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Former FBI Director James Comey got another assist from a Clinton-appointed judge Friday as the Justice Department looks to hold him accountable for his role in Russiagate. Last month, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, ruled that Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was incorrectly appointed and therefore, the charges brought by her office against Comey were “defective.” “All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment … constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside,” the judge wrote. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced at the time that the Justice Department would be appealing the ruling....

A convicted murderer who was scheduled to be executed in Georgia this week had his date with death suspended after the state announced Monday that it was considering a new clemency application. Stacey Humphreys, 52, was preparing to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday, when the state Board of Pardons and Paroles saidit was ordering the suspension of his execution following an 11th-hour petition. Filed by the nonprofit Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the petition, which received more than 1,400 signatures, highlights “profound irregularities that occurred inside the jury room” during Humphreys’ trial. “The Board has...

Just "two shooting..." Geoff Bennett: Welcome to the "News Hour." The fallout from two weekend mass shootings continued today, one in Rhode Island, the other half-a-world away in Australia. Amna Nawaz: We begin in Providence, Rhode Island, where officials today released new video of a person of interest as the hunt continues for the gunman behind a shooting in a lecture hall at Brown University. Two students were killed and nine others were injured.

As the appalling story of Sunday’s anti-Jewish mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach continue to unfold, and 16 people are now dead, there have been few glimmers of light in the darkness. The men identified as the shooters are a father and son, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24. The father was shot and killed by police last night, and the son was overpowered and taken into custody. The New South Wales police commissioner says little is yet known about the pair, but Sajid Akram was a licensed gun owner, with six guns in his possession. Old social media...

For four years, a tranche of cellphone data provided to the FBI by T-Mobile US sat on a digital shelf because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it, people familiar with the matter said. The data turned out to be essential to cracking the case, the people said, a breakthrough that happened only recently when a tech-savvy law-enforcement officer wrote a new computer program that finally deciphered the information. That move led to the arrest of 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. at his home in Northern Virginia, where he had been quietly living with his mother and other relatives.

Nick Reiner, who is under arrest for the murder of Rob and Michele Reiner, checked into a Santa Monica hotel early Sunday morning, and left a trail of blood behind ... sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ. Nick checked into The Pierside Santa Monica around 4 AM Sunday, using his credit card. His check-in came hours after he got into a heated argument with his father at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. Eyewitnesses who saw Nick check in say he seemed "tweaked out", but there were no visible signs he had been in a violent confrontation -- we're told definitely no...

Dramatic images show Nick Reiner being forced to the ground and handcuffed after the murder of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Nick, 32, was seen being arrested at a Los Angeles subway station in Exposition Park, 15 miles from his parents' Brentwood mansion. He was arrested by the LAPD’s robbery homicide division with the help of US Marshals, who pushed Nick in front of a squad car. Nick had earlier checked in to The Pierside Santa Monica, where staff discovered a shower 'full of blood' and a trail leading off of his bed, as well as a...

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a rule that should have sent shockwaves through every newsroom in the country: visitors entering the United States under visa-waiver programs may soon be required to hand over five years of their social-media history before boarding a plane. No context, no criminal suspicion, no triggering event, just a mandatory reveal of your digital life, tied directly to your passport.On paper, the justification looks familiar. DHS presents the change as a security upgrade, a harmless modernization of screening tools to help identify threats. They repeat the same vocabulary Americans have been conditioned to accept...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., reacts to the terror attack at a Hanukkah event in Australia, the Syrian ambush that killed two U.S. service members and an interpreter and more on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’

Korea Zinc announced on Monday a $7.4 billion smelter project in Tennessee that will be backed by the U.S. government and which will lessen our reliance on China for critical minerals used in defense systems, electronics, and so much more that powers our modern world. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took to X to laud the news: The tweet continues: Today, we announced a major investment with Korea Zinc to build a state-of-the-art critical minerals smelter and processing facility in Tennessee that will produce 540,000 tons per year of essential materials right here in America. He continued, listing a range of...

Last Saturday, a high-speed crash on Almeda Genoa Road claimed the life of an 18-year-old male passenger. The incident involved a blue Dodge Charger driven by 18-year-old Ruben X. Mendoza and occurred around 4:55 a.m., with the passenger’s identity pending confirmation by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, according to the City of Houston. The crash followed a pursuit initiated by Harris County Precinct 2 deputies, who observed Mendoza driving erratically and at high speed. Mendoza reportedly turned off his headlights and ignored deputies’ emergency signals, leading to the fatal collision, after which he was charged with murder, as...

