Two separate fatal incidents reported at Heavenly Mountain Resort near Lake Tahoe Friday morning, with victims from Michigan and California identified.

Rubio and the CIA chief will brief Congress o tensions with Iran just hours before Trump's State of the Union address as nuclear talks resume Thursday morning.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Texas' DEI ban in Houston, Katy and Plano school districts, impacting student clubs and diversity programs.

Gov. Tim Walz introduced a gun control package to the state legislature and made clear his desire for a tax on gun and ammunition sales. 

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A Wisconsin tourist shared her experiences of being stranded at Mexico's Punta Mita luxury resort region as cartel violence shuts down airports across the Mexico coast.

In a case that has stretched over several years, a federal judge has seemingly put a nail in the coffin of a major report, the release of which President Donald Trump has consistently opposed.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has served the Southern District of Florida since 2020, permanently barred the Department of Justice from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith's final report regarding Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Politico reported.

'Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing Volume II using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process.'

Trump's motion to bar the release of the special counsel's report — which Cannon previously determined Smith and his office had unlawfully prepared during the Biden administration — was granted in full on Monday.

"The Court has reviewed the Motions and the full record pertinent to the Motions, including the United States' position that 'Volume II should not be released outside of the Department of Justice' due to the unlawful appointment of Special Counsel Smith and Attorney General Bondi's deliberative-process determination. Fully advised in the premises, Trump's Unopposed Motion is GRANTED," the Trump appointee wrote in the ruling.

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Cannon's ruling on the "complex" case, which she said "generated close to 800 docket entries since the filing of the initial indictment in June 2023," will ostensibly put to rest the impending release of Volume II of Smith's report.

Following the order, the current Department of Justice and its successors are "enjoined from (a) releasing, sharing, or transmitting Volume II of the Final Report or any drafts of Volume II outside the Department of Justice, or (b) otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in Volume II or in drafts thereof."

However, a second motion filed by two co-defendants alongside Trump was rejected in part. This separate motion requested that Volume II be destroyed, but this request was denied.

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Erika Kirk, widow of assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, will attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union as his special guest.

Boomer Esiason took a swipe at US-born Olympian Eileen Gu, who abandoned her homeland to compete for China, calling her utterly insufferable.

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A former teacher's aide in Wisconsin has been sentenced to more than half a century in prison after her conviction of committing child sex crimes against four boys, according to authorities.

The Kenosha County District Attorney announced last week that Judge David Hughes sentenced 34-year-old Anna Marie Crocker to 51.5 years in prison and 32 years of extended supervision. Crocker — a mother of four — will not be eligible for release until she is approximately 85 years old.

'Her betrayal of trust, victim-blaming, and efforts to intimidate the victims only deepened the harm.'

In December, Crocker pleaded guilty to first-degree child sexual assault, child sexual exploitation (filming), second-degree sexual assault of a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, intimidation of a victim, and child enticement-sexual contact, according to WITI-TV.

Before being sentenced, Crocker claimed to have taken "full responsibility for what has taken place," WISN-TV reported.

"I am disturbed by the harm and distress, along with the trauma that you have to endure," Crocker continued. "I am deeply sorry that this has caused confusion, pain, and anger, and that you have to live with this the rest of your lives."

WISN reported that Judge Hughes said during sentencing, "She sought out children, she used children, and she took advantage of children."

Kenosha County Deputy District Attorney Rosa Delgado prosecuted the case and proclaimed, "Justice was served today for the four children this defendant groomed and sexually abused."

Delgado also declared, "Her betrayal of trust, victim-blaming, and efforts to intimidate the victims only deepened the harm."

Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis said in a statement, "This case represents a profound breach of trust."

Solis added, "When an adult connected to our schools exploits our children, the harm is severe and lasting."

As Blaze News reported in October 2024, officers with the Sensitive Crime Unit of the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department began an investigation into Crocker after she was suspected of sexual misconduct involving a "current and former student of the school."

At the time, Crocker had been a teaching assistant at Riverview Elementary School.

According to a criminal complaint, Crocker sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy in the winter of 2023-2024.

The victim told investigators that Crocker removed his pants and was on top of him and noted that she was "naked."

"She then began making him do things that she wanted," the complaint read.

According to the complaint, the victim repeatedly told Crocker "to get off of him, but she would not listen," and that he "also tried to push her off."

The criminal complaint stated that the victim told investigators that he was "scared and traumatized."

The complaint noted that the victim said Crocker told him to apologize for the sexual abuse and that she was trying to "make him feel guilty."

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A detective with the Twin Lakes Police Department interviewed a 13-year-old boy who "reported to a school staff member that he received inappropriate material and messages" from Crocker, the complaint stated.

The victim told police that he had received sexually explicit videos from Crocker, according to court documents.

Court docs said the second victim was "scared" about interacting with the educational assistant because the first victim, who is his friend, told him that Crocker raped him.

A 14-year-old male victim told police that he had been "exchanging sexual chats and pictures via Snapchat with the defendant," according to the criminal complaint.

The court documents said the victim told investigators that Crocker "sexually assaulted him in a parking lot in Racine County in August of 2024."

Detectives searched Crocker's Snapchat and discovered a conversation between her and a 16-year-old that the former school staffer made sexual, according to the complaint.

Court docs noted that the boy's younger brother is "friends with the defendant’s son," and Crocker told the victim not to tell his younger brother "about them having sex, if it were to happen."

The teen said Crocker "sent him pictures in which sex was 'inferred,'" according to court records.

The court docs said the victim told police that Crocker "wanted to have sex with him at her residence and that they agreed upon a day, but that he never went through with it."

The criminal complaint said Crocker invited the boy to her home on Oct. 11, 2024, even though the underage victim divulged his age.

WITI reported that Crocker was taken into custody on Oct. 11, 2024.

According to WISN, the school board terminated Crocker on Oct. 14, 2024.

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John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, issued a statement Monday after an involuntary tic caused him to shout a racial slur during the BAFTA Film Awards broadcast.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa thanked Vladimir Putin after 17 South African men who were "lured" to fight in Russia’s war against Ukraine began returning home.

Tuesday night's State of the Union address will give President Donald Trump a pivotal opportunity to lay out his accomplishments over the past 13 months, especially his economic progress.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) held military drills on Tuesday, reportedly including tests for new weapons, even as top military official Ali Larijani was preparing to deliver Iran’s latest response in negotiations with the United States, and President Donald Trump was preparing to deliver his State of the Union (SOTU) address.

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Tuesday on CNN's "News Central," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has "got to go."

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Louvre director Laurence des Cars resigns after thieves stole $102 million in crown jewels. Macron praised her decision as "an act of responsibility."

The U.S. Department of the Treasury had previously identified and sanctioned the exclusive resort cabins in Jalisco where the terrorist leader Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes had been hiding. The revelation highlights the impunity with which the drug boss operated in Mexico, where he felt safe staying in an area that had been identified by authorities since 2020.

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