Joel Angel Juarez for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON, DC) — Vice President Kamala Harris will do a series of moderated conversations with former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in suburban cities in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday — the day before in-personRead More →

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Members of the “Central Park Five” filed a defamation suit against former President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of spreading “false, misleading and defamatory” statements about their 1989 case during the Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate, according to a new court filing. Attorneys representing the fiveRead More →

Mario Tama/Getty Images (ASHEVILLE, N.C.) — Twenty-six people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina, weeks after the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene, officials said Monday. Last week, 92 people were unaccounted for, officials said. Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26, wreaking havoc across the Southeast from Florida toRead More →

Houston Fire Department (HOUSTON) — Four people, including a child, were killed when a helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston, officials said. The crash happened just before 8 p.m. Sunday when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston’s Second Ward, Houston police said. All four peopleRead More →

Tendaji Bailey (SAPELO ISLAND, G.A.) — The “catastrophic failure” of an aluminum ferry gangway caused the deaths Saturday of seven people who were attending an annual cultural event on historic Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, officials said Sunday. Three other people were critically injured and remained hospitalized SundayRead More →

Houston Fire Department (HOUSTON) — A helicopter that crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, Sunday left four people killed, including a child, officials said. The crash happened at approximately 7:54 p.m. local time, when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston’s Second Ward, Houston police saidRead More →

Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rick Singer, the man convicted of orchestrating the so-called “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, has continued to advise prospective undergraduates on their college applications while serving his sentence in federal prison in Florida, and now from a California halfway house. Singer,Read More →

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images (LOUISVILLE, KY) — Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the federal retrial of Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police officer accused of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors in 2020, when Taylor was shot and killed in a botchedRead More →