Felix Baumgartner, who once broke the world record for the highest skydive by jumping from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. The 56-year-old fell to the ground near the swimming pool of a hotel while flying over the village of Porto Sant'Elpidio in the eastern Marche region.

Maurene Comey, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was fired from the US attorney’s office this week, has prosecuted a number of high-profile cases and followed in her father’s, James Comey, footsteps with her work at the Southern District of New York.

An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s so-called sanctuary state law.

Career criminal Avon Long, 79, received a 32-years-to-life prison sentence for barging into the octogenarian’s apartment where he forced himself on top of her and covered her mouth during a sickening sexual assault that lasted for more than an hour nearly two years ago.

Researchers found that lenacapavir reduced almost 100% reduction new HIV infections among participants who received it as a twice-yearly injectable.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.

The yet-unidentified woman was discovered floating in the river, just off Canal and West streets, around 7:50 p.m., police said.

North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Josh Stein decided Wednesday against appealing a trial court ruling that did not go in his favor last month, securing a small victory for Republican lawmakers whom the governor was challenging.

Parliament approved Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine's new prime minister on Thursday and backed her plan to cut the number of ministries, merging some of the main portfolios, to save funds in wartime.

After eight years in a psychiatric institution, 22-year-old Morgan Geyser will be released after her involvement in the 2014 "Slender Man" attack that shocked Wisconsin.