The Christmas tree is up and workers are bustling around the clock in Bethlehem, as the West Bank city prepares to welcome back visitors for the holiday season. “The tree is already up and employees are working 24 hours a day to prepare for Christmas,” said Deputy Mayor Lucy Talgieh. “After five years of COVID […]
A stabbing on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina caught the attention of President Donald Trump. Oscar Solarzano, 33, is accused of stabbing a man on a Charlotte light rail train Friday evening. Police said Solarzano is charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault with deadly weapon serious injury, among other charges. The victim remains hospitalized […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at Reagan National Defense Forum in California, said the “Monroe Doctrine is in effect, and stronger than ever under the Trump Corollary.” This corollary was added in the new National Security Strategy from President Donald Trump. “The War Department stands ready to take focused and to fight decisive action that […]
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have kept their sights set on ridding the U.S. of narcotics shipments and holding gangs accountable for proliferating the country’s opioid epidemic. That zeal for eradication developed into military action in international waters, killing at least 80 people while drawing bipartisan criticism. The two initiated what is […]
Each year, millions of people find themselves victims of identity theft and fraud. A new study from WalletHub found that residents of some states are more vulnerable than others, though. The financial website compared the fifty states and District of Columbia across what it called “15 key metrics” to see which place in the U.S. […]
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Friday that National Guard member Andrew Wolfe’s head wound is “slowly healing” and that “he’s beginning to ‘look more like himself,’” according to his parents. Wolfe,24, was injured after he and another West Virginia National Guard member, Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, were shot near the White […]
A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking case of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to The Associated Press. The ruling comes after Congress passed a law requiring the Department of Justice to release files related to the case. On Friday, District Judge Rodney […]
More than 1 million mostly pornographic images and videos generated by an artificial intelligence tool — some of which appear to feature underage individuals and some based on photos of real people — were left exposed online, according to new research published on Friday. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who made the discovery in October, said […]
Virginia voters may be asked to approve a proposed constitutional amendment that could transform the state’s congressional delegation from its current 6-5 Democratic-Republican split to a 10-1 Democratic advantage. The amendment would let the Virginia General Assembly redraw the state’s U.S. House map in 2026, sidelining a bipartisan commission on redistricting. Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger, a […]
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. Signed early in his second term, the order states that children born in the U.S. to parents who are undocumented or in the country temporarily are not citizens. Lower courts have said the order is unconstitutional, […]
