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(TAHOE CITY, Calif.) — One person was killed in an avalanche at the Palisades Tahoe resort on the California side of Lake Tahoe, authorities said. Authorities have identified the victim of the avalanche as 66-year-old Kenneth Kidd, who is a resident of both Point Reyes and the Truckee area. The death marks the first U.S. […]

mbbirdy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Trevor Bickford pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from a 2022 New Year’s Eve knife attack on three New York Police Department officers manning a checkpoint on the Times Square periphery. Bickford, who was 19 when he carried out the alleged attack, came from Maine in December 2022 intending […]

(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended temporarily housing migrants in a Brooklyn high school ahead of a winter storm this week, amid backlash over the administration’s handling of the migrant crisis. City officials relocated hundreds of migrants from a shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, a former airfield, to James Madison High […]

(NEW YORK) — A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging book bans in Escambia County, Florida, can move forward on the same day the county released an updated list of more than 2,800 individual books that have been pulled from shelves for review. U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled on Wednesday […]

(LOS ANGELES) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden entered a not guilty plea to 9 felony and misdemeanor tax charges at his initial appearance in a California courtroom on Thursday. The plea was entered by Hunter Biden himself during an arraignment in federal court in downtown Los Angeles. His plea came a day after […]

(NEW YORK) — For the past two months, Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella has faced a private health battle, fighting medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor. Isabella Strahan was a freshman at the University of Southern California when an MRI scan in October led to her diagnosis of medulloblastoma, a cancerous and fast-growing brain tumor […]

(NEW YORK) — The Federal Aviation Administration said it is conducting an investigation of Boeing after a defective door plug fell out of an Alaska Airlines plane last week, forcing an emergency landing. “This incident should have never happened and it cannot happen again,” the FAA said in a statement, noting it has formally notified […]

(NEW YORK) — New Age Industries is recalling millions of furniture tip kits or tip restraints that were sold alongside clothing storage units in furniture stores across the U.S. and online. New Age and Alliance4Safety, a coalition of furniture manufacturers, retailers and delivery servicers, said the plastic zip tie in the kits “can become brittle […]

(NEW YORK) — A father and stepmother have been arrested for the murder of their 5-year-old son nearly 35 years after he was killed, authorities announced. Victor Lee Turner and Megan R. Turner (formerly known as Pamela K. Turner) were taken into custody at their Cross Hill, South Carolina, home on Wednesday and charged with […]