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(NEW YORK) — New York City officials are investigating the structural stability of a Chabad synagogue where chaos erupted this week over a secret passageway, leading to multiple arrests. Police said they responded to 911 calls of a disorderly group outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown […]
(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bob Menendez sought on Wednesday to dismiss the charges against him, arguing the government’s accusations that he sold his office and sold out his nation “are outrageously false, and indeed distort reality.” Menendez has been charged with taking gifts — gold bars, wads of cash and luxury watches, among others — in exchange […]
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are moving ahead with impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they continue to make immigration a key 2024 campaign issue. House Homeland Security Committee Republicans opened Wednesday’s impeachment hearing against Mayorkas by rehashing familiar arguments that highlight the historically high levels of unauthorized migration across the southern border while […]
(NEW YORK) — The focus of the investigation into last Friday’s midair emergency on an Alaska Airlines flight is focused on the single aircraft, but could be broadened as the National Transportation Safety Board learns more, board Chief Jennifer Homendy said. “However, at some point, we may need to go broader. But right now we […]
(WASHINGTON) — Sen. John Barrasso has became the highest-ranking Senate Republican to endorse former president Donald Trump’s reelection bid just days out from the Iowa caucuses. “America was better off under President Donald Trump’s leadership,” Barrasso said in a statement Tuesday night. “Working with Republicans in Congress, President Trump created the strongest economy of a generation, […]
(NEW YORK) — Severe weather across the U.S. has left at least five people dead and is causing rivers to rise to dangerous levels as more winter storms move in. Hundreds of thousands of customers are without power across the U.S. Wednesday, with New York and Pennsylvania hit the hardest. While the rain in the Northeast […]
(WASHINGTON) — The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted to approve a resolution recommending Hunter Biden, the president’s son, be held in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. The vote was 23 to 14 in favor of advancing the measure to the full House. Both the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee met Wednesday […]
(NEW YORK) — As children, they were part of one of the most dangerous polygamous cult movements in history, with members committing a mass killing at the behest of its late leader. And now two sisters who grew up in the LeBaron Cult are telling their story of escape, shock and living in fear. “Daughters of […]
(NEW YORK) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to end his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, sources familiar told ABC News. Though Christie drew much attention as the Republican primary’s main Donald Trump critic, he failed to gain widespread traction in the polls. This was Christie’s second campaign for the nation’s highest office. […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (TAHOE CITY, Calif.) — One person was killed and another was injured in an avalanche at the Palisades Tahoe resort on the California side of Lake Tahoe, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. No one has been reported missing, the sheriff’s office said. The avalanche’s debris field is about 150 feet wide, 450 […]
