: Senator John Thune (R-SD) at the annual GRAMMYs on the Hill Advocacy Day on Capital Hill on April 19, 2018 in Washington, DC. Capitol Hill’s largest and most prestigious legislative event for music creators. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/WireImage for The Recording Academ (WASHINGTON) — With critical food assistance benefits […]
In this handout satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Melissa churns through the Caribbean Sea, captured at 15:20Z on October 28, 2025. NOAA via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At first light on Wednesday, the coastal communities of southwestern Jamaica bore the devastation of […]
Jemal Countess/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two men hired by Iran in a failed plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident, author and activist, at her New York City home in 2022 were sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday. A Manhattan federal court jury convicted Rafat Amirov […]
A one-story beach cottage fell into the Atlantic Ocean on the Outer Banks March 13, 2023, the fourth home to collapse into the sea on Hatteras Island in the past year. (Daniel Pullen/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Several more North Carolina homes have collapsed into […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane — one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin — and is now continuing its path of destruction through the Caribbean. Melissa tore through Jamaica on Tuesday with 185 mph […]
Officials in Pennsylvania are searching for Jairo Eliazar Ramirez-Lima, a man with “multiple active arrest warrants, including federal ICE detainers” who escaped police custody while handcuffed, according to the East Pikeland Township Police Department. (East Pikeland Township Police Department) (NEW YORK) — A man in Pennsylvania with multiple warrants, including […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two federal prosecutors were informed Wednesday that they will be put on leave after filing a legal brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as being carried out by “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters,” sources familiar […]
kali9/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A crew dressed in neon construction vests stole a safe containing jewelry — valued at more than $3.2 million — from a home in Queens, New York, after breaking in through a back door, police said Tuesday. The theft occurred on Oct. 16, just after […]
Isaiah Jamon Andrews in a police photo. (Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff) (CONSTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif.) — Police are looking for a murder suspect who they say was accidentally released from a California jail. Isaiah Jamon Andrews, 20, was mistakenly released from the Martinez Detention Facility, according to […]
In this July 30, 2024, file photo, Donna Massey, the mother of shooting victim Sonya Massey, is comforted during a press conference at New Mount Pilgrim Church in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images, FILE) (NEW YORK) — Closing arguments began Tuesday morning in the trial of a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy […]
