Michigan authorities have named the suspect in a shooting that killed at least two people and injured several others as Thomas Jacob Sanford. Sanford, 40, reportedly opened fire during a service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, about 50 miles north of Detroit. As of Sunday evening, seven…
President Donald Trump has introduced a new round of tough tariffs on a range of imported goods, including the largest tariffs yet on brand-name pharmaceuticals and new tariffs on heavy-duty trucks—all effective next week. President Trump announced Thursday (September 25) that, effective October 1, he would impose a 100% import tax on pharmaceuticals, a 50%…
They are highly likely to elect a new Democratic House member in a special election Tuesday. That would-be lawmaker, Adelita Grijalva, told POLITICO she plans to become the 218th and clinching supporter of a bipartisan effort to force public disclosure of federal investigative files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It’s a controversy that Johnson…
The special election on Tuesday in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva is widely expected to narrow the GOP’s already slim majority in the U.S. House. Democrats enjoy a nearly two-to-one voter registration advantage over Republicans in southern Arizona’s left-leaning congressional district, which…
On Christmas Day 2023, a man called the suicide prevention hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to kill himself. Police barreled toward the address but turned around once before they arrived. It was a hoax – a swatting call at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence. Five days later, GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s home in Florida was…
The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that it “dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.” The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, it added. “This protective intelligence…
U.S. Secret Service agents have dismantled a network of electronic devices located in multiple locations around New York City that could be used to disable the city’s cellphone network, officials said Tuesday. They said the system was also used to anonymously convey assassination threats against senior U.S. officials and for criminal activities. In five locations…
Former US President Barack Obama has warned of a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before” in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk. At an event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Obama said he did not know Kirk and disagreed with many of his views, but called the killing “horrific and…
Doctors in the US will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever Tylenol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump said, citing a disputed link between the drug and autism. The US president claimed on Monday that taking Tylenol, known as paracetamol elsewhere, “is no good” and that pregnant women should “fight like…
The president delivered impassioned — if scientifically dubious — remarks about what he described as one of “the most alarming public health developments in history.” In choosing to unveil a report about autism in the Roosevelt Room of the White House — an august setting just off the Oval Office — President Trump sent Americans…