HOUSTON — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her son Anthony Figueroa at their apartment in Bedford, a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, and he only learned later that another man in the group of robbers had shot and killed a store customer. “I didn’t know anything about nobody getting hurt until we … Read more
Sao Paulo — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest. As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when … Read more
Hillary Clinton facing House Oversight Committee on Epstein files – CBS News Watch CBS News Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking questions behind closed doors before members of the House Oversight Committee related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News’ Katrina Kaufman has more. Source link
Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber lobbied members of Congress repeatedly to deter an increase in the endowment tax on colleges and universities. Instead, when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last summer, Princeton became one of a handful of schools whose endowment tax ballooned. Now, President Eisgruber is preparing his institution for change as … Read more
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and paid only $1 a day in Colorado. The unanimous ruling is a procedural defeat for the GEO Group, but it’s not a final decision. The company is fighting … Read more
President Donald Trump has spoken before Congress plenty of times. But when he delivers his State of the Union speech Tuesday, he’ll be standing on unfamiliar political ground: Americans watching the speech distrust him on the economy. An AP-NORC poll this month found that just 39% approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 59% … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A deadly confrontation at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend is the latest in a string of high-profile security incidents involving President Donald Trump, as former Secret Service officials warn that low-tech, lone actors now pose one of the toughest challenges to presidential protection. “It should be quite clear … Read more
United Nations Security Council, step aside. Make way for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. The U.S. president’s version of international conflict resolution holds its inaugural meeting Thursday in Washington. Among its aims: to display to the world a personalized brand of peacemaking and postwar reconstruction that envisions nothing less than becoming the new standard for such … Read more
