Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on members of the United Nations to mete out “just punishment” against Russia and strip the country of its UN Security Council veto, part of an adamant speech as Ukraine seeks to roll back Russian forces. Key Facts In a pre-recorded address to the UN General Assembly, Zelensky laid…
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Topline A Georgia prosecutor is seeking testimony from President Donald Trump’s onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorney Sidney Powell before a Georgia grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as the probe continues to scrutinize Trump’s close allies. Key Facts In filings obtained by Politico , Fulton County District Attorney Fani…
Updated Jul 4, 2022, 02:18pm EDT Topline Six months into this year—and on a day when gunfire killed at least six attending a Chicago area holiday parade—mass shootings and gun deaths in the United States rival 2021’s record-breaking figures, as a wave of gun violence that began at the start of the pandemic continues to…
Updated Jul 4, 2022, 06:04pm EDT Topline WNBA star Brittney Griner sent President Joe Biden a handwritten letter asking him to “do all you can” to bring her and other U.S. detainees home from Russia, Griner’s agents said Monday, three days after her widely criticized drug possession trial began in a Russian court. Key Facts…
Updated Dec 17, 2021, 02:00pm EST Topline Former President Donald Trump claimed evangelical Christians are more supportive of Israel than American Jews, and complained that the New York Times “hates Israel” despite being run by “Jewish people,” in an interview with an Israeli journalist — comments the Anti-Defamation League called “disturbing.” Key Facts Trump told…
Topline Three students were killed and several others were wounded in a shooting at a high school near Detroit on Tuesday, and police apprehended a lone 15-year-old suspect, according to local law enforcement. Key Facts Officers from the Oakland County Sheriff’s office responded to an active shooter at a high school in Oxford Township —…
Updated Nov 19, 2021, 02:18pm EST Topline Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all five counts on Friday for fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during a tense protest last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in a case that polarized many Americans, with some on the right casting Rittenhouse as righteous while others…
Updated Nov 3, 2021, 12:53am EDT Topline Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Tuesday’s race for governor of Virginia, the Associated Press said, giving Republicans their first statewide win in over a decade following a tight and acrimonious race that turned into a referendum on the Trump and Biden administrations. Key Facts The…
Updated Nov 3, 2021, 07:19pm EDT Topline The United States’ coronavirus death toll topped 750,000 on Wednesday, an average of around 1,200 lost lives since the deadliest pandemic in American history began last year — and the country logged more than 8,500 new deaths in the last week. Key Facts Some 750,056 Americans have died…
Updated Oct 28, 2021, 02:28pm EDT Topline Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing a storm of new conservative-led criticism that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — which he’s led for decades — funded everything from risky coronavirus research in China to unnecessary experiments on dogs; here, we break down the outrageous and not-so-outrageous…