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Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (ROCKLAND HARBOR, Maine) — One person is dead and three people have been injured when a mast broke on a schooner in Rockland Harbor, Maine, and fell onto the deck of the vessel. Thirty-three people were aboard the Grace Bailey, a 118-foot schooner that was approximately one mile east of Rockland Harbor […]
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Monday confirmed at least 11 Americans have been killed in the fighting in Israel, and believes more may have been taken hostage by Hamas. “It’s heart wrenching,” Biden said in a statement. “These families have been torn apart by inexcusable hatred and violence.” Biden said his administration is aware […]
(WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy, deposed just last week as House speaker, on Monday didn’t rule out returning to that position as he spoke out against the Hamas attack on Israel. Touting his own experience as a strong supporter of Israel, McCarthy said President Joe Biden’s “first priority” should be rescuing any American hostages […]
(WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dropping out of the Democratic primary race against Joe Biden to launch an independent campaign for president next year, he said in a speech on Monday. Speaking to a crowd in front of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, he cast his decision to leave the party his […]
(CASTLETON, Vt.) — A retired university dean who was married to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Powers was found shot to death on a Vermont trail, police said, as a manhunt is underway for the suspect. Honoree Fleming, 77, was found dead on a rail trail Thursday in Castleton, Vermont State Police said. She died from […]
In the wake of brutal and ongoing attacks in Israel by the militant group Hamas — which have already led to the deaths of hundreds — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said that the U.S. had pledged its “full support” to the Israeli government and engaged allies in the region to ensure they […]
Two lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle on Sunday weighed in on the ongoing disarray in the House of Representatives, after a small group of Republicans last week booted Speaker Kevin McCarthy with Democrats’ help, leaving the chamber leader-less and paralyzing one half of Congress. Washington is staring down a November deadline to fund […]
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said on Sunday that the U.S. should provide Israel with “everything that it needs to be able to take whatever actions it needs to take” in the wake of a large-scale attack by the militant group Hamas that shook the country and the region. Christie, a former New Jersey governor, […]
West Maui began reopening Sunday to visitors just two months after a wildfire devastated the town of Lahaina. The reopening did not come without outrage from some residents, many of whom signed a petition to delay the reopening as families continue to struggle to “find shelter, provide for their children’s education, and cope with emotional […]
(NEW YORK) — A deaf man who says a truck driving company told him that they would not hire him because he couldn’t hear won over $36 million in damages by a jury a month ago. Victor Robinson, who is in his 40s and has lived his whole life deaf, told ABC News that Werner […]
