At least 26 people have been killed including three children in a Russian missile and drone attack that hit two blocks of flats in the western city of Ternopil, Ukrainian officials say. They say another 93 people were wounded, 18 of them children, in the strike early on Wednesday - one of the deadliest in the region since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

A Louisiana family is moving to sue their daughter’s former school district after she was expelled for hitting a boy accused of sharing explicit, AI-generated images of her. In a video circulated on social media, the 13-year-old girl is seen hitting her classmate while on the bus in August. Family attorney Greg Miller told NewsNation the violence came after the boy created a nude “deepfake.” Miller said his clients plan to file a federal lawsuit against the Lafourche Parish School District over their handling of the situation.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives took what once seemed like the impossible step of voting 427-1 to release the Epstein files. Republican representatives did so with the permission of President Donald Trump, who on Sunday realized he could no longer block what appears to be even more unsavory truths about a convicted sex offender and his complicated allies and accomplices. The issue now heads to the Senate. But if we ever do get a full release of files, and a full reckoning of the crimes, it will be largely due to Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie.

A grand jury indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) for allegedly stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds and using some of it to fund her campaign, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Prosecutors allege that Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother, Edwin, received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds in July 2021, while their health care company was working on a FEMA-funded staffing contract tied to COVID-19 vaccinations. The congresswoman served as CEO.

There’s nothing Washington likes more than a scandal. Most quickly fade away. But every once in a while, there’s a scandal that takes root, that just won’t go away. President Nixon had Water-gate, President Bill Clinton had Whitewater and President Trump now has Geoffrey Epstein. But what’s unique about the Epstein-gate scandal is that this is not something Democrats laid on Trump. From the start, this scandal was entirely of Trump’s own creation. He brought it on himself. He created it, he fanned the flames, and now he can’t get out from under it.

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, of Florida, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, which she is accused of laundering to support her 2021 congressional campaign. The indictment was announced by the Justice Department on Wednesday. The indictment alleges Cherfilus-McCormick. 46, and her brother, Edwin Cherfilus, 51, received a $5 million overpayment in FEMA funds directed to their family health care company in connection with a contract for COVID-19 vaccination staffing in 2021.

The Justice Department announced an indictment Wednesday against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, accusing her of bilking the government of $5 million in pandemic funds and using the money to boost a previous congressional campaign. Prosecutors said the government overpaid her family company $5 million for a COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract. She and her brother Edwin Cherfilus then “conspired to steal that $5 million” by obfuscating its source. The prosecutors said she siphoned “a substantial portion” of the money into her campaign for Congress in 2021, when she was seeking to fill the seat of the late Rep. Alcee Hastings. Prosecutors said Ms. Cherfilus-McCormick funneled some of the contract money to friends and relatives, who then donated back to her campaign.

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