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(NEW YORK) — The chief executives of the nation’s top social media companies are being grilled on Capitol Hill over child safety, with lawmakers accusing the tech leaders of failing to protect kids from exploitation and abuse. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us — I know you don’t mean it to be so, […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department announced a $59 million settlement with eBay on Wednesday to resolve allegations that the e-commerce company made it easy for thousands of pill presses to be sold on its website that could be used by criminals to make illegal drugs. The company has agreed to pay […]
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A powerful Pacific jet stream is bringing two dangerous storms fueled by an atmospheric river to the West Coast, the first of which arrives on Wednesday. Seven western states from Washington to New Mexico are on alert for flooding, strong winds and heavy snow, […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Gayle Manchin, the wife of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, was injured in a car crash as a suspect allegedly fled police in Birmingham, Alabama, authorities said. On Monday, the Homewood Police began a pursuit of an individual wanted on felony charges, authorities said. Police units pursued the vehicle […]
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of a former sheriff’s deputy charged in the 2020 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Black man who was entering his grandmother’s home in Columbus, Ohio. The trial begins more than three years after Casey Goodson Jr.’s death. Jason Meade, a former deputy with the Franklin […]
(WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump can remain on Illinois’ presidential primary ballot, the State Board of Elections voted on Tuesday, dismissing another challenge to the former president’s eligibility under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, also known as the insurrection clause. The eight-person, bipartisan board voted unanimously against a lawsuit brought by a group of Illinois […]
Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images (NEW YORK) — Five asylum-seekers have been arrested on charges they assaulted police officers in Midtown Manhattan, the New York City Police Department said. The assault occurred Saturday afternoon near Times Square as officers were trying to take a person into custody. According to police, officers attempted to disperse a disorderly […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After long negotiations, the House is set to vote Wednesday on a bipartisan tax bill that would enhance the popular Child Tax Credit to benefit millions of American families. The $78 billion tax package called the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 would increase the child […]
Portland Police Bureau (PORTLAND, Ore.) — Portland, Oregon police are asking for the public’s help to find a woman wanted for her husband’s murder. On Friday morning, officers responded to a missing persons report and found 37-year-old Phillip Pierce shot dead inside a home in Portland’s Lents neighborhood, police said. Police initially said no suspects […]
(WASHINGTON) — Despite vacillating comments from key figures involved in negotiations to free the more than 100 hostages thought to still be detained in Gaza, U.S. officials remained bullish on Tuesday that months of gridlock could soon give way to an agreement that would also pause the fighting between Israel and Hamas. “There’s no reason […]
