The attorney for three men who were with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when he was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer said Friday that the agency’s version of the events are “simply false.” ICE agents fatally shot Salgado Araujo on Tuesday morning during a traffic stop while he was on his way […]

An ominous stack of papers is followed by a gray hallway leading to a barred window. Thirty seconds later, a dingy room with warning signs on the walls and a hospital bed covered by a tattered sheet comes into view.  This is how a new short-form video generator chose to illustrate a news story about […]

One of the people credited with finding Graham Platner and recruiting him to run for Senate in Maine, Daniel Moraff, was asked at least three times to do more thorough research into the first-time candidate. The appeals for more vetting, which have not been previously reported, were described to Straight Arrow by two people with […]

On a Wednesday evening in the summer of 2018, Stacy Skiavo and her roommates hiked up to the Shenley Bridge above Flagstaff Hill, overlooking Pittsburgh’s quintessential smokestacks and Carnegie Mellon University’s campus.  They passed around a Sharpie and scribbled their initials onto a padlock before fastening the brass symbol of their friendship onto the bridge’s […]

Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony charge accusing him of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Meanwhile, his attorneys argued the government is trying to hold him responsible for problems that had already surfaced in the project’s $16 million renovation. Hearn appeared in D.C. Superior Court after a […]

Mexico’s president is pushing for a criminal investigation after the Department of Homeland Security said the man fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Tuesday was not the intended target. ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday morning during a traffic stop. The wrong target The agency says agents stopped […]

DHS says the Mexican man killed during an ICE traffic stop in Houston wasn’t the person they were looking for. So why did the stop turn deadly anyway? Plus, Israel reportedly warned the U.S. about a new Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump. But not everyone in Washington is convinced by it. And the […]

The newest construction project at the White House has begun at President Donald Trump’s request. Over the past few days, construction crews installed scaffolding along the White House North Portico and covered the entire area in a drape that depicts how the president wants the area to look.  Crews are reportedly rehabilitating the exterior columns […]

A West Virginia man has become the eighth person charged in an alleged plot to attack a UFC event at the White House and kill government officials and others attending the event. Federal prosecutors said Chandler D. Scaggs, 21, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, was taken into custody this week. A two-count indictment returned in Columbus, […]