The Ohio House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to expel a powerful Republican lawmaker, nearly a year after he was arrested and charged in a $60 million corruption scheme while serving as House speaker. The 75-to-21 vote to expel the lawmaker, Larry Householder, came after a vigorous debate among his fellow Republicans who control the […]
Morgyn Arnold is a natural cheerleader. She grew up supporting her six older siblings at sporting events in Utah and followed in her father’s and sister’s footsteps by becoming a cheerleader herself. For Morgyn, who has Down syndrome, being on the Shoreline Junior High School cheer squad gave her a chance to make friends and […]
The drunken driver who plowed a sport-utility vehicle into a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis on Sunday night, killing a woman and injuring several other people, was charged on Wednesday with intentional second-degree murder, the authorities said. The demonstrators had been protesting the death of Winston Smith, a Black man who was shot by members […]
MEXICO CITY — Construction errors led to the May collapse of an overpass in Mexico City’s subway system that killed 26 people and injured scores more, according to the preliminary results of an independent investigation released by the city’s government on Wednesday. The report, produced by the Norwegian risk management company DNV, suggests that serious […]
A 20-year-old man has been convicted of murder for his role in a mass shooting at his Colorado high school in which one student was killed and eight others were injured in 2019. Devon Erickson was 18 when he and another teenager, Alec McKinney, entered the STEM School Highlands Ranch, where they were students, and […]
Congress has adopted legislation to formally designate the site of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., as a memorial to the 49 people who were killed there on June 12, 2016. By Michael Levenson Five years after a gunman attacked a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., killing 49 people and wounding dozens more, Congress […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Justice Department closed its criminal investigation into whether a book by John Bolton about his time as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser illegally disclosed classified information, and dropped a civil lawsuit, Bolton’s lawyer said on Wednesday (June 16). The lawsuit had sought to recover money Bolton made from the […]
GENEVA (BLOOMBERG) – US President Joe Biden said he confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about human rights violations in Russia at a summit on Wednesday (June 16), including the cases of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny and two detained Americans. Biden said he also gave Putin a list of 16 sectors of “critical infrastructure” that […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – A US hospital on Wednesday (June 16) gave the first infusion of an expensive, controversial new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen before Medicare had even said what it will pay for – and with some doctors upset by its approval last week. Mark Archambault, a 70-year-old realtor from Wakefield, Rhode Island, was […]
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up their first summit on Wednesday at the historic lakeside Villa La Grange in Geneva after four hours and held symbolically separate press conferences afterward. Speaking first, Putin said in Russian, ‘our meeting took place in a constructive spirit’, according to an interpreter. ‘Both sides […]