LAW Ho Ming/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Poverty in New York City is rising at a startling rate and it’s affecting the city’s most vulnerable residents — children, according to a newly released report. More than half of New York City residents, including a quarter of all children, live inRead More →
James C Hooper/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Investigators believe they have solved a decades-old cold case, identifying the woman who allegedly killed her newborn baby and left her in an Arizona airport bathroom in 2005. The baby’s mother, 51-year-old Annie Anderson, is in custody in Washington state on a warrant relatedRead More →
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in an interview Wednesday that she agrees with an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered people in the state. “Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News. “When you talk about an embryo, you areRead More →
Mark Makela/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A 19-year-old has been charged with first-degree theft and unauthorized use of a vehicle in connection with the break-in of a Secret Service limo in November outside President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden’s home in Washington, court records show. Robert Kemp, a 19-year-old Washington resident,Read More →
Douglas Graham/Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — Republican businessman Eric Hovde officially entered the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin this week, touting his entrepreneurial success as he tries to topple two-term Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin and help his party retake one half of Congress. “Our country is facing enormous challenges: our economy,Read More →
U.S. Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, according to a newly announced superseding indictment. Prosecutors in Manhattan say that beginningRead More →
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas Attorney General’s office is suing to shut down a well-known Catholic nonprofit that helps to shelter migrants in El Paso, Texas. Officials from the AG’s office visited Annunciation House on Feb. 7, demanding it provide extensive documentation that included the identitiesRead More →
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in a new interview that she agrees with an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered people in the state. “Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News. “When you talk about an embryo, you areRead More →
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — James Biden, the president’s younger brother, told lawmakers at a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the president “has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest” in his family’s business ventures — a key point Republicans areRead More →
Stella/Getty Images (OWASSO, Okla.) — Investigators in Owasso, Oklahoma, are investigating the death of a nonbinary student one day after a physical altercation with other students. There are conflicting reports regarding the student’s name and gender identity, and they are believed to be part of the transgender and gender nonconformingRead More →
