Human remains found in rural woods in Alabama have been identified as missing 5-year-old Taylor Williams, authorities said. Confirmation of the missing child was performed through DNA analysis of the remains. The little girl’s cause of death has not been released, pending the active investigation, It’s also not clear how long the 5-year-old had been dead by the time she was found. ...Read Full Story
The House Judiciary Committee is set to take over the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump next week. The scheduled Dec. 4 hearing will question of “high crimes and misdemeanors” set out in the Constitution, and will feature legal experts who will examine the constitutional grounds for impeachment.. ...Read Full Story
An 11-year-old boy who was shot while attending a birthday party in Cleveland over the weekend has died.. ...Read Full Story
Uber’s license to operate in London will not be renewed after regulators found at least 14,000 scammed trips over the last year. Transport for London (TfL) found a “pattern of failures” which led to risks in passenger safety and security, after unlicensed and uninsured drivers used a loophole in Uber’s software to steal rides from authorized vendors.. ...Read Full Story
A second suspect was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama college student Aniah Blanchard. The Auburn, Alabama, Police Department, along with the US Marshals Task Force, arrested Antwain Shamar Fisher, 35, of Montgomery and charged him with first-degree kidnapping. Fisher, who also goes by the nickname “Squirmy,” is being held in the Lee County Jail.. ...Read Full Story
A second suspect was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama college student Aniah Blanchard. The Auburn, Alabama, Police Department, along with the US Marshals Task Force, arrested Antwain Shamar Fisher, 35, of Montgomery and charged him with first-degree kidnapping. Fisher, who also goes by the nickname “Squirmy,” is being held in the Lee County Jail.. ...Read Full Story
Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has formally launched a Democratic bid for president, ending weeks of speculation. The 77-year-old former Republican announced his candidacy Sunday in a written statement posted on a campaign website describing himself as uniquely positioned to defeat President Donald Trump. “I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America,” Bloomberg wrote.. ...Read Full Story
Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.. ...Read Full Story
The Air Force said on Thursday that two U.S. airmen were killed while performing a training mission at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The base, located in Enid, is roughly 85 miles north of Oklahoma City. According to a statement from the base, two Air Force T-38 Talons, which are training aircraft, were involved in a “mishap” at approximately 9:10 a.m. local time.. ...Read Full Story
Buckingham Palace announced on Wednesday that Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will step away from his public duties as a royal. This comes following the fallout from his past friendship with late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. . ...Read Full Story
On Wednesday, Ambassador Gordon Sondland told House impeachment investigators that he worked with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine at the “express direction” of President Donald Trump and pushed for a political “quid pro quo” with Kyiv because it was what Trump wanted. Sondland testified of his dealings with Trump’s personal attorney that “Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the president.”. ...Read Full Story
On Tuesday, a White House official told impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate a political rival was an improper demand.. ...Read Full Story
Two federal prison staffers were arrested on Tuesday in New York and are expected to face charges related to their alleged failure to conduct regular checks on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein before he hung himself inside his Manhattan cell.. ...Read Full Story
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is no longer funding two organizations that oppose same-sex marriage, the company said Monday. The Atlanta-based restaurant chain has come under fire from LGBTQ+ activists for donating millions of dollars to two Christian charities: The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.. ...Read Full Story
Three people were shot and killed in the parking lot of a Walmart in Duncan, Oklahoma, on Monday morning. Police confirmed the fatalities, adding that the suspect is among the dead. The suspect’s identity has not been released. . ...Read Full Story
Two Arkansas college chemistry professors have been arrested on charges of making meth. The Clark County sheriff’s office says Henderson State University professors Terry David Bateman and Bradley Allen Rowland were arrested Friday on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and using drug paraphernalia.. ...Read Full Story
Protests in Hong Kong have intensified as police continued their standoff with students at Polytechnic University. The police had surrounded the university, in what has been a protest movement that is now in its sixth month. Police have been trying to disperse the protesters from the roads around Polytechnic, which is the last major university that is occupied by protesters.. ...Read Full Story
Two are dead and several others are injured after a shooter opened fire early Thursday morning at a high school in Southern California. The 16-year-old male suspect was taken into custody and is in the hospital in “grave condition” from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.. ...Read Full Story
Deval Patrick, the former two-term governor of Massachusetts and the state’s first black chief executive, formally announced a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.. ...Read Full Story
An American teacher was found bound and strangled in her apartment in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic National Police said Patricia Ann Anton, 63, was found dead in her apartment in Cabarete, on the country’s rural northern coast, with her hands and feet tied. Anton was robbed by unknown suspects of a cellphone, laptop, 40-inch television, sheets and a pair of sports shoes, police said.. ...Read Full Story
