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A father-son duo in California allegedly kidnapped a pair of U.S. forest service workers, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said in a press conference. Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and his son Phoenix Henrichsen allegedly took the two federal workers hostage inside a trailer in a rural area near Mt. Shasta.The FBI deployed a hostage negotiator from Quantico to coordinate with local authorities. The authorities negotiated the hostages' release after hours of talks […]

Federal employees can now download TikTok onto their government devices after a yearslong ban, according to a memo from the Department of Justice.This reversal comes after ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, transferred control of the app's U.S. user data and operations to TikTok U.S. Data Security (TikTok USDS), a majority American-owned joint venture. The deal was finalized in January.A 2022 law banned federal workers from having TikTok on government devices […]

Palm Beach County authorities are asking women to come forward if they’ve had encounters with a Florida man who allegedly met victims through online dating platforms.The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office made the request on July 14, five months after responding to a sexual battery investigation at a Florida hospital. The victim said she’d met her alleged attacker, Stephen Hakim, on Hinge. Detectives later matched Hakim’s DNA to specimens found […]

Nearly 22 years after Scott Peterson was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife, his legal team says "new evidence" could help overturn his conviction.The 53-year-old's attorneys with the Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) say they've uncovered what they argue is new evidence that could undermine one of America's most infamous murder convictions. They detail their findings in A&E's new two-part docuseries, "Scott Peterson: The New Evidence.""When you initially have […]

A Texas dentist has been arrested after investigators found a 4-year-old girl died from a toxic dose of an opioid following what was supposed to be a routine dental procedure, with officials alleging the child's distress went unrecognized until it was too late.Dr. Chrishelle Hemphill, 48, was arrested Wednesday and is charged with recklessly causing serious bodily injury to a child, a second-degree felony, after investigators claimed her actions during […]

DNA from a Florida woman has been positively linked to the genetic material of a monstrous 13-foot alligator captured after a fatal river attack last month, wildlife officials confirmed.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC), laboratory testing confirmed DNA from Brittany Clark, 31, matched a 13-foot alligator captured after the deadly attack on the Econlockhatchee River on June 28.Clark, of Orlando, was swimming near the Barr Street Trailhead in the Little […]

A Rikers Island inmate convicted by a jury on felony gun charges was among those rewarded with a FIFA World Cup watch party attended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, court records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.Thomas McCoy, 52, of Brooklyn, was among the inmates interviewed during Wednesday's England-Argentina semifinal watch party, telling The Associated Press he had been incarcerated for 21 months and that it was the […]

Tyler Robinson's father was back running his local business days after standing beside his son in court, where prosecutors laid out a mountain of explosive evidence at last week's preliminary hearing, according to a report.Matthew Robinson has stood by his son through the court proceedings and was the one who helped turn him in to police after he allegedly confessed to killing conservative icon Charlie Kirk. While the father has […]

The security guard who reportedly failed to keep the TODAY show intruder out of the studio has been fired.Page Six reports intruder suspect Andrew Truelove was able to slip past two security guards with surveillance video capturing the oversight. One guard stepped away while the other "missed the intruder," as he walked in.Police say Truelove broke into the TODAY show studio in New York City on Thursday searching for Al […]