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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s memorial service taking place in San Francisco on Thursday will now be closed to the public, according to officials from the late senator’s office. “Due to increased security, tomorrow’s memorial service” is no longer open to the public, only guests with invites will be allowed to […]
Jodie Wallis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Frank James, who opened fire on a crowded subway car in Brooklyn, New York at rush hour, injuring 10 people, will be sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court. Prosecutors have asked for life in prison. The sentencing hearing begins at noon and there will be victim impact statements given […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (HOLYOKE, Mass.) — A shooting at a Massachusetts intersection on Wednesday critically injured a pregnant bystander on a bus, whose infant subsequently died, officials said. The shooting was reported shortly before 1 p.m. in Holyoke, just outside of Springfield, according to Holyoke police. Three male suspects were involved in an altercation that […]
(NEW YORK) — Police said they are searching for an 18-year-old male suspect in the apparently random fatal stabbing of a New York City social justice advocate. Ryan Carson, 31, died after being stabbed in the chest multiple times during an assault early Monday morning in Brooklyn, police said. The suspect in his murder works at […]
(READING, Pa.) — More than 128 years after he died in a Reading, Pennsylvania, jail, a man who was accidentally mummified and left at a funeral home without any identification will finally get his long-awaited burial. Officials at Auman’s Funeral Home, the Reading funeral home that has displayed what is known as “Stoneman Willie” for visitors […]
(WASHINGTON) — Days after borrowers once again began paying back their student loan debts after a three-year pause amid the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden highlighted what his administration has done to fix holes in the system — signaling to voters that he hasn’t given up on broad debt relief, a campaign promise of his, despite […]
(NEW YORK) — A Black man was wrongfully arrested and held for nearly a week in jail because of the alleged misuse of facial recognition technology, according to a civil lawsuit filed against the arresting police officers. Randal Quran Reid, 29, was driving to his mother’s home outside of Atlanta the day after Thanksgiving when […]
(WASHINGTON) — A showdown on Tuesday with a breakaway faction of his own party saw House Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed as leader of the chamber — a historic development that signals chaos to come on Capitol Hill. Hard-line Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida led the charge against McCarthy, a fellow conservative. Gaetz introduced a […]
(MEXICO CITY) — Roadside banners prohibiting the production and sale of fentanyl have appeared in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa, where the eponymous drug cartel is based. The machine-printed banners were purportedly signed by a faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by the sons of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The sons […]
(WASHINGTON) — For the first time in U.S. history, the speaker of the House was toppled with a motion to vacate that laid bare the divisions in the Republican Party. Now, the question becomes who will replace Kevin McCarthy in the top post. The horse race began not long after Rep. Patrick McHenry, the speaker pro […]
