Search

How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat 04/27/2024 01:18pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged Teen accidentally kills his younger brother with a gun found in an alley 04/27/2024 12:22pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old Florida boy told police he accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother after finding a gun in an alley near their home, authorities said. St. Petersburg police responded to the family's home shortly after noon on Friday and found Amir Williams suf Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them 04/27/2024 11:35am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York's Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Dem A suspect is in custody after 6 people were shot outside a club in the nation's capital, police say 04/27/2024 11:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixc people were shot late Friday outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital, police said. The shootings happened around 11:30 p.m. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington. Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle said officers were called after a disp Arrest warrant issued for man in fatal shooting of off-duty Chicago police officer 04/27/2024 10:56am • CHICAGO (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a 22-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was heading home from work. Chicago police said Saturday in a community alert that the warrant was issued Friday and that the department is seeking information that will lea From pop to politics, what to know as Sweden prepares for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest 04/27/2024 10:48am • LONDON (AP) — It’s springtime in Europe — time for the annual blossoming of spectacle and sound known as the Eurovision Song Contest. Taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden, the 68th annual competition will see acts from 37 countries vie for the continent’s pop crown in a feelgood extravaganz Police: Suspect charged in DC nightclub shooting that 'spilled into the street,' injuring 6 04/27/2024 10:30am • Police shut down Connecticut Ave as they investigated a shooting at a nightclub by Dupont Circle, in a popular nightlife spot. (Courtesy 7News) A Prince George's County, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged in a Dupont Circle nightclub shooting stemming from a dispute late Friday night, a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Where to safely discard your medications in the DC area 04/27/2024 09:33am • People across the D.C. area are being encouraged to remove medications no longer necessary from their homes and dispose them at a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day location between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. The Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day i Migration roils US elections. Mexico sees mass migration too, but its politicians rarely mention it 04/27/2024 09:03am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Republican activists gathered in a school lunchroom last month to hear political pitches from candidates and agreed on the top issue in the Denver suburbs these days: immigration. The area has been disrupted by the arrival of largely Venezuelan migrants coming north through Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police 04/27/2024 06:21am • Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot. Officers had shocked him with a Taser and pinned him as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Now Pro-Palestinian students have peacefully evacuated prestigious Paris university campus building 04/27/2024 06:03am • PARIS (AP) — Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university late on Friday after days of tensions. The head of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, said Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death avoids prison 04/27/2024 01:27am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests. Jeremy Cooper had faced Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life's lost milestones 04/27/2024 01:04am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Grant Oh zigzagged across the University of Southern California campus as if he was conquering an obstacle course, coming up against police blockade after police blockade on his way to his apartment while officers arrested demonstrators protesting the Isra Today in History: April 27, Magellan killed in the Philippines 04/27/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, April 27, the 118th day of 2024. There are 248 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. On this date: In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of Student protesters camp out on GWU's campus as Israel-Hamas war protests continue nationwide 04/26/2024 11:45pm • Student protesters camped out on George Washington University’s campus Friday as demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war continued for a second day after both Georgetown University and GWU saw hundreds rally on their campuses. Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, The Hatchet, the GW student newsp