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Senate Republicans blocked a bill on Friday to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot. Six Senate Republicans broke from party leadership to vote in favor of the commission. Supporters of the January 6 commission — including the mother of a Capitol Police officer who died the day after the riot
Continue ReadingSenate Republicans blocked a bill on Friday to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot. The vote on the January 6 commission was 54 to 35, showing the bill had a bipartisan majority of support with six Republicans voting with Democrats. However, the bill needed 60 votes to advance.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO KTVK) — At just 19 years old, Luis Gastelum has responsibilities not many teens can relate to. Two years ago, the immigrant from Mexico came to Arizona for a better life. When he isn’t studying or playing soccer, he is working to provide for his 14-year-old
Continue ReadingAn Iowa jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a farm worker accused of abducting and fatally stabbing 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in July 2018. The verdict is expected to be announced shortly. Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, admitted in an August 2018 interview with
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — A $5,000 reward is being offered to find the person responsible for a fatal hit-and-run that killed a baby girl on Chicago’s Near West Side. It happened in the 300-block of South Western Avenue early Thursday morning. Chicago police said just after midnight, a black
Continue ReadingThe Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning that events associated with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre could be targets for racial violence, according to a source familiar with the warning. These events “probably are attractive targets for some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to commit violence,” the Wednesday
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — A wild crash involving a possible drunk driver could be just the start of a dangerous Memorial Day weekend. The wreck happened around 2 a.m. Friday when police say a Ford Mustang heading southbound on Smith Street collided with an SUV going eastbound on Elgin.
Continue ReadingAlthough “Oslo” takes place nearly 30 years ago, recent events in Israel and the Palestinian territories reflect how timely the issues at the core of this HBO movie — a stark adaptation of the Tony-winning stage play — remain. Chronicling the back-channel efforts to forge an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, the film considers the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LEBANON JUNCTION, Kentucky (WLKY) — In Kacy Tongate’s hometown of Lebanon Junction, ticks are expected but he says this year it’s worse than usual. “We can walk to the mailbox down the gravel driveway and come back with ticks on us,” said Tongate. “They fall out of the
Continue ReadingA year ago, you’ll recall that our family lives were in chaos. We were managing the initial shock and fear of quarantine life. We were adjusting to working from home and acclimating ourselves to Zoom calls and daily life in front of screens. Stress ran high in households as families were, often for the first
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MILTON, Massachussets (WCVB) — A Massachusetts mother is fighting the Department of Conservation & Recreation plan to remove a roadside memorial put in place to remember her daughter killed in a crash five years ago. The memorial, located in the median of Truman Parkway in Milton, was placed
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PIKESVILLE, Maryland (WBAL) — People might be talking about the cicadas, but in Pikesville, some fourth graders are singing about them. “It’s a cicada,” is the title of the No. 1 hit song going around the Krieger Schechter Day School in Pikesville, where music teacher Sara Fuld dusted
Continue ReadingAround 400,000 people have fled the city of Goma and its surroundings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the threat of another volcanic eruption at Mount Nyiragongo looms, a provincial government spokesperson said Friday. Maj. Njike Kaiko Guillaume, spokesperson for the military governor of North Kivu, said that the Volcanic Observatory of
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris on Friday became the first woman to give the commencement speech at the United States Naval Academy when she addresses the 2021 graduating class. During the speech, Harris touched on some of the biggest threats to the nation and its armed forces, including the pandemic, cybersecurity and climate change. One White
Continue ReadingA federal judge granted a request by prosecutors in New York to appoint an independent person to review materials seized from Rudy Giuliani‘s home and office in late April. In a decision posted Friday, US District Judge Paul Oetken said he agrees a “special master” is necessary to “ensure the “perception of fairness” in the
Continue ReadingA crucial Senate vote on a bill to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot is under way Friday, but the bill appears on track to fail due to a lack of Republican support. Supporters of the investigation are expected to fall short of the 10 GOP votes they
Continue ReadingThe hackers behind one of the worst data breaches ever to hit the US government have launched a new global cyberattack on more than 150 government agencies, think tanks and other organizations, according to Microsoft. The group, which Microsoft calls “Nobelium,” targeted 3,000 email accounts at various organizations this week — most of which were
Continue ReadingBitcoin investors have sold in May. It remains to be seen if they’re going away for good. Bitcoin prices fell 8% Friday and have plunged about 36% in May — their worst monthly performance since September 2011. A steady torrent of bad news has sent bitcoin spiraling downward since it hit an all-time high above
Continue ReadingIt had all the hallmarks of a Hollywood premiere: Excited crowds, a giant screen, even a red carpet. But the high-octane, big budget film making its debut at the Barthélemy Boganda stadium in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), recently wasn’t the latest episode in a star-studded action movie franchise. Instead, the
Continue ReadingAn Iowa jury resumed deliberations Friday in the murder trial of a farm worker accused of abducting and fatally stabbing 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in July 2018. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, admitted in an August 2018 interview with police that he followed Tibbetts while she was out for an
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