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(HOUSTON, Texas) — The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations of federal rights violations following the deaths of two inmates at the Harris County Jail in Texas after a request by the sheriff’s office. “These investigations will be fair, thorough, and impartial, and will proceed independently of any state investigations involving incidents at the […]
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother died in the Tops supermarket massacre last May, said he’s not interested in hearing what the gunman has to say when he plans to apologize to victims’ families on Wednesday. “Nothing he’s going to say to me is going to bring my mother back. It’s not […]
(EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — Ben Ratner has spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to survive a freight train chemical disaster. After all, he appeared in a movie about it. In 2020, Ratner and some family members traveled from his home in East Palestine, Ohio, to a nearby town, to […]
(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has announced her presidential bid in a new video released on Tuesday, a day ahead of her formal campaign kick-off in Charleston. “I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not Black, not white. I was different,” she says as the video she tweeted, titled […]
(EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Law enforcement officials on Tuesday named Anthony Dwayne McRae, a 43-year-old resident of Lansing, Michigan, as the suspect in the overnight shooting at Michigan State University that took the lives of three students and wounded five others. McRae led police on an hours-long manhunt before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A California man who assaulted former Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone with a stun gun during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol pleaded guilty Tuesday to multiple felony charges. In a taped interview with the FBI following his arrest, Daniel Rodriguez admitted he drove a stun gun into the […]
(CLEVELAND, Ohio) — For the second day in a row, the Great Lakes are at a combined ice cover low. On Feb. 13, the combined ice cover across the Great Lakes was 7.3%, breaking the old record from 2002. The historical average for ice cover season-to-date is 40%. The region is nearing the average peak […]
(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she will not run for reelection after her term is up in early 2025 but will continue serving until then. Feinstein, 89, has served in the Senate since 1992, winning several senior posts along the way. However, she recently faced pushback from progressives in Washington and California […]
(EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Three students were killed and five others were wounded in Monday night’s mass shooting at Michigan State University. The Michigan State University Police Department has released the names of the young lives lost. Arielle Anderson Arielle Anderson was a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Her family remembered her as a “precious daughter, […]
(WASHINGTON) — Democrats and Republicans joined together on Tuesday in a renewed push to pass federal legislation aimed at safeguarding young people using the internet, as a mother testified her son was driven to suicide by bullying on social media. With rare bipartisan unity, lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing to blame […]
