In one month of a DOJ-led Memphis Safe Task Force, authorities made more than 1,700 arrests in Memphis, including 126 known gang members, and seized 293 firearms. Seven dozen missing children were located. Attorney General Pam Bondi praised the city’s cooperation. The federal presence will remain with no set end...
Viral infections, including Covid-19, flu and shingles, are linked to heightened heart and stroke risks, according to a large review in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The analysis of 150+ studies found heart attack risk triples after Covid and quadruples after flu; stroke risk rises fivefold in the...
Michael R. Bloomberg put $1.5 million into Fix the City, a super PAC backing Andrew M. Cuomo’s mayoral bid, and urged New Yorkers to vote for the former governor. The group has run anti-Mamdani ads and a get-out-the-vote push. It is Bloomberg’s first move since spending more than $8 million...
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs moved to fast-track his appeal, arguing his 50-month prison term should be sharply reduced, according to court papers filed Wednesday. Defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro said prosecutors agreed to an expedited schedule with arguments before a judge in April. A New York City federal jury in...
The Supreme Court asked the Trump administration and Illinois officials for more information as it weighs whether the president can deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in the Chicago area. The justices set a Nov. 17 deadline and requested briefs on what “regular forces” means under federal law. The case...
The Senate voted 50–46 to approve a resolution blocking President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, with Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul joining Democrats. The largely symbolic move, coming a day after a similar rebuke on Brazil, would end the national emergency underpinning tariffs on some Canadian...
Red Cross staff in Gaza did not intervene on-site as masked men buried and reburied a hostage’s remains seen in an IDF drone video, the aid group told CBS News, adding it is raising concerns with the parties. The edited footage, verified for location by CBS, shows men moving a...
The Trump administration briefly sent Oregon National Guard soldiers to Portland just hours after a federal judge barred such deployments, government lawyers disclosed as a trial opened on whether to keep or lift the restraining order. Judge Karin Immergut said the move could amount to contempt. Records indicate a nine-member...
After the Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher, the WHO said it was appalled by reports that RSF fighters killed 460 people at the city’s main hospital. Local doctors and activists described facilities as “human slaughterhouses,” alleged six medics were kidnapped for ransoms, and reported a “horrifying silence” after Tuesday’s assault...
Exit polls in the Netherlands put center-left Democrats 66 on top with a projected 27 seats, edging Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom at 25 and marking a 12-seat setback for his party. With no majority, months of coalition talks loom; D66 leader Rob Jetten seemed a likely contender for prime...
