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Idaho police search for escaped inmate and accomplice after ambush at Boise hospital
03/20/2024 09:12pm • A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice remained on the loose Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, police said. Police identified the man suspected of shooting two corrections off
Is Seafood Good for Your Brain?
03/20/2024 08:00pm • Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean -- found in "Deipnosophistae" by the ancient Greek Athenaeus -- is a recipe for fish (grilled fish sprinkled with grated cheese). For millennia, seafood has played an important role in Mediterranean cuisine, health and culture. I
What Is the White House's Renters Bill of Rights?
03/20/2024 08:00pm • The laws that regulate rental properties, landlords and tenants vary widely across the U.S., as property law is dependent on state and local statutes. Depending on the city or state you live in, you may find that the policies in place either heavily favor the landlord or the renter, but rarely does
Should You Invest in Reddit (RDDT) Stock?
03/20/2024 08:00pm • Social media platform Reddit Inc. (ticker: RDDT) filed confidentially for its initial public offering in December 2021, and the delayed gratification seems to have built the buzz around the IPO to a fever pitch. After making its public filing in February, the company priced its IPO at $34 per share
Brazil court rules Robinho must serve 9-year prison term for rape. Soccer star convicted in Italy
03/20/2024 07:57pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian high court ruled Wednesday that former soccer star Robinho must serve his nine-year prison sentence in his home nation as a result of his 2017 rape conviction in Italy. Lawyers for the 40-year-old Robinho said they will file a request for habeas corpus at Brazil’s S
Trump got the candidate he wanted in Ohio's Senate primary. But can Bernie Moreno win in November?
03/20/2024 07:43pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump got what he wanted when former car dealer Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio. So did Democrats. Moreno's positions on abortion, immigration and Trump's election lies make the Republican less electable this fall, Democrats believe, in the rac
Angela Chao, Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law, was drunk when she drove into pond, police say
03/20/2024 07:42pm • Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas, according to a law enforcement report released Wednesday. The investigation by the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office concluded th
Police say he got on a plane using a photo of a girl's boarding pass. Now he faces a felony charge
03/20/2024 07:01pm • A Texas man is accused of trying to sneak on board a flight by taking a photo of another passenger's boarding pass, and authorities say he was caught because the flight was full and he didn't have a place to sit. Now the man faces a felony charge of being a stowaway on an aircraft. Wicliff Yves Fle
How Montgomery County plans to address police officer vacancies
03/20/2024 06:30pm • The police department in Montgomery County, Maryland, has lost 194 officers over the past five years and now has a sworn vacancy rate of 14%. An analysis shows recent recruit classes have averaged 23 recruits each, "which remains too low to address current attrition," according to the memorandum
Washington Gov. Inslee signs fentanyl bill sending money to disproportionately affected tribes
03/20/2024 05:32pm • TULALIP, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a multimillion-dollar measure to send state money to tribes and Indigenous people in the state who die from opioid overdoses at disproportionately high rates in Washington. It was one of seven fentanyl-related bills Inslee signed Tuesday
As Texas border arrests law teeters in court, other GOP states also push tougher immigration policy
03/20/2024 05:30pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers across the country were already jockeying to push their states deeper into immigration enforcement when the Supreme Court, if only briefly, let Texas enforce a new law giving police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illega
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan visits Kyiv as stalemate in Washington holds up aid
03/20/2024 05:29pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden's top foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan sought to reassure Ukrainians during an unannounced visit to Kyiv Wednesday that the U.S. will continue to support their efforts to fend off Russia's two-year-old invasion. The national security adviser expressed o
Texas wants to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. Why would that be such a major shift?
03/20/2024 01:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration laws are federal laws -- not state laws -- and enforcement of immigration law is the domain of federal law enforcement. Homeland Security agents and officers are responsible for arresting migrants who are caught crossing the U.S. border illegally, whether from Mexico
MacKenzie Scott donates $640 million, more than doubling her planned gifts to nonprofit applicants
03/20/2024 01:49pm • Billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday she is giving $640 million to 361 small nonprofits that responded to an open call for applications. Yield Giving’s first round of donations is more than double what Scott had initially pledged to give away through the applicat
The Latest | Netanyahu remains set on Rafah ground invasion despite US misgivings
03/20/2024 11:34am • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he remains determined to carry out a Rafah ground offensive, despite U.S. President Joe Biden’s misgivings. Earlier, Qatari officials said they were “cautiously optimistic” after talks with Israel’s intelligence chief in Doha aimed at trying to
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