IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Minneapolis shooter ‘expressed hate towards almost every group,’ official says 04:10 Vance says Minneapolis church shooting is part of ‘mental health crisis’ in America 01:41 Now Playing Video shows children fleeing from Annunciation Church after shooting 00:53 UP NEXT Officials recover 120 shell casings after …
Read More »Top Stories
Trump eases rules for hiring temporary immigration judges
The Trump administration has taken another step in exerting more control over immigration courts by relaxing qualifications for the hiring of judges. On Thursday, the administration implemented a rule that allows the Justice Department to hire attorneys without immigration law experience to serve as temporary immigration judges. “This rule will enable the Director, with the approval of the Attorney General, …
Read More »Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms
The Air Force has offered full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was fatally shot by police as she stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot four years ago, officials said Thursday. Babbitt, 35, was an Air Force veteran who went to Washington to protest Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, her family has …
Read More »U.S. shoppers see order cancellations as world shuts down American-bound shipments
U.S. shoppers ordering smaller goods from abroad are being met with waves of cancellation notices ahead of a key trade rule change ordered by the Trump administration. On Friday, the United States will end the nearly century-old de minimis exemption, which allowed items worth less than $800 to be shipped to the country duty-free, or without having to pay any …
Read More »Former Major League Baseball player Mark Teixeira announces Texas congressional bid
Former Major League Baseball All-Star Mark Teixeira, who played for the New York Yankees the last time they won the World Series in 2009, announced Thursday that he’s running for a House seat in Texas and is echoing President Donald Trump’s agenda in his campaign launch. “As a proud Texan and lifelong conservative who loves our country, I’m ready to …
Read More »Spikes, a tail weapon and a shield: Was this the world’s weirdest dinosaur?
“We just couldn’t believe how weird it was and how unlike any other dinosaur, or indeed any other animal we know of, alive or extinct,” said Richard Butler, project co-lead and a paleontologist at the University of Birmingham in England. The chance to see and study the Spicomellus fossils was “spine-tingling,” said Butler. It wasn’t just those involved in the …
Read More »White House says it fired transportation regulator in latest move to reshape Trump government
WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that it has fired a member of the Surface Transportation Board, a move that comes as the independent federal regulatory agency is considering the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroad companies. “Earlier this evening, I received an email from the White House purporting to terminate my position at the Surface …
Read More »Fed governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over ‘unprecedented and illegal’ effort to fire her
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, the beginning of a landmark legal battle over what she calls Trump’s “unprecedented and illegal” efforts to remove her from the central bank and the committee that makes decisions about the nation’s interest rates. Cook also seeks an “emergency temporary restraining order, to remain in effect until such time …
Read More »News group stopped sharing Gaza locations with Israel after ‘so many journalists’ killed in IDF strikes
JERUSALEM — “So many journalists were killed in IDF strikes,” international news agency Reuters has told NBC News, that it stopped sharing the locations of its teams in the Gaza Strip with the Israeli military. The news agency’s cameraman, who regularly operated its live position on the roof of Nasser Hospital, was one of 5 journalists among 22 people killed …
Read More »Miss Hall’s School abuse survivors working to protect teens from predator teachers
They led the charge to sound the alarm on and rid Miss Hall’s School of a teacher who they allege preyed on them. They felt validated when an independent investigation concluded that administrators at the posh private Massachusetts school failed to protect them and other female students from an accused sexual predator. But Melissa Fares and Hilary Simon say the …
Read More »