Two police officers have died after being shot in El Monte, California, Tuesday while responding to a possible stabbing at a motel, authorities said. The El Monte Police Department said two officers “immediately took gunfire upon arrival” at the Siesta Inn. The officers were taken to LAC-USC Medical Center, where […]
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Brazil police arrest 2nd suspect for Amazon’s missing pair
ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil — Brazil’s federal police said Tuesday they arrested a second suspect in connection with the disappearance of an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote area of the Amazon. The suspect, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, 41, is a fisherman and a brother of […]
California to pay $51M over killings at veterans home
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — California officials have agreed to pay $51 million to settle lawsuits against the state stemming from a shooting at a home for veterans in Northern California where a former patient fatally shot three female mental health workers and then himself. On March 9, 2018, Albert Wong, 36, […]
Gas mistakenly sold for 69 cents per gallon gets manager fired
The manager of a Northern California gas station was fired after he accidentally set the gas price to 69 cents a gallon. John Szczecina, who served as the manager for a Shell gas station in Rancho Cordova, said he mistakenly placed the decimal in the wrong spot and that the […]
Federal court: NC school can’t require girls to wear skirts
RICHMOND, Va. — A North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A majority of the full U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the dress code at Charter Day School in Leland violated female students’ […]
Trump issues 12-page statement amid Jan. 6 hearings alleging he plotted a ‘coup’
Former President Donald Trump on Monday responded in a lengthy statement to the House’s ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings, assailing the panel as illegitimate and their presentation as one-sided — but rather than refute their evidence, he reiterated the same baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election that are at […]
3 missing, swept away in drainage ditch after severe storms
MILWAUKEE — Searchers on Tuesday found the body of a 10-year-old boy who was swept away in a Milwaukee drainage ditch following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rain and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and parts of the South. The boy’s body was found during a […]
FDA committee clears the way for authorization of Moderna vaccine for kids 6-17
A committee of advisers at the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of authorizing the Moderna vaccine for kids ages 6 through 17, paving the way to add one more vaccine to the options available for this age group. Currently, only Pfizer’s vaccine is available for kids […]
1st federal prison to experience COVID-19 outbreak now short-staffed: Officials
The first federal prison to experience a COVID-19 outbreak in March of 2020 is now severely short-staffed, the Louisiana congressional delegation and members of the Bureau of Prison union say. FCI Oakdale in Louisiana experienced a severe COVID-19 outbreak in March of 2020, so bad the Justice Department inspector general […]
Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week
Elon Musk will address Twitter employees Thursday for the first time since the billionaire and Tesla CEO offered $44 billion to buy the social media platform, the company said Tuesday. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced an all-hands meeting to employees in an email on Monday, saying they’d be able to […]