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Gary Hershorn/Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Southwest Airlines plane descended to a dangerously low altitude as it made its approach to the Oklahoma City Airport just after midnight Thursday, according to the FAA. An automated warning went off from the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning system at 12:05 […]
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is raising his debate expectations for President Joe Biden a week ahead of the two men facing off, and after spending months describing him as a weak, mentally unfit leader. “I assume he’s gonna be somebody that will be a worthy debater. … I don’t want […]
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — The man accused of murdering a Maryland woman in 2023 is an undocumented immigrant who was arrested and expelled at least three times, according to an ICE official. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez is accused of murdering Rachel Morin in August of 2023. He was arrested last week by authorities […]
Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — A smaller number of the women voters who cast ballots for President Joe Biden in 2020 said they’d vote for him again in 2024 than the share of women voters who supported former President Donald Trump in 2020 who said they’d do so again this year, according to a […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Thursday moved to dismiss the charges against most of the pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University and nearby City College, though prosecutors are moving forward with cases against a handful of protesters who allegedly assaulted police officers. Prosecutors said they’re hamstrung by “extremely […]
Getty Images – STOCK (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Several civil liberties groups say they are poised for a legal battle over Louisiana’s new law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments one day after the law was signed by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. The groups – including The American Civil Liberties Union, […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden won the coin toss to secure a podium position on the right side of the stage during the CNN debate next week, but by doing so gave Donald Trump the final closing statement of the 90-minute matchup. According to CNN, the coin landed on tails — the […]
ABC (CHICAGO) — Chicago’s mayor and police superintendent are outraged and searching for a killer after a 7-year-old boy was fatally shot in the chest in a random act of gun violence. The boy left his apartment to visit a next-door neighbor Tuesday afternoon, and when he reached the sidewalk, shots rang out, Chicago police […]
Getty Images – STOCK (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana public schools and colleges will be required to post an image of the Ten Commandments next year after a controversial bill was signed into law Wednesday. Under H.B. 71 public classrooms starting from kindergarten to the collegiate level must have a poster of the Commandments up […]
MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new, giant-horned species of dinosaur was discovered that researchers said is the “largest and most ornate” of its kind ever found, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PeerJ. Fossils of the dinosaur, which has been named Lokiceratops rangiformis — including a skull and […]
