Three suspected teenage carjackers were blindsided when they got into a shootout with a Dallas police officer earlier this week during the theft of his unmarked vehicle, authorities said. Dallas Police Officer Nathaniel Chapman, a 24-year veteran of the force, was wearing plainclothes and conducting surveillance around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, when the incident began. Three…
CNN — A school district in Farmington, Utah, says it will pay $2 million to the family of Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor, an autistic Black student who died by suicide in 2021. Izzy’s family claimed the 10-year-old was bullied by her classmates because of her race and disability, CNN previously reported. After her death, the Davis…
CNN — House Republicans are still scrambling to find a path forward with less than two months until the government runs out of funding, as the right wing of the GOP conference is still insisting it needs to see more spending cuts in order to support a series of bills to avert a government shutdown….
Former Vice President Mike Pence said he welcomes the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment Friday, saying U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who has long overseen the investigation into Biden, would be appointed as special counsel to continue investigating President Joe Biden’s son. “I think it’s…
Researchers in Antarctica have discovered a new species with 20 arms and a strawberry-like shape. An article in the journal Invertebrate Systematics published in July described the creature which has been dubbed Promachocrinus fragarius, named after the Latin word for strawberry due to its resemblance to the shape. The Promachocrinus fragarius, a type of Antarctic…
Hawaii State Sen. Angus McKelvey started hearing explosions in Lahaina as he was running errands Tuesday afternoon. Hours later, he said he could see burning embers “raining down from the sky” and several homes on fire as he drove to his brother’s house to check on the family pets. A nearby apartment building stood engulfed…
A former secretary at a Houston, Texas, elementary school pleaded guilty this week to stealing more than $35,000 from the school, which she tried to hide by setting a small fire, prosecutors said. Adriana Castorena-Narvaez pleaded guilty Thursday of felony misapplication of fiduciary property in exchange for five years of felony probation and restitution…
CNN — Fox Corporation on Friday said it had severed ties with its top lawyer, Viet Dinh, in a significant shakeup to its corporate ranks in the aftermath of the company’s historic $787 million settlement with voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems. “We appreciate Viet’s many contributions and service to FOX as both a board…
A presidential candidate in Ecuador is gunned down days before the election. The president of Haiti is shot to death and his wife is seriously wounded when assassins storm their home. High-ranking political leaders survive violent attacks in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela. Running for public office in much of Latin America and the Caribbean…
An Iowa man who prosecutors said drove into a crowd of abortion-rights protesters and hit a woman was found not guilty Thursday. David Alan Huston, 54, was found not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and fleeing the scene of an accident, KWWL-TV reported. A group organized by Indivisible Iowa and Planned Parenthood Advocates…