The body of a 22-year-old hiker was recovered by police on Sunday after a week-long search on California’s Mount Baldy to find the missing woman. Search and rescue workers and volunteers battled through heavy snowfall and were hampered by avalanche risks in their attempts to find Lifei Huang. In the end, it was a civilian
The decision of a special counsel to not recommend criminal charges against U.S. President Joe Biden for his handling of classified materials has been quickly overshadowed by a larger issue: concerns about the president’s age and memory. The report, released by special counsel Robert Hur on Thursday after a year-long investigation, included repeated references to
A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he cannot
It’s the garage find of the century: an inert Cold War rocket, the type designed to carry a nuclear warhead. Police in a Seattle suburb said their bomb squad got called out when a military museum contacted them on Wednesday about an apparently aging and rusty missile.According to the Bellevue Police Department, which blogged about
A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from reclaiming power.The
Three American troops were killed and dozens were injured Sunday in a drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, the U.S. military said. President Joe Biden blamed Iran-backed militias for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by the groups against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. With an increasing risk of military escalation in the region, U.S. officials were
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in southern California discovered a gruesome scene at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert: six dead bodies. Details are still scant as investigators try to determine what happened, but the scene was so grisly that TV stations blurred some of the images captured by
A 66-year-old man has been found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman in the passenger seat of an SUV that drove down the wrong driveway. In April 2023, Kaylin Gillis and a group of her friends were heading to a house party when they made a wrong turn down Kevin Monahan’s
Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination and bolstering the likelihood of a rematch later this year against U.S. President Joe Biden. The result was a setback for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who invested significant time and financial resources into winning the state. She was
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 10-year-old boy from Maryland was bitten by a shark while at a resort in the Bahamas and has been airlifted back to the U.S. for further treatment. The shark attack occurred while the boy was “participating in an expedition in a Shark Tank at a local