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A royal commentator has reminded Meghan Markle a bitter truth about her and Prince Harry’s popularity, influence and reputation, saying ‘people are only interested in the Duke’, not in her. The Duchess of Sussex, according to a royal biographer, forgets that people love to see her husband Harry, who’s youngest …

COLUMBIA, S.C.—An appeals court in South Carolina is allowing Alex Murdaugh to ask a judge to throw out his murder convictions and life sentence and get a new trial after his lawyers accused the court clerk in his trial of influencing the jury. The one-paragraph decision Tuesday could open the …

DENVER—Colorado’s highest court on Monday upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history to identify suspects in a 2020 fatal arson fire, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people’s privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. However, the Colorado Supreme …

New York—A former New York stock broker who fled his job and family to fight alongside ISIS terrorists in Syria, then maintained his allegiance to the terrorist group throughout his trial, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, who served as a sniper and instructor for …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Two brothers and another man are facing federal charges following a kidnapping that took some bizarre twists, including an attempted waterboarding when they tried to make the victim help them lure the intended target, federal officials said Tuesday. The suspects kidnapped the man at gunpoint outside his apartment …

HOLYOKE, Mass.—Two more people have been charged in connection with a shooting investigation in Holyoke, Massachusetts, during which a pregnant woman on a bus was hit by gunfire and delivered a baby that later died. On Monday, Jay Marie Rosado-Rosario, 29, was arraigned on a charge of accessory after the …

RAYMOND, Miss.—Mississippi’s largest county is no longer using a section of its jail that has been plagued by fights, escapes and other security problems. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said Monday that 200 inmates were transferred last week from Pod A at the Raymond Detention Center to the Tallahatchie County …

SAVANNAH, Ga.—A Georgia man was left reeling after receiving a $1.4 million speeding ticket, but city officials say the figure was just a placeholder, not the actual fine. Connor Cato tells WSAV-TV in Savannah that he received the citation after getting pulled over in September for driving 90 mph (145 …

The release of the latest quarterly fundraising figures for 2024 presidential hopefuls has led to a now-familiar dynamic: people associated with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy battling those associated with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, as both men fight to occupy the narrowing lane for a non-Trump candidate while sounding like the voice …

U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some “tough questions ” during their planned meeting scheduled for Oct. 18 after flying into Tel Aviv in the midst of the Israel–Hamas conflict, according to a White House national security spokesman. The meeting comes just one …