Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As a new school year begins in New York City, advocates are calling on the city to boost its services for the thousands of migrant children enrolling in classes. New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks told reporters […]
PA State Police via X (POCOPSIN TOWNSHIP, Pa.) — As a Pennsylvania manhunt for an escaped killer went into its seventh day Wednesday, an investigation has found he followed a strategy used by an inmate who bolted from the same county facility in May, officials said. Fugitive Danelo Cavalcante absconded from […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (HONOLULU) — The father of a woman who died in Maui’s wildfires has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Maui County and the state of Hawaii accusing them of negligence and wrongful conduct in allowing the fires to ignite or spread without being contained or suppressed. Harold Dennis […]
Dylan Buell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some of the world’s most contentious land battles may take place at a baseball field’s home plate. Now Major League Baseball is turning to cameras and computers in an effort to settle some of those fights over balls and strikes. MLB is testing a new […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro “acted as if he was above the law,” prosecutors told jurors Wednesday during Navarro’s trial on charges of defying a subpoena issued in February 2022 by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Navarro, who under […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (MADISON, Wisc.) — A man has been arrested for allegedly beating and sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Madison police announced at a news conference Wednesday. The victim, a woman in her 20s, was found around 3:20 a.m. Sunday off-campus on a block in downtown Madison, police […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now churning in the Atlantic, is forecast to quickly intensify to an extremely dangerous major hurricane. Lee, which strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Wednesday, will likely become a major hurricane by Friday and a Category 4 hurricane with winds […]
Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal Constitution/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A Fulton County judge has ordered two defendants in the Georgia election interference case to stand trial together on Oct. 23. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said he was “very skeptical” of District Attorney Fani Willis’ desire to try the […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) — Police in San Antonio are searching for a man and woman who were kidnapped from their home Wednesday morning. Officers responded to the couple’s home around 6 a.m. and found five children — believed to be the victims’ — inside and unharmed, San Antonio police […]
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel David Weiss intends to bring an indictment against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden by the end of this month, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Weiss’ office did not clarify what charges he might bring or where they might be filed. […]
