The North Carolina Senate battle is heaving allegations back and forth on whether then-Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, released the man accused of murdering Iryna Zarutska, 23, on a Charlotte train last August.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard sidelines president as military grip expands
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, has blocked President Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidential appointments and erected what sources