Man who choked NYC subway passenger to death will face manslaughter charge, prosecutors say
JR – May 11, 2023
Manhattan prosecutors say they will bring criminal charges against a man who used a deadly chokehold on an unruly passenger...
Read MoreAuthorities capture 1 of 2 inmates who escaped from Philadelphia prison
JR – May 11, 2023
Authorities say they have captured one of two inmates who escaped Sunday night from a Philadelphia prison.
Read MoreDespite cracks in Republican gun-rights wall, differences between states widen
JR – May 11, 2023
There have been a few cracks in the predictable pattern of Republican-controlled states loosening gun laws while Democratic states tighten...
Read More‘Chonkosaurus,’ plump Chicago snapping turtle captured on video, goes viral
JR – May 11, 2023
Footage of a plump snapping turtle relaxing along a Chicago waterway has gone viral after the man who filmed the...
Read MoreKansas officials to consider legal settlement with business over COVID-19 restrictions
JR – May 11, 2023
Kansas’ governor and top state lawmakers plan to consider a proposed legal settlement between the state and the owner of...
Read MoreTop White House official meets key Beijing diplomat amid signs of easing US-China tensions
JR – May 11, 2023
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Wang Yi held talks in Vienna this...
Read MoreNew blood donation rules allow more gay men to give in US
JR – May 11, 2023
New blood donations rules will allow sexually active gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships to give in the U.S....
Read MoreFor turning ‘mines to vines,’ founder of Roots of Peace wins World Food Prize
JR – May 11, 2023
A California peace activist who has worked to remove land mines from war-torn regions and replace them with grape vines,...
Read MoreSupreme Court rejects challenge to California pork law mandating more space for pigs
JR – May 11, 2023
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry.
Read MoreReal-life ‘The Queen’s Gambit’: Custodian leads school chess teams in Maine
JR – May 11, 2023
“The Queen’s Gambit” is playing out in real life in Maine, where a custodian is coaching his schools’ chess teams...
Read MoreHavasupai Tribe in Arizona marks a spiritual homecoming: ‘We are still the Grand Canyon’
JR – May 11, 2023
Members of a small tribe in Arizona are marking the renaming of a popular campground in Grand Canyon National Park...
Read More‘Now or never’: Migrants seek to beat the end of pandemic-related asylum restrictions
JR – May 11, 2023
Migrants are rushing across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are to expire, fearing that policies will make it...
Read MoreEx-Kansas legislator who committed COVID relief fraud seeks to avoid prison sentence
JR – May 11, 2023
A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief is trying...
Read MoreIdaho triple murder trial of slain kids’ mom drawing to end
JR – May 11, 2023
Idaho prosecutors have spent the last four weeks presenting their case against a woman accused of killing her two youngest...
Read MoreJuror who listened to conservative podcaster Tim Pool joined verdict against Donald Trump
JR – May 10, 2023
A juror who says he occasionally listens to conservative podcast host Tim Pool was on the jury that found former...
Read More‘Affront to democracy,’ Mississippi resident says of appointing judges where most are elected
JR – May 10, 2023
Three residents of Mississippi’s capital city say their rights are undermined by a new state law that would create a...
Read MoreProsecutors reveal link between terror defendant in Virginia and Islamic State ’empress’ from Kansas
JR – May 10, 2023
Prosecutors say a northern Virginia man arrested last week on terrorism charges has a husband-wife relationship with another American who...
Read MoreAfter Arlington National Cemetery horse deaths, Army makes changes to improve their care
JR – May 10, 2023
The Army has announced changes to the way it will care for the gray and black horses that carry service...
Read MoreIdaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence
JR – May 10, 2023
An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was photographed dangling from the Senate...
Read MoreCalifornia’s Feinstein returns to Senate after monthslong absence
JR – May 10, 2023
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has returned to the Senate after a two-and-a-half-month absence recovering from a case of shingles.
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