Four people have died and three others are critically injured from a car crash involving an alleged migrant smuggling operation in Texas. The crash occurred on Interstate 35 in Encinal, which is about 40 miles north of the US-Mexico border. ‘The driver suspected of human smuggling evaded law enforcement and crashed into a commercial vehicle,’ […]
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, making history as the first black woman to serve on the high court. Jackson, 51, was sworn in hours after the court issued its final two opinions for the term. Justice Stephen Breyer notified the White House on Wednesday that his […]
A young mother was fatally shot while pushing her 3-month-old infant in a stroller Wednesday night in Manhattan, officials said. The 20-year-old mother was shot in the head by a gunman who fired ‘from a very close range’ after approaching her around 8.23pm as she walked on East 95th Street in the Upper East Side, […]
Two victims among the four who died in an Amtrak wreck in Missouri have been identified as sisters who got up to use the restroom aboard the train. Rachelle Cook, 58, and Kim Holsapple, 56, of Desoto, Kansas, were on their first vacation in years. They were on their way to Chicago with their mother […]
Secret Service agents are reportedly willing to testify that ex-President Donald Trump did not lunge at them when they refused to take him to the Capitol riot, as a former White House aide has claimed. Reports of two Secret Service agents preparing to testify under oath came hours after Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide […]
The grandmother of the Texas school shooter, who was shot in the face by the gunman, has been discharged from the hospital after over a month of treatment. Cecila ‘Sally’ Gonzales, 66, had been receiving treatment at University Health in San Antonio since the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School. Gonzales was shot square […]
The sentencing hearing for Ghislaine Maxwell has begun in New York, where a federal judge shared the sentencing guideline would put the British socialite behind bars for somewhere between 15 and 19 1/2 years. The guidelines imposed by US District Judge Alison Nathan are about half the term sought by federal prosecutors. Meanwhile, attorneys for […]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has blamed President Joe Biden and his immigration policies for the deaths of 50 migrants whose bodies were found abandoned in a tractor-trailer in sweltering Texas heat. Hours after the horrific discovery was made in San Antonio, Abbot placed the blame on Biden. ‘These deaths are on Biden,’ Abbott wrote in […]
A federal appeals court has agreed to put a hold on the US Food and Drug Administration’s ban on Juul e-cigarettes. The Friday afternoon decision comes after Juul in the morning asked the court to block the FDA’s order for it to take all of its products off the US market. Details on the length […]
The Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v Wade may open the door for other rulings to be reconsidered, including those that protect access to contraception and allow for same-sex relationships and marriage. In Friday’s 6-3 ruling, the court ruled in favor of the state of Mississippi in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s […]