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The 4 Charlotte police officers injured in shootout are now home recovering
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All four Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers who were hospitalized after suffering injuries in last week’s deadly shooting in east Charlotte are now at home recovering, the CMPD said ...Read more
Marjorie Taylor Greene pauses effort to oust Speaker Johnson after meeting
WASHINGTON — Last week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would bring forward a motion to remove Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker when the House reconvened Monday evening, but those plans have been on hold following ...Read more
Pro-Palestine protesters stage daylong rally at UCF, call for divestiture
ORLANDO, Fla. — Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters called for the University of Central Florida to divest itself from companies with ties to Israel and urged a ceasefire in Gaza during a day-long on-campus rally ...Read more
Mayor Adams gives NY Gov. Hochul pass on remarks about Bronx Black kids not knowing what 'computer is'
NEW YORK — A day after Gov. Kathy Hochul said Black kids in the Bronx don’t know the meaning of the word “computer,” Mayor Eric Adams gave her a pass on the gaffe, saying Tuesday he knows the governor’s “heart....Read more
911 callers describe 'gruesome' scene, police say man ate victim's face in killing
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police on Tuesday released recordings of 911 calls made by two convenience store employees reporting an attack on a customer, and later the “gruesome” scene that police allege involved the same ...Read more
GOP House lawmaker unveils resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar
Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska released a resolution Tuesday in an attempt to censure Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar following remarks she made about Jewish students during a visit to Columbia University last month....Read more
San Jose's latest plans to fight homelessness: Sanctioned encampments, bus tickets out of town
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose officials are proposing to spend $120 million over the next fiscal year to combat homelessness — about 2% of the city’s expected $5.3 billion budget.
In addition to funding ongoing ...Read more
Illinois hemp businesses owners call for regulation and taxation, not prohibition
The last thing most business owners want is to be taxed and regulated, but hemp business owners are asking for just that — as a way to keep their industry alive.
Hemp entrepreneurs came out Tuesday in favor of a state ...Read more
Could Biden stop Netanyahu’s plans? A national security expert looks at Israel’s attack on Rafah
Israel entered Rafah, a city that marks Gaza’s southern border crossing with Egypt, on May 7, 2024, launching a military offensive that the U.S. and others have cautioned Israel not to pursue.
President Joe ...Read more
Proposal aimed at quieting anti-abortion protests outside Chicago clinic moves forward in City Council
CHICAGO — Recurring anti-abortion protests outside a downtown women’s health clinic may soon be dampened by a new ordinance limiting nearby loud sounds.
Protesters have targeted the West Loop’s Family Planning ...Read more
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UCLA detectives use Jan. 6 tactics to find masked mob who attacked pro-Palestinian camp
LOS ANGELES — It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens ...Read more
Adre 'Psycho' Baroz sentenced to life in prison for 5 Colorado murders
DENVER — Adre Baroz, nicknamed “Pyscho,” was sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 homicides of five people in Colorado's San Luis Valley, according to court records.
Baroz, 29, received five life sentences ...Read more
Police: Videos show beating of 13-year-old Connecticut girl; kids chant 'George Floyd' as victim can't breathe
HARTFORD, Conn. — Two Connecticut women and 10 juveniles are facing multiple charges after a video of a violent assault of a teen went viral, police said.
On the morning of April 30, Officer Daquan Stuckey of the New ...Read more
Judge in Trump's classified documents case postpones May trial indefinitely
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case issued an order Tuesday postponing the May 20 trial date. The order did not set a new date.
U.S. District ...Read more
Body of 6th and final victim recovered from Key Bridge wreckage Tuesday
BALTIMORE — Authorities on Tuesday found the body of José Mynor López, the final victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to be pulled from the Patapsco River.
Six weeks to the day since a massive cargo ship ...Read more
GOP lawmakers want to expand NC ban on public masking, ending health and safety exemption
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New legislation proposed by GOP state lawmakers would repeal the health and safety exemption from the state’s longstanding ban on mask-wearing in public.
The “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” bill, ...Read more
Missing Florida woman's husband spray-painted cameras at her apartment in Spain, left with a suitcase, complaint says
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A woman thought she was being helpful when the Serbian man she had met on a dating app asked her to translate a message into Colombian Spanish, saying he needed it for a novel his friend was ...Read more
California police officers won't be forced to disclose their gender identity to state officials following lawsuit
California police officers will no longer be required to disclose their own gender identity when they report details of traffic stops to the state in an effort to end a lawsuit over the issue.
Sacramento County Superior ...Read more
NYCLU asks court to suspend Nassau County's trans sports ban
The New York Civil Liberties Union argued Tuesday that a judge should suspend Nassau County’s sports ban on transgender women and girls.
The civil liberties group made its case in a court more than 10 weeks after ...Read more
'Lost' satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years -- until now, scientists say
An experimental spy satellite that was deemed “lost” after eluding detection for decades has finally been found.
“The S73-7 satellite has been rediscovered after being untracked for 25 years,” astrophysicist ...Read more
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