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A former federal correctional officer was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison for sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison in California where the warden and other employees were charged with similar conduct. U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey for the Northern District of California, whose office prosecuted the case, said the sentence "makes clear that the sexual abuse of inmates by guards will not be tolerated.”
Authorities said there was no indication the incident was linked to terrorism and believed it to be an act of protest.
Hilary Farr is exiting the HGTV hit "Love It or List It" but says she plans to stay in touch with co-star David Visentin.
Naya Rivera's song Prayer for the Broken came out as a single in 2023, 11 years after it was recorded in 2011. Here's what to know.
Weight loss with Ozempic or Wegovy requires an injection, but Pfizer is developing a similar drug in pill form. What to know about side effects, approval.
A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages — an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law — to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the egg supply in the U.S. The jury ruled last week that the egg producers used various means to limit the domestic supply of eggs to increase the price of products during the 2000s. Court documents on the verdict were not readily available Friday evening, but statements from the manufacturers' attorney and one of the egg producers confirmed a total of about $17.7 million.
The United Nations Security Council voted Friday to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan. Russia abstained from the unanimous vote to end UNITAMS, the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan. The United States' and United Kingdom's ambassadors expressed dismay over the decision to pull out from Sudan but said the move was inevitable, given the Sudanese government's desire to end the mission's presence.
The House voted overwhelmingly to expel indicted Rep. indicted Rep. George Santos on Friday.
From "Love Actually," to "Dreamgirls," to "Rent," these winter movies have drama, romance and heartwarming energy to keep you cozy.
The company said the health regulator gave the new approval to the drug for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many of certain white blood cells. Jaypirca was first given accelerated approval by the FDA on Jan. 27 for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a rare type of blood cancer that starts in white blood cells and spreads to other parts of the body.
After a life of dieting, Amanda Rakoczy has finally found "food freedeom." In a TikTok video, she offers tips on how to be an "anti" almond mom.
Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager reacted to Linda Evangelista's candid reason for why she doesn't want to date.
Prosecutors say a man staged his wife's death 24 hours before they were expected to be evicted from their home to save himself from shame.
Venezuela’s government and a faction of the opposition have agreed on a process through which aspiring presidential candidates who were banned from running for office can attempt to get that decision reversed. The agreement, released late Thursday by negotiators from each side and the Norwegian diplomats guiding the dialogue, gives the candidates until Dec. 15 to challenge their ban — a tool the Venezuelan government has repeatedly used to sideline adversaries, including most recently against opposition leader and presidential candidate María Corina Machado. The deal is part of a broader agreement signed in October between a U.S.-backed opposition group and the government of Nicolás Maduro focused on electoral conditions ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
A retired Chilean soldier accused of torturing and killing beloved folk singer Victor Jara 50 years ago at the start of the country's military dictatorship, was extradited from the United States Friday to stand trial at home.Pedro Barrientos, 75, arrived in Chile after being expelled from the United States, where he had been living for 34 years.
A fellow inmate stabbed disgraced former police officer Derek Chauvin more than 20 times with a shiv, US prosecutors said Friday as they announced charges of attempted murder."Turscak stabbed another inmate, D.C., who had previously been convicted of federal crimes in another district, approximately 22 times with an improvised knife," a statement said.
Renewed fighting in Gaza stretched into a second day on Saturday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed and mediators said Israeli bombardments were complicating attempts to again pause hostilities. Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intense bombardment as the truce deadline lapsed shortly after dawn on Friday, with columns of smoke rising into the sky, Reuters journalists in the city said. By Friday evening, Gaza health officials said Israeli air strikes had killed 184 people, wounded at least 589 others and hit more than 20 houses.
Fans are commending Leslie Fhima for how she handled herself on the season finale of "The Golden Bachelor" after Gerry Turner broke up with her on the show.
Former President Donald Trump's attorney told a Fulton County court Friday that the Georgia election interference indictment against Trump "needs to be dismissed" on the grounds that it prosecutes conduct protected by the First Amendment. "You take the facts as alleged in the indictment ... and when you do that ... you find that it violates free speech, freedom of petitioning, all the expressions that the First Amendment is designed to protect," Trump's attorney Steve Sadow told the court.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An inmate was charged on Friday with attempted murder and other offenses following the stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. The complaint charges John Turscak, 52, with stabbing Chauvin about 22 times "with an improvised knife" on Nov. 24 while incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Tucson, prosecutors said. Turscak was charged with attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, according to prosecutors.
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