The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting was found dead tonight after taking his own life, Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said.
Claudio Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national, was found at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, with a satchel, two firearms and evidence matching the crime scene, officials said.
Investigators don't know why the suspect targeted the university, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said.
During his Wednesday night Old Man Yells at Cloud session, Donald Trump claimed to be sending a tariff funded bonus of $1776 to "every soldier." It turns out that the so called "Warrior Dividend" is not actually from tariff revenues. Trump is just rebranding a preexisting, congressionally approved military housing allowance supplement that was included in the most recent budget reconciliation package.
It's been a week or two or three since I last posted this. So .... here goes ...
Kids, and kids at heart, race out to make a snowman after a winter storm blankets the ground. Just as every snowflake is unique, each snowman's size and accessories are limited only by its creator's imagination. Indeed, snowmen of all sorts have dotted front yards and public spaces for centuries. Yet they were not always the "jolly happy" figures immortalized in the song and animated television special "Frosty the Snowman."
"In the fall, we will host the first ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented four-day athletic events featuring the greatest high school athletes, one young man and one young woman from each state and territory," he said in a video announcing the event. "But I promise there will be no men playing in women's sports. You're not going to see that. You'll see everything but that." Read more
Pope Leo has appointed a new archbishop of New York who has first-hand experience of countries from where millions have emigrated to the United States, signaling the potential for a more outspoken approach from bishops on immigration.
The pope has chosen 58-year-old bishop Ronald Hicks to lead the church in New York, an appointment that comes at a time when the Trump administration has been ramping up its anti-immigration policies to which the Catholic Church in the US has responded with more vocal criticism.
The board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., voted to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center, a spokesperson for the arts institution said.
Craig Austin Lang (35, Kiev, Ukraine) was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in federal prison for killing a Floridian couple in 2018 in his effort to raise funds to fight the Nicolas Maduro government of Venezuela.
The problems include "leaking raw sewage, non-functional toilets, and general disrepair of facilities," according to the report
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to move marijuana from Schedule I, a category reserved for illegal drugs such as heroin and LSD, to Schedule III, which is used for drugs with accepted medical benefits that still have addiction potential, including steroids, ketamine and Tylenol with codeine.
Authorities in Massachusetts charged two Haitian men with SNAP program fraud amounting to over $7 million on Wednesday. The suspects, 74-year-old Antonio Bonheur and 21-year-old Saul Alisme, each face one charge of food stamp fraud. District of Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said the two men used small storefronts, the Jesula Variety Store and Saul Mache Mixe Store, to redeem the SNAP benefits sometimes amounting to $500,000 per month.
Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, ordered the autopsy months ago but is now said to believe that its release would be counterproductive for the party.
President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the vote on social media, saying it was because of the "unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation." Trump, a Republican, often refers to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is named for a Democratic predecessor, as the "Trump Kennedy Center."
The Trump administration announced an $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan on Wednesday, marking the largest-ever U.S. weapons package for the island as it faces increasing military pressure from China
U.S. consumer prices increased less than expected in the year to November, but the moderation was likely technical after the 43-day government shutdown delayed data collection late into the month, when retailers offered holiday season discounts.
Federal Aviation Administration chief Bryan Bedford said Wednesday that the agency lost up to 500 air traffic controller trainees ....
