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Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former president Donald Trump is facing criticism for recent comments made about the Jewish community in which he claimed a Jewish American who votes for a Democrat is “an absolute fool.” The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a global Jewish advocacy group, condemned Trump’s comments. “At a time when antisemitism is […]
shaunl/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — A 6-month-old boy has died after he was left in a hot car in Arizona for about seven hours, authorities said. The incident unfolded after the mom asked a neighbor to drive her to Prescott Valley on Tuesday, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said. The baby was in his car seat […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LONDON) — A 17-year-old male has been charged with the murders of three young girls in a knife attack in Southport, England, and 10 counts of attempted murder, officials said Wednesday night. Police said the accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would face Liverpool Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, Aug. 1. […]
Paul Whelan, a former US Marine accused of spying and arrested in Russia stands inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow on Aug. 23, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday were engaged in an extraordinary, 24-prisoner exchange, the […]
Moscow City Court Press Service/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Here’s a look at the Americans returning to the United States as part of the prisoner exchange with Russia happening Thursday. Evan Gershkovich The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter was sentenced last month to 16 years in a Russian penal colony on charges of […]
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York appeals court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s effort to throw out the limited gag order in his New York criminal “hush money” case. A panel of five judges from New York’s mid-level appeals court rejected Trump’s argument the gag order was no longer necessary […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disorganized cluster of showers and thunderstorms near Puerto Rico that could develop into a tropical system near the Southeast early next week. There’s a 20% chance of this forming into a named storm in the next two days. But as it moves toward […]
Stockbyte/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is conducting successor programs with implications that he has his 11-year-old daughter Kim Ju Ae in mind “as of now” to be his successor, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a closed-door briefing to the members of the National Assembly on […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is celebrating a prisoner swap that freed several wrongfully detained American citizens held in Russia, including Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, saying Thursday “their agony is over.” “Today, three American citizens and one American green-card holder who were unjustly imprisoned in Russia are finally coming home: Paul Whelan, […]
Ukrainian servicemen of the Shkval special battalion, 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade, ex-convicts, take part in military exercises at an unspecified location in the Donetsk region, July 26, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images) (SOLOTVYNSKA, Ukraine) — The barbed wire fence stretches along the bank of the river that marks Ukraine’s western border. Across the water, […]
