A truck driver was shot by law enforcement after attempting to back his vehicle into a police checkpoint outside a Coast Guard base. On Thursday night, hours after protests against plans to move roughly 100 federal agents to Coast Guard Base Alameda outside San Francisco, California, a U-Haul attempted to back into a police checkpoint […]

President Donald Trump sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday in a drastic escalation of their feud. Tensions had been rising for months over Petro and Trump’s major divergence in approach around the War on Drugs. Several hostile moves from each side culminated in the U.S. sanctioning the head of what was, in previous years, […]

Washington, D.C.’s delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, was scammed by a fake cleaning crew, and police alleged it may have been connected to her reported dementia. Norton, 88, has served in her position for over 34 years, and she has repeatedly rebuffed calls to step down even as elderly leaders face growing pressure to […]

The New York Knicks sent New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani a cease-and-desist letter after he ran an ad using their logo. Mamdani’s campaign aired an ad on the Knicks’ season opener on Wednesday night, featuring the team’s iconic logo altered to have “Zohran” replace the central “Knicks.” It was spread over the campaign’s […]