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Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who lied to police about seeing a toddler on a busy interstate, then faking her own kidnapping, has avoided jail and was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty on Thursday.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the last two of six White ex-law enforcement officers in Mississippi to lengthy prison terms for their torture of two Black men last year, a racist assault that reignited demands for broader police accountability.

A Spokane bank manager admitted Thursday to stealing at least $345,000 from her employer.

Post Falls police are investigating a potential “murder-suicide” after officers found two people dead inside a residence Thursday.

A white supremacist prison escapee and his accomplice suspected of coordinating a violent ambush outside a Boise hospital may be connected to two killings in North Idaho after police found prison shackles at the scene.

A 17-year-old girl testified Thursday that a North Central High School teacher inappropriately touched her and looked at her nude photos on her phone.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. government this week began airlifting stranded Americans out of the Haitian capital, as the gang violence racking this city showed no signs of abating and an already dire humanitarian crisis worsened. It is uncertain how long the airlifts will last.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. School districts across Idaho will soon receive hundreds of millions of dollars to help repair and replace their aging buildings, thanks to a bill that cleared its final hurdle in the Idaho Senate on ...

When former president Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group and its proposed merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, announced last month a shareholder vote on their long-delayed deal, it marked a final step for the owner of Truth Social to become a public company potentially worth billions of dollars - most of which is owned by Trump himself.

Stumpy, a hollow cherry tree located on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, has become a local celebrity - boosted even more in recent days by news that its time is running out. The stump-shaped tree will be removed during construction of a new sea wall on the south side of the Tidal Basin that begins this spring.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple alleging that the technology giant attempted to monopolize the smartphone market to boost its business.

Large grocery retailers’ annual profits rose during the Covid-19 pandemic and have remained elevated in the years since, which warrants deeper scrutiny, according to a report released by the Federal Trade Commission.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testified Thursday at a congressional hearing that presaged a partisan battle over tax policy in the coming election, with sweeping reductions set to expire at the end of next year.