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ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 40 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday for his role in two attacks, including the torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Dedmon received the maximum sentence […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid a contentious election year debate over the future of U.S. auto manufacturing, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced new vehicle emissions standards that will pressure the industry to make more electric vehicles. “With transportation as the largest source of U.S. climate emissions, these strongest-ever pollution standards for cars […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday for his role in torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Opdyke is the third to be sentenced out […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Mega Millions jackpot is expected to climb to $977 Million for Friday’s drawing, after no single ticket won the jackpot on Tuesday, the lottery said. Winning numbers were drawn Tuesday evening for the Mega Millions $893 million jackpot. The winning numbers were 24, 46, 49, 62, 66 and […]
Hill Street Studios/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Businesman Bernie Moreno handily won Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, scoring a win for him and former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Moreno’s bid and campaigned with him in the race’s final stretch. Trump and President Joe Biden, meanwhile, coasted in presidential primaries held in five states Tuesday, though lingering […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Daniel Penny, the man who choked a homeless man to death last May on a New York City subway car, will stand trial beginning Oct. 8, a judge determined Wednesday. The trial will take between four and six weeks, according to Judge Max Wiley. Penny has pleaded not […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 1,200 of the nation’s public safety personnel died by suicide over a seven-year period, according to a report released by a nonprofit organization that tracks law enforcement suicides. From 2016 to 2022, there were 1,287 public safety personnel — identified in the report as law enforcement and […]
ABC News In a decision late Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that again blocks Texas from enforcing its strict immigration law, SB4. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court rejected a Biden administration request to intervene and keep Texas’s strict immigration enforcement law on hold while it is challenged in […]
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Five separate alleged human smuggling attempts at a single port of entry into the U.S. have been intercepted in less than 48 hours, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office. The five separate attempts occurred over the weekend starting Friday morning and carrying through until Sunday […]
Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Seven months after deadly wildfires ripped through Maui, state investigators are finalizing a comprehensive investigative report that is now set to be released on April 17, 2024, after a two-month delay. While several local agencies are reviewing the cause of the fires and the response, the Fire Safety Research […]
