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Megan Varner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson have a joint appearance at Mar-a-Lago Friday afternoon where they are discussing “election integrity.” The topic is a chief priority for Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, who continues to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election. Trump’s calls for “election integrity” […]
KTRK-TV (BRENHAM, Texas) — One person was killed and more than a dozen injured after a man allegedly intentionally crashed a stolen semi-truck into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in Brenham on Friday, officials said. A suspect is in custody, authorities said. “This is a tragic day for us,” Texas DPS Regional Director […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — High-level U.S. officials are urgently trying to pressure Iran to back down from its threat to launch a retaliatory strike against Israel — the latest challenge facing the Biden administration as it tries to avert an all-out regional war in the Middle East. At the same time, the U.S. was […]
KTRK (HOUSTON) — A Texas mother has been arrested after allegedly leaving her two young children home alone for days to go on a cruise, court records show. Lakesha Williams, 29, of Houston, has been charged with abandoning a child with intent to return, a felony, according to a criminal complaint. Neighbors at her high-rise […]
Getty Images – STOCK (MORGANTOWN, W.Va.) — When 16-year-old Skylar Neese went missing from her West Virginia home after midnight on July 6, 2012, two of her best friends took to social media to express their fears and hopes that Skylar could be alive. But months later, investigators would find out that Rachel Shoaf and […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House is voting to reauthorize a key U.S. spy program considered crucial to national security. After hard-line Republicans dealt a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday by tanking a routine procedural vote on the bill, the House passed the rule on Friday morning — teeing up debate, consideration […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case is hearing arguments Friday from his co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira on motions to have the charges against them dismissed. Attorneys for Nauta, Trump’s longtime aide, will ask U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss the case […]
In an aerial view, cargo ship Dali is seen after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Mar. 26, 2024 in Baltimore. — Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — Baltimore’s Key Bridge, a vital transit and shipping route, collapsed last month after being hit by a cargo ship. The incident has left members of […]
Lynne Gilbert/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Arizona Republicans on Wednesday blocked efforts to move forward on a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban in the state that dates to 1864, which the Arizona Supreme Court ruled this week is enforceable. Despite many members in their own party calling for an end to the law, GOP […]
Getty Images – STOCK (BLACKFOOT, Idaho) — An 85-year-old Idaho woman is being hailed as a “hero” for gunning down a home-invasion suspect with a handgun she kept under her pillow after he allegedly handcuffed her to a chair, pistol whipped her and threatened numerous time to kill her, authorities said. Christine Jenneiahn survived the […]
