‘My life was destroyed’: Survivors, loved ones struggle a year after Buffalo shooting
John Normile/Getty Images(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Since the May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, those who narrowly escaped with their lives and the loved ones of the 10 Black people gunned down by a white supremacist teenager say …
Biden and McCarthy meeting on debt ceiling, weeks away from deadline to avoid crisis
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday afternoon with congressional leaders at the White House — as a fast-approaching deadline looms to either increase the nation’s borrowing limit or risk an unprecedented and …
More say politics, not the law, drive Supreme Court decisions: POLL
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Ten months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, two-thirds of Americans continue to oppose its decision — and 51% now think its justices base their rulings mainly on …
After three shootings in 30 minutes, Kansas City’ suffers another violent weekend
kali9/Getty Images(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — Kansas City suffered a violent weekend as three separate shootings impacted the city’s downtown over 30 minutes late Sunday.
The shootings come as Kansas City, Missouri, has already faced a violent year, with 59…
FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of allowing 1st over-the-counter birth control pill
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Medical and scientific experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of allowing a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription.
The vote could sway the FDA, which…
FTX crypto collapse: Sam Bankman-Fried seeks to dismiss most criminal charges
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Sam Bankman-Fried on Monday sought to dismiss most of the criminal charges he faces in connection with the collapse of FTX, the crypto exchange he founded.
Bankman-Fried filed a motion to dismiss 10 of the 13 counts he faces, inc…
Officials blast New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to send migrants to their counties
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Officials representing some New York suburbs have rebuked New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to send migrants to their towns for shelter.
Rockland County’s top official declared a state of emergency on S…
Angelina Jolie urges women to ‘go for mammograms and blood tests’
The Good Brigade/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Angelina Jolie paid tribute to her late mother this week, 15 years after her death from cancer, and encouraged other women to “go for mammograms and blood tests or ultrasounds.”
Mammograms are the recommended…
Blinken facing contempt of Congress threat over cable tied to Afghanistan withdrawal
State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain(WASHINGTON) — The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is threatening to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt if he doesn’t turn over subpoenaed documents tied …
Angelina Jolie honors late mother’s ovarian and breast cancer battle
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesAngelina Jolie took to Instagram on Monday to pay tribute to her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of breast and ovarian cancer in 2007, at age 56.
“Tomorrow would have been my mother’s 73rd …