James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images (SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office in New York lacks the resources to meet “ambitious” deadlines imposed by the judge overseeing the Gilgo Beach serial killing case, DA Ray Tierney said Wednesday. Tierney called on the Justice Department to release some money tied up […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Special counsel Jack Smith is urging the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case to reject an effort by Trump’s attorneys to throw out obstruction-related charges brought against him following a Supreme Court ruling this summer that narrowed the statute’s use against Jan. 6 […]
Florida Highway Patrol (TAMPA, FL) — The former owner of a dog that was left tied to a post off a Florida highway in floodwaters ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall has been arrested for animal cruelty, officials announced Tuesday. The dog was found up to its chest in floodwaters off […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHOENIX, AZ) — A disabled Black man in Arizona faces multiple charges after a pair of Phoenix police officers punched him and shocked him with a stun gun. Tyron McAlpin, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, faces charges of felony assault and resisting arrest. The incident, […]
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Pentagon on Tuesday granted honorable discharges to more than 800 veterans who were separated from the U.S. military because of their sexual orientation during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which was in effect from February 1994 to September 2011. More […]
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — For a second day this week, Vice President Kamala Harris is focusing on a key voting bloc that is a critical base for the Democratic Party: Black men. On Tuesday, Harris will participate in an audio town hall event with Charlemagne tha […]
Jim Vondruska, Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for the first time this cycle, will soon hit the campaign trail with former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, according to a senior campaign official. The vice presidential nominee will be out with […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to say if he’s been in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left the White House but said it would have been smart if he had. “Well, I don’t comment on that, but I will tell […]
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images A suspect remains at large after a shooting at a California college critically injured an employee, school police said. The shooting occurred at the Center for Media and Design, a Santa Monica College satellite, in Santa Monica shortly before 10 p.m. local time, school police […]
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Ninety-two people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina in the wake of the “catastrophic disaster” left behind by Hurricane Helene, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday. The number will continue to fluctuate as new reports come in and other reports are resolved, Cooper said. Ninety-five people in […]
