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FILE, Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images (WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Former President Donald Trump attended his son Barron’s high school graduation at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach on Friday, after the judge overseeing his hush money trial in New York granted him a day off court to allow him to attend. It was a break […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 50-year-old man has been taken into custody for allegedly assaulting actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month, authorities said. Buscemi was walking down the street just before noon on May 8 when he was punched in the face, suffering bruising, swelling and bleeding to […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Angela Alsobrooks emerged as the victor in a bruising Democratic Senate primary in Maryland — and now the state’s Democratic Party faces the challenge of reuniting to take on a formidable Republican opponent in the general election. Alsobrooks, a county executive in a Maryland suburb outside the nation’s capital, defeated […]
US Air Force (ATLANTA) — Dozens of Air Force members came together at a suburban Atlanta church Friday with the family and friends of Senior Airman Roger Fortson to honor the serviceman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff’s deputy on May 3. Fortson, 23, was in his home in […]
Courtesy of Kayleigh Dunn (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Alabama State University is partnering with private equity firm Neuberger Berman to manage the school’s $125 million endowment – making it the largest such partnership between a Wall Street firm and a public historically Black college and university (HBCU) ever. The new relationship is a “blessing,” according to […]
Alexander Spatari/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department issued a “Worldwide Caution” alert on Friday, warning U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution due to “the increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQI+ persons and events.” According to an administration official familiar with the matter, the alert is connected to the recent […]
ABC (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday said he is disappointed in the chaos and name-calling that happened during a raucous House Oversight Committee markup on Thursday night when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clashed over Greene’s comments that Rep. Jasmine Crockett wore “fake eyelashes.” “It was not a good look for […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A photo of an upside-down American flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife Martha-Ann in January 2021 has been obtained by The New York Times. The flag was “aloft on Jan. 17, 2021,” according to the NYT report, just days before President […]
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are pushing ahead with a bill to condemn President Joe Biden’s approach to Israel and force him to send arms shipments, even after the administration notified Congress about a new $1 billion weapons deal to the U.S. ally. The developments come amid continued fallout from […]
KABC-TV (IRVINE, Calif.) — Tensions at the University of California, Irvine campus escalated Wednesday as a group of several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters entered a lecture hall and surrounded the building, according to school officials. The Irvine Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department were called to the scene after the university called for mutual […]