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Karoline Leavitt is opening up about the emotional toll of her White House tenure and the relief of being home with her young children. The former Trump administration press secretary, 29, stepped down in August to focus on her family,…
Monica Rivera’s aunt is demanding city action after the 24-year-old Kansas mother of two was found dead beneath a bridge where she had taken her morning walk. Rivera, of Wyandotte County, vanished early Friday while walking along Kansas City’s 7th…
Chancellor John Healey is expected to unveil a minimum wage hike in Wednesday’s autumn budget that could add nearly £1,000 a year to workers’ pay packets. The proposed increase would lift the National Living Wage for workers over 21 from…
Brent Taylor has defended sending unsolicited nude photographs by calling them “youthful indiscretions,” even though the Tennessee lawmaker was in his fifties when at least one was sent. Taylor, 58, a Republican state senator now campaigning for Tennessee’s 9th District…
Ann Margaret Bacon, 27, was sentenced to six months in jail Monday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage student she taught at a Minnesota high school. The former special education teacher at Tartan High School in Oakdale, just…
A Michigan inmate who slipped out of a propped-open jail door was back in custody within hours after a police helicopter spotted him hiding in swampy woods using infrared cameras. Casie Jo Helsel, 44, escaped Crawford County Jail at 1:30…
Dante Milne has spoken out to explain why he sent a threatening text message that forced a United Airlines flight to turn around midair. Milne, 25, was arrested October 25, the day after the incident aboard a flight from Harry…
Kiarious Marshun Hall claimed self-defense after a water-bottle attack at a Texas youth softball game left a father with a fractured skull and brain bleeds, but investigators say video footage contradicts his account. The 12-year-old girls’ game at Imperial Park…
Meritage Hospitality Group is seeking court approval to close up to 60 more Wendy’s locations as its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case moves forward. The Michigan-based franchisee, which filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 16, operated 314 Wendy’s restaurants at the time…
Crystal Hefner has detailed new allegations of sexual abuse by her late husband Hugh Hefner, including claims of incestuous coercion and rape during their marriage. The 40-year-old widow, who married the Playboy founder in 2012 and remained with him until…
Dale Smith Jr. Was arrested and charged with murder Wednesday in the 2011 disappearance of his ex-fiancée Michelle Parker. Smith, 40 at the time, had been the prime suspect since the early days of the investigation into Parker, 33, who…
A Venezuelan man shot dead by an off-duty FBI agent in Chicago had been caught at the southern border and released into the U.S. Months earlier, federal law enforcement sources said. The man, Oscar D. Corrales, 27, was killed Monday…
AT&T customers who filed claims over twin 2024 data breaches could soon see checks land in their mailboxes. The telecom giant agreed to pay $177 million to resolve class-action lawsuits stemming from security incidents disclosed last March and July, with…
A 15-year-old girl escaped a Baltimore basement by striking her captor with a fire extinguisher after he allegedly stripped and stabbed her during a kidnapping. The teen had accepted a ride from Abubakarr Barrie, 23, outside her sister’s house last…
Rachel Clement, 29, has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a student and will never teach in the United States again. The former Henderson County High School teacher entered her pleas before Henderson Circuit Judge Karen Wilson on Monday, admitting to…
Irene Miller, 50, has been released from jail after her four children were found alone for five days while she worked in Las Vegas. The Kissimmee photographer was arrested Friday and booked into Orange County Jail on four counts of…