The mother of abducted American journalist Austin Tice is meeting with national security adviser Jake Sullivan Friday, a person familiar with the meeting told CBS News. Debra Tice claims President Biden has so far been unwilling to meet with her. Austin Tice, now 40, was abducted in Syria in 2012. …
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A man was charged after allegedly setting a huge Christmas tree outside the News Corp. building in New York City on fire early Wednesday, the NYPD said. The building is home to Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Police said Fox News security spotted …
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Oklahoma is suing the Biden administration over its federal coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal employees and the National Guard, the state’s Republican attorney general announced Thursday. “Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate ensures that many Oklahoma National Guard members will simply quit instead of getting a vaccine, a situation that will irreparably …
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Jonshel Alexander, a onetime child actor who played a supporting role in the 2012 Oscar-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” was killed in a weekend shooting in her native Louisiana. She was 22. Police said Alexander and a man were shot inside a vehicle Saturday in New Orleans and …
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A federal jury found white supremacists and neo-Nazi organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate, harass or harm ahead of the deadly weekend four years ago, and awarded plaintiffs $26 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The jury did not reach a …
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A young couple embarks on an overnight road trip and never returns. How did investigators finally find their killer? November 18, 1987: A young couple on the road Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Jay Cook, 20, left British Columbia and were Seattle bound in Cook’s parents’ van, …
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As the global shortage of semiconductors continues to stunt car sales, Ford Motor is teaming with a U.S. chipmaker to ensure its access to the essential vehicle components. Under an agreement announced on Thursday, GlobalFoundries will make semiconductors for Ford vehicles and collaborate with the automaker on research. Ford will initially use the …
Read More »Paul Rudd is People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2021. The 52-year-old actor was bestowed the title on Tuesday’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Before Colbert announced the big news, he teased other famous names who might be in the running, including Ryan Gosling — and even himself. …
Read More »Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s arraignment on a misdemeanor charge for forcible touching will be delayed until January after the Albany County district attorney raised concerns over potential procedural problems with the complaint filed last week, according to documents filed in Albany City Court. That complaint was filed by …
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A U.S. airstrike in Syria killed a senior leader of al Qaeda Friday, according to U.S. Central Command. The strike — carried out by an MQ-9 aircraft — took out Abdul Hamid al-Matar, according to a U.S. Central Command spokesman Army Major John Rigsbee. “The removal of this al Qaeda …
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