A report published Wednesday offers new insight into how gangs in Haiti backed by political and economic actors operate in a country preparing for its first general elections in more than 10 years.

An Ohio political blogger who spent 23 hours in jail after texting a state senator a profane altered image of the cartoon ogre Shrek is scheduled to stand trial Thursday on a misdemeanor harassment charge.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said “threatening” protests against the Supreme Court are part of a campaign to try to intimidate the justices, and he lamented the fact that neither the Biden Justice Department nor local prosecutors attempted to charge those who engaged in the demonstrations.

Tornado activity in the U.S. is shifting east, away from the Great Plains and toward the South, where many of the people most at risk live in mobile homes, according to a new analysis.

Federal authorities said Wednesday that they derailed a plot by a man who pledged loyalty to ISIS and had planned a mass shooting attack on the Mall of America in Minnesota.