U.S. prosecutors announced Wednesday that they would not seek the death penalty for the man charged with the political assassination of a high-ranking Minnesota House Democrat and her husband and the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife. The agreement was part of a plea deal reached ahead of a change-of-plea hearing scheduled […]

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said Russian operatives compromised his account on the encrypted messaging app Signal, adding that federal investigators are now examining the breach. Bacon, one of Congress‘s most vocal Republican supporters of aid to Ukraine, told Politico hackers linked to the Russian government gained access to his Signal account roughly four to five […]

Residents of a Mississippi city bordering Tennessee filed a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk‘s xAI and SpaceX, alleging that a data center and power-generation facility near Memphis has subjected thousands of people to “pervasive and inescapable” noise and vibrations. Three residents of Southaven, Mississippi, just south of the Tennessee border, filed the lawsuit on behalf […]

The House will vote Thursday morning on a short-term reauthorization of a key government spy program ahead of a Friday deadline, taking control of the surveillance authority’s future as talks in the Senate stall.  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced Wednesday that the House will vote on a short-term extension of Section 702 of the […]