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Former NY Gov. Cuomo referred to prosecutors by GOP House panel on COVID pandemic
A Republican-led congressional panel on the COVID-19 pandemic has referred former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution for allegedly lying at a closed-door hearing.
The House of Representatives subcommittee sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday accusing Cuomo of making “...Read more
Harris to rally in North Las Vegas with J-Lo, Mana
LAS VEGAS — With Election Day less than a week away, Vice President Kamala Harris will make another push for Nevada’s vote by rallying supporters in North Las Vegas Thursday evening.
The Nevada Day — and Halloween night — event coincides with former President Donald Trump’s rally in Henderson earlier in the day.
Harris will headline ...Read more
Young Thug pleading guilty in lengthy gang case
ATLANTA — After nearly two and a half years behind bars, Atlanta rapper Young Thug is pleading guilty in his sprawling gang and racketeering trial that became the longest in state history.
But the musician’s legal team and Fulton County prosecutors “reached an impasse” over what his punishment should be, Judge Paige Reese Whitaker said ...Read more
'Culture of cover-up': Grand jury details missteps in Kissimmee police excessive-force investigation
ORLANDO, Fla. — A grand jury found a “culture of cover-up” in the internal investigation of a Kissimmee cop later indicted for excessively beating a man in 2023, implicating the now-former police chief and others of trying to protect the officer.
The 34-page report, released Thursday by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office, offers...Read more
Heat contributed to 4 deaths, made many ill at Miami-Dade prison without AC, lawsuit claims
MIAMI — South Florida temperatures soared to record highs over the last few summers — and so did the toll on more than 1,300 people incarcerated in a sweltering men’s state prison not far from Everglades National Park, according to a new lawsuit.
Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning ...Read more
NY mom, 2 kids presumed dead after jumping into Niagara Falls
NEW YORK — The upstate New York woman who leapt over a guardrail and into Niagara Falls, along with her child and baby, are all presumed dead, New York State Police said Thursday.
Chianti Means, 33, was the mother of the two kids she took with her when she jumped off an overlook at Luna Island at around 9 p.m. Monday, in a leap authorities ...Read more
Youth leader at Texas megachurch charged with child porn
A youth leader at an Evangelical megachurch in west-central Texas has been arrested and charged with child pornography, authorities said.
Charles Goff, who served as a youth volunteer at the Beltway Park Church in Abilene for approximately three years, reportedly told a member of the church he was struggling with his desire to watch child ...Read more
So far, 919,581 ballots have been cast in Minnesota ahead of the Nov. 5 election
More than 350,000 Minnesotans cast ballots this past week ahead of the election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, bringing the current total to 919,581, according to the state Secretary of State’s office.
Local election officials have distributed 1,152,900 absentee and mail ballots in the state since voting began on Sept. 20.
“More Minnesotans voted in ...Read more
Detroit officials outline 'rigorous' security plan for Election Day, counting votes
Determined to avoid the "shenanigans" that embroiled Detroit while absentee votes were being counted during the tumultuous 2020 presidential election, city officials on Thursday outlined the "rigorous" security plan they've developed this year to keep workers safe and ensure every vote is counted.
Speaking to reporters in Huntington Place's ...Read more
Hungarian leader Orban stirs up concerns he plans a Trump surprise for EU leaders
Viktor Orban held a phone call with Donald Trump on Thursday, raising concerns among some European Union officials that the Hungarian premier may be planning to invite him to dial into an upcoming E.U. meeting should he win next week’s U.S. election.
Orban, who posted on X that he’d spoken to the Republican presidential candidate to wish ...Read more
Harvard, Northwestern hit by Republicans over antisemitism
Republican lawmakers stepped up their campaign to pressure colleges including Harvard, Northwestern and Columbia to take a stronger stance against antisemitism with a report that scrutinizes their responses to protests that erupted after the Hamas attack on Israel last year.
The 325-page document released by the House Education and the ...Read more
Former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen eyeing 2026 election reform ballot question
BOSTON — A coalition that includes former gubernatorial candidate and Harvard professor Danielle Allen is staffing up in an attempt to field a ballot question during the 2026 election that would ask voters to approve a new preliminary election system and sign-off on campaign finance reforms.
The move by the Coalition for Healthy Democracy, ...Read more
N.H. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen poised to make history on Senate Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON — Regardless of the outcome of next week’s elections, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will make history in 2025 when the panel for the first time will have a woman as one of its two leaders.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is poised to succeed Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., as either the chair or ranking member of the panel,...Read more
Hurricane center ups odds for Caribbean system, tracks 2 more
ORLANDO, Fla. — That National Hurricane Center increased odds a Caribbean system will form while also starting to track to more systems with potential to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean ...Read more
'We have to play hardball': Testimony in Madigan corruption trial turns to 2018 sex harassment scandal
CHICAGO — In June 2018, the day House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff had quit amid a burgeoning sexual harassment scandal, two of Madigan’s top deputies had a frank conversation about trying to save their boss.
“It’s time to get a real PR firm in here…somebody who’s dealt with real (expletive) … like the ...Read more
Lawsuit alleges Bureau of Land Management violated Endangered Species Act in approving lithium mine
LAS VEGAS — A week after the Bureau of Land Management approved Nevada’s third lithium mine, environmentalists and a Western Shoshone group filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency rushed the environmental review process and violated federal laws.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday, is the latest in a long line of ...Read more
Jurors, jailer and a judge urge South Carolina governor to spare Richard Moore from execution
As the hours tick down until Richard Moore’s scheduled execution by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday, few options remain for him avoid the state’s death chamber.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution to examine whether potential Black jurors were wrongly prevented from serving on his jury.
Now his hopes may ...Read more
As wild birds begin migration through Central California, poultry farmers on 'high alert'
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the past two weeks, nearly 850,000 poultry have been killed in the San Joaquin Valley as the highly pathogenic avian influenza tightens its grip on Central California.
It’s the third time HPAI has been detected in a commercial poultry operation since the state was considered HPAI-free in late June. And officials ...Read more
Former actor, alleged cult leader indicted again on sexual assault charges
LAS VEGAS — For the second time, an alleged cult leader accused of preying on the Native American community and sexually assaulting women has been indicted by a Clark County grand jury.
Last month, the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the previous indictment against 48-year-old Nathan Chasing Horse, which charged him with counts of sexual ...Read more
FBI affidavit details bloody attack aboard cross-country flight out of San Francisco
LOS ANGELES — For roughly one minute, a Florida man unexpectedly rained blows upon an unsuspecting passenger aboard a cross-country flight heading from San Francisco toward Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon, a federal agent alleged.
Blood from the victim, asleep at the time and unprepared for the vicious assault, splashed onto the sleeves...Read more
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