• WRIC

    Virginia budget calls for more workers to help with death investigations

    Staffing levels at Virginia’s chief medical examiner’s office are “insufficient” for the increased workload it has faced in recent years, according to the budget the General Assembly passed.

    • CP24

    SIU investigating after Scarborough standoff ends in man being seriously injured

    The province’s police watchdog is investigating after a 59-year-old man was seriously injured when police struck him with a blunt impact projectile firearm while executing a warrant in Scarborough on Tuesday. According to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Toronto police attended an apartment building on Morningside Avenue, north of Kingston Road. At 5:30 p.m., as officers were preparing to enter the building and execute a warrant, the SIU said the person of interest exited the...

  • Scott Wiener to Ted Cruz: "Everyone Hated You" in Law School

    Gay California State Sen. Scott Wiener claps back at Cruz for conflating him with a disgraced former congressman.

  • Hundreds of jobs at risk as Ted Baker owner calls in administrators

    Hundreds of high street jobs could be placed at risk after the owners of Ted Baker filed a notice to appoint administrators.

  • SNP MPs call for investigation into Israeli airstrikes on UK civilians.

    The airstrike - on January 18, 2024 - hit a residential compound housing members of the Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and International Rescue Committee (IRC) Emergency Medical Team (EMT), as well as Palestinian civilians and their families. The compound was in Al Mawasi, one of Gaza’s so-called “safe zones”. The compound was attacked after its coordinates had been shared with the Israeli military through the UN deconfliction process and registered as a ‘sensitive site’ by the Israeli...

  • Trump calls for Liz Cheney to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack

    Former president’s posts on Truth Social about Republican critic stoke fears of persecution of opponents if he wins 2024 electionDonald Trump has renewed calls for Liz Cheney – his most prominent Republican critic – to be jailed for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021, a move that is bound to raise further fears that the former president could persecute his political opponents if given another White House term.In posts on...

  • Ted Cruz wants taxpayers to fund airport escorts for top officials like him

    Sen. Ted “Cancun” Cruz is closer to enacting an airport security amendment that would allow top federal officials like him to apply for a dedicated security escort at commercial airports. Cruz added the amendment to the Senate bill that would fund the Federal Aviation Administration through 2028, telling Politico back in February that there are “serious security threats facing public officials.” The Texas senator was busted by a fellow traveler when jetting off to Cancun, Mexico, in February...

  • Democrats can beat Ted Cruz and Rick Scott this year. Yes, really

    Senate Democrats are facing yet another cycle where the battleground map favors Republicans—this time by a lot. Several Democrats are up for reelection in red states like Ohio and Montana. Democrats also need to hold battleground seats in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. And with Sen. Joe Manchin's impending retirement, West Virginia will almost certainly flip to Republicans, meaning the contest for control of the Senate effectively starts at 50-50 and could very well be decided by which party...

    • CNBC

    Elizabeth Warren calls on SEC to investigate Tesla, Elon Musk over governance issues once again

    The senator cites in her letter the "possible misappropriation of Tesla resources and conflicts of interest arising from Mr. Musk's dual role at Tesla and X."

  • Review: An investigator on a cold case finds isolation in an outback town called 'Limbo'

    Outback noir gets an Antonioni-esque existential once-over in writer-director Ivan Sen’s aridly brooding mystery “Limbo,” a tale of the missing and what’s ever-present in a place of stark beauty and deep-seated racial injustice. Come for the cold case, stay for a couple of remarkably lived-in performances from Simon Baker and Natasha Wanganeen. But understand that the true spell here is multihyphenate Sen’s monochrome cinematography, capturing a desolate South Australian town as if it were a...

  • AOC Tries to Take on Ted Cruz As She Doubles Down on RICO Meltdown; It Was an Unwise Move

    As we reported, former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski was the gift that kept on giving on Wednesday. Not only did he accuse Hunter and Jim Biden of perjury but he called Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Dan Goldman out for lying, and he made Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have a meltdown, when she tried to throw a "gotcha question" at him and just ended up looking stupid.

    • WJLA

    Teen shot, seriously injured near Hotel in Herndon, Va., investigation ongoing

    HERNDON, Va. (7News) — A teenager is being treated for life-threatening