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Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is putting Washington, D.C. police “under direct federal control” — invoking Section 740 of D.C.’s Home Rule Act, which deals with control of the city’s police force. “We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United […]
ABC News (PITTSBURGH) — One person has died, two are believed to be unaccounted for and dozens are hurt following an explosion at a Pennsylvania steel plant on Monday, Allegheny County police said. The blast at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works plant in Clairton, about 15 miles outside of Pittsburgh, trapped people under rubble, […]
(CLAIRTON, Pa.) — A rescue operation is underway for people trapped under rubble following an explosion at a Pennsylvania steel plant, county officials said. It’s not clear how many people are trapped from the blast at the US Steel Clairton Coke Works plant in Clairton, about 15 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Allegheny County Director of […]
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday previewed his highly-anticipated meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, saying he’s hopeful for “constructive conversations” but that it isn’t up to him to make a peace deal. Trump confirmed last week he would sit down with Putin in Alaska as his imposed deadline for Moscow to […]
The deaths of two South Carolina women are being investigated as a possible homicide after their bodies were found in a rural, wooded area on Aug. 8, according to the Sumter County Coroner’s Office. Sumter County Sheriff’s Office (SUMTER COUNTY, S.C.) — The deaths of two South Carolina women are being investigated as homicides after […]
Erin – Fifth Named Storm Map. ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season by Wednesday and could become a major Category 3 hurricane by the weekend. But as of now, Erin is not expected to post a direct threat to the U.S. […]
Maryland State Fire Marshal (BALTIMORE) — Six people are dead after a house fire broke out in Waldorf, Maryland, early Sunday morning, officials said. Around 8:40 a.m., the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department and several surrounding departments responded to a report of a dwelling fire with entrapment. The victims were two adults and four children, according […]
Pablo Alcala/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Image (WASHINGTON) — Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision. Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who […]
Courtesy Baltimore Police Department (BALTIMORE) — A 38-year-old man was killed and five other people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, in a “mass shooting” in a Baltimore neighborhood Saturday night, police said. The gunfire broke out shortly before 8:50 p.m. as people near the intersection of Spaulding and Queensberry Avenues gathered outside to have […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said he will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Aug. 15 in Alaska. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great […]
