A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent. Swalwell did not respond to any of the former staffer’s specific allegations, made in a series of interviews with the Chronicle, and provided a statement Frida

Following October 2025 agreement, attacks continue, aid is insufficient and regional conflicts deepen instability.

A right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge.

Chatter around Chatham-Kent, Ont., has been centred on a large furry being, reportedly making stops across the community. The Bigfoot Mapping Project, a database for reported Bigfoot sightings, shows sightings in Thamesville, Dresden, and Raglan over the past week. When asked about the reports on Wednesday, Tom Chalmers, an area resident, had a little chuckle. “So, I’ve heard and seen a lot of odd things, but no, Bigfoot has not been one of them, I’m afraid,” Chalmers said. Across social media, posts about a supposed Chatham-Kent sasquatch have generated a lot of buzz, but not everyone is skeptical. “Everything is possible,” Mike Oulds told CTV News.

The Dorval Library in Quebec is inclusive and welcomes all book lovers. For a few years now, one particular visitor has been stopping by every day, and he’s earned himself a special membership card. His nickname is Muffin. He’s five, and he loves the library. Peter and Janet Bjorn live nearby and have a very sociable cat. Sitting in the lobby with his cat, Peter said, “About ten people have come in, so they just go by and say, ‘Hi, Muffin.’ And I ask if they knew him, and they said Muffin is always here.” He’s a regular: part greeter, part ambassador.

A man suspected of starting a massive fire at an Ontario warehouse earlier this week is due in court Thursday. The suspect, 29-year-old Highland resident Chamel Abdulkarim, is set to make his first appearance before a judge at the San Bernardino County Superior Court, where he’ll be arraigned on two felony arson charges. Investigators said Abdulkarim not only started the fire, but he also posted a video of himself allegedly starting it. “There goes your inventory. All you had to do was pay us enough to live,” a man could be heard saying in a video posted to the suspect’s social media accounts, which appears to show him in the moments before he allegedly set pallets of paper towels on fire inside the massive South Hellman Avenue warehouse early Tuesday morning.

The proposed timetable for automatic military draft registration came weeks after the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran. The Selective Service System plans to automatically register eligible American men between ages 18 and 26 for a U.S. military draft by the end of 2026.

'It’s a crime of opportunity where not only has he got her alone, he’s got a gun and a badge in a police car'

Courtney Williams was named in a magazine article and a book that included details of her allegations of being harassed and retaliated against while working for a covert Army unit.

The parking garage was under construction at 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue across the street from the Grays Ferry Shopping Center.

Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back. (I swear it's a good read! -ed)

Israel’s army says it carries out the largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since its renewed war on the country.

Los Angeles County is experiencing a record number of flea-borne typhus cases, and nearly 90% of patients have had to be hospitalized.

In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture. “America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.” As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will. [UPDATE at 3:15 PM EDT: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Some officials in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.]

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts deeper into space than any human beings have gone before. It revealed what’s still possible, in every sense.

A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

The proprietors of a now-shuttered Southwest Missouri boarding school are facing a new lawsuit by a former student alleging trafficking across several states, coerced labor, isolation and sexualized punishment while she was underage. The lawsuit was filed last week in the Western District of Missouri Southern Division court by Javairia Yankowy, who says she spent four years at Wings of Faith Academy after being placed in the custody of the school’s owners, Debbie and Percy “Bud” Martin. The lawsuit alleges the couple trafficked Yankowy while running Wings of Faith, which operated alongside Agape Boarding School, another Southwest Missouri Christian boarding school that has faced extensive abuse allegations.

President Trump's budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists. The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September. Though public opposition to ICE succeeded at forcing the administration to back down in Minnesota — even firing both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino — the FBI is doubling down its domestic terrorism obsession. Now, Trump’s budget request reveals, the FBI runs a dedicated “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center”; with personnel from 10 federal agencies, it is busy “proactively” identifying domestic terrorists motivated by any of the following beliefs: “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” “anti-Christianity,” “support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government,” “extremism on migration,” extremism on “race,” extremism on “gender,” “Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,” Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on “religion,” and Hostility towards those who hold traditional views on “morality.”

Frantic diplomacy collides with 'genocidal' threats in lead-up to announcement of two-week ceasefire between US, Iran.

Sensitive LAPD records, including officer personnel files and documents from Internal Affairs investigations, are among the materials believed to have been seized in a breach last month involving the L.A. city attorney’s office.