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Joe Raedle/Getty Images (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is experiencing five “small” helium leaks as its first astronaut-crewed flight test continues, the aerospace company and NASA said in an update on Monday. While a major milestone was reached when Starliner successfully docked and delivered two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) […]
Getty Images – STOCK (ATLANTA) — A fight sparked a shooting that injured three people in a food court at a downtown Atlanta shopping center on Tuesday afternoon, according to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. An altercation between two people broke out at the Hub at Peachtree Center, and then one person pulled out a handgun […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 24-year-old Texas man was charged on Tuesday with brazenly selling illegal guns and firearm parts while locked up in a Louisiana prison. Prosecutors revealed he communicated with self-professed white supremacist Payton Gendron before the teenager’s 2022 racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket. The suspect, Hayden Espinosa […]
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse on July 26, 2023 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Mark M (WILMINGTON, Del.) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on three felony charges related to his efforts to obtain a […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (DETROIT) — Three lottery players calling themselves The Breakfast Club have won one of the largest lottery jackpots in U.S. history. Michigan Lottery Commissioner Suzanna Shkreli announced at a Tuesday morning press conference that The Breakfast Club had won the Michigan Lottery’s $842.4 million Powerball jackpot – the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot ever […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the second time in as many years, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has defeated a fierce primary challenge in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district. With 27% of the vote reporting as of 8:40 p.m ET., the Associated Press projects Mace will win South Carolina’s first district with an outright majority […]
Ross Lewis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Nathan’s Fourth of July hot dog eating contest no longer cuts the mustard for all-time eating great Joey Chestnut. The 16-time winner of the contest, including every year since 2016, will not be competing at this year’s contest, according to Major League Eating. And it’s all over his […]
Getty Images – STOCK (DETROIT) — School officials are investigating after a now-former employee at a Michigan middle school allegedly choked a 14-year-old student with a shirt, in an incident captured on surveillance footage. The employee is no longer working at Ypsilanti Community Schools “effective immediately,” the school district said Monday. The alleged “assault” occurred […]
Getty Images – STOCK (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — South Carolina’s Department of Education has decided to eliminate Advanced Placement African American Studies in its high schools, saying districts can choose to offer it instead as a locally approved honors course without college credit. The move has been criticized by free speech and civil rights groups including […]
ABC (ATLANTA) — One person was fatally shot in connection with a bus hijacking that prompted a police chase through two Georgia counties on Tuesday, authorities said. The incident began at approximately 4:35 p.m. ET in downtown Atlanta, when police responded to a report of gunfire on a Gwinnett County Transit bus and a “possible […]
