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 …

Colombia’s largest criminal group said Tuesday it has accepted President Gustavo Petro’s offer to start peace negotiations, but the next steps in any talks were not immediately clear. The Gaitanista Self Defense Forces of Colombia — called the Gulf Clan by Colombia’s government — has been described by analysts as a threat to Petro’s ongoing efforts to broker peace deals …

Returns to standardized testing have some students riddled with anxiety and confusion during the college admissions process, leaving them to wonder whether they should take a crack at the SAT and ACT or forego testing altogether. A recent Washington Post report uncovered that anxiety among some parents and students as the post-pandemic age attempts its return to some semblance of …

A federal judge in Illinois has found that the Constitution protects the gun rights of noncitizens who enter the United States illegally. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman on Friday ruled that a federal prohibition on illegal immigrants owning firearms is unconstitutional as applied to defendant Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. The court found that while the federal ban is “facially constitutional,” there …

Parts of Haiti – including an area outside the U.S. embassy – have now plunged into darkness following attacks by vandals on a power plant and four power substations in Port-au-Prince, the country’s national utility says. Électricité D’Haïti (EDH) said in a statement on X that “several of the company’s premises were sabotaged,” numerous materials were damaged and documents were …

Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxes. The …

President Bidenis reportedly becoming increasingly frustrated and worried over his re-election efforts. Biden began to “shout and swear” in a January meeting when informed that his poll numbers had dipped in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, a lawmaker familiar with the situation told NBC News. Biden’s alleged outburst came as he …

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. …

March 19 is the Feast of St. Joseph — also known as St. Joseph’s Day. The day celebrates the life of St. Joseph, “the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, foster father of Jesus Christ, and patron of the universal Catholic Church,” Fr. Angelo N. Carusi told Fox News Digital. Carusi is pastor at St. Rocco’s Church in Johnston, Rhode …

The parents of four students who were murdered in the 2021 Oxford High School shooting are now calling for the school to be held accountable for its actions — or lack thereof — before, during and after the massacre. The push for school accountability comes after two Michigan juries found Jennifer and James Crumbley, parents of school shooter Ethan Crumbley, …