickly drive down the cost of groceries in local supermarkets and bring deadly overseas wars to an abrupt end.

He echoed that rosy message during a wide-ranging news conference Monday, saying his second term "will be the most ...Read more