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Air Force master sergeant admits to rigging bids, bribing official dubbed ‘Godfather’

A former U.S. Air Force master sergeant has pleaded guilty to fraudulently inflating information technology contracts for the U.S. Pacific Air Forces by at least $37 million, using the excess funds to enrich himself, benefit co-conspirators, and channel bribes to a federal public official known to the group as "Godfather," the Justice Department announced.

April 2, 2026

DOJ charges rappers Pooh Shiesty, Big30 in Gucci Mane kidnapping case

Rapper Pooh Shiesty and fellow Memphis artist Big30 are among nine people federally charged in connection with an alleged armed kidnapping and robbery of Atlanta rap star Gucci Mane at a Dallas recording studio, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

April 2, 2026

N.J. man charged in no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme topping tens of millions of dollars

A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with running an elaborate no-fault insurance fraud scheme that submitted tens of millions of dollars in bogus medical claims against New York automobile insurers, federal prosecutors announced.

April 2, 2026

No, Trump isn’t hitting his deportation numbers — here’s the plan to change that

A coalition of pro-Trump immigration groups is calling on President Trump to dramatically escalate deportation efforts -- targeting employers who hire undocumented workers and using the IRS to track migrants working under stolen Social Security numbers.

April 2, 2026

Chinese scientists lose U.S. citizenship after hospital trade secret theft convictions

A federal judge has revoked the U.S. citizenship of a Chinese husband-and-wife research scientist duo who stole medical trade secrets from a children's hospital and sold them to benefit a company they secretly established, the Justice Department announced.

April 2, 2026

Who is Todd Blanche, the new acting attorney general?

President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, and Todd Blanche, her deputy, will serve as acting attorney general, according to a person familiar with the decision.

April 2, 2026

N.C. man pleads guilty in fake rental ad scheme that netted $6.8M

A North Carolina man pleaded guilty to running a nationwide online rental-ad scheme that prosecutors said steered prospective renters to his credit-monitoring websites and automatically enrolled many of them in paid monthly memberships.

April 2, 2026

Christina Marie Plante, missing since 1994, found alive after 32 years

Christina Marie Plante disappeared from Star Valley, a small community in a mountainous area northeast of Phoenix, in 1994.

April 2, 2026

National Burrito Day deals 2026: Free burritos at Chipotle, Moe’s and more

Thursday is National Burrito Day, and several major restaurant chains are marking the occasion with buy-one-get-one offers, discounts and freebies.

April 2, 2026

Carville on Trump: Dems will target your family once midterms are over

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville predicted Tuesday that Democrats will launch sweeping investigations into President Trump, his children and their spouses if the party retakes Congress in the November midterms.

April 2, 2026

Colbert mocks Trump’s 22% ‘strongly approve’ base: ‘Who are you?’

Stephen Colbert used Tuesday's monologue on CBS' "The Late Show" to question the roughly 1 in 5 Americans who say they strongly support President Trump, riffing on new poll data showing the president's approval rating at a second-term low

April 2, 2026

‘Bob’s Burgers’ star Eugene Mirman pulled from fiery New Hampshire crash

Eugene Mirman, the voice actor best known for playing Gene Belcher on the long-running animated Fox comedy "Bob's Burgers," was hospitalized with serious injuries Tuesday after his electric vehicle struck a New Hampshire toll plaza and caught fire.

April 2, 2026

Trump eyes replacing Attorney General Bondi with EPA chief Zeldin amid Epstein furor

President Trump has discussed replacing Attorney General Pam Bondi with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

April 2, 2026

5 questions about the cold case linking Ted Bundy to a 1974 Utah teen’s murder

New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime to serial killer Ted Bundy, the Utah sheriff's office announced Wednesday.

April 2, 2026

AI singer “Eddie Dalton” behind “Another Day Old” holds iTunes No. 1 — but he doesn’t exist

A mysterious blues singer named Eddie Dalton has taken the iTunes charts by storm with a string of viral hits, but the "artist" behind the music is entirely artificial.

April 1, 2026

Actor Billy Porter says Trump era drying up work for Black, queer artists

Actor Billy Porter said opportunities for Black and queer artists are diminishing under President Trump's administration, making his case at a high-profile Kennedy Center protest on the eve of the massive nationwide No Kings demonstrations.

April 1, 2026

Cost concerns now rival fear of diagnosis as cancer screening barrier, according to survey

Nearly three-quarters of American adults are behind on at least one routine cancer screening, and a growing share say the reason is money, according to new survey data released Tuesday by the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

April 1, 2026

‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ opens to mixed reviews as critics pan story, fans cheer spectacle

"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" hit theaters Wednesday to a familiar split: Mainstream film critics largely panned the animated sequel as a noisy, hollow exercise in fan service, while gaming-focused outlets and audiences offered far warmer receptions.

April 1, 2026

Arkansas man pleads guilty to insider trading on Idaho company acquisition tip

An Arkansas man has pleaded guilty to securities fraud after trading on material, nonpublic information that he misappropriated from a senior executive at a publicly traded company headquartered in Idaho, the Justice Department announced.

April 1, 2026

Missouri man ordered to pay $140M in timeshare exit fraud case

A federal judge has ordered a Missouri man to pay more than $140 million in damages and penalties for his role in running an unlawful timeshare exit scheme that affected more than 11,000 consumers.

April 1, 2026