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The judge presiding over the trial of accused New York subway vigilante Daniel Penny has granted prosecutors' request to dismiss the first and most serious charge of manslaughter, reported NBC News — leaving the jury to deliberate the less serious charge of criminally negligent homicide.

Prosecutors asked for the dismissal because the jury was intractably deadlocked over the more serious charge. Under the rules of New York criminal procedure, the jury couldn't even move on to deliberating on the second charge without making a decision one way or the other on the first. However, the jury was not told that prosecutors had made the request.

North Carolina Republicans are trying to strip powers from the incoming Democratic state officials that voters just elected, over outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper's veto. But while the GOP-backed state Senate overrode the veto, it's not guaranteed they will have the votes to do so in the House, freelance journalist Bryan Anderson reported Friday.

"The #SB382 override isn't a sure thing," Anderson posted to X. "With five days left until the vote, Reps. Clampitt and Pless tell me they're undecided (with Pless appearing to lean no on override). Rep. Gillespie hasn't responded. Kidwell also someone to watch."

An Ohio teacher is suing her school district after she was reprimanded and ultimately suspended for having books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom.

Karen Cahall, an elementary school teacher, filed a federal case against the school board, Superintendent Tracey Miller and board members Todd Wells, Tim DuFau, Robert Wooten, Jonathan Zimmerman and Amy Story, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday.

Infamous neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes has been arrested and charged with battery, the Smoking Gun reports.

According to police documents obtained by the Smoking Gun, the 26-year-old Holocaust-denying Fuentes was arrested after a woman claimed that he maced her and shoved her to the ground outside of his house in Illinois.

President Joe Biden's proposal to expand coverage of anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic has divided Republicans.

The next Congress could weigh in on whether to expand coverage of the widely used weight-loss drugs Medicaid and Medicare recipients shortly after Donald Trump takes office, and while the incoming president would have the authority to reverse Biden's plan, GOP lawmakers will likely want a say, reported Semafor.

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Manhattan hotel Wednesday has sparked a wave of dark humor and fresh fury at the for-profit U.S. healthcare system.

The barbs at UnitedHealthcare—the country's largest private insurer—included a mock denial of coverage letter posted to the subreddit r/nursing in a thread on Thompson’s murder.

Tucker Carlson has been acting as a secret back-channel messenger between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, according to the Russian president's acolytes.

The former Fox News host returned to Moscow this week for a second time to interview Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and pushed the Kremlin narrative that the U.S. should stay out of the war in Ukraine to avoid setting off a global nuclear crisis, but some Kremlin insiders believe Carlson had other business, reported The Daily Beast.

A new report from NPR outlines just how quickly public health in the United States could unravel should anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. be confirmed to run the Health and Human Services Department.

NPR spoke with several public health experts who feared that RFK Jr.'s appointment as the nation's top health official could "cause renewed, deadly epidemics of measles, whooping cough, meningitis, or even polio."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams refused to rule out the possibility that he might switch parties to become a Republican, and the team working for President-elect Donald Trump is amused by the politician's desperation.

“It’s kind of embarrassing, isn’t it?” a member of Trump’s presidential transition team told Rolling Stone. “How long until the actual begging and love letters start?”

CNN's Jim Acosta winced as a conservative commentator justified defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth needing his mother to defend his character amid allegations of his past drinking and mistreatment of women.

Penelope Hegseth appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday to recant a scathing email she sent to her son that was obtained and published by the New York Times, saying he no longer mistreated women as she had alleged in the 2018 message, and she reportedly called senators on his behalf to calm their concerns about his character.