A Texas man has been charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in connection with a shooting near the Washington Monument that unfolded as Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade passed through the area, according to federal authorities. Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, allegedly opened fire Monday afternoon near the National Mall, shooting […]
Controversial “looksmaxxing” streamer Clavicular is facing criminal charges after he allegedly shot a dead alligator in the Florida Everglades. The Kick streamer, whose real name is Braden Peters, 20, hosted the stream in March while on a boat in the Everglades. The clip went viral and caused uproar online. Court records show that Miami-Dade State […]
North Korea quietly dropped its longtime goal of Korean reunification from its constitution for the first time after 70 years, signaling a major change in its self-conception. An academic revealed at a press conference hosted by the South Korean Ministry of Unification that North Korea changed its constitution to drop its commitment to reunification, the […]
An illegal immigrant’s deportation case spiraled into controversy this week after the Department of Homeland Security publicly accused a federal judge of releasing a “wanted murderer” using information that government lawyers had been instructed to withhold from the court, leading to the judge on Tuesday referring a Trump administration attorney for a possible misconduct investigation. […]
A Texas jury sentenced former FedEx driver Tanner Horner to death for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand, capping an emotional, weeks-long trial in Tarrant County. Horner, now 34, had already pleaded guilty to capital murder before the trial began. After hearing evidence and testimony, jurors determined he posed a continuing threat […]
Spirit Airlines could have avoided its shutdown this past weekend if the business had merged with Frontier Airlines, according to a former executive who helped lead both companies. Barry Biffle, who resigned as Frontier CEO in December, said mass layoffs wouldn’t have happened if the Frontier-Spirit merger deal had been sealed. Frontier initially expressed interest […]
Vice President JD Vance scored a significant home-state political win on Tuesday after his preferred candidate for a statewide office defeated a rival backed by GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy and much of Ohio’s Republican establishment. Vance-backed Jay Edwards defeated Ramaswamy-endorsed Kristina Roegner in the Republican primary for Ohio state treasurer. Edwards won the race […]
Republicans in Tennessee’s state legislature released a new congressional map on Wednesday that would split Memphis’s congressional district and possibly give the GOP an additional seat. The map reveal follows President Donald Trump’s conversation with Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) last week, when the two discussed redrawing the Volunteer State’s maps to give Republicans “one extra […]
CNN founder Ted Turner, a media entrepreneur who launched the 24-hour cable news network in 1980, died Wednesday. He was 87. “Ted was an intensely involved and committed leader, intrepid, fearless and always willing to back a hunch and trust his own judgement,” Mark Thompson, Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide, said in a statement. […]
Federal agents executed search warrants Wednesday at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas as part of a reported corruption investigation involving the longtime Democratic lawmaker. The FBI carried out multiple court-authorized searches at Lucas’s office in Portsmouth, Virginia, while agents also searched a nearby cannabis dispensary located next door to the senator’s […]
