After meeting with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday for over an hour in a private Oval Office session, the family members of George Floyd said the president was still committed to passing a police reform bill, even as he missed his own self-imposed deadline of getting it signed on the one-year […]
A woman allegedly poured gasoline on her husband and lit him ablaze as the two argued about cell phone usage. Tiffany Hall, 36, was arrested on Sunday in connection with the domestic dispute and extensive burns her 62-year-old husband suffered. Deputies were dispatched to the 6900 block of Parks Road in Colebrook Township, Ohio, shortly […]
President Biden said Thursday he expected to release the results of an intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, even as administration officials said the inquiry was likely to extend beyond the initial 90-day deadline. Mr. Biden on Wednesday announced that he had ordered the intelligence community to undertake a renewed examination of […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The Associated Press has started a review of its social media policy after more than 150 staff members publicly condemned the firing of a young journalist for violating that policy. In a memo to its global newsrooms on Monday (May 24), The AP’s top editors said they had heard the concerns […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Senate on Thursday (May 27) advanced a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology, as Congress increasingly seeks to take a tough line against Beijing. Senators voted 68-30 to end debate on the US$250 billion (S$330 billion) US Innovation and […]
CLEVELAND (NYTIMES) – Ms Abbigail Bugenske, 22, had all but forgotten about her long-shot bid to become Ohio’s next millionaire. As the clock inched towards 7.29pm on Wednesday (May 26) night, the state was preparing to announce the winner of its first lottery drawing for vaccinated Ohioans live on television. Ms Bugenske was driving from […]
Darnella Frazier, the young woman who took out her cellphone on a Minneapolis street to record a video of a white police officer as he knelt on George Floyd’s neck that would ricochet around the world, released a powerful statement on Tuesday addressing the first anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s death. “A year ago, today I […]
Dr. Harvey Schlossberg, a former New York City traffic cop with a doctorate in psychology who choreographed what became a model law enforcement strategy for safely ending standoffs with hostage takers, died on May 21 in Brooklyn. He was 85. His death, at a hospital, was caused by cardiopulmonary arrest, said his wife, Dr. Antoinette […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A woman who worked at a law firm was deemed ‘stupid and lucky’ after climbing into a spider monkey zoo enclosure and allegedly feeding them Hot Cheetos. The woman was lucky to not have harmed herself or the monkeys, but […]
AUSTIN, TEXAS (NYTIMES) – More than 1 million people in Texas have permits to carry handguns. People often head into grocery stores, barber shops, even college campuses carrying guns for protection. In 2019, when a man in a trench coat opened fire with a shotgun in a suburban church outside of Fort Worth, more than […]