Idalia was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening as it moved over Georgia and along the Carolina coast after leaving a trail of devastation through northern Florida, where it brought a “catastrophic storm surge” as a Category 3 hurricane. Shortly after hitting Florida Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Idalia was packing
The top Republican in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, appeared to freeze up and was unable to answer a question from a reporter at an event in his home state of Kentucky on Wednesday, the second such episode in just over a month. Video taken by other reporters at the event appeared to show the
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of
An abducted woman was able to help rescue herself after she slipped a note to a customer at a gas station, asking them to call 911, according to a statement from police in Arizona. The incident took place on Tuesday at a Chevron gas station in Seligman, Ariz., a day after the woman was allegedly
Donald Trump posed for an unprecedented mugshot while surrendering at an Atlanta jail Thursday evening on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia — a sobering image that underlined the stark legal threat against him that could nevertheless boost his political momentum. The former U.S. president, who is seeking a return
A 19-year-old from Ohio may spend the rest of her life behind bars after she was convicted and sentenced for intentionally crashing her car into a brick wall at 160 km/h (100 mph), killing her boyfriend and a friend. Mackenzie Shirilla was only 17 years old on the night she crashed her Camry into the
A storeowner in California was killed Friday after a dispute over an LGBTQ2 Pride flag displayed outside her shop spiralled into deadly violence, police said. Online tributes have poured in to honour the late businesswoman, who was a beloved figure in her local community. A man shot and killed 66-year-old Laura Ann Carleton right in
The body of a nine-year-old boy was found in a waterway in Brooklyn, N.Y., after he disappeared from his family’s side during a trip to a nearby IKEA store on Wednesday. Police said the boy, identified as Hasebul Nehan, was nonverbal and on the autism spectrum.Authorities described Nehan’s death as a tragic accident. Criminal charges
The latest indictment against Donald Trump accuses the former U.S. president and 18 other defendants of allegedly participating in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia — and it uses a law typically levied against organized crime networks. Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, otherwise known as the RICO Act
Donald Trump on Monday was indicted on multiple state charges that he allegedly conspired to interfere in the vote tally in Georgia in 2020 and urged his closest allies to take steps that would overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the battleground state. The sprawling indictment handed down late at night by a