Texas nursing student’s kidnapping, murder solved after 44 years: Police

Deck Brewer Jr., a man already imprisoned in Massachusetts, has been charged with the 1980 murder of 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe, according to the Austin, Texas, Police Department. Wolfe had just enrolled as a nursing student at the University of Texas at Austin when she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed on Jan. 9, 1980, Continue reading

‘Shoot me up with a big one’: A timeline of the last days of Matthew Perry

The arrest of five people in the overdose death of Matthew Perry has revealed key details about the final days of the “Friends” star, most of them spent in the throes of an addiction to the surgical anesthetic ketamine ‘Shoot me up with a big one’: A timeline of the last days of Matthew Perry Continue reading

Leaked videos show how Trump’s allies plan to equate abortion with murder

Videos of the Project’s Presidential Administration Academy, recently obtained by the investigative reporting outlet ProPublica, provide even more damning evidence of how former Trump administration officials plan to carry out their agenda in a possible second term — and how abortion is one of their key targets. Two of these videos in particular show that Continue reading

Leaked videos show how Trump’s allies plan to equate abortion with murder

Videos of the Project’s Presidential Administration Academy, recently obtained by the investigative reporting outlet ProPublica, provide even more damning evidence of how former Trump administration officials plan to carry out their agenda in a possible second term — and how abortion is one of their key targets. Two of these videos in particular show that Continue reading

Turkey’s parliament descends into chaotic, bloody brawl over jailed opposition leader

Turkey’s parliament descended into chaos Friday after a member of an opposition party called President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party a “terrorist organization.” A member of Erdoğan’s party approached Ahmet Sik, who is in the same Workers’ Party of Turkey as a delegate believed to have been jailed for political reasons, and attacked him after Sik Continue reading

Government defeats no-confidence motion by 86 votes to 67

READ MORE Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl said the debate had been “a disgrace” with constant heckling and interruptions between Government and Opposition benches. Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has faced criticism for his remarks during the debate where he said extending the eviction ban would be like “making sweets free for children”. “It’s Continue reading

RFK Jr. clearly has something Trump wants

Does he want to seek retribution, alongside his antivax buddies, against liberals for daring to try to prevent mass death during the Covid pandemic?” A new report from The Washington Post seems to have landed on a rather simple answer: power and ambition. Apparently, Kennedy, through an intermediary, sought a meeting with Vice President Kamala Continue reading

JD Vance cites ‘Gangs of New York’ to explain Trump deportation plans

JD Vance cites ‘Gangs of New York’ to explain Trump deportation plans Show Caption Hide Caption Milwaukee Police Association endorses Donald Trump Milwaukee Police Association endorses Donald Trump MILWAUKEE − Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance referenced a decades-old Martin Scorsese movie Friday to help describe former President Donald Trump’s plans for the mass deportations Continue reading

Columbia protesters’ demands have worked before. This time may be different.

Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. Continue reading

What to know about the US arrest of a Peruvian gang leader suspected of killing 23 people

A South American crime boss wanted in the killings of at least 23 people in Peru was captured this week in New York, three months after U.S. immigration authorities arrested and then released him after he illegally entered the country at the Texas-Mexico border. The arrests Wednesday of Gianfranco Torres-Navarro and his girlfriend, Mishelle Sol Continue reading