Three House committees are working together to investigate IRS whistleblower claims around an investigation into Hunter Biden. The whistleblower alleges the Justice Department interfered in a criminal tax investigation. The House committees are demanding transcribed interviews from lawyers and agents that worked on Hunter Biden’s case. The U.S. Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in…

Three House committees are working together to investigate IRS whistleblower claims around an investigation into Hunter Biden. The whistleblower alleges the Justice Department interfered in a criminal tax investigation. The House committees are demanding transcribed interviews from lawyers and agents that worked on Hunter Biden’s case. The U.S. Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Jury selection in the trial of a former sheriff’s deputy charged with failing to confront the killer of 14 students and three staff members at a Florida high school five years ago got off to a speedy start Wednesday, with the preliminary round concluding in just one day. Circuit Judge Martin Fein had…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A fired Florida sheriff’s deputy charged with failing to confront the gunman who murdered 17 at a Parkland high school five years ago said Monday that he is “looking forward” to his trial, which is scheduled to start next week. Former Broward County sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson told reporters after a court hearing…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The judge who oversaw the sentencing of the Parkland massacre gunman was removed from another death penalty murder case Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court, which agreed she showed unfair sympathy for prosecutors in the Parkland school shooting case. The court removed Judge Elizabeth Scherer from overseeing any post-conviction proceedings for Randy Tundidor, who…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The superintendent of Florida’s second-largest school district was fired after a late-night motion from a board member appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis following a grand jury report into the Parkland school shooting. The board voted 5–4 to dismiss Broward Schools Superintendent Vickie Cartwright, who has held the position since summer 2021, after…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without parole Wednesday after families of his 17 slain victims spent two days berating him as evil, a coward, a monster and a subhuman. Cruz, shackled and in a red jail jumpsuit, watched Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer as she pronounced 34 consecutive…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered cursed him to hell, wished him a painful death and called him a coward Tuesday as they got their one chance to address him directly before he is sentenced to life in prison. For hours, parents, wives, siblings, children,…

A female juror in the Parkland, Florida, shooting case was threatened during deliberations on Oct. 13, according to a new court filing. The unnamed juror, identified in the filings as “Juror X,” called prosecutors on Thursday afternoon and said that while deliberations were happening, “she received what she perceived to be a threat from a…

A jury recommends life in prison for the Parkland school shooter. He pleaded guilty to 17 murders and 17 attempted murders during the 2018 shooting in Florida. The jury was deliberating between the death penalty and life imprisonment without parole. Saudi Arabia, accusing the White House of distorting the facts. The kingdom, giving its view of…