Authorities on Wednesday seized 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills that had been stuffed inside candy boxes at Los Angeles International Airport, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said. At around 7:30 a.m. local time, a suspect tried to go through security with several bags of candy and “miscellaneous snacks,” the sheriff’s department …
Read More »Trump critical of “U.S. Jews” in social media post
Former President Donald Trump wrote that “U.S. Jews have to get their act together” on his social media platform Truth Social Sunday morning, saying “no President has done more for Israel than I have.” “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – …
Read More »American Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Miami after people on board get sick
An American Airlines flight departing from Miami was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday evening, CBS Miami reports. Flight 338 was on its way to Barbados when it returned to Miami International Airport after multiple people became sick, the station said. Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue said firefighters began patient …
Read More »Prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed, subject of “Serial” podcast, in 1999 killing
Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.” Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced the decision during a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Mosby told reporters that new DNA tests found a “DNA …
Read More »Appeals court agrees to speed up Justice Department’s appeal of order appointing outside arbiter in Trump documents dispute
Washington — A federal appeals court in Atlanta agreed to speed up consideration of the Justice Department’s appeal of a lower court order appointing an outside legal expert to review the documents seized by the FBI at former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the …
Read More »Biden’s student
President Biden’s plan to erase up to $20,000 in student loans will require millions of borrowers to fill out an application to receive approval, a step that will likely be available within days. The application will open in October, which will be a “short online application,” the Department of Education said on …
Read More »Candidates recognize the power of TikTok, “for better or worse”
Wade Herring didn’t know the teenage voter who approached him at a restaurant over the weekend. But she knew Herring, a Democrat running for Congress in Georgia, from his campaign videos on TikTok. To Herring, a 63-year-old Savannah attorney, it was proof of TikTok’s precision-guided ability to reach young voters …
Read More »6 police officers shot dead amid cartel turf war in northern Mexico: “Cowardly attack”
Gunmen on Wednesday killed six police officers in a northern Mexican state where rival cartels are fighting over drug trafficking routes, authorities said. Five of the officers were shot dead while training at a sports center in Calera de Victor Rosales, the Zacatecas state government said. Two more law enforcement …
Read More »Investors yank $138 million from company planning merger with Trump’s Truth Social
Investors have pulled almost $140 million in commitments to a “blank-check” company planning a merger with the parent company of Donald Trump’s Truth Social forum, the latest stumbling block for the proposed deal. Digital World Acquisition Corp., a so-called special-purpose acquisition company, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that unnamed …
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A former Kansas police detective accused of preying on Black women and girls for decades will be released from jail pending his trial on charges involving two accusers who say he repeatedly sexually abused them, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S Magistrate Judge Rachel Schwartz acknowledged the allegations against Roger …
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