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More than 250 law enforcement officials, including the U.S. Marshals, have joined the Texas manhunt for a gunman who fatally shot five neighbors late Friday. But the search for the suspect, 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, has come up empty despite the additional manpower, scent-tracking dogs and a total of $80,000 in reward money. On Monday, a heavy presence of police converged in a neighboring area where the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reported a possible sighting, but later said none of the persons were found to be Oropeza. Police have recovered the AR-15-style rifle that they say Or...

A court in Russia has convicted a woman from a Siberian city over social media posts condemning the war in Ukraine and punished her with a steep fine even though both she and the prosecution had asked for a prison sentence. Marina Novikova was found guilty on Friday of “spreading false information” about the Russian army. That was made a criminal offense after Russian troops entered Ukraine last year. Novikova’s social media posts decried the invasion and criticized the Russian government. Russian human rights group OVD-Info says the court fined Novikova over $12,000. Novikova had pleade...

Montana Republican leaders have voted to bar a transgender state lawmaker from the House floor in retaliation for rebuking colleagues – and then participating in protests – after they voted to ban gender-affirming care for children. The decision Wednesday has brought the nationwide debate over protest’s role in democracy to Montana, where lawmakers punished Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr for voicing dissent on Wednesday. Earlier in the week a protest in support of her actions disrupted the House session. Similar to recent events in the Tennessee Statehouse, there has been a firestorm of de...

A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular with gamers.

The coverup is worse than the crime, the expression goes. And in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump, prosecutors say the coverup made the crime worse.