Seattle Council rejects drug possession/public use measure
Seattle City Councilmember Sara Nelson holds up a list of groups she says support her bill to criminalize public drug use and possession “Re-criminalizing” public drug use and small quantity possession fails to get all Seattle city
Canadian wildfire smoke updates: East Coast skies engulfed in dangerous haze
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Hazy and dangerous fumes from ongoing Canadian wildfires have engulfed the skies over most of the northeast coast, prompting serious air quality alerts for millions of Americans.
As of Tuesday evening, 17 states…
GOP revolt on gas stove vote shows fragility of McCarthy’s speakership: ANALYSIS
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The gas stove debate is boiling over, but it’s Kevin McCarthy’s speakership that may have been burned.
A procedural first step to take up GOP-backed legislation to prohibit the federal government from banning ga…
Family calls for arrest after Florida mother of 4 was killed in front of her children
Ben Crump Law(OCALA, Fla.) — The family of Ajike Owens, 35, and their attorney Anthony D. Thomas held a news conference on Monday demanding an arrest be made for the shooting death of Owens, a Florida mother of four. The Owens family is also being rep…
2 teens arrested in connection with spate of Houston bike trail robberies
KTRK(HOUSTON) — Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies along a popular Houston bike trail, as police look for more suspects in the attacks, authorities said Tuesday.
Since May 16, five people have been robbed and ass…
Chris Christie launches 2024 bid: Choose ‘big’ over ‘small,’ he says, slamming Trump as ‘mirror hog’
Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced on Tuesday that he is running for president, adding a firm anti-Trump voice to a still growing Republican …
Shooting reported at Virginia Commonwealth University; no ongoing threat
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(RICHMOND, Va.) — A shooting occurred at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond on Tuesday, the school said.
There is no ongoing threat following a “shooting incident” at the university’s Monroe Park campus, VCU said i…
Al Pacino calls baby news “very special”
Dominik Bindl/Getty ImagesFor the first time since news broke that the 83-year-old Oscar winner was going to be a father again, Al Pacino says the imminent bundle of joy is “really special.”
Pacino was out and about on a walk with a friend when a repo…
Timeline of plane crash outside DC that scrambled fighter jets raises questions
Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The chain of events set off by an unresponsive plane that eventually crashed Sunday in Virginia continues to raise questions about what happened on board and how the incident was handled.
Six …
2 shot at Maryland cemetery during burial of 10-year-old gun violence victim
Tetra Images/Getty Images(BOWIE, Md.) — Two people have been shot, one fatally, at a Maryland cemetery during the burial of a 10-year-old girl who fell victim to gun violence last month, according to police.
It appears Tuesday afternoon’s shooting at…