Russian metals tycoon Alisher Usmanov claims his fame and fortune rather than links to President Vladimir Putin made him a target for European Union sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in recent weeks has issued federal grand jury subpoenas out of southern Florida to multiple witnesses linked to the classified documents probe involving former President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigative steps.

A Tennessee man sentenced to death after being convicted for raping and murdering a child lost his bid for resentencing or a new trial after a federal appeals court affirmed the denial of his habeas petition.

An allegedly sham charity that used the Norfolk Southern Corp. train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio to solicit money has dissolved as part of a settlement, officials said.

A New York man who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $3 million in federal funds meant to help Red Apple Child Development Center lost a bid to vacate his restitution orders, with a ruling by the Second Circuit Tuesday.

The identities of US Representative George Santos’s three bail guarantors were ordered unsealed by a judge in his criminal fraud case, though the release was put on hold to give the Republican congressman a chance to appeal.