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Rev. Bill Breeden has called the January 2021 execution of Corey Johnson the worst moment of his life. Breeden, a Unitarian Universalist minister who has served as a spiritual adviser to death row inmates since the 1990s, was present inside…
The NYPD has left a towering blank wall standing empty in its Hall of Heroes as a silent acknowledgment that the toll from September 11 continues to grow. The empty space stretches roughly 25 feet long and 40 feet high,…
Margaret Hamp has spoken out again about her former co-worker Lindsay Clancy, this time on Oprah Winfrey’s podcast. Hamp, a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, testified as the defense’s first witness on August 17 at Plymouth Superior…
A Southern California homeowners association has rejected calls to permanently ban pesticides in a wealthy Orange County community where multiple young people have died from rare cancers, with board members and some residents citing cost concerns over an organic landscaping…
Yoseph Raja has sued his estranged wife Zohal Azimi Raja, claiming she sabotaged their cookie business and looted its accounts. Raja, 31, filed the Manhattan Supreme Court suit Thursday against Azimi, 30, as their marriage collapses and their Thin Cookies…
The CIA has released 71 previously classified intelligence reports spanning from 1998 through September 12, 2001, revealing the warnings both the Clinton and Bush administrations received about al-Qaeda before the attacks. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the disclosure “the single…
A Tennessee Wendy’s manager has been fired after allegedly restraining a neurodivergent employee with garbage bags tied to kitchen equipment. Michiko Burton, a manager at the Wendy’s in Murfreesboro, Tenn., admitted to tying up the worker but offered contradictory explanations…
A lipreader has disclosed what Rudy Giuliani said to Mayor Zohran Mamdani during their tense handshake at Friday’s 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York. Jeremy Freeman, a UK-based expert lipreader, determined that Giuliani, 82, told Mamdani, “I prayed for you.…
A young boy honored his grandfather, a 9/11 victim he never met, by thanking him for the Knicks’ NBA championship during Thursday’s memorial ceremony at Ground Zero. The child, named for his grandfather Andrew Ira Rosenblum, 45, stood before the…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani were filmed laughing together during Friday’s 9/11 anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero while victims’ families wept nearby. The two Democratic Socialists of America allies, both 35 and 37 respectively, appeared in…
The holdout juror who deadlocked Lindsay Clancy’s trial had an active restraining order against him and a history of alleged domestic violence when he was seated on the panel. The still-unnamed juror, described only as a Black man in his…
Jackson police arrested a 51-year-old man Friday in the homicide of Tasia Fortune, a Black mother of four found hanging from a tree last month. Jacques Ratliff was taken into custody as he walked down Capitol Street, mere hours after…
A 15-year-old Alaska boy was pulled from the overturned hull of an 18-foot skiff Monday after surviving more than two days in the Bering Sea as his older brother and cousin perished. The teenager, whose name has not been released,…
Austrian prosecutors are probing whether a broader “rape network” was involved after a 51-year-old man allegedly beat and raped his intoxicated wife, leaving her to bleed to death in their Upper Austria home. The woman, who has not been publicly…
An NYPD officer accidentally discharged her service weapon inside a Brooklyn subway station Thursday afternoon, injuring a fellow officer and a female bystander with bullet fragments, authorities said. The incident unfolded around 4:40 p.m. At the Kingston-Throop Avenue station in…
Camryn Moore, 26, and Cory Armstrong, 29, were found dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds after a high-speed police chase across Ohio ended in a ditch near Athens on Friday. The pair, dubbed “North Carolina’s Bonnie and Clyde” by authorities,…