Crime and Public Safety

The Justice Department has charged President Joe Biden’s son Hunter with federal tax and weapons offenses -- while also coming to a deal that likely averts time behind bars.

Romania's anti-organized crime agency said prosecutors filed the charges against the brothers, who are both British-U.S. dual citizens, along with two Romanian women.

The "Oppenheimer" actor spent time in jail in the '90s and after his release was later sentenced to federal prison for skipping out on probation after being arrested while driving under the influence.

An initial investigation found that the shooting reported Monday evening at the home in McKee was accidental, Kentucky State Police said in a statement.

The race is on to find the Titan, which has an oxygen supply that is expected to run out at about 6 a.m. Thursday.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it plans to continue looking for the missing submersible despite having seen no signs yet. The vessel could run out of its oxygen supply by Thursday morning.

The Luchese crime family boss Vittorio 'Little Vic' Amuso has served more than 31 years.

OSHA fined Piedmont Airlines, an American Airlines subsidiary, after investigators determined the airline was at fault in the death of 34-year-old Courtney Edwards in Alabama.

Hamish Harding, a British millionaire known for his exploratory escapades across the globe, is reportedly among five people who went missing aboard a tourist submersible visiting the Titanic shipwreck.

A search is underway for a missing submersible that carries people to view the wreckage of the Titanic. Canadian officials say the five-person submersible was reported overdue Sunday night about 435 miles south of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Police in southern Germany say an American tourist who was pushed into a ravine during an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which her 21-year-old friend was killed has been released from the hospital.

A Las Vegas family reported a crashed UFO and told police they had seen eight- to 10-foot creatures that were '100 percent not human.'

"There’s no question there’s been a spike in violence," a professor of public policy and statistics said. "Some of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists."

One person was killed and nearly two dozen others were hurt at what was supposed to be a "peaceful Juneteenth gathering."