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Kim Renyolds, governor of Iowa, center, during a news conference in Mission, Texas, Oct. 6, 2021. Texas Governor Abbott and Republican state chief executives from around the nation gathered at the border to again call attention to unauthorized immigration across the Rio Grande. — Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice […]
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — As anger over Israel’s military operations in Gaza mounted, students from Columbia University’s Apartheid Divest coalition assembled on the university’s South Lawn on April 17, demanding that school officials disclose its financial investments. A day later, at least 108 students were suspended and removed after the school’s president, […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Although congressional Republicans have been slamming President Joe Biden over his decision to withhold certain bomb shipments to Israel, such a move is not unprecedented, as they’ve claimed. Previous presidents, including Republican ones, have withheld aid to send a clear message to Israel and other allies, a foreign policy expert […]
Erik Jepsen/Board of Regents of the University of California (SAN DIEGO) — Scientists may have found the answer to manufacturing plastics products that actually break down without forming into microplastics, or tiny pieces of plastics that could linger for thousands of years. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and materials company Algenesis said […]
San Francisco Police Dept (SAN FRANCISCO) — Federal prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence for the man who was convicted of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacking her husband Paul with a hammer in 2022. The Department of Justice filed a sentencing memorandum Friday in anticipation of next week’s […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images/STOCK (CLEVELAND) — A late night shooting inside an Ohio movie theater has left one man dead, police said. The shooting took place at approximately 11 p.m. when the Massilon Police Department were notified of a shooting inside a Regal Cinemas movie theater in Massilon, Ohio — some 50 miles south of Cleveland. […]
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals court upheld the criminal conviction of ex-Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for contempt in October 2022, but U.S. District Judge […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After two days of dramatic testimony from Stormy Daniels, the hush money trial of Donald Trump finished up the week with a businesslike string of custodial witnesses. Before that, Friday started with the conclusion of the cross-examination of former White House aide Madeline Westerhout, who spoke glowingly of the […]
Getty Images – STOCK (BALTIMORE) — Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary is careening toward a bitter finish as voters decide who to nominate in an unexpectedly competitive race in the deep blue bastion. Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. David Trone are the two main contenders in a primary that has sparked debates over […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Judge Juan Merchan on Friday issued a warning to Michael Cohen ahead of his planned testimony next week in former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial, telling prosecutors to ask him to stop talking about the case after Trump’s team brought up his continued out-of-court statements following ABC News’ […]
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