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(NEW YORK) — Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took the iconic “Earthrise” photograph while in lunar orbit that showed the moon’s surface and Earth, has died, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Friday. He was 90. Anders was piloting a Beechcraft plane that plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state […]
Getty Images – STOCK (VIRGIN ISLANDS) — The U.S. Virgin Island’s 2024 Democratic caucuses are on Saturday. The nationwide presidential nominating race, which kicked off in January, is now drawing to a close six months later. President Joe Biden is the only major candidate still running in the territory and already clinched the party’s nomination […]
(WATERSOUND, Fla.) — Three swimmers, including two teens, were attacked by sharks in two separate incidents while they were at beaches in Walton County, Florida, on Friday, the authorities said. A 45-year-old woman was swimming just past a sandbar with her husband at Watersound Beach when she was bitten by a shark around 1:20 p.m., […]
Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The 2024 presidential nominating race comes to a close on Saturday as Democrats in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands cast their ballots. President Joe Biden is the only major candidate still running and already clinched the party’s nomination earlier this year. Fourteen total delegates are available to win, […]
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — A New York City police officer has been arrested for allegedly shooting another driver in an apparent road rage incident, prosecutors said. Officer Hieu Tran, 27, was taken into custody at the New York City Police Department on Thursday in connection with last month’s shooting in Voorhees Township, […]
(NEW YORK) — Kate Ranta was in the process of divorcing her husband, U.S. Air Force Major Thomas Maffei, when he came to her home on November 2, 2012. The couple’s son, William, who was 4 years old at the time, watched as his father pointed a gun at Ranta, according to police records. “All […]
(WASHINGTON) — A group of American lawmakers honored the bravery of World War II veterans who took part in D-Day with a parachute jump into Normandy on Friday morning, using some of the same vintage planes that flew American paratroopers over France 80 years ago. The lawmakers are all military veterans, and were led by […]
(WASHINGTON) — Justice Clarence Thomas has formally disclosed for the first time trips to Bali, Indonesia and the elite Bohemian Grove club in California — both paid for by his friend and billionaire Harlan Crow — that were at the center of an explosive ProPublica report last year exposing the unreported financial ties to a […]
(WASHINGTON) — As Hunter Biden continues his trial in Delaware over allegations he lied on a gun permit application, first lady Jill Biden has been in his corner, showing support while also juggling her official duties. Almost every day this week, Jill Biden was in court watching the proceedings along with other family members and […]
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial in New York made the parties aware Friday of a post to the court system’s Facebook page. In the post, a user said, “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted Thank you […]
