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The Premier League will again stage a four-team Summer Series across three cities in the United States from July 26 to Aug. 3, featuring AFC Bournemouth, Everton, Manchester United and West Ham, it was announced on Saturday. This second edition of the preseason tournament will be held in New Jersey, Chicago and Atlanta. A double-header […]
The US Secret Service shot a man outside the White House early on Sunday after an “armed confrontation”, the service said in a statement. It had earlier received a tip-off from local police about a “suicidal individual who may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana”, it said. Its officers approached a man matching that […]
The Secret Service shot an armed man near the White House, the agency has said. The incident happened shortly after midnight on Sunday following an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement, according to the agency. The incident happened near the intersection of 17th Street and F Street NW – less than a five-minute walk from the […]
The White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2008. Ron Edmonds/AP hide caption toggle caption Ron Edmonds/AP A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday morning, the Secret Service said. The man, who is thought to have been traveling from Indiana, had […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or lethal injection. Three volunteer prison employees used rifles to carry […]
A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia will not be charged for fatally shooting a Black man during a traffic stop that turned violent in 2023, officials said on Tuesday. The man who was killed, Leonard Cure, 53, had been wrongfully imprisoned in Florida for 16 years. The Camden County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on […]
American costume designer for theatre, dance, film, opera and television, Paul Tazewell, has made Oscars history with his stunning costume design for Wicked. At the 97th Academy Awards, held Sunday night, Tazewell became the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design. “This is absolutely astounding. Thank you, Academy, for this very […]
Joseph Czuba faces life in prison for the murder of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi days after Israel’s war on Gaza began. A jury in the US state of Illinois has convicted a man of murder and hate crime charges for the October 2023 stabbing death of a six-year-old Palestinian American boy. Joseph Czuba, 73, who was […]
CNN — More than two years after a quadruple homicide devastated Moscow, Idaho, a judge unsealed the transcript of a recent hearing in the case against Bryan Kohberger – the man accused of stabbing four students to death in an off-campus home. The hearing, which was closed to the public, came after defense attorney Anne […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. Andrew Lester of Kansas City had been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting […]