Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that he will invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress — a move that comes days after Senate Majority Chuck Schumer called for Israel to hold a new election seen as a way to replace Netanyahu. “WeRead More →
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the so-called “Ghost Army,” its World War II mission of fooling the enemy was so secret because most of the people who knew about it took it to the grave. A secret no more and nearly 80 years after theRead More →
Boise Police Department (BOISE, Idaho) — An inmate who escaped from an Idaho hospital with an accomplice who opened fire on the correction officers transporting him in a “brazen” attack have been captured, Boise police said. The Idaho Department of Correction inmate, Skylar Meade, and shooting suspect Nicholas Umphenour wereRead More →
WABC (NEW YORK) — Two squatters are wanted for murder after they allegedly killed a woman who walked in on them living in her mother’s New York City apartment, police sources told ABC News. The victim, Nadia Vitel, a 52-year-old woman from Spain, came to the U.S. to prepare herRead More →
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced to decades in prison during hearings in federal court in Jackson this week for their roles in the torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Four of the former officers were sentencedRead More →
Caspar Benson/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Chicago officials and community members are grieving the loss of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins who police say was fatally stabbed while trying “to protect his mother” in a domestic violence incident. Crosetti Brand, who Perkins’ mother has an order of protection against, allegedly broke into theirRead More →
Hoover Police Department (HOOVER, Ala.) — An Alabama woman who lied about her kidnapping was ordered to pay nearly $18,000 in restitution and sentenced to probation during a court appearance on Thursday, ABC News has confirmed. Carlee Russell was charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police inRead More →
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The long-awaited bipartisan government funding package bill text was released early Thursday morning, and Congress is now racing to meet Friday’s deadline to avert a partial government shutdown. The $1.2 trillion package — considered a major bipartisan effort in the highly dividedRead More →
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Brett McAlpin was sentenced to about 27 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, on Thursday for his role in the torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. McAlpin isRead More →
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s request for a lengthy adjournment of his criminal hush money trial in New York based on recently disclosed potential evidence is “a red herring” and part of a “strategic delay,” prosecutors said Thursday in a court filing. Tens of thousandsRead More →
