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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was in the news for his arrest for sex trafficking and eventual death in 2019, Democrats distanced themselves from the onetime donor, disavowing his campaign contributions and condemning conservative conspiracy theories about his death. Six years later, many Democrats and party leaders […]
Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald via Getty Images (BOSTON) — A woman who served on the grand jury as part of the high-profile investigation into Karen Read — who was acquitted of murder charges last month in the death of her boyfriend — agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge she leaked information from the secret […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The U.S. military presence in Los Angeles is being reduced by almost half as the Pentagon confirms that 2,000 California National Guard members are being withdrawn from the mission to protect federal buildings and personnel that followed protests of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Los Angeles. “Thanks to […]
Murat Usubali/Anadolu via Getty Images (FALL RIVER, Mass.) — The Massachusetts assisted-living facility that caught fire Sunday evening, leaving nine dead, was slated to undergo a recertification and compliance review process later this year. “Gabriel House is up for recertification in November 2025 and is on the list of compliance reviews to be conducted this […]
J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) –The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the Department of Education. The move allows the administration to proceed, for now, with mass firings that slashed nearly half of the agency’s workforce in March as well as other actions, such as shifting management […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As federal authorities continue to crack down on the spread of fentanyl across the country, the Drug Enforcement Administration is warning about a surge in the use of methamphetamine, with DEA officials expressing particular concern over meth-laced pills being sold as drugs like Adderall to college-age adults. “What we’ve seen here […]
Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images (HUNT, Texas) — Camp Mystic’s executive director Dick Eastland began evacuating campers approximately 45 minutes after the National Weather Service issued an alert about a “life-threatening flash flooding,” according to an Eastland Family spokesperson. The catastrophic flooding that continues to threaten central Texas left 27 dead at Camp Mystic, […]
Robert Knopes/UIG via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — While the U.S. Department of Education cannot be dissolved completely under the law, the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to lift an injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the agency took the first step in that direction — a move that could ripple to students around […]
WABC (NEW YORK) — The extreme rainfall that occurred in the Northeast on Monday will likely occur more often in the future as a result of climate change, research shows. The Northeast has experienced the largest regional increase of extreme precipitation in the U.S., with a 60% increase in recent decades, according to the U.S. […]
KABC (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) — Two people have been found shot to death in a Los Angeles home during a welfare check, police said. Police found the victims while responding to the home in Encino on Monday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. They both had gunshot wounds to the head, police said. […]
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