One officer remains remained in a critical condition on Friday morning: CBS News A carjacking suspect who had already been arrested shot three Chicago police officers as they attempted to escort him into custody on Thursday morning, authorities said. The gunman was being taken out of a patrol van and walked into Northwest Side police […]
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller pauses while speaking during a television interview at the White House. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo White House senior adviser Stephen Miller scolded former President Barack Obama on Friday for his “shockingly political” remarks on voter suppression at the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis, an icon of the civil […]
Two pilots were killed Thursday when their air tankers collided in midair as they were helping to fight a large wildfire in southern Nevada, federal officials said. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management suggested in a statement that the deceased were “contract pilots.” “Recovery operations are currently underway and initial notifications are still being made,” […]
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, on the Inspector General’s report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. WASHINGTON – The FBI said a review of more than two-dozen applications to obtain warrants to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens […]
People walk through the campus of UCLA in Westwood, California in March. Colleges are preparing for fewer international students to arrive on campus this fall. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images) mark ralston/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The number of international students studying at U.S. universities this fall is likely […]
Students move out of their dorm at the University of Michigan in March. As fall approaches, some students are living off campus this fall, even if they’re taking their classes remotely. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Like thousands of students across the country, Harlow Brooks has resigned herself to the fact that […]
Facebook Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Thursday after the social-media giant blew past Wall Street estimates for the second quarter and addressed how advertiser boycotts could potentially affect their business. Facebook FB, +0.51% shares surged more than 7% in after-hours trading Thursday, following a 0.5% rise to close the session at $234.50, and […]
The supplemental $600 a week that unemployed Americans have been receiving as part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act expires this month. It has been welcomed by millions of Americans who are out of work and struggling to make ends meet due to the economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic. But employers and some members […]
This is not the first public-health emergency Dr. Anthony Fauci says he has faced, but it’s up there with the worst of them — and it’s not close to being over yet. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades, was on the front lines of the AIDS pandemic […]
Co-founder of The Lincoln Project Steve Schmidt, talking to Joy Reid on Wednesday: (NBC) The co-founder of Republican anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has called congressman Louie Gohmert ”America’s craziest and dumbest congressman”, following confirmation he tested positive for coronavirus. Steve Schmidt co-founded the Republican political action committee that is aiming to prevent the reelection […]