During testimony on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine linked the president more directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.. ...Read Full Story
Authorities said Tuesday that the mother of 5-year-old Taylor Rose Williams has been arrested and charged in connection with the girl’s disappearance. Hours before police announced the arrest, investigators found remains that they believe to be Taylor in rural Alabama. . ...Read Full Story
On Tuesday, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said in a court filing that he would not bring a lawsuit challenging a subpoena for his testimony in the impeachment probe into President Trump, adding that at the direction of the president he would not cooperate with the investigation.. ...Read Full Story
After a series of tweets blasting Apple’s new credit card for alleged gender discrimination, New York’s Department of Financial Services is launching an investigation. The Apple Card was launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs earlier this year. It uses an algorithm to assign credit limits, but many online pointed out it may favor men over women. . ...Read Full Story
Top Pentagon official Laura Cooper, who oversees U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed the relevant agencies to freeze aid to Ukraine over the summer,.. ...Read Full Story
A three-day search for a California hiker ended when he was found dead on top of a glacier in Sequoia and Kings National Park. Alan Stringer, 40, of Huntington Beach, was reported missing Monday evening when he didn’t return home after a hike. Investigators found his body Thursday at the top of the Darwin Glacier, which is near the base of Mount Darwin. Stringer had just recently bought hiking equipment and took mountaineering course, and did not tell anyone his hiking plans or potential routes. His vehicle was found shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, authorities said.. ...Read Full Story
Kaiser Permanente has confirmed that their chief executive and chairman, Bernard J. Tyson, died in his sleep early Sunday at age 60. His cause of death is unclear.. ...Read Full Story
On Thursday, House Democrats released the transcript of closed-door testimony by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat leading the House impeachment probe, announced earlier this week that the first open hearings will be held next week, when Democrats will continue with the public phase of their investigation.. ...Read Full Story
President Donald Trump has been ordered by a New York State judge to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement in a civil lawsuit stemming from persistent violations of state charities laws. The case was brought by the New York attorney general’s office after the Trump Foundation held a fundraiser for military veterans during the 2016 campaign. . ...Read Full Story
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony. The Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which criminalizes certain acts of animal cruelty.. ...Read Full Story
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, requested the secretary of state’s office to recanvass the vote totals after Tuesday’s night election ended with Democratic rival Andy Beshear being announced as the winner.. ...Read Full Story
An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected of stealing a car that belonged to a New Hampshire couple found buried at a South Texas beach. On Tuesday, the Kleberg County Sheriff’s Office in Kingsville, Texas, said that Adam Curtis Williams, 33, is wanted on felony theft charges. Authorities identified Williams as the man seen in a surveillance photo released Monday crossing the border into Mexico in a car that belonged to James and Michelle Butler, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave in Corpus Christi last week.. ...Read Full Story
Mexican military has confirmed that at least nine members of an American family, including six children, were killed in an attack in northern Mexico. The family was ambushed by an armed group while traveling from the town of Galeana in Chichuahua state to Bavispe in Sonora state between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. local time, according to Mexico’s security minister, Alfonso Durazo.. ...Read Full Story
A Colorado white supremacist was arrested before his planned attempt to bomb a historic synagogue, according to the FBI. . ...Read Full Story
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill has resigned. O’Neill plans to take a job in the private sector, and said during a press conference on Monday, “I came into this job with one mission: to fight crime and keep everybody safe, and we did it and continue to do it.”. ...Read Full Story
A US judge has temporarily blocked a rule proposed by President Donald Trump that would require immigrants to prove they will have health insurance within 30 days of arrival in the US, or can pay for medical care. Judge Michael Simon, a district judge in Oregon, granted a preliminary injunction against the proposal.. ...Read Full Story
McDonald’s chief executive officer Steve Easterbrook has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday. The fast food giant said the former president and CEO demonstrated poor judgment, and that McDonald’s forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect subordinates.. ...Read Full Story
A 14-year-old girl has been found safe, almost 10 days after she went missing along with a 34-year-old man in Virginia. Isabel Shae Hicks had last been seen on Oct. 21 at her home in Bumpass, Virginia, about 40 miles north of Richmond, police said. She “appeared unharmed,” according to authorities.. ...Read Full Story
The city of Chicago and its teachers’ union have reached a deal to end the teacher’s strike, compromising on the makeup days for the time the teachers spent on the picket line.. ...Read Full Story
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third consecutive time on Wednesday, but did not offer clues as to whether or not it will cut rates further.. ...Read Full Story
