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Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday filed a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson just months after he ascended to the speakership. “I filed the motion to vacate today, but it’s more of a warning and a pink slip,” Greene told reporters […]
Getty Images – STOCK (CAMEL VALLEY, Calif.) — A 30-year-old woman who went on a day-trip hike in coastal California has now been missing for four days, according to authorities. Search and rescue teams are scouring the trails around the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for Caroline Meister, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said. Meister left […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have clinched their respective parties’ nominations, setting the stage for a rematch between the two in November. But many Americans are not feeling favorable toward either candidate — and what these voters, sometimes referred to as “double haters,” decide could be decisive […]
grandriver/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Last September, as former President Donald Trump was mounting his reelection bid, he posted a “big announcement” to his Truth Social media platform: “Introducing Border911,” he declared, promoting a tax-exempt charity led by his former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief, Tom Homan. “Join us in making it HUGE!” Trump urged […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that he will invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress — a move that comes days after Senate Majority Chuck Schumer called for Israel to hold a new election seen as a way to replace Netanyahu. “We will certainly extend that invitation,” […]
Boise Police Department (BOISE, Idaho) — An inmate who escaped from an Idaho hospital with an accomplice who opened fire on the correction officers transporting him in a “brazen” attack have been captured, Boise police said. The Idaho Department of Correction inmate, Skylar Meade, and shooting suspect Nicholas Umphenour were located in the Twin Falls […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the so-called “Ghost Army,” its World War II mission of fooling the enemy was so secret because most of the people who knew about it took it to the grave. A secret no more and nearly 80 years after the end of the war, the […]
WABC (NEW YORK) — Two squatters are wanted for murder after they allegedly killed a woman who walked in on them living in her mother’s New York City apartment, police sources told ABC News. The victim, Nadia Vitel, a 52-year-old woman from Spain, came to the U.S. to prepare her mother’s Manhattan apartment for a […]
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The long-awaited bipartisan government funding package bill text was released early Thursday morning, and Congress is now racing to meet Friday’s deadline to avert a partial government shutdown. The $1.2 trillion package — considered a major bipartisan effort in the highly divided House — provides funding for […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Brett McAlpin was sentenced to about 27 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, on Thursday for his role in the torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. McAlpin is the fifth of six former […]