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(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 […]
(ATLANTA) — Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade has come to a “temporary agreement” canceling an upcoming hearing in his divorce proceedings that have embroiled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump. The move comes on the eve of a hearing in the case that had […]
Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — China’s hackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” and “cause real-world harm” to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray will warn in Congressional testimony submitted on Wednesday. Director Wray, along with U.S. Cyber Command Commander General Paul Nakasone, Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and Harry Coker, […]
National Park Service (NEW YORK) — Human skeletal remains have been discovered just off of a trail in Joshua Tree National Park, police say. The grisly discovery happened last Thursday at approximately 12:08 p.m. when the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office received a call after somebody discovered human skeletal remains in Twentynine Palms, a region on […]
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans voted early Wednesday to bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas one step closer to a historic impeachment over his handling of the country’s southern border. After more than 10 hours of deliberation, the GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee decided in an 18-15 party-line vote to advance the impeachment articles against Mayorkas. […]
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Opening statements will begin 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 […]
