A 40-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of plotting to attack the Texas State Capitol, authorities said. The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement that it received “credible information about an individual planning a violent attack" for Thursday in Austin.

The Department of Public Safety arrested a 40-year-old Converse resident after receiving credible information about a “violent attack” on the state Capitol, the agency said.

The suspect was charged with felony terroristic threat against a public servant.

A man was arrested after making “verbal threats” toward the Texas State Capitol, the Lone Star State’s governor, Greg Abbott (R), confirmed Wednesday evening. On Wednesday, the Texas Department of

Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.

Christa Gail Pike, 36, the only woman on Tennessee's Death Row, is pictured in this 2004 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained b March 22, 2012. REUTERS/Tennessee Department of Correction/ Handout/ File Photo Sept 30 (Reuters) - Death row inmate Christa Pike,

Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal ​injection late on Wednesday, prison officials said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Tennessee execution of Christa Pike for the murder of her classmate when she was 18-years-old. This comes shortly after a federal court halted the execution just before it was scheduled.

The university president agreed to bring in outside counsel for the inquiry, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who said 'This culture has to stop.'

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for an investigation into Cornell University’s handling of a 2024 gang rape allegation

New York Governor Kathy Hochul says she spoke with Cornell University’s president, who agreed to bring in outside counsel. It comes as NBC News has obtained the six-page statement the female student gave to Cornell police in 2024.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for a "transparent, independent review" of Cornell University's response to an alleged gang rape of a student in 2024. In a statement Tuesday, Hochul said there are "serious questions" about the university's campus culture and called the allegations "nothing short of horrifying".

President Donald Trump insisted his GOP convention in Dallas outstripped the NFL in terms of viewership when it aired in September.

Paxton has aligned himself with Trump, earning his primary endorsement.

The New York Times reports that Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton blamed the GOP convention for a recent decline in polling. His adviser disputes the report.

California AG Rob Bonta says he’s concerned about CNN’s future under Paramount and points to editorial safeguards in the merger settlement. SAINT-DENIS, France, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Dozens of people have been injured and hundreds arrested,

As Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra debated immigration policy, Hilton went after Becerra for repeatedly tying him to President Donald Trump.

Former Health Secretary Xavier Becerra (D) and Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, clashed on the debate stage Wednesday as they jostle in a contentious race to replace California Gov.

Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton clashed over taxes, immigration and housing — and how Trump has addressed them

Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton — will meet face to face in the only scheduled debate of the campaign

The Fed's watchdog found cost overruns but no evidence of criminal violations after the Justice Department dropped an investigation into the renovations earlier this year.

The Federal Reserve's internal watchdog said it found no evidence a $2.5 billion project at the Fed's Washington headquarters violated federal law.

The Federal Reserve's Inspector General on Wednesday said ⁠it ⁠found no grounds for a criminal referral or administrative misconduct tied to ⁠cost overruns in a US central bank renovation project that had drawn scorn from President Donald Trump and an investigation of former Fed chief ​Jerome Powell.

The Federal Reserve's inspector general released its findings from an investigation into the cost overruns in a Fed renovation project, finding no administrative misconduct.