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The son of one of the longest serving Republicans in Congress faces child pornography and other serious charges after allegedly engaging in inappropriate conduct with a 15-year-old girl in Florida.The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said 38-year-old Patrick Rainey Young, son of the late Rep. Bill Young, has been charged with single counts of soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct using an electronic device and harmful communication to a minor, as well as two counts of possession of child pornography.The sheriff’s Crimes Against Children Unit received information on Jan. 8, 2026, that a 38-year-old man and 15-year-old girl had engaged

New York prosecutors have charged a Venezuelan man with attempted murder in a throat-slashing attempt that experts warn could be a potential copycat attempt ahead of an expected guilty plea from the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer."This defendant allegedly drove a man that he knew to a remote beach and attacked him from behind with a knife," Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said in a statement."The evidence recovered from his vehicle raises serious questions about what he intended that night."ACCUSED GILGO BEACH SERIAL KILLER REX HEUERMANN EXPECTED TO PELAD GUILTY IN MURDER CASE: REPORTSRuben Guanipa Ramirez, 26, is accused

An Arizona girl who vanished at age 13 under what authorities once called "suspicious circumstances" has been found alive more than three decades later — closing a decades-old cold case while raising new questions about where she’s been and what really happened.The Gila County Sheriff’s Office announced this week that Christina "Tina" Marie Plante, who disappeared from Star Valley, Arizona, in 1994, has been located and identified after 32 years. Authorities say she is alive and her case is now officially resolved.But beyond that, investigators are saying very little.According to the original missing person bulletin, Plante was last seen around

A former NYPD sergeant slammed a jury’s decision in the killing of officer Jonathan Diller, saying they "absolutely missed the mark" by rejecting a first-degree murder charge for the gunman, despite evidence he believes showed clear intent."When you intentionally bring an illegal firearm onto a street, you hold it in your hand, and you pull a trigger, you know the consequences…" Joseph Imperatrice told "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday."For this jury to turn around and not think for one second that that was murder, knowing these officers were identified, knowing there were several officers in uniform that were identifiable

The 48-day Department of Homeland Security shutdown is one step closer to ending after the Senate moved to fund most of the department Thursday morning.The Senate agreed via voice vote to send a bipartisan deal funding the whole department except for President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement and border security efforts to the House for consideration.The chamber is not expected to vote on the legislation until House lawmakers return to Washington on April 13. The Senate vote follows GOP leaders endorsing a two-track approach to funding DHS on Wednesday, with President Trump giving lawmakers a hard deadline to end the record-breaking funding

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is again warning of a growing threat to the nation. In her lone dissent Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, Jackson observed that "to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now."The ominous tone stemmed from the fact that free speech had prevailed over state-imposed orthodoxy in a Colorado case. Eight justices, including her two liberal colleagues, ruled that Colorado could not prevent licensed counselors from "any practice or treatment" that "attempts or purports to change" a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity.The win for free speech was catastrophic for Jackson and many on

The man accused of fatally shooting NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop in Queens two years ago was found not guilty of first-degree murder, but guilty of manslaughter and other charges.Guy Rivera was convicted Wednesday of aggravated manslaughter in the first degree, attempted murder in the first degree for attempting to shoot a NYPD sergeant who also responded to the scene and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He was acquitted of murder in the first degree.Earlier on Wednesday, the jury said it had reached a verdict but were sent back for

A 7-month-old baby girl was killed by a stray bullet Wednesday afternoon when a gunman on a moped opened fire on a Brooklyn street, police said.According to the New York City Police Department, two individuals on a moped approached the intersection of Moore Street and Humboldt Street in Brooklyn when the individual in the back fired a weapon multiple times, with a stray bullet striking a young girl on the sidewalk.The NYPD has identified the 7-month-old girl as Kaori Patterson-Moore of Brooklyn. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.The individuals fled the scene on the moped. The NYPD said one