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SNCF employees and French gendarmes inspect the scene of a suspected attack on the high speed railway network at Croiselles, northern France on July 26, 2024. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Arson attacks on France’s rail network have taken place in what authorities are calling a “massive attack to destabilize the […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor swears in Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during the Presidential Inauguration, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden gave an Oval Office address to the nation Wednesday night to explain why he dropped out of the presidential race and outline what he […]
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — Several people were taken to the hospital after an escalator caught fire at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey told ABC News. The small fire in Concourse C sent smoke billowing through the airport’s Terminal […]
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson will make a trip out West late Thursday to visit the southern border shared with California and Mexico — an effort to take criticisms of the Biden administration’s border policies outside Washington, D.C. The visit will include a press conference along a border fence called “Whiskey 8” […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Connecticut woman was found dead at her home on Wednesday, hours before she was scheduled to be sentenced for killing her husband. Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in March in the 2017 death of her husband, 84-year-old Pierluigi Bigazzi, according to the Connecticut Division of […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on stage at a speaking event in upstate New York in 2022 now faces federal terrorism charges, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was indicted by a grand jury on three counts, including attempting […]
Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Project 2025, a 922-page playbook of controversial policy proposals intended to guide the next conservative administration, is gaining attention as the presidential election campaigns heat up. Project 2025 has been authored by at least two dozen members of Donald Trump’s administration and allies, organized […]
NASA via AP (NEW YORK) — Boeing Starliner’s first astronaut-crewed capsule, which launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, remains docked at the station with no official return date, NASA said Thursday. “We don’t have a major announcement today relative to a return date,” NASA Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stich said […]
Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office via AP (UVALDE, Texas) — A former Uvalde, Texas, school district police officer pleaded not guilty to the 29 counts against him on Thursday as families of the Robb Elementary School victims looked on. Two teachers and 19 students were killed in the May 24, 2022, mass shooting. Law enforcement waited […]
Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Joe Biden at the White House Thursday to discuss the U.S.-Israeli relationship amid tensions over the ongoing conflict in Gaza and a changing political landscape in the U.S. “Welcome back, Mr. Prime Minister. We got a lot to talk about,” […]