The traditions have been followed, the good luck measures taken and the corks popped as revelers across the globe welcomed 2025 in their own styles Wednesday morning.source

A fugitive killed in a shootout with authorities in Ohio last month was identified Monday as the suspect in the decades-old unsolved murder of an 18-year-old woman.source

A U.S. military court upheld a judge’s ruling that said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acted improperly when he invalidated plea agreements for three men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks.source

A judge was found dead in a Georgia courtroom on what was to have been his last day on the job, authorities said Tuesday.source

In his annual end-of-year report, Roberts said the independence of the judiciary is threatened by threats of violence, harassment, disinformation and defiance of court rulings.source

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Sanctions introduced after Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine are affecting the price of Russia’s traditional new year dish, the Olivier Salad.source

A Virginia man was arrested after federal authorities found a cache of homemade explosive devices, some of which were marked as “lethal,” at his home, marking the largest seizure of finished explosive devices in FBI history, officials said.source

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, on his last day in office Tuesday, commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without parole.source