A woman who confessed to ditching her 2-month-old son’s body in a dumpster last year after he died in his sleep was reportedly stabbed to death by the child’s father, police said. LaDonia Boggs, 39, was allegedly stabbed to death inside a Washington, DC apartment on Wednesday, Metropolitan Police said in a news release. Police […]
President Joe Biden is pushing a legislative package that would allow the US government to sell yachts and other assets seized from Russian oligarchs and use the proceeds to pay for military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. ‘We’re going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill-begotten gains of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s […]
Wisconsin prosecutors say the 14-year-old boy accused of murdering Iliana ‘Lily’ Peters, 10, left the home they were at together with the intent of raping and killing her. The state of Wisconsin requested a $1million bond for the teenage suspect, who was arrested and charged with homicide and sexual assault in Chippewa County after his […]
The US is out of the pandemic phase of the coronavirus, according to the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Dr Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, made the declaration on Tuesday, more than two years after the widespread Covid-19 outbreak. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff asked Fauci: ‘Here we are. It’s the end of […]
A US Marine who has been held in Russian custody since 2019 was released Wednesday in a surprise prisoner swap between the Kremlin and the Biden administration. The news comes after years of advocacy from his family in Texas and recent reports that his health was quickly deteriorating. ‘Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and […]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin appealed his conviction and sentence for the 2020 murder of George Floyd in a court filing Monday. In the appeal, Chauvin’s lawyers raise over a dozen issues regarding the proceedings, claiming they were tainted due to pretrial publicity and protests outside the courthouse. His attorneys are asking the court […]
An air ambulance helicopter crashed in upstate New York on Tuesday afternoon, killing two people. The Mercy Flight helicopter was on a training mission and dropped from the air around 1pm in the town of Elba, according to New York State Troopers. ‘At this point we don’t know why the helicopter went down,’ Major Eugene […]
A woman fell head-first into a vault toilet at a national forest after apparently trying to use her dog’s leash as a harness to lower herself and try to retrieve her dropped phone. The unidentified woman in her 40s was using the toilet at the top of Mt Walker at Olympic National Forest in Washington, […]
President Joe Biden has announced $800million more in military aid to Ukraine, as well as a plan to bring Ukrainian refugees to the US. The additional funding sends ‘an unmistakeable message to Putin: He will never succeed in dominating and occupying all of Ukraine’, Biden said from the White House on Thursday morning. Biden’s announcement […]
A black Pennsylvania police officer was caught on camera punching a Black Lives Matter protester to the ground during a rally against police violence. The officer, identified by the Pittsburgh City Paper as Seth Taylor, was captured on video confronting a protester during a rally on Saturday in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg. Officers had […]