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An 11-year-old boy who was shot while attending a birthday party in Cleveland over the weekend has died.... [Read Full Story]

Uber’s license to operate in London will not be renewed after regulators found at least 14,000 scammed trips over the last year. Transport for London (TfL) found a “pattern of failures” which led to risks in passenger safety and security, after unlicensed and uninsured drivers used a loophole in Uber’s software to steal rides from authorized vendors.... [Read Full Story]

A second suspect was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama college student Aniah Blanchard. The Auburn, Alabama, Police Department, along with the US Marshals Task Force, arrested Antwain Shamar Fisher, 35, of Montgomery and charged him with first-degree kidnapping. Fisher, who also goes by the nickname “Squirmy,” is being held in the Lee County Jail.... [Read Full Story]

A second suspect was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama college student Aniah Blanchard. The Auburn, Alabama, Police Department, along with the US Marshals Task Force, arrested Antwain Shamar Fisher, 35, of Montgomery and charged him with first-degree kidnapping. Fisher, who also goes by the nickname “Squirmy,” is being held in the Lee County Jail.... [Read Full Story]

Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has formally launched a Democratic bid for president, ending weeks of speculation. The 77-year-old former Republican announced his candidacy Sunday in a written statement posted on a campaign website describing himself as uniquely positioned to defeat President Donald Trump. “I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America,” Bloomberg wrote.... [Read Full Story]

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.... [Read Full Story]

The Air Force said on Thursday that two U.S. airmen were killed while performing a training mission at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The base, located in Enid, is roughly 85 miles north of Oklahoma City.  According to a statement from the base, two Air Force T-38 Talons, which are training aircraft, were involved in a “mishap” at approximately 9:10 a.m. local time.... [Read Full Story]

Buckingham Palace announced on Wednesday that Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will step away from his public duties as a royal. This comes following the fallout from his past friendship with late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. ... [Read Full Story]

On Wednesday, Ambassador Gordon Sondland told House impeachment investigators that he worked with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine at the “express direction” of President Donald Trump and pushed for a political “quid pro quo” with Kyiv because it was what Trump wanted. Sondland testified of his dealings with Trump’s personal attorney that “Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the president.”... [Read Full Story]

On Tuesday, a White House official told impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate a political rival was an improper demand.... [Read Full Story]

Two federal prison staffers were arrested on Tuesday in New York and are expected to face charges related to their alleged failure to conduct regular checks on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein before he hung himself inside his Manhattan cell.... [Read Full Story]

Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is no longer funding two organizations that oppose same-sex marriage, the company said Monday. The Atlanta-based restaurant chain has come under fire from LGBTQ+ activists for donating millions of dollars to two Christian charities: The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.... [Read Full Story]

Three people were shot and killed in the parking lot of a Walmart in Duncan, Oklahoma, on Monday morning.  Police confirmed the fatalities, adding that the suspect is among the dead. The suspect’s identity has not been released.  ... [Read Full Story]

Protests in Hong Kong have intensified as police continued their standoff with students at Polytechnic University. The police had surrounded the university, in what has been a protest movement that is now in its sixth month. Police have been trying to disperse the protesters from the roads around Polytechnic, which is the last major university that is occupied by protesters.... [Read Full Story]

Two are dead and several others are injured after a shooter opened fire early Thursday morning at a high school in Southern California. The 16-year-old male suspect was taken into custody and is in the hospital in “grave condition” from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.... [Read Full Story]

Deval Patrick, the former two-term governor of Massachusetts and the state’s first black chief executive, formally announced a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.... [Read Full Story]

An American teacher was found bound and strangled in her apartment in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic National Police said Patricia Ann Anton, 63, was found dead in her apartment in Cabarete, on the country’s rural northern coast, with her hands and feet tied. Anton was robbed by unknown suspects of a cellphone, laptop, 40-inch television, sheets and a pair of sports shoes, police said.... [Read Full Story]

During testimony on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine linked the president more directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.... [Read Full Story]

Authorities said Tuesday that the mother of 5-year-old Taylor Rose Williams has been arrested and charged in connection with the girl’s disappearance. Hours before police announced the arrest, investigators found remains that they believe to be Taylor in rural Alabama. ... [Read Full Story]

On Tuesday, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said in a court filing that he would not bring a lawsuit challenging a subpoena for his testimony in the impeachment probe into President Trump, adding that at the direction of the president he would not cooperate with the investigation.... [Read Full Story]

After a series of tweets blasting Apple’s new credit card for alleged gender discrimination, New York’s Department of Financial Services is launching an investigation. The Apple Card was launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs earlier this year. It uses an algorithm to assign credit limits, but many online pointed out it may favor men over women. ... [Read Full Story]

Top Pentagon official Laura Cooper, who oversees U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed the relevant agencies to freeze aid to Ukraine over the summer,.... [Read Full Story]

A three-day search for a California hiker ended when he was found dead on top of a glacier in Sequoia and Kings National Park. Alan Stringer, 40, of Huntington Beach, was reported missing Monday evening when he didn’t return home after a hike. Investigators found his body Thursday at the top of the Darwin Glacier, which is near the base of Mount Darwin. Stringer had just recently bought hiking equipment and took mountaineering course, and did not tell anyone his hiking plans or potential routes. His vehicle was found shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, authorities said.... [Read Full Story]

Kaiser Permanente has confirmed that their chief executive and chairman, Bernard J. Tyson, died in his sleep early Sunday at age 60. His cause of death is unclear.... [Read Full Story]

On Thursday, House Democrats released the transcript of closed-door testimony by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat leading the House impeachment probe, announced earlier this week that the first open hearings will be held next week, when Democrats will continue with the public phase of their investigation.... [Read Full Story]

President Donald Trump has been ordered by a New York State judge to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement in a civil lawsuit stemming from persistent violations of state charities laws.  The case was brought by the New York attorney general’s office after the Trump Foundation held a fundraiser for military veterans during the 2016 campaign. ... [Read Full Story]

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony. The Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which criminalizes certain acts of animal cruelty.... [Read Full Story]

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, requested the secretary of state’s office to recanvass the vote totals after Tuesday’s night election ended with Democratic rival Andy Beshear being announced as the winner.... [Read Full Story]

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected of stealing a car that belonged to a New Hampshire couple found buried at a South Texas beach.  On Tuesday, the Kleberg County Sheriff’s Office in Kingsville, Texas, said that Adam Curtis Williams, 33, is wanted on felony theft charges. Authorities identified Williams as the man seen in a surveillance photo released Monday crossing the border into Mexico in a car that belonged to James and Michelle Butler, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave in Corpus Christi last week.... [Read Full Story]