Eric Lander is the last of the Cabinet nominees who hasn’t been confirmed. His time at Harvard, where he met the convicted sex offender, is part of the reason why.

One of the two alternate jurors who watched the entire murder trial of Derek Chauvin but did not participate in the deliberations said she was happy with the jury’s decision to convict the ex-Minneapolis cop for murdering George Floyd.

Turkish prosecutors on Thursday launched an investigation after the Istanbul-based founder of a cryptocurrency exchange froze trading and fled the country with a reported $2 billion in investors' assets. Reports said the website and the entire exchange...

The talks had stalled after Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on the makeup of the committee and its investigative scope.

"Dr. Tobin was the one that really did it for me," Lisa Christensen said Thursday, referring to testimony from Dr. Martin Tobin, a world-renowned expert on breathing.

Though Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said all temporarily deployed troops would withdraw by May 1, Ukraine has observed that some of these forces were relocated permanently.