A gunman fired 20 bullets into the home of a Jewish family in Redlands, California, on Saturday. The family’s home was clearly Jewish, as they had decorated the exterior for Hanukkah. According to door cam footage, the suspect shouted antisemitic slurs such as “F*** the Jews” as he fired at the home from his car. 'Another dangerous and despicable act of violence' The family shared a statement with Jewish outlet Community News: “My family just survived an antisemitic drive-by shooting in Redlands. My family and I decorated our house for the Jewish holiday Hanukkah; many of the decorations include light-up...

The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck ​with Britain earlier this year, which was ‌intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing ‌and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday. British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT ⁠said, adding ‌that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was pushing for Britain's concessions in ‍areas of trade outside the tech partnership. U.S. officials were becoming increasingly frustrated with Britain's lack of willingness ​to address so-called non-tariff barriers, including rules ‌and regulations governing food and industrial goods, the FT said. Reuters...

Pro-gun voices in the United States have seized on the mass shooting at Bondi Beach to express contempt for Australia’s gun laws, … Less so with the critique from certain Americans. The sort who are perpetually insisting it’s inappropriate to talk about gun laws when the bullets are killing their own children, but are now eager to shout “I told you so”. A small sample, here. “Australia has among the toughest gun laws in the world, and ‘diversity is their strength’. Pray for the victims, and for wisdom to follow.” “I was reliably told that Australia’s strict gun laws eliminated...

Australia’s Oct. 7 happened in the most unlikely place — a balmy summer evening in the most iconic beach in the country, known for laid-back surfers, Instagram influencers, fitness freaks, hippies, billionaires, leather-skinned locals and decidedly haram topless sunbathers. Bondi Beach is a bustling inner-suburban crescent of golden sand on the Pacific where $30 million houses nestle among 1960s blond brick walk-ups crammed with Irish and British backpackers who sling cocktails and wait tables at the buzzy eateries along Campbell Parade. On Sunday, this slice of paradise became the latest battlefront of the anti-Jew bloodshed that has seized the world...

As Hollywood still grapples with the tragic murder of famed director Rob Reiner and his wife, more tragic news broke early Monday. According to Deadline, actress Rachael Carpani’s family revealed that she had passed away “unexpectedly” at just 45. Her family confirmed in an Instagram post that Carpani passed away following a battle with a “chronic illness.” “It is with great sadness that Tony and Gael Carpani announce that their beautiful daughter, beloved Australian actress Rachael Carpani, unexpectedly but peacefully passed away after a long battle with chronic illness, in the early hours of Sunday 7th December,” the late Sunday...

The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies have heightened stress among the country’s approximately 14 million immigrants who are living in the U.S. without legal authorization. The sharp rise in dramatic arrests and deportations of immigrants over the past year has received widespread media attention. A less publicized issue is that many young, undocumented immigrants are also finding it harder to apply to and stay in college. As someone who researches teacher training and was a high school teacher in South Carolina, I have researched how restrictive education policies make it harder for immigrant students, particularly undocumented students, to receive a...

More than 200 enraged pub owners are banning Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his MPs from their businesses in protest at increased business rates which they say threaten their survival. Hundreds of businesses have signed up to the Taxed Out campaign where boozers will bar Labour MPs from entering their premises. This comes after Rachel Reeves announced that nearly 5,000 small pubs will soon pay huge business rates for the first time as the rateable values of premises are set to increase. Temporary rates relief will also be replaced with a less favourable system, meaning that a standard British...

Amazing things are happening in Latin America. We have Javier Milei in Argentina, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and now José Antonio Kast in Chile, who just beat Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara with 58% of the vote. The dude is a devout conservative Christian and father of nine: Kast ran mainly on a platform of cracking down on crime and mass immigration, and celebrations in the streets began as his victory was announced. Thousands of Chileans flood the streets to celebrate the win of pro-Trump populist Jose Antonio Kast Rist.Chile has defeated communism today..pic.twitter.com/WsGL43NKWG— Daily Dose of Chaos (@DailyDosOfChaos)...

A human heart macrophage assembloid is shown using immunofluorescent microscopy imaging. The red color marks the heart muscle cells, the green color marks the macrophages and the blue color marks all cells. The scale bar in the bottom right corner of the image is 200 micrometers, or 0.2 mm, in length. Graphic courtesy of the Aguirre lab at Michigan State University. ================================================================ These tiny hearts may help develop new AFib treatments without any human (or animal) patients In a Nutshell * Researchers added immune cells called macrophages to lab-grown mini-hearts, creating a more realistic model of human heart tissue that...