Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police responded Thursday to what they said was an active shooting at an apartment building in the Denver suburb of Broomfield. Police released little information other than that officers had responded to gunshots at the Arista Flats apartments and that the area wasn’t safe. The city’s SWAT…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK The Associated Press Posted September 12, 2024 11:35 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors said at a hearing Thursday. The indictment will remain…
Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flood fears in New Orleans and beyond as drenching rains spread over the northern Gulf Coast. The tropical storm was forecast to be…
Hurricane Francine barreled toward Louisiana on Wednesday strengthening to a Category 2 storm that could bring deadly storm surge, widespread flooding and destructive winds on the northern U.S. Gulf coast. The hurricane was expected to make landfall later in the day, crashing into a fragile coastal region that hasn’t fully recovered from a series of…
The father of an 11-year-old Ohio boy who died last year after a minivan driven by a Haitian immigrant struck his school bus called Donald Trump and JD Vance “morally bankrupt politicians” and accused the pair, as well as other Republican politicians, of using his family’s tragedy for political clout. Speaking during public comment at…
The mother of the 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people during a school shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia last week said she will “never forgive myself for what has happened.” Marcee Gray, mother of suspected school shooter Colt Gray, wrote an open letter apologizing to the families of those killed at Apalachee…
State and local election officials from across the U.S. on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies. In an alarming letter, the officials said that over the past year,…
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, in a special live episode following the presidential debate between former U.S. president Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, was left incredulous. “What the f— just happened?” he exclaimed. The perplexed late-night host mocked Trump’s comments, which he presented without any evidence, about immigrants eating pets…
U.S. consumer prices rose marginally in August, but underlying inflation showed some stickiness, which could discourage the Federal Reserve from delivering a half-point interest rate cut next week. The consumer price index increased 0.2 per cent last month after climbing 0.2 per cent in July, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday….