Biden slams short term health care plans as ‘a scam,’ touts jobs report as showing Bidenomics is working
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden didn’t mince words when it comes to his efforts to crack down on short-term health plans, calling them “a scam” and saying they can leave Americans “played for a sucker.”
“You know, in Ameri…
Lyft driver shot dead in DC amid surge in violence in the city
Metropolitan Police Department(WASHINGTON) — Police in Washington, D.C., are searching for the suspects who shot and killed a Lyft driver in one of many recent acts of violence in the city.
Nasrat Ahmad Yar, 31, was found shot in a car shortly after …
Hospital in Haiti suspends treatment after armed men storm facility, forcibly remove gunshot victim
Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Nearly two dozen armed men stormed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the Tabarre section of Port-au-Prince Thursday night, forcibly removing a gunshot victim as he…
California man arrested in connection with serial murders of Mexican strip club workers
US Department of JUstice(DOWNEY, Calif.) — A California man has been arrested in connection with serial murders targeting strip club workers in Mexico.
U.S. Marshals and the FBI on Thursday arrested 30-year-old Bryant Rivera, a U.S. citizen who lives…
‘The Wire’ creator David Simon wants mercy for man convicted of selling fatal fentanyl to Michael K. Williams
ABC/Lorenzo BevilaquaA call for leniency for one of the four men convicted in the fatal fentanyl poisoning of The Wire star Michael K. Williams has come from an unlikely place: the celebrated cop drama’s creator, David Simon.
The 54-year-old actor, wh…
Buttigieg touts rail crossing improvement, fields Interstate Bridge questions
PHOTO: U.S. Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-3rd Dist.) shares a light moment with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Both were in Washougal, WA to announce a $40 million grant to help replace a dangerous at-grade rail
Murder suspect escapes from jail weeks after captured following prior manhunt
Jamestown Police Department(JAMESTOWN, N.Y.) — Authorities are searching for a homicide suspect who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail just weeks after he was captured following a dayslong manhunt.
Michael Burham, 34, is a suspect in homicide and rape …
Hiker killed, two others injured in California mountain avalanche
STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images(BIG PINE, Calif.) — A summer avalanche took the life of a hiker and injured two others in California, investigators said.
The unidentified hiking party encountered a wet slide avalanche while descending Split Mountain on July…
What are cluster munitions? White House defends Biden decision to send controversial weapons to Ukraine
by Marc Guitard/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has decided to send U.S. stocks of cluster munitions to Ukraine amid its fight against Russia, the White House said Friday, defending the controversial move as urgently needed.
The weapon…
Experts warn of rise in scammers using AI to mimic voices of loved ones in distress
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Jennifer DeStefano answered a phone call from an unknown number earlier this year and was horrified to hear what sounded exactly like the panicked voice of her oldest daughter Briana, who was begging to be saved from kidnappers.
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