Former Vice President Mike Pence has a Trump problem, strategists and officials in the former president’s orbit say. For Pence to successfully carve out a path to the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, he must simultaneously win over swaths of former President Trump’s base and create distance from the former president to chart a new […]
A federal appeals court reinstated Texas’ controversial “fetal heart beat” abortion ban on Friday night, days after a lower court suspended the Republican-backed law. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, effectively pausing U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order against the abortion ban earlier this […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro said Wednesday they had found a haul of Nazi memorabilia and weapons worth an estimated $3.5 million at the home of a Brazilian man suspected of raping a minor. Rio’s civil police said they found more than 1,000 items at the home of the 58-year-old unnamed […]
A team of specialists who investigate cold cases says it has identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America’s most prolific serial murderers who terrorized communities in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s with a series of brutal slayings and unsolvable riddles. The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement […]
A man suspected of strangling his wife, an Instagram influencer, last year in Texas was found dead on Wednesday in a Florida home, according to law enforcement. Alexis Sharkey’s body was discovered Nov. 28 on the side of a road, about 17 miles west of downtown Houston, after she was reported missing, police said at […]
A mountain gorilla whose picture went viral after she photobombed a park ranger’s selfie has died at 14. Ndakazi “took her final breath in the loving arms of her caretaker and lifelong friend, Andre Bauma,” a statement from the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday. She died last month after […]
An Alabama police officer who was shot in a recent confrontation with a gunman – who also wounded another officer – died Saturday from his injuries, his department said. Sheffield Police Sgt. Nick Risner, 40, died at Huntsville Hospital, where he was taken after Friday’s shooting, Police Chief Ricky Terry said. “We would like to […]
Iran asked for the U.S. to unfreeze $10 billion of its funds in order to restart nuclear talks, Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that the unfreezing of funds would be a sign of good will, according to Reuters. “The Americans tried to contact us through different channels (at the U.N. […]
Buying old video games can be dirty work sometimes. A couple that buys and sells old video games (among other items) recently came across a “once in a lifetime” find while visiting a demolition sale at the house of a person who was hoarding items – a collection of video games worth tens of thousands […]
It’s a milestone that by all accounts didn’t have to happen this soon. The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday — a number greater than the population of Boston. The last 100,000 deaths occurred during a time when vaccines — which overwhelmingly prevent deaths, hospitalizations and serious illness — were available to […]
Saturday’s Powerball jackpot, with an estimated payout of $635 million, ranks among the ten largest pots in the history of the drawing. The drawing is set for 11 p.m. ET, and the pot is the sixth-largest in Powerball history after 39 consecutive drawings without a grand-prize winner. Following an earlier total of $620 million, a […]
A powerful storm system produced at least two tornadoes that struck central Tennessee early on Tuesday morning, including one that caused significant damage near downtown Nashville and killed at least 22 people as crews spent hours pulling survivors and bodies from wrecked buildings. The tornado near downtown Nashville lit up the night sky with flashes […]
