An Alabama man who avoided execution in February was put to death Thursday for the 1991 killing of a woman who was abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery. Willie B. Smith III, 52, received a lethal injection at a prison in southwest Alabama. He was pronounced …
Read More »School boards are a “battleground” in closing weeks of Virginia governor’s race
As the race for Virginia governor tightens, the state’s school board meetings have become a political battleground, and the center of the closing argument by Republicans. Huyen MacMichael, a mother in the Virginia exurb of Loudoun County, says the school board meetings there have grown toxic since the pandemic, with …
Read More »Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe and wife arrested for trying to sell submarine secrets to foreign power
A Maryland-based Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested on charges of selling secret information about the design of nuclear power warships to someone they thought was a foreign power but was actually an undercover FBI agent. The Justice Department claims Jonathan Toebbe, through his Pentagon-issued national security …
Read More »Democrats negotiating over Biden’s agenda face another obstacle: Federal funding for abortions
The cost of the bill containing President Biden‘s social safety net agenda is not the only flashpoint in the negotiations between moderate and progressive Democrats: a disagreement has emerged over whether a ban on federal funding for abortions — shorthanded in Congress as the Hyde Amendment — should be included in the …
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A 13-year-old boy was injured Thursday morning in a shooting at a Memphis, Tennessee elementary school. Police locked down the building and took the suspected shooter, another student, into custody later in the day, according to the Memphis Police Department. Police from four Memphis stations responded to an active shooter …
Read More »McConnell stops Schumer’s latest attempt to raise debt ceiling
Democrats are trying to come up with another way to raise the debt limit after Republicans blocked their latest effort Tuesday. The U.S.is now heading toward default in just a few weeks, which could have catastrophic economic consequences, government officials and economists warn. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday …
Read More »Britney Spears’ father criticizes potential replacement and pushes to end conservatorship
Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, is claiming the man nominated to replace him is not qualified to serve as a conservator of the pop star’s estate, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles on Monday. Britney and her attorney recently nominated John Zabel, a certified public accountant, to replace …
Read More »Many Haitian migrants in Texas border town of Del Rio being released into U.S.: report
Del Rio, Texas — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion. Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” …
Read More »Gavin Newsom weighs in on Trumpism and the stakes of the California recall election
Less than 24 hours after California voters overwhelmingly rejected a recall effort against him, Governor Gavin Newsom was gratified by his big victory but doesn’t think it dealt a mortal blow to Trumpism. Newsom told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett in an exclusive interview that the stakes of …
Read More »U.S. to deliver over 500K Pfizer COVID
The United States is set to deliver 503,100 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the Republic of Kosovo this weekend. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the news to Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu during a phone call Friday. The doses, which are expected to arrive Saturday, will come through COVAX …
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