The death toll for the Surfside building collapse rose to 12, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Tuesday. The total number of people unaccounted for is now 149 and the number of people accounted MORE
One body was recovered on Saturday as the death toll rose to five with 156 people still unaccounted. Hazardous conditions at the site of the building collapse slowed emergency workers down. Story updated 5 minutes MORE
The oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami had “major structural damage” to a concrete slab below its pool deck that needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report on the building. MORE
An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race. An attorney disciplinary committee said in MORE
The training, approved by the State Department, underscores the perils of military partnerships with repressive governments. Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in MORE
As usual, the GQP blocked legislation that would have countered ‘recent restrictive state measures pursued in Republican-led states.’ For the Peoples Act would have prevented Republican-led states from implementing “a slew of new voting restrictions MORE
A Department of Justice official appointed under Trump is stepping down at the end of next week amid backlash over investigations of leaks and subpoenas for the records of Democrats. John Demers, the head of MORE
YouTube suspended Sen. Ron Johnson’s account on Friday after the Wisconsin Republican posted his recent remarks about alternative therapies to treat Covid-19. “We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t MORE
It’s been a year since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, sparking global protests, and supporters, activists and his family will honor Floyd with a series of celebrations of his life and MORE
Wannabe Speaker of the House (House Minority Leader) Kevin McCarthy finally grew a pair and called Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) “wrong” for comparing mask-wearing to the Holocaust. Just hours before Kevin’s strongly worded statement, MTQ MORE
Israeli ceasefire statement in full Here is the full statement from the Israeli security cabinet confirming the ceasefire decision: “The Security Cabinet convened tonight. “The Political Security Cabinet unanimously accepted the recommendation of all security MORE
President Biden’s unusually blunt demand Wednesday that Israel de-escalate its military attack on Gaza is creating a rare rift between the two countries and dismaying some of Israel’s supporters in the United States, while heartening MORE
Giuliani’s money woes should be a major concern of Donald Trump. MORE
A letter drafted by Matt Gaetz’s friend Joel Greenberg says that the two paid for sex with multiple women, including a girl who was 17 at the time. “On more than one occasion, this individual MORE
Rudy Giuliani’s son Andrew took to a podium on Wednesday and ranted about the polititation (sic) of the Department of Justice and Joe Biden’s son Hunter after a raid on his dad’s home and office. MORE
On Monday April 19, COVID-denier Ted Nugent announced to the world that he had flu symptoms for 10 days and thought he was dying. It turns out that Ted was performing in a grocery store MORE
Judge Peter Cahill, presiding over the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, rejected a defense request for a mistrial based in part on the remarks of California Rep Maxine Waters. “Congresswoman Waters may have given you MORE
Maxine Waters appeared with protesters in Brooklyn Center, MN and said activists had to let law enforcement know “we mean business,” along with other remarks attention seeking Republicans construed as incitements to violence. The 82 MORE
The police department released a video sequence that shows close-up video and freeze frames in which 13 year old Adam Toledo appears to have a gun seconds before turning with raised hands. Police Officer Eric MORE
Authorities have identified the suspect in the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility Thursday night as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana. The 19-year-old gunman who killed eight people and injured seven others at a MORE
Two women who chose to remain anonymous revealed some more details of what parties with Matt Gaetz were like. Gaetz, the brash Republican, liked to discuss politics, said one of the women. He behaved like MORE
Officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon of the Brooklyn Center Police Department both submitted resignations today. Mayor Mike Elliott said he hoped the resignations would help heal the community as they move toward MORE
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified on Monday night the police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright as Kim Potter. Potter was a long-time veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department. Potter MORE
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon described the Sunday incident of the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop as an “accidental discharge.” Gannon would not name the officer but described her as MORE
CBS News reported that a 2018 or 2019 trip to the Bahamas by Matt Gaetz is what triggered a Bill Barr-led DOJ investigation into sex trafficking. “Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur MORE