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Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At least four senior House Democrats told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday that they are calling on President Joe Biden to step down from the presidential race, according to several sources with knowledge of the discussion on the private call. Reps. Jerry Nadler, Mark Takano, […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A senior Israeli official says the United States has begun slow-walking some military aid to Israel — an assertion senior U.S. officials denied was the case, in what’s perhaps more evidence that the relationship between the two allies is growing increasingly strained. The conflicting account came as Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]
avid_creative/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — University of Nevada, Las Vegas senior Mike Henderson had just left his classroom in Beam Hall and was in a hallway when he heard about eight gunshots on Wednesday. “An alert came to my phone from UNLV [saying], ‘Shots fired — run, hide, fight,’” Henderson said, and that’s when he […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, La.) — A Baton Rouge police deputy chief was placed on leave a week after his son, an officer with the department, was arrested for allegedly tasing and handcuffing a suspect, according to a source familiar with the situation. Troy Lawrence Sr. was placed on administrative leave while the department looks […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (ISLE OF PALMS, S.C.) — A South Carolina beach partially filled with high school students participating in a “senior skip day” descended into chaos Friday afternoon as gunfire injured at least six beachgoers. Isle of Palms Police Chief Kevin Cornett said that five of the six injured were teenagers, though one older beachgoer […]
RyanJLane/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, Frank Yiannas, has announced he is resigning from his post. His departure comes in the wake of last year’s infant formula shortage, throughout which Yiannas held a prominent leadership role. The decision also comes amid the ongoing HHS-OIG audit into whether the FDA […]
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