The US Postal Service on Friday proposed raising the cost of mailing a letter to 58 cents, an increase that’s within the range of recent years and comes as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pursues sweeping changes with an eye on the agency’s finances. DeJoy, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, announced a 10-year plan
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More than 22,000 rounds of ammunition, a dozen firearms, suspected Molotov cocktails and multiple cans of gasoline were found in the home of Sam Cassidy, the gunman who took nine lives at his workplace on Wednesday, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. The motive for Cassidy’s rampage has not been determined, but authorities
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The State Department on Friday called on Myanmar’s military regime to release Danny Fenster, an American journalist based in Myanmar who was detained earlier this week as he tried to board a flight out of the country. “We are deeply concerned over the detention of US citizen Daniel Fenster, who was working as a journalist
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Investigators are trying to determine what led a gunman to open fire Wednesday at his workplace — a public transit rail yard in San Jose, California — killing nine people before killing himself, officials said. Eight miles away, authorities are looking into the gunman’s home, which officials said was burning around the time of the
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President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the country in recent weeks, saying the incidents are “despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop.” The nation is seeing an uptick in attacks on the Jewish community as tensions flare following the violence in the Middle East between Israel and Palestinian militant
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Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD is trying to identify a man seen on video punching a 75-year-old Asian woman in Queens. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near 97th Place and 57th Avenue in Corona. Surveillance video shows the suspect randomly sucker punch the woman. She falls
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A 26-year-old farm worker was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the abduction and fatal stabbing of college student Mollie Tibbetts in July 2018. The verdict comes nearly three years after the body of the 20-year-old woman was found in an Iowa cornfield. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, wearing headphones as interpreters translated the decision in
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COLUMBIA. Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol has increased manpower on the roads over this Memorial Day Weekend. Troopers will have extra enforcement on interstate 70, Highways 63, 50, and 64, and route 5. Highway Patrol will have its Marine Division and Water officers out in full force at the lake to make sure everyone
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House Democrats are actively considering mounting a probe of their own into the January 6 US Capitol attack, signaling they don’t plan to let the issue go away in the aftermath of Senate Republicans derailing the creation of an outside commission to probe the deadly insurrection. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made clear repeatedly that moving
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated summer camp guidelines Friday to say that it is safe to return to full capacity, without masking and without physical distancing if everyone is fully vaccinated prior to the start of camp – except where required by local law. Columbia Public Schools announced
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The Coast Guard said Friday it will continue searching for 10 people thought to be missing after a boat overturned a day earlier about 16 miles southwest of Key West, Florida. The Coast Guard rescued eight people on Thursday around 1 p.m., the military branch said in a tweet. Two bodies were recovered. When crews
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTH PARK, Paennsylvania (KDKA) — A South Park woman claims Dollar Bank failed to prevent her from being swindled out of millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed against the bank, Mary Clayton claims the bank broke state law. “Ms. Clayton is a 79-year-old widow who in June
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Russian President Vladimir Putin cemented his support of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko in a meeting on Friday, saying that the West’s reaction to the interception and forced landing of a passenger jet “was an outburst of emotion.” The meeting comes as international condemnation of Belarus continues to grow following what leaders have described as the
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A crucial Senate vote on a bill to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot failed Friday, falling short of the 10 Republican votes needed to advance and illustrating GOP efforts to move on from the insurrection that left five people dead and injured 140 police officers. The vote
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASTON, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Hailed a hero. Ryan Ferris saved his family from a house fire on a fateful November morning in 1998 but he never made it out. The fire was no accident. Now decades later, one question still weighs on his mother’s mind: Who murdered Ryan?
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The mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick says she was disappointed that Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection after what she described as “tense” meetings with many GOP senators on Thursday. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Friday, Gladys
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD is trying to identify a man seen on video punching a 75-year-old Asian woman in Queens. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near 97th Place and 57th Avenue in Corona. Surveillance video shows the suspect randomly sucker punch the woman. She falls
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Two people are dead and 10 others are missing after their boat overturned Thursday near the Florida Keys, officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a location about 18 miles south of Key West around 1 p.m. The crew of the Resolute rescued eight
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Washington state’s attorney general on Thursday filed felony charges against three police officers in connection with the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died in March 2020 in the custody of the Tacoma Police Department. Officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins are charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter while Officer Timothy Rankine
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILTON (WBZ) — A Quincy man visiting Houghton’s Pond in Milton with his son drowned Thursday while trying to get a ball that had gone into the water. Massachusetts State Police said the 39-year-old man went into the pond around 6:30 p.m. to get a soccer ball. Witnesses
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