A 36-year-old Black woman who called 911 to report someone prowling near her home was shot and killed by one of the police officers sent to help her, according to shocking body-camera footage that was released by Illinois State Police on Monday. Police officials, politicians and civil rights figures have condemned the officer’s actions as
A 26-year-old pilot has died after her plane crashed shortly after releasing a group of skydivers near Niagara Falls. Melanie Georger, 26, was the only person left on-board the small, single-engine Cessna plane when it crashed Saturday, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said. The plane crashed in Youngstown, N.Y., about 24 kilometres from Niagara Falls.After
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris won the backing of more than half the Democratic delegates she needs to become her party’s nominee and set a new fundraising record Monday in her first 24 hours as a presidential candidate, as top Democrats rallied to her in their bid to defeat Republican Donald Trump. Aiming to put
U.S. President Joe Biden has ended his reelection campaign and is endorsing Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee in the November 5 presidential election. In the ensuing power vacuum, Harris has emerged as the obvious choice to face off against the Republican nominee, former president Donald Trump, but first, she will have to shore
With Joe Biden stepping down and endorsing Kamala Harris for the United States presidency, the 2024 election landscape has taken an unexpected turn. But what do recent polls reveal about Donald Trump’s chances against his potential new competitor? The results are mixed: some polls show Democrats hold a favourable view of Harris, others suggest a
With President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats now must navigate a shift that is unprecedented this late in an election year. Democrats are set to hold their convention in Chicago on Aug. 19-22. What was supposed to be a coronation for Biden now becomes an open contest
United States President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is withdrawing from the presidential election race and endorsed Kamala Harris to take his place against Donald Trump this November. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden said in a statement released Sunday shortly before 2 p.m. ET.“And
Donald Trump has a new running mate in the race to become America’s next president: a man who has previously criticized his leadership, calling him “unfit for office” and even describing him as “reprehensible.” On Monday, Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance is his vice president pick.Vance
A father and his daughter who went hiking through Canyonlands National Park in Utah died after they ran out of water as temperatures soared above 37 degrees Celsius. Albino Herrera Espinoza, 52, and Beatriz Herrera, 23, of Green Bay, Wisc., were hiking the Syncline Loop Trail on Friday when they became lost. They texted 911
The failed assassination of Donald Trump has spurred a lot of questions and concerns since Saturday, one of the biggest being how the U.S. Secret Service could let something like this happen. On Saturday afternoon, a sniper was able to obtain rooftop access to a building roughly 150 metres from where the former U.S. president