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WatchAfter roughly 36 hours of deliberation spread over seven days, the Plymouth County panel told Judge William Sullivan three separate times that it was deadlocked. Prosecutors now have to decide whether to try the Duxbury case all over again.
WatchThe Labor Department also erased July's reported job losses, revising the month from a 23,000 decline to a 21,000 gain. Wages are still running behind inflation.
WatchThe Apollo Global Management co-founder was due in a House Oversight hearing room for a videotaped deposition in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. His lawyers filed a federal lawsuit to void the subpoenas instead.
A one-page memo from the state transportation department cited 'misuse, data privacy concerns, and surveillance schemes.' Jacksonville's sheriff dropped the technology countywide the same week.
WatchNetwork leadership decided in August to remove its most Trump-aligned anchor after she forwarded internal Fox guidance to the White House. Her last broadcast was August 9, and the president found out with everyone else.
WatchIran fired missiles and drones at an air base in Kuwait and another in the United Arab Emirates overnight, extending its retaliation to a third Gulf state in three days. Iran's health ministry now counts 18 dead from American strikes.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans was pushed out after pursuing a constitutional-rights case against ICE officer Christian Castro. Castro was instead charged this week with making false statements.
WatchA 35-year-old man facing eviction opened fire inside a downtown apartment tower on Wednesday, killing two neighbors and wounding five more people, including two officers who were shot. Police still do not know what filled the ninth-floor hallway with smoke.
Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the Justice Department's demand that Google sell its AdX exchange, opting instead for rules on how the auctions run. It is the second time in a year a court has found Google an illegal monopolist and then declined to dismantle it.
Dara Khosrowshahi told staff in a Wednesday memo that the company needs to strip out management layers. Wedbush put the savings at roughly $1.7 billion, and the stock rose.
The blaze in Palo Pinto and Jack counties started August 24 as an estimated 25 acres. The National Weather Service now calls it the second-largest wildfire in North Texas history.
WatchThe Gloria Steinem Foundation announced her death Thursday and did not give a cause. She spent six decades arguing that women's equality was a structural problem, not a personal one.
WatchThe prediction market says the former congressman told his followers he was going to the State of the Union, then bet against himself. It is the first lifetime ban the company has ever issued.
WatchFourth District Judge Tony Graf found enough evidence to establish probable cause that Robinson, 23, shot Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus last September. Robinson pleaded not guilty within minutes of the ruling.
WatchIranian officials say American strikes killed civilians at a wedding celebration in Sirik county and wounded dozens more. Within hours the Revolutionary Guard launched missiles and drones at U.S. positions in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and the Emirates.
WatchA collapsing Himalayan glacier dumped more than 100 million cubic meters of ice and rock into the Trishuli valley. Three days later, Nepali police are still counting.
She wrote 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' in the same year and spent the next five decades being claimed by everyone.
Duane Davis rested his defense after two hours and three witnesses. Closing arguments in the 30-year-old Las Vegas case are set for Monday.
Judge Noel Wise ruled for The Stanford Daily, whose international staff said they were afraid to report on the war. It is the second federal court in a year to find the deportation policy unconstitutional.
Marines from the USS San Antonio cleared the vessel without a shot fired before an airstrike destroyed it. At least 227 people have now been killed in 68 boat strikes since the campaign began.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused again to move the 34-count New York conviction into federal court, writing that a cover-up of an embarrassment is not covered by presidential immunity.
The Juul2 pairs with an app that requires proof of being 21 before the device will work. The agency was careful to say the authorization is not an endorsement.
WatchThe president called it 'THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY' in a social media post, seven months after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro. The announcement named no operator, no fields and no price.
Lt. Col. Michael Schrama ruled the statements KSM gave FBI agents over four days in January 2007 were not voluntary. The trial is set for June 2028 — nearly 27 years after the attacks.
Kevin Warsh never used the word 'hike.' Economists heard one anyway, with unemployment at 4.1% and underlying inflation refusing to improve.
Defense and NATO officials told the AP that American forces in Europe could not stop a sustained Russian ballistic missile attack. The Pentagon says the reports are false.
Revenue more than doubled from a year ago and the data center business alone brought in $89 billion. The AI Compute Partnership, announced in July, was paused before it was two months old.
The deal, approved hours after it was filed, resolves claims from 51 attorneys general and forces changes to Facebook and Instagram that lawmakers spent years failing to legislate.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin permanently barred the administration from enforcing a supply-chain-risk designation she said was retaliation for the AI company's criticism of the Pentagon.
The second straight month of cooling brings the annual rate down from a 4.2% peak in May. But energy prices remain the reason it is not lower, and July's job losses have complicated the Fed's September decision.