Matt Gaetz, Political Arsonist, Has New Powers. What Will He Do With Them?
“I am not some ‘Lord of the Flies’ nihilist,” said the far-right congressman and chief tormentor of Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Barrett Strong: Motown trailblazer and hitmaker, dies at 81
In Motown’s back rooms, he teamed up with producer Norman Whitfield, with whom he wrote some of the label’s most cherished singles, including Ball of Confusion, Just My Imagination (Running…
Tyre Nichols’ lawyer urges lawmakers to pass urgent police reforms
Ben Crump says Nichols’ death at the hands of police should spur US lawmakers to stop further tragedies.
The joy and the trauma of carrying a celebrity’s baby
Shanna St Clair was a surrogate for a celebrity twice – one experience was “beautiful”, the other “terrible”.
Man rescued from car before collision with train
Police in the US state of Georgia rescued a man from an overturned patrol car seconds before it was hit by an oncoming train. The man had stolen a police…
Smaller Rate Increase by Federal Reserve Likely as Inflation Cools
Federal Reserve officials are widely expected to raise interest rates by a quarter point at their meeting this week, further slowing what had been an aggressive pace of rate increases…
Israel Launched Drone Attack on Iranian Facility, Officials Say
TEL AVIV — A drone attack on an Iranian military facility that resulted in a large explosion in the center of the city of Isfahan on Saturday was the work…
Scorpion Unit Emerged as Memphis Pursued Get-Tough Strategy
MEMPHIS — Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis had been on the job for only a few months in 2021 when she saw that homicide numbers were rising toward a record.…
71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders
When asked for comment on the officers’ conduct at the traffic stop, a spokesperson from the Memphis Police Department said: “All information that is available at this point has been…
California Has More Than 100 Gun Laws. Why Don’t They Stop More Mass Shootings?
A 2021 study by the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, found that although gun violence restraining orders had been available in California for five years,…