WASHINGTON — Top Justice Department officials and White House lawyers made clear to then-President Donald Trump in early January that they would all resign from the administration if Trump replaced his acting attorney general with an ally who had been pushing his effort to overturn the 2020 election. That’s according to a nearly 400-page report […]
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 […]
White House Climate Envoy John Kerry went viral on Tuesday after telling French television that President Biden was unaware of the spat between the U.S. and France as it fueled last month. During a Monday interview with BFMTV, Kerry attempted to smooth over the international dustup after France expressed it was blindsided by the Biden […]
The stretch of Southern California shoreline affected by an oil spill has grown, officials said Monday. An estimated 126,000 gallons of leaked heavy crude oil has now impacted the nearly 25 miles from Dana Point to Huntington Beach, Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley tweeted. Laguna Beach and Newport Beach are situated between the two. The […]
The State Department said on Sunday that the U.S. is “very concerned” about China’s “provocative military activity near Taiwan” following Beijing’s most recent show of air power near the self-governing island. “The United States is very concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines […]
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 […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Amid a national debate over the use of pandemic relief funds, Alabama lawmakers swiftly approved a plan Friday to tap $400 million from the American Rescue Plan to help build two super-size prisons, brushing off criticism from congressional Democrats that the money was not intended for such projects. The Alabama Legislature gave […]
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 […]