An 11-year-old boy has died after being shot while playing a doorbell prank with other children in east Houston, according to police. The shooting happened late Saturday night near Mimbrough and Fidelity streets. Investigators said a group of kids had been running from porches after ringing doorbells when someone from one of the homes opened […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra and other non-life-threatening injuries in a car crash in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday. He was a passenger in a vehicle driven by an adviser when it was struck from behind by a 19-year-old driver, state police said. Giuliani was taken to a local […]
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was subjected to GPS jamming over Bulgaria in what European Union officials suspect was a Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The aircraft landed safely at Plovdiv Airport in Bulgaria. Bulgaria’s government reported that “the satellite signal used for the aircraft’s GPS navigation was disrupted. […]
At least 53 people were shot in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend, seven of them fatally. The violence coincided with renewed threats from President Donald Trump to send federal agents and National Guard troops to the city, a move strongly opposed by Illinois leaders. What happened over the weekend? Police recorded at least 31 […]
The flotilla carrying activist Greta Thunberg was forced to turn back to Spain. The New York Post reports 35-mile-per-hour winds forced the group to turn back. “Due to unsafe weather conditions, we conducted a sea trial and then returned to port to allow the storm to pass,” a press release said. “We made this decision […]
The wealthy vacation enclave of Nantucket Island installed new technology amid the COVID-19 pandemic that would detect traces of the virus in sewage. After retooling it to find drugs, the city has discovered many residents and visitors apparently have a cocaine habit. Nantucket’s Health Department announced in June that they would begin using the equipment […]
An Israeli airstrike killed the prime minister of the Iranian-backed Houthis, the group confirmed in a statement on Saturday. Ahmed al-Rahawi, who had served as prime minister for one year, died while attending a government meeting on Thursday in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. In a statement broadcast on a Houthi-run television network, the group […]
The latest state to take up redistricting will be Missouri, Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said on Friday. In a statement, he called to convene a special session of the General Assembly “to enact legislation establishing updated congressional districts for the State of Missouri.” “This is about clarity for voters and ownership of our future,” Kehoe […]
Millions of Americans are expected to flock to the beach this Labor Day weekend. But experts are urging caution when it comes to getting in the water. “Nobody wants to be swimming in poopy water,” John Rumpler, clean water director at Environment America, told The Associated Press. From Cape Cod to San Diego From Cape […]
The former speaker of Ukraine’s parliament was shot and killed in the western city of Lviv on Saturday. A manhunt is currently underway for the killer, who fired roughly eight shots from an electric bicycle while dressed as a courier, according to Polish media outlet TVP World. Andriy Parubiy shot dead at 54 Andriy Parubiy […]
