Illinois man beheaded Chinese grad student two years ago, prosecutors say
Federal prosecutors on Monday accused an Illinois man of carrying out a calculated plan to kidnap and kill a Chinese graduate student two years ago, in closing arguments of the man’s murder trial in central Illinois.
Truck driver in deadly New Hampshire crash arrested on negligent homicide charges
The driver of a pickup truck who crashed into a group of motorcyclists near New Hampshire’s White Mountains, killing seven of them, was arrested on Monday and charged with seven counts of negligent homicide, officials said.
U.S. high court to rule on scope of copyright for legal codes
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by Georgia lawmakers to win federal copyright protection for an annotated version of the state’s legal code and to decide whether state and local governments can sue people who publish such texts wi…
U.S. records 33 new measles cases, mostly in New York State
Thirty-three new measles cases were recorded in the United States last week, most of them in New York, federal health officials said on Monday, bringing the number of confirmed cases this year to 1,077 in the worst U.S. outbreak of the virus since 1992…
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down stiff firearms penalties
Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the U.S. Supreme Court’s four liberal members on Monday in striking down as unconstitutionally vague a law imposing stiff criminal sentences for people convicted of certain crimes involving firearms.
U.S. Supreme Court takes up insurers’ $12 billion Obamacare dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the federal government must pay insurers $12 billion under an Obamacare program aimed at encouraging them to cover previously uninsured people after the healthcare law was enacted in 2010.
Closing arguments to start in Illinois man’s death penalty case
Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers were due to make their closing arguments on Monday in the trial of an Illinois man accused of kidnapping and killing a Chinese graduate student two years ago.
Storms strand passengers in Dallas, thousands without power
About 1,000 flights were canceled or delayed in Dallas on Sunday night and more than 80,000 homes and businesses left without power early Monday, after a line of thunderstorms rolled across a northeastern swath of Texas before heading east.
Beyond the rainbow: Same-sex weddings are mainstream 50 years after Stonewall
Kimberly Bailey, owner of The Butter End Cakery in Los Angeles, loves taking wedding cake orders from LGBTQ clients because their design requests are often more creative than straight couples.
‘Flying Wallendas’ cross Times Square on high wire
A brother and sister tightrope act crossed Times Square on a high wire 25 floors above the New York landmark on Sunday night.
