The top Republican in Wisconsin’s state Assembly is hiring retired police officers to investigate November’s election, joining a growing list of presidential battlegrounds where GOP state officials are looking for evidence to support former President Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud. State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he is hiring
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Ronald Greene‘s family attorneys said they were encouraged after meeting with a local prosecutor in Louisiana Thursday to discuss the possibility of state criminal charges against the officers involved in Greene’s death. Family attorney Ron Haley said they met with John Belton, district attorney for the Third Judicial District. “What makes sense to us would
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The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning that events associated with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre could be targets for racial violence, according to a source familiar with the warning. These events “probably are attractive targets for some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to commit violence,” the bulletin
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Sean Combs was serious when he added “Love” to his name. On Thursday, Combs posted a throwback photo of himself with ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and plenty of folks want to believe the move was the greatest attempt at shooting a shot since Michael Jordan’s legendary buzzer beater during the 1989 NBA Finals between Jordan’s Chicago
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Baltimore City Public Schools announced a new grading policy Tuesday that will allow the district to move tens of thousands of students who have failed at least one class up to the next grade level. The students will be assessed in the fall to complete their missed course work during the next school year. The district
Continue Reading A Brooklyn man has been arraigned today on a 19-count indictment for allegedly assaulting and menacing three Asian Americans in three separate attacks over the course of a month, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. Joseph Russo, 29, of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, “is charged with second-degree assault, third-degree assault as a hate crime, third-degree menacing
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A group of former Homeland Security secretaries who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations is calling on the Senate “to put politics aside” and create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, according to a joint statement provided first to CNN. The statement, released by former Homeland Security Secretaries
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Republican lawmakers who have touted parts of the Covid-19 economic relief law that benefit their constituents despite having voted against the law, saying: “Some people have no shame.” No Republican in Congress voted for the American Rescue Plan when it passed earlier this year, but Biden noted several are
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Class 5 State Championship for track and field managed to get underway, despite some inclement weather in Jefferson City, on Thursday afternoon, with multiple local schools taking home hardware. Capital City’s Kiara Strayhorn made history. She became the school’s first-ever state champion, after finishing in first in the girls’ 100 meter
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Florida’s new law prohibiting social media platforms from suspending politicians is just days old. But it’s already being challenged in court by the tech industry. On Thursday, a pair of technology trade groups filed a legal challenge to SB 7072, the hot-button legislation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this week that promises stiff fines against
Continue Reading Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently sold off stock in an electric vehicle company, a department spokesman said, divesting her interest after ethics experts and Republican officials pointed out the conflict-of-interest concerns. The company, Proterra, makes technology for electric vehicles — a key piece of the Biden administration’s energy and climate change plans. Recent events with
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan is set to criticize former President Donald Trump and his hold on the Republican Party during a speech Thursday night, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. Ryan, a critic of the former President in the past, is expected to say at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California,
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The American Civil Liberties Union is urging the Biden administration to provide Covid-19 vaccine access to immigrants in detention, citing the rapid spread of coronavirus in congregate settings, according to a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by CNN. Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHANDLER, Arizona (KPHO/KTVK) — New body-camera footage shows the moments after a small plane crashed on Loop 202 Santan Freeway and McClintock Drive on May 9. The FAA reports the pilot hit power lines and ended up crashing on the overpass. Thankfully, the pilot, a 23-year-old woman, walked
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was killed by a police officer Wednesday in northwest Columbia. Director of training at Northstar police training, Adam Duncan, said officers try to link together two components in these situations. “It’s what they knew prior to contact with that person and the element of environment including who is around the
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered storms ending well before midnight. Lows in the upper 40s to low 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and chilly with highs in the mid-upper 50s. EXTENDED: Additional storms are forming along a cold front in far eastern Kansas this afternoon, and that will slide south overnight, leaving us quite chilly for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Yvonne Lincoln visits her husband’s gravesite nearly every day. “I just miss him so much,” she told 3 On Your Side as she cried near his grave. But she says her visits are heartbreaking because 12 months after he was put to rest, there’s no
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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang on Thursday accused a New York Daily News cartoon of engaging in racist tropes and playing on an idea of Asian-Americans as permanent tourists and outsiders. The cartoon, drawn by artist Bill Bramhall, depicts Yang exiting the Times Square subway station as a souvenir shop owner says, “The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DANBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman was arrested in connection with the death of her 1-year-old grandson. Cora Brandon, 60, was charged with first-degree manslaughter, risk of injury to a minor and possession of a controlled substance. Police in Danbury said they were called to Danbury Hospital on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MONTVILLE, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman from Rhode Island was arrested for driving the wrong way for 10 miles in Monville. State police said they arrested 25-year-old Madison Jamak of North Providence, RI on Wednesday. They said just before 3 a.m., they received a report of a dark-colored
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