Category Archives: National News

What to know about the massive ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge

What to know about the massive ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge

WJLAA giant container ship struck a bridge in the Baltimore harbor early Tuesday morning, collapsing the structure and sending construction workers into the water.Rescuers are searching for six people, officials said. Two people have been rescued, including one who is currently hospitalized in very serious condition, officials added.The Singapore-flagged cargo ship, Dali, spans a length…read more »

Zoo releases final necropsy results on Flaco the owl’s death

Zoo releases final necropsy results on Flaco the owl’s death

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who escaped from his vandalized Central Park Zoo enclosure in February 2023, had high levels of rat poison in his system and was suffering from “severe herpesvirus” that he contracted from eating pigeons when he died last month in Manhattan.The post-mortem necropsy report…read more »

Drag story hours continue to be targets amid conservative backlash

Drag story hours continue to be targets amid conservative backlash

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(LANCASTER, Penn.) — Several drag queen story hours across the country have been faced with bomb threats, backlash and cancellations. On Saturday morning, Lancaster Public Library in Pennsylvania became the most recent story hour impacted by such threats.A Lancaster City Police K-9 and Lancaster County Sheriff Deputy K-9 alerted handlers to a suspicious…read more »

Diddy’s Los Angeles, Miami homes raided by federal agents

Diddy’s Los Angeles, Miami homes raided by federal agents

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided by federal agents on Monday, according to authorities.A Homeland Security Investigations spokesperson said in a statement that the raid was executed as part of an “ongoing investigation.””Earlier today, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York executed law enforcement actions as part…read more »

Pregnant Amish woman was shot in head, 3-year-old son saw her killer come into their house: Court documents

Pregnant Amish woman was shot in head, 3-year-old son saw her killer come into their house: Court documents

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(SPARTA, Penn.) — A pregnant Amish woman’s 2-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son were home when she was attacked and killed, and the 3-year-old saw the killer, according to newly unsealed court documents.The 3-year-old told police a green truck pulled into their driveway and a man wearing sneakers came inside their Sparta Township, Pennsylvania,…read more »

Trump election interference case picks back up after Fani Willis disqualification bid

Trump election interference case picks back up after Fani Willis disqualification bid

Jason Marz/Getty Images(ATLANTA) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case has scheduled a Thursday hearing to hear oral arguments on a number of motions from Trump and his co-defendant David Shafer.The hearing will be the first since the failed disqualification effort against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought…read more »

US sanctions, indicts China-based hackers for allegedly targeting critical infrastructure

US sanctions, indicts China-based hackers for allegedly targeting critical infrastructure

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York(WASHINGTON) — The United States has sanctioned China-based hackers for allegedly targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, the Treasury Department announced Monday.The U.S., along with the United Kingdom, sanctioned some representatives of Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company Ltd. (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front…read more »

‘White Supremacy Campaign’ of 1898 a stain that will not escape history: experts

‘White Supremacy Campaign’ of 1898 a stain that will not escape history: experts

ABC News(WILMINGTON, Nc.) — On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned banks and forced the city’s local leaders, which included a mix of white and Black elected officials, to resign in what historians call the only successful coup in U.S. history.Now historians, residents and…read more »

Teens gunned down at Nashville apartment complex were ‘targeted’: Police

Teens gunned down at Nashville apartment complex were ‘targeted’: Police

ABC News/WKRN(NASHVILLE, Tn.) — At least three assailants were being sought Monday in the killings of two teenagers police said were “targeted” in a shooting at a Nashville apartment complex over the weekend.One of the victims was identified as 17-year-old Camron McGlothen, who lived at the Hermitage Flats Apartments in East Nashville, according to police.…read more »