Klara Shuster said in court she imported mislabeled Botox illegally and dispensed it to clients

The owner of a New York City med spa has admitted to illegally administering bootleg Botox, which authorities say led one client to develop botulism.

Klara Shuster, also known as Klara Chrzuszcz, made those admissions in the course of pleading guilty in federal court recently to conspiracy to commit smuggling, among other charges.

Officials file ‘denaturalization actions’ against people accused of crimes in what they call ‘largest’ such initiative

Donald Trump’s justice department has moved to strip the citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens accused of crimes in what authorities describe as “the largest” such initiative over a single period during his administration.

US justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of “denaturalization actions” against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as “acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special‑needs man”.

PepsiCo initiated class II recall of 28oz bottles last month over ‘undeclared’ yellow dyes, FDA notice says

About 122,000 cases of the popular sports drink Gatorade have been voluntarily recalled across 37 US states due to their having “undeclared” food dye, according to an official federal notice.

The varieties of the drink involved in the notice include 28oz bottles of Gatorade Lemon Lime, Lime Zero, Orange and Gatorade Orange Zero, the notice said. Gatorade’s manufacturer – the soda giant PepsiCo – initiated its recall on 25 September, said the advisory, which was posted on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s website.

Authorities say crash in Winter Haven involved three vehicles, including bus filled with dozens of schoolchildren

A high school student and one other person were killed in a crash that caused a school bus to flip over on to its roof in central Florida early on Monday, according to authorities.

About 26 students traveling on the public school bus involved in the crash were taken to the hospital, the Polk county sheriff’s office said in a statement posted to Facebook. The bus had 39 occupants: 37 high school students, the bus driver and the driver’s daughter, officials said.

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds

The US saw almost 12,000 book bans in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest number in a single year, according to the free-expression non-profit PEN America.

In a report released on Monday, PEN America said that there had been 34,000 instances of book bans since the organization started tallying the increasing “book censorship crisis” across US schools in 2021.

The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump

Donald Trump has agreed to stop fighting in court the disbursement of E Jean Carroll’s $5m verdict in her 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him, a procedural development as the funds had already been distributed to her.

While the decision does not change anything about Carroll’s receipt of the payout, its revelation effectively means that Trump will no longer oppose the monetary outcome he had long fought.

In new posture, Kevin Reddington argues there was insufficient evidence that she murdered her children

Lindsay Clancy returned to court on Tuesday in her lawyers’ fight against a possible retrial after a jury earlier in September failed to reach a verdict on charges that she murdered her children – a proceeding that ended without definitive action.

Clancy’s team asked William F Sullivan, the superior court judge in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to deem Clancy, 36, not guilty of murder for killing her ⁠three young children in 2023, which she maintains she did while suffering postpartum psychosis and is therefore not legally responsible for. Sullivan on Tuesday only heard arguments on that request.

Agent calls death of Haskins, who played the school principal in three programs, ‘a tragic loss’

The US actor Dennis Haskins – most known for co-starring in the popular Saved by the Bell television series franchise – has died, his agent confirmed on Tuesday. He was 75.

Alluding to Haskins’ Saved by the Bell character, the fictional high school principal Mr Richard Belding, agent Jay Schachter said in a statement: “It’s a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more.

CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level data

Several Florida counties recently declared a state of local emergency in response to a spate of dengue fever infections.

Hillsborough county, Florida, officials made the declaration on 24 September as health authorities recorded 134 confirmed cases of dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne sickness typically found in countries outside the US. Officials said that the spread of the illness poses “an immediate and widespread threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents and visitors of Hillsborough county”.

Identity of man, 27, being withheld pending family notification after 700ft plunge

A Base jumper died on Sunday in Utah after his wingsuit failed while he plunged from a 700ft height, according to authorities.

Local news reports cited the Cache county sheriff’s office, which said that the man fell to his death at age 27 in a mountainous region of Hyrum, which is east from the city of Millville.