A Washington state trooper fatally shot a man with a hammer who had attacked state Department of Transportation workers along Interstate 5 north of Seattle, law enforcement officials said. Around 4 p.m. Thursday, state patrol troopers responded to a report of a road rage incident on the shoulder of I-5 northbound in Everett, the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team said in a news release. The team investigates police use of force incidents. ILLINOIS TROOPER MAKING 'MIRACLE' RECOVERY...
Exceptional windstorms that could leave some Houston residents without power for weeks were a once-in-a-generation event and the damage left in their wake is comparable to that caused by a hurricane, meteorologists said Friday. "We believe this windstorm is the most significant windstorm likely for the Houston area since Hurricane Alicia back in 1983," said Janice Maldonado, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Houston/Galveston office. SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS TEXAS THREATENS MILLIONS...
After 73 years and a long fight with the U.S. Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart medal on Friday. The Army notified Earl Meyer, 96, of St. Peter, last month that it had granted him a Purple Heart, which honors service members wounded or killed in combat. Meyer, who still has shrapnel in his thigh that continues to cause him occasional pain, had the medal pinned to his chest at a ceremony at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter....
A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of "doctor of litter-ature" on Max the cat, a beloved member of its community, ahead of students' graduation on Saturday. Vermont State University’s Castleton campus is honoring the feline not for his mousing or napping, but for his friendliness. CATS AT COLLEGE? 'HIGHLY EMOTIONAL' STUDENTS MAY BENEFIT FROM FELINES ON CAMPUS: STUDY "Max the Cat has been an affectionate member of the Castleton family for years," the school said in a Facebook...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was grilled by a CNN reporter over whether Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is still welcome at the White House as his recent speech has sparked uproar from the liberal media. Comments that Butker made in his commencement address this week at the private Catholic school Benedictine College ignited a firestorm on the political left, as he criticized President Biden and abortion as well as praised his wife for her role as a "homemaker." At...
A school bus carrying children in Kentucky's Warren County crashed and overturned Friday afternoon. Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower confirmed to Fox News Digital there were only minor injuries and "all the students have been reunited with their families and there were no students that were transported to any hospitals." The sheriff said there were 23 students on the bus and one driver at the time of the crash on Petros Browning Road near Bowling Green. 11 CONFIRMED DEAD, INCLUDING...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham gives her take on Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech "triggering" so many critics on "The Ingraham Angle." LAURA INGRAHAM: Who knew that a commencement speech about the importance of mothers and fathers delivered by a pro-athlete could be so triggering? WASHINGTON POST ACCUSED OF ADVANCING ANTISEMITIC TROPE BY NYC MAYOR ADAMS’ OFFICE: ‘SHOULD BE ASHAMED' Harrison Butker's speech heard 'round the world. Now, let's be very clear what...
U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in the United Arab Emirates, despite the oil-rich country’s difficulties in managing debts backed by its oil reserves. The panel of experts said in a report to the U.N. Security Council that loan documents it has seen indicate the deal with the company, Hamad Bin Khalifa Department of Projects, would be South Sudan’s largest-ever oil-backed loan. SOUTH SUDAN MEDIATION TALKS LAUNCHED IN KENYA WITH A HOPE OF ENDING...
Massachusetts officials placed migrant children to live among registered sexual predators, an investigation by the Boston Globe revealed. According to a Boston Globe report, an investigation by the newspaper suggested that the state failed to vet hotels across the state before placing migrant families to live among the alleged predators. "For the past month, the state Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities — the agency that oversees the program for sheltering homeless families — has...
Tiger Woods finished his first round at Valhalla 1-over par, putting him in a decent spot to see the weekend at the PGA Championship. But two blowup holes early in his second round wiped out any hopes he had of playing Saturday and Sunday. Woods, at 7-over par, will miss the cut at the PGA Championship. He has not finished four rounds at the tournament since 2020 and has done so just twice overall since 2013. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM The projected cut line when Woods...
Over the past several months, Nikki Sapp, the ex-wife of Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, has shown she is willing to fire back at critics when she thinks it's necessary. Earlier this year, she clapped back at social media users who claimed she dropped the ball divorcing the two-time NBA champion. News of the divorce surfaced in January, shortly before Spoelstra and the Heat agreed to an eight-year contract extension. The deal is reportedly worth around $120 million. After some social...
It's been more than 50 years since a Republican won Minnesota in a presidential election, but former President Trump says he's got "a really good shot" of breaking the losing streak this November in his 2024 rematch with President Biden. The former president is in the historically reliable blue state Friday evening to headline the Minnesota GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner. He began his speech with the usual jabs at Biden's cognitive ability, but also referenced the recently agreed...