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(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2024 election, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Tuesday night. Harris was the only candidate to qualify for the Democratic party’s presidential nominating ballot, the party said. Across the country, 3,923 delegates petitioned to make Harris the Democratic nominee, according to the […]
(PHILADELPHIA) — A 43-year-old man on his way to evening prayers at a Philadelphia mosque Tuesday was shot multiple times and killed in what police called an “execution-type homicide.” A suspect remains at large, police said. A motive is not yet known. Police responded to reports of gunfire and a shooting on the 1500 block […]
(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris is moving full steam ahead in her bid for the White House, with her campaign saying Sunday it has raised more than $200 million in less than a week. Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, have several campaign events set up this week as […]
National Park Service (NEW YORK) — Four elk were shot and killed in a poaching incident at a national park, according to authorities. Redwood National and State Park rangers and wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife are now asking for the public’s help in “an investigation of elk poaching,” after four dead […]
(WASHINGTON) — Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., unveiled a bipartisan package of bills Wednesday morning aimed at making child care more available and affordable for low- and middle-income families. Their proposal would modify existing tax credits to help working parents afford child care. And it would implement a new program to keep […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ashley Benefield, the woman at the center of the “Black Swan” murder trial, was convicted of manslaughter on Tuesday night. The jury in the trial of the ballerina who had been accused of killing her husband, Doug Benefield, returned its verdict late Tuesday night in a Florida courtroom. She […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education will send an email to Americans with student debt on Wednesday, laying out options for how roughly 25 million could have some, or all, of their debt canceled this fall. The email is the first step of the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed rule announced in April — and still being […]
(NEW YORK) — A Missouri woman is suing a Kansas hospital where she says she was denied an emergency abortion after she went into premature labor at 18 weeks of pregnancy, alleging she was denied emergency health-stabilizing care. The lawsuit comes a year after a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services […]
(WASHINGTON) — Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate faced a grilling from lawmakers about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month. The two officials testified before a Senate panel on Tuesday about security arrangements at the site and the status of […]
(WASHINGTON) — Paul Dans, the director of the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025, is stepping down amid intense scrutiny of the conservative blueprint. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, confirmed that Dans announced he is leaving his position. “When we began Project 2025 in April 2022, we set a timeline for the project […]
