COLUMBIA, S.C.—One of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed, officials said Saturday. Many of the others are still located a few yards from the property, jumping back and forth over the facility’s fence, police said in a statement. The Rhesus macaques made a break […]
Seattle police arrested a man on Nov. 8 in connection with a series of stabbings in the Chinatown-International District that left five people injured Friday afternoon. The suspect, who has not yet been identified, is also being investigated in connection with at least four other similar stabbings in the same downtown area that began early […]
CHICAGO—A Chicago man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of two workers at the city’s popular Navy Pier tourist attraction, authorities said Saturday. Raylon East, 36, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of felon in possession/use of a weapon in Tuesday’s shootings, Chicago police said. East was […]
Actor Tony Todd, known for his haunting portrayal of a killer in the horror film “Candyman” and roles in many other films and television shows, has died, his longtime manager confirmed. He was 69. Todd died Wednesday at his home in the Los Angeles area, his manager Jeffrey Goldberg said in a statement to The […]
OpenAI said on Friday that ChatGPT had denied more than 250,000 requests to generate images of U.S. presidential candidates ahead of the Nov. 5 general election. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot blocked requests to generate images of former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Sen. JD […]
Authorities in Luzhou, China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, detained a 70-year-old Falun Gong practitioner on September 20, sparking international concern from her family, who are calling for her release. Her son, preferring to be called Mr. Gong, who now lives in Japan, held a rally with his supporters on Friday outside Japan’s National Diet Building that […]
President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden’s invitation. The two will meet in the Oval Office at 11 a.m. that day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Saturday. Trump also announced the formation of a committee to plan and celebrate […]
President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet at 11 a.m. at the White House on Nov. 13 to discuss plans for the presidential transition, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a Nov. 9 statement. The press secretary’s announcement provides the first specifics of the meeting, which earlier reporting indicates will […]
A small asteroid caught scientists by surprise after going undetected until just hours before it struck Earth. According to the European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Center, the asteroid, now designated as 2024 UQ, was first observed by the ATLAS survey on the morning of Oct. 22. The agency’s November newsletter announced the discovery of […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that he has ordered an investigation into reports indicating that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) relief workers neglected storm-affected supporters of former President Donald Trump while assessing damage from Hurricane Milton. According to screenshots of internal messages published by The Daily Wire, a FEMA official instructed relief workers who […]
LAS VEGAS—Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has won a second six-year stint in the Senate, defeating Republican challenger Sam Brown. The Associated Press (AP) called the race at 12:15 a.m. ET on Nov. 9, four days after Election Day. Rosen shores up Democrats’ minority in the upper chamber after Republicans won control of the Senate. “Thank […]
Two militia members, accused of saying they wanted to shoot illegal immigrants, were convicted by a federal trial jury in Jefferson City, Missouri, on Thursday for conspiring to murder U.S. Border Patrol agents and the attempted murder of FBI agents. Jonathan O’Dell, 34, of Warsaw, Missouri, and Bryan Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, were each […]
Police are searching for five suspects involved in a double shooting that left former NFL player turned celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon and one other person hospitalized earlier this week. Dorzon, 39, and an unidentified woman were shot during an attempted robbery in Hyattsville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. located in Prince George’s County, Councilmember […]
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas—Jorge Bazán’s family has lived on the U.S.–Mexico border for generations and voted for Democrats as long as he can remember. He broke the family tradition this year and voted for Donald Trump because he doesn’t trust the Democratic Party’s economic policies. “I think they forgot about the middle class,” said Bazán, […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Yemen’s Houthi terrorists shot down what bystanders described as an American drone early Friday, potentially the latest downing of a U.S. spy drone as the terrorists continue their attacks on the Red Sea corridor. The U.S. military acknowledged the videos circulating online showing what appeared to be a flaming aircraft dropping out […]
RALEIGH, N.C.—Police say they arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of shooting at least eight vehicles on a busy North Carolina highway as well as several area homes in recent days, in attacks that wounded a motorist. The suspect remain in custody without bond for now, a judge ruled Friday. Andrew Thomas Graney was arrested Thursday […]
LAS VEGAS—President-elect Donald Trump has flipped Nevada, nearly three days after he was declared winner of the 2024 race to the White House. The race was called at 9:15 p.m. PT on Nov. 8. Trump has now won six of the seven swing states and appears poised to capture them all. He is leading in […]
U.S. consumer sentiment rose to a seven-month high in early November, with a measure of households’ expectations for the future climbing to the highest in more than three years, led by brightening outlooks among Republicans, a survey showed on Friday. The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index climbed to 73.0 this month, the highest since […]
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