Senate Judiciary wrapped: Blue slips, judicial threats, slowing nominations top committee docket for 2025
WASHINGTON (CN) — As he returned to the White House in January, President Donald Trump was once again presented with an opportunity to fill the federal judiciary with like-minded judges and prosecutors — an opening seemingly widened by Republicans’ control of the...
Camp Mystic’s reopening plans in Texas have drawn outrage, but some families want to return
(AP) — Patrick Hotze’s three daughters made it home safe from Camp Mystic after July’s catastrophic floods that killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors. He attended some of the funerals and says he understands the outrage over the Texas camp’s plan to partially...
Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human...
Yemen’s sides agree to release 2,900 detainees in war’s largest exchange
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels have reached an agreement to free 2,900 detainees in the largest swap during the 11-year civil war, according to Saudi and Houthi officials. Saudi Ambassador Mohamed...
How Seuk Kim’s tragic plane crash built a volunteer army of pet rescuers
BRANDY STATION, Va. (AP) — On a sparkling late-fall Sunday at a rural Virginia airfield, 16 careworn passengers were getting off a flight that changed, even saved, their lives. Some looked bemused, some wary, some enthusiastic as they were carried off a small private...
Mexican Navy medical flight lost communication for several minutes before Texas crash
(AP) — Air traffic controllers lost communication for about 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane carrying a young medical patient and seven others before it crashed off the Texas coast, killing at least five people, Mexico’s president said Tuesday....
Gaza’s tiny Christian community tries to capture the holiday spirit during the ceasefire
(AP) — Attallah Tarazi recently received Christmas presents that included socks and a scarf to shield him against the Gaza winter, and he joined some fellow Palestinian Christians in a round of hymns. “Christ is born,” the group sang in Arabic. “Hallelujah.” The...
Congresswoman sues over Trump’s Kennedy Center rebrand
WASHINGTON (CN) — An Ohio Democrat is calling for a federal court to reverse the Kennedy Center’s controversial decision to add President Donald Trump’s name to the Washington performance hall that also serves as a memorial to the assassinated 35th president. In a...
Slender Man stabber loses conditional release after escape
WAUKESHA, Wis. (CN) — Morgan Geyser, who stabbed her best friend 19 times in 2014 to appease the horror character Slender Man, was recommitted to a mental health facility on Tuesday after she ran away from a group home in November. Geyser, 23, had been incarcerated at...