CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, was denied a sentence reduction hearing Wednesday, more than 30 years after a sensational trial that inspired books and a Nicole Kidman movie. Smart was 22 and working as a high school media coordinator […]
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the Freedman’s Bank Forum event at the US Treasury Department in Washington, DC, on December 14, 2021.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris felt slighted by White House aides not standing when she entered into a room, per a forthcoming book. “The vice president took it as a […]
TISHOMINGO, Okla. (AP) — Six teenage students have been killed in a two-vehicle collision in southern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tuesday. The students were in a passenger vehicle that collided with a semi about 12:30 p.m. in Tishomingo, a rural city of about 3,000 located about 100 miles (161 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma […]
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna was released from Russian captivity on March 21.Hromadske on Twitter A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Russians has been released, the news outlet she works for reported. Viktoriia Roshchyna recorded a video saying the Russians “saved her life” after she was released. Her publisher says the video was a condition […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a rescue operation and investigation into a China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed into a mountain during a domestic flight on Monday. Flight MU5735, which carried nine crew members and 123 passengers, reportedly went down near Wuzhou in the Guangxi autonomous region just before 2:30 p.m., Beijing time. […]
WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images Aviation experts are baffled by data showing that a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 about to begin its descent to the city of Guangzhou suddenly plunged vertically to earth like a missile, killing the 123 passengers and nine crew aboard on Monday. This horrific disaster, the worst in recent Chinese aviation […]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized on Friday after experiencing flu-like symptoms, and has since been diagnosed with an infection, the Supreme Court announced Sunday evening. Thomas is receiving care at the Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was diagnosed with an infection after undergoing […]
WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina officials say they won’t file charges against a boater who fatally shot a man that he helped rescue from the water. A statement from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office says 10th Judicial Circuit Solicitor David Wagner ruled that the Tuesday shooting of 29-year-old Nathan Drew Morgan by an unnamed […]
In deep-blue Broward County, throngs of former President Donald Trump’s supporters flocked to the edge of the Everglades Saturday clad in red, white and blue to see America’s 45th president and other conservatives speak at the latest stop of the American Freedom Tour. Anna Italino, a 21-year-old from Deerfield Beach accompanied by her three young […]
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on Saturday displayed recently discovered, well-decorated ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The five tombs were unearthed earlier this month and date back to the Old Kingdom — a period spanning roughly from around 2700 BC to 2200 B.C., as well as to the First Intermediate […]