Federal prosecutors plan to call former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as a witness in the New York trial of Thomas Barrack, a billionaire friend of former President Donald Trump accused of unlawfully lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, Barrack’s attorneys said Saturday in a letter to the …

MacKenzie Scott will be giving away her vast fortune on her own — at least for now — as the billionaire philanthropist and her former science teacher husband, Dan Jewett, are splitting after 18 months of marriage. As first reported by the New York Times, Scott filed her petition on …

A driver charged with fatally striking a teenager in North Dakota allegedly told investigators he purposely hit the teen with his SUV after they had a political argument, according to court documents. Cayler Ellingson, 18, was struck and killed following a street dance in McHenry early Sunday. The driver accused …

Securities regulators are fining Morgan Stanley $35 million after its wealth management division failed to protect the personal information for 15 million customers.  Staffers at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney had been keeping customer data on company-managed computer servers and hard drives dating back to 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday. …

A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota man accused of threatening to kill a U.S. senator. Brendon Daugherty is being held in the Sherburne County Jail, in Elk River, Minn., on charges of threatening to murder a U.S. official and interstate transmission of a threat. He is to appear …

Baltimore officials said Wednesday that they have filed a motion to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial” who was convicted in February 2000 for murdering his ex-girlfriend. Officials on Wednesday requested another trial and said new evidence — including the existence of two …

Twitter’s former security chief painted the social media company as a data-grabbing behemoth that risks exploitation by “teenagers, thieves and spies” in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “Twitter leadership is misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors,” Peiter Zatko said in his …

Ohio’s Oberlin College on Thursday said it will pay nearly $37 million to a local bakery that sued the school for libel following a 2016 shoplifting incident involving three Black students. The Ohio Supreme Court last month declined to hear Oberlin’s appeal of a lower-court ruling ordering the college to pay …

A vehicle wanted in connection with the abduction of a woman has been found and a person detained, the Memphis Police Department reported Saturday. Authorities are still searching for the woman a day after she was allegedly kidnapped while jogging in Memphis early Friday morning.  Eliza Fletcher, 34, was running …

Washington — Former President Donald Trump has reached a settlement with Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and his accounting firm, Mazars, in a lengthy court battle over a 2019 subpoena for years of his financial records, according to a court filing Wednesday. Lawyers for the former president …