Mexican military has confirmed that at least nine members of an American family, including six children, were killed in an attack in northern Mexico. The family was ambushed by an armed group while traveling from the town of Galeana in Chichuahua state to Bavispe in Sonora state between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. local time, according to Mexico’s security minister, Alfonso Durazo.... [Read Full Story]
A Colorado white supremacist was arrested before his planned attempt to bomb a historic synagogue, according to the FBI. ... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill has resigned. O’Neill plans to take a job in the private sector, and said during a press conference on Monday, “I came into this job with one mission: to fight crime and keep everybody safe, and we did it and continue to do it.”... [Read Full Story]
A US judge has temporarily blocked a rule proposed by President Donald Trump that would require immigrants to prove they will have health insurance within 30 days of arrival in the US, or can pay for medical care. Judge Michael Simon, a district judge in Oregon, granted a preliminary injunction against the proposal.... [Read Full Story]
McDonald’s chief executive officer Steve Easterbrook has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday. The fast food giant said the former president and CEO demonstrated poor judgment, and that McDonald’s forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect subordinates.... [Read Full Story]
A 14-year-old girl has been found safe, almost 10 days after she went missing along with a 34-year-old man in Virginia. Isabel Shae Hicks had last been seen on Oct. 21 at her home in Bumpass, Virginia, about 40 miles north of Richmond, police said. She “appeared unharmed,” according to authorities.... [Read Full Story]
The city of Chicago and its teachers’ union have reached a deal to end the teacher’s strike, compromising on the makeup days for the time the teachers spent on the picket line.... [Read Full Story]
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third consecutive time on Wednesday, but did not offer clues as to whether or not it will cut rates further.... [Read Full Story]
Twitter says the company will no longer accept political ads. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweetstorm on Wednesday, “We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.”... [Read Full Story]
House Democrats have released text of the impeachment resolution they plan to vote on, however when that vote will take place is still unclear. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi originally claimed the vote would be this Thursday. But on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer walked that back and said that not only was the vote “not an impeachment resolution” but that it might not be “ready to go on Thursday.” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday morning: “This is not an impeachment resolution. I don’t know what an impeachment resolution is.”... [Read Full Story]
Authorities have arrested the grandfather of an 18-month-old who fell out of a window on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico during a family trip in July. Puerto Rico’s Justice Department ordered the arrest of Salvatore Anello. He faces a charge of negligent manslaughter in the death of his granddaughter, Chloe Wiegand. While the vessel was docked in San Juan, Anello placed Chloe near an open window he thought was closed when her family said she fell out of the ship’s 11th story.... [Read Full Story]
With winds reaching hazardous levels in Southern California, the Getty fire in Los Angeles is growing, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. Burning in the hills north of Los Angeles’ famous Getty Center, the fire has consumed 400 acres. The Getty Center and Getty Villa are safe, but many houses were already affected by the fires.... [Read Full Story]
U.S. Coast Guard crews off-loaded millions of pounds of illegal drugs Monday. The drugs were seized recently off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America.... [Read Full Story]
At least two people were killed and 14 others were injured after a gunman opened fire at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party. The shooting occurred just before midnight Saturday at The Party Venue in Greenville, Texas, about 15 miles from the Commerce campus.... [Read Full Story]
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State. Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House: “A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. He will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place.”... [Read Full Story]
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution co-sponsored by more than three dozen of his colleagues condemning the House for a lack of transparency in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, California emergency officials ordered hundreds of people to evacuate as a growing wildfire spread in Sonoma County.... [Read Full Story]
Four American Airlines flight attendants are facing money laundering charges, after at least three of them were allegedly caught by Customs smuggling more than $20,000 into the United States.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump declared a “big success” in Syria and lifted sanctions on Turkey he imposed after Turkey’s military assault on Syria’s Kurdish forces, a key American ally. ... [Read Full Story]
Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement to share control of Syria’s northern border – superseding the deal between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence that was reached last Thursday. The deal came just before the U.S.-Turkish halt in hostilities reached its deadline. A senior Trump administration official touting it as “one of the best ceasefires I’ve ever seen.”... [Read Full Story]
Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are facing additional charges in the nationwide college admissions scandal. According to court documents, the U.S. Attorney filed Federal Program Bribery charges against the couple for their alleged role in the scandal. Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, who were indicted in March, previously pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges.... [Read Full Story]
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a challenge to maps drawn by Republicans for state legislative and congressional district boundaries in Michigan. The Democratic voters who filed the lawsuit argued that the Republican-drawn voting maps would unduly weaken Democratic representation in the state.... [Read Full Story]
Just hours before a landmark opioid trial was schedule to being at an Ohio courthouse, major drug distributors and a manufacturer agreed to a tentative settlement. The settlement deal totals $260 million, according to multiple sources.... [Read Full Story]
Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died at 90. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday morning at his north Baltimore home after complications from a stroke. Pelosi said in a statement that she and her family are devastated, calling her brother “the finest public servant I have ever known.”... [Read Full Story]
Officials confirmed that three 3rd Infantry Division soldiers were killed and three others were injured after a training accident at Fort Stewart on Sunday morning.... [Read Full Story]
Juul Labs, a leading e-cigarette company, announced on Thursday that they will stop selling several flavored products in the United States. Only tobacco, mint and menthol flavors will remain for sale. Juul’s mango, creme, fruit and cucumber flavors have already been removed from the online store, the only place the company sold these products directly to 21-and-up consumers in the United States. It had pulled them from retail locations late last year. However, these flavored pods will continue to be sold abroad.... [Read Full Story]
Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria between its forces and their allied rebels and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds. Pence met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier on Thursday.... [Read Full Story]
General Motors and United Auto Workers have reached a tentative deal to end the nationwide strike, more than a month after nearly 50,000 workers walked off their jobs. The union said that the deal still has to be approved and ratified by the UAW GM National council.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, President Trump continued to distance himself and the U.S. from tensions in northeastern Syria, telling reporters at a White House photo-op in the Oval Office, “It’s not our border.” Trump provided the many reasons why the U.S. should not be involved in the fighting, saying, “So, if Russia wants to get involved with the — with Syria, that’s really up to them. They have a problem with Turkey, they have a problem at a border. It’s not our border. We shouldn’t be losing lives over it.”... [Read Full Story]
President Trump said on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence will lead the U.S. delegation being sent to try to negotiate a ceasefire and settlement between Turkey and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The delegation was set to depart within 24 hours of his announcement, according to a senior administration official.... [Read Full Story]
