WWII veteran Arthur Ervin Jr., was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in October 2023, four years after his sister Barbara Dyer was buried at age 86 — even though he died 75 years before her at age 22. Dyer spent her life wondering if her brother’s remains would ever be found, identified and returned.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday night abruptly scheduled an unusual weekend meeting with top Democratic colleagues as party anxiety festers over whether Joe Biden should remain in the presidential race.
New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the center-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.’s relations with the rest of the world.
Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask President Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel expressed regret for the handling of two cases of sexual assaults allegedly committed by American military personnel on Okinawa, which have again stoked resentment of the heavy U.S. troop presence on the strategic island in Japan’s far south.
As legal observers predicted, Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for a partial pause of the government’s classified documents case against the former president so she can weigh how it might be impacted by the Supreme Court’s fresh ruling on presidential immunity
Henderson resident Tom Kohnman was a registered Democrat up until a few days ago. After President Joe Biden’s “terrible” debate performance, Kohnman says he switched to nonpartisan. He hopes other Nevada Democrats will follow suit and signal to the party that it needs to find a new candidate.
The CDC’s timeline of the pandemic started Dec. 12, 2019, when patients in Wuhan, China, began having symptoms of a pneumonia-like illness that didn’t respond to standard treatments. Since that time, announcements of mutations of the virus have kept citizens on edge.
A dam in a southeastern Wisconsin community has been breached, and people living downriver are being evacuated. The National Weather Service says the dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached at about 1:45 p.m. Friday by floodwaters. Meteorologist Scott Cultice said the rains started about 8:30 a.m. Friday and about 5 inches fell in a few hours.
A Western Pennsylvania congressman wants the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether Norfolk Southern intentionally provided misleading information after its train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, leading to what appeared to be an unnecessary release and burn of vinyl chloride.
The 44-year-old drunken driver who barreled into a Lower East Side park on the Fourth of July, killing three people — including a mother and son — is a substance abuse counselor and lecturer who was arrested for assault last year when he punched someone who disagreed with his teaching methods
Authorities say malfunctioning fireworks veered into the stands at a crowded Utah football stadium and struck members of the audience. A spokesperson for the event’s organizer said six people were taken to the hospital following the mishap at a Fourth of July celebration in Provo.
Shootings and other violence during the extended Fourth of July weekend have left at least 26 people dead and injured dozens more nationwide. In Chicago alone, police say at least 11 people have been killed and 55 have been wounded so far. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city is “in a state of grief.”
An Independence Day shootout ended with a gunman dead and a ranger wounded at Canyon Village in the central part of Yellowstone National Park.
As Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin prepares for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral this year, the company has taken time to voice concerns over future launches of competitor SpaceX’s massive Starship and Super Heavy, also planning to launch from the Space Coast.
Joe Biden’s reelection campaign limped into the U.S. Independence Day holiday, exhausted by a week of the incumbent clawing to maintain his hold on his party’s nomination.
For much of this year, Supreme Court justices defused partisan splits even landing 9-0 and 8-1 decisions. But the Court ended its term with the Republican appointees ruling in favor of former President Trump’s claim of immunity, while the three Democratic appointees voiced a bitter dissent.
Police say two people were killed and three others injured in Independence Day violence in a Southern California beach city. A city spokeswoman says Friday that police arrested a 26-year-old Huntington Beach resident on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.