Twitter says the company will no longer accept political ads. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweetstorm on Wednesday, “We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.”. ...Read Full Story
House Democrats have released text of the impeachment resolution they plan to vote on, however when that vote will take place is still unclear. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi originally claimed the vote would be this Thursday. But on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer walked that back and said that not only was the vote “not an impeachment resolution” but that it might not be “ready to go on Thursday.” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday morning: “This is not an impeachment resolution. I don’t know what an impeachment resolution is.”. ...Read Full Story
Authorities have arrested the grandfather of an 18-month-old who fell out of a window on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico during a family trip in July. Puerto Rico’s Justice Department ordered the arrest of Salvatore Anello. He faces a charge of negligent manslaughter in the death of his granddaughter, Chloe Wiegand. While the vessel was docked in San Juan, Anello placed Chloe near an open window he thought was closed when her family said she fell out of the ship’s 11th story.. ...Read Full Story
With winds reaching hazardous levels in Southern California, the Getty fire in Los Angeles is growing, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. Burning in the hills north of Los Angeles’ famous Getty Center, the fire has consumed 400 acres. The Getty Center and Getty Villa are safe, but many houses were already affected by the fires.. ...Read Full Story
U.S. Coast Guard crews off-loaded millions of pounds of illegal drugs Monday. The drugs were seized recently off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America.. ...Read Full Story
At least two people were killed and 14 others were injured after a gunman opened fire at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party. The shooting occurred just before midnight Saturday at The Party Venue in Greenville, Texas, about 15 miles from the Commerce campus.. ...Read Full Story
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State. Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House: “A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. He will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place.”. ...Read Full Story
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution co-sponsored by more than three dozen of his colleagues condemning the House for a lack of transparency in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.. ...Read Full Story
On Thursday, California emergency officials ordered hundreds of people to evacuate as a growing wildfire spread in Sonoma County.. ...Read Full Story
Four American Airlines flight attendants are facing money laundering charges, after at least three of them were allegedly caught by Customs smuggling more than $20,000 into the United States.. ...Read Full Story
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump declared a “big success” in Syria and lifted sanctions on Turkey he imposed after Turkey’s military assault on Syria’s Kurdish forces, a key American ally. . ...Read Full Story
Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement to share control of Syria’s northern border – superseding the deal between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence that was reached last Thursday. The deal came just before the U.S.-Turkish halt in hostilities reached its deadline. A senior Trump administration official touting it as “one of the best ceasefires I’ve ever seen.”. ...Read Full Story
Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are facing additional charges in the nationwide college admissions scandal. According to court documents, the U.S. Attorney filed Federal Program Bribery charges against the couple for their alleged role in the scandal. Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, who were indicted in March, previously pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges.. ...Read Full Story
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a challenge to maps drawn by Republicans for state legislative and congressional district boundaries in Michigan. The Democratic voters who filed the lawsuit argued that the Republican-drawn voting maps would unduly weaken Democratic representation in the state.. ...Read Full Story
Just hours before a landmark opioid trial was schedule to being at an Ohio courthouse, major drug distributors and a manufacturer agreed to a tentative settlement. The settlement deal totals $260 million, according to multiple sources.. ...Read Full Story
Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died at 90. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday morning at his north Baltimore home after complications from a stroke. Pelosi said in a statement that she and her family are devastated, calling her brother “the finest public servant I have ever known.”. ...Read Full Story
Officials confirmed that three 3rd Infantry Division soldiers were killed and three others were injured after a training accident at Fort Stewart on Sunday morning.. ...Read Full Story
Juul Labs, a leading e-cigarette company, announced on Thursday that they will stop selling several flavored products in the United States. Only tobacco, mint and menthol flavors will remain for sale. Juul’s mango, creme, fruit and cucumber flavors have already been removed from the online store, the only place the company sold these products directly to 21-and-up consumers in the United States. It had pulled them from retail locations late last year. However, these flavored pods will continue to be sold abroad.. ...Read Full Story
Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria between its forces and their allied rebels and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds. Pence met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier on Thursday.. ...Read Full Story
General Motors and United Auto Workers have reached a tentative deal to end the nationwide strike, more than a month after nearly 50,000 workers walked off their jobs. The union said that the deal still has to be approved and ratified by the UAW GM National council.. ...Read Full Story
