A truck driver fatally stabbed three people and wounded another at a Tennessee travel center Tuesday before he was killed by a sheriff’s deputy, authorities said. A motive for the rampage outside Knoxville is not known, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation public information officer Leslie Earhart said. Idris Abdus-Salaam, 33, a […]
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a bid by the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting to have the death penalty removed as a potential sentencing option. Lawyers for Robert Bowers argued that capital punishment violates the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause and the Eighth Amendment’s ban on […]
The call, which took place Monday, marked a rare moment of direct communication between the two political rivals. The President has harshly criticized Biden over a range of issues for months and the former vice president has repeatedly excoriated Trump’s handling of the virus outbreak. But while speaking with CNN’s […]
The hatch would not open. Six hundred feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast, Chief Warrant Officer Bob Barth struggled to get inside the Navy’s new Sealab 3 habitat. The 340-ton undersea platform, where he and a nine-man crew were scheduled to spend 12 […]
Job title: Senior Capital Budget Analyst (Term) Company: Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) Job description: Government of the District of Columbia Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) Senior Capital Budget Analyst… Budget Analyst (Term). This position is located in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), […]
WUHAN, China (Reuters) – The central Chinese city of Wuhan began allowing people to leave on Wednesday for the first time since it was locked down 76 days ago to contain the novel coronavirus, despite fears of a second wave of infection if such restrictions are eased too soon. China […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago’s folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California’s Santa Clara County, the technology hub hit hard by some of the first American cases of the coronavirus, dramatically slowed the illness with early and aggressive shelter-at-home rules, public health officer Sara Cody said on Tuesday. A nearly emptied Geary Boulevard is seen as the […]