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(MILWAUKEE) — The grandmother of an 11-year-old Milwaukee girl killed in a weekend drive-by shooting that also left her 5-year-old sister injured said on Monday that the children were coming home from a birthday party with their mother when a gunman opened fire on their car. The death of Ta’Niyla Parker has sparked widespread outrage in […]
iStock/Kali9 (TUSCON, Ariz.) — One Drug Enforcement Administration agent was killed and two other officers were injured in a shooting on an Amtrak train that was stopped in Tucson, Arizona, authorities said. Officers boarded the train Monday morning to perform a routine check for illegal guns, money and drugs and encountered two people on the second […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The pot of cash up for grabs continues to grow. According to lottery officials, the Powerball jackpot for Monday night’s drawing soared to $685 million. The cash value of the grand prize is $485.5 million, Powerball officials said. The jackpot was last hit on June 5, and since then […]
iStock/400tmax (NEW YORK) –Former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition sometime before Christmas as part of a defamation lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “Apprentice,” a judge’s law clerk said Monday. Zervos has alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007 and defamed […]
(PHOENIX) — A girl has died after she was playing in a parked car and the power window rolled up on her, Phoenix, Arizona, police said. The fatal injury took place Saturday evening while the girl was playing in the car, which was parked at a home, police said. She was taken to a hospital in […]
(WASHINGTON) — As the cry “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!” rang out just after 10 a.m. Monday in Washington, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court emerged from behind a 44-foot velvet curtain wall, walking into their vaulted marble chamber for the first time in 18 months. They entered a world — a courtroom, a docket, an American […]
(NEW YORK) — With John Hinckley’s bullet still lodged in his chest, President Ronald Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, which is about nine minutes from the Hilton hotel where he’d been shot. One of the surgeons who met him there was Dr. Benjamin Aaron, then chief of cardiothoracic surgery at GWU. Aaron would […]
iStock/z1b (MILWAUKEE) — An 11-year-old girl was shot to death and her 5-year-old sister was wounded in Milwaukee on Saturday night when a gunman in a passing vehicle unleashed a barrage of bullets targeting a family car the girls were sitting in, authorities said. The shooting unfolded around 9 p.m. local time in the Sherman Park […]
Halfpoint/iStock (NEW YORK) — The United States has been facing a COVID-19 surge as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. More than 701,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at […]
RiverNorthPhotography/iStock (PHILADELPHIA) — An employee at Philadelphia’s Jefferson University Hospital was gunned down, allegedly by a coworker wearing scrubs, before the suspect shot and injured two officers during his capture, authorities said. The shooting was reported at 12:13 a.m. local time at the hospital’s Gibbon Building, according to an internal law enforcement briefing reviewed by […]
