A mother and daughter were among the victims killed Monday by an 18-year-old gunman indiscriminately shooting into people’s cars and houses in Farmington, New Mexico, officials said at a news conference on Tuesday. Three people were killed and two police officers were wounded before the gunman was killed, officials said. …
Read More »Washington — A man wielding a metal baseball bat attacked two members of Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly’s staff at his district office in northern Virginia on Monday morning, according to police. U.S. Capitol Police identified the suspect as 49-year-old Xuan Kha Tran Pham of Fairfax. He is in custody and faces …
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Former President Donald Trump was found liable for battery and defamation in a civil trial in Manhattan that stemmed from allegations he raped author E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The jury of six men and three women awarded Carroll $5 million in damages …
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Gone are the days when customers tipped a waitress who served them by putting cash directly in her hand. Now, point-of-sale kiosks prompt people for tips — even if the customer didn’t interact with a human. The problem with tipping at a self-checkout machine is there’s no proof the money …
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The alleged driver of a U-Haul truck that plowed into cyclists, pedestrians and two police officers, in an incident authorities called a “violent rampage” through Brooklyn earlier this year, was indicted Monday on murder and attempted murder charges. Weng Sor, a 62-year-old former resident of Las Vegas, is accused of …
Read More »Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey. The state’s attorney general said …
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Washington — A Rhode Island software company commissioned by Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign to investigate claims of election fraud was subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year, according to the firm’s founder. Ken Block — a software engineer and politician who once ran for governor of the …
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After 4 1/2 half months of testimony, arguments and sealed hearings, the jury in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case will finally begin deliberations Wednesday morning. Defense attorneys for Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio delivered closing arguments today in the long trial, laying the blame for Jan. 6 squarely at Donald Trump’s …
Read More »Fort Lauderale, Fla. — A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered extreme emotional trauma. After Marilyn Jones’ husband of 55 years, Robert …
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Jury selection began Monday in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Robert G. Bowers, who is from the Pittsburgh suburb of Baldwin, faces 63 counts in the …
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