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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two people were killed and two others — including a toddler — were injured in a mass shooting in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., authorities said. At about 11:22 a.m. Thursday, three people got out of a car with what authorities believe were rifles and “shot up the […]
Natalia Kolesnikova via Getty Images (LONDON) — The espionage trial of The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich resumed on Thursday, proceeding behind closed doors in a remote Russian courtroom after Washington and Moscow officials each raised the potential for the journalist to be part of an international prisoner exchange. Gershkovich’s court date had been moved […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE, W.I.) — The fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention is a buildup to tonight’s highly anticipated prime-time address from Donald Trump. It will be the former president’s first public speech since he narrowly escaped an attempt on his life Saturday at his rally in Pennsylvania. He has said […]
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (BUTLER, P.A.) — Investigators working to determine a motive behind the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump found a message posted to the gaming platform Steam that they believe was authored by the suspect, in which he said that “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds,” […]
Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Babies born to women who received a COVID-19 vaccine in their first trimester did not have a significant increased risk of birth defects, a new study found. For the study, published Wednesday evening in the journal The BMJ, researchers used national public health registries in Denmark, Norway […]
ABC News (MILWAUKEE, W.I.) — As Donald Trump made his way into the Republican National Convention on Monday, his first public appearance since the attempted assassination attempt on him, the delegates greeted him with thunderous applause. Then came booming chants of what’s become a steady rallying cry — complete with raised fists — for the […]
Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A nearly complete stegosaurus skeleton sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York on Wednesday for a record $44.6 million — the most ever paid for a fossil. The dinosaur, nicknamed “Apex” — which lived between 146 and 161 million years ago in the Late Jurassic […]
ABC News (MILWAUKEE, W.I.) — The Republican National Convention is bringing a hoard of die-hard Donald Trump supporters from across the country to Wisconsin, where some residents are echoing they’re support for the former president. At Milwaukee Public Market, ABC News asked local voters who they plan to support in the 2024 election. “Donald Trump, […]
Mare Island Navy Yard (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were unjustly court-martialed in 1944 following the Port Chicago explosion in California that killed 320 people. The sailors had been punished for refusing to go back to work in what they considered to be an unsafe environment. Their prosecution took […]
Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On Saturday, roughly an hour before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump — President Joe Biden was in the midst of a heated phone call with moderate House Democrats. The Zoom call, according to multiple sources, did not go well for the president. The call was […]