As many as 25 were injured when the deck of a beach-front home in North Carolina collapsed during July 4 festivities on Saturday evening.
The US Congress gave final approval to a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine late Tuesday, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bill and begin delivering fresh supplies this week to the war zone as Russia makes battlefield gains.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited Washington in December to plead for fresh aid, quickly thanked US lawmakers for passing the bill, saying on social media that he looks "forward to the bill being signed soon and the next mili
A look at what's in the $95 billion package passed by the Senate on Tuesday that will provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and give humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza. President Joe Biden has promised to sign the package Wednesday. The overall amount provided to Ukraine for the purchase of weapons would be $13.8 billion.
A former cameraman for Megan Thee Stallion alleges that he was trapped inside a moving vehicle with the hip-hop star in a foreign country while she had sex.
In her primary victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, first-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Summer Lee not only far outperformed her lone challenger across the District, but she was also on track to far surpass her own win in the primary two years ago. The Associated Press called the race for Lee at 9:21 p.m. ET, when she led Edgewood Borough Councilmember Bhavini Patel, 59% to 41%, with more than half of the vote reporting. Lee was ahead in both vote-rich Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, and in Westmoreland County, where she was trounced in the 2022 primary.
Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of Northern Ireland's main pro-UK unionist party appears in court on Wednesday over alleged sex offences that have rocked the region's politics.The resumption of power-sharing led to Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill making history by becoming Northern Ireland's first pro-Irish nationalist leader.
Joe Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it.
A commencement speech that President Joe Biden is expected to deliver at Morehouse College next month has sparked some concern among the school’s faculty amid heightened tensions on college campuses across the country over the US’ continued support for Israel in its war in Gaza.
A woman who filed a lawsuit against former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, accusing him of sexual assault and battery, is now facing criminal fraud charges. Darcy Adanna Esemonu is accused of engaging in “fraudulent schemes and artifices” against Bauer and a second person.
A painting by symbolist icon Gustav Klimt that reappeared after nearly a century will be sold at auction in Vienna on Wednesday despite questions surrounding its provenance.The auction house estimates its value at 30-50 million euros ($32-53 million), but Klimt works have sold for higher prices at recent auctions.
Three years ago, Derrick Evans was taking part in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, joining hundreds of other Donald Trump supporters who refused to accept his defeat in the presidential election. Evans is not the only January 6 veteran using the assault on the Capitol as an argument for election.
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Thorn announced Tuesday that Meta, Google, Microsoft, CivitAI, Stability AI, Amazon, OpenAI and several other companies have signed onto new standards.
Steven M. Frid, the former executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, was fired after less than a year in the position.
Migrants, vaccines, pedophilia rings -- old conspiracy theories are resurfacing ahead of the US election despite being repeatedly debunked, in what researchers call "zombie" falsehoods that appear to resonate with polarized voters.Yet it later grew into the sprawling QAnon conspiracy movement, which gained popularity ahead of the 2020 election.
Colombian guerrilla fighters, who long used kidnapping to raise cash and gain negotiating clout, have turned to a new type of hostage: the Amazon rainforest.The guerrillas also charge a percentage on production of coca -- the leaf used to make cocaine -- and on illegal miners advancing ever deeper into the rainforest, said Ebus.
India’s capital choked on toxic fumes Tuesday, as a thick and pungent haze spread from a fire at a towering trash dump, the latest in a series of landfill blazes that authorities have struggled for years to bring under control.
The USPS announced on Tuesday it will follow through with its plan to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, a move that drew bipartisan ire from Nevada lawmakers while raising questions about the rate at which mail ballots can be processed in a populous part of a crucial swing state. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has cast the permanent measure as a cost saving move, but federal, state and local lawmakers have complained about a lack of transparency in the process that could slow mail throughout the region. Under the plan, all mail from the Reno area will pass through Sacramento before reaching its destination — even from one side of the city to the other.
The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market.Under the bill, ByteDance would have to sell the app within a year or be excluded from Apple and Google's app stores in the United States.
The Senate passed a foreign aid package Tuesday that includes money for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region.
Although it was not the only factor in the race, the Israel-Hamas war undoubtedly hovered over the contest.
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