Maricopa County, Arizona, defendants in a lawsuit filed by former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake are looking to sanction Lake and her attorneys over the suit she filed challenging the integrity of the governor’s election.  The motion, which was joined by Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, comes shortly after a judge threw …

Many of the nation’s lowest-paid workers are set to get a raise. The minimum wage is increasing on New Year’s Day in 41 cities — 28 of them in California — and 23 states. Later in 2023, another five states and 22 cities and counties will hike their baseline rate, …

Sam Bankman-Fried arrived at a courthouse in the Bahamas early Monday and is expected to tell a judge he will not fight extradition to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal and civil charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The decision comes just a week after Bankman-Fried’s …

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a Connecticut college basketball player who was found fatally shot this weekend at a nature preserve in central New Jersey, authorities said. The athlete, identified as 20-year-old Phillip Urban of the nearby township Manapalan, was found “slumped over” in the driver’s seat of …

As Dr. Anthony Fauci prepares to step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of the year, the leading immunologist faced derision on social media over the weekend from tech billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted …

A delivery driver suspected in the murder of a 7-year-old girl in North Texas told investigators that he accidentally struck her with his van prior to strangling her, according to an arrest warrant. The suspect, 31-year-old Tanner Lynn Horner, told Wise County Sheriff’s detectives that he was backing up a …

Hertz said it will pay roughly $168 million by the end of the year to settle the majority of the lawsuits brought against the rental car company by some of its customers who were wrongly accused of stealing cars they had rented. In April Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr, who took …

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday issued a terror threat bulletin warning that domestic extremists have posted online praise for the fatal shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado earlier this month.  “We have observed actors on forums known to post racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist content praising …

An emotionally shaken family member of the three people allegedly murdered last week by a man who abducted a 15-year-old he had met online warned that the tragedy is a cautionary tale for parents.  “Catfishing led to the deaths of the three most important people in my life — my dad, my …

The driver of an SUV that crashed into Los Angeles County law enforcement recruits on a training run last week fell asleep at the wheel while driving to work, his attorney told a newspaper Monday. Attorney Alexandra Kazarian told the Los Angeles Times Nicholas Gutierrez, 22, was on his way …