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makenoodle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officers with the Transportation Security Administration found 6,737 guns — a record high — at airport security checkpoints across the U.S. last year, the agency said Wednesday. About 93% of the guns found were loaded, the TSA said. This marks the third year in a row that a record number […]
(NEW YORK) — Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance Wednesday on Capitol Hill, defiantly walking into a House committee hearing centered on whether to hold him in contempt. The move sparked outrage from Republicans, who’ve issued a congressional subpoena for him to sit for a closed-door deposition in their ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe […]
(MEMPHIS) — Memphis Police Chief Chief C.J. Davis could be voted out of her position, one year after the death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis Police Department officers. In a 7-6 vote, the Memphis City Council on Tuesday recommended that Davis not remain in her position, and that a full city council […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former Oath Keeper Ray Epps was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for his role during the attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6. In addition to the year of probation, Epps received a $25 fine, $500 restitution and 100 hours of community service. Before his sentencing, Epps said that he […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is the latest public official to fall victim to a swatting incident, according to law enforcement sources. Steven Dettelbach was swatted at his home over the holidays, sources confirmed to ABC News. Local law enforcement quickly engaged with the ATF […]
(WASHINGTON) — Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee lambasted Republicans efforts to begin impeachment hearings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and offered a full-throated defense of his tenure as secretary. “What is going on tomorrow is an embarrassment to the impeachment clause of the Constitution,” New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman told […]
(NEW YORK) — The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Margaret Norvell seized over a ton of cocaine with an estimated street value of more than $32.2 million dollars on Tuesday, according to authorities. The two separate seizures, which took place in international waters of the Caribbean Sea, totalled 2,450 pounds of cocaine and […]
(WASHINGTON) — A House panel will vote Wednesday on whether to hold Hunter Biden in contempt over his refusal to sit for a closed-door deposition with lawmakers in their ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden has said he would testify only in a public forum, castigating the Republican-led probe as “illegitimate.” The […]
(NEW YORK) — Passengers who were on board an Alaska Airlines plane say that they thought “we were going to die” after a door plug flew off of the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet at an altitude of 16,000 feet last Friday. Sieysoar Un and her 12-year-old son Josaih McCaul were sitting in the row […]
(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. The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday will hold its first hearing after a yearlong probe to examine what they are calling the secretary’s “failed leadership” as the […]
