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Brian Schwalb, the Democratic attorney general in Washington, D.C., has dropped charges against Gold Star father Steve Nikoui for disrupting Congress during President Biden’s State of the Union speech earlier this month.Nikoui is the father of Kareem Nikoui who was killed during the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Sources told Fox News the DC AG’s office decided …

A Georgia couple was arrested after being found asleep on a Florida beach, with their children nowhere to be found, authorities said. An anonymous caller in Daytona Beach reported the couple to 911 on Saturday, and it took a Volusia Sheriffs Office deputy multiple attempts to wake the two up, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital. …

Medicaid recipients in Wisconsin will have access to the first over-the-counter birth control pill starting Tuesday, allowing them to easily receive contraceptive medication with no out-of-pocket costs or doctor’s prescription, Gov. Tony Evers announced. Evers, a Democrat, promised in his State of the State speech in January that Opill would be available to people in the state’s Medicaid program known …

A Georgia man should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled and feels remorse for killing his former girlfriend three decades ago, his lawyers wrote in seeking clemency for him. Willie James Pye, 59, is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday using the sedative pentobarbital in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years. …

A Zanesville, Ohio woman who needed to look up how to load a gun before shooting herself and faking a home invasion to cover up a murder in August 2023, has pleaded guilty to several crimes. The Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release on Monday that 36-year-old Deborah L. Frazier pleaded guilty to murder with a firearm, …

Former U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie (Ret.) argued that the decision to authorize a non-combatant evacuation during the final days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan came too late during testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday. McKenzie, who was in command of all U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the war’s final days noted …

A student at Alabama A&M University was injured in a shootout with a campus police officer in a dorm stairwell on Monday, authorities said. The shooting happened in the stairwell of a campus residence hall during a routine security check and was “contained within minutes,” according to the university and state law enforcement. “Earlier today, there was an officer-involved shooting …

Alaska lawmakers on Monday failed to override Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of an education package, just weeks after the bill that sought to boost spending on public schools overwhelmingly passed the Legislature. Monday’s vote during a joint session of the House and Senate was 39-20, falling just short of the 40 votes needed for an override. Dunleavy, a former …

An Ohio mother has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to the murder of her 16-month-old daughter, who prosecutors say was left home alone for 10 days in a playpen while her mother vacationed in Detroit and Puerto Rico. Kristel Candelario, 32, said in a sentencing hearing Monday that “God and my …

Mexico came out Tuesday against Texas’ immigration law that allows for the arrest of people suspected of illegally crossing the southern border following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, saying it won’t accept the return of its citizens from the Lone Star state. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said SB 4 criminalizes migrants, encourages the separation of families and racial discrimination and profiling. …