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(WASHINGTON) — The Republican-led House Education Committee kicked off its formal antisemitism probe of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, which the committee called for after an explosive December hearing where three university presidents were grilled on allegations of antisemitism at their schools. In a letter addressed jointly to Penn’s interim president and chairman of […]
Philadelphia Police Department (PHILADELPHIA) — Philadelphia police are on a manhunt for a teenage murder suspect who escaped from a hospital Wednesday and is “considered dangerous,” the department announced. Authorities identified the escaped prisoner as 17-year-old Shane Pryor, who was being held on murder charges, Deputy Commissioner of Investigations Frank Vanore said in a news […]
NAACP unveiled the nominations for the 55th Image Awards Thursday, naming Usher, Victoria Monét, Ayo Edebiri and Colman Domingo among the top nominees. Usher, the Super Bowl 58 halftime show performer, received the most nominations in music with six, including Outstanding Male Artist, Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album for “Boyfriend” and Outstanding Soul/R&B Song for “Good Good.” Monét follows closely behind with five […]
(WASHINGTON) — Immigration, one of the most politically divisive and complex matters in the U.S. for decades, is emerging as a top issue in the 2024 election. Look no further than Iowa and New Hampshire, two early-voting states thousands of miles from the southwest border. Voters there ranked immigration nearly as important as the economy […]
(NEW YORK) — The United States could soon have a new — and surprising — location for the tallest building in the country and, if approved, it won’t be anywhere near New York. In a new proposal set out by AO Architects and real estate developer Matteson Capital, the Boardwalk at Bricktown, if approved for […]
Jake Gyllenhaal is ripped in more ways than one in the new poster for Prime Video’s remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie Road House. Jake is shown seated on a bar stool, his shirt open, revealing a shredded body and some ripped-open skin, seemingly a knife wound. The new movie from Mr. and Mrs. […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Alabama man is set to be the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone — who, in […]
(WASHINGTON) — The GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee has conducted two closed-door interviews with two former Trump Homeland Security officials, as the committee prepares to move forward with articles of impeachment against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas next week, according to two officials briefed on the matter. The two former Trump officials are Mark Morgan, who served […]
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial this week in New York City to determine whether he will have to pay former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll additional damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse. Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined […]
Nearly a week after a grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of Rust, the actor is demanding a speedy trial. Attorney’s for Baldwin, in a court filing obtained by ABC News, insist a speedy trial would “minimize public vilification and suspicion and to […]
