Bureau of Prisons ordered to restore its union's contract

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate a collective bargaining agreement with the agency's union after the bureau's director abruptly terminated it last year.

• Sep 29

Backpack voted Fat Bear Week 2026 winner, beating former champ's offspring

Voters were split between bear 910 and 89 Backpack in the final round of the weeklong contest to see who is the chunkiest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

• Sep 29

Hegseth directs military academies to stop giving tenure to civilian professors

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered institutions like the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis to stop granting tenure to civilian faculty, in his latest change to military higher education.

• Sep 29

Transcript shows campus police's interview with Jane Doe in Cornell rape case

We're getting new insight into how Cornell University Police handled the case of an alleged fraternity gang rape back in 2024.

• Sep 30

Data centers are changing America's landscape, report says

Hundreds of data centers are sprouting up across the U.S. over farmland, shrubland and forest, with thousands more on the way, according to the Washington Post.

• Sep 29

Attorney says there's "no evidence" Lindsay Clancy admitted killing her kids

In a surprising turn in Lindsay Clancy's first hearing since her mistrial in early September, her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, argued that there was no evidence she killed her kids.

• Sep 29

2 indicted in connection with counterfeit Ozempic scheme in Florida

Two Indian citizens are accused of smuggling counterfeit Ozempic​ to distributors in the U.S. at discounted prices.

• Sep 29

Former "American Idol" contestant Caleb Flynn found guilty in wife's murder

Flynn was found guilty of killing his wife, Ashley, in February and attempting to blame the murder on a break-in at their home.

• Sep 29

Supreme Court revives Trump's third-country deportation policy for now

The Supreme Court said in an unsigned order it will hear arguments in the challenge to the Trump administration's third-country-removal policy in December.

• Sep 29

Thune to ramp up midterm campaign stops as GOP defends Senate majority

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is set to travel to states with key Senate races in the coming weeks as the GOP fights to hold on to its majority in the upper chamber.

• Sep 29

Sam Altman unveils "dots," OpenAI's new AI personal agent

OpenAI says its new agent can schedule meetings, make travel arrangements, debug computer systems and handle other workplace tasks.

• Sep 29

Tennessee cancels executions after Christa Pike survives botched injection

Tennessee canceled its remaining scheduled execution this year after Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, survived two doses of a botched lethal injection. A witness said she was "clearly very alive."

• Oct 1

New York Times exec dies in California shooting; elderly in-laws accused of murder

An elderly couple in the San Francisco Bay Area is suspected of shooting and killing their son-in-law in the parking lot of a community park over the weekend.

• Sep 29

Feds charge man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer

Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer.

• Sep 29

Maps show where floods threaten 100 million in U.S. after Polo slams Mexico

Former Hurricane Polo is expected to bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the southern and midwestern United States.

• Sep 30

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