A UK woman poured a concoction of scalding water and sugar on her sleeping husband, who later died — as part of a sick plot to “extract vengeance” following a dispute. Corinna Smith, 59, was found guilty Tuesday of murdering her 81-year-old husband, Michael Baines, when she attacked him in their home in Neston, Cheshire, […]
In his latest news release, former President Donald Trump said he’d accepted an invitation from Texas’ governor to visit the southern border. The trip seems aimed at calling attention to Trump’s contention that he left the Biden administration a highly secure border, only to have policeis reversed and progress on controlling immigration there undone in […]
An Atlanta-area sheriff’s deputy was shot and a woman died Monday after a shootout at a grocery store that stemmed from an argument over wearing a mask, authorities said. A DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Reserve Unit deputy, a 30-year law enforcement veteran who is retired from the agency, was shot twice and was listed in […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland is scrambling to contain the fallout of a widening Justice Department scandal as Democratic allies and the press express outrage over revelations that his agency secretly obtained records of lawmakers, reporters and dozens of others as it carried out aggressive leak investigations during the Trump presidency. Just three months on the […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani lamented a series of foreign policy decisions by President Biden while accusing the president of “caving into Iran” on its nuclear program. During an interview with John Catsimatidis on his radio show on WABC 770 AM, Giuliani blasted the Biden administration for lifting sanctions on Iranian companies as […]
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this week that in-person meetings on the migration crisis with Vice President Kamala Harris went so well that he called her “president.” “It’s a completely new phase,” López Obrador said during a news conference about the meetings on Wednesday, according to Reuters. “It was such a good meeting […]
The distraught father of a Texas girl who was raped lashed out at a judge this week after a 22-year-old defendant who was convicted of the crime received a light sentence, according to a report. “Be careful what judges you elect,” the father, who asked that his name be withheld to protect his daughter’s privacy, […]
With most of the American West battling severe drought, millions of Californians are now facing water shortages as state agencies work to preserve limited supplies. On Wednesday, Valley Water Board, the agency that provides water to Santa Clara County in Northern California, issued a water shortage emergency declaration and called for a 15 percent water […]
Border officials encountered the highest number of people seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border this year in May, with encounters hitting 180,034, up slightly from 178,854 in April. The figures also reveal a 20 percent drop in border encounters with migrants from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador from their peak, […]
The Biden administration plans to resume indirect negotiations with Iran this weekend as part of its efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday. Sherman made her remarks, which were first reported by Reuters, during a virtual event hosted by the German Marshall Fund, saying that “there’s […]
The California couple arrested in connection with the road rage shooting that killed 6-year-old Aiden Leos were charged on Tuesday, weeks after the child was struck while his mother was driving him to school. Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, and Wynne Lee, 23, were hit with different charges in connection with the May 21 slaying. Little […]
The Air Force sergeant accused of killing two law enforcement officers in California last year belonged to a militia group that was plotting a “war” against police, including taking cops as prisoners, stripping them naked and leaving them “blindfolded with [their] hands bound” in the wilderness, a report says. The claims surrounding the alleged inner […]
