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In a major turnaround, Russia announced it is dropping charges against Yevgeny Prigozhin. This comes just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he would punish the leaders of the Wagner mercenary group that staged the short-lived coup attempt.

CNN has released the audio recording used in the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump. In the recording, Trump discusses not declassifying documents. NTD's legal correspondent provides an analysis of the tape.

A $290-million settlement between JPMorgan Chase and accusers of Jeffrey Epstein was given preliminary approval by a judge on Monday. The plaintiffs said JPMorgan turned a blind eye to the late financier’s sex trafficking.

European leaders are addressing the situation after an aborted coup by the Wagner group in Russia over the weekend. Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained his silence on the events at a planned address.

Former President Trump slammed the electric vehicle industry during a keynote speech in Michigan over the weekend. He cautioned that the state's auto industry is in peril.

Amid a record-breaking influx of illegal immigrants into the United States, four more of President Biden’s top border officials have quietly resigned in just the past two weeks.

The U.S. Navy had already detected the implosion of the Titanic-bound submersible Titan on Sunday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. That was days before news of the implosion was made public on June 22. The Navy quickly provided this information to aid the search and rescue efforts, although its significance was unknown at the time. The Coast Guard announced on June 22 that no one had survived the Titan's deepwater expedition. Meanwhile, James Cameron, director of the movie 'Titanic' and a deep-sea explorer, said he was skeptical about the make-up of the submersible's hull.

Patients at a drug center in Philadelphia are developing terrible wounds. The gashes come from a powerful animal sedative called xylazine or "Tranq," which is often mixed with the synthetic opioid fentanyl by drug abusers.

India is presenting itself as a preferred partner for the United States as it seeks to compete with China on a global scale. That was the message Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed in his address to a joint session of Congress on June 22. NTD spoke with retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham to learn more about the decision to strengthen ties with India.

Oxygen was running low as the search continued on June 22 for a submarine with five men on board missing near the wreck of the Titanic. The U.S. Coast Guard said a remotely operated submersible had been deployed for the rescue mission.

EPA official Joseph Goffman testified on June 21 before a House subcommittee on controversial emissions standards for light vehicles. Lawmakers had been growing impatient after Goffman missed a similar hearing in May, resulting in a rocky start to his testimony.

A new report accuses the largest Catholic health system in the nation, CommonSpirit Health, of funding and performing transgender surgeries and abortions. NTD spoke with Lepanto Institute founder Michael Hichborn, who wants it stripped of its status as a Catholic organization.

Special Counsel John Durham testified before Congress on June 21. Durham recently released a report about the Justice Department allegedly targeting former President Donald Trump. While Republicans said the report proves Trump was right, Democrats say the report shows the opposite.

After Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes and struck a special deal to dismiss a charge of owning a gun while using illegal drugs, NTD spoke to former prosecutor and retired FBI Special Agent Mark Ruskin to break down the implications of the case.

California teenager Layla Jane was just 13 years old when her breasts were removed in a cross-sex procedure. Now she's suing the doctors and medical provider who performed and approved the surgery. NTD spoke with attorney Mark Trammell on the lawsuit.

President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, has pleaded guilty to two federal tax misdemeanors while striking a deal with federal prosecutors regarding a felony gun charge, the Justice Department stated in court filings on June 20. The plea ends a long-running Justice Department investigation.

YouTube has censored presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over an interview on the platform between Kennedy and Canadian psychologist, Jordan Peterson. The company said it removed the video for violating its vaccine misinformation policy.

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to go on trial in Florida on August 14, according to an order handed down by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on June 19 during his high-profile visit to Beijing. Both sides pledged to stabilize the badly deteriorating relationship between the two countries. Blinken's trip marked the highest-level visit to China by a U.S. official in nearly five years.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are aiming to counter the influence of America's adversaries in Africa. They are pushing the Biden administration to expand the Abraham Accords—a Trump-era policy that secured diplomatic relations between Israel and a number of Arab nations—on the continent.

California lawmakers will vote on Bill AB 665—which critics are describing as state-sanctioned kidnapping. The law would allow children aged 12 and upward to leave home and check into a residential facility without parental consent. NTD spoke with attorney Nicole Pearson from the legal firm Truth Law Facts Justice to find out the details.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) demanded answers from a Yale School of Medicine assistant professor on which studies provide evidence of the benefits of cross-sex procedures. The questions came during a congressional hearing on June 15. Meredithe McNamara didn't offer a single study before Crenshaw's time ran out. The congressman is the sponsor of a bill that would remove funding from children’s hospitals if they provide such procedures for minors.

America’s youth are dying of homicide and suicide at the highest rate in decades. That’s according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC analyzed data on 10-to-24-year-olds from 2001 to 2021. NTD spoke to Brownstone Institute founder Jeffrey Tucker to find out his perspective on a path forward.

Marine veteran Daniel Penny speaks out after he was charged with second-degree manslaughter. He wants to set the record straight on what happened on the fateful day that ended in the death of Jordan Neely, after he put the homeless man in a chokehold on the New York subway.

Republican senators want the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel to investigate an alleged Biden family bribery scheme. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said only the DOJ can address Americans' doubts at this point.

A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School was allegedly stealing and selling human body parts. Cedric Lodge is now facing federal charges.

For the first time in more than a year, the Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged, while hinting at the possibility of two further rate hikes this year. We spoke with the former chief economist of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Vance Ginn.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) condemned the use of FISA surveillance during a June 13 hearing. He said the program—meant to investigate foreign agents—was allegedly used to spy on thousands of Americans without proper cause.

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Miami on June 13 to 37 felony charges related to his handling of classified government documents. During a speech in New Jersey after his arraignment, he criticized the charges as a politically motivated attack meant to keep him out of the White House in 2024.

A new report by government watchdog Open the Books says fraudsters and dead people received hundreds of billions of dollars in government payments last year. NTD spoke with the founder of the nonprofit to find out more.