With two shots from a homemade firearm, a disturbed individual cut down Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, as he campaigned for his political party ahead of parliamentary elections. During his second and longest stint as prime minister…
Commerce secretary: Let’s not be ‘talking ourselves’ into recession
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Sunday predicted slower economic growth as the country grapples with inflation but said that won’t necessarily mean a recession, which is marked by two straight quarters of negative economic growth. “Inflation is our…
Rage Against the Machine says ‘Abort the Supreme Court’ after Roe v. Wade overturn
Rage Against the Machine is raging against the Supreme Court. The rock band slammed the Roe v. Wade overturn with a scathing video message that aired during its concert in Wisconsin on Saturday, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Forced birt…
Impeaching Clarence Thomas ‘unrealistic,’ says Senate majority whip
Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas? A top Senate Democrat says not likely. Progressives who accuse Thomas of having a conflict of interest may have a fair point, but removing the justice from his lifetime appointment on the high court is a non-starter, Se…
Florida woman kept mother’s body in freezer so she could collect disability checks, police say
A Florida woman allegedly kept her dead mother’s body on ice for weeks so she could keep cashing the elderly woman’s disability checks. Michele Hoskins, 64, has been charged with failing to report the death of her mother and tampering with evidence, th…
5 things we learned from the Trump documentary
“Unprecedented,” the highly anticipated documentary from British filmmaker Alex Holder, is more about Trump family dynamics than the attempted coup on the Capitol. The three-part documentary, which premiered Sunday on Discovery+, has been on calendars …
Coney Island boardwalk shooting wounds 5, 1 critically
NEW YORK — A shooter unleashed a hail of bullets on Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island boardwalk early Sunday morning, wounding five people, one of them critically, police said. The attacker opened fire on a crowd standing near W. 20th Street on the Reigelm…
How much baseball do baseball players watch when they aren’t at the ballpark?
NEW YORK — Baseball players work some very strange hours. Usually, the televised portion of their work day begins at 7 p.m., but there’s loads of unseen preparation before that, with many players showing up at the ballpark some six or seven hours befor…
2 endangered Sumatran tigers born at Oklahoma City zoo
The Oklahoma City zoo is celebrating a crucial conservation moment. Two baby Sumatran tigers were born at the zoo on July 2 to 11-year-old mother Lola. Only 400 to 500 Sumatran tigers still live in the wild in the jungles of Indonesia, and they’re ofte…
NYC set to install hundreds of new high-speed internet kiosks to bridge digital divide
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams and his Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser are expected to unveil a plan Sunday to install hundreds of new kiosks that will allow for free wireless internet service, quicker connections and free phone calls, along with …