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The Vatican announced Saturday that it’s indicting nine people and a cardinal on financial crimes, including extortion, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, and abuse of office, regarding investments reportedly made in 2018. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and two top officials at the Vatican’s intelligence unit are going on trial on July 27, CBS News reports. Becciu was indicted “for the crimes of […]
A standoff between Massachusetts State Police and “several heavily armed men” wearing what police called tactical vests and military-style uniforms ended Saturday in 11 arrests. The overnight standoff, which happened after a police traffic stop on Interstate 95, led to a nearby shelter-in-place order. The men, who were wearing body cameras and claimed they were headed to Rhode Island […]
Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, former Jeffrey Epstein associate, argue that several counts in her several indictments should be dropped and say she’s in a “similar situation” to Bill Cosby. In a Friday court filing, Maxwell’s lawyers say the 59-year-old accused of recruiting teenage girls for Epstein through the mid-’90s to the mid-’00s, was under a nonprosecution agreement when she was charged. […]
An Ohio police chief resigned this week following an incident in which he left a Ku Klux Klan sign on a Black officer’s desk. The Associated Press reports Anthony Campo, a 33-year veteran of the Sheffield Lake Police Department, retired Tuesday after Mayor Dennis Bring put him on administrative leave upon learning about the incident. The incident […]
A horrifying video has fueled the debate over the dangers of oil drilling. The viral footage was captured Friday after a hellish blaze erupted in the Gulf of Mexico. Reuters reports the fire broke out around 5 a.m. local time in the Ku Maloob Zaap oil field operated by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Officials for the Mexico state […]
President Biden is urging Americans to take precautions while celebrating the July 4 holiday this weekend. Speaking to reporters on Friday, Biden voiced his concern that “people will die” after attending large gatherings in places where vaccination rates are low. “I am concerned that people who have not gotten vaccinated have the capacity to catch the variant […]
A woman went into labor last week on a public bus in Philadelphia, giving birth to a healthy baby boy. Makira Williams was due to have her baby on July 21, but instead gave birth on June 26 on the Route 55 bus. It was about 9 a.m. when Williams suddenly went into labor, she […]
The United States Transportation Department is set to make a proposal that airlines refund any baggage fees if said baggage faces any delays. Per the Associated Press, department officials say the agency is expected to issue the proposal in the coming days, hoping for it to be implemented by summer 2022. If the proposal is made official, […]
It seems Kanye West had an unlikely supporter in the 2020 presidential race. According to Politico, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been telling associates he had voted for the “Birthday Party” candidate rather than the Republican incumbent, Donald Trump. Sources told the publication it’s unclear if the conservative media personality was joking about his Kanye vote, but insisted […]
10-Year-Old Texas Girl Played Dead to Survive Shooting That Killed Three
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July 2, 2021
Police in Houston, Texas are searching for the individual who shot and killed three family members including a pregnant mother on Wednesday. KHOU 11 reports that the shooting took place around 10:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday (June 30), leaving father, a 28-year-old pregnant mother, and a six-year-old girl dead. Two other children were at […]