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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office March 16 dropped its bid for the death penalty for an ex-con from Sylmar who’s charged with killing five people—most of them within less than a week—during a shooting spree in the San Fernando Valley six and-a-half years ago. Alexander Hernandez, now 40, is charged with the […]

House Administration Committee Republicans claim Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) violated congressional rules by using her personal staff to investigate social media postings by 147 GOP colleagues who objected to certifying Electoral College results of the 2020 presidential election. The three committee Republicans, led by ranking minority member Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), also want to know

A Senate Democrat leading the party’s efforts to pass an immigration bill that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to get on an 8-year pathway to citizenship cast serious doubt on the likelihood of the proposal passing. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chamber’s second-ranking Democrat, declared that he doesn’t believe there is enough

The Chinese state-run media were printing “disinformation” about US diplomats in accusing them of not following quarantine rules, the U.S. State Department said on March 15. The issue concerns two U.S. consular workers who recently tested positive for COVID-19, CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, amid a new outbreak that hit the

TORONTO—A Toronto-area man has been found guilty in the killing and dismemberment of two women nearly a decade apart. Adam Strong, 47, was convicted this afternoon of first-degree murder in the death of Rori Hache and of manslaughter in that of Kandis Fitzpatrick. Court heard Strong previously acknowledged prosecutors had proven he dismembered the two

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said on Tuesday that he has been “mercilessly” attacked because he pushed back on a false narrative surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. “I have been attacked and criticized because I pushed back on the narrative that there were thousands of armed insurrectionists. And that’s just part of a small part of

McALLEN, Texas—Illegal border crossers are coming into the United States wearing wristbands that relate to the smuggling organization or cartel that they paid to cross the river, according to new reports and confirmation by Border Patrol agents. The wristbands have been spotted on illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, as well

February’s retail sales are down on the month but up on last year. What’s the outlook for future retail sales? Homebuilder confidence dropping, as interest rates and lumber prices rise. Builders also face a shortage of a crucial construction item. What’s NFT artwork? NTD goes over the newest craze that’s taking the crypto world by

BERLIN—A car drove into a group of people at a pedestrian crossing in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Tuesday, killing two and leaving another two seriously injured, police said. They described it as an accident. It wasn’t clear what led to the car, driven by a 50-year-old German man, hitting people crossing a

U.S. special operations forces were deployed to Mozambique on a mission to assist the country in its counter-terrorism operations against an offshoot of the ISIS terrorist group. “The United States is committed to supporting Mozambique with a multifaceted and holistic approach to counter and prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism,” the U.S. Embassy